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Alternative Medicine in the News
June 2010 edition 77
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Greetings!
Let's start a new section - healthy recipes (preferably vegetarian).
Why don't you send me your favourite recipes and share it with our readers! This new section will only work if you will participate, so I'm looking forward to your contributions.
But, also, don't microwave them!! See article below. Shocking!
Enjoy!
Didi
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Green beans in sesame sauce
from Stone Soup a cookbook published by Didi Ruchira 1994
serves 4
500 g 1 lb beans
-sliced in long diagonals
10 ml 2 tsp salt
Sesame Sauce:
60 ml 4 Tbsp white
sesame seeds
15 ml 1 Tbsp sugar or 3 pinches of Stevia
15 ml 1 Tbsp soy
sauce
15 - 30 ml 1-2 Tbsp broth/water
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Palm fruit oil is the richest source of tocotrienols
The other half of the vitamin E equation
[Palm oil is among the cheapest of cooking oils in Kenya- its the one that turns hard in cold weather, for example: Bidco's "Golden Fry"]
Many people are already aware of the fact that vitamin E helps to rid
the body of free radicals and protect it from cancer, cardiovascular
disease, heart disease and other serious illness. However there are two
forms of vitamin E that each serve a unique purpose: tocopherols and
tocotrienols. While tocopherols are the most common form of vitamin E
available on the market, tocotrienols are just now beginning to emerge
in the Western world as a superior addition to the vitamin E family,
particularly in the form of palm fruit oil where they are most richly
found.
Most available vitamin E supplements contain only mixed
tocopherols, or alpha, beta, delta and gamma tocopherols. These four
tocopherols represent only half of the vitamin E family, and research
is now revealing that alpha, beta, delta and gamma tocotrienols are
also necessary to provide the full range of antioxidant power contained
in vitamin E. Together, these eight compounds offer complete
antioxidant protection.
Tocotrienols are roughly 50 times more
potent than tocopherols when it comes to antioxidant power. Recent
studies have shown that tocotrienols distribute themselves more evenly
than tocopherols do in the fatty layers of cell membranes. They are
effective at preventing and treating serious degenerative diseases like
cancer, stroke-induced injuries, diabetes, osteoporosis and
cardiovascular disease. In one study, tocotrienols increased the
lifespan of laboratory rats by 20 percent.
So why are
tocopherols, rather than tocotrienols, the most prevalent form of
vitamin E on the market? Many foods and oils are rich in tocopherols,
but few contain significant levels of tocotrienols. In fact, most of
the popular oils used in food preparation - olive, soybean, safflower,
sunflower, corn, cotton and peanut - contain only tocopherols. The only
oil that contains significant levels of all four types of tocotrienols
is palm fruit oil.
Although tocopherols are generally sufficient
for meeting minimum vitamin E levels and maintaining an average level
of good health, there is far more to be gained from getting the full
range of both tocopherols and tocotrienols. Rice bran oil, wheat germ,
barley, oats, coconut oil and palm kernel oil all contain one or more
types of tocotrienols as well, however none besides palm fruit oil
contain all four types.
Palm fruit oil is composed of 30 percent
tocopherols and 70 percent tocotrienols. The oil is extracted from the
fleshy mesocarp of the palm fruit, and is useful in a myriad of food
preparations. It is said to be the most widely used oil in the world,
perhaps because it is more heat stable than other vegetable oils and
provides superior taste and texture qualities.
Aside from
preventing and treating the serious illnesses mentioned above, palm oil
improves blood circulation and prevents clotting, boosts immunity,
improves general nutrient absorption, supports healthy lung and liver
function, strengthens bones and teeth, reinforces eye health and
supports brain function. Studies have shown that virgin red palm oil is
the variety that offers the most medicinal benefit, but all varieties
seem to be beneficial.
To learn more about tocotrienols, please visit www.tocotrienol.org.
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WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the
World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held
close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale
of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal,
exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting
in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Several
key advisors who urged WHO to declare a pandemic received direct
financial compensation from the very same vaccine manufacturers who
received a windfall of profits from the pandemic announcement. During
all this, WHO refused to disclose any conflicts of interests between
its top advisors and the drug companies who would financially benefit
from its decisions.
All the kickbacks, in other words, were
swept under the table and kept silent, and WHO somehow didn't think it
was important to let the world know that it was receiving policy advice
from individuals who stood to make millions of dollars when a pandemic
was declared.
WHO credibility destroyed
The report was authored by Deborah Cohen (BMJ features editor), and Philip Carter, a journalist who works for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London.
In their report, Cohen states, "...our investigation has revealed
damaging issues. If these are not addressed, H1N1 may yet claim its
biggest victim -- the credibility of the WHO and the trust in the
global public health system."
In response to the report, WHO
secretary-general Dr Margaret Chan defended the secrecy, saying that
WHO intentionally kept the financial ties a secret in order to
"...protect the integrity and independence of the members while doing
this critical work... [and] also to ensure transparency."
Dr
Chan apparently does not understand the meaning of the word
"transparency." Then again, WHO has always twisted reality in order to
serve its corporate masters, the pharmaceutical giants who profit from
disease. To say that they are keeping the financial ties a secret in
order to "protect the integrity" of the members is like saying we're
all serving alcohol at tonight's AA meeting in order to keep everybody
off the bottle.
It just flat out makes no sense.
But since when did making sense have anything to do with WHO's decision process anyway?
Even
Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, had harsh words for the WHO, saying,
"...its credibility has been badly damaged. WHO must act now to restore
its credibility."
Yet more criticism for WHO
The BMJ
isn't the only medical publication criticizing WHO for its poor
handling of conflicts of interest. Another report from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
also criticized WHO, saying: "Parliamentary Assembly is alarmed about
the way in which the H1N1 influenza pandemic has been handled, not only
by the World Health Organization (WHO), but also by the competent
health authorities at the level of the European Union and at national
level." It went on to explain that WHO's actions led to "a waste of
large sums of public money, and also unjustified scares and fears about
health risks faced by the European public at large."
The funny
thing is, NaturalNews and other natural health advocates told you all
the same thing a year ago, and we didn't have to spend millions of
dollars on a study to arrive at this conclusion. It was obvious
to anyone who knows just how corrupt the sick-care industry really is.
They'll do practically anything to make more money, including bribing
WHO scientific advisors and paying them kickbacks once the vaccine
sales surge.
The vaccine industry and all its drug pushers are,
of course, criticizing this investigative report. They say WHO "had no
choice" but to declare a pandemic and recommend vaccines, since
vaccines are the only treatment option for influenza. That's a lie, of
course: Vitamin D has been scientifically proven to be five times more
effective than vaccines at preventing influenza infections, but WHO never recommended vitamin D to anyone.
The
entire focus was on pushing more high-profit vaccines, not recommending
the things that would actually help people the most. And now we know
why: The more vulnerable people were to the pandemic, the more would be killed by H1N1, thereby "proving" the importance of vaccination programs.
People
were kept ignorant of natural remedies, in other words, to make sure
more people died and a more urgent call for mass vaccination programs
could be carried out. (A few lives never gets in the way of Big Pharma
profits, does it?)
How the scam really worked
Here's a summary of how the WHO vaccine scam worked:
Step 1) Exaggerate the risk:
WHO hypes up the pandemic risk by declaring a phase 6 pandemic even
when the mortality rate of the virus was so low that it could be halted
with simple vitamin D supplements.
Step 2) Urge countries to stockpile: WHO urged nations around the world to stockpile H1N1 vaccines, calling it a "public health emergency."
Step 3) Collect the cash: Countries spend billions of dollars buying and stockpiling H1N1 vaccines while Big Pharma pockets the cash.
Step 4) Get your kickbacks:
WHO advisors, meanwhile, collected their kickbacks from the vaccine
manufacturers. Those kickbacks were intentionally kept secret.
Step 5) Keep people afraid:
In order to keep demand for the vaccines as high as possible, WHO
continued to flame the fears by warning that H1N1 was extremely
dangerous and everybody should continue to get vaccinated. (The CDC
echoed the same message in the USA.)
This is how WHO pulled off
one of the greatest vaccine pandemic scams in the last century, and it
worked like gangbusters. WHO advisors walked away with loads of cash,
the drug companies stockpiled huge profits, and the taxpayers of
nations around the world were left saddled with useless vaccines
rotting on the shelves that will soon have to be destroyed (at
additional taxpayer cost, no doubt) or dumped down the drain (where
they will contaminate the waterways).
Meanwhile, nobody dared tell the public the truth about vitamin D,
thereby ensuring that the next pandemic will give them another
opportunity to repeat the exact same scam (for yet more profit).
The criminality of the vaccine industry
The bottom line is all this is a frightening picture of just how pathetic the vaccine industry has become and how corrupt the WHO and the CDC really are. What took place here is called corruption and bribery,
folks. Kickbacks were paid, lies were told and governments were
swindled out of billions of dollars. These are felony crimes being
committed by our global health leaders.
The real question is:
Why do governments continue to allow public health organizations to be
so easily corrupted by the vaccine industry? And who will stand up to
this profit conspiracy that exploits members of the public as if they
were profit-generating guinea pigs?
The next time you hear the
WHO say anything, just remember: Their advisors are on the take from
the drug companies, and just about anything you're likely to hear from
the World Health Organization originates with a profit motive rather
than a commitment to public health.
Oh, and by the way... for
the record, there has never been a single scientific study ever
published showing that H1N1 vaccines worked. Not only was the H1N1
pandemic a fraud to begin with, but the medicine they claimed treated
it was also based on fraud. And now we know the rest of the story of
why it was all done: Kickbacks from Big Pharma, paid to advisors who
told WHO to declare a pandemic.
Sources for this story include:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineF...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
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FDA defeated in federal court over censorship of truthful health claims
Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last
week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the
First Amendment rights of a nutritional supplement company when it
censored truthful, scientifically-backed claims about how selenium can help reduce the risk of cancer.
See the ANH announcement at: http://www.anh-usa.org/court-finds-...
Essentially, the FDA applied its doctrine of censorship
to these selenium supplements in the same way it oppresses truthful and
scientifically-supported health claims across all dietary supplements.
The purpose of the FDA's censorship of truthful information about the
health benefits of dietary supplements, as NaturalNews readers already
know, is to keep the American people nutritionally illiterate and protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry.
In this court case, ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH, et al. vs.
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, et al.,
the judge ruled that the FDA violated the First Amendment rights of the
plaintiffs by restricting their free speech about the anti-cancer
benefits of their selenium supplements.
As explained by health freedom attorney Jonathan Emord who argued the case before the Court:
"The
decision... reaffirms that FDA is subject to the strictures of the
First Amendment in its evaluation of health claims and it faults FDA
for failing to follow that standard, holding its suppression of the
selenium-cancer risk reduction claims unconstitutional."
Emord goes onto explain:
"The
Court concludes that the FDA... has not provided any empirical
evidence, such as 'studies' or 'anecdotal evidence,' that consumers
would be misled by... plaintiffs' claims were they accompanied by
qualifications. Moreover, the explanation the FDA offers to demonstrate
that plaintiffs' claims are misleading - that the claims leave out
pertinent information - is not support for banning the claims
entirely..."
Attorney Jonathan Emord from Emord & Associates
is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential
attorneys battling the FDA over free speech and health freedoms.
View my video interview with Jonathan Emord here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJS...
(The video quality is poor, but it's the best we could capture at the Health Freedom Expo.)
Emord is also the author of a hugely important book that I strongly recommend. It's called Global Censorship of Health Information, and you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Global-Censor...
What it means for health freedom
The
upshot of this decision is that the FDA has just been handed a
significant defeat that will set a precedent for other dietary
supplement companies to make their own truthful,
scientifically-supported health claims.
The FDA, of course,
recognizes no law other than its own, so it will likely continue to try
to terrorize nutritional supplement companies with its usual threats of
imprisonment of company founders and seizure of products unless
companies voluntarily agree to comply with the FDA's censorship
schemes. However, this court decision may finally turn the tide against
the FDA's campaign of ignorance that has, for decades, sought to keep
the American people nutritionally illiterate while suppressing the
dietary supplements industry.
Btu achieving a lasting victory
over the FDA will require nutritional supplement companies to stop
being intimidated by the FDA and start making truthful,
scientifically-supported claims -- and then stand behind those claims
with a commitment to sue the FDA if they are threatened with
censorship. Until now, most nutritional supplement and vitamin
companies have been so intimidated by the FDA that they dared not
challenge the FDA's authority -- even when they knew the FDA was
flat-out wrong!
The FDA, you see, can always threaten a company
using "terrorism-style" tactics such as sending threatening letters
that promise to arrest the owners, imprison them, destroy their
business, seize their customer records, confiscate their inventory,
etc. These tactics have all been used by the FDA to threaten health
product companies operating in the United States. See how the FDA runs
its own criminal extortion racket right here: http://www.naturalnews.com/024567_h...
Read about how the FDA kidnaps people from other countries in order to incarcerate them for their non-crimes in the USA: http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_G...
Or view more articles about the FDA here: http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html
These
Gestapo-style FDA tactics have been frighteningly effective, given that
most U.S. companies don't have the financial resources to engage in a
lengthy legal battle with the FDA in order to stand up for their First
Amendment rights. That's why this victory by the Alliance for Natural
Health is so important: It provides a legal wedge by which other
companies can now begin to stand up for their own First Amendment
rights, too.
This could be the beginning of the end of FDA censorship of truthful, scientifically-supported health claims.
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Obama's
USDA to deceive Americans over GM crops
Don't believe Monsanto's green-washing.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), aren't meant to feed the world or survive
the evermore frequent droughts and floods brought on by global warming - they're
designed to sell Monsanto's herbicide Roundup and the patented "Roundup Ready"
genes now spliced into millions of acres of corn, cotton, soy, canola, sugar
beets and alfalfa. A 2009 study showed that, in 13 years, Roundup Ready crops
increased herbicide use by 383 million pounds.
Reflecting public concern over GMOs, in
2007, a Federal court ruled that the Bush USDA's approval of Roundup Ready
alfalfa violated the law because it failed to analyze risks such as the
contamination of conventional and organic alfalfa and the development of
"super-weeds." The court banned the planting of GM alfalfa until USDA completed
a rigorous analysis of these impacts. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals twice
affirmed the national ban on Roundup Ready alfalfa planting.
Barack Obama, is unfortunately turning
out to be just as pro-GMO as the preceding Bush and Clinton administrations,
packing the USDA and other government bureaucracies with Monsanto men and
biotech cheerleaders such as former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, named "Biotech
Governor of the Year" in 2001, now serving as USDA Secretary. Vilsack, notorious
for flying around in a Monsanto company jet during one of his previous election
campaigns, is now busy trying to get the court-ordered ban on Roundup Ready
alfalfa lifted by issuing a new draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that
denies or downplays the obvious environmental and human health hazards of GM
alfalfa.
For more information
http://healthfreedoms.org/obamas-usda-to-deceive-americans-over-gm-crops/
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Earth friendly weed killer - Killing weeds in a more earth friendly way
By Green Living Tips
Instead of using really nasty commercial chemicals to rid your garden of noxious weeds,
where possible just try using water.
Yes, water!
The trick is to boil it first of course. Boiling water is particularly effective
for use on weeds in the expansion joints on driveways and paths.
Other greener options for killing weeds (depending on the type) that I've had
some success with:
- Neat white
vinegar is good as an earth friendly broad leaf weed killer. Vinegar is most
effective when applied on a sunny day. Use in a targeted way.
- A strong saline
(salt) solution can be used on gravel driveways and where weeds have sprung
up between cracks or joins in pavers. It's probably best not to use this in open
areas where other plants are close by as repeated applications can cause the
salt to leach over a wider area, kill other plants and prevent new plants from
growing in the affected area. It's for this reason that salt is also a good way
to prevent weeds from growing again between pavers.
- Lemon
juice is also said to be highly effective in killing weeds of all types and
it will break down very quickly.
There are also quite a few "green" commercial products around (none of
which I've tried), but if you do need to buy mainstream commercial
chemical preparations as an action of last resort, I recommend glyphosate - it's probably the lesser of the
evils in terms of commercial herbicides; so let's now look at harm minimization
using this product.
Sold under hundreds of different brand names, glyphosate supposedly breaks down
very quickly, although the video "The
World According To Monsanto"
challenges that claim. Information from the Center for Ethics and
Toxics (CETOS) says glyphosate binds to many soil types and clay
materials, making it immobile in many soils and can move into
groundwater when the soil is washed into waterways. CETOS says its
binding to soil particles is also responsible for inhibiting soil
micro-organisms long after chronic exposure.
That said, glyphosate is a very economical and effective broad spectrum
herbicide. A $4 bottle of generic branded glyphosate is just as effective as a
$10 bottle of popular brand name weed killer containing glyphosate if the
concentrations are the same.
When choosing a glyphosate based product, be aware of the percentage of
glyphosate in different products as it can vary widely. The concentration will
be mentioned on the label. For example; a $4 bottle of weed killer may have 10%
glyphosate and a $6 bottle may have 20% - so the latter, although more
expensive, is the better deal. Equally as important, by taking note of the
percentage whenever you change brands, it acts as a flag to check the
application instructions - as you may need to use less or more of it.
It can take up to 7 days after application before the weed starts to turn brown,
particularly if it's a large one - so don't be tempted to apply more if it
doesn't keel over within a couple of days. When the weed does finally start to
show signs of stress, the end comes pretty quickly. Glyphosate should be applied
when there's no chance of rain within 6 hours of application.
To further reduce environmental risks, it's so important to only use the amount
as directed on the bottle - using more won't kill the weeds any faster or more
effectively. Also invest in a hand pump sprayer - the money you outlay on the
sprayer will be offset by the reduction of glyphosate you'll need to use if, for
example, you would otherwise use a watering can to apply it. Less chemical -
less collateral damage on the environment and less damage to your wallet also.
By using it sparingly and according to directions, you'll also reduce the risks
of weeds building up resistance - and glyphosate
resistance has already been reported. This is an important and disturbing
development as glyphosate is to mainstream agriculture what penicillin was to to
modern medicine. If resistance becomes common, I shudder to think about the
environmental effects of any chemical that replaces it.
As always though, prevention is better than cure. One of the best ways to
prevent weeds from growing is to use
mulch, which has the added benefit of providing nutrients to plants and saving
water in your garden. Of course, there's always the old fashioned way of
getting rid of weeds too - by hand - it's great exercise if you're physically
able to do it and can help put you more in touch with what's happening in your
garden. It's amazing what you'll discover about your garden if you're a little
closer to soil level.
Also bear in mind that some "weeds" are actually useful plants. |
Doctors are killing heart attack patient
Over-zealous doctors are one of the major causes of death after a heart
attack. Their aggressive interventions - such as angioplasty and
clot-dissolving drugs - double the chances of the patient dying after
he has survived a heart attack or heart failure.
It's all to do with timing, researchers from the Quebec Healthcare
Assessment Agency in Montreal have discovered.
Aggressive treatments on
the heart-attack patient are supposed to be carried out within a very
short time of him being admitted to hospital. Done immediately, the
interventions can be life-savers - but even a delay of a few minutes
can kill the patient.
Techniques such as angioplasty are supposed to be carried out within 90
minutes, but the researchers discovered that 68 per cent of the
operations took place after that optimum time, and clot-dissolving
drugs were given after the recommended 30-minute window in 54 per cent
of cases. As a result, the patients given late treatment were twice as
likely to die as those given the same treatments within the recommended
timeframe.
(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2010; 303: 2148).
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