Health & Wellness

Strategies to tackle Lyme Disease

Mark Hyman, MD
drhyman.com
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:23 UTC

"I have Lyme disease," writes this week's viewer. "Is there anything I can do to treat it naturally?"

Lyme disease, the most common American tick-borne infectious disease, often goes undiagnosed or becomes misdiagnosed. That becomes a real problem when you consider that in America, up to 300,000 new cases a year of Lyme disease diagnoses have been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , an increase of up to 10 times what researchers previously believed.

Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which can proliferate to every area in your body. An infected blacklegged deer tick transmits the virus to humans through a bite.

Obesity cover-up? UK Health Secretary caught surpressing 'sugar tax' report

Russian Times
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:28 UTC

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been accused by MPs of suppressing a scientific report on the use of a sugar tax in tackling the UK's obesity epidemic.

The Commons Health Select Committee has questioned whether ministers opposed to the tax exercised political power to prevent the release of the review by Public Health England (PHE).

The agency carried out a review into the merits of higher taxes on sugar drinks and sweets, a move backed by health experts.

The report was originally due to be published last July, but has been held back for use in "ongoing policy development" and would be made public later this year.

Comment: Could it be that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is l easing out integrity to Coca Cola? Just like the Pediatricians & Dietitians in the U.S.! Could he be in the pockets of Big Food, casting doubt and suppressing information on the link between sugary drinks and obesity?

People hospitalized because of a fall often have undiagnosed infections

Science Daily
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:01 UTC

People who end up in the emergency room because of a fall often are tripped up by an infection, rather than a loose throw rug or poor eyesight, suggests a study being presented at IDWeek 2015™.

Bloodstream, urinary and respiratory infections are the most common culprits for infection-related falls, according to the Massachusetts General Hospital study. The findings also suggest that while these falls may be more common in the elderly, they shouldn't be overlooked in younger people: 20 percent of patients in the study were younger than 65.

"Over the years I've been struck by the fact that some of the more serious infections I treated were in people who came to the hospital because they fell," said Farrin A. Manian, MD, MPH, principle investigator of the study, a clinician educator in the Division of General Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a visiting associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "Even though many of the patients had vague early signs of an infection, such as weakness, or lethargy, it was the fall that brought them in."

Changing food through creativity & civil disobedience

Jefferey Jaxen
Collective Evolution
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:05 UTC

A soft, corporate dictatorship with financial, academic, and regulatory reach has kept the revolutionary spirt of the population at bay through a false narrative to label genetically modified food. The People have voted to stop chemical pesticide and herbicide testing in their communities only to be ignored, while at the local level, agrochemical products are destroying farmers and families. Hospitals are turning a blind eye and most doctors are clueless about the signs and symptoms of pesticide and herbicide exposure.

Perhaps labels were never the answer for a corporate monopoly whose intent is to patent life. As communities are invaded by chemical companies cloaked as agricultural progress, is it wise to use vital revolutionary energy still attempting to attach a label onto their known toxic products? While looking the other way, our children are slowly poisoned by chemicals we are still arguing to name and categorize. At what point does this new threat to communities be seen for what it is?

Comment: Watch the full length 'The Monsanto Years' film

In some cultures, schizophrenic hallucinations are not so bad

Agata Blaszczak Boxe
Brain Decoder
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:48 UTC

Hearing voices of non-existent interlocutors is a common symptom of schizophrenia. But it seems that the voice-hearing experience among people with the disorder may vary depending on where they are from, according to a new study.

In the study, published recently in Topics in Cognitive Science, researchers looked at how people with schizophrenia from three different societies experienced hearing voices. They found that people from the US tended to describe the voices as intrusive unreal thoughts they hated. In contrast, people from South India were more likely to describe them as providing useful guidance, and people from Ghana were more likely to think of them as morally good.

"I was actually surprised that they were so different," study author Tanya M. Luhrmann of Stanford University told Braindecoder.

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Enjoy these 5 edible perennials you can plant this fall and last for decades

Susan Patterson
Off the Grid News
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:03 UTC

While it may not seem like the best time to plant, fall is a really good season to get in some perennial flowers, herbs and yes ... delicious and nutritious vegetables.

It is a wonderful thing to know that you can plant once and harvest forever.

You may be familiar with the old-time favorites including asparagus, rhubarb and artichokes, but what you might not know is that there are many more veggies to consider as we wave goodbye to the summer season and welcome fall.

Cure tooth decay and improve dental health naturally

PreventDisease.com
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

In light of the shaky economy, people are stressed about spending - and under stress, many resort to poor eating habits with diets high in sugar. But by changing dietary routines, you can limit and avoid tooth fillings and costly treatments like crowns and root canals, while bringing more health and balance to your body.

Ramiel Nagel began investigating the cause of tooth decay after his one year old daughter developed a brown spot on her tooth. Even while eating an all natural and organic diet without any processed sweets, Nagel's daughter's teeth rapidly began to disintegrate and decay. Rather than subject her to costly and overly invasive dental surgery, he chose to find a better way.

Through a successful cavities mineralizing program, reader feedback and four years of painstaking trial and error, Nagel's daughter was pain free with strong teeth by the age of five. She was able to eat nuts and chew on ice cubes, all without any chemicals or dental treatments. Following the same program, Nagel healed four of his own cavities and avoided the dental drill.

Comment: Having a proper diet which includes the fat soluble vitamins A, K2 and D3 may be the most important factor in keeping your teeth and gums healthy. These nutrients work synergistically to support bone and tooth health, boost calcium absorption, and shuttle calcium where it needs to go.

Autism, parasites and the Monsanto connection

Dr. Matthew Buckley
Waking Times
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:19 UTC

If you were to do research into alternative therapies that appear to be providing clear results to the autistic community, you'd be hard pressed to find anything as impressive as the results that people are finding in using a protocol that Kerri Rivera has put together. Kerri Rivera is the author of Healing the Symptoms Known As Autism, and the mother of an autistic son. A core component to her protocol, which has reportedly documented over 160 outright cures of autism in the last 3 years, is an extensive protocol for dealing with parasites. I encourage anybody interested in autism to read her book and take note of the results she has documented.

Living near fracking wells found to increase risk of premature and high-risk births

Sputnik
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

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Expectant women living near active natural-gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and having high-risk births, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Brian S. Schwartz, a professor of environmental science at the Bloomberg School, and his colleagues studied health records of 9,384 mothers who gave birth to 10,946 babies between January 2009 and January 2013 throughout 40 Pennsylvania counties. They also analyzed data about local fracking wells including their depth and amount of gas being extracted.

The team then created an index of how active the wells were and how close they were to pregnant women.

Comment: Living anywhere in the vicinity of natural gas drilling wells means you are taking a serious risk with your health. Hospitalizations for heart conditions, neurological illness, and other conditions are higher among people who live near gas and oil drilling sites using hydraulic fracturing.

America's opioid abuse epidemic fueled by licensed narco cartels

Anne Farron
Redress Information & Analysis
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:44 UTC

The USA has a serious, serious problem with prescription medicines. Ostensibly used to help the suffering, Americans have come to view pills as a quick-fix solution to every little problem.

The American attitude is that no ailment or ache, however minor, should simply be lived through - it should be chemically eradicated with immediate effect. The American who is content to let their body deal naturally with a sniffle or a headache is rare indeed.

This attitude is in no small measure manufactured by America's profit-based health-care system, which encourages the sale of drugs and medicines like any other consumer product. As a consequence, Americans take an astonishing amount of medicines, many of which they or their doctors have been erroneously convinced that they need by clever advertising and corporate insistence.

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Health & Wellness

Strategies to tackle Lyme Disease

Obesity cover-up? UK Health Secretary caught surpressing 'sugar tax' report

People hospitalized because of a fall often have undiagnosed infections

Changing food through creativity & civil disobedience

In some cultures, schizophrenic hallucinations are not so bad

Enjoy these 5 edible perennials you can plant this fall and last for decades

Cure tooth decay and improve dental health naturally

Autism, parasites and the Monsanto connection

Living near fracking wells found to increase risk of premature and high-risk births

America's opioid abuse epidemic fueled by licensed narco cartels

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