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It's all about diet: Life expectancy projected to soar - except in the US

Dr. Andrew Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
life expectancy
For the first time in 20 years, life expectancy has actually declined in the U.S.,1,2,3,4 dropping from 76.5 years in 2014 to 76.3 in 2015 for men, and from 81.3 to 81.2 for women. This means American women now die, on average, about one month earlier than they did in 2014, and men lost about two months of lifespan.5

In all, there were 86,212 more deaths in 2015 compared to 2014, and as of 2015, the U.S. ranks 29th out of 43 countries for life expectancy,6 lagging behind countries like Chile, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Korea and the Czech Republic. In 2014, the U.S. ranked 28th.7

Moreover, according to Dr. Peter Muennig, a professor of health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, this decline in life expectancy is a "uniquely American phenomenon." No other developed countries experienced this decline.

Dr. Jiaquan Xu, the report's lead author, noted the decline in life expectancy is primarily caused by a rise in several categories of preventable deaths,8 again highlighting the failure of the American health care system to properly address the root causes of chronic disease.

Meanwhile, both dietary patterns and health care availability in South Korea — which has made some of the greatest life expectancy gains — offer valuable hints at what Americans need to do to change course.

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The Health & Wellness Show: The Millennial Syndrome: Why they gotta be like that?


Sott.net
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:00 UTC
millennials

Millennials: born between 1980 and 1994.
Millennials are people born between the years 1980 and 1994. They have a reputation for being narcissistic and entitled, shallow, obsessed with technology and social media and unable to cope with reality. Social scientists have remarked that this generation is more likely to live with their parents, lack basic living skills, have an incapacity for meaningful relationships and suffer from a high rate of mood and personality disorders. Older generations talking smack about younger generations is a grand tradition but one must ask: How did millennials develop this reputation? Are these youngsters uniquely flawed or are they merely a product of the times?

Join us as we explore these questions and more.

And stay tuned, as always, for Zoya's Pet Health segment where the topic will be suicide among veterinarians.

Running Time: 01:29:45

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Syringe

Australia now refuses to treat unvaccinated


Vaxxter
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:56 UTC
jab_australia
© 9News.au
Australian children who are not up-to-date with their vaccines are being refused treatment.

Remember, a hospital would treat someone wounded from a gunshot after being caught murdering another human being. However, they will not treat a child whose parent chose not to vaccinate them. Australia is becoming authoritarian madness and putting its own dogma ahead of the people it is supposed to treat.

Comment: A future of tragedies to come.

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Health

The elephant in the room: How chronic exposure to low doses of environmental toxins affects our health

Chris Kresser
ChrisKresser.com
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
environmental toxins, air pollution
© istock / azgek
Toxins from our environment are ubiquitous and almost impossible to avoid. If you are taking steps to limit your exposure, should you be worried about the low levels that are still undoubtedly in your system? The answer is: it depends. Read on to find out how the traditional view of toxicity is outdated, what factors influence one's susceptibility to a toxin, and what else you can do to decrease your body's toxic burden.

We are exposed to thousands of environmental toxins, whether they are inhaled, applied to our skin, ingested with our food, or injected. Common exposures include substances found in:
  • health and beauty products, which I covered in a series of articles
  • pesticides and herbicides
  • industrial pollutants
  • mold
  • preservatives and flame retardants
  • petrochemical fuels and solvents
  • plastics and cookware
There is no denying that toxic chemicals are IN us. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) reported that the average person carries 91 toxic chemicals in his or her blood and urine. Another EWG study found 232 different toxins in the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborn babies. Do we fully understand how these chemical cocktails might be affecting our health?

Comment: More information on ways to improve your detoxification pathways:

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Bug

Yellow fever outbreak in Brazil worries U.S. officials

Lena H. Sun
The Washington Post
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 23:23 UTC
female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
© Andre Penner/AP
Top infectious disease experts are warning about a rapidly spreading outbreak of deadly yellow fever in Brazil that could hit parts of the United States. The danger would be most acute if the virus starts spreading by the same mosquito that transmits Zika.

The outbreak in Brazil has been underway since December, mostly in rural areas in the southeastern part of the country. It's taking place primarily in jungle areas, where forest-dwelling mosquitoes are spreading the virus mainly to monkeys. But an increasing number of people also have been infected, making it Brazil's worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades. There have been at least 326 confirmed cases, including 220 deaths, with hundreds of additional cases under investigation, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Comment: Is this more fear mongering to push a vaccine agenda?

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Health

Fighting cancer: The place of 24-hour rhythms


Chronobiology
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:32 UTC
sleep, circadian rhythm
Scientists are constantly searching for new and innovative treatments for cancer. Recent research suggests that enhancing circadian clocks may slow tumor growth and assist in cancer treatment.

A disrupted circadian rhythm is a common consequence of modern life. People often find that they are not able to get enough sleep due to busy work schedules and other obligations. In addition, traveling and other common activities leave many of us jet lagged and depleted. This has been found to have a variety of negative physical and psychological effects, but the recent links between circadian rhythm disruption and cancer suggest that the consequences may even be deadly.

Circadian Disruption and Cancer

Circadian rhythm disruption has been linked to a variety of cancers, including breast cancer, colon cancer and melanoma. Irregular levels of melatonin are believed to be the reason for this link. Melatoninis an integral part of the cell cycle, telling cells when to perform critical DNA repair processes so they can reproduce safely. When melatonin levels are low at the wrong times, cells do not perform repair and rebuilding processes as well. This is believed to be one of the roots causes of one of the world's most deadly diseases: Cancer.

Comment: For more information, check out The Health & Wellness Show: Sleep, Light and Circadian Rhythms

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New UN report says that pesticides are not needed to feed the world

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:06 UTC
farmed vegetables
The argument for the extreme overuse of agrichemicals in global industrial farming is that supposedly without the advances made by Monsanto and other chemical giants, the world would starve. We need products like glyphosate, terminator seeds and genetically modified foods to feed so many people, they say, but this is really nothing more than a popular myth, pushed on the public as part of a marketing effort to convince people who thousands of years of organic agricultural history is outdated and inadequate for the times we live in today.

The contemporary industrial model has many problems associated with it, including the poisoning of the environment, widespread disease and cancer associated with agrichemicals, the pollution of bodies of water with fertilizers, the depletion of quality topsoil, and the as of yet unknown long-term effects of tinkering with plant genetics.

According to a new report by the United Nations (UN), continuing to adhere to this model of agriculture is guaranteed to bring about catastrophic consequences, and that organic farming is in fact the best way to feed an ever-growing world.
"It is a myth. Using more pesticides is nothing to do with getting rid of hunger. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), we are able to feed 9 billion people today. Production is definitely increasing, but the problem is poverty, inequality and distribution." ~ Hilal Elver, UN special rapporteur on the right to food

Comment: Debunking the myth: 'We need GMOs to feed the world'

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Syringe

Breaking: NVIC tracking 134 vaccine bills introduced in 35 states

Jefferey Jaxen
Green Med Info
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:42 UTC
vaccine bill map
A tidal wave of new bills has flooded 35 states in the U.S., threatening to either limit or completely eradicate vaccine exemptions. Clearly health freedom and informed consent is undergoing full frontal assualt right now. Please read, share, and take action accordingly.

In 2015 California signed into law the highly contested Senate Bill 277 (SB277) accomplishing two outcomes. First, the bill eliminated the personal belief exemption for vaccination. Second, the bill's actionable directives served as a sobering wake up call that mobilized the public and medical community to enter the fight for an evaporating health freedom and informed consent.

Yet, despite multiple whistleblowers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spotlighting research corruption and pharmaceutical industry collusion, over $3 billion dollars paid out in vaccine damages by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, widespread vaccine contamination, and overall ineffectiveness and dangers of the current vaccine schedule there has now been 134 vaccine bills introduced in 35 states in the first seven weeks of the US legislative session.

According to the National Vaccine Information Center's (NVIC) Advocacy Team who track vaccine-related bills, 31 new bills have been added since the team's last update two weeks prior. Eight of these new bills are in five states appearing for the first time. The coordinated legislative push represents nothing short of a full frontal onslaught by pharmaceutical companies, working through their lobbied politicians, to force dangerous vaccine products upon the backs of the entire US population.

Comment: More on mandatory vaccine bills:

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Pills

Antimicrobial resistance - The looming medical apocalypse

Tom Rothsey
Green Med Info
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:04 UTC
bacteria
Perhaps the most pressing crisis facing humanity is the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is estimated that by 2050, 10 million people will die every year from resistant bacterial infections. Bacteria have been developing antimicrobial resistance for over 2 billion years, we have known of the problem of resistant bacteria since the 1980s, yet it is only now that we are taking concerted action to address the problem. The question is: are we too late?

Toward a post-antibiotic era?

"A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it." - Margaret Chan, Director General, World Health Organization

The 'post-antibiotic era' is defined as that time when the majority of bacteria have developed resistance to all known antibiotics in our medicinal arsenal, and so something as simple as a childhood graze could once more carry the risk of death, and routine and safe surgical interventions likewise become routinely life-threatening. According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections affect at least 2 million people annually in the US, resulting in at least 23,000 deaths. These are conservative estimates, based on 2011 data. Globally, it is estimated that 700,000 people die each year from antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections, and modelling commissioned by the UK government in 2016 estimates 10 million deaths annually and a cumulative cost to society of 100 trillion US dollars by the year 2050.

Comment: See also: The Health & Wellness Show: What have we done? Antibiotic resistance in the age of superbugs

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Health

Magnesium: Fresh hope for tinnitus sufferers

Martine Hamann
The Conversation
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:22 UTC
tinnitus woman
© Shutterstock
You may be familiar with the experience of a ringing sensation in your ears after a night out enjoying some good music. Perhaps you've never given it a second thought as the sound normally disappears on its own.

But what if you were to wake up in the morning and still have the ringing in your ears? And what if the ringing never stopped?

This is tinnitus- better described as the phantom perception of sound. Tinnitus affects 10 to 15% of the adult population worldwide and there are currently no drug therapies available on the market. The reason for this is a limited understanding of how tinnitus sets in and what prevents it from going away.

My work at the University of Leicester is focused on filling in the current knowledge gaps - and Dr Thomas Tagoe, one of my former PhD students, funded by Action on Hearing Loss, made some exciting discoveries which were recently published in The Journal of Experimental Neurology. The discovery is not a magic pill against tinnitus, but reveals some of the mechanisms underlying its development and provides avenues for possible treatment.

Comment: Why search for drugs that mimic magnesium? How about just using magnesium?
Magnesium: It Might Just be Nature's Best "Chill Pill."

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