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Foods and herbs that help guard against infection

natural antibiotics
Over the last several decades, over-use of antibiotics has reached an all-time high. The result has been drug-resistant bacteria and "superbugs" that evolve faster than scientists can figure out how to fight them. A future where bacteria are at the top of the food chain is not unheard of.

Long before there were pharmaceutical antibiotics - developed in the 1940s, there were foods and herbs that helped guard against infection and disease on a daily basis. Many of these natural defenders are still in use today with holistic healers around the globe.

Our ancestors also had a solution for healing, using antibiotics from nature and it would be good to remind ourselves who these antibiotics are and possibly think about using them in case of an illness.

Comment: See also: Herbs and foods that kill superbugs


Blue Planet

The health benefits of camping

Camping fire under the night sky
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I've always loved to camp. From my early days as a kid growing up in Maine (where it seemed like everyone camped), to my death-defying adventures with Outward Bound in the wilds of New England as a teen, to my current setup running a business in the Malibu hills, I've been a camper. Even when I'd dedicated my life to endurance training and had little time for anything else, I always made it a point to get away to the woods with the family for a few nights whenever I could. The reasoning was basic: it was relaxing, enjoyable, decompressing, and just plain fun. And that's why most people camp. It just feels right, doesn't it?

But as is always the case, there's more to it. Things that feel right (or taste right) often have distinctly positive physiological effects. So, why is camping so great? Why, even today, do campsites at Lake Tahoe or Yosemite disappear upon release faster than Taylor Swift concert seats? If you're a skeptic of camping, be sure to read on. I'm sure I'll win over some of you by the end.

It's a rapid departure from your regular life without costing a fortune.

It'd be great if everyone could travel the world every time they had a little PTO saved up. But for most folks, going abroad, or even to another city in their home country, is cost-prohibitive. There's the plane ticket. There's the passport. There's the lodging, the meals, the attractions, the ever-presence of locals whose entire livelihood depends on getting you to spend money. If you can swing it (and with smart planning, most people actually can), world travel is awesome and helpful and invigorating. But it can be just as world-changing to drive a few hours out of the city to a place where you can lay your tent down, start a campfire, and gaze up at the universe. And a whole lot less expensive.

Comment: Camping can be very rejuvenating and restorative. It can also help in preparing a mindset of living without the comforts of modern life.


Beaker

Colloidal silver choice antibiotic by NASA to treat potable water; out of FDA's reach

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In the day-to-day happenings of world politics, the United States and Russia are presented on the global stage as arch-enemies. Up in space, however, it's a completely different story. Enter the International Space Station (ISS), which for years has housed astronauts from both countries along with life-support systems unique to each country's needs. The two sides have long remained separate from one another until recently.

For years, the U.S. side of the ISS utilized iodine as its water cleansing agent of choice, while the Russian side took advantage of antibacterial silver for water purification purposes. Both sides coexisted peacefully in their respective methods, with the U.S. picking up whatever extra water the Russian side had leftover. Russia's water purification process has always been much more efficient than that of the U.S.

Comment: Colloidal silver is one of those age-old remedies that ought to be in every home's medicine cabinet. Its uses are varied, medically documented, and proven to be highly effective for supporting the body's immune system.


Question

Health officials puzzled by surge in rare bacterial disease known as rabbit fever

tularemia, rabbit fever
U.S. health officials said on Thursday they were puzzled by a surge in the number of people who have contracted a rare bacterial disease usually found in rabbits that has already killed a Wyoming man and sickened dozens of people in Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska this year.

The unusually high number of cases of tularemia, sometimes called rabbit fever, have been concentrated in northeastern Wyoming and in neighboring parts of South Dakota and Nebraska and farther south in the Colorado Front Range, where there have been reported die-offs of animals like rabbits and voles that can carry the infectious disease, Wyoming health officials said.

While tularemia, whose symptoms can include fever, sore throat and muscle aches, is often present in the environment, it rarely sickens more than a few people a year in Wyoming, a handful in Colorado and just a few in South Dakota, health officials said.

Red Flag

Biotech Madness! Genetically-Modified "Glow" chicken

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© Reuters/Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh/Handout
Top Image: A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolent light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo provided by Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Most folks are familiar with glow worms [1], especially fireflies kids love to catch on warm summer evenings after dusk. But, baby chicks whose beaks and feet glow when subjected to ultra violet light! Is that a novelty for Easter time, or does the GMO-chick have a real scientific purpose?

According to scientists at Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, GMO-glow chickens are part of a scientific project to block bird flu in egg-laying hens, which has devastated flocks of chickens and turkeys in the USA to the tune of some 48 million chickens and turkeys that had to be destroyed since December of 2014.

Health

Health experts: Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses

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© Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images
An Okiufa boy in Papua New Guinea. Grains long harvested by indigenous communties have been gaining popularity in developed countries.
Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high- and middle-income countries.

Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting calls to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients.

It is believed that such a shift would help to improve society's relationship with the Earth and restore human and environmental health.

Attention

Vaccines and GMOs: Both are untested and destroy life

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Two of the most aggressively promoted "game changers" for health and nutrition — vaccines and GMOs — just so happen to be two of the most destructive elements in modern society. Neither has been thoroughly safety tested, and both have been shown in independent research to cause many of the problems which they are claimed to mitigate.

The similarities between these two agents of destruction are striking, yet the general public has been manipulated into believing that both were created for our good. How did this come to be? It all seems to stem from the widely held misbelief that man is smarter than nature — that nature is somehow broken and in need of fixing through alterations and re-engineering.

Comment: Watch Out for Flying Syringes, GMO Food Vaccines, and Forced Vaccinations


Pills

Coincidence or real?: The link between psychotropic drugs and violence

bullet pills
© unknown
Many of the mass shootings in the United States (US) over the last few decades - including the Columbine School shooting, Virginia Tech massacre, and the Colorado movie theater shooting - were carried out by individuals known to be taking psychotropic prescription drugs. This, of course leads to the questions, what role do these pharmaceuticals play in the rise of mass shootings?

Is there a link between psychotropics, particularly antidepressants, and shocking acts of public violence.

Over the last 25 years, the market for psychotropic drugs has exploded, especially in the category of antidepressants. In the US between the years 1989 and 1992, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants increased from 2.5 million to 33.2 million. That's an increase of 1328%. As of mid 2014, over 41 million people in the US are taking antidepressants, including the common brands Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Luvox, Wellbutrin, and others.

Comment: The dangerous effects of psychiatric medications has been well documented. This, however, does not stop Big Pharma and the FDA from continuing to profit from their use.


Syringe

New push for Meningitis B vaccines at U.S. colleges and universities

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© UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Sarah Ely, of Milford, Ohio, a first-year student at the University of Cincinnati, receives a meningitis B vaccination from Randi Smith, a staff member with UC's University Health Services.
Scares across the country prompt administrators to take more pre-emptive measures

As the fall semester gets under way, some U.S. colleges and universities are offering students new vaccines against a bug responsible for recent campus outbreaks of a rare but life-threatening form of meningitis.

Academic institutions are taking a range of approaches, from simply making the shots available at student health centers to anyone who is interested, to holding vaccine clinics on campus that students are required to attend.

Providence College, where two students contracted meningitis last winter, held vaccination clinics the past two weekends. The school required first-year students to attend, though students could opt out of receiving the shots.

Attention

Gardasil: The murdering of our daughters

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"I just wish someone had warned me about Gardasil....... My Jasmine would still be here with us." - Rhonda Renata

According to the mother of Jasmine Renata, aged 18, her daughter was murdered by Merck. There was no autopsy, no official recrimination of Merck, just a grieving mother left to bury her only daughter.

Unfortunately, this scenario is being played out time and time again and nobody is holding Merck criminally accountable for the all-too-deadly results of Gardasil. The reckless use of this killer vaccine continues unabated despite the fact that Merck was recently ordered to pay six million dollars to another parent of a daughter that was murdered by Gardasil. Patient safety be damned.

On October 9th, 2011, California governor Brown signed AB 499 into law which provides that the Merck manufactured, Gardasil, designed to prevent cervical cancer, can be administered to children 12 years old and up without parental consent.

Comment: Gardasil: Medical torture and child abuse by Big Pharma
There is something deeply wrong with a giant pharmaceutical company spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate women and influence legislation in order to generate a revenue stream of billions of dollars a year for itself at the expense of a gullible public. Because what is wrong with Gardasil isn't just that it is unnecessary. Gardasil is possibly the most dangerous vaccine on the market, with the potential to injure, maim, or even kill the children who receive it. The program of coercion to vaccinate every 11- to 26-year-old girl with Gardasil is relentless. This vaccine is given not just in doctor's offices, where doctors have been known to "fire" noncompliant patients, but in schools and colleges, where the pressure on girls and their parents to conform can be extreme. These institutions all have quotas - sometimes including financial rewards - and they are anxious to prove high rates of compliance.8 But there is no informed consent prior to vaccination, so most of these girls and their parents have no idea what they are risking by agreeing to vaccination with Gardasil. While Merck, the FDA, the CDC and the medical establishment all deny that there have been serious, life-altering adverse events associated with Gardasil, the fact is that compared with the mandated vaccines which are given with greater frequency, Gardasil still has the most adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) of any vaccine. And since reporting of adverse events is not mandatory in the US (although outbreaks of so-called vaccine-preventable illness are), it is likely that only 10% even get reported!9