(NaturalNews) A hospital trust where conditions were so bad that more than 1,000 patients may have died due to negligence actively tried to stop employees from raising concerns about patient safety, according to an inquiry conducted by the British Health Department.

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One egregious case occurred following the death of John Moore-Robinson, a 20-year-old who was admitted to the hospital following a mountain bike accident in April 2006. He was discharged with painkillers and died less than 24 hours later from a ruptured spleen that health workers had failed to detect.

In his report on the incident, consultant Ivan Phair concluded that, "The premature death of Mr. Moore-Robinson in my opinion was an avoidable situation. I feel that an independent expert would criticize the management afforded to him by the staff. There is a high probability that the level of care delivered to Mr. Moore-Robinson was negligent."

The hospital's head of services, Kate Levy, then wrote to Phair asking him to remove these comments from his report in order to avoid "further distress to the family and adverse publicity." Phair's report was not included in data presented to the inquest following the death.

Another consultant, Pradip Singh, told the inquiry that he and several coworkers had complained to superiors about staff cuts and the ensuing reduction in standards of care. They were either ignored or ostracized as troublemakers.

According to Singh, the hospital suffers from a "palpable culture of intimidation." Data submitted to the inquiry note that the hospital's written policy on whistleblowers actively discourages employees from raising concerns.

Researchers conducted health tests on 430 Belgian kindergarteners and had their parents fill out questionnaires about their health history and swimming habits. They found that while 36 percent of children who had been exposed to chlorinated pools before the age of two had a history of the lung infection known as bronchiolitis, compared with only 24 percent of children who had not been exposed.

Bronchiolitis is a usually viral infection of the small airways of the lungs. Researchers believe that chlorine in swimming pools may combine with sweat, saliva and urine from swimmers to produce chemicals that irritate and weaken the lungs. In the weaker, developing lungs of children, this can raise the risk of infection.

Supporting this hypothesis, researchers found that indoor pools increased infection risk more than outdoor pools. Children who had been to chlorinated outdoor pools for 20 or more hours by age two are twice as likely to suffer from bronchiolitis as children who had not been to chlorinated pools at all. Children who had been to indoor pools were 3.5 times as likely to have a history of the infection.

Researchers found that while neither swimming nor a history of bronchiolitis appeared to raise the risk of asthma or respiratory allergies by age five on their own, the combination of these factors led to a significantly higher risk.

Bernard noted that swimming is an "enjoyable" way to get kids exercise, but that chlorinated pools carry risks. He suggested that children use pools disinfected without chlorine whenever possible.

(NaturalNews) Barefoot running is relatively non-existent in industrialized and wealthier countries although it remains common in poorer nations. Cushioned shoes are comfortable and well-integrated into our modern day society; however, science has shown they may not be the best way to run.

A recent study published in the journal Nature showed that barefoot runners had a greater amount of time landing on the balls of their feet compared to runners in shoes who tend to land on their heels first. Using motion and force analysis, scientists showed that barefoot runners who strike on the forefoot generate smaller impact forces than shod rear-foot strikers.

The human foot evolved over thousands of years without cushioned shoes. The structure of the foot and lower leg is very efficient at absorbing the shock of landing. By using the natural rhythm of gravity, barefoot running is extremely efficient at turning the energy of the fall into forward motion.

Daniel Lieberman PhD, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, says that cushioned footwear leads to a change in running mechanics that increase heel strike of the foot. Barefoot running, on the other hand, promotes striking the ground with the forefoot and middle of the foot. Running on the balls of the feet or middle of the foot reduces impact force by 2-3 times the amount of body weight that heel striking runners repeatedly experience.

"People who don't wear shoes when they run have an astonishingly different strike," Lieberman said in a news release. "By landing on the middle or front of the foot, barefoot runners have almost no impact collision, much less than most shod runners generate when they heel-strike. Most people today think barefoot running is dangerous and hurts, but actually you can run barefoot on the world's hardest surfaces without the slightest discomfort and pain."

"It's really about how you hit the ground," said Lieberman. "When you hit the ground, some of your body comes to a dead stop." For runners in cushioned shoes, "it is literally like someone hitting you on the heel with a hammer, but the way in which barefoot runners run is more or less collision free."

Heel striking causes a large and sudden collision force at an average of 960 times for every mile they run, "making runners prone to repetitive stress injuries." Barefoot runners tend to point their toes more at landing, minimizing the collision by decreasing the "effective mass of the foot that comes to a sudden stop when you land, and by having a more compliant or springy leg."

Barefoot Running Suggestions:

1.Run on Grass: One of the most enjoyable ways to run barefoot is in the grass from spring – fall. Soccer or football fields are great.

2.Running on Harder Surfaces: Be careful and ease into it. Many people swear by running barefoot on hard surfaces, but it can be dangerous. Over-time your eye-foot coordination will improve.

3.Specific Footwear: Certain apparel simulates barefoot running while providing a quality level of protection. These products are very helpful.

4.Ease Into It: Barefoot running depends on a different series of muscle contractions that most people rarely use when running in shoes. Like any new form of exercise, this can cause soreness in the ankle, calf, and foot. Progress into it slowly and after 2 weeks you should have acclimated appropriately.

(NaturalNews) Albert Einstein once said, "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Through their production of an elite class of superfoods and around-the-clock pollination efforts that touch nearly every corner of the planet, the influence of honeybees is directly linked to mankind`s ability to live in abundance and, perhaps, even survive.

Honeybees are master craftsman that display all of the elements of a genius at work: delicate precision, incredible instincts, and a work ethic unparalleled by almost any other living creature. Just one honeybee can pollinate 30 flowers a minute. Here is a small sampling of the fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts grown in tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate climates that rely on the pollination efforts of honeybees:

Almonds, apples, apricots, avocados, beets, blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cashews, celery, cherries, coconuts, cotton, cucumber, grapes, lemons, limes, mangos, onions, papaya, pears, soybeans, strawberries, and watermelon.

In addition to pollinating, honeybees produce some of the most nutritionally comprehensive superfoods in the world, and they are the only insects that produce foods for human consumption. They include bee pollen, honey, propolis, and royal jelly. These superfoods are directly linked to longevity, healing the body and overcoming disease, improving athletic performance, increasing cognitive abilities, and an overall enhancement in the quality of life in those who consume them.

People have known about these benefits for thousands of years. Russian research has shown that beekeeping is the longest lived profession in the world. Considering that it is rare to find a beekeeper that doesn`t consume some of the products from the hive, the connection to longevity is obvious. Even bee stings have been used to help with arthritis (bee venom therapy) and beeswax is used in the production of candles, soaps, and other useful products. There is also evidence that the Greek philosopher Pythagorus was a voracious consumer of honey, and bee products were used throughout the early games in Ancient Greece by Olympic athletes. Even Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, is thought to have used bee pollen over 2,500 years ago as part of his healing protocol.

If you want to improve the quality and increase production of your fruit, vegetable, or flower garden, try keeping bees on your property next to your garden and see what happens. You`ll have not only your own superfood production factory, but also an additional army of super pollinators eager to catapult the yield of your garden into the stratosphere. Honeybees have the unique ability to both feed and heal the people of the world.

(NaturalNews) Today, I spent my time interviewing people on the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to Louisiana. Several of those interviews were conducted on camera, and you'll be seeing those videos as early as tomorrow here on NaturalNews.

This claim stands in direct contradiction to what BP says. The company insists it's trying to stop the flow of oil from the well. But if you look at BP's actions, what they're really trying to do is siphon off the gushing oil where it can be pumped to a tanker ship and sold as crude. It is a simple matter, by the way, for oil companies to separate water from oil. They do it all the time in oil fields all across America. So if they can siphon off the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well — even if it's mixed with water — they can sell it for potentially billions of dollars.

It raises the question: Is the economic promise of captured oil causing BP to avoid using its best effort to cap the well?

The mainstream media hasn't picked up on this yet, by the way. To my knowledge, no one is yet reporting this story that BP may have never had any intention of actually capping the deep sea well.

We already know BP has been extremely dishonest with the media about this entire situation. By distorting the truth and lying to the public, BP has lost all credibility with almost everyone (Governors, Senators, journalists, etc.). So how can we trust that BP is actually trying to cap this well when there's so much money to be made from allowing it to keep spilling oil that can soon be captured?

In other words, it's in BP's financial interests to avoid capping the well and claim the well can't be capped when, in reality, what they may be trying to do is buy more time until they can lower a "capture containment device" onto the well head that can direct all the outflowing crude oil to BP's awaiting tanker ships.

In talking to the people face to face here on Gulf Coast, I learned that Gulf Coast people don't trust BP, and they don't trust the company's intentions. Today was the first I had heard of the BP agenda to "keep the well flowing" yet suddenly this theory makes sense. BP, after all, went through all the trouble and expense to drill the well. Why wouldn't they want to cash in on the crude oil coming out of it?

To collapse the well and plug it for good would destroy BP's chance to siphon off oil and sell it for profit (until at least August, when the pressure relief wells are expected to be completed). And that is perhaps the single most important reason why oil is still flowing out of that well right now.

As one person I interviewed today put it, "Why should a British petroleum company care about what happens to America's shores?" After all, the financial payoffs to the businesses hurt by the spill may pale in comparison to the billions of dollars in profit to be had from tapping — not capping — the well and turning crude oil into raw cash.

There will be more to this story. Let's see if the mainstream media picks up on this angle.

By the way, I don't yet have conclusive proof that BP's intentions are to avoid capping this well. It's just a working theory based on people I've talked to here on the Gulf Coast who appear to know what they're talking about. BP would obviously deny this, but then again BP has denied many things that we know to be true (like the fact that the beach cleanup crews specifically cleaned the beach on Grand Isle before Obama showed up, then left promptly as soon as he left).