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Unvaccinated populations are healthier than the vaccinated

Catherine J. Frompovich
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice
Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:46 UTC
Vaccination rates world
Those countries where vaccines are given routinely or forced upon children and their parents, often under threat of law, experience the lion’s share of communicable diseases. Why? What’s happened with “herd immunity”?
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently published a disease map purporting to show that disease outbreaks are the fault of the unvaccinated. While the mainstream media like PBS ran the story, they missed the fact that the CFR map shows the highest disease outbreaks in the most-vaccinated populations. (REFUSERS)
Right off, and at the very beginning, I say this article will cause rumblings and a stir amongst many, if not all, on both sides of the vaccine safety issue, especially with vaccine apologists. My reason for saying that is because what I discuss is strictly my evaluation of the interactive data map showing communicable infectious diseases globally, as prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which points out some grave problems regarding vaccine statistics, in my opinion. Please study the map before reading on.

Comment: More information about the unvaccinated vs. vaccinated:

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Cow

DARK Act shocks consumers with Non-GMO label for GMO fed meat & dairy


Sustainable Pulse
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:53 UTC
GMO cows
Despite a new poll published Monday suggesting that 76% of Americans expect that a non-GMO dairy label would mean the cows were fed non-GMO feed, a "Trojan horse" paragraph in Bill H.R. 1599, also known as the DARK Act, is set to deliver the exact opposite to consumers, as well as a massive boost to the Biotech industry.

Comment: Evidence of what GMO feed does to animal's health & wellness:

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America's opiate addiction: 75% of high school seniors on heroin started with painkillers

Carey Wedler
The Anti Media
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:48 UTC
prescription drugs
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A preliminary analysis has concluded that over 75 percent of high school students who use heroin previously used prescription painkillers. The study's authors implicated not only pharmaceutical opioids, but the nature of drug education in the United States, suggesting students do not trust institutional calls to refrain from drug use. Though the findings come with limitations, they further highlight the nation's persistent, growing struggle with opiate addiction.

The study, called "Nonmedical Opioid Use and Heroin Use in a Nationally Representative Sample of US High School Seniors," was published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and analyzed data from 130 public and private schools across 48 states. The information is collected by researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research Monitoring the Future (MTF), whose database serves as "an ongoing annual study of behaviors, attitudes and values of high school students in the country."

Comment: How did middle America become addicted to heroin?
This really came out of modern medicine. Because there are so many more doctors across America than there are ever going to be drug traffickers, that means this problem is all over the country. To say that the police are in charge of dealing with it is a cop out...

You touch on this in one of the later chapters called "The Treatment is You," which I especially enjoyed. Because it's saying, "Look, doctors might be great at curing diseases but when it comes to complex human problems, they're not so good at treating those, and you have to take up yourself as a concern, you have to care about your own health."


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Veggies worse for the environment than bacon

Adam Withnall
Independent
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:21 UTC
bacon eggs sausage
Eating a healthier diet rich in fruit and vegetables could actually be more harmful to the environment than consuming some meat, a US study has claimed. Lettuce is "over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon", according to researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University who analysed the impact per calorie of different foods in terms of energy cost, water use and emissions.

Published in the Environment Systems and Decisions journal, the study goes against the grain of recent calls for humans to quit eating meat to curb climate change. Researchers did not argue against the idea people should be eating less meat, or the fact that livestock contributes to an enormous proportion of global emissions - up to 51 per cent according to some studies.

But they found that eating only the recommended "healthier" foods prescribed in recent advice from the US Department of Agriculture increased a person's impact on the environment across all three factors - even when overall calorie intake was reduced. The experts examined how growing, processing and transporting food; sales and service; and household storage and use all take a toll on the environment for different foods.

Paul Fischbeck, study co-author and CMU's professor of social and decisions sciences, said: "Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think.
"Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken."

Comment: So much for the claims of the vegetarian diet being so great for the environment! As Lierre Keith demonstrates in her book, the Vegetarian Myth, agriculture is one of the most destructive practices done to our earth.

See:

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Mortality rate of middle-aged white Americans increasing rapidly

Abby Cambell
naturalhealth365.com
Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:26 UTC
Middle age men mortality
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Something strange is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Among all ethnicities or races, as well as counterparts of other wealthy countries, the mortality rate for this group has been rising rapidly. In contrast, mortality rates of middle-aged black and Hispanic Americans continue to decline, as well as death rates for the old and young of all ethnic and races.

The increased mortality rate in this group led to a major investigation. The findings were surprising as the death rates in middle-aged white American group wasn't caused by chronic disease. This was something unexpected and bizarre. So, why are middle-aged white Americans dying at a rapid rate?
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Newsweek: Antidepressants used during pregnancy could increase chances of Autism

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:49 UTC
Pregnant woman
New research suggests women considering pregnancy who are taking one popular class of anti-depressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs) should seek out the advice of a physician, because use of SSRIs during pregnancy can significantly increase a child's risk for autism. Popular SSRIs include Prozac, Zoloft and Lexapro (thank you big pharma).

The recently published study found that the autism risk for newborns increased by 87 percent among women who took SSRIs during pregnancy. The study found the medication had the highest chance of causing harm in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, with a lesser risk if taken in the first trimester.

Comment: The following article, carried back in 2013, has additional information: Autism linked to mothers taking antidepressant drugs
The research investigated not only the clinical research, but the mechanisms associated with taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy.

Medical research has established that about a third of autistic children have increased levels of a neurotransmitter called serotonin in the blood stream. Other findings have determined that these higher serotonin levels are often caused by errors in the signaling process amongst brain and nerve cells - as the cells are not utilizing serotonin properly.

The hypothesis that is being proven out by the research is that when the mother takes SSRIs during or prior to pregnancy, the baby's brain and nerve cells' ability to utilize and process serotonin becomes diminished.

And because serotonin is intimately related to the brain's ability to focus and concentrate thoughts - as well as experience empathy and other moods - dysfunctional serotonin metabolism can produce a myriad of mental and emotional issues...

In other words, this research linking SSRIs and high circulating serotonin levels with autistic children might be considered the canary in the coal mine. The one consistent parallel with the dramatic increase in autism over the past few decades has been the dramatically increased use of these chemical toxins amongst our foods, water, air and living spaces.


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Farm Aid musicians want your help to stop the DARK Act

Lorraine Chow
EcoWatch
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:10 UTC
Farm Aid
© Farm AidDave Matthews, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young join the overwhelming margin of American voters who say consumers should have the right to know if their food is genetically modified.
Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young are speaking out against the controversial Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (H.R. 1599), also known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK Act.

The legislation would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the distribution and labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs), thus preempting states' rights to label GMOs themselves.
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Drastic changes in US medical treatment over the last 80 years

Anna Hunt
Waking Times
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:32 UTC
herbs
For thousands of years, healers around the world have been using plants for their medicinal properties. It is only during the last 80 years or so that the new medical establishment has turned to chemical concoctions to treat diseases and ailments, and as a result, the public and medical professionals have lost much knowledge about the natural substances provided to us by Mother Earth.

Medicine was very different just eight decades ago. Below is a map from 1932 released by the National Wholesale Druggists' Association which depicts some of the important species of medicinal plants that were native or cultivated in each state of the United States prior to the emergence of big-pharma.
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Dangers of wireless radiation: Dr Devra Davis (VIDEO)


Powerwatch.org
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
Dr Devra Davis
This is well worth watching - lots of well-presented up-to-date information. On 30th November 2015, the Dean's Lecture at the University of Melbourne was given by Professor Devra Davis based around the question "What are the health effects of mobile phones and wireless radiation?". Epidemiologist and electromagnetic radiation health-effects expert, Dr Davis, outlines the evolution of the mobile phone and smartphone and provides a background to the current 19 year old radiation safety standards (SAR), policy developments and international legislation.

Comment: For a broader look at EMF exposure in general and the sources in our environment see:

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Water

Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares public health emergency over lead water crisis


RT
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:17 UTC
bottled water
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The mayor of Flint, Michigan declared a public health emergency on Monday after tests showed the city's water is causing elevated levels of lead in children. Residents have been complaining for months about the smell, taste, and look of the city's water.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver declared the state of emergency at City Hall, calling on the board of commissioners to conduct a special meeting before the end of December to take action on the water crisis, according to NBC News 25.

"The City of Flint has experienced a manmade disaster," Weaver said, in a statement announcing the state of emergency, which takes effect immediately.

"The City of Flint children have experienced increased blood lead levels since the switch to the Flint River... this damage to children is irreversible and can cause effects to a child's IQ, which will result in learning disabilities," she added.
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