Kids Eating And Snorting Aspartame To Get High Can you imagine discovering that your 12-year-old child is using dry, powdered forms of aspartame to get high? I recently received an email from a woman who discovered her daughter had been eating dry aspartame to get "high."
"I learned months ago," she wrote, "that a friend of my 12-year-old daughter had turned her on to ingesting Crystal LiteŽ (with aspartame) without water to get "hyper." I consulted with our doctors, called Poison Control, and met with school administrators t... (more)
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Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumersSometimes truth is stranger than fiction, especially in this case. Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News, says that the pharmaceutical lobby in the United States, a group called PhRMA, actually commissioned the writing of a fiction novel designed to scare Americans into avoiding prescription drugs from Canada. The book was supposed to tell a story of terrorists who altered prescription drugs from Canada in order to kill Americans who were buying them over the internet or crossing ... (more)
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Over One Third of Americans Have DiabetesRelated: Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one out of every three individuals in the United States have diabetes and another 26 percent have impaired fasting glucose, which increases the risk of developing diabetes, new study findings suggest.
The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes has increased in recent years, while undiagnosed diabetes and impaired fasting glucose has r... (more)
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Sweet Misery - A Poisoned WorldA Compelling Documentary that Exposes the Real Dangers of Aspartame and How it Became FDA Approved
The FDA would not approve a poison to put on grocery store shelves and in hundreds of products just because a few political favors were pulled in, would they?
After 7000 miles, and 25 hours of footage, "Sweet Misery" reveals one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence in the history of the industrial revolution.
"Aspartame i... (more)
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Non-Psychoactive Cannabinoid Reduces Incidence Of Diabetes, Study SaysJerusalem, Israel: Administration of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) lowers incidence of diabetes in animals and may one day play a role in the prevention of human type 1 diabetes, according to preclinical findings published in the March issue of the journal Autoimmunity.
Researchers at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem reported that injections of 5 mg per day of CBD significantly reduced the prevalence of diabetes in mice from an incidence of 86 percent... (more)
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Anti-fluorosis drive is yet to take offCampaign faces roadblocks by way of misconceptions, low awareness
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# Studies show that caries is prevalent even among children exposed to fluoride
# Fluoride can affect bones and skeleton unleashing severe pain in major joints
# One main reason for contracting the disease is consumption of untreated groundwater
# 66 million people in India, including 6 million children, either affected or at high risk of fluorosis
# This includes 6 million childr... (more)
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Marijuana Does Not Raise Lung Cancer RiskPeople who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancer, new research suggests.
While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users.
Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers.
The findings surprised ... (more)
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Sleeping may help keep you slimA good night's sleep may not just leave you feeling refreshed - it may also help to you keep trim.
Researchers from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University, followed nearly 70,000 women for 16 years.
They found women who slept five or fewer hours a night were a third more likely to put on at least 33lbs (15kg) than sound sleepers during that time.
Details were presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego.
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Ouch! How `Money-Driven Medicine,' Abuse Cost Us $1.8 TrillionMay 22 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who has wrangled with a health-care provider will find nothing shocking about the title of Maggie Mahar's new book, ``Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much'' (Collins, 480 pages, $27.95).
Health-care costs ballooned to $1.8 trillion in 2005, or 16 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product last year, from about 7 percent in 1970. Soaring costs are a big reason why 48 million Americans have no health insurance and U.S. compani... (more)
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Obesity tests: The fat police: Every four-year-old in the country to be officially screenedPrimary schoolchildren are to be routinely weighed and their parents told if they are obese in a controversial initiative to tackle the worsening health crisis, The Independent on Sunday can today reveal.
Ministers have decided to overrule the Children's Commissioner and their own child health officials, who fear that telling parents the test results will stigmatise some children.
Primary schools are preparing to weigh and measure the height of four- and 10-year-ol... (more)
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Border mystery disease: Is huge scare even real?A nonprofit foundation is working to drum up awareness of a border-area mystery disease that's been described as something out of a horror film, but which most mainstream doctors refuse to admit exists.
The Morgellons Research Foundation hopes to inform lawmakers and public-health officials of the disease to try to work toward an eventual cure.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Morgellons disease, a mysterious infection seemingly similar to one documented 300 years ago, ... (more)
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Alli weight loss drug has disgusting side effects and may block fat-soluble vitaminsEverybody is excited, it seems, about the new weight loss drug Alli, which will soon be sold over the counter (no prescription necessary). An FDA review panel gave it the thumbs up, saying it thought the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks to health. Alli is based on the prescription drug Orlistat, which has been on the market for a while and has been giving people diarrhea, anal leakage and other entertaining side effects for quite some time. I'm sure we'll all hear more about these side ef... (more)
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Tests Show Carbon Monoxide In Case-Ready BeefThe report also showed ground beef purchased in the middle of March with a sell-by date of March 30 that looked red in May.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Local 6 News investigation showing case-ready ground beef enhanced with carbon monoxide remaining cherry red for months prompted tips from viewers that popular stores are selling the meat in Central Florida.
The report featured Kelly Hardesty, one of many Local 6 viewers convinced they were fooled by modified atmospher... (more)
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Tower block floors shut after brain tumour alertTHE top floors of a Melbourne office building were closed down yesterday and 100 people evacuated after a seventh worker in as many years was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
But Telstra insisted the mobile phone towers on the roof of the 17-storey RMIT University building were not linked to the cancer cluster.
Five academics - who worked on the top floor - and two general staff have suffered brain tumours since 1999. Six of the seven staff had worked at the Bourke St... (more)
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Judge rejects warning label on tuna cans: Calif. court: Advisory on mercury unneeded A state Superior Court judge has ruled that seafood producers don't have to warn consumers of the mercury in canned tuna under Proposition 65, which requires companies to warn of products containing hazardous ingredients.
Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer sued StarKist, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee in 2004, seeking to force warnings on store shelves or can labels.
After a two-month trial in San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero filed a ruling late Thursday ... (more)
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Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majo... (more)
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White Blood Cells From Cancer-resistant Mice Cure Cancers In Ordinary MiceWhite blood cells from a strain of cancer-resistant mice cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported today.
"Even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumors were eradicated," Zheng Cui, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues reported in this week's on-line edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers... (more)
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Putin warns of population declineRussia's declining population is the biggest problem the nation faces today, President Vladimir Putin has said.
In an annual address to the nation, Mr Putin said falling birth rates and the rise in mortality made Russia's demographic situation "critical".
He also outlined a national programme to encourage women to have more children, pledging more state help.
Mr Putin also touched on a wide range of issues, including Russia's foreign policy, economy a... (more)
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Tap water may raise bladder cancer risk: studyNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pooled data from six case-control studies suggest that higher consumption of tap water-based drinks may slightly increase the risk of bladder cancer among men.
The increased risk of bladder cancer with tap water consumption was "consistently found in all six studies, making chance an unlikely explanation," write investigators in the International Journal of Cancer.
They caution, however, that for now, the study finding that tap water "is ... (more)
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