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More polio cases are now caused by vaccine than by wild virus


The New York Times
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
polio vaccine
Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild.

In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic and Angola. Seven countries elsewhere in Africa have similar outbreaks and cases have been reported in Asia. Of the two countries where polio remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, vaccine-linked cases have been identified in Pakistan.

In rare cases, the live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. All the current vaccine-derived polio cases have been sparked by a Type 2 virus contained in the vaccine. Type 2 wild virus was eliminated years ago.

Comment: New thinking is needed? How about thinking about how one can 'eradicate polio' if the vaccine is spreading it? How about rethinking the goal of immunizing 95% of the population when the vaccine is causing outbreaks? Perhaps rather than 'new thinking' they need to set the goal of simply thinking. The bar is clearly too high.

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Cargill's GMO stevia hoodwinks consumers

Stacy Malkan
US Right to Know
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:09 UTC
GMO stevia
The international food conglomerate Cargill is ramping up commercial-scale production of its genetically engineered sweetener, EverSweet, in a new $50 million production facility that began operating this week in Blair, Nebraska. The plant will "be producing enough EverSweet to sweeten many millions of bottles/cans of soft drinks or servings of yogurt each month," according to a Cargill spokesman.

Cargill is marketing its new stevia substitute as "non-artificial." What does that mean? Consumers who click on the link provided in the press release will not get a straight answer. The web page twists itself in knots trying to describe the new process, which involves genetically engineering yeast to convert sugar molecules into a substance that mimics the taste of stevia, as a "centuries old technique" — without once mentioning genetic engineering or the genetic modified organisms (GMOs) used to make the product.

Cargill told the Star Tribune it does not market EverSweet as "natural" - so "non-artificial" it is. The subterfuge doesn't end there.

Comment: Any 'natural' product Cargill promotes is highly suspect!
Food giant British Sugar has withdrawn an advertisement extolling the natural virtues of its sugar substitute after a member of the public complained that it was misleading.

The controversy is the latest to surround Truvia, which was developed by Coca-Cola and Cargill and contains extract from the stevia leaf - although this accounts for less than 1% of the finished product.
  • GMO derived erythritol, the main ingredient in Truvia, found to be a potent insecticide Erythritol is often indirectly derived from genetically modified corn, by the way. Cargill was forced to settle a class action lawsuit last year (2) for labeling Truvia "natural" when it's actually made from a fermentation process whereby yeast are fed GM corn maltodextrin. Cargill plays word games with this process, insisting that "erythritol is not derived from corn or dextrose feedstock; it is derived from the yeast organism."Yeah, okay, but the yeast are fed GMOs. So they're playing mind games with their explanations.


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Not all LDL is the same: Current cholesterol guidelines are 'dangerously misleading'


Sci Tech Daily
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
cholesterol arteries graphic
Ohio University research shows 'bad cholesterol' is only as unhealthy as its composition. Research demonstrates that current guidelines for diagnosing risk are 'dangerously misleading.'

New research at Ohio University shows that a particular subclass of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), also known as "bad cholesterol," is a much better predictor of potential heart attacks than the mere presence of LDL, which is incorrect more often than not.

The presence of LDL is considered an indicator for the potential risk of heart attacks or coronary disease, but studies have shown that about 75 percent of patients who suffer heart attacks have cholesterol levels that don't indicate a high risk for such an event. Research by Ohio University Distinguished Professor Dr. Tadeusz Malinski and researcher Dr. Jiangzhou Hua in Ohio University's Nanomedical Research Laboratory shows that of the three subclasses that comprise LDL, only one causes significant damage.

Comment: The case against the cholesterol narrative has always been a strong one, and it's surprising (not really) that the narrative persists to this day. The evidence keeps mounting that the established medical approach to cholesterol management makes no sense, yet doctors continue to get as many of their patients on cholesterol lowering medications as possible. The day the whole thing comes crashing down will be a good day for humanity.

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Three NHS workers die suddenly while working for same 'toxic' ambulance trust. Could 5G be related?

Alan Selby
Mirror
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:23 UTC
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Former health minister and local MP Norman Lamb, who is standing down at this election, has called for an independent investigation into the deaths.

Ambulance dispatcher Luke Wright and paramedics Christopher Gill and Richard Grimes all died suddenly after a whistleblower raised concerns about psychological abuse

An ambulance service where three staff have died of suspected suicide in two weeks has been accused of a toxic culture.

Ambulance dispatcher Luke Wright, 24, and paramedics Christopher Gill and Richard Grimes were found dead between November 11 and November 21.

Shortly before their deaths a whistleblower wrote to the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust's boss complaining about psychological abuse.

Comment: This is a rather fishy story, to say the least! Three suicides in 11 days, all from the same workplace. In the report from the BBC, they quote Daniel, brother of the victim Luke Wright, as saying:
Daniel said his brother "constantly had a smile on his face. He was caring and loved his job and was amazing. He was always helping people."
Does that sound like someone on the verge of suicide?

There's an interesting connection made by Jack Kruse. From June 24 of this year, Smart Cities World reported:
5G testbed demonstrates the ambulance of the future, today

The West Midlands 5G testbed joined with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and BT to demonstrate a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.

WM5G, the UK's first region-wide 5G testbed designed to accelerate 5G deployment, is working with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and BT to showcase how 5G can transform healthcare and the emergency services.

The organisations recently combined to undertake the UK's first demonstration of a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.
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The demonstration was hosted by the Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre (MD-TEC) in UHB's prestigious simulation lab located in the Institute of Translational Medicine. The showcase brings the concept of a 5G connected ambulance to life and provides new technologies to frontline staff to create a facility for patients to be diagnosed and triaged in the most appropriate settings. It enables remote diagnostics performed by paramedics who are supported by clinicians based in the hospital.
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The images are relayed over a high-bandwidth 5G connection, so the clinician is able to view both the ultrasound examination performed by the paramedic and keep an eye on the overall scene inside the ambulance. The superfast speeds of 5G ensure sharper and more reliable imagery for the clinician than could previously be achieved.
Could the recent activation of 5G in the ambulances have something to do with these three mysterious deaths? YouTuber Jack Striker noted birds were dropping dead outside of Coventry Hospital after 5G was activated there:

This is all speculative, of course. But three unusual suicides timed rather perfectly with the activation of a high-speed 5G network where there have already been noted odd bird deaths - something is going on.

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India is NOT a 'Vegetarian Country' like the EAT-Lancet report would have us believe

Sylvia Karpagam, Frédéric Leroy and Martin Cohen
The Wire
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
indian children plates
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Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation on World Hunger Day, in Chennai May 28, 2014.
Currently, food politics in India spearheads an aggressive new Hindu nationalism that has led to many of India's meat eating minority communities being treated as inferior.

Vegetarians, far less vegans, let us be frank, would not like to be compelled to eat meat. Yet the reverse compulsion is what lurks in the current proposals for a new 'planetary diet'. Nowhere is this more visible than in India.

The subcontinent is often stereotyped by the West as a vegetarian utopia, where transcendental wisdom, longevity, and asceticism go hand in hand.

Earlier this year, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its global report on nutrition and called for a global shift to a more plant based diet: "The scientific targets set by this Commission provide guidance for the necessary shift, which consists of increasing consumption of plant-based foods and substantially reducing consumption of animal source foods".

Comment: Like much of the EAT-Lancet report, the idea that India is a vegetarian country is nothing but propaganda, propped up to fulfill an agenda. That agenda, the 'vegan pusch', is a house of cards, upheld by these blatant lies in an attempt to sway the global population into strict dietary austerity.

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Our diets are killing us and doctors aren't trained to help

Emily M. Broad Leib, Drs. Stephen Devries and Walter Willet
The Hill
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:00 UTC
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What if your doctor failed to talk to you about the most important threat to your health? Wouldn't you worry about the quality of your health care? Poor quality diet is a leading cause of death in the United States, but it is unlikely that your doctor has the knowledge to even begin a meaningful conversation about your nutrition or to make an appropriate dietary referral.

Most doctors lack the knowledge necessary to offer nutrition advice to patients; indeed, fewer than 14 percent of physicians report feeling equipped to advise on diet or the connection between food and health. This is unsurprising given that, for example, 90 percent of cardiologists in a recent survey reported receiving minimal or no instruction on nutrition during medical training.

Yet it is also concerning. Obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and stroke, which are leading causes of death in the United States, all are closely linked to diet and nutrition.

Comment: Make no mistake, the authors of this piece are vegan diet-pushing, plant-based fascists who would like nothing more than to see meat consumption removed from the planet and veganism enforced worldwide. Walter Willet has been involved in multiple initiatives to push the climate narrative to support global dietary changes.

Despite this, there's nothing wrong with what's being stated above - they are absolutely right that doctors are unprepared to deal with diet-related illness and will simply keep throwing pills at these problems, hoping they'll go away. At the very least, people on multiple sides of the diet debate can agree on at least one aspect of the problem.

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What's going on in your gut can affect your emotions, cause anxiety, depression

Derek Beres
Big Think
Mon, 02 May 2016 23:06 UTC
Sugar
© Al Berry/Getty Images
You are what you eat. We've known this for a long time. Michael Pollan's observation took it a step further: you are what what you eat eats. This is especially relevant when choosing grass-fed versus grain-fed beef, or wild versus farmed salmon, for example.

A growing awareness of nutrition and neuroscience is helping us understand just how important what you eat (and what what you eat eats) truly is, even if Hippocrates said 'all disease begins in the gut' over 2,300 years ago. Sure, we know that obesity and energy levels are dictated by what we put into our stomach. Recognizing that anxiety and depression, at least in part, also stems from nutrition is changing how we view the larger question of health.

It comes down to bacteria. For years bacteria have been enemies, marketed by hand sanitizer and soap companies as devils incarnate. While hand sanitizers are extremely important in the operating room and armed forces, there is something to be said about the folk wisdom of getting a little dirty to build your immune system.

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Can the gut microbiome unlock the secrets of aging?

Amy Pashler
Medical News Today
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:50 UTC
A new study has shown how the gut microbiota of older mice can promote neural growth in young mice, leading to promising developments in future treatments.
gut bacteria

PinterestScientists are suggesting that gut bacteria may drive the neurological aging process.
The research group, based in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, transferred the gut microbiota of older mice into the gut of younger mice with less developed gut fauna.

This resulted in enhanced neurogenesis (neuron growth) in the brain and altered aging, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between bacteria and their host can have significant benefits for health.

The past 20 years have seen a significant increase in the amount of research into the relationship between the host and the bacteria that live in or on it. The results of these studies have established an important role for this relationship in nutrition, metabolism, and behavior.

The medical community hopes that these latest results could lead to the development of food-based treatment to help slow down the aging process.

In this study, the research team attempted to uncover the functional characteristics of the gut microbiota of an aging host. The researchers transplanted gut microbiota from old or young mice into young, germ-free mouse recipients.

The findings appear in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Comment: See also, Objective:Health: The Shit Show - Fiber, Fecal Transplants and the Microbiome



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Psilocybin for major depression granted 'Breakthrough Therapy' designation by FDA

Rich Haridy
New Atlas
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
psychedelic mushrooms image
© vgorbash/Depositphotos
The FDA has awarded another Breakthrough Therapy designation for psilocybin, this time focusing on research into the effect of a single dose on patients suffering from major depressive disorder.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).

Back in late 2018, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy status to the ongoing work from COMPASS Pathways investigating psilocybin, the key psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, as a therapy for treatment-resistant depression. A large, multi-center Phase 2 trial spanning the US, UK and Europe is currently underway testing a variety of dosing strategies.

This new FDA Breakthrough Therapy approval focuses on a seven-site, Phase 2 trial currently underway in the United States. Coordinated by a non-profit research organization called the Usona Institute, the trial is exploring the antidepressant properties of a single psilocybin dose in treating patients with major depressive disorder.

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Pediatric allergist traces 'mystery' reactions to pea protein — an increasingly popular ingredient

Melanie Glanz
CBC News
Thu, 02 May 2019 04:00 UTC
pea protein ingredients label
© CBC
Pea protein is listed in the ingredients but it does not have to be flagged as an allergen in Canada.


Pea protein is often used in vegan cheeses and yogurt, and as an alternative to meat protein

As a pediatric allergist, Dr. Elana Lavine often advises parents to avoid peanuts, eggs and seafood. Now, she's warning them that allergies can also be triggered by "pea protein" found in a growing number of foods.

Lavine described what happened to a two-year-old patient after eating non-dairy yogurt.

"When given the yogurt, they had a full-blown anaphylactic reaction in the aisle of the grocery store," she said.

Comment: The only reason anyone would need to worry about an allergic reaction to pea protein is if they're eating garbage processed fake foods (we're looking at you, Beyond Burger). If you're eating real foods, it would be relatively easy to avoid peas (they're the little green balls that float in the soup). And while it would probably be a good idea for food manufacturers to start listing pea protein as a possible allergen, it would be even better if they weren't "formulating" concoctions that rely on non-food ingredients like this and make something nourishing with real food.

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