Menopause hot flashes dramatically lower breast cancer risk
(NaturalNews) When women hit menopause, many have hot flashes, (also called hot flushes) and mainstream medicine is quick to prescribe treatments for this "ailment", including antidepressants and hormones. But what if there's a?healthy reason the body naturally reacts to menopause with hot flashes? Turns out, these feelings of heat, sometimes accompanied by sweating, dramatically reduce the risk of breast cancer.
According to a recent study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer, women who have experienced hot flashes and other menopause symptoms appear to have a 50 percent lower risk of developing the most common forms of breast cancerthan postmenopausal women who have never had these change-of-life symptoms. In fact, the more frequent and intense the hot flashes, the lower the risk of breast cancer.
The results of this study, which is the first to examine the relationship between menopausal symptoms and breast cancer risk, were just published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. "In particular we found that women who experienced more intense hot flushes -- the kind that woke them up at night -- had a particularly low risk of breast cancer," senior author Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., a breast cancer epidemiologist in the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division, said in a statement to the media.
Dr. Li and colleagues found an amazing 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in the risk of invasive ductal and invasive lobular carcinoma (the two most common types of breast cancer) among women who experienced hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. The association between these symptoms and a lowered cancer risk wasn't altered even after the researchers accounted for other factors known to raise the risk of breast malignancies, such as obesity and taking hormone replacement therapy.
The study, which was funded by the National Cancer Institute, involved 1,437 postmenopausal women from the Seattle area; 988 of these research participants had been previously diagnosed with breast cancer and 449 women who had no history of breast cancer served as a comparison group. The women were surveyed about perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, depression, vaginal dryness, irregular or heavy menstrual bleeding, and anxiety.
"While menopausal symptoms can certainly have a negative impact on quality of life, our study suggests that there may be a silver lining if the reduction in breast cancer risk is confirmed in future studies," Dr. Li said. "If these findings are confirmed, they have the potential to improve our understanding of the causes of breast cancer and improve approaches to preventing this disease."
Dr. Li and his colleagues hypothesized that because menopausal symptoms occur as hormone levels fluctuate and drop, women who experience more frequent and severe symptoms might have a lower risk of breast cancer due to decreased estrogen levels. The study also indirectly raises another intriguing possibility: it suggests the possibility that hot flashes, sweating and other menopausal symptoms may actually be beneficial to the female body and perhaps even help block the development of breast cancer in some way.
For more information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
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Acupuncture works to treat lazy eye
Acupuncture works as well at treating lazy eye as conventional Western therapies, according to a study conducted by researchers from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
"Lazy eye," officially known as amblyopia, is characterized by markedly poor vision in one eye. It is the most common cause of childhood vision problems and can be easily corrected with glasses or contact lenses before the age of 7. After that age, the condition is harder to correct and is usually treated with therapies that deliberately handicap the strong eye in order to force improvement in the weak eye. One common therapy involves wearing a patch over the strong eye, while another involves using vision-blurring drops in that eye instead.
For the new study, researchers assigned 88 Chinese children between the ages of 7 and 12 who suffered from lazy eye either to undergo five traditional sessions per week for the condition or to wear a patch over their good eye for two hours per day. All participants were also given new glasses and instructed to perform near-vision activities for an hour a day.
After 25 weeks, 70 percent of participants in both groups had improved by two lines on an eye chart, the equivalent of improving from 20/40 to 20/25. In terms of recovery, acupuncture was far more effective than an eye patch: only 17 percent of children in the eye patch group experienced a complete recovery, compared with 42 percent of children in the acupuncture group.
Acupuncture provides distinct advantages over conventional therapies, in that it imposes limited hardship on the patient. In contrast, vision-blurring drops can make homework difficult, and children can face severe social stigma for wearing eye patches.
Unfortunately, five weekly acupuncture sessions require a greater time commitment from parents. In addition, few acupuncturists in the United States are trained to treat lazy eye.
Nevertheless, the researchers hailed their findings as promising.
"Don't knock Chinese medicine," senior researcher Robert Ritch said. "It's been around for more than 3,000 years and there's a lot we don't understand yet."
Sources for this story include: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4064773....
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Why focus on health freedom? Because our future is worth protecting, says Health Ranger
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) We've been covering health freedom topics with great intensity lately, and that has taken away from our typical coverage of natural cures, herbal remedies, medicinal foods and so on. Some people are asking why we've shifted our focus, and I want to answer those questions with clarity and determination.
It's one thing to know HOW to use herbs and superfoods, and there's a wealth of knowledge to be gained in that area. But it's another thing entirely to have ACCESS to those herbs and superfoods without being criminalized or harassed by the government in the process. I would say that unless you have access to those healing remedies, all the knowledge in the world of how to use them makes no difference.
Our access to natural healing remedies, superfoods and herbs is under constant threat. For example, the FDA has outlawed supplement companies and food companies from offering scientifically-validated free speech about their products. If a cherry company links to a scientific study on its website, providing a scientific basis for clinical evidence that cherries can help prevent gout, for example, the FDA sends them a threatening letter claiming they may be subjected to criminal prosecution, have their products seized, and even thrown in prison for selling "unapproved drugs." (http://www.naturalnews.com/019366.html)
Both local and federal authorities, meanwhile, have declared war on raw milk producers, treating them like drug dealers with armed raids, arrests and criminal prosecutions. If milking a cow and selling that milk to your neighbor is now a federal crime, what other foods or natural substances might the feds go after next? (It looks like they may soon outlaw the selling of breast milk!)
With the passage of the recent Food Safety Modernization Act, the FDA will be moving forward with so-called Codex Alimentarius harmonization. It's written right into the bill text (http://www.naturalnews.com/030863_f...). This law also requires the FDA to set up enforcement offices in foreign nations to run a global food safety scheme that will try to pasteurize, irradiate or fumigate virtually all foods entering the United States. This is an effort to kill these foods and destroy most of their nutritive qualities. "Safety" is just the excuse to sterilize your food.
This same law also gives the FDA authority to inspect and shut down backyard gardeners, small local famers, small greenhouse operations, people who sell items at the farmers' market, and so on. No, these groups are not automatically exempt from the bill as was claimed by bill proponents: They must "apply" to be granted exemption by the FDA -- a process requiring them to produce tax returns, safety documentation and a pile of paperwork that the FDA can choose to declare "insufficient."
With our health freedoms under attack, it's crucial that we take a stand and support our Natural Law rights (God-given rights) to grow our own food and medicine, to buy food and natural medicine, and to sell what we grow to our local neighbors and community members. All these rights are under assault by the federal government, and if we don't work to oppose the tyrants who want to take away our access to healing foods, herbs and supplements, we may end up living in a nation where vitamins are outlawed (or at least the natural, food-based vitamins are), herbs are regulated off the shelves and local farmers' markets are shut down.
Instead of getting your food from a neighbor, you'll have to get it from a food factory that passes the FDA's "safety" inspections even though it's still injecting aspartame, sodium nitrite and MSG into its food products. (The FDA considers all those chemical food additives to be "safe," believe it or not.)
Why protecting our freedoms is crucial to our health
If we do nothing and stay silent, it is guaranteed that our access to natural remedies and honest food will be stolen from us by tyrannical bureaucrats who incessantly work to protect the financial interests of Big Pharma and the sick-care industry. They don't necessarily want you to be well. They don't want you to buy local food. What they want is to turn consumers into cattle, where they feed you dead, processed foods and then make a fortune off the degenerative disease that inevitably develops as a result.
And they especially want you to do what you're told and stop questioning vaccines. Stop questioning the chemicals in the food. Just eat it, swallow and buy into it.
What I seek to do, on the other hand, is protect our food freedoms by alerting you when those freedoms are under attack. I aim to expose the true agenda of the FDA and Big Government tyrants who are trying to take away your raw milk, take away your access to nutritional supplements and censor the truth about how natural remedies can prevent and even cure serious disease.
Health freedom protection is a team effort
In addition to NaturalNews, other health freedom organizations are also part of the leading edge of this fight: The Alliance for Natural Health (www.ANH-USA.org), the Natural Solutions Foundation (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org), and to some extent also sites such as the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (www.FarmToConsumer.org). Alex Jones even covers health freedom on his show (www.Infowars.com), and then goes on to warn about the Fed, FEMA camps and other similar topics. Authors such as Naomi Wolf, Lew Rockwell, Ed Griffin, Dr Gary North and many others are beating the freedom drum on other fronts that are just as important (the Fed, the police state, etc.).
We are, collectively, your early warning system. We are alerting you to the very real threats that are headed your way, and we're trying to prevent the tyrants from taking over. The TSA is now shoving their hands down your pants at the airports (who would have even imagined that a decade ago?). The FDA is threatening walnut company founders with prison time for telling the truth about the health benefits of walnuts. The DEA is ignoring state law and raiding medicinal marijuana dispensaries that are 100% compliant with state and local laws. The Fed is giving away trillions of dollars to foreign corporations. The President is granting health care waivers to McDonald's and hundreds of other corporations that will be exempted from Obamacare regulations. The CDC keeps pushing flu vaccine propaganda based on junk science while avoiding any mention of vitamin D.
Need I go on? One by one, nearly every government agency is on a power trip, seeking to expand its power at the expense of your freedom. The tyrants are running loose in America, and if we don't reverse this dangerous trend, there is absolutely no question where we will end up because history teaches this lesson well: A police state nation run by the wealthy elite corporatists who dictate government policy and centralize power into their own hands (while stealing it out of yours).
They want power over everything you do: What you eat, what you buy, how you save your money (did you notice U.S. banks don't let you save money in foreign currencies?), what you think (TV programming), what you read (don't read Wikileaks or you'll never get a government job!) and even how you live and die (sick-care monopoly). The government does not want you to have free choice over your body, your mind, your finances or your future. They want to control your choices while giving you the illusion of choice. Sure, go out a vote every two years and see if it really makes any difference. The corporations already run Congress. Whether you vote Republican or Democrat, they still call the shots at the top.
Can't we just meditate our way out of this?
There are quite a number of "create your own reality" people who believe we can all just meditate our way out of this. The thinking goes like this: Since we create our own reality, we can just sit in our rooms and imagine the world being a better place, and it will come true. I'm not trying to make fun of this position. There is merit to it, but as much as I value meditation, positive thinking and even to some extent the Law of Attraction, it is a mistranslation of those principles to think that we do not have to take a stand in the real world, from time to time, against those who would steal our freedoms from us.
What would have happened in India if Gandhi just sat around and meditated instead of leading his people on his famous resistance march to gather salt? That the British Empire outlawed salt in India and forbade is people from harvesting it is very much the same as the U.S. government outlawing raw milk or dictating the operations of small family farms. We are experiencing an historical rise of tyranny in America, and we must rise up against it or be overrun by it.
What would have happened in colonial America of Paul Revere, instead of riding his horse to warn his neighbors that the British were coming, just sat in his living room and tried to think positive thoughts instead? Quite possibly, Americans might still be British subjects today.
If you want proof of what happens when you sit around and meditate instead of taking a real-world stand against oppression and tyranny, just look at the Tibetan Buddhists. You won't find a more peaceful, dedicated group of wise meditators anywhere on the planet. I've visited Buddhist temples on high mountaintops in Asia. I've spent time with these people face to face, and I have incredible admiration for them. I've read many books written by the Dalai Lama and have incorporated several Buddhists principles into my own life. But even I cannot deny the fact that the Chinese government rolled right over them throughout mainland China, destroying their temples, arresting their priests and sending their congregation members into the gulag.
The Dalai Lama lives in exile! And why? Because the Chinese government stampeded over them. Meditation doesn't stop bullets. And when evil is running rampant across our lands, evil must be met with force... and then stopped cold.
I'm not faulting the Buddhists for choosing meditation over armed resistance. It is a legitimate spiritual decision to avoid violence and refuse to take part in any resistance movement, but once you choose that path, the outcome is never in doubt: Big Government will roll right over you because governments incessantly desire more power, and they will always seek to secure more power at any cost. Even if it means eradicating an entire religion.
Real action is needed to preserve liberty
So for those who believe they can sit in candle-lit rooms and meditate our way out of tyranny, I thank you for your positive vibes, but I will not limit my own actions to such passivism. I know from my time in this world, having lived in numerous countries and spoken different languages around the world, that those who retain freedom are those who actively defend it. Eternal vigilance, as Jefferson said, is the price of freedom.
My goal with NaturalNews is to be eternally vigilant; to help protect our food freedoms, our access to natural healing herbs and supplements, and to secure our natural law rights to grow our own food (and medicine) and sell it to our neighbors if we so choose. Our right to grow food and to engage in free commerce of our food is a "natural law" that exists as an even higher authority than the Constitution itself. It is a law of God and nature. We are born with it. No bureaucrat, no tyrant and no government can take it away from us (but they will try).
I believe in Liberty, I believe in America's founding principles, and I believe in the Bill of Rights. And I will fight to defend it. Nowhere in the world is there another country that is more free than America once was. This freedom is worth fighting for.
I was not so adamant about this point until recently, when Big Government began reaching down our pants at the airport and the S.510 food safety bill passed. Today, I cannot stand by idly and do nothing while our food freedoms are threatened. Codex harmonization is on the horizon. The Department of Homeland Security has us all spying on each other at Wal-Mart. The GMO conspiracy is very real and very powerful, and they want us all to eat their poisonous corn and soy products so that we become diseased and infertile.
I will resist this effort with every ounce of breath in my body. I will continue to work to expose the dangers of vaccines, GMOs, fluoride, MSG and other chemicals, and I will do my best to promote the healing properties of natural foods, healing herbs, superfoods and nutritional supplements.
We continue to grow our reach and expand our audience by the day! Our video site is exploding in popularity (www.Naturalnews.TV), our news site reaches millions of readers each month, and we have a lineup of video mini-documentaries coming in 2011 that will absolutely blow your mind.
Along with people like Jesse Ventura, Alex Jones, Jonathan Emord and James Turner (and many others), we are winning the fight against tyranny. We are Journalism 2.0 -- it's the new journalism where you can't buy us off, you can't control our message, and you can't stop us because we are powered by the People who support our efforts, who believe in our mission and who absolutely will not stop until they are free.
That's why I do what I do. That's why I work 16 hour days and spend nearly every waking hour thinking of new ways to spread knowledge, enlightenment and a message of FREEDOM for our collective future. And that's why I've been writing about health freedom rather than the specific properties of medicinal herbs and nutrients. It is crucial that we protect our natural rights to food and natural medicine, even it is means putting other projects to the side for the moment.
I thank you for your ongoing support in this mission. Our future is, in every way, worth fighting for. And with your help, we can make sure that future is one based on freedom rather than tyranny.
- Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030872_health_freedom_natural_law.html#ixzz1DBsRBQBY
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Gout Herbal Remedies - Alleviate gout symptoms naturally
Herbal remedies are a centuries-old gout treatment that remains widely used even today. Gout arthritis, or simply gout, is a one of the most painful forms of rheumatism. It is an arthritic condition resulting from an accumulation of uric acid crystals in the joints, particularly the large joint of the big toe, causing intense pain and acute inflammation. You can treat gout naturally with herbal remedies.
Black Currant Leaf Herbal Tea
In his book "Jude's Herbal Home Remedies," Jude Todd recommends drinking black currant leaf herbal tea as a natural gout treatment. Add one tablespoon of chopped black currant leaf to one cup of boiling water, cover and let steep for about 10 minutes. Strain the herbal tea and drink a cup three times a day.
Cherry Stems Decoction
Drink a cherry herbal tea decoction brewed from cherry stems. Add one cup of cherry stems to 2 cups of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and then let it simmer for half an hour. Strain the decoction and stir in 2 cups of honey. Drink a cup three times a day.
Charcoal Foot Soak
Lihua Wang, in the book "Chinese Home Remedies," writes that a charcoal foot soak is an ancient Chinese home remedy for gout in the foot. Boil 8 ounces of charcoal in water for 10 minutes. Remove the charcoal, let it dry and then wrap it in a cotton fabric bag. Place the bag in a container large enough to hold your feet, and add enough warm water to submerge your feet in it. Soak feet in the charcoal water for 30 minutes, once daily for a month.
Strawberry Leaf Herbal Tea
Steep 4 to 5 fresh strawberry leaves in one cup of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain the strawberry herbal tea, add honey and drink two to three times a day. Alternatively, Jude Todd notes that one folk remedy recommends eating strawberries and nothing else for two days.
Water
One of the easiest remedies for gout treatment is simply water, notes Bill Gottlieb in his book "Alternative Cures," because gout is caused by high levels of uric acid in the body. Once you have had an attack of gout, it is important to flush excess uric acid from the body with water by drinking about a gallon per day. It also dilutes the concentration of uric acid in the body. Water is not only helpful as a stand-alone remedy but also complements other treatments of gout as well.
References
1 "Jude's Herbal Home Remedies: Natural Health, Beauty & Home-Care Secrets;" Jude C. Williams, Jude Todd; 2008
2 "Chinese home remedies: harnessing ancient wisdom for self-healing;" Lihua Wang; 2005
3 "Alternative Cures: More Than 1,000 of the Most Effective Natural Home Remedies;" Bill Gottlieb; 2008
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All the health news headlines for 2011 - in advance
(NaturalNews) As the year 2011 begins, an interesting thought occurred to me. Rather than spending the whole year writing the news one day at a time, I was thinking it would be much easier to just write all the headlines for 2011 in advance and let you read them today.
So what you'll see below is a list of (virtually) all the health news headlines of 2011, condensed into a "fill in the blank" format using X and Y to represent variables. As the news comes out each day in the mainstream media, simply replace these variables with the names of various corporations, drugs, nutrients or individuals as the news cycle requires.
This will cover about 90% of all the health news for the upcoming year. It really works, too! After all, these are the news formulas used by the mainstream media in the first place.
Drug X found to cause heart attacks and death.
FDA panel members found to be taking money from company X.
Chemical X is found in food item Y, which probably comes from China.
Drug company X found to be engaged in marketing fraud.
The TSA wants to feel your X because they think terrorists might be carrying Y.
Wikileaks releases information X which reveals that government agent Y is actually working for corporation Z.
Clinical trial researcher Mr.
X found to be engaged in science fraud.
Factory animal farm X caught abusing animals in secret videos filmed by PETA.
Nutrient X prevents disease Y.
Nutrient X reported by the mainstream media to be dangerous, but the truth is that the research was actually paid for by drug company Y.
The FDA threatens to shut down company X for selling nutrient Y, calling it an "unapproved drug."
New research reports that disease X causes disease Y.
Homeopathy is attacked by scientist X.
Vaccines once again "proven" not to cause autism in a really, really serious scientific article published by medical journal Y.
The flu is on the rise! Hurry, everybody go get vaccinated again!Drug company X is found guilty of felony crimes but buys its way out of the situation by paying a fine of $Y while admitting no guilt.
Food ingredient X found to be dangerous to your health.
E.coli scare story reveals that bacteria has been found yet again in X vegetables.
Hence we need more food safety laws.
World governments warn about the dangers of Chinese Medicine herb X and try to ban it.
The industry that manufactures chemical X announces that X is perfectly safe for human consumption (even though we know it isn't).
Celebrity X dies following chemotherapy.
Company X gets caught trying to sell hormone-induced milk as "organic" milk.
Fast food restaurant chain X introduces new, natural-sounding menu item.
Gleeful family celebrates joy of being medically microchipped (as part of microchipping propaganda campaign fronted by company X).
Food prices skyrocket because of X.
Oil prices skyrocket because of Y.
Vaccine pushers decry that not enough people are getting vaccinated, and governments try to force more people into vaccines in order to prevent the new, dangerous X strain of the flu.
The new Republican Congress keeps spending America into a debt catastrophe while doing nothing to solve the health care bankruptcy problem.
Rates of diabetes and obesity rise X percent among population Y.
Scientists announce disease X is caused by gene Y (but they're actually wrong).
Komen for the Cure announces a new campaign to raise X dollars by selling Y products adorned in pink, even though Y products actually cause cancer.
Hospital announces it removed the wrong X organ during patient surgery.
The McDonald's Happy Meal hamburger still won't decompose.
Scientists announce that medical radiation device X is actually exposing patients to too much radiation, causing cancer.
The FDA announces it is pulling drug X off the market, but only after stalling for several years in order to let Big Pharma rake in yet more profits while patients taking the drug keep dying from heart attacks.
The X species suffers a devastating population collapse due to Y chemicals in the environment.
Health authority X announces that natural medicine Y doesn't treat cancer (even though it does) and should be banned.
Fast food item X found to contain industrial chemical Y.
Flu shots cause X number of children to be sent to the hospital suffering from convulsions, but the authorities dismiss it as coincidence and keep pushing the jabs.
Johnson & Johnson recalls product X due to yet more metal fragments or poisonous fumes being found in the product.
Pfizer commits more felonies but creates a new shell company X to take the hit while returning to business as usual.
Desperate to vaccinate more men, Walgreens announces free sex with every flu shot.
Gift cards fly off the shelves.
(Remember, they already used strip clubs to promote flu shots in 2010, so this isn't much of a stretch.)
Senator X found to be a dirty, corrupt liar protecting the businesses interests of company Y which supported his campaign.
Health authorities demand that food X be irradiated to eliminate pathogen Y.
Big oil companies trash the environment.
And there you have it! Those are the main headlines you'll see through 2011. Just replace the X and Y with whatever facts are being presented on that particular day.
You now have 90% of the news for the year in a compact form. Sure, there will be exceptions in 2011 -- really unique stories that stand out. We'll be covering those here on NaturalNews, of course, along with anything that's especially timely such as a new effort to legalize free speech about nutritional supplements.
But most of the health news you see year after year is just a regurgitation of the themes presented here. That's why this year, we're going to focus on bringing you truly unique information about health freedom, health preparedness, how to grow your own organic vegetables in your back yard and other such content that rises above the predictable pattern of recycled news.
Stay tuned to NaturalNews throughout 2011 for the most impactful health news and how-to information that you can use in your own life. If you haven't already subscribed to our email newsletter where we announce the news headlines each day, you can do that here (it's free): www.naturalnews.com/readerregistrat...
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