Category: Health

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Gluten-Free Movement is No Fad – Here’s Why it Can Benefit Anyone

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info If listening to your body has lead you to identify gluten as a health problem and you feel better after removing it, a new study adds to an already extensive body of research that the rapidly expanding gluten free movement is not a fad as critics claim.  The gluten free (GF) movement has taken on powerful momentum in the past few years, with GF labeled products estimated to balloon to about 7 billion dollars globally by 2019. And so, with any popular dietary pattern promising beneficial changes in health and well-being, as well as challenging both centuries old beliefs in the value of wheat and their producer’s and manufacturer’s bottom line, the growing popularity and perceive health benefits of the […] Read More

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Fluoride in Water Linked to More ADHD Symptoms – Study

Heather Callaghan Activist Post Believe it or not, people have protested the mass medication of the public through drinking water all along. The fluoride in tap water – although touted as healthy and safe – is nothing more than the “legal” unregulated way for chemical companies to unload their waste. And we pay for that privilege. Last year, a highly contested Harvard research studypublished in The Lancet implied that water fluoridation is not only ineffective for teeth but is a neurotoxin associated with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental issues. It has also been associated with a significant drop in IQ. Fluoride was recently outed as damaging to the thyroid – that is significant when talking about neurodevelopmental problems. Critics can shrug off and jeer the results […] Read More

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Can Vaccines Be Harmful To Your Health?

Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy centered around vaccinations. Even this blog has been discussing this hot-button issue for awhile. There has been a great deal of information and misinformation concerning supposed health-preventative strategies, including vaccines, and it’s important to explore all sides in order to make an informed decision. The proposed benefits of vaccines are obvious: a lower infection rate of deadly diseases. But, in what way can vaccines be dangerous for your health? Is it vaccines entirely, or is it specific things found only in certain kinds of vaccines that are concerning? Let’s take a look at exactly what makes some vaccines potentially dangerous. The Unspoken Reality About Vaccines What many people don’t know about the vaccination process is that […] Read More

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NJ Mayor Cheers End to Town’s ’Mass Medication’ Through Fluoridated Water

“In addition, so many people are choosing to drink bottled water rather than tap,” he said. City officials agreed to end water fluoridation in a New Jersey town after the mayor spoke out against the practice. “The township will end its mass medication of the public by ending the use of fluoride in the water system,” said David Stahl, mayor of East Brunswick, last month during his state of the township address. The Republican Stahl said he had “read much data on the pros and cons of putting fluoride in our water system,” saying that the cavity-fighting mineral is more widely available than when it was introduced nearly 60 years ago to the town’s water system, reported the Courier News. “Today there are many other options,” the […] Read More

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Politicians Across the US Are Pushing Medical Marijuana Smoking Bans — Here’s Why They Are Dead Wrong

Another knee-jerk bad idea. State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislative efforts to allow for the limited use of medical ‘cannabis’ while simultaneously forbidding anyone from either inhaling the herb or possessing its flowers Many medical marijuana advocates cheered the news this week that members of the Utah Senate gave preliminary approval to legislation to permit the use of medical cannabis preparations for qualified patients. No doubt the vote marked a significant change in attitude for lawmakers in the heavily Mormon state. But while the vote marked a ‘first’ for Utah, lawmakers’ decision to prohibit patients from legally possessing, inhaling, or vaporizing actual cannabis is part of a growing, and problematic, national trend. While no state legislature has approved a law permitting medi-pot patients to […] Read More

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6 Ways Big Pharma Exploits Our Worst Fears to Hook America on Drugs

Selling symptoms to suggestible people has been a gold mine for Big Pharma. Long before the Internet and direct to consumer advertising, the medical profession tried to reassure people about their health concerns. Sure, fatigue and headaches could be a symptom of a brain tumor; sure, a cough could be a symptom of lung cancer—but most doctors tried to assuage, not sow, fear.  Remember “take two aspirins and call me in the morning”? Flash forward to today’s online “symptom checkers,” quizzes to see if you have a certain disease and exhortations to see your doctor even though you feel fine. Once Pharma discovered that health fears and even hypochondria sell drugs, there seems to be no end to the new diseases, symptoms and risks people […] Read More

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Consumers distrustful of ‘big food’ companies turn to local food

Linda Moon www.sbs.com.au 27 Feb 2015 Comment: Consumers distrustful of ‘big food’ companies turn to local food Mounting hepatitis cases linked to frozen berries supplied by frozen desserts and pie manufacturer Patties Foods is another in a long list of food blights fuelling consumer distrust in “big food” companies. Aided by consumer movements and the information explosion, fed up consumers are turning in greater numbers towards local food. Terry Fleck, executive director of the Centre for Food Integrity in the US, recently remarked: “Trust in our food system is very fragile.” As the production of food has become industrialised, the public increasingly sees it as an “institution” to be questioned, its motives to be doubted, Fleck said. 90 percent of people surveyed by the non-profit […] Read More

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MIT States That Half of All Children May be Autistic by 2025 due to Monsanto

A senior scientist at MIT has declared that we are facing an epidemic of autism that may result in one half of all children being affected by autism in ten years. Dr. Stephanie Seneff, who made these remarks during a panel presentation in Groton, MA last week, specifically cites the Monsanto herbicide, Roundup, as the culprit for the escalating incidence of autism and other neurological disorders. Roundup, which was introduced in the 1970’s, contains the chemical glyphosate, which is the focal point for Seneff’s concerns. Roundup was originally restricted to use on weeds, as glyphosate kills plants. However, Roundup is now in regular use with crops. With the coming of GMO’s, plants such as soy and corn were bioengineered to tolerate glyphosate, and its use […] Read More

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The Real Flu Strikes Just Twice Every 10 Years – Here’s Why Vaccines Are Useless For Influenza

Many are still hypnotized by all the propaganda on influenza. Over 200 different types of viruses can cause a cold, and only a rare few can cause the flu. According to CDC data, in over the last decade, 86% of all influenza-type illnesses (ILI) were NOT caused by the influenza virus, thus influenza viruses are ONLY active 14% of the time. The symptoms of influenza infection can be hard to distinguish from those caused by other viruses that trigger the common cold. Chances are that if you’re 30 or over, it may be a cold. That’s the message from research showing that people aged 30 or more can expect just two bouts of flu per decade for the rest of their lives. Since the two […] Read More

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Life In Prison For $20 of Weed

  A homeless man in Louisiana has now become the prime example of the failed drug war. His case demonstrates just how the so-called “War on Drugs” is really just a “War on Us.” Fate Vincent Winslow, is a 41-year-old homeless African American man, who was down on his luck, homeless and hungry. On September 5th, 2008, Abby Haglage of The Daily Beast, reports that he, along with a man he called “Perdue,” became the targets of a police sting operation. An undercover cop approached the two, pretending to look for marijuana and a prostitute. Perdue was not arrested, but Winslow was… Why? Because he was desperate to eat and he offered a way to make a quick $5. Haglage reports the exchange as follows: […] Read More