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Value your health? Here are seven foods you should never consume


DailyHealthList
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
1. Canned Tomatoes Danger of BPA
canned tomato
Of all fruits and vegetables, tomatoes fare the worst when stored in cans. This is because tomatoes are very acidic and the acidity will cause the chemical that lines the cans to permeate into the food. Cans are known to contain about 50mcg of the toxic bisphenol-A, or BPA, which can severely affect adults and especially children.

Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we tested contain some BPA.

Background: BPA is a toxic chemical linked to reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, increased risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems.


Comment: You might want to consider avoiding tomatoes altogether as they are nightshades. The nightshade family also includes potatoes, peppers, okra and eggplant and is linked to chronic pain and inflammation.


Aluminium Poisoning

When food is stored in an aluminium can, over time, it will gather some of the aluminium that it is stored in. This is especially so with tomatoes with its high acidity.

To avoid the toxic BPA, avoid canned foods completely and consume fresh fruits and vegetables. Another way is to switch over to brands that use glass containers instead—especially for acidic foods like tomatoes.


Comment: Another good idea would be to learn how to do your own canning. Food preservation is a good skill to have and this way you can have more control over quality and avoid consuming added potentially toxic ingredients.

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Ambulance

Xanax addiction: Side effects, withdrawal, and rehab


The Fix
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:52 UTC
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Xanax is a highly addictive, yet commonly prescribed drug. It is relatively easy to get and many doctors prescribe it routinely. The fact that it is so easily prescribed, as well as readily available on the street, is one of the contributing factors to the Xanax addiction problem.

Abuse of this drug has become widespread in the last few years and, while it can affect anyone, it has become particularly popular among young people, with devastating results. Some people start using Xanax because it has been prescribed to them while others may discover it at a party or through friends. Not everyone who tries Xanax will become addicted, but anyone who uses it regularly risks becoming physically dependent on it.

Comment: The New Epidemic Sweeping Across America (and it's Not a Disease)
Death by medicine is a 21st-century epidemic, and America's "war on drugs" is clearly directed at the wrong enemy!

Prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the Los Angeles Times revealed.

The Times analysis of 2009 death statistics, the most recent available, showed:
  • For the first time ever in the US, more people were killed by drugs than motor vehicle accidents
  • 37,485 people died from drugs, a rate fueled by overdoses on prescription pain and anxiety medications, versus 36,284 from traffic accidents
  • Drug fatalities more than doubled among teens and young adults between 2000 and 2008, and more than tripled among people aged 50 to 69
Again, these drug-induced fatalities are not being driven by illegal street drugs; the analysis found that the most commonly abused prescription drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.


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Donut

How sugar destroys your health & literally makes you stupid

Jeff Roberts
Collective Evolution
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:28 UTC
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Sugar, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup(HFCS), is the largest source of calories in the United States today. While its mass appeal is vastly rooted in cultures worldwide, its health impacts are substantially detrimental and are often overlooked by the majority.

In his book, The Sugar Fix, Dr. Richard Johnson suggests about 50 percent of Americans consume as much as half a pound, more than 225 grams, per day. This statistic is the farthest thing from sweet.

While its no secret that sugar is a major player in the obesity, heart disease, and type II diabetes epidemic, most would be shocked to discover that sugar literally makes you dumber as well.

Comment: SOTT.NET has carried many excellent articles about the detriment of sugar consumption:

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Red Flag

Even more toxic chemicals set to enter the food supply


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:39 UTC
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Surprise—the next generation of GMO crops will be resistant to far higher amounts of pesticides and herbicides, which will then be sprayed on our crops. Poison on the dinner table!

A recent article written by Dr. Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource Project looks at the future of GMOs and argues that GMOs will become more unpopular as the technology takes them in a dramatically more toxic direction.

He points to the recent approval of crops resistant to the herbicides 2,4-D and Dicamba. The reason they need to resist these toxic sprays is because the overuse of Monsanto's herbicide Roundup is actually breeding Roundup-resistant "superweeds" that require more and more toxic chemicals to kill. Here's how it works:
  • Monsanto creates the herbicide Roundup. Unfortunately, it sometimes kills the crops along with the weeds.
  • Monsanto creates "Roundup-ready" crops that can withstand the toxic spray, which allows farmers to use even more Roundup to kill all the weeds.
  • Weeds increasingly become resistant to Roundup, becoming "superweeds" that require more toxic chemicals to kill them.
  • The biotech industry creates new crops that are resistant to other herbicides.
  • Inevitably, the weeds will become resistant to these new herbicides as well—a vicious cycle that threatens both our environment and our food supply.

Comment: The legacy of Agent Orange & Monsanto - Have things changed?

Things haven't changed, as the article states 'the recent approval of crops resistant to the herbicides 2,4-D and Dicamba', is just one example of how psychopathic corporations like Monsanto change the 'name' of herbicides used in their products so unsuspecting consumers have no idea their food is drenched in toxic poisons:

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Study finds iron-containing microglia in brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's disease


Science Daily
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
Michael Zeineh, alzheimer's study
© Norbert von der GroebenMichael Zeineh is the lead author of a study that describes the discovery of what appear to be cells containing iron in the postmortem brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Examining post-mortem tissue from the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators identified what appear to be iron-containing microglia -- specialized scavenger cells that sometimes become inflammatory -- in a particular part of the hippocampus, a key brain structure whose integrity is critical to memory formation.

In post-mortem brain tissue from people not diagnosed with Alzheimer's, neither the iron deposits nor the scavenger cells engulfing them were present in that brain region.

The findings, recounted in a study now available online in Neurobiology of Aging, suggest that high-field magnetic resonance imaging, in particular an advanced version called 7T MRI that uses a powerful 7-Tesla magnet, could someday be used to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's patients earlier than is currently possible.

The findings also add a new suspect to the Alzheimer's disease lineup. A long-held hypothesis holds that the most notorious feature of Alzheimer's disease, amyloid plaques, is the main cause of the disorder. These plaques are extracellular aggregations of a small protein called beta-amyloid that are prominent in diseased patients' brains, as well as in mouse models of the disease. The other most cited key player is tau, another Alzheimer's-associated protein that abnormally aggregates into threadlike tangles inside nerve cells. Surprisingly, in the brain region of interest there was no consistent overlap between the iron-laden microglia and the amyloid plaques or tau.

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Brain changes caused by poverty lead to lifelong depression, learning difficulties, low coping mechanisms


Science Daily
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:50 UTC
poverty, brain development
© Phils Photography / FotoliaLow-income children have irregular brain development and lower standardized test scores, with as much as an estimated 20 percent gap in achievement explained by developmental lags in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
An alarming 22 percent of U.S. children live in poverty, which can have long-lasting negative consequences on brain development, emotional health and academic achievement. A new study, published July 20 in JAMA Pediatrics, provides even more compelling evidence that growing up in poverty has detrimental effects on the brain.

In an accompanying editorial, child psychiatrist Joan L. Luby, MD, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, writes that "early childhood interventions to support a nurturing environment for these children must now become our top public health priority for the good of all."

In her own research in young children living in poverty, Luby and her colleagues have identified changes in the brain's architecture that can lead to lifelong problems with depression, learning difficulties and limitations in the ability to cope with stress.

Comment: Knowing how the developing brain is negatively impacted by growing up in a low-income household helps to understand the on-going cycle of poverty within families. It explains some of the difficulties people face in attempting to improve their lives and counters the heartless elitist meme that poor people lack the will or desire to change their circumstances, when in truth the system has likely been designed to keep the majority as an under-class to serve those in power.

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Water

Heat and high humidity can be a deadly combination

Emily Sohn
DNews
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:02 UTC
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© ThinkStockHeat and humidity can be a deadly combination.
It's getting hot out there.

As the mercury soars, so too do heat-related deaths -- whether it's a child left too long in a hot car or an elderly person stuck at home with no air conditioning -- heat proves to be a deadly agent every summer.

So, why can heat be so deadly?

Hot weather alone is not dangerous, said Chris Minson, an environmental physiologist at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Instead, it's a combination of hot temperatures, high humidity, and often preexisting health conditions that can push a person's core body temperature to reach the danger zone of 104 F. At that point, the nervous system goes haywire, the heart experiences excessive stress, and organ systems begin to fail.
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MIB

Misinformed consent: Introducing Hepatitis C drugs in Georgia

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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Trust us, we... er, um... think it'll be good for you.
On May 6 New Eastern Outlook published an article about the new Hepatitis C drugs being introduced to Georgia. It stated that this is another US-imposed programme in which patients will be given experimental drugs which they cannot give their informed consent to taking because not enough information is known about them to give that consent. Georgians will be used as guinea pigs, in other words.

These suggestions produced howls of protest from people working in Georgia's healthcare sector. They insisted that the drugs were safe and the point of the programme was to see if Hep C could be totally eradicated in one go, using Georgians as a sample population. Even Georgia's Health Minister, Dr. David Sergeenko, weighed in by announcing that the new drugs have been approved and "Georgia is not a testing country".

The trouble is, Georgia's Health Minister and the others involved with this programme are not telling the truth. If they don't know this, they should resign. If they do, they should be in jail.
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FDA goes on the attack against essential oils

Kristen Anderson
Natural Blaze
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
essential oils
In September of 2014, the FDA began a coordinated attack on companies that market essential oils. The top brands are dōTERRA and Young Living. Both companies offer essential oils to help manage a variety of symptoms ranging from headaches to anxiety to hyperactivity. Many essential oil users claim to have eliminated the need for over-the-counter medications due to using specific combinations of essential oils to target common maladies.

Back in 2014, Young Living received a warning that you can see on the FDA's website. It seems they had conducted a thorough search of the Internet, including websites, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and cited instances that Young Living essential oils were mentioned in conjunction with a medical diagnosis. For example, "Eucalyptus Blue essential oil has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties." And, "Since I have become an avid Young Living essential oil user I have learned all about the anti-microbial properties of so many oils, including ANTI-VIRAL constituents in many of our essential oils."

Comment: It's highly interesting that the FDA has been caught basically rubber-stamping approvals for pharma drugs that have later been found to cause severe side effects and deaths, yet they are now targeting the manufacturers of plant oils that have been in use for centuries. It's not difficult to see the hand of BigPharma in directing this.

FDA uses mafia tactics for the benefit of Big Pharma

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Health

Antidepressants combined with NSAIDs increases risk of intracranial hemorrhage

Traci Pederssen
PsychCentral
Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
nsaid antidepressant brain bleed
A new study has found that taking antidepressants with a common class of painkillers, known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), increases the user's risk of intracranial haemorrhage (bleeding inside the skull) soon after starting treatment.

Commonly used NSAIDs include ibuprofen and aspirin.

Based on the ongoing concern of a drug interaction, a team of researchers based in Korea compared the risk of bleeding among patients treated with antidepressants with and without NSAIDs.

Using the Korean nationwide health insurance database, their study involved over four million people who were prescribed antidepressants for the first time between 2009 and 2013.

The researchers analyzed the timing of both NSAID prescriptions and hospital records to identify any patients with a first admission of intracranial haemorrhage within 30 days of a new prescription. Factors that could affect the results, such as age, sex, and use of other medications, were taken into account.

Compared with the use of antidepressants alone, the findings showed that a combined use of antidepressants and NSAIDs was linked to a significantly increased risk of bleeding.

Comment: NSAIDs such as aspirin and ibuprofen are associated with stomach bleeding and also cause the body to retain fluids, which may lead to kidney damage. They also increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. Ibuprofen has been linked to dozens of adverse health effects, including anemia, DNA damage, hearing loss, hypertension, and miscarriage.

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