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Three NHS workers die suddenly while working for same 'toxic' ambulance trust. Could 5G be related?

Alan Selby
Mirror
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:23 UTC
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Former health minister and local MP Norman Lamb, who is standing down at this election, has called for an independent investigation into the deaths.

Ambulance dispatcher Luke Wright and paramedics Christopher Gill and Richard Grimes all died suddenly after a whistleblower raised concerns about psychological abuse

An ambulance service where three staff have died of suspected suicide in two weeks has been accused of a toxic culture.

Ambulance dispatcher Luke Wright, 24, and paramedics Christopher Gill and Richard Grimes were found dead between November 11 and November 21.

Shortly before their deaths a whistleblower wrote to the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust's boss complaining about psychological abuse.

Comment: This is a rather fishy story, to say the least! Three suicides in 11 days, all from the same workplace. In the report from the BBC, they quote Daniel, brother of the victim Luke Wright, as saying:
Daniel said his brother "constantly had a smile on his face. He was caring and loved his job and was amazing. He was always helping people."
Does that sound like someone on the verge of suicide?

There's an interesting connection made by Jack Kruse. From June 24 of this year, Smart Cities World reported:
5G testbed demonstrates the ambulance of the future, today

The West Midlands 5G testbed joined with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and BT to demonstrate a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.

WM5G, the UK's first region-wide 5G testbed designed to accelerate 5G deployment, is working with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and BT to showcase how 5G can transform healthcare and the emergency services.

The organisations recently combined to undertake the UK's first demonstration of a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.
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The demonstration was hosted by the Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre (MD-TEC) in UHB's prestigious simulation lab located in the Institute of Translational Medicine. The showcase brings the concept of a 5G connected ambulance to life and provides new technologies to frontline staff to create a facility for patients to be diagnosed and triaged in the most appropriate settings. It enables remote diagnostics performed by paramedics who are supported by clinicians based in the hospital.
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The images are relayed over a high-bandwidth 5G connection, so the clinician is able to view both the ultrasound examination performed by the paramedic and keep an eye on the overall scene inside the ambulance. The superfast speeds of 5G ensure sharper and more reliable imagery for the clinician than could previously be achieved.
Could the recent activation of 5G in the ambulances have something to do with these three mysterious deaths? YouTuber Jack Striker noted birds were dropping dead outside of Coventry Hospital after 5G was activated there:

This is all speculative, of course. But three unusual suicides timed rather perfectly with the activation of a high-speed 5G network where there have already been noted odd bird deaths - something is going on.

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India is NOT a 'Vegetarian Country' like the EAT-Lancet report would have us believe

Sylvia Karpagam, Frédéric Leroy and Martin Cohen
The Wire
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
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Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation on World Hunger Day, in Chennai May 28, 2014.
Currently, food politics in India spearheads an aggressive new Hindu nationalism that has led to many of India's meat eating minority communities being treated as inferior.

Vegetarians, far less vegans, let us be frank, would not like to be compelled to eat meat. Yet the reverse compulsion is what lurks in the current proposals for a new 'planetary diet'. Nowhere is this more visible than in India.

The subcontinent is often stereotyped by the West as a vegetarian utopia, where transcendental wisdom, longevity, and asceticism go hand in hand.

Earlier this year, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its global report on nutrition and called for a global shift to a more plant based diet: "The scientific targets set by this Commission provide guidance for the necessary shift, which consists of increasing consumption of plant-based foods and substantially reducing consumption of animal source foods".

Comment: Like much of the EAT-Lancet report, the idea that India is a vegetarian country is nothing but propaganda, propped up to fulfill an agenda. That agenda, the 'vegan pusch', is a house of cards, upheld by these blatant lies in an attempt to sway the global population into strict dietary austerity.

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Our diets are killing us and doctors aren't trained to help

Emily M. Broad Leib, Drs. Stephen Devries and Walter Willet
The Hill
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:00 UTC
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What if your doctor failed to talk to you about the most important threat to your health? Wouldn't you worry about the quality of your health care? Poor quality diet is a leading cause of death in the United States, but it is unlikely that your doctor has the knowledge to even begin a meaningful conversation about your nutrition or to make an appropriate dietary referral.

Most doctors lack the knowledge necessary to offer nutrition advice to patients; indeed, fewer than 14 percent of physicians report feeling equipped to advise on diet or the connection between food and health. This is unsurprising given that, for example, 90 percent of cardiologists in a recent survey reported receiving minimal or no instruction on nutrition during medical training.

Yet it is also concerning. Obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and stroke, which are leading causes of death in the United States, all are closely linked to diet and nutrition.

Comment: Make no mistake, the authors of this piece are vegan diet-pushing, plant-based fascists who would like nothing more than to see meat consumption removed from the planet and veganism enforced worldwide. Walter Willet has been involved in multiple initiatives to push the climate narrative to support global dietary changes.

Despite this, there's nothing wrong with what's being stated above - they are absolutely right that doctors are unprepared to deal with diet-related illness and will simply keep throwing pills at these problems, hoping they'll go away. At the very least, people on multiple sides of the diet debate can agree on at least one aspect of the problem.

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What's going on in your gut can affect your emotions, cause anxiety, depression

Derek Beres
Big Think
Mon, 02 May 2016 23:06 UTC
Sugar
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You are what you eat. We've known this for a long time. Michael Pollan's observation took it a step further: you are what what you eat eats. This is especially relevant when choosing grass-fed versus grain-fed beef, or wild versus farmed salmon, for example.

A growing awareness of nutrition and neuroscience is helping us understand just how important what you eat (and what what you eat eats) truly is, even if Hippocrates said 'all disease begins in the gut' over 2,300 years ago. Sure, we know that obesity and energy levels are dictated by what we put into our stomach. Recognizing that anxiety and depression, at least in part, also stems from nutrition is changing how we view the larger question of health.

It comes down to bacteria. For years bacteria have been enemies, marketed by hand sanitizer and soap companies as devils incarnate. While hand sanitizers are extremely important in the operating room and armed forces, there is something to be said about the folk wisdom of getting a little dirty to build your immune system.

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Can the gut microbiome unlock the secrets of aging?

Amy Pashler
Medical News Today
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:50 UTC
A new study has shown how the gut microbiota of older mice can promote neural growth in young mice, leading to promising developments in future treatments.
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PinterestScientists are suggesting that gut bacteria may drive the neurological aging process.
The research group, based in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, transferred the gut microbiota of older mice into the gut of younger mice with less developed gut fauna.

This resulted in enhanced neurogenesis (neuron growth) in the brain and altered aging, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between bacteria and their host can have significant benefits for health.

The past 20 years have seen a significant increase in the amount of research into the relationship between the host and the bacteria that live in or on it. The results of these studies have established an important role for this relationship in nutrition, metabolism, and behavior.

The medical community hopes that these latest results could lead to the development of food-based treatment to help slow down the aging process.

In this study, the research team attempted to uncover the functional characteristics of the gut microbiota of an aging host. The researchers transplanted gut microbiota from old or young mice into young, germ-free mouse recipients.

The findings appear in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Comment: See also, Objective:Health: The Shit Show - Fiber, Fecal Transplants and the Microbiome



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Psilocybin for major depression granted 'Breakthrough Therapy' designation by FDA

Rich Haridy
New Atlas
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
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The FDA has awarded another Breakthrough Therapy designation for psilocybin, this time focusing on research into the effect of a single dose on patients suffering from major depressive disorder.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).

Back in late 2018, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy status to the ongoing work from COMPASS Pathways investigating psilocybin, the key psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression. A large, multi-center Phase 2 trial spanning the US, UK and Europe is currently underway testing a variety of dosing strategies.

This new FDA Breakthrough Therapy approval focuses on a seven-site, Phase 2 trial currently underway in the United States. Coordinated by a non-profit research organization called the Usona Institute, the trial is exploring the antidepressant properties of a single psilocybin dose in treating patients with major depressive disorder.

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Pediatric allergist traces 'mystery' reactions to pea protein — an increasingly popular ingredient

Melanie Glanz
CBC News
Thu, 02 May 2019 04:00 UTC
pea protein ingredients label
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Pea protein is listed in the ingredients but it does not have to be flagged as an allergen in Canada.


Pea protein is often used in vegan cheeses and yogurt, and as an alternative to meat protein

As a pediatric allergist, Dr. Elana Lavine often advises parents to avoid peanuts, eggs and seafood. Now, she's warning them that allergies can also be triggered by "pea protein" found in a growing number of foods.

Lavine described what happened to a two-year-old patient after eating non-dairy yogurt.

"When given the yogurt, they had a full-blown anaphylactic reaction in the aisle of the grocery store," she said.

Comment: The only reason anyone would need to worry about an allergic reaction to pea protein is if they're eating garbage processed fake foods (we're looking at you, Beyond Burger). If you're eating real foods, it would be relatively easy to avoid peas (they're the little green balls that float in the soup). And while it would probably be a good idea for food manufacturers to start listing pea protein as a possible allergen, it would be even better if they weren't "formulating" concoctions that rely on non-food ingredients like this and make something nourishing with real food.

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If you want to save the world, veganism isn't the answer

Isabella Tree
The Guardian
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:14 UTC
veganism
© Illustration: Matt Kenyon
‘Calls for us all to switch entirely to plant-based foods ignore one of the most powerful tools we have to mitigate against these ills – grazing and browsing animals.’
Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way

Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years - from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million - 5% of our population - today. Influential documentaries such as Cowspiracy and What the Health have thrown a spotlight on the intensive meat and dairy industry, exposing the impacts on animal and human health and the wider environment.

But calls for us all to switch entirely to plant-based foods ignore one of the most powerful tools we have to mitigate these ills: grazing and browsing animals.

Comment: Learn more about Regenerative Agriculture: This Farm Is Medicine

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Permissible additives: There are 2,000 untested chemicals in packaged foods — and it's legal

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
Truthout.org
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:58 UTC
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The only way to minimize your exposure to dangerous chemicals that are currently allowed in packaged foods is to purchase products that are certified organic.
A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., shows that thousands of untested chemicals (an estimated 2,000, to be exact) are found in conventional packaged foods purchasable in U.S. supermarkets. And yes, all of them are legal.

The extensive collection of permissible additives includes several known or suspected carcinogens, such as synthetic sodium nitrate, found in processed meats and considered probably carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, and butylated hydroxyanisole, also known as BHA, a chemical listed as a cancer-causing chemical by the state of California and found in commonplace items like frozen pepperoni pizza. Other unappealing chemicals are commonly found in our food packaging, such as polypropylene, sulfuric acid and bisphenol A — all of which can have impacts on human health and the environment.

Comment: We Interact with 100,000 + Chemicals, and the Dangers Are Barely Understood
As for long-term testing, only about 900 chemicals have been studied for cancer effects with enough depth to be assessed by the major cancer-research agencies, and about 300 chemicals have been assessed for reproductive and developmental effects and birth defects.

Obviously, we can't assume that majority of the 140,000 or even the 50 million chemicals are nontoxic. There are probably 140,000 surprises out there for us. We are really clueless about this swamp of chemicals through which we slog.

The advertising from most manufacturers leaves consumers with the assumption that all of the ingredients they use in their products have been tested for all kinds of toxic effects, including cancer.


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Why it is so hard to figure out what to eat

David S. Ludwig and Steven B. Heymsfield
The New York Times
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
cartoon eating weight control diet
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Most diet trials in the best journals fail even the most basic of quality control measures. That's the finding of a study by us published today on JAMA Network Open.

Investigators receiving funding for any clinical trial from the National Institutes of Health must register in advance what they plan to test, among other design features, to ensure that the data are fairly analyzed. Comparing the original registries with the final published studies, we found that diet trials in the past decade were about four times as likely as drug trials to have a discrepancy in the main outcome or measurement — raising concern for bias.

This quality-control problem of diet trials in comparison to ones on pharmaceuticals leads to a bigger issue: underinvestment in nutrition research and in how we tackle the mysteries of a healthy diet.

Comment: As Mark Sisson points out here, waiting for a top down approach to solve the problems of diet-caused disease means waiting forever. It isn't going to happen (it's really a fool's errand anyway - trying to find a one-size fits all diet for a diverse population with different needs is like trying to find the one size of shoe that will fit everyone). Far better to do one's own research, experiment and find out what foods suit your needs. It may take a lot of trial and error, but it's better than listening to "the experts" who have repeatedly illustrated that they don't know what they're talking about.

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