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Medical imaging radiation causes DNA damage and cancer; doctors prescribe more!

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(NaturalNews) The health risks associated with radiation exposure, whether it comes from cancer treatments or medical imaging scans, are much more significant than most people probably think. The latest published data on radiation exposure suggests that roughly 25,000 Americans develop cancer every year as a result of medical radiation exposure, and many more experience DNA damage that could eventually lead to the development of cancer and other health problems in the long term.

Every year, millions of Americans opt to undergo computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and X-ray scans for medical purposes, thinking that by doing so, they are keeping up with the latest technologies in advanced medical care. But each time medical patients get one of these scans, their bodies sustain varying levels of ionizing radiation, the negative effects of which can take years to manifest as they build up cumulatively over time.

CT scans, which are a relatively modern medical imaging technology, are particularly problematic as they emit far higher doses of radiation than traditional x-rays do. Based on the figures, a single CT scan can blast up to 500 times the amount of radiation released by a single x-ray, an astounding level when considering how gratuitously CT scans are administered within the medical profession today.

In a new study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it is reported that the use of all medical imaging scans, including CT scans, has risen dramatically between 1996 and 2010. The use of CT scans in particular, more than tripled during this time, which is in large part responsible for doubling the proportion of patients now receiving what is considered to be “high” or “very high” radiation doses on a regular basis.

Failing to recognize the long-term health consequences of repeated and perpetual exposure among their patients, many doctors needlessly order CT scans for patients who do not need them, or order multiple scans when only one is necessary. Data compiled from outpatient claims filed through Medicare, for instance, reveals that CT scans are routinely overused at hundreds of hospitals across the country, and that patients are needlessly “double scanned” more than 80 percent of the time. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/health/18radiation.html)

The high cost of CT scanning equipment has also led to an epidemic of unnecessary CT scans at private practices as well. Because they know that, most of the time, insurance companies and government health programs will reimburse them, many doctors simply default to CT scans whenever there is even a remote possibility that they might be useful — and oftentimes these doctors double-up on scans as well, even though this is almost never medically necessary.

“Double scans expose patients to extra radiation while heaping millions of dollars in extra costs on an already overburdened Medicare program,” wrote Walt Bogdanich and Jo Craven McGinty in the NYT, concerning CT scan abuse within government healthcare.

Besides the added costs to the medical system, medical imaging overuse is destroying the physical health of many Americans. According to data compiled by Jane Brody over at the New York Times (NYT), radiation exposure from medical scans now accounts for 1.5 percent of all cancers that occur in the U.S. Based on figures released by the American Cancer Society (ACS), this translates to about 24,583 Americans that develop cancer every year as a result of Western medicine. (http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/ACSPC-031941)

“All imaging has increased, but CTs account for the bulk of it,” said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a specialist in radiology and biomedical imaging at the University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) to the NYT. “There’s clearly widespread overuse. More than 10 percent of patients each year are receiving very high radiation exposures.”

Despite their known dangers, CT and other risky imaging scans are often pushed on patients by doctors who refuse to provide care unless patients submit to their orders. Presumably to protect themselves against litigation, many doctors will insist that their patients undergo multiple imaging scans in order to confirm a medical condition, even when doing so puts patient safety at risk.

Fortunately, many health insurers are now taking notice of this rampant abuse, and are putting policy measures in place to discourage it. These include requiring preauthorizations before patients can receive scans, for instance, or restricting who can administer the scans, and on what types of equipment.

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Timi Gustafson, R.D.: Living Long, Living Well

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Americans may be less optimistic about the future in general than they once were, but a solid majority still hopes to enjoy a long life. In fact, longevity is considered by most as part of a good life, on par with health, prosperity and loving relationships.

According to a survey conducted by David Ewing Duncan, a science writer and author of When I’m 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension and What Happens If It Succeeds, 60 percent of Americans expect to live at least until they’re 80. 40 percent think 120 to 150 years could be feasible within their own lifetime due to further advancements in medical and biological technology and one percent believes that death could eventually be eliminated altogether.

Considering that two thirds of the population are currently dealing with weight problems and a host of lifestyle-related diseases, this may be wishful thinking for many. But the fact is that the average life expectancy has indeed dramatically increased over the last century due to improved hygiene, diet and medical care. In 1900, people could expect to live just under 50 years. In the year 2000, it was nearly 77. The average lifespan was lengthened between 1.5 and 2.7 years per decade, according to data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.

What’s even more stunning is that our chances of living longer seem to go up all the time. How so- “Because the more time you spend in the world, the more time the world gives you,” says Ted C. Fishman, author of Shock of Gray (Scribner, 2010). “For every hour we live,” he claims, “the average human lifespan increases between eleven and fifteen minutes. Every day sees the average lifespan grow another five hours.”

Of course, that doesn’t apply for everyone across the globe, Fishman admits. “Your odds are better if you have avoided the obesity epidemic and live in a place that enjoys good health care, education and freedom from war and terrible poverty.” It also helps if you can manage to stay mentally fit and don’t suffer from memory loss and cognitive decline. A loving family, a circle of friends and other supportive social surroundings add to your chances.

Unfortunately, many of these important factors for longevity cannot be taken for granted. Baby boomers, now entering retirement, are rightly worried about their prospects when it comes to their financial security, health needs and social life.

“It does not bode well for the baby boom generation at all,” warns Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, a professor for public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago who studies longevity, in an interview with Reuters. More recent studies show that life expectancy gains in the U.S. have actually flattened out since the 1960s. Despite of dramatically increasing expenditures for health care, many Americans live with chronic diseases that are left insufficiently treated, especially among the uninsured and those with limited coverage. One study concluded that poorer citizens have on average a shorter lifespan of up to five years than the more affluent.

Obviously, money can’t buy everything and life remains an uncertain enterprise no matter how rich you are. For the rest of us, there are plenty of opportunities to take care of our health and well-being by eating right, exercising, etc. (you know the drill) — and for this, it’s never too early to get started.

Researchers found that physical fitness achieved during middle-age can lower the risk of developing chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure in later years and may be associated with compression of morbidity at old age. Compression of morbidity is what many health experts consider the optimal outcome of aging. The idea is “to delay the onset of age-related disease and inevitable decline without worrying about extending life,” writes Dr. Andrew Weil, author of numerous best-selling health books, including “Healthy Aging” (Knopf, 2005). Not longevity itself should be our first concern, but the quality of life we have as long as we are around, he says.

This reminds me of the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc., who died last year at the age of 56. He spoke of the inevitability of death at his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: “No one wants to die,” he said. “Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. [...] Your time is limited,” he ended, “so don’t waste it…”

Even the longest life can be a waste if it’s not brought to its full potential. Even the shortest life is rich and fulfilled if it’s lived well.

If you enjoyed this article, you may also be interested in “The High Cost of Living Longer.”

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Obama punishes Americans with another trillion-dollar deficit (four in a row)

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(NaturalNews) As a presidential candidate in 2008, Sen. Barack Obama characterized outgoing-President George W. Bush as “unpatriotic” for adding $4 trillion to the national debt during his eight-year tenure.

In a campaign speech to supporters July 3, Obama said:

“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – number 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back – $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.“

“Hope” and “change” were Obama’s campaign themes, not “more of the same.” It won him the White House.

What a difference four years make.

To be sure, $4 trillion is a lot of debt, and the president, as a candidate, was right to point out the obvious – if the current generation of voters and lawmakers fail to do the responsible thing and begin working together to pay it off, we will saddle our children with it, and sentence them – and their children – to a life of less freedom and fewer opportunities.

It’s just too bad he didn’t take his own rhetoric to heart.

Hypocrisy, sure, but that’s beside the point

Under Obama’s watch, the U.S. has added nearly $5 trillion in new debt over the course of about three-and-a-half years – a single term – while Bush’s debt was spread out over two terms, making Obama’s the largest accumulation of new debt over the shortest amount of time in the history of the country. Moreover, this year’s budget adds another $1.1 trillion, making it the fourth year in a row the government has run a $1 trillion-plus deficit.

The strategy from the White House and Democratic talking heads has been to dodge responsibility and lay all of it at Bush’s feet, arguing that the recession they inherited was “worse than we thought.” But the recession, we are told, ended in 2009, and Obama’s efforts since to restart the country’s economic engine have fallen flat; his stimulus packages and other economic incentives have not only failed to substantially reduce the unemployment rate, but they have also done virtually nothing to stimulate economic growth, which remains anemic at two percent a year or less. The little growth that has occurred in the economy has literally come in spite of Obama.

What’s more, the president has “owned” three of the last four fiscal years, making his policies, not Bush’s, the driving factor behind the debt increases which have occurred on his watch. If Bush has to own up, Obama has to own up.

So, does that make him “unpatriotic” as well-

Honestly, who cares- The characterization was political theater when Obama said it, and it’s political theater now.

Time is literally running out

The point is we have a debt problem, ladies and gentlemen of Congress, and it is imperative, regardless of which party you belong to, that you solve the problem and stop adding to it.

That will require reviving the lost art of statesmanship and putting the country before your own political careers.

Reducing the dialogue to pointless and inane trivialities will not address what is coming: $16 trillion in overall debt by Election Day, maybe another $5 trillion by 2016 if nothing changes, thereby creating, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a fiscal situation that is simply not sustainable.

“The key issue facing policymakers is not whether to reduce budget deficits,” says Doug Elmendorf, director of the CBO. “The question is when. The question is how.”

Options are few, he says, and none of them are going to be palatable, either to the politicians who must come together and decide on a course of action or to a sizable and growing portion of the American public , whom many of those same lawmakers have turned into a dependency class in order to buy their votes.

“Now, Congress and Mr. Obama are grappling with 2013 and beyond, and CBO said their options range from immediate belt-tightening and a double-dip recession that clears the economic and fiscal air, to continuing to pump money into the economy and delay, but likely worsen, an eventual reckoning,” The Washington Times reported.

Our “leaders” have painted the nation into an economic corner, Elmendorf notes.

“At some point, we will need to adopt policies that require people to pay significantly more in taxes, accept substantially less in government benefits and services, or both,” he said.

And with each new deficit, the problem grows larger, while the options fewer.

The debt clock is ticking. Like a time bomb.

Sources:

http://www.washingtontimes.com

http://www.commentarymagazine.com

http://www.usdebtclock.org/




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Another nail within the coffin for statin drugs – New research finds statins increase artery calcification

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(NaturalNews) In yet another blow to the claimed benefits of statin drugs, newly published research has found that statin drug use leads to accelerated coronary artery and aortic artery calcification, both of which greatly contribute to cardiovascular disease and mortality. The new study comes on top of findings that led the FDA to mandate adding “diabetes risk” to the warning label of statin drugs.

Statin drugs cause problems they are marketed to solve

The latest discovery makes it clear that statin drugs not only carry a significant risk of developing type 2 diabetes, they also accelerate the cardiovascular complications associated with diabetes. This has to be particularly disconcerting to the pharmaceutical companies since they have been marketing statins to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, not accelerate it.

According to Dr. Arthur Agatston, cardiologist and author of the South Beach diet books, coronary calcium is the best predictor of who will have a heart attack and who will not. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that coronary calcium was six times more accurate in predicting an impending heart attack than the risk factor of a family history of coronary heart disease.

In the new research, just published in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers looked at patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis and found that coronary artery calcification “was significantly higher in more frequent statin users than in less frequent users.” Further, the researchers looked at a subgroup of participants who were not initially receiving statins and found that “progression of both CAC [coronary artery calcification] and AAC [aortic artery calcification] was significantly increased in frequent statin users.”

The initial premise used to market statin drugs was that they lowered cholesterol and cholesterol led to clogged arteries and heart attacks. That premise has been roundly discredited and the fact is that there has never been a single study which has proven that increased cholesterol levels cause heart attacks or other coronary problems.

Increasingly, it is being demonstrated that inflammation is the real culprit in arterial plaque. As NaturalNews recently reported, regardless of the amount of cholesterol in the blood, inflammation will result in the depositing of cholesterol to repair arteries damaged by inflammation.

See: http://www.naturalnews.com/035514_cholesterol_myths_heart_doctor.html

One of the worst effects of statin drugs is to lower the natural production of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a compound which is absolutely vital to optimal health and is particularly important for muscle health. The heart just happens to be the largest muscle in the body.

Overall, statin drugs have been linked to more than 300 side-effects, including weakening of the heart muscle. The results of this latest negative study on statin drugs may prove to ultimately be a final nail in the coffin of these dangerous drugs – though given the billions of dollars in profits the drugs rake in, we can expect to see the pharmaceutical industry fight tooth and nail to keep the drugs on the market.

Nature offers better, safer solutions

As is usually the case, nature offers much better and safer alternatives for healing and preventing heart disease – such as proper diet and nutrition, a healthy, active lifestyle and natural supplements which protect and heal the cardiovascular system.

For more information about naturally healing and protecting the heart and cardiovascular system see:

“12 top food choices for a healthy heart”

http://www.naturalnews.com/034966_heart_health_food_disease.html

“Twelve powerful natural items bring better heart health”

http://www.naturalnews.com/034085_heart_health_nutrition.html

“Naturally Prevent and Remove Dangerous Arterial Plaque”

http://www.naturalnews.com/028835_arterial_plaque_remedies.html

and

“Heal and Prevent Heart Disease with Nutrition, Parts I – IV” beginning with

http://www.naturalnews.com/028582_heart_disease_nutrition.html

Other sources include:

http://www.greenmedinfo.com
http://www.liveinthenow.com
http://www.cnn.com

About the author:
“See all articles by Tony Isaacs”

Tony Isaacs, is a natural health author, advocate and researcher who hosts The Best Years in Life website for those who wish to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. Mr. Isaacs is the author of books and articles about natural health, longevity and beating cancer including “Cancer’s Natural Enemy” and is working on a major book project due to be published later this year. He is also a contributing author for the worldwide advocacy group “SANEVax Inc” which endeavors to uncover the truth about HPV and other vaccine dangers.

Mr. Isaacs also hosts the Yahoo Oleandersoup group of over 2600 members and the Utopia Silver Supplement Company and he and his partner Luella May recently began hosting The Best Years in Life Radio Show” on Wolf Spirit Radio.




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Combat cancer with the head cancer-fighting foods

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(NaturalNews) An estimated one-third of cancer deaths could be related to diet, according to the National Cancer Institute. Eating processed, sugary foods with harmful additives like chemicals or even animal products with hormones is the norm for many people in developed nations. What people eat can truly kill them. However, eating whole, organic foods gives people access to powerful cancer-fighting substances. Antioxidants are known to neutralize free radicals, which are natural substances made in the human body and found in environmental pollutants that cause cell damage. Experts are exploring the benefits of phytochemicals as well. These healthy substances are found in abundance in plant foods and spices.

Cruciferous vegetables

Studies on cruciferous vegetables indicate that these foods may help patients with colon or prostate cancer. Cruciferous vegetables include all vegetables in the Brassicaceae family, such as bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and similar green leafy vegetables. According to Diet.com, cruciferous vegetables may decrease risk of prostate and other cancers.

One study found that eating a lot of cruciferous vegetables decreased the risk of colon cancer. According to Cancer.gov, women who eat five servings of cruciferous vegetables weekly may be at less risk of lung cancer.

Red grapes

Red grapes contain three important substances to fight cancer. Red grapes have antioxidants called bioflavonoids that help to prevent cancer. They also have a high content of resveratrol, a substance that can inhibit enzymes known to stimulate the growth of cancer cells. Grapes also have a compound called ellagic acid that can block certain enzymes that cancer cells need. By blocking these enzymes, ellagic acid may slow tumor growth.

Ginger

Ginger may kill cancer cells. Although not yet proven in human studies, ginger may cause a process called apoptosis that causes cancer cells to effectively kill themselves without causing damage to nearby healthy cells. Ginger is also linked to autophagy, which is when cancer cells are “tricked into digesting themselves,” says J. Rebecca Liu of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Liu is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology who has been studying the effects of ginger on ovarian cancer cells.

Kale

Kale contains phytochemicals called isothiocyanates that may inhibit tumor growth. These chemicals may also stop substances that cause cancer from getting to their targets. Kale contains nitrogen compounds called indoles that can help prevent a conversion of certain lesions into cancer cells in estrogen-sensitive tissues.

Mushrooms

Several types of mushrooms help to boost the immune system and may aid the body in its fight against cancer. These mushrooms include:

  • Agaricus blazei Murill
  • Coriolus versicolor
  • Maitake
  • Reishi
  • Shiitake

Within these mushrooms are compounds called polysaccharides that assists in building immunity. Mushrooms also contain lectin, a protein that fights cancer cells and keeps them from multiplying. Mushrooms also contain beta glucan and thioproline.

Nuts

Nuts may be beneficial for cancer patients because they have antioxidants including kaempferol and quercetin. These antioxidants can suppress cancer growth. Brazil nuts in particular can help people with prostate cancer because of the high content of selenium.

Figs

Researchers at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Tokyo report that benzaldehyde, a derivative of figs, is very effective at shrinking tumors.

Any and all of these foods can help people combat cancer either by directly interfering with cancerous cells and growth, or by strengthening the body’s defenses to enable the body to fight off cancer itself. Diet modifications may not be a cancer cure, but they can assist other natural cancer treatments. Eating a variety of these foods as well as other cancer-fighting foods or supplements may also prevent cancer.

Sources:

http://www.cancure.org/cancer_fighting_foods.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables
http://www.lotussurvivalfoundation.org
http://www.naturalnews.com/036841_probiotics_cancer_prevention.html
http://www.diet.com/g/cancerfighting-foods
http://www.cancer.gov

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Sarka-Jonae Miller is a former personal trainer and massage therapist. Get more health and wellness tips on Sarka’s blog, www.naturalhealingtipsblog.com




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Unnecessary cardiac procedures being performed by greedy doctors, whistleblower reveals

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(NaturalNews) Imagine being admitted to the hospital and told that you need to have a stent surgically installed in your body to treat a blocked artery, only to later learn after the surgery that you were just fine, and that your doctor was simply trying to generate more profits for the hospital system. This is precisely what one whistleblower has come forward and said is happening within the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) system, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S.

C.T. Tomlinson is a nurse that used to work at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Fort Pierce, Florida, that is until he came forward with allegations that at least one doctor at his facility had been performing phony cardiac surgeries on healthy patients. After filing a complaint with HCA’s chief ethics officer Stephen Johns, it was determined that a number of doctors and surgeons within the HCA system had been performing unnecessary cardiac procedures on healthy patients since at least 2002.

In a private memo that was apparently not intended for public release, Johnson admitted that Tomlinson’s claims were substantiated, and that unnecessary cardiac procedures were routinely occurring throughout HCA, based on evidence compiled as part of an internal investigation. Thousands of patients appear to have underwent invasive surgeries when they did not actually need them, according to the review, and many of them became severely injured or died as a result.

The bulk of these unnecessary surgeries appears to have taken place at HCA hospitals throughout Florida, where the population of elderly, retired individuals is generally higher than it is in other parts of the country. HCA hospitals in or near the cities of Tampa, Miami, and Port St. Lucie have all been named in the investigation as harboring corrupt doctors and surgeons that perform unneeded surgeries.

Despite admitting the severity of the problem, HCA is reportedly unwilling to show that it properly notified Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance companies about its findings, which is required under the law. The group also appears to have shirked its responsibility to notify the patients that may have had unnecessary surgeries at its hospitals, even though these individuals are likely entitled to compensation and damages.

Meanwhile, thousands of pages’ worth of internal emails and memos exchanged between HCA executives reveal that, rather than being concerned about the well-being of its patients in the midst of the controversy, HCA officials have been more concerned about the hospital system’s profits and bottom line. And many of the doctors that have been outed as fraudsters are still working at HCA hospitals.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.nytimes.com

http://www.againstcorruption.org/briberycase.asp-id=841

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120808/NEWS/120809608/-1/NEWS04




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Dirty tricks: Bill Gates to focus on anti-vaccine advocates with smear campaign

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(NaturalNews) Here is the direct quote from Bill Gates’ grant-award machine:

An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system

Seth Kalichman of the http://www.uconn.edu/ in the USA will establish an Internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analysing, and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts.

http://www.technet21.org

This means the attack is on. Gates intends to do a surveillance operation across the Internet and locate anti-vaccine advocates. His minions will then undertake a counter-insurgency campaign to neutralize them.

How does such an operation work- I’ll tell you how it works: “This writer has no medical credentials.” “This writer is spreading dangerous information that will harm children.” “This filmmaker tells lies about the most important medical technology the world has ever seen.” “The evidence for vaccination is overwhelming, and this writer is operating out of the Dark Ages.”

And that’s just the nice stuff.

“This writer was once an MD, but it’s been said he gave up his practice after several patients made complaints to the medical board. Now he spends all his time attacking vaccines. He’s a criminal menace.”

“Don’t read anything by this writer. He’s obviously mentally ill. He wants you to stop vaccinating your children, so they can catch life-threatening diseases.”

And it will go downhill and get nastier from there.

This is Nixon’s dirty-tricks war all over again. But instead of having a few million dollars in a slush fund, Gates has billions at his disposal.

He’s going to use surrogates to do his work for him, so it will be difficult, in many cases, to know where the attacks are coming from. That’s how cowards operate. They slink around behind the scenes and let other people do the heavy lifting.

The last thing they want is an honest and open debate about the issue itself. That would expose them. The truth would expose them.

Gates is obviously out to create an atmosphere and set a tone for legislation that would make vaccination mandatory everywhere, with no exemptions allowed. That’s what he’s shooting for. That’s his wet dream, the one that goes hand in glove with depopulation, his mountaintop desire.

The press, as always, will be on his side. They were on his side by giving short shrift to the explosive story out of India, where 47,000 cases of paralysis were caused by his polio vaccine.

He intends to create his very own Surveillance State, in which the targets are all Internet reporters and groups that have dug up the real facts about vaccines. The facts the medical cartel wants to hide in their vaults: vaccine deaths, paralysis, maiming, brain damage, autism, immune dysfunction…

He wants to create a chilling effect, for those who are thinking about covering the vaccine issue honestly.

Well, here’s a newsflash. Those facts are already out there, on thousands and thousands of sites. The horse left the barn years ago.

He’s late to the party, but he’s going to throw a lot of money at the problem. Essentially, he’s opting for suppression of accurate journalism. Like so many before him, once he wrangled his fortune in the free market (-), he turned around and realized he didn’t want a semblance of freedom anymore. He only wanted control.

Those of us who have been writing and speaking about vaccines for years would love to go up against Gates’ medical doctors in an open debate. Nothing would please us more. But Bill doesn’t want that. People like him are terrified of openness. So be it.

He can take the low road. He’ll only induce more opposition. That’s the way his style of attack works. People who were asleep will wake up, once they realize he’s just another puffy Marmaduke who, when he doesn’t like the game, decides to take his bat and ball and go home.

And he will go home.

His money against our freedom is a game in which many of us like the odds.

Go ahead, Bill. Deal your first greasy card from the bottom of the deck. We’ve got eyeballs on you, too.

Jon Rappoport
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com

About the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon
has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com




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Health Basics – The pinnacle foods that cause depression

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(NaturalNews) If you are what you eat, and you regularly eat meat that comes from animals that were depressed and stressed their whole lives, do you then live depressed and stressed- Conversely, if you eat vegetables which grow bountifully in nutrient and mineral rich soil, vegetables never sprayed with pesticides or insecticides, are you then a nutrient rich and “bountiful” person-

The U.S. drought is quickly wiping out up to 80 percent of the corn, soy and beet production in the United States, but those foods, IF NOT ORGANIC, cause disease and sickness anyway, because they are genetically modified, doused with pesticides, OVER AND OVER, and then processed with more chemicals in a laboratory, where money rules and health has no value. (http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm)

Beets are used to make monosodium glutamate, and GMO corn meal is fed to cattle, which destroys their digestive track and puts them in need of high doses of antibiotics – ones that the public, in turn, consumes regularly! It’s a vicious cycle. It’s time to ignore what the media is telling you, and consider that the drought is a blessing in disguise.

Although most dentists will tell you fluoride is good for strengthening your teeth, and you may have heard that it purifies water, those are both lies. Fluoride causes thyroid imbalances, depression, constipation, and fluid retention, according to The New York State Coalition opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. It can also decrease the intelligence in offspring and cause endocrine gland disruption. Fluoride, in the form of silicoflurides, is added to public water supplies across two-thirds of the United States and has been for 50 years. To make matters worse, if you become depressed from fluoride consumption and get prescribed Prozac for depression, PROZAC IS A FLUORIDE PRODUCT. In fact, almost all phsychotropic drugs are fluoride products. Get ready, it gets worse.The average American consumes over 200 liters of soda annually. One liter of soda has over 100 grams of sugar. A large percentage of the population suffers from carbohydrate malabsorption, meaning the small intestine doesn’t take up fructose very efficiently, so much of the undigested fructose floats down to the colon, feeding bacteria there and leading to bloating, cramping and diarrhea (IBS). A positive test for fructose malabsorption corresponds to depression because fructose reacts chemically with tryptophan, the amino acid precursor to the “happy chemical” serotonin. The sugars degrade tryptophan so there’s barely any left to be absorbed into the body. Hello depression. (http://www.psychologytoday.com)Depression may be a complex phenomenon, but one factor is as simple as pie: decreased serotonin leads to depression, just ask any smoker. Aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG) are neurochemicals that alter the balance between neurotransmitters in the brain. The Trocho Study in Barcelona in 1998 showed that aspartame accumulates in the cells and damages DNA, with the most toxicity settling in the liver and fat cells (adipose tissue).

Another study, done at the University of Texas in 2005, linked diet drinks to obesity. The artificial sweeteners actually make you crave more carbohydrates. Imagine that! You’re eating less sugar, putting on weight, getting depressed, and being prescribed ‘fluoride pills” which foster disease and more depression. Basically, hundreds of thousands of depressed Americans are taking medications which contain excito-neurotoxic carcinogens which cause obesity and more depression, including suicidal tendencies. (http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_and_msg_make_you_fat.htm)

Synthetic food ingredients are rarely expelled properly (within 24 hours) and are therefore stored in the fat, which are the first to be used by the body when burning “fuel” for energy. The body doesn’t recognize the toxins hiding in the fat cells, so the body won’t use it. If an obese person is trying to lose weight by exercising, the body will burn off actual muscle mass first, and then as a last resort, burn off the toxins and synthetic food-agents which are stored in the fat. This, in itself, is depressing, figuratively and literally, because the person losing weight will not “look” like they want to look, and as the toxins release into the bloodstream, depression and anxiety can set in, especially if they do not detoxify their bodies using cleanses and alkalizing strategies (http://guraw.com/). That’s where the cortisol comes into play.

The downward spiral: The overwhelmed acidic body and the disrupted digestive system can send the person into a downward spiral, where they do not look or feel healthy, and this can lead them straight to a “doctor” who will PROBABLY prescribe toxic and dangerous chemical, laboratory-made magic pills known as ANTI-DEPRESSANTS or ANTI-ANXIETY drugs.

These scams and hoaxes of Western Medicine will add to the acidic body and most likely fuel more of what the prescription is supposed to be treating: MORE depression, MORE INTENSE anxiety, and a loss of drive, all COUPLED WITH a loss of will power to escape the “media-made” maze of fear and doubt, in which many people have found themselves “trapped.” Preservatives which cause cell destruction, like sodium benzoate, BHA and BHT, which are accompanied by the tagline “to preserve freshness,” actually help turn your blood and digestive system acidic, which fuels disease and sickness, especially cancer.

Which drug will you need to worsen your depression and your bad eating habits, was it Prozacor or is it Cymbalta- Does the doctor ever educate anyone about nutrition when he/she scribbles out that prescription- How could they, when it’s not taught in conventional medical colleges- For the naive masses who lack energy, motivation, will power, and confidence, it becomes more likely that they will eventually look for the answer to that fear and “lack of drive” in some magic pill that’s WELL ADVERTISED between their favorite TV news programs. (http://www.naturalnews.com)

People who have mood swings or feel depressed all the time don’t need drugs to balance their “brain chemistry.” All they need is organic green vegetables and a few choice superfoods, like spirulina, chlorella, and some medicinal herbs. Realize this and you will understand the true nature of NATURAL CURES.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.wnd.com/2008/05/64920/

http://www.psychologytoday.com

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_and_msg_make_you_fat.htm

http://www.naturalnews.com




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Use EFAs to cut back inflammation and support your adrenals

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(NaturalNews) EFAs are essential fatty acids, which we need to live but our bodies cannot create. So we need take EFAs from outside sources.

Johanna Budwig, the creator of the Budwig Diet for successfully treating cancer, claimed before she died at age 95 in 2003 that she was given as much grief from the burgeoning heat processed hydrogenated trans-fatty acid cooking and salad oil industry as the cancer industry.

Budwig was a German biochemist whose research pioneered the classifications of fatty acids. She publicly announced often that those trans-fatty oils promoted to 1950s’ housewives were worse than unhealthy; they caused disease. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027452_cancer_fat_diet.html)

Simply put, all those industry-processed oils, shortenings, and margarines that were hydrogenated to lengthen shelf life should be avoided completely. Many of them are in processed foods and some are simply bottled and sold as salad or cooking oils.

Use only non-processed, cold-pressed oils for EFA benefits.

Although all the different non-hydrogenated, unheated (cold or expeller-pressed), unprocessed fats have health benefits, too much omega-6, which is found predominantly in olive and other plant-based oils, can actually lead to inflammation.

Omega-3 curbs inflammation. That’s why the balance of omega-6 to omega-3 is important.

It’s estimated that over 90 percent of SAD (standard American diet) consumers are omega-3 deficient. Chronic inflammation is the source of coronary problems and some autoimmune diseases.

A good balance of omega-6 to omega-3 is 3:1 or better yet, 2:1. Most Americans are at 20:1, using mostly disease-causing trans-fatty acid hydrogenated oils.

Most oils contain an identifying predominant type of fatty acid with traces of the others. The only oil that has a good natural balance of all three omega fatty acids (3, 6, and 9) is non-THC hemp oil.

We get enough omega-6 from olive and other vegetable oils, such as corn, sunflower, safflower, and soy. Just avoid all hydrogenated oils that are in most processed foods.

Omega-6 is a source of linoleic acid (LA), which is important for heart and artery health. Nevertheless, too much of this good thing creates inflammation, which is counterproductive and disease causing.

Omega-3 minimizes inflammation while providing other health benefits. Fish or fish oils, especially cold water fish, ground flax seeds consumed shortly after grinding in a coffee grinder, flax seed oil, chia seeds, walnuts and walnut oil are predominantly omega-3 sources.

The alpha linolenic acid (ALA) of plant based omega-3 converts into two other omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, if other nutrients are readily available. That’s one reason why some prefer the fish or fish oil sources that already have EPA and DHA present. It certainly won’t hurt to use both sources.

Keep in mind that well over half our brain tissue is composed of fats while our nervous system contains even more fats. All our cell walls are lipid (fat) walled. If they weren’t, we would melt in the rain.

Omega-3 fatty acids help create cell walls that are fluid and elastic, yet strong enough to hold things together. The ALA offspring of EPA and DHA are vital to brain and eye health.

Lately, a lot of research has been done on essential fatty acids, especially omega-3s. The health benefits include:

Increased energy, heightened and stabilized moods, and better brain functioning with less brain fog. Hormone production is better regulated. Adrenal glands stabilized. Less body fat is maintained. Joints and muscles become pain-free. Lower blood sugar counts are generated. EFAs help prevent dementia, strokes, and inhibit tumors.

Those are a few of the benefits of adding omega balanced EFAs. Peruse the sources for more details.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.1stvitality.co.uk/az/fatty_acids/efa_health_benefits.htm

http://www.crohns.net/Miva/education/aboutEFAs.shtml

http://www.1stvitality.co.uk/az/fatty_acids/essential_fatty_acids.htm

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/budwig.htm

http://whfoods.org/genpage.php-tname=nutrient&dbid=84

http://www.omega-9oils.com/omega369.htm




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