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Tesco recalls butters amid fears they may contain bug which causes meningitis

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© Credit: PATesco said the butters were being recalled as a precaution.
Tesco has recalled a range of flavored butters amid fears they contain a food poisoning bug.

The supermarket giant said the butters may be contaminated with high levels of Listeria monocytogenes.

This is a bacteria that can cause Listeriosis and may lead to conditions including meningitis.

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Flashback Remembering our super-humanity with the ice man, Wim Hof

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The Iceman, Wim Hof
The entire mainstream medical establishment has been built upon the supposition that something outside yourself is required for healing to occur. Such a system will tell you that there are no answers to be found within because you alone are somewhat helpless and powerless. According to mainstream medicine, only patented products and procedures that can be billed to your insurance company can heal...everything else is invalid, illegal, unscientific, or just plain quackery. Yet beyond those neatly cramped and confined limitations, better accommodations await those who posses the curiosity to venture into the depth of their own abilities waiting patiently to be activated just beneath the surface.

Meanwhile, the coveted peer-reviewed process used to study, approve, and legalize patented pharmaceutical medications is experiencing a major loss in integrity. Those within the medical and research community are blowing the whistle on the ease and regularity of data manipulation, conflict of interests, and common inaccuracies that run rampant within the current peer-reviewed research process. This is especially the case when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs.

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Important facts about cancer that nobody ever talks about

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It's hard to believe that approximately one in every two people will develop some form of cancer within their lifetime. As a result, cancer awareness has skyrocketed. Millions of people around the globe are helping to raise money and awareness for cancer and cancer treatment. This overwhelming support from the public just goes to show how many good hearts are out there, and in no way should we dismiss that generous spirit. There are, however, some important facts relating to this disease about which many people are still unaware.

While it is of course disturbing that cancer rates are at all time time high, the prevalence of this disease is causing people to take notice and to question, which is always a good thing. People are becoming more aware of the disease, looking into alternative treatment options and trying to determine the cause of this illness. People are starting to wonder why so many of us are so sick. So despite how gloomy it may appear, there is hope for all of us.

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Avoiding the disaster of hyper-stimulating junk food: Finding health and happiness through real food

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What if I told you there was a drug that was called "Disaster". This drug was promoted by many media outlets, was endorsed by medical professionals, and was supposed to be completely safe in "reasonable doses". Adults and children largely consumed "disaster" as a recreational drug, on a daily basis. It changed hormonal signaling, caused major inflammation, and eventually, death. Would you consume it?

Many people today are addicted to this drug. We're flooded with advertisements and endorsements from our sports heroes, telling us how great this drug is. It tastes delicious, is convenient, cheap, adds no nutritional value, and is completely unsustainable. It takes tons of fossil fuels to produce, ship, package, and market to you. It can sustain you, but gives you nothing.

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The corporate work culture is toxic to the human spirit

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Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You're not alone... our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being.

Everybody seems to be working harder and harder these days, but genuinely happy people are hard to come by, even amongst those who actually have decent jobs. The truth is, very few people are fit and able to succeed under the current status quo of living to work, and more of us than ever are slipping behind in a corporate culture that is becoming increasingly toxic and impossible to endure.

Suspended in 'survival mode,' the individual is really not doing well in this environment. But, corporations are doing well, and have grown to have an enormous impact on our lives, even affecting how we educate our children, programming them with the ambition to grow up to become human resources just like everyone else.

Comment: What are you holding on to?
Tell me what actual benefit you receive from living the "normal" lifestyle - a 2-hour commute to work each day, spending 8 hours in a corporate cubicle that removes your individuality and creativity, to receive a paycheck from which the government has taken its huge and undeserved bite from leaving almost enough to cover your bills and expenses - just so that you can live in the kind of house and drive the kind of car that your friends and relatives think you should live in and be driving.

We all must admit that for some strange reason we don't really understand, we feel a profound sense of accomplishment when we get approved for a mortgage, get a new credit card, or get the "big promotion" at work. There is a scene in the movie Brazil, (a version of 1984), in which Michael Palin lifts his mask as he is about to begin torturing Jonathan Pryce and says glibly, "Confess quick - you don't want to ruin your credit rating!"

We strive, we sacrifice health, family, and well-being for the opportunity to be a better slave.



Life Preserver

Overuse of antibiotics in childhood can have significant health consequences: Use with caution


Comment: The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics is causing a host of problems, both for the people receiving them and due to the fact that we're now seeing an increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. An alternative to antibiotics is iodine, which can be used both internally and topically, and is not only anti-bacterial, but also anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, and anti-carcinogenic, as well as being a necessary nutrient that we're not getting enough of. For more information: Iodine - Suppressed knowledge that can change your life


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Antibiotics are necessary and can even save lives, but they are also overprescribed and misused. When antibiotics are prescribed to children for viral (rather than bacterial) illnesses, they are ineffective and can cause lifelong changes to gut bacteria, metabolism, and the immune system. Read on to find out when antibiotics are appropriate, and learn strategies to reduce the need for antibiotics and to protect your children's microbiome and future health.

Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications for children. One out of every five pediatric acute-care visits resulted in an antibiotic prescription (1). By age 20, the average American child has received 17 courses of antibiotics (2).

Unfortunately, overuse of antibiotics starts even earlier. In the U.S., about 40 percent of women get antibiotics during delivery, just as their babies are acquiring their crucial microbes. To top that off, most American-born babies are given an antibiotic immediately following birth. This was a historical practice designed to protect a newborn from eye infections if the mother had gonorrhea, but it is now regular practice, regardless of the mother's STD status (3).

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Oxygen levels in womb affect aging in adulthood, study finds

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Anti-aging products are a multi-billion dollar industry, but it seems there's only so much that creams and pills can do. A study found that much of our aging 'destiny' is set before birth, and is related to the amount of oxygen present in the womb.

The study, led by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, centered around telomeres, otherwise known as the ends of chromosomes. In short, telomeres play a similar role to the plastic that binds the ends of shoelaces, preventing chromosomes from fraying. As humans get older, telomeres become shorter and shorter, meaning their length can be used as a proxy to measure aging.

The researchers measured the length of telomeres in blood vessels of laboratory rats born from mothers who were not fed antioxidants during a normal or complicated pregnancy. In some of the rats, they simulated one of the most common complications in pregnancy - a reduction in the amount of oxygen a baby receives - by placing a group of pregnant rats in a room containing seven percent less oxygen than normal.

Comment: See also:
Ketogenic Diet improves insulin sensitivity and numerous aging markers
Study demonstrates anti-aging effects of dietary supplement alpha lipoic acid
Study: Brain's ability to control metabolism and aging negatively impacted by sub-optimal stores of fat


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Current vaccine paradigm: Media struggles to pin stupid label on well-educated vaccine dissenters

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There have been numerous articles in mainstream newspapers and magazines with titles that disparage anyone who questions the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, disagrees (in part or in total) with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommended schedule of vaccines, or opposes the idea of forcing people to get vaccinated against their will. You can be a vaccine skeptic, a complete "anti-vaxxer" or someone who simply doesn't like the government dictating what one should or shouldn't do with one's body. It doesn't matter.

If you choose to reject any part of the current vaccine paradigm, as crafted by the government and the pharmaceutical industry, you will be put on to stupid list, even though, ironically, it is widely acknowledged that people who choose to chart their own way on the issue of vaccines tend to be extremely well-educated and often have advanced degrees.1 2 3 4 5

Comment: Author Marco Cáceres wrote another good article about what happens when anyone chooses to reject any part of the current vaccine paradigm: Internet trolls: Anyone resisting the vaccine party line is a target
Increasingly, professionals within a wide range of health care and science fields are giving interviews and writing articles and books voicing their concerns about vaccine risks, the misrepresentation of the historical role of vaccines in reducing mortality from infectious diseases, the expanding schedule and number of vaccines mandated, or even the basic mechanism theories behind vaccine science.

Predictably, every time you give the name of a contrarian doctor or scientist in response to the 99.9% figure, what you tend to get is, "Eh, well, he's a quack, she's not credible." Also, you get referred to blogs such as Science-Based Medicine,1 or Respectful Insolence2, or the Skeptical Raptor's Blog3. They're often written by or associated with a guy named David Gorski, MD, who also goes by the alias "Orac." Gorski is a surgical oncologist and an assistant professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI4.

Should you wish to debunk someone, anyone, who dares to disagree with mainstream thinking on vaccines, all you need do is inform Orac, and the good doctor will gladly oblige by writing up a boorish piece, long on insult and short on science. Orac's methods are painfully predictable.



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The nefarious corporate profit-driven control of health care

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Everybody should be aware by now of the large amount of control that for-profit multinational corporations have over both state and federal legislative bodies and most of our congressional and presidential politicians (except for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein). But they also have a lot of control over the major media, the "defense" spending priorities at the Pentagon, America' educational institutions, many of our medical schools and even what constitutes post-graduate medical education for physicians.

For-profit corporate influences on for-profit medicine and for-profit "blue ribbon panels" explains much of what is regarded as the very profitable "standard of care" in medicine today. It also explains the prescribing habits and politics of many of us physicians.

Indeed, there has been a crisis of confidence among a small minority (as usual, a minority) of conscientious physicians, citizens, voters and employees of those institutions. Some of the folks that have become aware of what is happening may eventually rise up to blow a whistle on the creeping corporate domination of what is left of free, democratic America.

One only has to consider the corporate intrigue that has allowed the emergence of the anti-democratic, pro-corporate agendas of NAFTA, ALEC, Citizens' United, the PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, PNAC, the National Defense Authorization Acts, the endless war agendas, etc, etc.

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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Testimonials

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This is the testimonials show where people can share their stories of dietary change and the effects they've experienced. On the Health and Wellness show we've talked about the ketogenic diet, the paleo diet, the vegetarian myth as well as the benefits of going gluten and dairy free and GMO free. Our listeners are well aware, or should be, of the importance of diet as the foundation for for good health whether it be mental, physical, emotional or spiritual. It's pretty sad to realize that most people don't make the connection between how they feel and function and what they put in their mouths several times a day, every day for their entire lives. Unfortunately, many people are digging their graves with their own mouths. When a symptom or illness comes along it is often explained away as simply genetic or something that runs in the family, bad luck or a complete mystery.

There are people out there who get it -- people who make the connection and those are the people we will be talking to today... and want to hear from you, too!

Have you made changes to your diet that have had results? Want to share your story? Call in today, or share with us in the chat room during the broadcast at 10 am EST, 4 pm CET, as we hear testimonials about the benefits of the Paleo-Keto Diet!

With us, as always, will be resident animal health expert Zoya with her weekly Pet Health segment.

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