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Lawsuit claims: Shampoos still contain carcinogens

Stephanie M. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:12 UTC
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An Oakland watchdog group has sued four companies and plans to sue dozens more for allegedly manufacturing or selling shampoos, soaps and other care products without attaching labels warning consumers that they contained high levels of a carcinogen.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court by the Center for Environmental Health, accused Walgreens, Lake Consumer Products, Vogue International and Ultimark Products of selling products that allegedly had cocamide diethanolamine, or cocamide DEA.

The group said it intends to sue more than 100 other companies that make or sell such products. The organization listed Walmart, Trader Joe's, Kohl's, Target, Rite Aid, Sears, T.J. Maxx, Sephora and Colgate Palmolive.

Cocamide DEA, which is used to make foam and bubbles, was named last year as a carcinogen under Proposition 65, which requires warnings for consumer products with harmful amounts of certain toxic compounds. The chemical was added after the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared it a possible carcinogen in humans.

Comment: Are you Swimming in Chemicals? Read more about everyday products that contain cancer causing carcinogens:

Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
Dangerous Beauty: 5 Hazardous Beauty Products
The Danger of Toxic Consumer Products, Fragrances
Recognizing Toxic Chemicals in Body Care Products
Many Scented Consumer Products Emit Toxic Chemicals: Study
Toxic Burden: Women Put 515 Chemicals on Their Faces Every Day
Bodies of Pregnant Women Polluted with Chemicals Found in Consumer Products
Everyday Products Are Filled With Toxins - And We're Not Doing a Thing About It

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Eating whole grains is killing you

Mike Hart MD
Primal Docs
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:34 UTC
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In case you haven't heard, eating whole grains is slowly killing you. I know this goes against Canada's food guide and everything you've been taught, but I'm here to tell you the truth.

Canada's food guide

Canada's food guide is complete bullshit. If you want to get fat and unhealthy, go pick up a copy and follow it to a tee. They'll tell you to eat 3-8 servings of whole grains a day (1)

I basically follow a diet that's the direct opposite of what I was taught in my nutrition degree and medical school. Why? It's not because I like being different and opposing every mainstream view out there, it's because I'm constantly in pursuit of being the fittest, healthiest person I can possibly be

Wheat contains anti-nutrients

Wheat contains phytates (2). Phytates block the absorption of key minerals like magnesium, calcium and iron (2). Low iron? Ditch the wheat; it can inhibit its absorption by up to 50%! (2). It also blocks the absorption of magnesium, (3) a mineral that is crucial in preventing type two diabetes (4). Low testosterone and sex drive? Wheat blocks the absorption of zinc, a mineral that's critical to your sex life and building muscle (5). I take zinc everyday.

Comment: Read the following articles to learn more about the negative health effects of a grain/wheat based diet:

Wheat: The Addictive Opiate
Wheat the Opiate of the Masses?
Why Refined Grains Are Harmful
Facts you might not know about gluten
Caveman Diet: Grain Free, Disease Free
Wheat contains over 23,000 potentially harmful proteins
Modern wheat is the 'perfect chronic poison' says expert
Take a Look at the Damage Wheat Bread Can Cause You
Wheat's Cardiotoxicity: As serious as a heart attack
Beyond Celiac disease: The universal toxicity of wheat, Part I
Super-common food that's ruining your skin, joints and blood sugar
Can You Stomach Wheat? How Giving up Grain May Better Your Health

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Early deaths from pollution in the U.S. total 200,000 annually

Marie Ellis
medicalnewstoday.com
Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:00 UTC
Those who live in a particularly smoggy city in the US are able to see the pollution that surrounds them on a daily basis. But a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals that people who live in all types of environments are at risk of pollution-related death.

The study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, saw a team from MIT's Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment track emissions from sources including industrial smokestacks, automobile tailpipes, marine and rail activities, and heating systems around the US.

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Residents of Baltimore, MD, face the highest early emissions-related death rates.
In order to ascertain how many early deaths are a result of air pollution, the researchers used emissions data from the Environmental Protection Agency's National Emissions Inventory, which is a catalog of emissions sources.
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What if beer companies told the truth?


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:04 UTC
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Would some of their labels say, "Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring water, GMO corn syrup, and fish bladder"?

If you like to kick back now and then with a cold one, you may not have given much thought to what's in the bottle or can. Perhaps you were reassured by ads with wholesome images of sparkling mountain streams and barley rippling in the breeze, or by slogans like "Budweiser: The Genuine Article."

The reality is far less appetizing. The list of legal additives to beer includes:
  • MSG
  • Propylene glycol (it helps stabilize a beer's head of foam, though in high quantities it can cause health problems)
  • High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
  • Calcium disodium EDTA
  • Caramel coloring
  • FD&C blue 1, red 40, and yellow 5
  • Insect-based dyes
  • Glyceryl monostearate
  • Isinglass (see below)
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Aspartame and GMOs: What you really need to know about the science and health risks

Allison Rose Levy
Alternet
Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:36 UTC
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Coca-Cola claims diet drinks promote weight loss, but studies show that artificial sweeteners actually contribute to weight gain.

In response to a plunge in sales of artificially sweetened sodas last week, Coca-Cola announced plans to roll out an ad campaign to win back popular favor for its aspartame-containing beverage, Diet Coke. (Diet Pepsi, which also contained aspartame, saw its sales fall 6.2 percent in 2012 while regular Pepsi sales fell little more than half that amount.)


Comment: Propaganda Alert! New diet Coke ad reassures consumers about aspartame safety


The safety of aspartame, which the FDA approved for human consumption in 1981, has long been in dispute, before, during, and after its approval by the FDA. The simmering controversy is notable for the parallels between aspartame's safety and regulatory history, and that of another controversial industrial food product - genetically modified foods also known as GMOs.
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UNICEF Surveils, Defames health sites over vaccines

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:43 UTC
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A stunning new report reveals that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been monitoring independent health sites and their users in an attempt to identify 'anti-vaccine influencers' and their effect on lackluster vaccine uptake.

A newly fashioned United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) working paper tracking "the rise of online anti-vaccination sentiments in Central and Eastern Europe" identifies independent health websites, including GreenMedInfo.com, Mercola.com, NaturalNews.com and VacTruth.com, as contributing to lackluster vaccine uptake.

The UNICEF report, titled "Tracking anti-vaccination sentiment in Eastern European social media networks," obtained data using "state-of-the-art social medial monitoring tools," and confirmed that parents are using social media networks to decide whether to vaccinate their children
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Gluten Sensitivity & Nerve Damage


Gluten Free Society
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
A recent paper published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry discusses a strong connection in patients with facial palsy induced by gluten.
Recurrent peripheral facial paralysis (PFP) is an uncommon disorder that often occurs in the setting of family history. In 2001, we observed a patient with recurrent PFP who manifested symptoms of coeliac disease (CD) several months later. Because of this observation and because neurological disorders may be the only manifestation of atypical forms of CD...
What is Facial Palsy?

Facial palsy is a disorder characterized by paralysis of muscles in the face. It can be caused by a Herpes virus, and in sometimes caused as a result of inner ear infections. New research links gluten intolerance to this neurological disorder.

Gluten Sensitivity & Nerve Damage

There are numerous studies linking gluten intolerance issues with damage to the nervous system. Some doctors believe that the primary way that this protein induces damage is through nerves.

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Kyrgyzstan scrambles to contain bubonic plague outbreak following death of 15yo boy


ABC News/AFP
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:31 UTC
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Bubonic Plague
Kyrgyzstan officials have scrambled to control the spread of bubonic plague that killed a rural boy last week amid reports three more people have showed possible symptoms of the disease.

The easternmost district of Ak-Suu in the Central Asian country was on lockdown while police guarded the hospitals where 15-year-old Temirbek Isakunov was treated and died last Thursday.

The emergency ministry said three more people from the same village as the victim were hospitalised on Tuesday on suspicion of being infected with the deadly disease.

"Residents of Sary-Kamysh ... came to the hospital at 12:30am," the ministry said in a statement.

"They are now under medical care."
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Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan?

Alex Pasternack
Motherboard
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:18 UTC
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The Central Reference Laboratory, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is due for completion in 2015
In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in Almaty, then Kazakhstan's capital, for New York. When Dr. Alibekov - now known as Ken Alibek - sat down with the CIA, he had a terrifying secret to reveal: that bio weapons program the Soviet Union stopped in the 1980's hadn't actually stopped at all. He knew this because he had led Moscow's efforts to develop weapons-grade anthrax. In fact, he said, by 1989 - around the time that Western leaders were urging the USSR to halt its secret bioweapons program, known as Biopreparat - the Soviet program had dwarfed the US's by many orders of magnitude. (This is disregarding the possibility that the US was also developing some of these weapons in secret, and, like Russia, still is.)

One big problem, he added, was that, like the stockpiles of nuclear weapons left in the dust of the Soviet Union, the materials and the expertise needed to make a bioweapon - anthrax, smallpox, cholera, plague, hemorrhagic fevers, and so on - could still be lying about, for sale to the highest bidder. Of those scientists, Alibek told the Times in 1998, ''We have lost control of them."
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The hidden dangers of deodorant sprays: Headaches, eczema, asthma and even fatal heart problems

Sandra Walsh
The Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:12 UTC
  • Inhaling large doses of chemicals from deodorant aerosols can be fatal
  • Canister fumes may cause skin reactions, allergies and heart problems
  • Teenage boys are particularly in risk zone due to common over-use
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Dangerous over-use: Inhaling chemicals from deodorant aerosols can cause skin reactions, aggravate allergies and may trigger fatal heart problems
Walk past a teenage boy and you'll almost certainly be left with the lingering smell of spray deodorant - 50 per cent of children now use deodorant by the age of 11, according to one survey, with self-consciousness about body odour often spurring them to spray to excess.

For most teenage boys, only the market leader Lynx will do.

Thanks to its insistent marketing campaigns - including the slogan: 'Get the look that gets the girl' - the deodorant is the world's best-selling male grooming product, sold in 60 countries and boasting eight million users in the UK alone.
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