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Labeling GMO: Dems put forward new bill to counter the 'Dark Act'


RT
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:42 UTC
GMOs
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US Senate Democrats have offered an alternative GMO labeling bill that would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of GMOs to consumers, while still allowing them to choose how to comply with the law.

"Rather than blocking consumers' access to information they want, the US Senate should move forward with a solution that works for business and consumers alike," said Senator Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) the lead sponsor of the bill which was introduced on Wednesday.

Comment: If the food industry doesn't want to label their products as GMO and make it glaringly obvious then those companies that refuse to use GMOs in their food could easily label their products as "Non-GMO" and make that labeling glaringly obvious. No legislation required for that tactic!

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Health

Scientists challenging conventional wisdom to avoid salt - "No proof salt is bad for you"

Adam Withnall
The Independent
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:26 UTC
salt
A group of scientists are challenging the now conventional wisdom that a low-sodium diet is better for your long-term health, asking whether people should take official advice on the matter with a pinch of salt.

In a new review of the evidence, a team of experts from Columbia University found there were "two distinct bodies of scholarship" on the matter - those who believe reducing salt intake will improve the overall health of the population, and those who don't.

Watching your salt intake has become one of the core pieces of dietary advice in the UK in recent years, and in the US it has got to the point where New York is requiring by law that restaurants label salt content in their food.

So it will be a surprise to many to find that just 54 per cent of the 269 academic reports included in the review found in favour of a salt reduction hypothesis.

Comment: See also:

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Top Secret

Congress sneaks new "Monsanto Protection Act" into Environmental Bill

Claire Bernish
Activist Post
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:14 UTC
monsanto
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Monsanto has essentially been gifted a free pass with legislation intended to protect people and the environment. Monsanto will enjoy immunity from responsibility for one of the most noxious of all its toxic creations: PCBs.

Slipped into already-contentious reform measures of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act by the House of Representatives, the provision concerns now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which, in the United States, were manufactured nearly exclusively by Monsanto. Though the Environmental Protection Agency banned the substances in the 1979, from the early 1930s through 1977, the agrichemical goliath produced around 1.25 billion pounds — of which an estimated 10 percent continues to wreak havoc on human health and the environment.

Comment: Monsanto is a completely evil and corrupt corporation! The reworking of the outdated Toxic Substances Act in Monsanto's favor is just another aspect of a much bigger pattern of corruption and collusion between Monsanto and the U.S. government. It is refreshing news that the following cities are currently in litigation over the cost to clean up PCB contamination! Hopefully the attorneys fear that 'the clause's potential to nullify legal efforts to hold Monsanto accountable' will not come to pass:

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Pills

Fraud-Kings of the Mind: Taking apart the fake science behind psychiatry

Jon Rappoport
Waking Times
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:46 UTC
happy sad pills
© Brian Stauffer
"Promoting diabolically false science, psychiatry creates a gateway for defining many separate states of consciousness that don't exist at all. They're cheap myths, fairy tales." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)USA Today, January 26, 2016: "Primary care doctors should screen all adults for depression, an expert panel recommended Tuesday."

—Let's screen everybody to find out if they have mental disorders. Let's diagnose as many people as possible with mental disorders and give them toxic drugs—

Wherever you see organized psychiatry operating, you see it trying to expand its domain and its dominance. The Hippocratic Oath to do no harm? Are you kidding?

The first question to ask is: do these mental disorders have any scientific basis? There are now roughly 300 of them. They multiply like fruit flies.

An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.

THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.
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Question

How many of us know the ingredients in the cosmetic products we use?

Madeleine Somerville
The Guardian
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:58 UTC
toxic cosmetics
© hurt2healingmag.com
On 24 February, a jury in Missouri awarded $72m to the family of Jacqueline Fox, a woman who died of ovarian cancer at age 62. Lawyers for the Fox family brought a civil suit against personal care product giant Johnson & Johnson, stating that Fox used their baby powder as a feminine hygiene product for years. Her lawyers alleged that these products were the cause of her cancer and the jury agreed, holding Johnson & Johnson liable for counts of fraud, negligence and conspiracy.

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence presented to the court was an internal memo from a Johnson & Johnson medical consultant which stated, "anybody who denies [the] risks" between "hygienic" talc use and ovarian cancer would be publicly perceived in the same light as those who denied a link between smoking cigarettes and cancer: "Denying the obvious in the face of all evidence to the contrary."

Comment: Dangerous Beauty: Hazardous Beauty Products

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Alarm Clock

Terminal apathy & junk food: What rats say about Americans

Brett Redmayne-Titley
Activist Post
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:39 UTC
rat maze
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." - Aristotle

When considering the cause of national apathy, Americans are evidently physiologically and socially similar to the junk food addled laboratory rat. Both tolerate repressive environments while confined against their will in a maze. In the natural desire to escape and find freedom, like the affected rat, Americans passively accept their confinement, acquiescing without struggle to a life of controlled stimulation and manipulation by all manner of drugs, tests, and mandated choice of direction. In a country objectively descending into chaos, why don't Americans care? In recent studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), these same rats evidence one reason for America's irrational disinterest in self-preservation.

Comment: Some 'food for thought' - How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts

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Heart

The proven health benefits of meditation

Margie King
Green Med Info
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:16 UTC
meditation
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The ancient practice of meditation is enjoying a resurgence. Its proven health benefits have been discovered by such unlikely advocates as military programs and corporations.

Meditation used to be confined to the mysterious and ascetic world of Buddhist monks. But now meditation is going mainstream.

Military programs incorporate meditation to treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse. Corporations offer meditation as part of their wellness programs.

Part of the reason for this new popularity of meditation is a wealth of scientific research attesting to its amazing range of healing properties. Here are just 11 proven health benefits of a regular meditation practice.

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Info

Dr. Mark Hyman: Why the food pyramid got it all wrong

Dr. Mark Hyman
rodalewellness.com
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:03 UTC
food pyramid

It's time to throw the old rules out the window.

During the 1970s, when it became evident obesity and heart disease were increasing, some concerned, well-meaning politicians held hearings about how to best advise Americans about diet, health, and preventing heart disease.

Unfortunately, these same studies helped form recommendations listed in the dietary goals. Among its findings, the report urged Americans to increase their carbohydrate intake to 55 to 60 percent of their total daily calories. Equally bad were recommendations to cut way back on saturated fats from meat, eggs, butter, and whole milk.


Comment: Wrongly Convicted? The Case for Saturated Fat

Comment: Also from Dr. Mark Hyman: Last Diet You Will Ever Need - Try Eating REAL Food!

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Ambulance

Sick care in America - a snap shot

Jillian Perkins
Natural Blaze
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:18 UTC
sick care
© lukemitchell.orgSICK IN THE HEAD Why America won't get the health-care system it needs
If you wanted to make sick people sicker, how would you do it?

Suppose, as a thought exercise, you wanted to make sick people sicker. Maybe you are a psychopath or sadist, or maybe you're just curious. Well, if a bunch of people sat down and brainstormed some of the most effective ways of worsening an urgent illness or injury, they might come up with something like this:
  • Make them wait intolerably long times in uncomfortable seats in a room filled with other sick people.
  • Make sure that they pay, or agree to pay in writing, before you treat them. Make them fill out lots of paperwork, most of it irrelevant, and force them to stand at a desk for 15 minutes while entering every piece of data about them from birth onwards into an archaic computer system that assimilates information at the speed of a sloth.
  • Make them wait even longer in little tiny airless rooms that have been filled with a variety of sick people, one after the other, all day long for years.
  • Make sure the room is brightly lit with fluorescent lights and has no comfortable resting place.
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Dollars

Big pharma lobbyists creaming tens of billions out of the federal government in a variety of schemes

Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:36 UTC
drug lobby
© alternet
After an 18-month investigation into the high cost of Gilead's hepatitis C drug Sovaldi—initially listed at $84,000 for a course of treatment or $1,000 per pill—the Senate Finance Committee said the prices did not reflect the cost of research and development and that Gilead cared about "revenue" not "affordability and accessibility." That sounds like an understatement. Sovaldi and the related pill Harvoni cost Medicare and Medicaid more than $5 billion in 2014, charged senators.

But Gilead is far from the only drug company camping out on our tax dollars. In the 2000s, atypical antipsychotics were widely prescribed to children with behavior problems enrolled in Medicaid programs provoking lawsuits from states as their budgets were sacked.


Comment: Read the following articles for more information about how doctors are prescribing atypical antipsychotics to low-income children with behavior problems:

Comment: Also read Martha Rosenberg's article: 5 shady ways Big Pharma may be influencing your doctor

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