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UN Commission Limits Melamine, Sets New Food Standards


Insciences Organization
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00 UTC
Family of children killed by melamine
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Li Xiaoquan, right, holds up a photo of his twin daughters Li Xiaokai, who died after drinking tainted milk, and Li Xiaoyan at his home in Liti village, near Runan, central China's Henan province, 19 Oct 2008
The maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infant formula is 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and animal feed is 2.5 mg/kg, according to new rulings from the United Nations' food standards body, Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Melamine is a chemical used in a variety of industrial processes - including the manufacture of plastics used for dishware and kitchenware, and can coatings - and traces of it unavoidably get into food by contact without causing health problems.

However the substance is toxic at high levels. Such levels of melamine were found recently in infant formula, milk powder and pet food due to its deliberate and illegal addition to increase the apparent protein content of these products. Babies and children died as a result and hundreds of thousands became seriously ill.
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America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You With Name Change

Dr. Mercola
Huffington Post
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:59 UTC
Aspartame is the most controversial food additive in history, and its approval for use in food was the most contested in FDA history. In the end, the artificial sweetener was approved, not on scientific grounds, but rather because of strong political and financial pressure. After all, aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent!

It's hard to believe such a chemical would be allowed into the food supply, but it was, and it has been wreaking silent havoc with people's health for the past 30 years.

Comment: For more information and insight into the serious negative health effects of Aspartame read the following articles:

Aspartame: The Politics of Food
Aspartame has been Renamed and is Now Being Marketed as a Natural Sweetener
ASPARTAME - The Silent Killer
The Aspartame/NutraSweet Fiasco
Aspartame consumption strongly associated with migraines and seizures

The articles listed below depict how important information about the serious health risks of aspartame has been withheld from the public:

FDA Hid Research That Damned Aspartame: Fatal Studies Should Have Blocked NutraSweet Approval The following books, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. and Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D states:
Our lives and health are sacrificed to an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered, carcinogenic drug that damages the mitochondria and even interacts with drugs and vaccines. It is used in the US by half of the population, creating an incredible epidemic of diseases
Propaganda Warning! Expert panel, funded by a major maker of aspartame, says, 'Aspartame is safe'
'New', (meaning now being reporting in MSM), fears over Aspartame

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Are "Natural" Household Cleaners Really Safer?


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:20 UTC
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A growing number of Americans are concerned about the safety of household cleaners, laundry detergents, and other home care products. For some, their family's health has been damaged by chemicals found in mainstream products. Others have studied the issue and want to protect themselves and those they love, and so shop for home care products whose ingredients they understand and feel confident using.

But according to the Natural and Nutritional Products Industry Center (NPIC), there has never before been standard definition of the term "natural" used by the home care industry. Now, an easily identifiable seal will help consumers discern which products are natural. Shoppers can expect the seal to begin appearing on certified home care products in the coming months.
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Colorado dairy linked to 26 E. coli and Campylobacter illnesses

Julian Martin
Eat Drink and Be
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00 UTC
Two more illnesses have been linked to raw goat milk sold from a Colorado farm, the Boulder County Health Department announced Friday.

The announcement brings the total number of E. coli and Campylobacter reports in connection with the Billy Goat Dairy in Longmont, Colo., to 26.

Billy Goat Dairy sells unpasteurized milk to 43 households as part of a herd share program, in which residents purchase a share of a goat in exchange for raw milk. Health officials are contacting members of the program to check for symptoms, according to the Daily Camera.
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Evil Rays

Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

Eben Harrell
Time
Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:52 UTC
brain cartoon
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Studies have found that upon entering an office, people behave more competitively when they see a sharp leather briefcase on the desk, they talk more softly when there is a picture of a library on the wall, and they keep their desk tidier when there is a vague scent of cleaning agent in the air. But none of them are consciously aware of the influence of their environment.

There may be few things more fundamental to human identity than the belief that people are rational individuals whose behavior is determined by conscious choices. But recently psychologists have compiled an impressive body of research that shows how deeply our decisions and behavior are influenced by unconscious thought, and how greatly those thoughts are swayed by stimuli beyond our immediate comprehension.

In an intriguing review in the July 2 edition of the journal Science, published online Thursday, Ruud Custers and Henk Aarts of Utrecht University in the Netherlands lay out the mounting evidence of the power of what they term the "unconscious will." "People often act in order to realize desired outcomes, and they assume that consciousness drives that behavior. But the field now challenges the idea that there is only a conscious will. Our actions are very often initiated even though we are unaware of what we are seeking or why," Custers says.
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This Single Cell Plant Actually Expels Mercury from Your Body


Dr. Mercola
Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:56 UTC
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A study shows that chlorella, a single-celled organism that has been used for many years as a nutritional supplement, can help flush methylmercury from your system.

Mice fed methylmercury were given chlorella, and the amount of methylmercury excreted in their urine and feces was approximately twice the amount excreted by mice not treated with chlorella.

Methylmercury is a neurotoxic compound widely used in industrial applications. It accumulates in fish, which has led to widespread advisories against fish consumption by pregnant women.

The study in the Journal of Toxicological Sciences reports:
"These results suggest that the intake of [chlorella] may induce the excretion of Hg [mercury] both in feces and urine ... The effect of [chlorella] on the tissue mercury accumulation may become evident in a long-term experiment."
Source:

Journal of Toxicological Sciences 2010; 35(1): 101-105

Comment: For improved health and wellness read the following threads on the forum about eliminating toxic heavy metals from your body:

Detoxification: Heavy Metals, Mercury and how to get rid of them

Anti-Candida, Inflammation, Heavy Metals Detox and Diet

DMSA for heavy metal detox

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Red Flag

Study: Too many video games may sap attention span

Sarah Klein
CNN
Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:08 UTC
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A new study suggests that video games can sap a child's attention span just as much as TV.
Parents who believe that playing video games is less harmful to their kids' attention spans than watching TV may want to reconsider - and unplug the Xbox. Video games can sap a child's attention just as much as the tube, a new study suggests.

Elementary school children who play video games more than two hours a day are 67 percent more likely than their peers who play less to have greater-than-average attention problems, according to the study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics.

Playing video games and watching TV appear to have roughly the same link to attention problems, even though video games are considered a less passive activity, the researchers say.
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Britain faces drink, drugs and obesity health crisis

Randeep Ramesh
The Guardian
Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:01 UTC
uk obesity
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One in four Britons is now officially regarded as obese compared with one in six in the mid-nineties
Figures show large jump in obesity as well as drink and drug-related deaths, although life expectancy continues to rise.

Britain appears to be in the midst of a health crisis with soaring levels of obesity and sharp increases in deaths from drink and drugs, according to figures released today by the Office for National Statistics.

In the latest edition of the ONS's Social Trends report, researchers show that while life expectancy at birth in Britain is expected to continue rising and reach 81.5 years for men in 2021, much of the population faces major health issues.

Although as a country we eat more fruit and vegetables and consume less sugar, there has been a large jump in obesity - with one in four Britons officially regarded as obese compared with one in six in the mid-nineties.

Comment: Eating a good diet of wholesome food and detoxing is wholly encouraged by Sott; but it's also worth remembering there's a whole industry that thrives on further 'stressing' society by 'shaming' them to lose weight, lest we forget all that money going to big pharma.....
Thin was always in. But now, the social and public-health message is that fat is not simply a sign of sloth. It kills. The obesity epidemic is the greatest health crisis of the age. According to various health statistics (which are never consistent), between 17 per cent and 25 per cent of Canadian adults are obese. Thirty-six per cent of the adult population is overweight, or maybe two-thirds. Whatever. It's a catastrophe.

But is it? A new study based on Statistics Canada population data reaches an exceedingly awkward conclusion: People who are overweight live longer than people who are classified as "normal" weight. Not only that, people who are classified as significantly overweight also live longer.

The study, led by Statistics Canada's Heather Orpana, was devised to estimate the relationship between body mass index and mortality in Canadian adults. The database was nearly 12,000 people. The authors of the Canada-U.S. joint study adjusted for age, gender, smoking, physical activity and alcohol consumption. They found that the link between weight and mortality is relatively weak. The strongest finding was that underweight men are at greater risk than any other group.

But being overweight was associated with a 25-per-cent lower risk of dying. Being obese was associated with a 12-per-cent lower risk of dying. The risk for the most morbidly obese (who account for less than 3 per cent of all Canadians) was statistically the same as the risk for people of "normal" weight. The findings were published online in the research journal Obesity.

"Overweight may not be the problem we thought it was," said David Feeny, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Oregon, almost apologetically. "Overweight was protective." He added that agencies such as Health Canada might want to rethink the way they classify people's weight.


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Attention

Finally Deet Exposed as a Neurotoxin

David Gutierrez
Natural News
Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:54 UTC
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New research shows that the insect-repelling chemical deet actually functions in the same way as deadly nerve gases and dangerous pesticides, by attacking the nervous systems of both insects and mammals."These findings question the safety of deet, particularly in combination with other chemicals," said researcher Vincent Corbel of Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement in Montpellier.

The chemical known as deet (for N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) is found in nearly every commonly used mosquito repellent in the world, and eight billion doses have been applied since its introduction to the consumer market in 1957. The chemical was originally developed as an insect repellent by the U.S. Army in 1946, following experience with jungle warfare in World War II.
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Pregnant women 'must take vitamin D supplements'

Caroline Parkinson
BBC News
Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:44 UTC
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Experts disagree on routine supplement use
Pregnant women in the UK should be told to routinely take vitamin D supplements, researchers say.

The team at University College London Institute of Child Health says official bodies currently offer conflicting advice.

Writing in the British Journal of Nutrition, they say there is a "strong case" for a daily dose of vitamin D in pregnancy.

But one leading expert said more evidence was needed.

The Department of Health advises pregnant women to ensure they receive a certain level of vitamin D - 10 micrograms per day. The researchers say this in effect endorses use of supplements, because diet and the sun provide too little.
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