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Teenager went blind after only eating fries, chips, white bread, sausages and ham since elementary school

Kashmira Gander
Newsweek
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:00 UTC
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A stock image of french fries - among the only foods the patient would eat.
A teenager who only ate five different foods went blind despite having no visible signs he was malnourished, according to his doctor.

The unnamed boy visited his family doctor complaining he was tired, according to a case study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The doctor learned the boy was a "fussy eater," but he looked well. Tests revealed he was anemic and had low levels of vitamin B12.

By the age of 15, his hearing and vision started to fade. An MRI scan revealed he had no structural problems with his ears, while an eye test similarly failed to reveal any structural cause.
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Smoking

Teenager left in coma after vaping every day led to deadly disease

Dave Burke
The Mirror
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:43 UTC
Maddie Nelson
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Maddie Nelson says three years of vaping caused deadly damage to her lungs
A teenager claims she was left in a coma after years of vaping left her seriously ill.

Maddie Nelson, 18, was placed in a medically-induced coma earlier this month because she was suffering from chest pains and nausea.

Medics found her lungs were severely inflamed, and said her vaping habit was to blame.

The youngster, from Utah, said she picked up the habit three years ago, believing it was safe.

She had felt unwell for several weeks before she was hospitalised with a fever.

Comment: Better to stick with natural tobacco than risk your health by using vapes:

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Smoking

The truth hurts: MPs aghast over tobacco researcher Marewa Glover's claim 'bodies heal' from secondhand smoke

Zane Small
Newshub
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
Marewa Glovera
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Dr Marewa Glovera, an Auckland-based tobacco researcher.
A tobacco researcher's claim that bodies will heal from exposure to secondhand smoke left MPs aghast during submissions on a proposed law to ban smoking in cars.

Dr Marewa Glover, an Auckland-based tobacco researcher, said the proposed law was unnecessary, because exposure to secondhand smoke is "far greater in the home".

"There is more time spent there, and it's more consistent over many more years," she said, adding that time spent in cars is "fleeting".

Comment: The brainwashing with regards to smoking has truly reached a fever pitch. When the mere suggestion that second-hand smoke is not a bad as its made out to be is met with such outrage and furor, you know the programming is complete.

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Cow

Vegan and plant-based diets worsen brain health due to insufficient choline


Neuroscience News
Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
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The primary sources of dietary choline are found in beef, eggs, dairy products, fish, and chicken, with much lower levels found in nuts, beans, and cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli.
The momentum behind a move to plant-based and vegan diets for the good of the planet is commendable, but risks worsening an already low intake of an essential nutrient involved in brain health, warns a nutritionist in the online journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.

To make matters worse, the UK government has failed to recommend or monitor dietary levels of this nutrient — choline — found predominantly in animal foods, says Dr. Emma Derbyshire, of Nutritional Insight, a consultancy specializing in nutrition and biomedical science.

Choline is an essential dietary nutrient, but the amount produced by the liver is not enough to meet the requirements of the human body.

Comment: While it is essential for brain health, choline is also vital for the liver. A lack of choline in the diet will lead to a health disaster eventually. You could supplement, by why not go to the source for whole food nutrients - meat.

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When vegan influencers quit being vegan, the backlash can be brutal

Cassidy Dawn Graves
VICE
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:00 UTC
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Popular YouTubers like Rawvana and Bonny Rebecca gave up veganism to save their health. But the fallout from their fans has been immense.

Last March, vegan YouTuber Yovana Mendoza posted a video on her channel, Rawvana, that rocked her followers to their cores.

"I definitely did not feel ready to talk about this," Mendoza told the camera, her expression solemn.

She had garnered nearly two million subscribers for her raw vegan diet content, but had recently been spotted with a plate of fish and called out for her ostensible hypocrisy. In the video, which has since been made private, she explained that while six years of raw veganism "elevated [her] consciousness," recently, her health had begun to suffer. She lost her period, she was "basically anemic," and she was riddled with digestive issues. Eventually, she said, she couldn't take it anymore, and started eating fish and eggs to alleviate her ailments.

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Objective:Health #29 - Drop That Burger! The Amazon is on Fire!


Sott.net
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
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Starting last week, pictures of the burning Amazon rain forest flooded social media as people were lead to believe the 'lungs of the planet' were in jeopardy. News headlines were quick to point the finger at you, as usual, because you eat too much meat.

But it was rather quickly discovered that everything being reported on the nature of the Amazon fires was wrong: they aren't at a record-setting levels, they aren't caused by people eating too much meat and the Amazon isn't even 'the lungs of the planet'. Many of the pictures featured in widely shared memes, shared by the likes of celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Emmanuel Macron, aren't even recent photos, and some of them aren't even of the Amazon.

Why is such a seemingly carefully constructed disinformation campaign coming out now and why is it getting so much traction? And why pin it on meat-eating?

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we dig in to the great Amazon fire disinformation campaign, debunking some of the widely spread rumors and examining what's really going on here.


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Hiliter

'This isn't just a behavioral problem': Study challenges the story on overeating

Paul Scott
Inforum
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:00 UTC
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The amount we eat when we eat too much is unrelated to pleasure, new research says

People who are obese just like eating more than everyone else, right?

That's been the assumption anyway, that Americans overeat because we are getting so much darn pleasure from all the tasty, unhealthy foods in our path.

Films and books have been built around the idea that we overeat to get pleasure, including "Supersize Me" (2004) by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, "The End of Overeating" (2010) by former FDA commissioner David Kessler and bestseller "Salt, Sugar, Fat" (2014) by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Michael Moss. They all deliver more or less the same message — that overeating is a national love affair with highly palatable foods, one some of us just can't quit.

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Biohazard

Boris Johnson, GMOs and glyphosate: Irresponsible, negligent and criminal

Colin Todhunter
OffGuardian
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
Boris Johnson
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves after giving a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 24, 2019.
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said:
Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world."
Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. There is already enough food being produced to feed the global population yet around 830 million are classed as hungry.

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Health

Your moisturizer may be turning your skin into 'Swiss cheese'

Joe Battaglia
Prevent Disease
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
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Moisturizers and other products may be doing as much harm as good, especially for people with sensitive skin, according to 45 years of research on the subject, which started with complaints from his patients.

Visit any drugstore and you'll find a dizzying array of choices for skin-care products. That's no surprise, says UC San Francisco dermatology professor Peter Elias, MD, since at least half of Americans, maybe more, have sensitive skin or a diagnosed skin condition such as eczema, atopic dermatitis or rosacea.

The internet is afire with dire warnings that agents used in toothpaste, shampoo, cosmetics and skin-care products are causing health problems.

"They were telling me that they're applying some expensive stuff but it only provided relief for the first hour or so, and then their skin felt drier than ever," he says.

He wasn't able to tell them what was going on, and wanted to find out.

Comment: The best skin care products may be natural ingredients: Traditional nourishing and healing skin care
We know that the skin is the largest organ of the body and readily absorbs much of what is applied to it, good and bad. That is why so many drugs can be administered through the use of transdermal patches. Therefore, it is an excellent principle and wise precaution not to apply substances to our skin that we would not readily take internally or, in a word, eat. It would be ideal if what we used on our skin were edible, and yet more, a whole food, in which case it would also have the potential of actually nourishing the skin and helping it to heal itself.
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Alarm Clock

Researchers take aim at circadian clock in deadly brain cancer


Medical Xpress
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
brain cancer cells
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A microscope image of brain cancer cells, a glioma tumor type known as anaplastic astrocytoma.
Scientists at USC and UC San Diego have discovered a potential novel target for treating glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer that took the life of Sen. John McCain and kills 15,000 Americans a year.

The target is the circadian "clock" found within the tumor stem cells, which governs how the tumor grows, multiplies and develops resistance to current treatments.

"We think this is opening the door to a whole new range of therapies," said Steve Kay, Provost Professor of neurology, biomedical engineering and biological sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, who is working with Jeremy Rich, a neuro-oncologist at University of California, San Diego who specializes in malignant brain tumors. "It's a great example of collaboration and convergence."

Comment: While the research is fascinating, and the drug being developed may do wonders for glioblastoma, one wonders if modifying ones' lifestyle to be more in-line with natural circadian rhythms might help in a preventative fashion. Meal timing, blue light exposure, sun exposure, regulating sleep - all of these have an effect on our bodies when they are out of sync with our natural circadian rhythms. Perhaps modifying lifestyle would be too late once glioblastoma had actually set in, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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