What the Homeopathy Controversy is Really All About

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What the Homeopathy Controversy is Really All About
Oct 13, 2013 | Natural Society | Paul Fassa

A German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, started homeopathy in the late 1700s to early 1800s. This was a period when mainstream medicine consisted of using bloodsucking leeches, mercury, arsenic, and lead to treat illness. His approach was kinder, gentler, and much more effective.

Homeopathy caught on in other parts of Europe and North America during the mid-19th Century and beyond. John D. Rockefeller reportedly used homeopathy for himself and his family.

But he made sure his fledgling pharmaceutical interests and petroleum monopoly would benefit from the manufacture and prescription of petrochemical based pharmaceuticals along with his merger with IG Farban, the largest international pharmaceutical company of that time.

Rockefeller basically bankrolled medical education and licensing for allopathic practitioners to exclude both homoeopathics and herbalists. By the early 20th Century, The American Medical Association (AMA) became a major influence for deciding what is and isn’t medicine.

Homeopathy was displaced from mainstream consciousness as the Medical Mafia took over.

How Hanemann Developed Homeopathy 

Hahnemann conducted trials on volunteers and patients. This was truly evidence based medicine for establishing specific results. But his premises were unusual to the Western world.

Hahnemann believed that a vital energy runs through our bodies. This became known as vitalism. Chinese acupuncture had not arrived to the West yet, so this was a startling position to assume.

First he decided that a substance producing symptoms similar to the symptoms of the ailment being treated could heal the ailment. This became known as the “law of similars”. Since Hahnemann was using some toxic plant derivatives at first, he had to dilute those potions with water.

He soon discovered that increased dilutions proved to be even more potent than stronger solutions. First, a sample is taken from a mother solution, is diluted, then shaken vigorously. It can be diluted again and again and shaken each time. This is known as potentization.

Even though a solution can be diluted to a point of containing only one molecule of the original substance, the potentized solutions offer healing by transferring the electromagnetic properties to the water with each shaking. This is how the vital energy or chi is influenced by homeopathic remedies.

The Medical Mafia’s Real Objections to Homeopathy 

This is too subtle for average materialistic practitioners and research scientists. So the AMA mainstream medicos maintain that they’re too weak to work. But that’s the cover story for the real reasons why “orthodox” medicine is against homeopathy, even as more from their ranks slip away and choose to use it.

Big Pharma runs Allopathic medicine from top to bottom. They are in the faces of medical students before they graduate and continue haunting them after they get their licenses. The AMA, FDA, and regional licensing agencies are Big Pharma’s Medical Mafia “enforcers”.

Big Pharma and medical equipment manufacturers would be ruined financially if enough discovered that very inexpensive homeopathic diluted solutions can be used to actually heal without side effects from a homeopathic practitioner who requires practically no expensive medical equipment.

Homeopathy requires dialogue between practitioner and patient. It is patient specific. That takes time and patience, something MDs don’t have time for. Practicing homeopathy is more subtle and demanding than cookie-cutter “here’s your prescription” medical practice.

But this is also the one downside of homeopathy. It’s important to consult a good classical homeopathic practitioner to get optimum results.

But it’s hard to go too wrong with homeopathy because homeopathic solutions are without side effects and are much less expensive than pharmaceuticals. Treating an autistic child often comes to a couple of hundred dollars worth of homeopathic remedies over a year’s treatments.

Meanwhile, orthodox oncologists make up to a half-million or more dollars per year off the chemo drugs they drip into their visiting patients. Yes, they get a cut of the action from those hideously expensive chemo drugs that often kill patients before cancer can.

In summary, allopathic medicine condemns homeopathy because it is more effective but less profitable than the Medical Mafia’s racket. You’ve just been told the real truth. Investigate further starting with the sources below.

Additional Sources:

How PhD computer scientist Amy Lansky became a homeopathy advocate when her son’s autism was cured by it - Mercola

How Modern Medicine displaced homeopathy - Sott

ImpossibleCure

DrZimmermann.org

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'No Monsanto!': World marches against GMO food

'No Monsanto!': World marches against GMO food
Oct 12, 2013 | RT


Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.

Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES on the March Against Monsanto campaign

Berlin, Strasbourg, Chicago, London, Sydney and Mumbai are just a few of the 500 cities worldwide involved in the rallies, with each one drawing hundreds.

The demonstrators have been calling for the permanent boycott of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and “other harmful agro-chemicals,” according to March Against Monsanto’s official webpage. Protesters wielded large banners denouncing GMO products, and donned fancy dress: In Washington DC a group dressed as bees to highlight the impact of insecticides on bee populations.

Anti-GMO (genetically modified foods) protestors put a chain at the site entrance of US seed
company Monsanto on October 12, 2013 during a day of action against the company, in
Monbequi, southern France. Banner (R) reads: "No to a world according to Monsanto".
(AFP Photo / Pascal Pavani)

Protesters in Washington told RT’s Anissa Naouai that Monsanto lobbyists were hard at work even though the government was shut down. March organizers also said that Saturday’s event was just the beginning, and that the momentum for the protests would build.

The rallies  come four days ahead of World Food Day on Oct. 16 and are a direct attack on what the organizers term Monsanto’s “predatory business,” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other harmful pesticides, which threaten “health, fertility and longevity.”

A man holds a painted ear of corn during one of many worldwide "March Against Monsanto"
protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles,
California October 12, 2013. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)

In Berlin, people expressed displeasure at the food giant for a number of reasons, ranging from long-term health concerns to the chemicals used in Monsanto products.

“There a Smartstax corn that Monsanto has made…it is a corn that resists six different types of herbicide, so you can spray it with six different chemicals and it won’t die,” Heidi Ostermannm, a nutritionist participating in the Berlin march told RT.

“It also produces two insecticides in its own kernels and you can’t wash it off – I don’t even know if technically that’s food. In my mind as a nutritionist, that’s no longer food,” she said.

Anti-genetically modified foods (GMO) protestors demonstrate on October 12, 2013 against
US agro-chemicals giant Monsanto in the southern French city of Marseille during a day
of worlwide action against the company. (AFP Photo / Bertrand Langlois)

Dietrich Wittel, vice president of the True Food Foundation cited experiments conducted on rats, bringing a large poster with him showing the tumors suffered by the animals subject to being fed Monsanto corn.

“There are subtle signs of organ damage even in 90 days. But in two years, the lifetime of a rat is shortened – they have massive organ damage, massive breast tumors in the female rats, and that is really, really frightening,” he said, going on to discuss the effects on larger animals.

“Recently, a study from Australia has shown that pigs that are fed these corn products get massive stomach ulcers…. we have a much longer lifespan that a rat. If we are waiting for cancer to show as a result of GMOs, we’ve got to wait,” he said.

Demonstrators hold up banners to protest against chemical giant Monsanto and its GMO
(genetically modified organism) products on October 12, 2013 in Helsinki.
(AFP Photo / Heikki Saukkomaa)

 October is a particularly significant month for US protesters, as Agent Orange Awareness Month is being promoted by the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA).

“Monsanto was one of the seven chemical companies who manufactured Agent Orange which was laced with one of the most deadly chemicals known to man, dioxin. Monsanto, the other six companies, and the U.S. government, are responsible for the slow burn genocide of Vietnam Veterans, their children and grandchildren,” March Against Monsanto alleged.

A previous anti-Monsanto protest was held in May. It started as a small event, but turned into a global campaign with over 2 million people in 436 cities, across 52 countries, joining the rallies.

Jameson Bluma, 3, holds a sign during one of many worldwide "March Against Monsanto"
protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles,
California October 12, 2013. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)

Victory! Monsanto, Pioneer prohibited from marketing GE corn in Mexico

Some of the native maize varieties from Oaxaca, Mexico

Victory! Monsanto, Pioneer prohibited from marketing GE corn in Mexico
Oct 12, 2013 | Global Justice Ecology Project | Devon G. Peña

An October 10 press release with Mexico City byline announced the banning of genetically engineered corn in Mexico. According to the group that issued the press release, La Coperacha, a federal judge has ordered Mexico’s SAGARPA (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca, y Alimentación), which is Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture, and SEMARNAT (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), which is equivalent of the EPA, to immediately “suspend all activities involving the planting of transgenic corn in the country and end the granting of permission for experimental and pilot commercial plantings”.

 The unprecedented ban was granted by the Twelfth Federal District Court for Civil Matters of Mexico City. Judge Jaime Eduardo Verdugo J. wrote the opinion and cited “the risk of imminent harm to the environment” as the basis for the decision. The judge’s ruling also ruled that multinationals like Monsanto and Pioneer are banned from the release of transgenic maize in the Mexican countryside” as long as collective action lawsuits initiated by citizens, farmers, scientists, and civil society organizations are working their way through the judicial system.

The decision was explained during a press conference in Mexico City on the 10th by members of the community-based organizations that sued federal authorities and companies introducing transgenic maize into Mexico. The group, Acción Colectiva, is led by Father Miguel Concha of the Human Rights Center Fray Francisco de Vittoria; Victor Suarez of ANEC (National Association of Rural Commercialization Entertprises); Dr. Mercedes Lopéz of Vía Organica; and Adelita San Vicente, a teacher and member of Semillas de Vida, a national organization that has been involved in broad-based social action projects to protect Mexico’s extraordinary status as a major world center of food crop biodiversity.

According to the press release, Acción Colectiva [Collective Action] aims to achieve absolute federal declaration of the suspension of the introduction of transgenic maize in all its various forms – including experimental and pilot commercial plantings – in Mexico, “which is the birthplace of corn in the world”.
This ruling marks a milestone in the long struggle of citizen demands for a GMO-free country, acknowledged Rene Sanchez Galindo, legal counsel for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, adding that the ruling has serious enforcement provisions and includes the possibility of “criminal charges for the authorities responsible for allowing the introduction of transgenic corn in our country”.

Father Miguel Concha said the judge’s decision reflects a commitment to respect the Precautionary Principle expressed in various international treaties and statements of human rights. Concha emphasized that the government is obliged to protect the human rights of Mexicans against the economic interests of big business.The lawsuit seeks to protect the “human right to save and use the agrobiodiversity of native landraces from the threats posed by GMO maize”, said the human rights advocate.

The class action lawsuit is supported by scientific evidence from studies that have – since 2001 – documented the contamination of Mexico’s native corn varieties by transgenes from GMO corn, principally the varieties introduced by Monsanto’s Roundup ready lines and the herbicide-resistant varieties marketed by Pioneer and Bayer CropScience. The collection of the growing body of scientific research on the introgression of transgenes into Mexico’s native corn genome has been a principal goal and activity of the national campaign, Sin Maíz, No Hay Paíz [Without Corn, There Is No Country].

Source: Environmental Food & Justice

People Who Score High On The Personality Trait Resilience Have The Highest Amount of Natural Painkiller Activation

People Who Score High On The Personality Trait Resilience Have The Highest Amount of Natural Painkiller Activation
Oct 11, 2013 | Prevent Disease | April McCarthy

A new study suggests that there’s more going on inside our brains when someone snubs us -- and that the brain may have its own way of easing social pain.

 The findings, recently published in Molecular Psychiatry by a University of Michigan Medical School team, show that the brain’s natural painkiller system responds to social rejection -- not just physical injury.

What’s more, people who score high on a personality trait called resilience -- the ability to adjust to environmental change -- had the highest amount of natural painkiller activation.

Psychological resilience is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual "bouncing back" to a previous state of normal functioning, or simply not showing negative effects. A third, more controversial form of resilience is sometimes referred to as 'posttraumatic growth' or 'steeling effects' where in the experience adversity leads to better functioning (much like an inoculation gives one the capacity to cope well with future exposure to disease).

The team, based at U-M’s Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, used an innovative approach to make its findings. They combined advanced brain scanning that can track chemical release in the brain with a model of social rejection based on online dating. The work was funded by the U-M Depression Center, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Phil F Jenkins Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

They focused on the mu-opioid receptor system in the brain -- the same system that the team has studied for years in relation to response to physical pain. Over more than a decade, U-M work has shown that when a person feels physical pain, their brains release chemicals called opioids into the space between neurons, dampening pain signals.

David T. Hsu, Ph.D., the lead author of the new paper, says the new research on social rejection grew out of recent studies by others, which suggests that the brain pathways that are activated during physical pain and social pain are similar.

“This is the first study to peer into the human brain to show that the opioid system is activated during social rejection,” says Hsu, a research assistant professor of psychiatry. “In general, opioids have been known to be released during social distress and isolation in animals, but where this occurs in the human brain has not been shown until now.”

The study involved 18 adults who were asked to view photos and fictitious personal profiles of hundreds of other adults. Each selected some who they might be most interested in romantically -- a setup similar to online dating.

But then, when the participants were lying in a brain imaging machine called a PET scanner, they were informed that the individuals they found attractive and interesting were not interested in them.

Brain scans made during these moments showed opioid release, measured by looking at the availability of mu-opioid receptors on brain cells. The effect was largest in the brain regions called the ventral striatum, amygdala, midline thalamus, and periaqueductal gray -- areas that are also known to be involved in physical pain.

The researchers had actually made sure the participants understood ahead of time that the “dating” profiles were not real, and neither was the “rejection.” But nonetheless, the simulated social rejection was enough to cause both an emotional and opioid response.

Suffering slings and arrows differently

Hsu notes that the underlying personality of the participants appeared to play a role in how much of a response their opioid systems made.

“Individuals who scored high for the resiliency trait on a personality questionnaire tended to be capable of more opioid release during social rejection, especially in the amygdala,” a region of the brain involved in emotional processing, Hsu says. “This suggests that opioid release in this structure during social rejection may be protective or adaptive.”

The more opioid release during social rejection in another brain area called the pregenual cingulate cortex, the less the participants reported being put in a bad mood by the news that they’d been snubbed.
The researchers also examined what happens when the participants were told that someone they’d expressed interest in had expressed interest in them -- social acceptance. In this case, some brain regions also had more opioid release. “The opioid system is known to play a role in both reducing pain and promoting pleasure, and our study shows that it also does this in the social environment,” says Hsu.

The new research holds more importance than just pure discovery, note the authors, who also include senior author Jon-Kar Zubieta, M.D., Ph.D., a longtime opioid researcher. Specifically, they are pursuing further research on how those who are vulnerable to, or currently suffering from depression or social anxiety have an abnormal opioid response to social rejection and/or acceptance. “It is possible that those with depression or social anxiety are less capable of releasing opioids during times of social distress, and therefore do not recover as quickly or fully from a negative social experience. Similarly, these individuals may also have less opioid release during positive social interactions, and therefore may not gain as much from social support,” Hsu theorizes.

Hsu also notes that perhaps new opioid medications without addictive potential may be an effective treatment for depression and social anxiety. Although such medications are not yet available, he adds, “increasing evidence for the neural overlap of physical and social pain suggests a significant opportunity to bridge research in the treatment of chronic pain with the treatment of psychiatric disorders.”

If nothing else, perhaps knowing that our response to a social snub isn’t “all in our heads” can help some people understand their responses and cope better, Hsu says. “The knowledge that there are chemicals in our brains working to help us feel better after being rejected is comforting.”

Source:

University of Michigan Health System


April McCarthy is a community journalist playing an active role reporting and analyzing world events to advance our health and eco-friendly initiatives.

Comment: With the monetary prison system in full swing, these studies primarily are focused on sales of drugs, and do not account for the onslaught of monetary influence which overrides social structure. They also leave out this dimension and attempt to add this dimension as a (problem-reaction = solution) to hide this fact. They also attempt to influence personality over essence and jumble the ray of creation into their own logistics knowing damn well that it is sacred and has an order. The solution is awareness and does not require medication, rather, mother earth and her knowledge which is natural in origin. The credibility of the pharmaceutical industry is in shambles, so by offering (MORE DRUGS), it seems the hope is (MORE PROFITS), in the drapery of illusion. Chemical warfare is also in full swing with motes and corporate chemicals rapidly invading our bodies, and this seems to leave a sense that these new violations must be accepted. With each unique case, a naturopathic doctor may be your only hope of finding a real solution. Better yet, you can become one yourself by researching and altering habits. The combination of psychiatry and pain may just be a ploy (thinking trap) to hide the fact that drugs have nothing to do with healing.

The Great Myth of the FDA as Protector of our Health

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The Great Myth of the FDA as Protector of our Health
Oct 11, 2013 | Natural Society | Christina Sarich

Just like we’ve been taught to bow to the white coats, we’ve also been conditioned to think that whatever the Food and Drug Administration approves must be safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. This organization is supposed to be a governmental watchdog over our food supply and public health, as well as an agency to keep medicines or other proposed ‘cures’ – both natural and pharmaceutical – from doing us harm. The FDA is supposed to block the interests of greedy corporations who want to make a fast buck, but its original intentions, if they were ever pure, have been tainted.

Political maneuvering, lobbying, racketeering, and outright corporate infiltration of the FDA has made the institution a complete waste of tax payer money, and worse, an absolute detriment to our overall food and medicine safety. Just because you see ‘FDA’ approved on something anymore, doesn’t mean it is safe. FDA drugs have been responsible for over 140,000 deaths in hospitals every year – some would call that an epidemic. Others go as far as to accuse the FDA of mass homicide of the American people.

Read: 500 Page Report Says FDA is Failing to Keep Food Safe

Consider this: just one FDA approved pain drug called Vioxx (rofecoxib) has been responsible for over 139,000 heart attacks and was only pulled off the shelves after tens of thousands of people died. Merck, it’s maker, raked in over $2.5 billion in sales. How about the thousands of women who had children who now suffer from reproductive cancers because they took FDA approved DES (diethylstilbestrol)? This isn’t even touching on FDA approved GMOs.

According to the book, Prescription Alternatives written by Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., and Virginia Hopkins, M.A., the following are the most common prescription drug categories (yes, FDA approved) with adverse drug reactions that are completely preventable with natural healing therapies:

• Cardiovascular Medications: 24.5%

• Diuretics (for high blood pressure): 22.1%

• Nonopiod Analgesics (painkillers): 10.9%

• Hypoglucemics (Diabetes drugs): 10.9%

• Anticoagulants (for example, Coumadin): 10.2%

Many people who don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water say that you shouldn’t use a pharmaceutical drug unless its been on the market for over ten years – but you could also just ditch pharmaceuticals altogether. The dishonesty of this industry won’t be stopped by fines, after all, their pockets are too deep. A few million in lawsuit settlements or court fees, and another few million in fines, are a drop in the bucket to companies like Merck and Pfizer. Global Big Pharma has been fined more than $11 billion in the last three years for ‘nothing less than criminal wrongdoing,’ but this doesn’t stop them.

Greenpeace to FDA: Stop Misleading the Public About GMOs

We shouldn’t trust the FDA, nor its drug pushers – medical doctors. While there are some doctors who actually care about their patients’ health and act vigilantly to protect it, most of them are courted by pharmaceutical companies to prescribe or give as free samples, an entire cornucopia of meds. Some are given to treat health concerns, others to treat depression or ‘mental illness,’ with hardly a care for what would actually benefit the patient. Very simple solutions such as more rest, more exercise, less stress, or a simple herbal remedy that sells over the counter for a few dollars are often overlooked or dismissed.

Turning to natural treatments that have stood the test of time for thousands of years, not a few ‘clinical’ trials, is the way to take our health back. We can ignore the advice of the FDA, do our own research and use our collective intelligence and the ancient wisdom our ancestors have passed down to us to treat just about every conceivable health issue. We can no longer take our pills apathetically and stay silent. It is time to make a radical shift and be responsible for our own vitality.

Ronnie Cummins on Turning the Tide Against Monsanto!

Ronnie Cummins on Turning the Tide Against Monsanto!
Oct 10, 2013 | Mercola


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/cur... Ronnie Cummins, the National Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), talks about Initiative 522 (I-522) as well as the reasons why you should support this GMO labeling campaign.

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Martin O'Malley and the Poisoning of the Children of Baltimore

Martin O'Malley and the Poisoning of the Children of Baltimore
Oct 10, 2013 | DavidSwanson.org | David Swanson

Baltimore's poorer neighborhoods have been dealing with Martin O'Malley for years and years, as I can recall from when I worked in ACORN's national office and heard all about the trouble this man was from our Maryland chapter.  O'Malley, once mayor of Baltimore and now governor of Maryland, may run for president of the United States on a what's-left-of-the-left-wing-of-the-Democratic-Party kind of platform.  His current and former constituents will have the usual warnings about who the newly packaged candidate has really been.  Perhaps they'll be heard, although that's not usually how these things work.

One of many angles worth observing about O'Malley is his position toward the natural environment. He's been pushing for fracking and for a coal liquid natural gas terminal on the Chesapeake Bay at Cove Point (Obama just approved it!). My friend and Baltimorean Diane Wittner says she thinks O'Malley is after campaign money "at the expense of a livable bioregion."

One of O'Malley's destructive proposals is of particular interest because of the resistance to it organized by young people.  O'Malley wants to stick a giant incinerator into a poor neighborhood in Baltimore.  This monstrosity, called the Energy Answers Incinerator, would be the largest trash-burning incinerator in the nation, consuming 4,000 tons of trash a day including plastic, rubber, vinyl, metal, and household waste.  In violation of state law this worse-than-a-major-coal-plant pollution machine would be situated less than a mile from Benjamin Franklin High School and Curtis Bay Elementary School. The incinerator would flood the air with mercury, nitric oxide, lead, dioxins, and particulate matter, producing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, respiratory problems, and -- if all the stars align -- just possibly a single uncomfortable question in a presidential "debate."

The neighborhood to be victimized, Curtis Bay, already has the highest toxic air pollution in Maryland and among the worst in the nation. Here's a map I've just made because I think people who visit Baltimore's tourist area would appreciate knowing how close this less favored area is:

Now check out this great website where I've learned about this outrage:

Stop the Incinerator:

"For the health of our community and our children we are calling on Governor Martin O’Malley to stop the proposed trash burning incinerator from being built in Curtis Bay. If built the Energy Answers Incinerator would be the largest of its kind in the nation, producing more pollutants per hour of energy produced than the largest coal plants in Maryland. Worse still, the project is set to be built less than a mile from Benjamin Franklin High School and Curtis Bay Elementary School, in violation of Maryland state regulations. It is this kind of recklessness that has led Baltimore to be ranked number one in air pollution related deaths per capita.

"Energy Answers was required to begin construction in August. While the Maryland Department of Environment investigates if they failed to do so, we are calling on Governor O’Malley to intervene and protect our children’s health and the health of our community.
"Please contact Governor O’Malley if you want to stop the nations’ largest incinerator from being built less than a mile from schools.  Let him know that our community is not a dumping ground.  Let him know that the Energy Answers incinerator needs to be STOPPED."

Governor’s office phone # 410.974.3901 / 1.800.811.8336
Governor O’Malley’s contact page: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/mail/

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Propaganda Alert: British Newspaper Promoting Lowering IQs of Children with Fluoridated Milk Pus

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Propaganda Alert: British Newspaper Promoting Lowering IQs of Children with Fluoridated Milk Pus
Oct 9, 2013 | Cryptogon

Editor's note: Our health conscious readers in Britain may want to put their foot on this nonsense speading around the schools as a methodology to make profits while lowering IQs of children with pasturized (radiation which destroys all that is healthy in milk; needed to rid infected cows and hide pus buildup) and fluoridated (rat poisoned) milk. What better way to rid oneself of toxic waste then to sell it and have the public drink it and then eject it into the environment which then makes them responsible for the horrible crime and too stupid to realize it. Actually, it is much easier to just say no while seeking out peer to peer farmers.
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Britain: Blackpool Considering Adding Fluoride to Milk for School Children

Via: Blackpool Gazette:

Special plans to introduce fluoridised milk into Blackpool’s primary schools moved one step closer after the scheme was backed by health chiefs.

At a meeting of Blackpool Council’s Health and Wellbeing board yesterday it was resoundingly agreed to push forward plans to provide milk to 77 primary schools in the town.

Dr Arif Rajpura, Blackpool’s director of public health said: “Ideally we would like fluoridised water to be provided so that everyone has access to it, but that seems to be off the cards at the moment, with cost being an issue.

“The next best thing is milk fluoridisation.

“Fluoride is found in toothpaste and works to a degree on the teeth, but is soon washed off.

“But fluoride which is ingested can be continually secreted in the mouth through saliva.
“Some people have raised concerns about fluorosis, which leads to a mottling of the teeth, but the fluoridisation of milk is very safe.

“This is a no brainer from my perspective.

“We have an opportunity to give kids the best chance in life, through the free breakfasts, free milk and now fluoridised milk.”

Related: Ten Other Areas of the UK Have Already Introduced Fluoridated Milk to Its Students

Senior Scientist Blasts Industrial Chemicals in U.S. Foods: Report Reveals Toxicity of Food

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Senior Scientist Blasts Industrial Chemicals in U.S. Foods: Report Reveals Toxicity of Food
Oct 10, 2013 | Natural Society | Elizabeth Renter

Jennifer Sass is a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), overseeing the chemicals and pesticides in regulatory programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In other words, she knows a thing or two about industrial chemicals. Recently, Sass blasted the U.S. food system saying problems with the regulation of industrial chemicals by the Food and Drug Administration are worse than the problems she sees at the EPA—and that’s saying something. She also references a new report revealing how in danger our food is from a toxic-substances perspective.

Sass says a recent report that sheds light on the FDA’s oversight of food additives should have everyone concerned. About 1,000 food additives are in the U.S. food supply without FDA knowledge or approval. For those that the FDA knows about (10,000 different additives), fewer than 38% have a “published feeding study” or a study indicating its safety within the food supply. For direct food additives, she says, the number of those studied is even smaller—at only 21.6%.

“It appears the FDA and the food industry were often making safety decisions by comparing one chemical to another rather than doing an actual toxicology study. In making such decisions, they were building a house of cards based on assumptions and unsupported extrapolations instead of direct scientific evidence.”

There are several reasons that such a jumbled mess of industrial chemicals and food additives have made it into our food supplies. One of those—that many chemicals were grandfathered into the system before the 1950s. These have been around for decades and there was never any approved studies on their safety. As for those newer additives, the food industry itself decides what’s safe and what isn’t, and can voluntarily let the FDA know if any substance is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), not proving it to be so.

The report says:

“In practice, almost 80% of chemical additives directly—intentionally—added to food lack the relevant information needed to estimate the amount that consumers can safely eat in FDA’s own database and 93% lack reproductive or developmental toxicity data, although FDA requires feeding toxicology data for these chemicals.”

Not surprisingly, a recent study from Pew researchers indicated that 100% of panel members—experts who review those GRAS additives—have “financial relationships with companies that manufacture the food additives being reviewed.” In other words, they have a financial incentive to let these questionable additives make it into the food supply with as little interference as possible.

According to Sass:

“I’ve spent much of my career extensively reviewing EPA determinations of safety for hazardous chemicals. It is an outrage that FDA is not even looking at many of the chemicals added to food, and that the agency doesn’t even have mandatory notification when industrial chemicals come into our food supply.

I’ve also spent much of my career documenting the problem of chemical manufacturers testing the safety of their own products. It isn’t rocket science to think that a bias and a financial conflict may lead to a misrepresentation of the potential toxicity of a chemical."

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Factory Farms: Taxpayers pay, Politicians take, Agribusiness profits

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Factory Farms: Taxpayers pay, Politicians take, Agribusiness profits
Oct 9, 2013 | Organic Index | Organic Consumers Association

The agribusiness giants would have us believe that our inherently unsustainable and morally reprehensible factory farming system is the only way to feed the world's burgeoning population. But the facts prove otherwise. Factory farming is all about maximizing profits for a handful of the world's largest corporations.

Agribusiness spent $751 million over the past 5 years on lobbying congress and another $480.5 million in direct campaign contributions over the past two decades. Since 1995, taxpayers have provided $292.5 billion in direct agricultural subsidies, another $96 billion in crop insurance subsidies, and over $100 billion in subsidies to promote the growth of genetically engineered corn and soy.

Feeding huge numbers of confined animals actually uses more food, in the form of grains that could feed humans, than it produces. For every 100 food calories of edible crops fed to livestock, we get back just 30 calories in the form of meat and dairy. That's a 70-percent loss. And recent research from the University of Minnesota shows that reallocating croplands away from fuels and animal feed could boost food available for people by 70 percent without clearing more land.

How did we end up with this cruel, unsustainable, unhealthy, environmentally destructive factory farm model? The numbers say it all.

The Bigger the Farm, the Larger the Taxpayer Subsidy

$292.5 billion: Total amount of taxpayer subsidies given to farms from 1995-2012.

Only $39 billion: Total amount in conservation payments paid to farms between 1995 and 2012.

10: Percentage of farms in the U.S. that collected 75 percent of farm subsidies from 1995-2012.

62: Percentage of farms in the U.S. that did not collect any subsidy payments.

$32,043: Average annual subsidies received by the largest 10 percednt of farms between 1995 and 2012.

$604: Average annual subsidy received by the smallest 80 percent of farms between 1995 and 2012.

Insuring Factory Farms at Taxpayer Expense

$15.8 billion: Cost to U.S. taxpayers in 2012 for providing crop insurance - an overwhelming majority of which went to the largest factory farms.

$96.4 billion: Cost to U.S. taxpayers for subsidizing the Crop Insurance Program from 1995-2012.

$90 billion: Cost of crop insurance to U.S. taxpayers over the next 10 years.

75: Percentage of 2012 crop insurance payouts shouldered by taxpayers.

$10.3 billion: Amount since 2001 that insurance companies have enjoyed in underwriting gains - while taxpayers have lost $276 million.

$1 million: Average amount the 26 largest factory farms collected apiece in crop insurance premium support in 2011.

$227,000: The amount the top 1 percent of policyholders received in crop insurance subsidies in 2011.

$5,000: The amount the bottom 80 percent of policyholders collected in crop insurance subsidies in 2011.

More than 10,000: Number of individual farming operations that received federal crop insurance premium subsidies ranging from $100,000 to more than $1 million apiece in 2011.

10: Percentage of farm businesses that received 54 percent of all insurance subsidies in 2011.

GMO animal feed subsidized by U.S. taxpayers

$84.4 billion: Amount in corn subsidies (88 percent of which is now genetically modified) provided in the U.S. from 1995-2012.

$27.8 billion: Amount in soy subsidies (94 percent of which is now genetically modified) provided in the U.S. from 1995-2012.

Legalized bribery: How American monopolies are built

$751 million: Amount in lobbying expenditures by the agribusiness lobby from 2008-2013.

$480.5 million: Amount the agribusiness sector has contributed to federal candidates during the past two decades, with two-thirds going to Republicans.

$43 million: Amount spent by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (world's largest biotech trade association) on lobbying from 2008 to 2013.

$33 million: Approximate amount spent by Monsanto (who has patents on 95% of the genetically modified seed market) on lobbying since 2008.

$7.2 million: Amount just 14 members of Congress and their spouses (net worth of up to $124.5 million) - each of them Republican - have received in farm subsidies since 1995. These Congress members all voted to continue farm subsidies from which they personally benefit, while allowing authorization for nutrition programs for low income individuals and families, including food stamps, to expire this year.

Sources

2013 Farm Subsidy Database, Environmental Working Group
Pork Barrel Politics, By Congressman George Miller, July 2013
Agribusiness, Open Secrets
Monsanto Co, Open Secrets
Biotechnology Industry Association, Open Secrets
Winning the Debate against Factory Farming

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Vaccines Spread Disease: 91% Fully Vaccinated Involved in Pertussis Outbreak

Vaccines Spread Disease: 91% Fully Vaccinated Involved in Pertussis Outbreak
Oct 9, 2013 | ExperimentalVaccines

Editor's note: Here's a great factual piece on some of the propaganda from websites people still actually visit because they believe that no propaganda exist, yet anyone with eyeballs can witness their lies and promotion of the corporate killing machine.

Florida Farm Workers Allege Pesticide Exposure Is Giving Them Cancer

Florida Farm Workers Allege Pesticide Exposure Is Giving Them Cancer
Oct 8, 2013 | Cornucopia | Carmen Sesín

Marta Cruz left Michoacán, Mexico with her husband and 1-year-old son a decade and a half ago to work in the fields of Homestead, Florida, picking lemons and tomatoes as farm workers. A couple of years ago, she began suffering from headaches but figured it was from the long hours working under the sweltering sun or the stress of figuring out how to pay bills.

Two years ago she fell to the ground with convulsions and was rushed to a hospital, where she learned she had a cancerous brain tumor — it was later removed. One year later, her 17 year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. By the time he received medical attention, it had already spread to his stomach, chest and lungs.

According to Cruz, no one in her family has ever suffered from cancer. She believes she and her son may have developed the disease from exposure to pesticides while working at a Florida nursery.

“Like in many nurseries, the situation wasn’t the best,” said Cruz. “They would spray in the morning while we were arriving to work instead of spraying in the evenings.”


A representative for the nursery declined comment.

At the time, Cruz said she had no idea pesticides posed a health risk to workers. When her son was around nine, he started going to the fields to help his father work, which Cruz believes further exposed him to pesticides.

“Since the problem of cancer seems to be popping up a lot in the community, I believe it may be associated to pesticides,” Cruz explained. She knows at least six other farm workers who developed cancer recently – four have died.

She is not the only one who feels the amount of farm workers with cancer is growing. Elvira Carvajal, from The Farmworker Association of Florida, which focuses on training how to properly handle pesticides, took notice of the growing concern and began tracking cancer cases.

Carvajal said the five she has documented so far this year are former co-workers she visits and monitors but said she continues to hear of others in the community. Carvajal alleged these farm workers may be developing cancer from exposure to pesticides.

She said she speaks from experience. Before joining the organization, Carvajal worked in nurseries for over 20 years. Her job was to plant 700 orchids every 20 minutes along with five other women. Each bed of orchids they worked on would be sprayed as the workers were planting.

“I would feel the mist of the pesticide on me and thought it was refreshing from the intense heat…they would tell us the pesticides were harmless and wouldn’t affect us,” Carvajal said.

“They would tell us it was food for the plants. Since the flowers and leaves looked so beautiful and healthy, we really thought pesticides were harmless… we didn’t know any better,” she added.

Exposing a worker to pesticides is a violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. It wasn’t until Carvajal attended a meeting of the FWAF that she realized exposure to pesticides is harmful and she needed to start protecting herself.

Carvajal recalled “there was a family of farm workers at that meeting and two members had just died of cancer. People were saying it was because of the pesticides. One of them would spray and not protect himself. I left feeling uncomfortable.”

According to the Florida Health Department, “in animal studies, some pesticides have been shown to be carcinogenic. Research among human populations have had mixed findings, but seem to suggest evidence of a relationship between certain pesticide exposures and certain cancers.”

The Health Department’s Agricultural Health Study, which focuses on the development of cancer in the farming community, has evaluated more than 20 pesticides to determine if there is an increased risk of developing cancer.

According to the study, “some of these results have shown that people exposed to certain pesticides have an increased risk of developing certain cancers, but further research is needed to confirm these findings…”

Ruben A. Mesa, chair of hematology and oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, agreed.

“Pesticides definitely can increase the risk of cancer,” he said. But he noted that “it is difficult to pull out whether one specific cancer is caused by natural chance or chemical exposure.”

Carvajal said she plans to file a report with the Health Department and blames the overexposure of pesticides on lack of knowledge among workers and weak government regulation.

Environmental Protection Agency regulations require “that a pesticide product undergo hundreds of studies that the agency uses to ensure any pesticide use is safe for human health and the environment.”

Under those regulations, “nurseries are required to post warning signs (in sprayed areas) required by the (Worker Protection Standard) in both Spanish and English.”

But Carvajal doesn’t think the regulations go far enough, or at least workers by and large have no idea they exist. So more awareness is necessary, she said.

The FWAF said the EPA and the United States Department of Agriculture are not doing enough to protect farm workers, activists like Carvajal say. They said the Worker Protection Standard, which is set by the EPA to reduce pesticide poisoning and injury, needs updating.

According to the EPA, there are already changes under consideration that would “improve protections to the human health of almost two million workers minority and low income workers.”

Another complaint is that the USDA only has 43 inspectors for over 20,000 nurseries in the state of Florida. In addition, inspectors call nurseries before inspection to let them know they are going, which gives managers ample time to make appropriate changes to meet regulations.

According to the USDA, “the department does schedule routine inspections, which require certain individuals to be on site. However, we do not notify them in advance for inspections related to complaints or concerns. These are unannounced.”

The agency conducts about 820 inspections annually and inspectors are available to respond immediately to any adverse pesticide related events.

Meanwhile, Cruz continues to wonder how she and her son could have developed cancer, if the cause was not pesticides. She can no longer work so she and her two children depend on her husband’s salary. They save three weekly checks to pay the rent and medical bills are mounting.

Despite all the setbacks, Cruz remains strong and upbeat.

“If it’s not pouring rain, it’s drizzling,” Cruz said with a smile.

Source: Fox News Latin

GMOs & Neurological Disease: ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar

The Human Nervous System

GMOs & Neurological Disease: ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar
Oct 7, 2013 |Farm Wars | N.L. Swanson

Acknowledgment: Jon Abrahamson helped with data mining for this article.

The endocrine disrupting properties of glyphosate can lead to neurological disorders (learning disabilities (LD), attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder). Those most susceptible are children and the elderly.

Glyphosate was first marketed in 1976 and its use has exploded since the advent of glyphosateresistant, genetically engineered (GE) crops in 1995. The herbicide-resistant GE crops absorb glyphosate through direct application and from the soil and it cannot be washed off. It is in the food. Glyphosate has also been found in rivers, streams, air and rain.

The thyroid is an endocrine organ that secretes the thyroid hormone. Thyroid dysfunction has been identified with mood disorders. Depression is frequently associated with low levels of thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism), while mood elevation is often associated with high levels of thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism). An endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) can cause erratic behavior. Recent studies have shown links between food additives and neurotoxicity in cells and hyperactive behavior in children. Incidents have been reported of laboratory rats and farm animals exhibiting uncharacteristic aggressive and anti-social behavior on being fed a diet consisting of GMO soy or corn.

Many scientific studies have shown links between thyroid disruption and neurological diseases. “Thyroid hormones are critical for development of the fetal and neonatal brain, as well as for many other aspects of pregnancy and fetal growth. Hypothyroidism in either the mother or fetus frequently results in fetal disease; in humans, this includes a high incidence of mental retardation. … numerous studies with rats, sheep and humans have reinforced this concept…” According to de Cock et al, “Perinatal exposure to EDCs appears to be associated with the occurrence of ASD [autism spectrum disorder] as well as ADHD. Disruption of thyroid hormone function … may offer an explanation for the observed relations….” MacSweeney et al. report, “that the mothers of 104 schizophrenic patients had: (1) a significantly higher incidence of thyroid disease than a carefully matched control group; (2) significantly more abortions, still-births and greater infant mortality. The findings and possible relevance of thyroid disease to schizophrenia are discussed.” Strong correlation was shown between cancer of the thyroid and glyphosate use on corn and soy crops and that thyroid cancer affects women more than men. It seems that women are more sensitive to thyroid disruption.
The incidence and prevalence for neurological disorders have been skyrocketing. Data trends over time for neurological disorders are not readily available for two reasons: they are not as well-studied as other diseases (cancer, diabetes etc.), and the diagnostic methods keep changing. The experts argue over whether the increases are real, or a by-product of changes in diagnostics along with greater attention given to these disorders in recent times. For example, a former diagnosis of mental retardation might now result in a diagnosis of autism. Furthermore there is a large degree of overlap in symptoms. Typical manifestations of ADHD, such as distractibility or hyperactivity are also present in pediatric bipolar disorder, for example.

Children

ADHD

According to the New York Times, “an estimated 6.4 million children ages 4 through 17 had received an A.D.H.D. diagnosis at some point in their lives, a 16 percent increase since 2007 and a 41 percent rise in the past decade.” From the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “rates of ADHD diagnosis increased an average of 3% per year from 1997 to 2006 and an average of 5.5% per year from 2003 to 2007. … It is not possible to tell whether this increase represents a change in the number of children who have ADHD, or a change in the number of children who were diagnosed.” It also makes a great deal of difference who is doing the reporting: parents or doctors. The disorder affects boys more than girls. Whatever the numbers, there seems to be an increasing behavioral problem with our youth. Our solution is to give them more chemicals in the form of mood-altering drugs.

Bipolar

According to a 2007 report by Moreno et al., “the annual number of office-based visits with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder was estimated to increase in youth from 25 (1994-1995) to 1003 (2002-2003) per 100,000 population, whereas in adults it increased from 905 (1994-1995) to 1679 (2002-2003) per 100,000 population. … most youth bipolar disorder visits were by males (66.5%), whereas most adult bipolar disorder visits were by females (67.6%).”

Autism

The number of autistic children has exploded during the last decade, and some are calling it an epidemic. There is great controversy over what is causing this and whether all of it is real. “But many researchers now say that at least part of the rise in autism is real and caused by something in the environment. Rather than quibbling over recounts they are focusing on finding the causes.”

It was shown in previous articles that there has been a huge increase in the amount of glyphosates applied to corn and soy crops grown in the U.S. corresponding to the rise in the percentage of corn and soy planted with genetically engineered (GE) varieties. Those data represent only a portion of the total GE crops and amount of glyphosates applied. The USDA only collects data on GE crops for corn, cotton and soy. Since most of the corn (88%) and soy (94%) planted now is GE, these data give a representation of the rising trends in both GE crops and herbicide use.

The amount of glyphosate applied to U.S. corn and soy crops is plotted against the prevalence of autism in the graph below. The prevalence of autism was difficult to find and the values shown on this graph came from many sources using different methods and different age groups. A better estimate was obtained from the U.S. Department of Education, which keeps track of school age children receiving services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). A second plot is shown using data from USDE for the number of autistic children receiving services. The correlation is quite strong which may indicate that glyphosate is a contributing factor in the rise of autism

Elderly

The elderly are susceptible because they may already have a great body burden of chemical exposure over their lifetime and because some of their body processes are shutting down and hormonal disruptions can have a much greater effect on them.

According to the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Alzheimer’s disease went from number 32 in 1990 to number nine in 2010 in the ranking of leading causes of death in the U.S. Senile Dementia and it’s care costs have also skyrocketed in the last two decades.

Prevalence and incidence data were sparse, but data on death rates were available from 1979. Graphs of the death rates for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and Senile Dementia have been plotted against glyphosate applications to U.S. corn and soy crops. Again, the correlations are quite strong. Deaths due to Alzheimer’s have been rising since 1980, but there is a sharp spike in 1999.

Correlation does not necessarily imply causation and there are now a host of chemicals in our food and our environment. The huge increase in the amount of glyphosate applied to GE food and feed crops has significantly increased our exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. In a previous article, correlations were shown between glyphosate use, GMO crop increase and: thyroid cancer, liver cancer, obesity, high blood pressure, acute kidney injury, incidence and prevalence of diabetes and end stage renal disease. All of these diseases and disorders were carefully chosen based on:

1 Glyphosate is a known endocrine disruptor.

2. Endocrine disruptors can cause organ and neurological damage.

3. Roundup™ and GMOs have shown liver and kidney damage and abnormal behavior in rat studies.

4. Use of glyphosate on herbicide-resistant crops has skyrocketed since 1995.

5. Incidence, prevalence and deaths due to these diseases has also skyrocketed since 1995.

It seems improbable that the correlations in the nine graphs of glyphosates and organ disease, and the three presented here (for a total of 12), can all be coincidence. There has been a trend among the agricultural and food industries and their regulators to engage in practices that place the consumers at risk, emerging in the mid-1990s and growing. It involves not just GMOs but many other things as well and those factors may may be correlated with each other. That may make it impossible to separate out which one caused a particular effect. Much more research needs to be done. Our children are disturbed and our elders are dying horribly.

Notes:

In 2006 Irena Ermakova reported to the European Congress of Psychiatry that, “As in previous series the behavior of males from GM group was compared with the behavior of control rats. Obtained data showed a high level of anxiety and aggression in males, females and young pups from GM groups. Aggression was more expressed in females and rat pups: they attacked and bite each other and the worker.” 14th European Congress of Psychiatry, Nice, France, Sunday, March 5 2006, Poster #048.

Numerous anecdotal reports of animals on GMO diets behaving aggressively and anti-socially have been reported by farmers and veterinarians.

In 2010 Shelton et al. published a paper describing potential mechanisms linking pesticides and autism.

In 2006, Grandjean and Landrigan reported on developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. “Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, and cerebral palsy are common, costly, and can cause lifelong disability. … Exposure to these chemicals during early fetal development can cause brain injury at doses much lower than those affecting adult brain function.”

Data sources:

Alzheimer’s & Senile Dementia death data : CDC compressed mortality files

Autism prevalence: CDC: 1975* & 1995* from NAT U R E | VO L 4 7 9 | 3 NOV E M B E R 2 0 1 1

Autism IDEA data: 1992-1998

1999-2010 http://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=64

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (2012). Digest of Education Statistics, 2011 (NCES 2012-001), Chapter 2.

Glyphosate: USDA:NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Percent GE corn & soy data: 1996-1999 data: USDA Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER-810) 67 pp, May 2002

2000-2012 data: USDA:NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service

Study Finds Over 24,000 Chemicals In Bottled Water: Which Ones Are Harming You?

Study Finds Over 24,000 Chemicals In Bottled Water: Which Ones Are Harming You?
Oct 7, 2013 | Collective Evolution | Arjun Walia

German researchers have discovered endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), that could adversely affect development and reproduction, to be contained in 18 different bottled water products(1). Of the 24,520 suspect chemicals found to be present in bottled water, the one that showed consistent results and illustrated anti-androgenic and anti-estrogenic activity is di(2-ethylhexyl) fumarate (DEHF). Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with the hormone system, they can cause cancerous tumors, birth defects, cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders and as mentioned earlier,  other developmental disorders(1).

This study comes from Martin Wagner and Jorg Oehlmann of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, and Michael Schlusener and Thomas Ternes of the German Federal Institute of Hydrology. They determined that bottled water could contain serious amounts of EDCs that should be a cause from concern.

Researchers used spectrometric simulation to narrow down their findings to DEHF as the only possible EDC giving rise to harmful activity. DEHF is also known as an anti-estrogenic compound, which means that another unidentified EDC must be present in the samples that showed anti-androgenic activity.

The authors employed a sensitive in vitro bioassay to characterize the total estrogenic burden leaching from plastics, including potential mixture effects and unidentified EDCs. Using a similar approach, a series of studies reported a widespread estrogenic contamination of commercially available bottled water.  Here, we combine biological and chemical analysis to identify putative steroid receptor antagonists in bottled water. Most of the products were potently antiestrogenic and antiandrogenic in the bioassays. Nontarget high-resolution mass spectrometry pointed towards maleate and fumarate isomers as promising candidates and subsequently enabled the identification of di(2-ethylhexyl) fumarate. Because its concentration is too low to explain the observed activity, other compounds must contribute. However, further maleate/fumarate isomers are not only biologically active but structurally highly similar to phthalates. Hence, we speculate these compounds might represent a novel, so far overlooked group of EDCs. An increasing number of in vitro studies reports the presence of EDCs in bottled water. With previous studies focusing on estrogenicity, the present work provides evidence for an additional contamination with steroid receptor antagonists. We detected antiestrogens and antiandrogens in the majority of analyzed bottled water products. Moreover, the antagonist activity was very potent. An equivalent of 3.75 ml bottled water inhibited estrogen and androgen receptor by up to 60 and 90 percent. Bottled water from six different countries has been found to contain estrogenic, antiestrogenic, as well as androgenic, progestagenic, and glucocorticoid-like chemicals. This demonstrates that a popular beverage is contaminated with diverse-acting EDCs(1).

What Can You Do?

The answer is simple, don’t drink bottled water! Apart from that, you can purchase water filters that take out the chlorine and fluoride from your water if you choose, they aren’t that hard to find and if you do your research you can find some fairly inexpensive ones. If you’re interested, shoot us an email and we can help you out in your search. 24,000 chemicals is a lot of chemicals to be putting into your body. I’m not saying all of them are harmful, but who would want to take that chance? It’s not uncommon for us to taste some of these chemicals within the water that come from the plastic, especially if you leave the bottle in the sun for a short period of time.


Here is a very informative video that shares a lot more of what needs to be known about bottled water:



Sources:

(1) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072472

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/09/worrying-molecule-bottled-water-endocrine

http://www.naturalnews.com/042126_bottled_water_endocrine_disruptors_chemical_contamination.html#

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.4521171.html?rid=5aec75ff-9e17-4845-9a3c-96673b5741a6

Gasp! CDC Finally Admits the Age of Antibiotics is Finished as Super-Bacteria Take Over

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Gasp! CDC Finally Admits the Age of Antibiotics is Finished as Super-Bacteria Take Over
Oct 6, 2013 | Natural Society | Christina Sarich

Many of us have come to mistrust government agencies like the FDA, and CDC, but in a startling moment of truth, the CDC now openly admits that antibiotic prescriptions have led to the death of more than 23,000 Americans every year and the calamitous emergence of super bugs that are impervious to our scientific ‘medicines.’ Even the 23,000 annual deaths is being called conservative by the CDC in a new Threat Report 2013 being issued by the agency.

Within these pages the true epidemic of antibiotic resistant  superbugs is outlined as well as a quantifiable look at the way antibiotics have been misused and over-prescribed in a Big Pharma-run world.

The report even goes so far as to admit that modern medicine has failed when it comes to managing infectious disease since Mother Nature always adapts to overcome isolated chemical weaponry concocted in some lab. Ever-newer strains of bacteria are developed to out-whit us. Super bugs are like expert hackers figuring out how to get past the best computer programmer’s firewall, as we still utilize medical programming that originated in the 1950s.

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said in the report, “If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era” – this has huge ramifications for the current medical system. If doctors and hospitals can’t treat us with prescription drugs, what exactly is their use? We already know that things like cancer and heart disease can be resolved with natural medicine – now even a common infection will need to be treated alternatively.

The CDC says the following three superbugs are the major threat now:

• Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE (9,000 annual infections, 600 annual deaths)

• Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea (246,000 infections per year, now only one drug left to treat it)

• Clostridium difficile (250,000 infections per year, 14,000 deaths)

Fortunately, most herbal antibiotics are completely unaffected by super bugs and continue to work since they are integrated into Mother Nature’s overall plan, and have been for centuries. Many traditionally trained doctors have no idea how to prescribe herbal remedies, because they are taught from their first days in medical school to look at everything through the Big Pharma lense.

Many doctors have no clue that silver, copper, aloe vera gel, garlic, cruciferous vegetables, turmeric, lavender, astragalus, and a myriad other natural medicines from cultures around the world have been handling bacteria and viruses for millennia. Here is more information on just 5 natural antibiotics for antibiotic-resistant infections.

It may be an abject failure for the medical establishment, but it is an outright win for natural health. Finally, people will be forced to turn to other methods of dealing with chemical and environmental toxins, super bugs, and heavy metals that run rampant in our society.

The CDC’s Lame Excuse for a Solution 

Unfortunately, while the CDC admits the gross failure of antibiotics, their solution is to get more people vaccinated. Considering the vaccines make the immune system weaker, and have been known to cause everything from Autism to dementia, this is not a wise piece of advice – though it is expected. Vaccines also won’t prevent the spread of super bugs. It isn’t time to look for another chemical to treat the problem. Microbiological road blocks would surely rise the minute a new chemical is introduced – the same way that it has with the creation of super bugs. It is time to look at natural solutions.

As Einstein once said, you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Treating the world for disease won’t happen in a scientists lab, brewing up another concoction of chemicals that Big Pharma can patent and then promote, all while killing thousands of people every year. Its time for a natural revolution to deal with the CDC’s admittance that the current medical model has been less than successful.

Amazing Story: Cannabis Oil Cures Man’s Nose Cancer

Amazing Story: Cannabis Oil Cures Man’s Nose Cancer
Oct 6, 2013 | Green Med TV

A remarkable story of how cannabis extract oil cured David Triplett’s cancer.


Additional research on GreenMedInfo.com:

A Higher Level of Freedom: The Benefit of Cannabis To Health

Written by Sayer Ji, Founder

In a day and age where possession of an herb like cannabis – which grows freely on this Earth — is an offense sometimes punishable by incarceration, it is important for us to reflect on how we arrived at this dark point in time. Herbs, after all, were put there by God. If you prefer the word Nature, the point is the same, and it was put best by Bob Marley when he said: “you can’t tell God it [cannabis] is illegal.”