New Research: Fluoride Damages Children's Liver and Kidneys (NYSCOF)Fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions, according to a new study in "Environmental Research"(1), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF).
Xiong and colleagues write, "Our results suggest that drinking water fluoride levels over 2.0 mg/L can cause damage to liver and kidney functions in children." Further, dental fluorosis (fluoride-discolored teeth) can be an indicator of kidney function harm, they report.
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EU urged to ban US rice in genes rowThe European Union was yesterday facing calls to ban all imports of rice from the US, after Washington conceded that traces of an unauthorised variety of genetically modified rice had entered the food and feed supply in the US.
The news has already sparked a backlash in Japan, which suspended US imports of long-grain rice on Saturday. In Brussels, the European Commission said yesterday it was treating the issue as "a matter of utmost urgency".
A Commission spokeswom... (more)
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The Truth About Our Food That Nobody HeardI have a new hero.
He is Robert W. Young, the Assistant Inspector General for Audit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and author of Audit Report 50601-8-Te that was released last December, “Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Controls Over Issuance of Genetically Engineered Organism Release Permits.”
Like the prophet Nathan before sinful King David, Mr. Young wags his honest pen in the face of the slothful, incompetent imbeciles who have failed mis... (more)
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USDA: Rice supply contaminated with unapproved varietyWASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced late Friday that U.S. commercial supplies of long-grain rice had become inadvertently contaminated with a genetically engineered variety not approved for human consumption.
Johanns said the company that made the experimental rice, Bayer CropScience of Monheim, Germany, had provided information to the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration indicating that the rice poses no threats to human health or the ... (more)
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AIDS a Glamorous Multi-Billion Dollar Industry – Sufferers ForgottenHuge profits for pharmaceutical and condom manufacturers, bottomless grants for researchers and NGO’s, publicity and money for research foundations, six-digit salaries for advertising executives and increasing fame for big name celebrities are creating a disincentive to actually stop the disease say some AIDS activists.
The “AIDS industry,” is a multi-billion dollar international enterprise now, and those who gather to enjoy lavish meals and hotels in Toronto this week, are more i... (more)
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Soy: Too Much of a Good Thing? Controversy rages over the world's most regaled legumeIt lurks in your cupboards, your cereal, bread, pasta and chips. It's in your refrigerator, in your cheese, condiments, yogurt, sausages, ice cream. It's in those M&M's by the desk, probably in the latte you're drinking right now.
It's soy, and it's now in almost every single processed food we buy at supermarkets and health food stores. As America's favorite "health food," it promises to make us skinny and lower our cholesterol, prevent cancer and reduce menopausal symptoms, put u... (more)
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Hot Dogs May Cause Genetic MutationsEveryone knows hot dogs aren't exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one's risk for cancer.
Scientists note there is an up to 240-fold variation in levels of these chemicals across different brands.
"One could try and find out what the difference in manufacturing techniques are between the brands, and if it's decided these things are a hazard, one could change the manufacturing methods," re... (more)
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What's in My Food?Few people know that the food coloring listed as cochineal extract comes from female beetles. Food activists want to spread the word.
When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs. Specifically, from the female cochineal beetles and their eggs. And it's not just yogurt. The bugs are also used to give red coloring to Hershey Good & Plenty candies, Tropicana... (more)
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The top ten things food companies don't want you to knowThe giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence cancer-causing chemicals found in popular food products.
Here are ten things the food corporations, whose products dominate grocery store shelves across the United States and other countries, absolutely do not want you to know.
1. The ingredients listed on the ... (more)
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Several states ban Coke and Pepsi After an environmental group claimed that Pepsi and Coke are contaminated with pesticides more and more states are banning the colas.
Today, the Gujarat University banned the drinks in campus of over over 600 colleges and 1000 schools. The Rajasthan Assembly has also stopped sales in their canteen.
The Madhya Pradesh government has said no more cold drinks in government offices and education institutions.
"We will ban sale of colas in canteens at ... (more)
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Coke and Pepsi told to spill secrets or face banINDIA’S highest court yesterday demanded that Coca-Cola should reveal its secret formula for the first time in 120 years.
The Supreme Court ordered the US soft drinks maker, along with its rival PepsiCo, to supply details of the chemical composition and ingredients of their products after a study released this week claimed that they contained unacceptable levels of insecticides.
Justice S. B. Sinha and Justice Dalveer Bhandari directed the companies to file their re... (more)
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Doctors Paid up to $5,000 to Recruit Human Guinea PigsIf your doctor suggests you're the perfect candidate for some clinical trial, you might ask how much he's getting paid to recruit you.
Finders fees from $2,000 to $5,000 are common, say University of Toronto researchers Trudo Lemmens and Paul Miller. The fees are being paid to physicians, nurses and other health care professionals.
The tactic is on the rise, the researchers write in the journal PLoS Medicine, because there are more drugs in development and so more t... (more)
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Pepsi and Coke under fire againAn Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said their investigations revealed that the drinks contain harmful residues, posing a health risk.
A CSE report in 2003 resulted in Pepsi and Coca-Cola strenuously rejecting claims that their drinks were unsafe.
Soft drinks manufacturers have condemned th... (more)
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DOW Wants To Spray Fluoride On Your FoodDOW Chemical has been lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow it to spray a new fluoride-based pesticide (sulfuryl fluoride) on hundreds of foods prepared in the US.
If DOW gets its way, sulfuryl fluoride will become a major new source of fluoride, making it even more difficult for consumers to avoid fluoride in their daily lives.
What's worse, the levels of fluoride allowed to be sprayed on food will be shockingly high: 70 ppm for processed fo... (more)
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CDC considers Texas for Morgellons studyThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a study of Morgellons disease that may target South Texas where more than 100 people are suffering from the illness.
Cindy Casey suffers from Morgellons. Symptoms of the disease include lesions that leave scars, the sensation of bugs crawling under the skin, and fibers that pop out of the skin.
"Mostly black and white. Some of them were blue, and some of them were red. The whole area gets really sore and yo... (more)
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'Miracle' cancer drug may hurt heartDoctors at Thomas Jefferson University have discovered why the wonder drug Gleevec, heralded for turning off cancer cells, may also cause congestive heart failure in a small number of patients.
The implications of the research may also extend beyond Gleevec, revealing potential pitfalls in a whole class of cancer drugs that work in a similar way, the report's authors say.
The study follows up on 10 patients who developed severe heart failure after taking Gleevec. Th... (more)
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State to go door-to-door to check on residents' healthWashington state health officials will soon start asking detailed questions about the health of some state residents — and even give them brief physical exams.
The door-to-door survey of 1,100 randomly selected households across the state will try to learn more about our health, and especially about our risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, to better target preventive educational programs.
"We want to get a snapshot of [residents'] health ... and if we can't... (more)
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Drug mistakes hurt 1.5 million yearlyAt least 1.5 million Americans are injured or killed every year by medication errors at a direct cost of billions of dollars, according to a report issued Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.
For hospitalized patients, the report said that on average one medication error per day is caused by confusion in drug names, wrong doses, failure to deliver drugs and a host of other problems.
The report is a follow-up to a 1999 report from the institute, which is part of t... (more)
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Seaweed extract blocks HPV cervical cancer virus, scientists discoverA new study by the National Cancer Institute has revealed that a seaweed extract called carrageenan can prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) -- a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer -- from entering human cells.
Researchers found that carrageenan -- derived from red algae -- strongly inhibits HPV from attaching to human cells, which prevents it from entering and infecting the cells. "We were floored by how much better it worked than anything else we have tested," ... (more)
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Medicine vs. healing, war vs. peace and male vs. female thinkingWherever you go, if you talk about nutrition, healing with food, natural health or any similar topics, you'll find that women are far more open to these ideas than men. I have wondered for a long time why this is, and I have a few ideas on some possible answers. For the men out there reading this, you're probably excluded from the generalizations I am about to offer, because if you're reading this, you are open to new ideas. In fact, you'll probably agree with most of this. The question is, why ... (more)
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FDA admits thousands of common medications never received FDA approvalThe FDA has admitted that several thousand prescription and over-the-counter medicines -- including cough medicines, painkillers, sedatives and anti-inflammatory drugs -- have never been certified as safe and effective by the regulatory agency.
"We consider it a significant and serious drug safety issue that must be addressed since these products may pose a risk to consumers," said Steven Galson, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement.
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The forced poisoning of Abraham Cherrix, the tyranny of modern medicine, and state-sponsored assaults on health freedomAcross the nation, an increasing number of families are having their lives destroyed by the greed and arrogance of conventional medicine and its toxic cancer treatments. Families are arrested at gunpoint, jailed, prosecuted and separated from their children by Child Protective Services, all due to the demands of arrogant doctors who insist on treating cancer with conventional chemotherapy that's so toxic, it almost kills the patient before killing the cancer cells.
Conventional me... (more)
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FDA ready to loosen rules for clinical trials, allowing drug companies to make them up as they go alongThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that drug makers will soon be able to conduct "adaptive" clinical trials that will allow researchers to change details of the study midway through.
Under the FDA's new guidelines, pharmaceutical companies conducting drug studies would no longer be required to follow the current rules, under which patients and physicians in drug trials do not know the results until the trial is complete. Those guidelines were put in place ... (more)
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