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Changing food through creativity & civil disobedience

Jefferey Jaxen
Collective Evolution
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:05 UTC
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A soft, corporate dictatorship with financial, academic, and regulatory reach has kept the revolutionary spirt of the population at bay through a false narrative to label genetically modified food. The People have voted to stop chemical pesticide and herbicide testing in their communities only to be ignored, while at the local level, agrochemical products are destroying farmers and families. Hospitals are turning a blind eye and most doctors are clueless about the signs and symptoms of pesticide and herbicide exposure.

Perhaps labels were never the answer for a corporate monopoly whose intent is to patent life. As communities are invaded by chemical companies cloaked as agricultural progress, is it wise to use vital revolutionary energy still attempting to attach a label onto their known toxic products? While looking the other way, our children are slowly poisoned by chemicals we are still arguing to name and categorize. At what point does this new threat to communities be seen for what it is?

Comment: Watch the full length 'The Monsanto Years' film



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In some cultures, schizophrenic hallucinations are not so bad

Agata Blaszczak Boxe
Brain Decoder
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:48 UTC
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Hearing voices of non-existent interlocutors is a common symptom of schizophrenia. But it seems that the voice-hearing experience among people with the disorder may vary depending on where they are from, according to a new study.

In the study, published recently in Topics in Cognitive Science, researchers looked at how people with schizophrenia from three different societies experienced hearing voices. They found that people from the US tended to describe the voices as intrusive unreal thoughts they hated. In contrast, people from South India were more likely to describe them as providing useful guidance, and people from Ghana were more likely to think of them as morally good.

"I was actually surprised that they were so different," study author Tanya M. Luhrmann of Stanford University told Braindecoder.

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Enjoy these 5 edible perennials you can plant this fall and last for decades

Susan Patterson
Off the Grid News
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:03 UTC
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© Image source: Pixabay.comJerusalem artichokes.
While it may not seem like the best time to plant, fall is a really good season to get in some perennial flowers, herbs and yes ... delicious and nutritious vegetables.

It is a wonderful thing to know that you can plant once and harvest forever.

You may be familiar with the old-time favorites including asparagus, rhubarb and artichokes, but what you might not know is that there are many more veggies to consider as we wave goodbye to the summer season and welcome fall.
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Cure tooth decay and improve dental health naturally


PreventDisease.com
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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In light of the shaky economy, people are stressed about spending - and under stress, many resort to poor eating habits with diets high in sugar. But by changing dietary routines, you can limit and avoid tooth fillings and costly treatments like crowns and root canals, while bringing more health and balance to your body.

Ramiel Nagel began investigating the cause of tooth decay after his one year old daughter developed a brown spot on her tooth. Even while eating an all natural and organic diet without any processed sweets, Nagel's daughter's teeth rapidly began to disintegrate and decay. Rather than subject her to costly and overly invasive dental surgery, he chose to find a better way.

Through a successful cavities mineralizing program, reader feedback and four years of painstaking trial and error, Nagel's daughter was pain free with strong teeth by the age of five. She was able to eat nuts and chew on ice cubes, all without any chemicals or dental treatments. Following the same program, Nagel healed four of his own cavities and avoided the dental drill.

Comment: Having a proper diet which includes the fat soluble vitamins A, K2 and D3 may be the most important factor in keeping your teeth and gums healthy. These nutrients work synergistically to support bone and tooth health, boost calcium absorption, and shuttle calcium where it needs to go.

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Autism, parasites and the Monsanto connection

Dr. Matthew Buckley
Waking Times
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:19 UTC
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If you were to do research into alternative therapies that appear to be providing clear results to the autistic community, you'd be hard pressed to find anything as impressive as the results that people are finding in using a protocol that Kerri Rivera has put together. Kerri Rivera is the author of Healing the Symptoms Known As Autism, and the mother of an autistic son. A core component to her protocol, which has reportedly documented over 160 outright cures of autism in the last 3 years, is an extensive protocol for dealing with parasites. I encourage anybody interested in autism to read her book and take note of the results she has documented.
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Living near fracking wells found to increase risk of premature and high-risk births


Sputnik
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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Expectant women living near active natural-gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and having high-risk births, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Brian S. Schwartz, a professor of environmental science at the Bloomberg School, and his colleagues studied health records of 9,384 mothers who gave birth to 10,946 babies between January 2009 and January 2013 throughout 40 Pennsylvania counties. They also analyzed data about local fracking wells including their depth and amount of gas being extracted.

The team then created an index of how active the wells were and how close they were to pregnant women.

Comment: Living anywhere in the vicinity of natural gas drilling wells means you are taking a serious risk with your health. Hospitalizations for heart conditions, neurological illness, and other conditions are higher among people who live near gas and oil drilling sites using hydraulic fracturing.

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America's opioid abuse epidemic fueled by licensed narco cartels

Anne Farron
Redress Information & Analysis
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:44 UTC
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The USA has a serious, serious problem with prescription medicines. Ostensibly used to help the suffering, Americans have come to view pills as a quick-fix solution to every little problem.

The American attitude is that no ailment or ache, however minor, should simply be lived through - it should be chemically eradicated with immediate effect. The American who is content to let their body deal naturally with a sniffle or a headache is rare indeed.

This attitude is in no small measure manufactured by America's profit-based health-care system, which encourages the sale of drugs and medicines like any other consumer product. As a consequence, Americans take an astonishing amount of medicines, many of which they or their doctors have been erroneously convinced that they need by clever advertising and corporate insistence.

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How to win converts to the Vaccine Paradigm

Plum Remson
medium.com
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:41 UTC
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No, this is not a parody piece. Or a bait and switch gotcha attempt. There is no surprise twist at the end of this little guide where I try to change your perspective. Not through guile, subtle wit, or sarcasm. Not with facts, figures, or graphs. Not even with a personal story, or the offer of an ice-cream cone.

No, the strategies I'm offering here are not going to be ironic ones that secretly try to impugn your reasoning or make your perspective seem irrational. I happen to believe that given what science has and has not yet told us, a choice either for or against vaccination can be rational. You chose to vaccinate. I didn't. This is a sincere attempt to create common ground.

Before I share the strategies, just so you're sure that I more or less get where you're coming from, let me attempt a short respectful precis of your perspective. Forgive me if I leave out anything important.

Comment: Read the following aricle about this ongoing debate: Pro-Vaxxers are the new pro-lifers: Religious hysteria trumps rational discussion in the vaccine debate

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Sweet surprise! High-fructose consumption slows brain's processes

Susanna Pilny
redorbit.com
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:52 UTC
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Rats given a diet high in processed fructose fare worse after receiving a head trauma—and show other slowed brain processes too, according to a new study out of UCLA.

This research could have major implications for the 5.3 million Americans living with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and by adding a further link between diet and brain health, could help the additional 1.7 million people each year who suffer trauma—52,000 of whom will die.

Comment: For a much more in depth look at the health issues associated with High Fructose Corn Syrup read the following articles:

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Toxic mold illness - a hidden pandemic

Dr. Mercola
Eat Local Grown
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:14 UTC
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Mold illness may be the most prominent health problem physicians are missing today — a "hidden" pandemic that's sweeping the nation.

Millions are suffering from mysterious illnesses for which they've received essentially no help from physicians. Some are referred to psychologists after being told their illness is "imagined," while others are accused of fabrication.

Because mold toxins are so unique and their effects are so broad, symptoms of mold toxicity are complex and varied, making it difficult for physicians to arrive at the correct diagnosis.

"Probably every doctor in the United States is treating mold illness — they just don't realize it."

Comment: Sick Building Syndrome: Floods, Mold, Cancer, and the Politics of Public Health

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