Lying with statistics: How conventional medicine confuses the public with absolute risk vs. relative riskWhich drug would you rather take? One that reduces your risk of cancer by 50 percent, or another drug that only eliminates cancer in one out of 100 people? Most people would choose the drug that reduces their risk of cancer by 50 percent, but the fact is, both of these numbers refer to the same drug. They’re just two different ways of looking at the same statistic. One way is called relative risk; the other way is absolute risk.
Here's how it works: Let’s say that in a trial invol... (more)
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100 Years of Soda Pop Profits Contributes To The Pandemic of Diabetes“In the search of wealth, we destroy our health”.
Women who drink more than one can of sugar-filled soda a day might be increasing their chances of developing diabetes along with gaining weight.
A study showed that women who drank the minimum of one soda each day could increase their likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes by 85 percent over the women who drank less than one can a day.
Along with increasing the risk for diabetes, the high sugar and c... (more)
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Calorie-free stevia's 11-year war with FDATo many people these days, simply sweetening a cup of coffee is practically akin to picking a poison. Sugar or honey? Too many calories. Equal or Nutrasweet? Too many health risks, especially given recent reports detailing diet soda's dangerously high levels of the cancer-causing compound benzene.
So to the sweet-toothed consumer, the increasingly popular, all natural, calorie-free substance called stevia sounds too good to be true.
And to the U.S. Food and Drug Ad... (more)
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The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seedsSometime in the future, science is going to deliver to us desktop food fabrication equipment. These machines, which I'll call "FoodFabs," will be able to manufacture food items at the touch of a button on your desktop or countertop. It might have the size and shape of a microwave, but instead of punching in the time that you want, you punch in the food item you want. There was a glimpse of this technology in the movie The Fifth Element, in which leading lady Milla Jovovich approaches a machine, ... (more)
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Australian Government Forces Aspartame on School KidsSUGAR-FILLED soft drinks will be banned from school canteens in Victoria next year.
But Australia's first state-imposed veto on sales of fizzy drinks to children has drawn fire from doctors who want water to be the only drink sold in school canteens across the nation.
Victorian Education Minister Lynne Kosky announced yesterday that schools would have the rest of this year to phase out high-kilojoule fizzy drinks and some sugar-added fruit drinks, but artificially s... (more)
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Scientists Say Sex Can Protect Against DiseaseWe know sex is good for us. Now scientists say it can also protect against disease, writes Lucy Atkins.
IT DOES not take a degree in medicine to work out that sex is good for you. Anything that is free, feels fabulous and leaves you glowing is plainly a good idea.
But scientists are now beginning to understand that the perceived feel-good effects of sexual intercourse are merely the tip of the iceberg. Sex, they are discovering, can offer protection from depression,... (more)
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Hidden Danger of Cholesterol-Lowering DrugsAs an ex-drug chemist, I witnessed how drug side-effects are hidden from patients and doctors by “big Pharma.” Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor, Crestor, Pravachol, Zocor and Mevacor serve as poignant examples.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs decrease CoQ10 levels within the heart. This essential nutrient serves as an energy producing molecule and is crucial to proper cardiovascular function. Without it, the heart fails. Congestive heart failure is the outcome. This was highl... (more)
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The Shaving Cream RacketLook, I'm the last guy to trash a consumer product. I'm disinclined to blast the manufacturers of a beloved bathroom gel as deceivers who make money off people's ignorance and perpetuate the problem they are supposedly solving, or charlatans who deliberately hook people on some chemically produced gunk solely for the sake of profiting from repeated uses.
But someone has to say it: shaving cream is a racket.
Why don't people know this? It's just part of the lost know... (more)
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Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor!Conventional medicine, as practiced today, is actually pretend medicine. Doctors and drug companies pretend to make patients healthier by giving them drugs. The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public. Medical journals pretend to print only rigorous, scientifically-sound research papers. Drug companies pretend to care about the lives and health of patients. Non-profit disease front groups pretend to be searching for the cure while, in reality, most of them are only searching for more wa... (more)
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EU commission 'admitted GM food uncertainty'The European commission has been approving genetically modified crops for human consumption while secretly warning about their impact on health and the environment, a report published today reveals.
Papers obtained by two environmental groups under freedom of information laws show the commission pushed through the approval of seven GM foods.
They were approved despite admissions that there were "large areas of uncertainty" and "some issues have not yet been studied ... (more)
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Fosamax does more harm than goodThe osteoporosis drug Fosamax has been on the market for a little over 10 years now. Drug maker Merck promoted it heavily by selling women the fear of a disabling hip fracture and the necessity of regular bone-density tests. Merck's initial TV advertising campaign featured a slim woman in her mid-40s, conveying the notion that testing was appropriate for women in this age group.
Fosamax belongs to a drug class known as bisphosphonates. Novartis's Aredia and Zometa injections are t... (more)
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Study shows the public is turning to alternative medicine and away from dangerous prescription drugsA study published in April 2005 revealed that more than 70 percent of adults aged 50 or older are now using some form of alternative therapy. This includes medicinal herbs, meditation and chiropractic care. The fact that these people are adopting alternative medicine and using it in their own lives is fascinating in and of itself, but what is really fascinating about this research is the response it has been getting from the conventional medical community.
The co-author of this st... (more)
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Elephant Man: I'm Losing My Fingers And ToesTHESE shock pictures show the horrifying plight of Ryan Wilson —the final survivor to pull through from the shocking Elephant Man drug trials.
After five weeks the human guinea pig still lies stricken in a hospital bed watching his swollen rotting fingers and toes DROPPING OFF.
And there may be worse in store. He could end up having ALL his hands and feet CUT off.
In an exclusive interview handsome Ryan, 20, told us: "I'm definitely going to lose bits... (more)
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Two Soft Drinks Companies Sued For Cancer Causing BenzeneBenzene can be formed in soft drinks which contain Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate. Two soft drinks companies, Polar Beverages Inc. and Zone Brands Inc., are being sued by parents in Massachusetts and Florida for selling drinks which may contain benzene. The companies are being asked to take their products off the shelves (withdraw them).
Polar Beverages makes fruit-flavoured fizzy drinks and mixers. Zone Brands makes BellyWashers and juices.
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Blowing Smoke: LANL is Sending Deadly Depleted Uranium into the Air We Breathe Back in 1943, a memo to Manhattan Project’s General Leslie Groves from Drs. Conant, Compton and Urey extolled the lethal possibilities of radioactive materials “as a Gas Warfare Instrument. The material . . . ground into particles of microscopic size and . . . distributed in the form of a dust or smoke or dissolved in liquid, by ground-fired projectiles, land vehicles, airplanes, or aerial bombs . . . would be inhaled by personnel. The amounts necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the m... (more)
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Iraq Mess is Literally Making People Sick Of the more than 670,000 troops deployed to the Gulf in 1991, about one-third of them now receive disability compensation.Remember your mother's warning, "If you can't clean up after yourself, don't make the mess"? Didn't we subject our children to that mantra?
But what was and is a continuing motif running through the theater of family life has not apparently carried over into the theater of modern warfare.
Take Iraq, for example. During the 1991 Gulf War our mili... (more)
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Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing themIn June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical Publishing's Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives.
In Portland, Ore., Jay Johnston followed his doctor's orders and took the prescribed antidepressants Zoloft and Prozac. He then attempted suicide with a shotg... (more)
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Fluoridation, The NRC Report And 'Crucial' False News Alerts"It is crucial to note that this [NRC] report is NOT about community water fluoridation."
- The American Dental Association (caps theirs).
When is toxic sludge good for us? When profit can be made by selling it. The truth, of course, never really changes, nor can the truth be altered by even the most corrupt and outdated of advertising campaigns. No matter how frequently a white-coated promoter presents himself as an "expert" or an "official" and repeats the age-worn s... (more)
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AARP Food Questionnaire Pitted Against Italian Cancer Institute Aspartame StudyMedia blitz by the artificial sweetener industry denies aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) link to cancer. Researcher, Unhee Lin of the National Cancer Institute says: AARP questionnaire was an "unscientific survey."
(PRWEB) April 9, 2006 -- The media blitz is on to discredit Dr. Morando Soffritti and the Ramazzini Cancer institute’s 7-year study showing aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) causes cancer, especially lymphoma and leukemia.
http://www.ramazzini.it/fondazio... (more)
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New Fed Aspartame 'Study' Is Cockamamie Claptrap
The Associated Press just said a "study" by NCI, NIH and AARP gives aspartame a clean bill of health. You like fairy tales? This is from the bowels of Ally Oop, Mickey Mouse & Mother Goose. The aspartame biz is in the toilet. Europe's biggest belcher, Holland Sweetener, announced they're bailing out of this "persistently unprofitable business".
Consumer activism has torpedoed the good ship NutraSweet with peer reviewed scientific and medical facts confirmed by multitudes ... (more)
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Fluoride debate may surge as treated water linked to cancerYoung boys who drink fluoridated tap water are at greater risk for a rare bone cancer, Harvard researchers reported yesterday.
The study, published online yesterday in a Harvard-affiliated journal, could intensify debate over fluoridation and mean more scrutiny for Harvard’s Dr. Chester Douglass,accused of fudging the findings to downplay a cancer link.
“It’s the best piece of work ever linking fluoride in tap water and bone cancer. It’s pretty damning for (... (more)
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Sun helps beat breast cancer
WOMEN with high exposure to the sun as teenagers may be protected against breast cancer in later life, doctors have found.
Boosting levels of vitamin D could be beneficial at a time when breast cells are developing. New evidence of the ability of the "sunshine vitamin" to reduce the risk of cancer comes from two studies presented in the US.
They found women with the highest levels of the vitamin produced by the body when exposed to sunlight were up to 50 per... (more)
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Infant formula warning: The poisoning of infants with formula products, and why breastfeeding is bestOver the years, countless studies have shown that when it comes to infant nutrition, breast milk is best. This fact remains true, as there is simply no infant formula product on the market that can match the superior nutrition of mother's milk. In fact, some infant formulas actually contain ingredients that can be harmful to your baby.
Although some formula recipes have improved over time for mothers who must rely on formula to feed their new baby, many products are still loaded w... (more)
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Government Says Aspartame Is Good For You: AP calls study independent, omits previous human studies showing Aspartame dangerThe deadly toxin Aspartame which is included in more than 6,000 food and drink products around the world is good for you according to a new government study. The Associated Press falsely labels the results as independent and omits referencing previous human studies undertaken by groups with no corporate or government ties that concluded the opposite.
Associated Press health correspondent Marilynn Marchione seems to revel in suggesting the study is beyond reproach because it us... (more)
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Aspartame Causes Blood DisordersAspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, E951, Benevia, Canderel, etc.) is an excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with all drugs and vaccines. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm Because it's an actual chemical poison it causes polychemical sensitivity syndrome or MCS, so even if victims get off this toxin they often think they are allergic to other things, react to genetically engineered products, and synthetic sweeteners which are toxins themselves like Sucralose (Splend... (more)
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