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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton

Zaria Gorvett
BBC
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:00 UTC
skulls crypt
From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people's skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower, our bones are changing in surprising ways

It all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939 - and his prospects did not look good. On the left side of his body, a bare patch of fur marked the spot where his front leg should have been. On the right, his front leg was so deformed, it was more of a stump with a hoof. Walking on all fours was going to be, let's say, problematic.

But when he was three months old, the little goat was adopted by a veterinary institute and moved to a grassy field. There he quickly improvised his own peculiar style of getting around. Pushing his back feet forwards, he would draw himself up until he was standing half-upright on his hind legs, and jump. The end result was somewhere between the hop of a kangaroo and a hare, though presumably not quite as majestic.

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Syringe

Medical police state in action: AMA votes to allow minors to override parental objection to vaccines

Javonte Anderson
Chicago Tribune
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC
HPV vaccines
Members of the American Medical Association voted this week to support state policies that would allow minors to override their parents' objections to vaccinations.

Moving forward, the AMA will encourage state lawmakers to institute comprehensive vaccine and minor consent policies, according to a news release. The policy recommendation came Monday during the group's annual meeting in Chicago.

This decision comes as the anti-vaccination movement gains strength nationwide and public health officials blame outbreaks in diseases including measles on fewer people getting vaccinated.

"The prevalence of unvaccinated pediatric patients is troubling to physicians," AMA board member Dr. S. Bobby Mukkamala said in the release. "Many children go unvaccinated as anti-vaccine-related messages and advertisements target parents with misinformation. Allowing mature minors to provide informed consent to vaccinations will ensure these patients can access this type of preventive care."

Comment: And just who decides what constitutes a 'mature minor'? There's a reason children aren't allowed to make life-changing decisions - they don't necessarily have the information or mental capacity to comprehend all the factors impacting such decisions. Increasingly the state has been encroaching on parents rights, endangering children in the process, and it's clear this law is intended to allow medical and school personnel to persuade (or frighten) vulnerable children.

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Statin Nation: How the 'most profitable drug ever created' is damaging the health of millions

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a general practitioner in Cheshire, England, is the author of three books. I've previously interviewed him about "Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice From Medical Nonsense." Here, we discuss his latest work, "A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-Health World," which addresses the challenges with this conventional approach to heart disease prevention.

This is his second book on the topic of cholesterol. In the first one, "The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It," published a decade ago, he addressed the basis behind the cholesterol controversy. "A Statin Nation" is basically a follow-up to that book, as many things have changed over the past 10 years.


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Syringe

Forced vaccination: New York state ends religious exemptions to vaccine mandates

David Klepper
Associated Press
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
Measles vaccine
© John Woudstra
New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation's worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.

The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to repeal the exemption, which allows parents to cite religious beliefs to forego getting their child the vaccines required for school enrollment.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed the measure minutes after the final vote. The law takes effect immediately but will give unvaccinated students up to 30 days after they enter a school to show they've had the first dose of each required immunization.

With New York's move, similar exemptions are still allowed in 45 states, though lawmakers in several of them have introduced their own legislation to eliminate the waiver.

The issue is hotly contested and debate around it has often been emotional, pitting cries that religious freedom is being curtailed against warnings that public health is being endangered. After the vote in the Assembly, many of those watching from the gallery erupted in cries of "shame!" One woman yelled obscenities down to the lawmakers below.

Comment: One has to wonder how much 'encouragement' ($$) from Big Pharma was given to these astute politicians who voted to end the exemption, because it's obvious that no medical/scientific opposition was allowed to 'cloud' their opinions. See:
Measles: The New Red Scare - Fear as a pretext for infringing on individual rights

It's true that during the 1800s, and even into the early 1900s, measles was a big killer. In fact, all infectious diseases were the leading cause of death - whooping cough, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and others already mentioned, killed millions. How deadly these diseases were is often emphasized. The implication is that without vaccines, we would return to those dark and deadly times. Massive deadly plagues would all return, and the advances we made because of vaccines would all be wiped out.

However, looking at mortality records, there is something that is never mentioned. The death rate for all infectious diseases had plummeted before the introduction of vaccines for all those diseases. [...]

Before the advent of a measles vaccine, measles was generally considered a mild illness. Even the British Medical Journal remarked in 1959 at this particular medical practice that over a 10 year span there were few complications from measles and that all children recovered. [...]

Contracting natural measles generally gave you solid lifelong immunity. The vaccine doesn't and will require revaccination throughout life. Because of this artificially generated situation, we could see large scale epidemics due to less than perfect immunity from the vaccine..
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Breakfast cereals marketed to kids are loaded with glyphosate, says new report


RT
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:31 UTC
breakfast cereals
© Reuters / Hannah McKay
The Environmental Working Group has released findings of research showing "troubling levels of glyphosate, the cancer-causing ingredient in the herbicide Roundup" in food products including children's breakfast cereals.

The Washington, DC-based advocacy group said in a statement released June 12 that the chemical, was detected "in all 21 oat-based cereal and snack products sampled in a new round of testing."

Furthermore, all of the products but four were found to contain levels higher than EWG's safety threshold for child consumption, which is 160 parts per billion (ppb). The products "Cheerios" and "Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch" were found with the highest glyphosate levels with 729 ppb and 833 ppb respectively. The findings follow two previous research studies conducted with independent labs conducted last year.

Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, was acquired by the German agro-chemical giant Bayer in 2018.

"The glyphosate levels in this report are far below the strict limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect human health," a Bayer spokesman told RT when contacted for comment. "Even at the highest level reported by the EWG (833 ppb), an adult would have to eat 158 pounds of the oat-based food every day for the rest of their life to reach the strict limits set by the EPA."
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Monsanto paid American Council on Science and Health front group to hide evidence

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC
shady deals
Monsanto's new owner, Bayer, has been slammed with judgments in the first three Roundup lawsuits to go to trial. The verdicts, which have sided with plaintiffs in all cases so far, have found not only that Roundup herbicide caused the plaintiffs' cancers but also that Monsanto engaged in malice, oppression or fraud in their attempts to cover up Roundup's toxicity.1

Some of the evidence brought to light during the trials has been particularly eye-opening, including internal emails showing that Monsanto paid an industry front group for the favor of publishing pro-glyphosate media, right around the time the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined it to be a probable carcinogen.2

Comment: The twisted web of Monsanto/Bayer's corporate manipulations seems to be infinitely complex and devious. Luckily a few true investigative journalists have taken on the task of unravelling this web and informing the rest of us of their horrendous findings.

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Lyme disease: The CDC's greatest coverup

Organic Olivia
Collective Evolution
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:01 UTC
tick
© Catkin/Pixabay
Lyme disease, do you have it? If you did, you probably wouldn't know - unless you're one of the chronic sufferers that have had to visit over 30 doctors to get a proper diagnosis. Lyme disease tests are highly inaccurate, often inconclusive or indicating false negatives.

Why? Because this clever bacteria has found a way to dumb down the immune system and white blood cells so that it's not detectable until treatment is initiated. To diagnose Lyme properly you must see a "Lyme Literate MD (LLMD)," however, more and more doctors are turning their backs on patients due to sheer fear of losing their practices! Insurance companies and the CDC will do whatever it takes to stop Chronic Lyme Disease from being diagnosed, treated, or widely recognized as an increasingly common issue.

Lyme is considered by the medical field to "only" transmit by way of a tick infected with bacteria. However, the CDC itself admits it is under-reported, and believes there are between 300,000 to half a million new cases each year. That makes Lyme disease almost twice as common as breast cancer and six times more common than HIV/AIDS. Where are all of these new cases coming from? (It's interesting to note that since Avril Lavigne recently went public with her Chronic Lyme Disease battle, mainstream news outlets like The Daily Mail have been mentioning Lyme can be transmitted by mosquitoes, too!)

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New cases of Ebola crop up in Uganda raising fears of further spreading


NBC News
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:05 UTC
symptoms of Ebola, at the border crossing near Kasindi
© Al-hadji Kudra Maliro / AP
People crossing the border have their temperature taken to check for symptoms of Ebola, at the border crossing near Kasindi, eastern Congo, on June 12, 2019, just across from the Ugandan town of Bwera.
Uganda announced two more cases of Ebola on Wednesday - a grandmother and a three-year-old boy, confirming that a deadly outbreak has spread for the first time beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Ugandan cases show the epidemic is entering a "truly frightening" phase and could kill many more people, one infectious disease specialist told Reuters.

A five-year-old boy who had crossed into Uganda from Congo died late on Tuesday, said Uganda's health minister, Jane Ruth Aceng, and his family were now being monitored in isolation.

The two new victims were the boy's brother and grandmother, the Ugandan health ministry said. His grandfather had recently died of Ebola.

"This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping," said Jeremy Farrar, an infectious disease specialist and director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, which is involved in fighting Ebola.

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Gluteomorphin: The opiate in your food

Dr. Davis
Wheat Belly Blog
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC
no bread please
Yes: there are opiates that derive from various food proteins that exert peculiar effects on the human brain. The worst? The opiates that come from the gliadin protein of wheat and related grains.

Opiate receptor researchers at the National Institutes of Health originally coined the term "gluteomorphin" nearly 40 years ago when it was determined that the gliadin protein of wheat undergoes partial digestion (since humans lack the digestive enzymes to fully digest proline-rich amino acid sequences in proteins from seeds of grasses) to yield peptides that are 4- to 5-amino acids long. Some of these peptides were found to bind to the opiate receptors of the brain, thereby exerting opiate-like, or opioid, effects, thus the term gluteomorphin (also sometimes called gliadorphin).

Comment: This should be a big clue as to why some people have a difficult time quitting bread (and cheese - there are similar opiate-like peptides found in dairy products). Imagine taking a small amount of opiate painkillers with every meal. Brings new meaning to the words 'comfort foods'.

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Even low light before bed can disrupt sleep-hormone cycles


Nature
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC
light at night workshop
© Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty
Exposure to light during the evening delays the hormonal surge that helps to prepare the body for sleep.

In some people, faint evening light is enough to delay the normal rise in melatonin.

Humans differ widely in their sensitivity to low levels of light in the evening, which could explain why late exposure to artificial light worsens the sleep and health of some - but not all - people.

Sean Cain and his collaborators at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, exposed 55 people to varying levels of light starting from four hours before their bedtimes, and periodically measured the amount of the hormone melatonin in the participants' saliva. Melatonin levels naturally rise in the evening, helping to start the sleep cycle, but are suppressed by light.

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