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Alternative Medicine in the News
September 2010 edition 91
published weekly
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Childhood vaccines are linked to autism - and here's $20million to prove it
15 September 2010
Vaccines we give to our children are definitively linked to autism. A
US court has this week awarded a family a payment of up to $20m as
compensation for their daughter who suffered autism after she was given
multiple vaccines, including the MMR.
The parents of Hannah Poling, now a 13-year-old girl, will receive an
immediate $1.5m compensation payment followed by annual sums of
$500,000 to pay for her care. The award could easily reach $20m, say
prosecutors.
Hannah was a normal and healthy child until she was given five
vaccinations, including the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot, in
2000. Her health declined rapidly and she developed fevers, stopped
eating, didn't respond to stimulus, and started to display symptoms of
autism, her parents said.
Although the US government accepted liability in 2007, the settlement
figure has only recently been agreed.
Pro-vaccine groups are quick to point out that Hannah's is a special
case, and that it doesn't prove an MMR-autism link. They say that
Hannah suffered from a rare mitochrondrial disorder that predisposed
her to autism. The condition was the result of the vaccine, but was not
caused by it, they say.
However, there are around 4,800 other vaccine-damage cases waiting to
be heard in US courts and, as Time magazine once suggested, it's not
unreasonable to assume that some of the other children could also have
Hannah's same underlying problem.
(Source: CBS News, September 9, 2010).
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Here's something you didn't know about cucumbers
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon? Put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 (lubricating oil) and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
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Flu vaccine push already underway; first batch causes seizures in children
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
As ridiculous as it seems, retailers across the U.S. are already
stocking their stores with Christmas goods. It's all about the big
commercial push, of course, since retailers make about 50 percent of
their profits during the Christmas season.
Similarly, flu
vaccine manufacturers generate huge profits during the Christmas
season, too, and they've already begun shipping this year's winter
season flu vaccines to U.S. pharmacies and hospitals. Never mind the
fact that the actual flu strain in the vaccine is little more than a
hodgepodge collection of last year's flu strains. Each year's flu vaccines are technically only applicable to last year's flu season, making them perfect for time travelers but useless for everybody else.
Along with the big vaccine push comes the inevitable vaccine propaganda.
It's all so predictable: First there's the announcement that "everybody
should get vaccinated." This is followed by some later announcement in
the pre-Christmas season of "how bad" this year's flu season is
getting. This is followed yet again by another urgent bulletin by health authorities urging everyone to get vaccinated.
The big vaccine push only quiets down when vaccine supplies dwindle. But as long as vaccines
remain in inventory, the big vaccine push will stay aggressive, and
during this annual charade, there won't be a word mentioned about vitamin D and how it is far more effective than any vaccine at protecting people from seasonal flu.
Reading between the vaccine lines
This year's vaccine push has begun with some curious admissions by the vaccine industry, reflected in a Reuters story (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS...). After the usual explanatory text about how flu vaccine manufacturers have started shipping their largest quantity of vaccines ever produced for flu season, the story prints this curious text:
"And U.S. officials said they were changing the labeling on a vaccine made by Australia's CSL Ltd (CSL.AX) because it appears to have caused a higher than usual rate of seizures in children."
Now hold on a second.
If
you read between the lines here, this statement implies that: 1)
Vaccines cause seizures in children. And then 2) This particular
vaccines causes a higher rate of seizures in children than the usual rate of seizures in children.
Why
is this curious? First off, because vaccine pushers have always sworn
their vaccines caused no seizures whatsoever. No neurological problems.
No spontaneous abortions in pregnant women. No increased rates of autism. Vaccines are all perfectly safe, they say, and no children are ever harmed by them.
That's the mythology, at least, behind vaccines. But the reality is far different: Vaccines do cause seizures in children, and this year's vaccines look like they're going to cause a significantly higher rate of seizures than usual.
Note,
by the way, that this was not the headline of the story. This admission
was tucked away in the text of a Reuters story, without any real
emphasis. If Reuters was really interested in reporting the truth about
vaccines, the story headline would have been, "Flu vaccines cause
seizures in children."
Line up, sheeple!
The story goes on to say, "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone be vaccinated against seasonal flu this year."
Yep, everyone. That means one-month old infants. Pregnant women. Children with seizure disorders. Immune suppressed seniors. Everyone!
You see, in years past, vaccines were never recommended for everyone due to well-founded safety concerns. In some people, you see, the nearly-dead viral strains used in vaccines can actually cause the very flu they claim to prevent. So the CDC has, for as long as anyone can remember, always warned certain groups to be excluded from vaccines for their own safety.
Well
not anymore. Any safety concerns have been thrown out the window in the
quest to push more vaccines onto more people. Billions of dollars in
pharmaceutical profits are at stake here, and health officials can't afford to let a little safety get in the way.
This Reuters story continues:
"Most years, seasonal influenza infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of the U.S. population and kills 36,000 people. It puts about 200,000 into the hospital."
Well, not really. The 36,000 figure often quoted from the CDC is wildly inaccurate (http://www.naturalnews.com/026169_m...).
It's a statistical guess based on such outdated data that to quote it
as fact is laughable. Besides, it's technically wrong to say that
influenza kills anyone. The real killer here is vitamin D deficiency which causes a stalled out immune system. If people had sufficient levels of vitamin D circulating in their blood, the flu
virus would be powerless to harm them. And since there are viruses
everywhere in the world around us every single day, isn't it more
accurate to say that the "flu season" is actually the "vitamin D deficiency season?"
Think about it: Why does the flu circulate in the winter months in North America, but the summer months (June - August) in Australia? It's because those are the times of weaker sunlight exposure
resulting in widespread vitamin D deficiencies. The flu is always
around, living amongst us, just waiting for weakened immune systems so
it can strike. To say that "the flu" kills people in the winter
is factually wrong. It's the vitamin D deficiency that kills people by
giving the flu an opportunity to attack a weakened immune system.
This is a simple factual point that the entire system of western medicine,
with all its high-IQ doctors, has so far failed to realize. Sometimes
it feels like we're still living in the Dark Ages of medicine, I
swear...
Where are the clinical trials?
Anyway, this Reuters story continues with one more whopper of a statement:
"The
labeling for one vaccine, CSL Limited's Afluria, has undergone changes
this season to inform health care providers about an increased
incidence of fever and febrile seizure... The FDA said it was asking
CSL to conduct a study of its vaccine in children."
Read between the lines on this one: This Afluria vaccine causes an increased risk of seizures, it's being imported into the USA to be injected in children this flu season, and the FDA is just now asking for a study? That means, of course, that no study has been conducted on this vaccine yet.
In
other words, this vaccine which causes seizures in children has never
actually been properly tested in children according to FDA guidelines,
so the FDA wants a test to be done but the vaccine will be injected into children in the USA anyway, even before the testing is likely to be completed.
And that means, of course, that U.S. children are being used as guinea pigs
to see what happens to them following this vaccine injection. If enough
children have seizures or end up paralyzed or dead, the FDA will
probably pull the vaccine off the market. But that only happens after the fact and after the damage has already been done.
Don't you get it? Your children are the experiment!
The American People are the guinea pigs for every vaccine these
companies come up with, and it doesn't matter if the vaccine causes
seizures, brain damage or even death... American children are going to
be injected by the millions in order to find out what happens.
No need for influenza vaccines in anyone
This
whole annual charade is utterly useless to begin with. There is simply
no medically justifiable need to inject anyone with a flu vaccine -- ever! What people need is vitamin D to activate their immune response so that natural exposures to seasonal flu are easily handled by their existing immune system functionality.
Let's
face it: The human immune system is far more intelligent and
technologically advanced than any flu vaccine. It already has a pattern
recognition system that can identify and destroy foreign invaders in
the blood. But as research has shown, when vitamin D levels are deficient in the body, the immune system is effectively paralyzed and can't respond. (http://www.naturalnews.com/029312_i...)
When vitamin D levels are high, the immune system responds rapidly to any influenza threat. That's why I never get a flu shot and even so, I haven't been sick for years. I do, however, get sunshine on a regular basis, and when I can't get sunshine, I take a quality vitamin D3
supplement. And guess what? I don't need a flu vaccine at all. I can
walk into a room full of sick people infected with influenza and be
completely and utterly immune to their coughing, sneezing, nose wiping
and finger-licking handshaking.
Having vitamin D in your body is like wearing a bulletproof vest for influenza.
The medical industry won't tell you this because there's huge profit to be made in scaring people into paying for flu shots
they don't need. If people were told the truth about the dangers and
the ineffectiveness of flu shots, very few would buy them. Because the
truth is that, even in best-case scenarios, flu shots are maybe effective at preventing infections in one percent of those who take them.
And
that means ninety-nine percent of those receiving flu shots are wasting
their time and their money. Plus, they're exposing themselves to
chemicals that are obviously dangerous to the human body or else they
wouldn't cause seizures in children, get it?
And yet every flu
season, people line up by the millions to get injected with something
that might harm them, and they actually pay for being potentially
harmed! Why do people do this? Because they foolishly trust in health
authorities who almost universally have financial ties to the vaccine
manufacturing companies and so are pushing a particular agenda in order
to profit from vaccine sales.
But scientifically speaking, the flu season could be stopped in its tracks by handing out vitamin D3 supplements instead of vaccine injections. No needles. No seizures. And no drug company profits.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather swallow a vitamin than get jabbed with a sharp needle. But that's just me.
Most
other people, it seems, would rather spend their winters wiping their
noses raw with Kleenex, drowning themselves in over-the-counter flu
medicines and missing a week or two of work while they try to fight off
a flu infection they could have prevented with a few vitamin D supplements in the first place.
Believe
me, it's a lot more fun to laugh off the flu season and spend your
winters healthy, well rested and completely immune to seasonal flu.
Wanna join me in a healthy winter this year? Just boost your vitamin D levels and you too can laugh off seasonal flu and all the sheeple lining up to get injected like cattle in a branding line.
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9 Tips to Manage Colds and Flu
WebMD went to
Charles B. Inlander, president of The People's Medical Society, for some home
remedies that may help you feel better along the way.
No. 1: Blow Your Nose Often -- and the Right Way
It's important to blow your nose regularly when
you have a cold rather than sniffling mucus back into your head. But when you
blow hard, pressure can cause an earache. The best way to blow
your nose: Press a finger over one nostril while you blow gently to
clear the other. Wash your hands
after blowing your nose.
No. 2: Stay Rested
Resting when you first come
down with a cold or the flu helps your body direct its energy toward the immune
battle. This battle taxes the body. So give it a little help by lying down
under a blanket.
No. 3: Gargle
Gargling can moisten a sore throat and bring temporary
relief. Try a teaspoon of salt dissolved in warm water, four times daily. To
reduce the tickle in your throat, try an astringent gargle -- such as tea that
contains tannin -- to tighten the membranes. Or use a thick, viscous gargle
made with honey, popular in folk medicine. Steep one tablespoon of raspberry
leaves or lemon juice in two cups of hot water; mix with one teaspoon of honey.
Let the mixture cool to room temperature before gargling. Honey should never be given to children
less than 1 year old.
No. 4: Drink Hot Liquids
Hot liquids relieve nasal congestion, help prevent
dehydration, and can soothe the uncomfortably
inflamed membranes that line your nose and throat.
No. 5: Take a Steamy Shower
Steamy showers moisturize your nasal passages and relax you. If you're dizzy
from the flu, run a steamy shower while you sit on a chair nearby and take a
sponge bath.
No. 6: Use a Salve Under Your Nose
A small dab of mentholated salve under your nose can open breathing passages
and help soothe the irritated
skin at the base of the nose. Menthol, eucalyptus and camphor all have mild
numbing ingredients that may help relieve the pain of a nose rubbed raw.
No. 7: Apply Hot or Cold Packs Around Your Congested Sinuses
Either temperature may help you feel more comfortable.
You can buy reusable hot or cold packs at a drugstore. Or make your own. Take a
damp washcloth and heat it for 55 seconds in a microwave (test the temperature
first to make sure it's right for you.) Or take a small bag of frozen peas to
use as a cold pack.
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Women: Before getting pregnant, check out your man's diet
The day will soon come that informed women will refuse to date, marry or
have children with men who follow poor nutritional habits. "You eat
junk foods? Put your pants back on and get out!"
You see, scientific evidence is mounting on the relationship between food choice and genetic integrity. Men who eat a lot of processed meats, fast foods and junk foods have low sperm quality. But it's more than just an infertility question... it's also a question of the transgenerational genetic integrity of his offspring.
A man who pursues an unhealthy diet, it turns out, not only increases the risk of numerous diseases in his direct offspring (cancer, diabetes, infertility, etc.), he also increases that risk for multiple generations of offspring.
This was recently demonstrates in a laboratory study conducted by Georgetown University Medical Center and presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (http://www.naturalnews.com/029198_c...) which showed that cancer risk attributable to the junk food fed to parent rats was passed through two generations even if the direct offspring ate a healthy diet.
In other words, for all you women out there, if you choose to have children with a man who's eating junk foods, not only will your children have an increased risk of disease, but their children will, too! And that's true even if your children follow a healthy lifestyle!
Now sure, if you're not concerned about your family line, then just mate with anybody who can produce sperm
-- and there are a lot of those to choose from. But two, three or four
generations from now, the sperm that you chose to combine with your own
eggs may turn out to be a ticking genetic time bomb that ends your family line forever through DNA mutations leading to disease and infertility.
The genopocalypse
I
call this coming wave of global infertility the "genopocalypse," which
of course means the "genetic apocalypse." This is all explained in a
video I recently posted on www.NaturalNews.TV which you can view at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=0985D...
The genetic integrity of the human race is collapsing due to exposure to DNA-altering toxic chemicals in foods, medicines, household products and personal care products. The cumulative toxic burden in first-world citizens has now reached such a high level of toxicity that genetic integrity may no longer be guaranteed from one generation to the next. Infertility rates are skyrocketing, and even when babies
are born through infertility intervention clinics, they suffer far
higher rates of genetic mutations and abnormalities than babies
conceived naturally.
We are now watching the genetic migration of the human race. It is slowly transitioning to a race of infertile mutants who express very high rates of diseases like cancer and health
conditions like infertility. No one knows whether genetic integrity can
be recovered once it compromised. The very nature of gene inheritance
leaves that doubtful.
The upshot of all this is that people who want a family future must be careful to choose healthy reproductive partners.
Beyond the quality of the person you are deciding to have children
with, you need to consider the quality of their eggs and sperm.
Watch out for damaged eggs
So
far, we've talked about how women need to watch out for damaged sperm.
But the good news for men is that sperm regenerates every few days, so
by simply changing your diet right now, you can begin to produce
healthier sperm a few days later. Switching to a healthy diet for 3 - 6
months can result in radically improved sperm quality.
But
even this has its limits: The upper limit of male sperm viability is
still heavily influenced by the diet of his mother during her pregnancy. Yep: The nutritional factors present during the growth of the fetus also strongly influence the lifetime reproductive viability of males.
For
women, it's even more serious. Women, you see, are born with all the
eggs they'll ever have in their lives. Those eggs were formed as a
fetus, and the health of those eggs is largely determined by the diet of the pregnant mom carrying the female fetus.
So
if you're a woman, it is your mom's diet that determined the genetic
integrity of the eggs you carry right now. And changing your own diet
won't regenerate healthier eggs.
So if you're a man seeking a
healthy partner to have children with, you need to ask about not just
the diet of your female partner, but also the diet of her mother during that pregnancy.
It's getting tricky, isn't it? There's nothing quite like interrogating your future mother-in-law about her eating habits...
But it gets even more complicated than that.
Irradiated women's eggs
Because women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, any radiation they receive from medical imaging scans or medical treatments will obviously expose those eggs to radiation.
A single CT scan can expose a women to as much as 600 times the radiation
of a full chest X-ray. Radiation treatments for cancer are even worse:
They can expose a woman's eggs to levels of radiation that can be thousands of times the exposure of a chest X-ray.
This radiation, not surprisingly, causes genetic mutations in a woman's eggs, making them ticking genetic time bombs should they ever meet with a sperm cell and initiate conception.
So
men who are seeking children and who know about this will increasingly
want to choose female partners who have not been exposed to medical
imaging scans or cancer radiotherapy treatments. Women who undergo a
lot of medical imaging, it turns out, may not be such good reproductive
partners from a purely genetic point of view. (Obviously there's a lot
more to being good parents than just the integrity of your genetic code, but no one can argue that genetic integrity isn't important for the health of your children.)
The ethics of genetics
Now,
I realize this whole discussion is extremely uncomfortable for many
people. It isn't politically correct to talk about women's eggs as
being "damaged goods" even if they technically are. And it's not polite
to talk about how the sperm count of most men today is lower than that
of a rat. Yet these are the stubborn scientific truths we must now
begin to consider as a race that seeks to survive through multiple
generations.
The future of human life on earth will, quite obviously, be inherited by those who can protect their genetic code.
And that is going to be accomplished only by a relatively small number
of couples who combine healthy sperm with healthy eggs while avoiding
radiation and toxic chemicals. Essentially, the future of human life on our planet is going to belong to people who avoid pharmaceuticals and medical imaging, who avoid toxic chemicals in foods and who follow a largely organic lifestyle.
Families that expose themselves to medical imaging scans and toxic chemicals in foods and pharmaceuticals are committing genetic suicide
that will play out over subsequent generations. In other words, these
people aren't dropping dead right now, but the DNA damage they pass on
from one generation to the next will accumulate to the point where
infertility ends the family line.
So much for the Joneses. It
turns out they killed off their family line by corrupting their own DNA
so badly that their daughters can no longer conceive. So what to do
about that? Go get more medical imaging scans to find out what's wrong,
of course! (You can see how this gets worse...)
It's worth pointing out that in this article,
I'm not saying that women with damaged eggs or men with damaged sperm
are bad people. This is not a statement about their morality or their
fitness to be good parents. Rather, it's solely about their genetic integrity and how the lack of healthy DNA has very real consequences in the real world.
All
this means that vegan men should be heading to the sperm banks to fill
up the cryo canisters there. It is the sperm of our healthiest eaters
that may hold the key to the future of the human race.
There
might even be a science fiction novel to be found in this storyline,
come to think of it: The year is 2065, the human race is dying out,
nobody can reproduce, and a scientist sends soldiers through a time
machine to 1984 so they can harvest someone's sperm. It's not exactly
"Terminator." More like "Sperminator," but you get the point.
I find it fascinating that the human race is right now saving plant seeds in case of a global apocalypse, but nobody (that I know of, at least) is saving human sperm and eggs for long term disaster storage. Shouldn't we be doing that? Shouldn't we find the healthiest men and women who lead holistic, chemical-free lives and see if they'll donate some of their own seeds for the future of humankind?
This
is important because by the time mainstream scientists realize how
corrupted human DNA has become, it may be far too late to do anything
about it. If the chemical industry has anything to do with it, any evidence revealing such a trend would be buried under a mountain of denials anyway. Heck, the FDA still approved of aspartame in the food supply!
Choosing mates
See,
right now, few adults choose their reproductive partners based on
genetic integrity. A man is far more likely to choose a female mate
based on cosmetic factors such as waist-to-hip ratio, clear skin, size
and shape of breasts and so on. Women, in turn are far more likely to
choose their male counterparts based on his financial resources and the
apparent power of
the male in his circles of influence. (I'm not making this stuff up,
this is what has been discovered by research into the bizarre world of
mating...)
Neither men nor women typically consider the
nutritional habits of their potential reproductive mates. In fact, for
most potential couples, this is perhaps the furthest thing from their
minds. "Oh baby, you're just so sexy. Please tell me you don't eat
Doritos!"
But my point is that as the evidence about the
genopocalypse becomes more evident, people will indeed begin to ask
this question of their potential mates. And in time, the question may
actually be combined with a genetic integrity test that
produces a score much like your credit score. If you don't score high
enough on the genetic integrity test, you may have trouble finding
partners who are willing to have children with you.
That would be a pretty weird social setting for dating, wouldn't it?
At
some point, of course, even governments might get involved and restrict
people with low genetic integrity scores from having children. This
would set off a whole new era of eugenics and Big Brother
intervention in the lives of private citizens. That's too much to cover
in this article, but it's an important discussion to cover at a later
date.
Why is no one talking about this?
Speaking of
dates, by the way, this article is perhaps 25 years ahead of its time.
Virtually no one in the world today is thinking about these issues.
I've never seen this mentioned anywhere in the scientific literature or
popular press. This won't become a popular concern for many years...
perhaps for many generations. I've been writing about this for a little
over a year (or so).
The world is right now blindly headed towards a genetic catastrophe
-- but only for humans. Except in rare cases, animals and plants are
not facing the levels of toxicity currently being self-induced by
humans. The human race is destroying itself, and it is doing so
blindly, with virtually no widespread knowledge of the genetic
destruction right now being caused by toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals,
consumer products, foods and medical imaging procedures.
The
truth about widespread infertility will continue to be covered up by
the powerful corporations that make money from medical imaging,
pharmaceuticals, etc. Heck, they even make money off infertility. So
there's really no incentive for anyone in a position of power today to
tell you the truth about how Big Business is destroying your genetic
future.
That's why you can expect this to be a long-running
cover-up story that will go on for decades before the truth of the
matter finally becomes evident. And by then, it will likely be too late.
In
the mean time, be careful who you mate with. Check out what's in their
refrigerator late at night, and if it's a bunch of processed junk food,
you might want to think twice about combining your genetic code with
theirs.
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Relax with Chamomile Smoothies
When you're stressed out or feel like lashing out, it's amazing what a
little chamomile can do. Chamomile has long been known as a relaxing,
calming herb and chamomile contains substances that affect the same
parts of the brain that anti-anxiety drugs do. In fact, Canadian
studies tell us that chamomile shows "significant inhibition" of
generalized anxiety disorder. A flavonoid in chamomile, called
apigenin, may be responsible for the anti-anxiety and calming effects.
Its action on brain receptors is similar to Valium and Xanax, but
unlike the drugs, chamomile's not addictive or harmful. Chamomile has
also been found to increase glycine in the body, which is an amino acid
that acts as a nerve and muscle relaxant.
Chamomile tea is the
most popular tea in the world and it's easily made by brewing the fresh
or dried flowers, but most people aren't familiar with chamomile
smoothies. Chamomile smoothies can be a more powerful relaxant and
anti-anxiety aid, because you're actually consuming the entire flower.
If you can get your hands on fresh chamomile flowers, they're excellent
in chamomile smoothies. A few minutes after consuming one, you can
literally feel your stress and tension melt away. For those really
tough times, you can drink one every few hours.
To make a
chamomile smoothie, just use 8 to 10 fresh or dried flowers and add
them to any fruit smoothie. Some great concoctions include:
Blend: 3 bananas, 8 - 10 fresh or dried flowers, 1/2 cup of water, and a little stevia for sweetness
Blend: 1 banana, 1/2 papaya, 8 - 10 fresh or dried flowers, 1/2 cup of water, and a bit of stevia for sweetness
Blend: 1 cup seeded watermelon, 1 banana, 8 - 10 fresh or dried flowers, 1/4 cup of water, and a touch of stevia
Great times to have one: - If your children are having a fit or are prone to them, you might want to introduce chamomile smoothies (for you and them).
- If you have an aggressive spouse or family member, perhaps you want to serve them regularly.
- If you're over-worked and just can't seem to relax.
- If you're feeling fearful, anxious, nervous or just irritable - especially when the invoking situation has passed.
As
a society, we often see tension and stress as factors related to what's
going on outside of us, but often how we feel has a lot to do with
what's going on inside of us too - and this simple flower can help us
tip the scales in our favor when it's needed. Chamomile is also widely
used as a sleep aid, for stomach problems and as an anti-inflammatory.
Chamomile, however, should be avoided by those with ragweed allergies.
More: http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com... http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-cham... http://health.learninginfo.org/bene... http://www.flowersociety.org/Ask-FE... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
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USDA says antibiotic use in livestock is negatively affecting humans
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently testified
before a House committee that antibiotic use in animal agriculture
causes humans who eat such meat to develop antimicrobial and antibiotic
resistance. Conventional cattle farmers often use antibiotics to speed
the growth of their animals, but such use is causing widespread
antibiotic resistance, according to experts.
According to a Des Moines Register
report, John Clifford, chief veterinarian at the USDA, explained before
the committee that antibiotic use in animals "does lead to some cases
of antimicrobial resistance among humans and in animals themselves." So
both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the USDA are
working to reduce, and possibly eliminate, the use of many animal
antibiotics.
One reason livestock operations use antibiotics is
to treat sick animals. Most conventional livestock operations are
highly unsanitary, and animals are raised within confined animal
feeding operations (CAFOs). These cramped conditions cause the animals
to become sick more frequently than they would if they were raised in
more spacious conditions, so they often need regular treatment for
their constant illnesses.
Another reason why conventional animal
farmers use antibiotics is to fatten their animals quickly. This
practice is employed purely to increase profits, and has nothing to do
with benefiting the animals or the humans who end up consuming products
made from them.
Excessive use of antibiotics for both purposes
has led to the emergence of "super" bacteria that are resistant to many
of the traditional antibiotics that Americans have been using for
years. And according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), use of antibiotics in animal production is the
leading cause of antibiotic resistance among foodborne pathogens.
Animals
that are raised in pastures with lots of open space tend to be much
healthier than animals raised in confined feedlots. Feedlots tend to
harbor filth and disease, but they are much more profitable for
corporate agriculture giants that can churn out high volumes of
drug-filled animal meat.
Pastured animals, on the other hand,
are generally healthier; they grow at a natural pace; they have access
to sunshine and fresh air; and the quality and composition of their
meat is far superior to conventional grocery store meat.
Getting
rid of antibiotics in animal agriculture is a good first step in the
right direction, but eliminating feedlots and returning to traditional
animal raising methods is even better.
Sources:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...
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Harvard Medical School rolls out new rules to stop its faculty from accepting bribes from Big Pharma
It is common practice for medical professionals to accept gifts, free
travel, meals and other forms of indirect compensation from drug
companies and medical device manufacturers for giving speeches that
endorse their products. But Harvard Medical School has now made a new
rule that prohibits its 11,000 faculty members from engaging in this
activity.
The school is also requiring that faculty who consult
with drug companies, join their boards and work with them in any other
ways, report all income over $5,000 publicly. The school is promising
to keep a better watch on the relationships that its faculty has with
drug and medical device companies as well.
"We're
anxious to be viewed publicly as doing what's in the best interest of
our patients," explained Dr. Robert Mayer, co-chairman of the committee
responsible for Harvard's new policy.
According to both Dr.
Mayer and Dr. Jeffrey Flier, dean of Harvard's Medical School, faculty
will still be allowed to work with such companies to perform
industry-funded research, as well as be paid to sit on scientific
advisory boards.
The new rules were spurred by Senator Charles
Grassley's (R-IA) recent investigation concerning Harvard physicians
who allegedly broke federal and medical school
conflict-of-interest rules. Harvard has responded by proposing the new
rules which are designed to improve its image in the view of the public.
A recent Boston Globe article
about the new policy explains that Dr. Mayer's intent with the new
rules is that they "are designed to keep doctors from becoming -- or
being perceived as -- marketing agents for industry." So it is
difficult to ascertain whether anything will actually change, or
whether it will simply be perceived as changing.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.boston.com/news/educatio...
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