Vitamin C necessary for brain development - NewsGrabs Friday, 4 September 2009
Vitamin C deficiency impairs early brain development
Several factors indicate that the neonatal brain, in contrast to other tissue, is particularly vulnerable to even a slight lowering of the vitamin C level. The highest concentration of vitamin C is found in the neurons of the brain and in case of a low intake of vitamin C, the remaining vitamin is retained in the brain to secure this organ. The vitamin thus seems to be quite important to brain activity.
Scotland: Experts urge women to take folic acid supplement
Women of childbearing age have been urged to take folic acid supplements, even if they are not planning a family.The Scottish Spina Bifida Association said 15 babies had been born in Scotland with the condition since January - double the normal number.
FDA Attacks Natural Thyroid Millions Depend On
Time-Cap Labs, producer of a generic version of the brand name drug Armour, a natural and bioidentical thyroid replacement, has been ordered by the FDA to stop production. The FDA has decided to classify the company's product, available for over a century, as an unapproved new drug. Since the new drug approval process is prohibitively expensive for a non-patentable substance, the FDA is in effect banning the natural product. The purpose? Presumably to protect the profits of other, inferior drugs that have been FDA approved.
USA: Food's Role in the Health Care Crisis
We must address our food system if we want to reduce the increasing costs of health care. The health care reform debate can be divided into two major issues: increasing access and decreasing costs. On one hand, no reform is complete until we find a way to provide all Americans with adequate insurance coverage. But even after we insure all Americans, we must deal with rising medical costs that result from preventable illnesses.
The High Price of Cheap Food
The U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high cost to the environment, animals and humans. Those hidden prices are the creeping erosion of our fertile farmland, cages for egg-laying chickens so packed that the birds can't even raise their wings and the scary rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among farm animals.
Organic Food Healthier and More Nutritious According to New Study
A new report by the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) has found that organic foods are better for you and contain less pesticides and nitrates, which have been linked to a range of health problems including diabetes and Alzheimer's.Andre Leu, Chairman of the Organic Federation of Australia, says the up-to-date exhaustive and critical evaluation of the nutritional quality of organic food and has found organic foods have higher levels of minerals and antioxidants.'
Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest
The new study found that plants fertilized with urine produced four times more tomatoes than nonfertilized plants and as much as plants given synthetic fertilizer. Urine plus wood ash produced almost as great a yield, with the added benefit of reducing the acidity of acid soils. "The results suggest that urine with or without wood ash can be used as a substitute for mineral fertilizer to increase the yields of tomato without posing any microbial or chemical risks," the report says.
UK Supermarkets in Secret Talks about introducing GM Foods
A crucial point in this issue is the lack of adequate research on the human health and environmental effects of GM. This glaring, gaping hole in GM ‘science’ is being ignored or played down by governments, health regulators and the vested interests in agri-business and allied sectors.
Mexico and Argentina Ditching US War on Drugs
Argentina's supreme court has ruled it unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption, an eagerly awaited judgment that gave the government the green light to push for further liberalisation.It followed Mexico's decision to stop prosecuting people for possession of relatively small quantities of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs. Instead, they will be referred to clinics and treated as patients, not criminals.
Brazil and Ecuador are also considering partial decriminalisation as part of a regional swing away from a decades-old policy of crackdowns still favoured by Washington.
"The tide is clearly turning. The 'war on drugs' strategy has failed," Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former Brazilian president, told the Guardian. Earlier this year, he and two former presidents of Colombia and Mexico published a landmark report calling for a new departure.
A Bad Mix: Exposure May be "Safe" Only With One Chemical at a Time
Very few health exposure standards for chemicals consider their potential interaction with other chemicals, even though people are regularly exposed to hundreds of chemicals, if not more.
Root Canal Cover Up
Dr. Meinig brings a most curious perspective to an expose of the latent dangers of root canal therapy. As one of the original founders of the American Association of Endodontists (root canal specialists) he's filled his share of root canals. And when he wasn't filling canals himself, he was teaching the technique to dentists across the country at weekend seminars and clinics. About two years ago, having recently retired, he decided to read all 1174 pages of the detailed research of Dr. Weston Price, (D.D.S). Dr. Meinig was startled and shocked. Here was valid documentation of systemic illnesses resulting from latent infections lingering in filled roots. He has since written a book, "Root Canal Cover-Up EXPOSED - Many Illnesses Result", and is devoting himself to radio, TV, and personal appearances before groups in an attempt to blow the whistle and alert the public of the dangers of root canal therapy.
Safely and effectively kill lice with salt water or sauna
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Warning for healthy aspirin users
Healthy people who take aspirin to prevent heart attacks could be doing more harm than good...
Top FDA Officials, Compromised by Conflicts of Interest
Dr. Daniel Schultz, who has been FDA's chief medical device official, is the first high ranking FDA official whose controversial device approvals have resulted in his leaving the agency "by mutual consent."Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's all-powerful, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), is under investigation by the Inspector General.
Florida: Drugmakers willing to pay to get doctor's approval
Eli Lilly was forced to disclose its physician pay data, which it calls a "faculty registry," as part of a $1.4-billion settlement with the federal government earlier this year.Lilly spread $22-million among 3,400 health care providers nationwide during the first three months of the year.
Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3 Billion Penalty for Drug Promos
Authorities called Pfizer a repeat offender, noting it is the company's fourth such settlement of government charges in the last decade. The allegations surround the marketing of 13 different drugs, including big sellers such as Viagra, Zoloft, and Lipitor.As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their expenses and providing perks, prosecutors said.
Video: Vaccination - by Ghislaine Lanctot, author of 'The Medical Mafia'
Held In A Psychiatric Ward & Called “Delusional” For Saying 9/11 Was An Inside Job
My comment:
Psychiatry has always been an instrument of social control, a convenient way of ‘putting away’ those whose views clash with prevailing group (family, national, general society) views of events or conditions. The psychiatric ‘diagnoses’ are the justification to take people out of circulation who have not committed any crime that could land them in prison. Kind of barbarian, isn’t is?
Chemical Imbalance Theory Of Mental Disorders Criticized
Dr David Stein, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Virginia State University, and author of, 'Unraveling the ADD/ADHD Fiasco,' has taught psychopharmacology for 25 years. One of the greatest myths about mental disorders, is that they are caused by a chemical imbalance, he says."'The myth is founded on some of the tricks that are pulled in so-called scientific research in psychology and psychiatry,' he explains.
"'The manipulation of research has become one of the most powerful and most unethical marketing tools ever devised,' he says. 'Not one study can be replicated at the testing labs of hospitals or by laboratories involved in clinical patient care.'
Circumcision to prevent Aids is pseudo-science
The coincidence that a procedure originating as a religious ritual should turn out to have beneficial, health-protective side-effects is by no means impossible, though no one argues that case for the religious ritual of female circumcision.A powerful argument that CIRCUMCISION DOES NOT PROTECT against “HIV-positive” status comes from solid and consistent observational data on cohorts of gay men.
How then does it come about that the HIV/AIDS Establishment has accepted as an article of faith that circumcision reduces by half the risk of becoming “HIV-positive”?
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday September 4 2009
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
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