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Little girl's high fat, ketogenic diet helps her speak first words

Daily News
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:40 UTC

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Fields’ mom said the toddler now shouts for the dog and says bigger words like “dinosaur.”

A toddler with a rare condition has finally spoken her first words after eating four tubs of Cream Cheese a week.

Little Fields Taylor, from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, suffers from a rare genetic disorder which affects her ability to speak.

But miraculously, after starting a new diet just three months ago, which includes almost a kilo of Philadelphia a week, the adorable three year old has finally spoken her first words.

Delighted Mum, Stevie, 34, said: "The first time I heard Fields say Mum it was just wonderful.

"I didn't really believe that something so simple as changing her diet could make such a big different.

"The amount of Philadelphia she goes through is a bit mad but the effect it's had is amazing.

"It's just fabulous to know that she does have a voice inside her and we can finally communicate."

The toddler has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition called Glut1 Deficiency - it means her brain is starved of energy because her body cannot transport enough glucose.

There is no cure for Glut1, which affects just 25 people in the UK, but children can be helped with a special diet called the Ketogenic Diet.

Her new diet is high in fat, and forces her brain to use this as its energy source - rather than glucose.

Drowning does not look like drowning: Adults often have no idea when a child is dying

Mario Vittone
Slate
Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:18 UTC

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A lifeguard keeps watch on opening day of the newly renovated McCarren Park Pool on June 28, 2012, in Brooklyn, New York.

In many child drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here's what to look for.

The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. "I think he thinks you're drowning," the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. "We're fine; what is he doing?" she asked, a little annoyed. "We're fine!" the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. "Move!" he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not 10 feet away, their 9-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, "Daddy!"

How did this captain know - from 50 feet away - what the father couldn't recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that's all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew know what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, "Daddy," she hadn't made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn't surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

Why is the United States so sick?

Laudan Aron
slate.com
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:16 UTC

In the wake of a startling report highlighting the United States' poor health compared with other wealthy nations, the report's director searches for answers.

Americans die younger and experience more injury and illness than people in other rich nations, despite spending almost twice as much per person on health care. That was the startling conclusion of a major report released earlier this year by the U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.

It received widespread attention. The New York Times concluded:

"It is now shockingly clear that poor health is a much broader and deeper problem than past studies have suggested."

What it revealed was the extent of the United States' large and growing "health disadvantage," which shows up as higher rates of disease and injury from birth to age 75 for men and women, rich and poor, across all races and ethnicities. The comparison countries - Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom - generally do much better, although the United Kingdom isn't far behind the United States.

Extreme toxicity of Roundup destroys GMO/Non-GMO 'substantial equivalence' argument

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:51 UTC

If Monsanto's Roundup herbicide were actually 'safer than table salt' as they once advertised, the consumption of GM food wouldn't be nearly as controversial. The truth, however, is that virtually all GM food today contains residues of this toxic chemical, which disproves that GM and non-GM foods are 'substantially equivalent," which is the primary doctrinal justification behind why GM foods are not properly safety tested and millions in this country eating them are living and breathing guinea pigs.

There was a time when Monsanto claimed their patented herbicide Roundup was "safer than table salt" and "practically nontoxic," and aggressively marketed this message until 1996, when they were ordered by Dennis C. Vacco, the Attorney General of New York, to pull the ads.^[1]

Fast forward 15 years, after millions of farmers around the world bought into the false advertising and who, as a result, are now driving the production and use of several hundred million pounds of the chemical annually, Roundup herbicide is beginning to look eerily like Monsanto's Agent Orange 2.0.

Indeed, within the scientific community and educated public alike, there is a growing awareness that Roundup herbicide, and its primary ingredient glyphosate, is actually a broad spectrum biocide, in the etymological sense of the word: "bio" (life) and "cide" (kill) - that is, it broadly, without discrimination kills living things, not just plants. Moreover, it does not rapidly biodegrade as widely claimed, and exceedingly small amounts of this chemical - in concentration ranges found in recently sampled rain, air, groundwater, and human urine samples - have DNA-damaging and cancer cell proliferation stimulating effects.

Scientists finally discover the function of the human appendix - but go into damage control and minimize the findings

Barbara Miller
Political Blind Spot
Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00 UTC

It has long been regarded as a potentially troublesome, redundant organ, but American researchers say they have discovered the true function of the appendix.

The researchers say it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysentery or cholera.

The conventional wisdom is that the small pouch protruding from the first part of the large intestine is redundant and many people have their appendix removed and appear none the worse for it.

Scientists from the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina say following a severe bout of cholera or dysentery, which can purge the gut of bacteria essential for digestion, the reserve good bacteria emerge from the appendix to take up the role.

Bogus 'Natural' products under attack

Jennifer Kaplan
eatdrinkbetter.com
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:13 UTC

I was thrilled to learn that in March of this year that the Organic Consumers Association has launched a nationwide campaign to "expose and eliminate the misleading practice of 'natural' labeling and marketing.

Bogus 'Natural' Products

The Organic Consumers Association, North America's leading watchdog over organic and fair trade standards, has launched a new nationwide campaign. The Organic Retail and Consumer Alliance (ORCA) was created to combat the problem of the meaningless 'natural' product label. The term 'natural' is the single most commonly used greenwash tactic (the Sin of Vagueness). NaturalNews.com points out that the term 'natural' can mean just about anything; it has no nutritional meaning and isn't truly regulated by the FDA. A wide assortment of products, ranging from Skinnygirl Cocktails to Frito Lay's SunChips to Wesson Oil, have been guilty of this marketing ploy.

What are you putting on your skin? What the advertising hype really means

Dr. Michael Tick
Livingreenmag.com
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:53 UTC

By now, you've probably seen buzzwords like "all natural," "hypoallergenic" and "patented" hundreds of times. But have you ever stopped to ask what they mean?

Beauty companies love terms like these because they suggest concrete benefits that don't have to be backed up by science. In fact, as long as they don't claim to change the body's structure or function, companies don't need FDA approval to market new products to the public and are not required to provide any research to prove their claims.

These days, one almost needs a degree in chemistry to understand some of the catch phrases on skin care products. Gone are the days when simple statements such as "oil free" would suffice.

Perhaps the most common phrase is clinical formula. But this has no real meaning. It does not necessarily indicate that the formula was produced in a medical clinic, as the manufacturers would have people believe. Clinically tested could very well indicate that the product was tested, but what was it tested for? What were the results? Essentially, this marketing claim is meaningless.

Chronic fatigue syndrome: a herpes virus infection of the vagus nerve?

HHV-6 Foundation
Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:01 UTC

During infection, the sensory vagus nerve sends a signal to the brain to initiate “sickness behavior,” an involuntary response characterized by fatigue, fever, myalgia, depression, and other symptoms that are often observed in patients with CFS.

Michael VanElzakker, a researcher affiliated with the Tufts University PTSD neuroimaging laboratory as well as the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Neuroscience division, has published a novel hypothesis on the possible etiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). In the paper, published in Medical Hypotheses, VanElzakker suggests that CFS may be the result of a pathological infection of the vagus nerve. Although VanElzakker proposes that any neutoropic virus or bacteria could trigger CFS, HHV-6 is at the top of his list.

For years, CFS researchers have been looking in plasma and blood cells for a pathogenic agent that causes the myriad of symptoms experienced by patients with the condition. However, according to VanElzakker, they may have been looking in the wrong place (plasma) and need to search instead in the tissues of the peripheral and central nervous system. During infection, the sensory vagus nerve sends a signal to the brain to initiate "sickness behavior," an involuntary response characterized by fatigue, fever, myalgia, depression, and other symptoms that are often observed in patients with CFS. However, VanElzakker proposes that when sensory vagal ganglia or paraganglia are themselves infected with any virus or bacteria, these symptoms would be exaggerated. He notes that many of the symptoms of sickness behavior (such as fatigue, sleep changes, myalgia, cognitive impairment, depression and zinc depletion) are also mediated by proinflammatory cytokines and observed in CFS.

Comment: Antiviral drugs are extremely toxic and full of side effects. There is nothing like stimulating and healing your vagus nerve naturally. For more information see our Éiriú Eolas program. Furthermore, if you want to learn how to deal with problematic viruses, see On viral 'junk' DNA, a DNA-enhancing Ketogenic diet, and cometary kicks.

Statins risk for women: Taking cholesterol-lowering drug for more than ten years 'doubles chances of the most common breast cancer'

Pat Hagan
Mail Online
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:49 UTC

The researchers said statins could affect hormone regulation in the body, especially as the study found women on the drugs were significantly more likely to suffer cancers driven by the hormone oestrogen

Women who take statins for more than a decade face double the risk of contracting the most common type of breast cancer.

Alarming findings raise new concerns over the long-term safety of a widely prescribed medicine in the UK.

Previous studies have suggested the cholesterol-lowering drugs, used by an estimated eight million men and women, can reduce the risk of certain cancers - including the breast form of the disease.

However, most research looked at patients who had only been on them for five years or less.

The latest findings identified invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) which starts in the ducts of the breast before spreading inwards. It accounts for around seven out of ten breast cancer cases.

The experts at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, US, also found the chances of getting invasive lobular carcinoma, which accounts for ten to 15 per cent of breast cancers, went up almost 2.5 times in some women on statins long-term.

Around 48,000 women in Britain are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, equal to around 130 a day. A woman has a one in nine chance of developing the disease at some point in her life.

The reasons why the anti-cholesterol pills might stimulate cancer growth are unclear.

The researchers said one explanation may be that statins affect hormone regulation in the body, especially as the study found women on the drugs were significantly more likely to suffer cancers driven by the hormone oestrogen.

Comment: The target of statin therapy - cholesterol - just happens to be vital to all membranes for their proper functioning and structure. We are making highly unstable and dysfunctional cell membranes with statin drugs and our restriction of animal fats, which then has a toll on our cell membrane's function. The past decade of research has exposed the importance of cholesterol rich membranes with fundamental implications for our brains, hormones and immune system.

Statins many potential side effects range from depression, confusion, memory problems, inability to concentrate, liver damage, increased risk of cancer, fatigue, impotence, kidney failure, rhabdomyolisis (destruction of muscle cells), shortness of breath, it hinders our bodies ability to fight microbes and so forth. Cholesterol levels that are below 150 mg/dL increase your risk for cancer, hormonal imbalances, depression, sexual dysfunction, memory loss, Parkinson's disease, stroke, suicide, and violent behavior.

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Heartless Profiteers: Tesco raises bottled water prices during heatwave

Sarah Butler
The Guardian
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:35 UTC

Price rise comes amid fears of bottled water shortages as thirsty Britons try to cope with temperatures soaring above 30C

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Sunbathers relax on Brighton Pier: grocery stores are typically seeing sales of bottled water double as the hot spell continues.

Tesco has put up the price of its most affordable water and fizzy drinks amid a surge in sales as thirsty shoppers try to cool down during the hot spell.

The UK's biggest supermarket raised the price of its two-litre bottles of Everyday Value water and cola by 41% to 24p last week, putting it well ahead of rivals Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

"This is not a very smart move," said Neil Saunders, managing director of retail consultancy Conlumino. "I find it quite surprising that Tesco has moved its price when its competitors haven't. They will not only get angry customers, if they notice, but this makes Tesco less competitive when there is a price war on in grocery."

The price rise came amid fears of bottled water shortages, with sales in overdrive as the nation tries to cope with temperatures soaring above 30C in parts of the country.

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Health & Wellness

Little girl's high fat, ketogenic diet helps her speak first words

Drowning does not look like drowning: Adults often have no idea when a child is dying

Why is the United States so sick?

Extreme toxicity of Roundup destroys GMO/Non-GMO 'substantial equivalence' argument

Scientists finally discover the function of the human appendix - but go into damage control and minimize the findings

Bogus 'Natural' products under attack

What are you putting on your skin? What the advertising hype really means

Chronic fatigue syndrome: a herpes virus infection of the vagus nerve?

Statins risk for women: Taking cholesterol-lowering drug for more than ten years 'doubles chances of the most common breast cancer'

Heartless Profiteers: Tesco raises bottled water prices during heatwave

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