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Anemia may more than triple your risk of dying after a stroke




Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012.   Anemia may be related to nutritional problems or blood loss in the stomach or intestines.   See also "Foods that may improve anemia":   http://www.medindia.net/slideshow/foods-that-improve-anemia.aspSee it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...





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Young children exposed to anesthesia multiple times show elevated rates of ADHD




Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).   When basic science studies in the medical literature began to suggest anesthesia used in surgery causes changes in the brains of young animals, Dr. Warner and a group of researchers at Mayo Clinic took note. "Those studies piqued our interest," Dr. Warner says. "We were Read more...





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China Rejects Genetically Modified Rice, GMO Crops | Natural Society




China is the latest nation to take a stand against GMO crops and genetically modified rice.   As awareness of genetically modified food and the dangers associated increase, actions are being taken to eliminate the issue entirely. With countries destroying their GMO crops, scientists showing the facts, and individuals voicing their discontent on the matter, there is a large and growing contingent across countries that are taking action to Read more...





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Transgene insects: Scientists call for more open data




While genetically modified plants have already been introduced into the wild on a large scale in some parts of the world, the release of genetically modified animals is still at a relatively early stage.   A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany has now published a study examining the free release of genetically modified insects in Malaysia, USA, and Cayman Islands. Read more...





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'Tax harmful sugar’ say scientists




SUGAR is so harmful that it should be controlled and taxed in the same way as tobacco and alcohol, according to scientists. The team from the University of California in San Francisco said that high-calorie food had caused a global obesity pandemic and was indirectly responsible for 35million deaths globally. Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: “We are working with food firms to reduce sugar and ensure healthier options are Read more...







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How I Kicked The Diet Soda Habit (And How You Can Too)




Over the past year, I've learned that my calorie-free drink of choice may be doing more harm than I thought. And so I drank my last diet soda on New Year's Eve 2011.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...





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Targeted DNA Vaccine Using an Electric Pulse | SaneVax




The vaccines of the future against infections, influenza and cancer can be administered using an electrical pulse and a specially produced DNA code from the University of Oslo. The DNA code programs the body’s own cells to produce a super-fast missile defence against the disease... See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...





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Vitamin D deficiency may increase stroke risk




People who live in sunny places may have a lower risk of stroke, new research suggests.   The researchers believe it is the first to show an association between sunlight and stroke.   A previous study suggests salmon, eggs, tuna, and other vitamin D-rich foods may help protect against stroke and memory loss.   Two studies on the subject were presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference Read more...





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Chaos in the cell's command center




A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions.   Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type controlled by its own program. Corrupted programs can trigger disease.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...







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Vaccines Are Exploding Kids’ Immune Systems | Vactruth.com




The pharmaceutical industries are treating our children as little more than test tubes. They are adding as many potentially lethal chemicals, toxins and poisons as they can to see which ones cause the test tubes to explode.   A few weeks ago I uncovered the appalling story of how parents in India were prevented from speaking out when their baby daughter died following the pentavalent vaccine. Ancy, was just Read more...





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Children with autism, gastrointestinal symptoms have high levels of Sutterella in their gut




New research conducted in the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, reports that children with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances have high levels of a bacterium called Sutterella in...   ... their intestines.   The investigators found that over half of the children diagnosed with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances had Sutterella in intestinal biopsy tissue, while Sutterella was absent in biopsies from Read more...





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The Peanut Allergy Epidemic




Why is the peanut allergy an epidemic that only seems to be found in Western cultures? Where did this allergy come from, and do pharmaceuticals play a role in the disturbing human phenomenon? After her own child had an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter, historian Heather Fraser decided to discover the answers to these questions. Delving into the history of this rapidly growing allergy, Fraser uncovers the first allergy epidemic Read more...





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Monsanto and BASF Pull Out of Europe: Good News or Sleight of Hand?




Share Tweet Monsanto and BASF have no reason to care whether the people of Europe want their GM garbage. They’re on the verge of total victory. Their poisons will be sold everywhere with impunity.   On 18 January, BASF announced that they’re moving development and marketing of genetically modified (GM) crops from Europe to the United States and South America. Stefan Marcinowski, a member of BASF’s executive board, described Read more...





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Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk




Alcohol kills approximately 70,000 people per year. Prescription pills, which have helped overdose become the leading cause of accidental death in America, result in more than 20,000 deaths per year. Marijuana has never killed anybody.   Although scientific research is available to show that pot is relatively harmless, and in fact medically beneficial, myths and propaganda about the plant’s alleged harm lead to marijuana laws so severe they often have Read more...





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Just one can of diet fizzy drink can increase risk of heart attack or stroke




Those who drink diet soft drinks are 43 per cent more likely to have heart attacks, vascular disease or strokes than those who have none, say scientists at Miami University.   Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center claim those who drink diet soft drinks are 43 per cent more likely to have heart attacks, vascular disease or strokes than those Read more...





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Italian baker says he makes gluten free bread from wheat




Si chiama Arnaldo Cavallari, un panettiere di Adria ex pilota di rally. A 80 anni ha annunciato di aver creato il pane di grano senza glutine trasformando le farine e facendole riposare con pochissimo lievito di birra.   Da un fornaio di Adria il pane di grano senza glutine?   His name is Arnaldo Cavallari, bread maker in Adria and an ex rally pilot. He's 80 years old and Read more...

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FDA purposely hid aspartame dangers: open letter to the European Food Safety Authority

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In June 2011, the European Food Safety Authority has called for submission of relevant scientific data on the safety on aspartame, a contested sweetener made of two amino acids and methanol.

Campaigners have pointed out that the Authority (EFSA) is missing important but damning details in its review. The FDA's approval of the substance, says Betty Martini "was a political decision, taken over the objection of the FDA's own scientific panel. Studies used to obtain approval were sanitized, to hide damaging effects the sweetener had on laboratory animals and eventually, Donald Rumsfeld was brought in to push through the approval."

Now, new data has come to light confirming that early studies showed serious problems and that the FDA knew about the dangers the studies found. In an open letter to the European Food Safety Agency, which is reproduced in the second part of this article, Betty Martini points to those studies, which recently emerged, only as a result of citizens making and pushing through FOI act information requests for the documents.

Here is Betty Martini's open letter to EFSA ...

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday February 3 2012

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Does smoking tobacco fulfill a nutritional need?

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As counter-intuitive as this question might seem, nicotine is actually a nutrient source. It is one form in which we can obtain a vital nutrient: vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinic acid.

I have never seen this angle to smoking discussed in a clear form until I came across, through some friends on facebook, a very informative but kind of hidden away write-up by a parent who refused to just accept as fact what "everybody knows" - that kids start to smoke because of tobacco company propaganda.

Ironically, the article was languishing in a place called the CyberCemetery, an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).

The source URL is at govinfo.library.unt.edu/tobacco/

Here is the text...

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday January 25 2012

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Supplements: The Real Story - Natural or Synthetic? Foods or Tablets?

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Thanks for this article go to Andrew Saul, editor of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service which you can subscribe to at http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html. You can also see other articles at the orthomolecular.org site.

(OMNS, Jan 17, 2012) It's a nutritional "Catch 22": The public is told, confusingly: "Vitamins are good, but vitamin supplements are not. Only vitamins from food will help you. So just eat a good diet. Do not take supplements! But by the way, there is no difference between natural and synthetic vitamins."

Wait a minute. What's the real story here?

A recent health study reported that the risk of heart failure decreased with increasing blood levels of vitamin C [1]. The benefit of vitamin C (ascorbate) was highly significant. Persons with the lowest plasma levels of ascorbate had the highest risk of heart failure, and persons with the highest levels of vitamin C had the lowest risk of heart failure. This finding confirms the knowledge derived over the last 50 years that vitamin C is a major essential factor in cardiovascular health [2,3]. The study raises several important questions about diet and vitamin supplements.

Was it Food or Supplements?

The report discussed vitamin C as if it were simply an indicator of how many fruits and vegetables were consumed by the participants. Yet, ironically, the study's results show little improvement in the risk for heart failure from consuming fruits and vegetables. This implies that the real factor in reducing the risk was indeed the amount of vitamin C consumed. Moreover, the study appears to utterly ignore the widespread use of vitamin C supplements to improve cardiovascular health. In fact, out of four quartile groups, the quartile with the highest plasma vitamin C had six to ten times the rate of vitamin C supplementation of the lowest quartile, but this fact was not emphasized. This type of selective attention to food sources of vitamin C, while dismissing supplements as an important source, appears to be an attempt to marginalize the importance of vitamin supplements.

Many medical and nutritional reports have maintained that there is little difference between natural and synthetic vitamins. This is known to be true for some essential nutrients. The ascorbate found in widely available vitamin C tablets is identical to the ascorbate found in fruits and vegetables [3]. Linus Pauling emphasized this fact, and explained how ordinary vitamin C, inexpensively manufactured from glucose, could improve health in many important ways [4]. Indeed, the above-mentioned study specifically measured the plasma level of ascorbate, which was shown to be an important factor associated with lower risk of heart failure [1, 2]. The study did not measure blood plasma levels of the components of fruits and vegetables. It measured vitamin C.

A known rationale for this dramatic finding is that vitamin C helps to prevent inflammation in the arteries by several mechanisms. It is a necessary co-factor for the synthesis of collagen, which is a major component of arteries. Vitamin C is also an important antioxidant throughout the body that can help to recycle other antioxidants like vitamin E and glutathione in the artery walls [2,3]. This was underscored by a report that high plasma levels of vitamin C are associated with a 50% reduction in risk for stroke [5].

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday January 19 2012

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Despite safety of supplements, FDA insists on regulation - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 15 January 2012

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America's Largest Database Confirms: No Deaths from Vitamins

The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online here, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement.

Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.

USA: The FDA is closing in on supplements

More telling about the FDA’s strategy for more heavy-handed regulation is the statement that “If you look at the numbers of NDI submissions versus the number of supplements introduced to the market since 1994, it would appear there is a significant lag in compliance.” On its face, the marketplace has changed over the last seventeen years. But who is responsible for this 17-year lag in compliance?

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) required manufacturers to submit pre-market notification applications for supplements and new ingredients when there is a history of use or other evidence establishing that an ingredient is safe when used as directed. The FDA has 75 days to accept or reject the application. A non-decision by the FDA means that the Agency accepts the evidence and that the product has complied, is approved, and can be marketed to the consuming public. Alternatively, a formal petition for a review and FDA issuance of an order prescribing the conditions under which a new dietary ingredient can be used and reasonably be expected to be safe, with the FDA having to respond within 180 days, can be filed. Again, shouldn’t a non-decision on a petition be considered as final Agency approval? If the Agency does not issue a decision either way, or if it cannot find a decision that was issued over the previous seventeen years, has it been the industry or the FDA itself who has not been in compliance with DSHEA?

Apparently, the FDA believes that manufacturers and suppliers have not met the FDA’s own self-interpreted DSHEA burden of proof standard to show to the FDA that there is reasonable evidence that supplements and new ingredients in supplements are safe.

I wish the FDA were that efficient on pharmaceuticals...

Some more details on this story and an action link

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday January 15 2012

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