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© KREMSpokane Councilman Mike Fagan.
In an interview with local CBS affiliate KREM, Councilman Mike Fagan says other council members called on him to resign from the Board of Health following comments he made about vaccines.
His vaccine crime was stating that he did not believe that the "science of vaccinations is not settled yet" regarding vaccines, according to a separate report by Health Impact News.
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People reach the peak of their mental powers at different ages for different skills, according to a new study.
People think fastest at around 18-years-old, but the ability to read the emotions of others does not peak until between 40 and 60, the study found.
Vocabulary skills, meanwhile, do not peak until people are in their 60s or 70s.
In fact there may be no time in life at which all the mental powers are peaking, although some bunch together in youth.
Comment: Each new study seems to point to the fact that our brains are far more complex and that brain capacity does not necessarily decline with age. In fact many studies have shown that keeping the brain active and being on a ketogenic diet may enable us to maintain our abilities well into old age.
A 2009 study, found that people who keep their brains active saw a 30 to 50 percent decrease in risk of developing memory loss. A high-fat, low-carb diet such as the ketogenic diet provides the brain with a much more efficient fuel source and provides a better environment for neuronal recovery and repair.
- Your Brain On Ketones: How a High-fat Diet Can Help the Brain Work Better
- To preserve memory into old age, keep your brain active!
- Neuroplasticity - Rewiring the Brain
A new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that people who drank diet soda gained almost triple the abdominal fat over nine years as those who didn't drink diet soda. The study analyzed data from 749 people ages 65 and older who were asked, every couple of years, how many cans of soda they drank a day, and how many of those sodas were diet or regular.
Those answers ended up being extremely predictive of abdominal-fat gain, even after the researchers adjusted for factors like diabetes, smoking and levels of physical activity. People who didn't drink diet soda gained about 0.8 in. around their waists over the study period, but people who drank diet soda daily gained 3.2 in. Those who fell in the middle — occasional drinkers of diet soda — gained about 1.8 in.
But over the years, many researchers have questioned whether these heavily sprayed crops are safe for human consumption. As time goes on, it appears that some institutions are beginning to change their tune on the popular pesticide.
(Reuters) - The world's most widely-used weed killer can "probably" cause cancer, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
The WHO's cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), said glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto Co herbicide Roundup, was "classified as probably carcinogenic to humans"
Comment: The WHO is a little late in the game on this one. The toxic effects of glyphosate has been well-documented.
- Glyphosate: A trajectory of human misery
- Gut-Wrenching: New studies reveal the insidious effects of Glyphosate
- The Chemical Toxin - Glyphosate drives breast cancer proliferation, study warns, as urine tests show Europeans have this weed killer in their bodies
- New study reveals how Roundup weedkiller can promote cancer
- Study: Monsanto's Roundup herbicide linked to Cancer, Autism, Parkinson's
The results of the study have been published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Generations of school students have gone to bed the night before a maths exam or a vocabulary test with their algebra book or vocabulary notes tucked under their pillow in the hope that the knowledge would somehow be magically transferred into their brains while they slept. That they were not completely taken in by a superstitious belief has now been demonstrated by a team of neuropsychologists at Saarland University, who have shown that even a brief sleep can significantly improve retention of learned material in memory.
© The Independent, UKLow-priced wine could cause cancer and heart disease, according to plaintiffs.
More than two dozen American vintners are facing a lawsuit claiming their wines contain a poisonous amount of the known carcinogen.
According to the proposed class action, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles, levels of arsenic within the Californian brands are up to five times higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency allows for water.
The lawsuit names numerous low-priced wines, including popular brands such as Franzia, Mogen David, Almaden, Sutter Home and Wine Cube.
It says tests by three independent laboratories found arsenic levels that in some cases were 500 per cent higher than what's considered safe.
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Comment: The push for mandatory vaccinations is getting ever stronger across the US. For more see:
- The war on personal liberty ramps up: California bill seeks to end vaccine exemptions
- Meet the CDC front group lobbying for mandatory vaccinations
- Vaccine hysteria: Setting the stage for an ugly, end-game scenario
These impassioned responses from the food industry show how eager corporatists are to maintain the status quo.
The cranberry industry enlisted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to oppose the requirement on the grounds that it could hurt profits:
(Perhaps the cranberry peddlers should have entered a different industry instead of whining that their product tastes bad.)...forcing disclosure of the added sugar in cranberry products would be unfair because, unlike other fruits, cranberries are so bitter that they are unpalatable without it.
Comment: Greater numbers of Americans ARE choosing to become informed and are buying organic products when they can and trying to avoid GMO's. However, BigAg wants to make sure it retains its profit margins above all else, and with its financial ties to the mainstream media, it is rare that people are told the truth about the dangers of the ingredients in most processed foods. Worse, they are continually lied to by the industry and the FDA about what constitutes a 'healthy' diet.
- Behind the label: How manufacturers are hiding how your food was made
- Big food companies push to label genetically modified products as "Natural"
- FDA approved additives in our food that are banned in other countries
- Actually, you don't need carbohydrates for energy
Dame Jane Goodall has condemned politicians for pushing 'Frankenstein Food'
The highly respected academic has endorsed a new book, which argues the companies responsible for developing genetically modified farming and food have twisted the evidence to minimise the dangers.
Historically, critics of GM food have been lambasted by the GM companies, scientists who rely on their funding, and politicians, including the UK Government, as being 'anti-science'.
However, Dame Jane argues that the advocates of GM food have ignored evidence of harm with the result it is they who are guilty of being 'anti-science'.
Comment: If you want a vision of the future, imagine a needle shoved into a human arm - forever.