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Prevent Cancer With The Basics

by: Paul Fassa

(NaturalNews) There are a few basic facts to know about cancer to help you be more confident of avoiding this disease. These facts are suppressed and ignored by the Medical Mafia. Mainstream Medicine insists that cancer is hereditary or viral. Even if you agree to the virus premise, viruses cannot flourish in a strong inner terrain. After all, stagnant water breads mosquitoes. Mosquitoes don`t create stagnant water.

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Here`s some information to strengthen and monitor your inner terrain against cancer.

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Otto Warburg discovered the mechanism of cancer cells during the 1930s. He received a Nobel Prize for his discovery. But the allopathic medical system marginalizes his findings. His research results are not taught in medical schools.

Amazingly, cancer cells develop as a survival mechanism. When cells can no longer metabolize with oxygen, they switch to burning glucose in order to metabolize nutrients. In other words, the cells go from respiration to fermentation. This is why all true non-mainstream cancer healing modalities forbid sugar consumption.

It was also determined that low pH, or acidosis, is the condition that forces cells to adapt from respiration to fermentation. Cancer patients have pH readings between 4 and 5, while totally healthy humans register 7 and above. Between those two extremes, immune systems are susceptible to other nagging or minor health problems.

So pH determines oxidizing capacity. You can monitor your pH levels with pH strips that change color when dipped in saliva or urine. The color codes come with the pH strip packages. Don`t get caught up with the dangers of loose oxygen radicals causing cellular damage. The type of diet that creates higher pH values, or alkalinity, also includes abundant anti-oxidant protection.

The dietary recommendation for cancer prevention discourages sugar consumption while encouraging organic vegetables, grains, legumes, and some fruits and nuts. Lots of leafy greens in the diet help maintain alkalinity. Cruciferous vegetables are known for their cancer protection.

Healthy fats help produce and maintain alkalinity also. Avoid processed or heated trans fats. Try to maintain a balance of omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids. Many of us lack sufficient omega 3. Selenium and magnesium are excellent cancer preventative minerals.

One has to be a very vigilant ingredients reader to avoid toxic additives that are common in the standard American diet (SAD) of prepared foods. Items such as MSG and aspartame are even occasionally used in processed health store foods, often disguised with misleading names. Put shelf items back if you see polysyllabic tongue twisting names in their lists of ingredients.

You can find all the supportive data for anything mentioned in this article by using the search window on Natural News.

Cheap Tricks for Higher pH or Alkalinity

Bicarbonate of soda or baking soda (not baking powder) is cheap. And simply drinking a half teaspoon of baking soda added to warm water before bed time can boost your pH. Try this in two week stretches with a week off. Adding a spoonful of organic unsulfured blackstrap molasses will help get the highly alkaline, oxygenating baking soda into any loose cancer cells floating around. Cancer cells crave sweet things.

Another slightly more expensive cheap trick is drinking warm water with a freshly squeezed lime or lemon upon waking up. Right, citrus is acidic. But the metabolic process of buffering citrus creates alkalinity in your body. Wooden ship sailors prevented scurvy, a form of acidosis, with citrus.

Your can also precede your meals with limes or lemons squeezed into room temperature purified water. A squeeze of lime or lemon on your food helps as well. Bon appetit!

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Common Houseflies Threaten to Spread Deadly Superbugs

by: Jonathan Benson

(NaturalNews) Infection by deadly "superbugs" like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is no longer limited to just hospitals, according to a new report published in the journal BioMed Central Microbiology. Dr. Ludek Zurek from Kansas State University (KSU) and his colleagues say that farm animals now contain antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria in their guts, and that common houseflies feeding on their excrement may be capable of spreading disease directly to humans.

Antibiotic overuse both in hospitals and in farm animals has led to the emergence of deadly superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotic drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/029485_a…). And this resistance, while largely limited to hospitals in the past, is now showing up on farms, where conventional animal raising methods have fostered an environment conducive to the growth and spread of superbugs.

"The digestive tract bacteria in pigs are often exposed to selective pressure and many become resistant to antibiotics," explained Dr. Zurek in a U.K. Daily Mail report. "Consequently, there's a risk that these bacteria might be transferred — by common livestock and urban pests such as houseflies and cockroaches from pig farms to humans."

According to scientists, houseflies can travel for miles, which means they can easily make their way from farms to people's homes. And at each stop they make, flies regurgitate their bacteria-laden saliva, leaving traces of deadly super-bacteria all along the way. And even though no cases of bug-induced super-bacteria have yet been observed, experts fear that it could eventually become a major health concern.

"This has serious implications for both animals and humans," said Richard Young from the U.K. Soil Association, the leading organic advocacy organization in the U.K. "Excessive antibiotic use in farm animals leads to higher levels of antibiotic resistance, which can have consequences for animal health and welfare, as diseases become untreatable, and for human health, when resistant bacteria transfer from animals to humans."

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Allergies And Asthma Linked To Antibacterial Products

by: Anita Khalek

(NaturalNews) Antibacterial products containing Triclosan are found to put your health at risk and compromise the immune system's ability to defend itself. People who are most exposed to Triclosan are more prone to increased allergies, asthma and overall weakened immune defenses, cites a new study from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Triclosan is in the same class of toxins as Bisphenol A (BPA). They are called endocrine-disrupting compounds or EDCs because of their ability to affect the functions of hormones or even worse mirror them. Triclosan is a synthetic antimicrobial agent present in hundreds of products ranging from toothpaste, deodorants, lotions, soaps, and even plastics and fabrics. This study indicates that participants ages 18 or younger with higher levels of Triclosan had increased chances of allergies and asthma. Associate professor and principal investigator Allison Aiello stated that living in very clean and hygienic environments is counter-beneficial to our health as it prevents the exposure to micro-organisms that trigger the immune system into action; consequently, the latter is not given a chance to kick in.

In recent years, several studies have shown strong evidence linking Triclosan to a variety of immunotoxic and neurotoxic reactions ranging from skin irritations and increased allergic reactions to a marked hypothermic effect on the body; they lower the body's temperature and affect the central nervous system – typical of hypothyroidism in which the most common condition is autoimmune thyroiditis (or Hashimoto's thyroiditis), caused by a weakened immune system.
One particular study, also from the University of Michigan, found antibacterial soap to be no more effective than plain soap at preventing disease and reducing the number of bacteria on the hands. More importantly, the study also found evidence that Triclosan increases drug resistance to antibiotics among different species of bacteria, thus promoting the emergence of antibiotic-resistant generations of bacteria.

Triclosan was introduced into the health care industry in 1972 and over the last 38 years, its use has increased dramatically. Triclosan, a lipophilic agent, poses health concerns with its ability to accumulate in fatty tissues in high quantities. It has also been found to contain dioxin, a family of carcinogenic compounds ranging in toxicity. Dioxins are linked to causing severe health problems such as miscarriages, birth defects, altering sex hormones and even cancer. It is important to note that when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light, Triclosan converts to dioxin. Additionally, Triclosan, on its own, poses a threat to the ecosystem and is deadly to various types of algae, not to mention that because of its lipophilic properties, it accumulates in fatty tissues of fish and other organisms.

A number of European governments (Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Germany) have issued warnings advising the public to discontinue antibacterial product uses: calling their use "superfluous and risky". In the US, both the EPA and the FDA have made little effort in advising the public about the risks of Triclosan. On its website, the FDA cites lack of evidence regarding the health and environmental hazards of the chemical. The EPA has rescheduled the re-registration of Triclosan; this moves it up ten years ahead of its previous schedule to 2013. Both the EPA and FDA have also announced that Triclosan is undergoing review

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One More Girl Film Documentary Unveils Truth About HPV Vaccines

By Tony Isaacs

Two film making brothers and prominent advocacy groups have announced the planned production of a provocative new documentary film about HPV vaccines titled "One More Girl". The just issued press release announcing the film and seeking funding donations promises that the film will reveal to the world a trail of death, injured young girls and devastated families following HPV vaccinations. The film also plans to take a critical look at the social and political trail of deception which enabled vaccines described as "medical experiments" to get by the world's health regulatory agencies.

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Film making brothers Ryan and David Richardson decided to make the film after witnessing the adverse reaction and long road to recovery of their 18-year-old sister Donielle Richardson. Her experience led the Richardson family to research other Gardasil girl injuries. Their discoveries resulted in the brothers' decision to create a powerful documentary film to prevent similar travesties from happening to other girls and their families.

"One More Girl" represents a collaboration between two brothers whose sister was injured by the HPV vaccine Gardasil and two prominent advocacy groups involved in exposing the truth about HPV vaccines – TruthAboutGardasil.org and S.A.N.E.Vax, Inc..

The Richardson brothers plan to devote a large portion of their film to a platform for several other young women and their families to share their experiences in their own words. The first-hand testimonials promise to be some of the most powerful and moving segments of the film.

Viewers will be able to watch the girls and their families share their dismay and sense of betrayal for believing the pharmaceutical and medical industries marketing about the safety of HPV vaccines and their use for the prevention of cervical cancer. Included in the testimonials are stories of anguish, loss of innocence, and the guilt felt by many mothers who trusted the vaccine makers and the advice of their doctors. Viewers will also learn how financially devastating it has been for many families to try to find cures for the illnesses their daughters became stricken with after they were vaccinated.

The Richardson brothers' film making company, ThinkExist Productions, is working in conjunction with the advocacy groups to include the history, research, and data both organizations have compiled over the last four years. Combined, the organization's global networks include concerned activists in 120 countries and every state in the U.S.

A preview of "One More Girl", which is being funded largely by public donations, can currently be found on both the TruthAboutGardasil and S.A.N.E.Vax sites as well as the Kick Starter – Fund & Follow Creativity website.

Kick Starter is a unique site for film producers and aficionados to preview documentary concepts and donate funds for completion of the films.

It is hoped that funding needed for the film will be raised within 90 days and current plans call for beginning full production during the second quarter of 2011 with a tentative release date of the summer of 2012. ThinkExist Productions,TruthAboutGardasil and SA.N.E.Vax. plan to market "One More Girl" globally and enter the film into various film festivals.

According to the latest VAERS figures, there have been 21,113 adverse events reported for HPV vaccines thus far, including 89 deaths and 692 disabilities. The reports also show 8,617 emergency room visits, 2,092 hospitalizations and 4,396 instances where the victims did not recover from their injuries.

"One More Girl" promises to open the eyes of viewers around the world to the truth about HPV vaccines. The stories and revelations in the film are sure to fill many of those eyes with tears of sadness and anger.

 

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Tenth Amendment Center Helps States Challenge Health Care Bill

by: Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) America's Founding Fathers understood that the encroachment of federal power over the states was a threat to free society, so they carefully framed the U.S. Constitution as a protection for the People. And the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifically states that powers not specifically granted to the federal government are wholly reserved for the states and the People. So the eight states-and-counting that are working to declare void the federal health care bill are only doing their proper duty, says the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC), a national think tank working to preserve and protect the principles of limited government and the liberty it brings.

"Thomas Jefferson advised, 'Whenever the general government assumes undelegated powers … a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy,'" stated TAC concerning many states' efforts to challenge the health care bill. "When states pass laws to reject and nullify unconstitutional federal 'laws,' regulations and mandates — it's not rebellion … it's duty."

A NaturalNews report from November explains that seven states have already passed amendments to the federal health care bill, and three others have pending legislation. Seventeen states have introduced bills or amendments to challenge portions of the bill as well.

But recently, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and Maine introduced nullification bills to actually declare the health care bill unconstitutional, and thus render it unenforceable. In fact, each of these bills mandates fines or jail time for anyone who tries to enforce any portions of the health care bill, citing the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the authority for taking such measures.

Far from drastic, such efforts are actually a patriotic duty by the states to defend the people from federal tyranny. And the health care bill is not the only issue by which states have used the Tenth Amendment to protect freedom and liberty. More than 24 states helped stop the 2005 Real ID Act, and 15 states have passed resolutions to combat unconstitutional federal marijuana laws.

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Oversea Drug Trials Exploit and Kill Poor in Developing Countries

by: Tony Isaacs

(NaturalNews) Over the past two decades, drug makers have increasingly shifted trials for drugs intended for the U.S. market to developing countries where it is easier and cheaper to recruit trial patients and where oversight is minimal. While outsourcing drug trials may save significant money for the pharmaceutical companies, the cost in human lives and suffering for both the developing trial participants and American drug users is likely horrendous.

Many have questioned how appropriate and ethical it is to test drugs intended for the American market in developing countries. Duke University`s recent report, "Ethical and Scientific Implications of the Globalization of Clinical Research", labeled developing country trials as scientifically questionable and morally inappropriate. The study noted that genetic and other population differences could render results that did not apply to the target population. The report also raised concerns over the role money might play in recruiting poor volunteers.

Lead study author Dr. Kevin A. Schulman said that such trials imply a kind of imperial exploitation of developing countries. "We don`t want to imagine that lower-income countries are the clinical trial mill for higher-income countries," Schulman said.

Until recent years, almost all of the drugs Americans took were tested primarily either in the United States or, to a lesser extent, in Europe. As recently as 1990, only 271 trials of drugs intended for American use were being conducted in foreign countries. By 2008, the number had risen to 6,485. According to a National Institutes of Health database, 58,788 such foreign trials have been conducted in 173 countries outside the United States since 2000. In 2008 alone, 80 percent of the applications submitted to the FDA for new drugs contained data from foreign clinical trials.

The actual numbers may be much worse because companies are not required to report all overseas studies and often list only a single study where the actual trials are conducted in numerous locations.

The drug industry refers to developing country trial recruits as "drug-naive patients" because they usually are not being treated for any condition nor taking any medications. Such patients are almost sure to yield better test results. The term could also apply to how uninformed the patients are. In many instances, patients are led to believe they are being given a medicine to help them and do not understand that it is experimental or that they may be getting a placebo. Consent may consist of only a thumbprint or scrawled "X".

It is much easier to avoid FDA and other institutional scrutiny and sweep negative trial results – including deaths – under the rug in developing countries. In 2008, the FDA inspected only 0.7 percent of all overseas trial sites. That`s just 45 out of the 6,485 locations.

The drug industry also has a phrase they coined for developing countries used for drug trials: rescue countries. Thanks to an FDA loophole, drug companies whose domestic trials have not yielded favorable results can use the results they get in developing country trials to "rescue" drugs, which otherwise might not have been approved.

Due to restricted press freedom and the ease of suppressing negative results, the true scope of the harm caused to "drug-naive patients" in developing "rescue countries" is not fully known. However, numerous discoveries and reports of drug trial deaths, uninformed patients and other acts of abuse and deception leave no doubt that developing drug trial patients are being killed and abused. Ultimately, so are untold thousands of American patients who are killed or harmed by drugs whose approval has been based on questionable trials.

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Millions Of Americans At Risk From Dental Mercury

by: Aaron Turpen

(NaturalNews) A new risk assessment, prepared for the Parker-Hannifin Foundation by SNC-Lavalin Environment, warns that mercury from dental fillings (called amalgams or "silver" fillings) is exposing 67.2 million Americans to toxic levels exceeding EPA standards.1 The report was submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) as part of testimony for the hearings regarding amalgam fillings.

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The assessment shows that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rules for mercury exposure (called the Reference Exposure Level, or REL), established in 1995, are far exceeded by a huge population of Americans due to mercury fillings. Amalgam fillings are 50% mercury and are a danger to both dental care providers3 and their patients. They are also a danger, it has been shown, to patients with the fillings, even long after they've been installed in the mouth.4

The December hearings by the FDA (December 14-15) considered the science related to mercury exposure health risks from dental amalgam fillings. Mercury-based dental fillings have already been banned in Norway and Sweden. The assessment from Parker-Hannifin states that mercury exposures from dental fillings are the primary means of non-occupational exposures in the public – more so than through seafood.

Currently, in the U.S., 181.1 million Americans of all ages carry 1.46 billion restored teeth. Using past data and available information on dental practice, the report concludes that the vast majority of these are mercury-based amalgams. Because exact data is unavailable, the assessment used four scenarios to calculate total risks.

The first scenario is for all restored tooth surfaces and assumed no materials other than 50% mercury amalgams were used. This acted as the base measurement for the other three scenarios. The second scenario took the totals from Scenario 1 and subtracted five surfaces as being non-amalgam. The third assumed only 50% of restorations were with amalgams, and the fourth assumed 30% of people from Scenario 1 had no amalgams and that five of each of the remaining people's tooth surfaces were non-amalgam and that 50% of the remaining restored tooth surfaces were amalgams. The scenarios thus create a worst-case to best-case series of assumptions.

The best-case option, Scenario 4, still shows 67.2 million Americans are over-exposed to mercury by EPA standards (REL of 0.3ug/m3). This would also mean that 122.3 million Americans would exceed the California Environmental Protection Agency's standard (REL of 0.03ug/m3). The RELs for the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Canadian Federal Department of Health fall in between the EPA and CEPA standards.

The breakdown of data from the Parker-Hannifin report shows that, again in Scenario 4, toddlers in the U.S. have 379,004 fillings, 45.2% of which exceed EPA standards for mercury exposure. Children and teens make up another 19 million (roughly) with about 30% of them exceeding exposure standards. Children are less likely to have cavities and more likely to have non-mercury fillings. In adults and seniors, the total number of mercury-based fillings are in about 103 million people with roughly 60% of them exceeding mercury toxicity standards.

After the hearings in December, the FDA has promised a final ruling on mercury fillings sometime in 2011.

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Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases

by: Jeffrey M. Smith

The following article reveals the devastating and unprecedented impact that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is having on the health of our soil, plants, animals, and human population.

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On top of this perfect storm, the USDA now wants to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, which will exacerbate this calamity. Please tell USDA Secretary Vilsack not to approve Monsanto's alfalfa today. [Note: typos corrected from Jan 16th, see details]

While visiting a seed corn dealer's demonstration plots in Iowa last fall, Dr. Don Huber walked passed a soybean field and noticed a distinct line separating severely diseased yellowing soybeans on the right from healthy green plants on the left (see photo).

The yellow section was suffering from Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plant disease that ravaged the Midwest in 2009 and '10, driving down yields and profits. Something had caused that area of soybeans to be highly susceptible and Don had a good idea what it was.

The diseased field on the right had glyphosate applied the previous season. Photo by Don Huber

Don Huber spent 35 years as a plant pathologist at Purdue University and knows a lot about what causes green plants to turn yellow and die prematurely. He asked the seed dealer why the SDS was so severe in the one area of the field and not the other. "Did you plant something there last year that wasn't planted in the rest of the field?" he asked. Sure enough, precisely where the severe SDS was, the dealer had grown alfalfa, which he later killed off at the end of the season by spraying a glyphosate-based herbicide (such as Roundup). The healthy part of the field, on the other hand, had been planted to sweet corn and hadn't received glyphosate.

This was yet another confirmation that Roundup was triggering SDS. In many fields, the evidence is even more obvious. The disease was most severe at the ends of rows where the herbicide applicator looped back to make another pass (see photo). That's where extra Roundup was applied.

Don's a scientist; it takes more than a few photos for him to draw conclusions. But Don's got more–lots more. For over 20 years, Don studied Roundup's active ingredient glyphosate. He's one of the world's experts. And he can rattle off study after study that eliminate any doubt that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but to the outbreak of numerous other diseases. (See selected reading list.)

Sudden Death Syndrome is more severe at the ends of rows, where Roundup dose is strongest. Photo by Amy Bandy.

Roundup: The perfect storm for plant disease

More than 30% of all herbicides sprayed anywhere contain glyphosate–the world's bestselling weed killer. It was patented by Monsanto for use in their Roundup brand, which became more popular when they introduced "Roundup Ready" crops starting in 1996. These genetically modified (GM) plants, which now include soy, corn, cotton, canola, and sugar beets, have inserted genetic material from viruses and bacteria that allows the crops to withstand applications of normally deadly Roundup.

(Monsanto incentivizes farmers who buy Roundup Ready seeds to also use the company's Roundup brand of glyphosate. For example, they only provide warranties on the approved herbicide brands and offer discounts through their "Roundup Rewards" program. This has extended the company's grip on the glyphosate market, even after its patent expired in 2000.)

The herbicide doesn't destroy plants directly. It rather cooks up a unique perfect storm of conditions that revs up disease-causing organisms in the soil, and at the same time wipes out plant defenses against those diseases. The mechanisms are well-documented but rarely cited.

The glyphosate molecule grabs vital nutrients and doesn't let them go. This process is called chelation and was actually the original property for which glyphosate was patented in 1964. It was only 10 years later that it was patented as an herbicide. When applied to crops, it deprives them of vital minerals necessary for healthy plant function–especially for resisting serious soilborne diseases. The importance of minerals for protecting against disease is well established. In fact, mineral availability was the single most important measurement used by several famous plant breeders to identify disease-resistant varieties.

Glyphosate annihilates beneficial soil organisms, such as Pseudomonas and Bacillus bacteria that live around the roots. Since they facilitate the uptake of plant nutrients and suppress disease-causing organisms, their untimely deaths means the plant gets even weaker and the pathogens even stronger.

The herbicide can interfere with photosynthesis, reduce water use efficiency, lower lignin, damage and shorten root systems, cause plants to release important sugars, and change soil pH–all of which can negatively affect crop health.

Glyphosate itself is slightly toxic to plants. It also breaks down slowly in soil to form another chemical called AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid) which is also toxic. But even the combined toxic effects of glyphosate and AMPA are not sufficient on their own to kill plants. It has been demonstrated numerous times since 1984 that when glyphosate is applied in sterile soil, the plant may be slightly stunted, but it isn't killed (see photo).

Glyphosate with sterile soil (A) only stunts plant growth. In normal soil (B), pathogens kill the plant. Control (C) shows normal growth.

The actual plant assassins, according to Purdue weed scientists and others, are severe disease-causing organisms present in almost all soils. Glyphosate dramatically promotes these, which in turn overrun the weakened crops with deadly infections.

"This is the herbicidal mode of action of glyphosate," says Don. "It increases susceptibility to disease, suppresses natural disease controls such as beneficial organisms, and promotes virulence of soilborne pathogens at the same time." In fact, he points out that "If you apply certain fungicides to weeds, it destroys the herbicidal activity of glyphosate!"

By weakening plants and promoting disease, glyphosate opens the door for lots of problems in the field. According to Don, "There are more than 40 diseases of crop plants that are reported to increase with the use of glyphosate, and that number keeps growing as people recognize the association between glyphosate and disease."

Roundup promotes human and animal toxins

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Some of the fungi promoted by glyphosate produce dangerous toxins that can end up in food and feed. Sudden Death Syndrome, for example, is caused by the Fusarium fungus. USDA scientist Robert Kremer found a 500% increase in Fusarium root infection of Roundup Ready soybeans when glyphosate is applied (see photos and chart). Corn, wheat, and many other plants can also suffer from serious Fusarium-based diseases.

But Fusarium's wrath is not limited to plants. According to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, toxins from Fusarium on various types of food crops have been associated with disease outbreaks throughout history. They've "been linked to the plague epidemics" of medieval Europe, "large-scale human toxicosis in Eastern Europe," oesophageal cancer in southern Africa and parts of China, joint diseases in Asia and southern Africa, and a blood disorder in Russia. Fusarium toxins have also been shown to cause animal diseases and induce infertility.

As Roundup use rises, plant disease skyrockets

When Roundup Ready crops were introduced in 1996, Monsanto boldly claimed that herbicide use would drop as a result. It did–slightly–for three years. But over the next 10 years, it grew considerably. Total herbicide use in the US jumped by a whopping 383 million pounds in the 13 years after GMOs came on the scene. The greatest contributor is Roundup.

Over time, many types of weeds that would once keel over with just a tiny dose of Roundup now require heavier and heavier applications. Some are nearly invincible. In reality, these super-weeds are resistant not to the glyphosate itself, but to the soilborne pathogens that normally do the killing in Roundup sprayed fields.

Having hundreds of thousands of acres infested with weeds that resist plant disease and weed killer has been devastating to many US farmers, whose first response is to pour on more and more Roundup. Its use is now accelerating. Nearly half of the huge 13-year increase in herbicide use took place in just the last 2 years. This has serious implications.

As US farmers drench more than 135 million acres of Roundup Ready crops with Roundup, plant diseases are enjoying an unprecedented explosion across America's most productive crop lands. Don rattles off a lengthy list of diseases that were once under effective management and control, but are now creating severe hardship. (The list includes SDS and Corynespora root rot of soybeans, citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC), Fusarium wilt of cotton, Verticillium wilt of potato, take-all root, crown, and stem blight of cereals, Fusarium root and crown rot, Fusarium head blight, Pythium root rot and damping off, Goss' wilt of corn, and many more.)

In Brazil, the new "Mad Soy Disease" is ravaging huge tracts of soybean acreage. Although scientists have not yet determined its cause, Don points out that various symptoms resemble a rice disease (bakanae) which is caused by Fusarium.

Corn dies young

In recent years, corn plants and entire fields in the Midwest have been dying earlier and earlier due to various diseases. Seasoned and observant farmers say they're never seen anything like it.

"A decade ago, corn plants remained green and healthy well into September," says Bob Streit, an agronomist in Iowa. "But over the last three years, diseases have turned the plants yellow, then brown, about 8 to 10 days earlier each season. In 2010, yellowing started around July 7th and yield losses were devastating for many growers."

Bob and other crop experts believe that the increased use of glyphosate is the primary contributor to this disease trend. It has already reduced corn yields significantly. "If the corn dies much earlier," says Bob, "it might collapse the corn harvest in the US, and threaten the food chain that it supports."

A question of bugs

In addition to promoting plant diseases, which is well-established, spraying Roundup might also promote insects. That's because many bugs seek sick plants. Scientists point out that healthy plants produce nutrients in a form that many insects cannot assimilate. Thus, farmers around the world report less insect problems among high quality, nutrient-dense crops. Weaker plants, on the other hand, create insect smorgasbords. This suggests that plants ravaged with diseases promoted by glyphosate may also attract more insects, which in turn will increase the use of toxic pesticides. More study is needed to confirm this.

Roundup persists in the environment

Monsanto used to boast that Roundup is biodegradable, claiming that it breaks down quickly in the soil. But courts in the US and Europe disagreed and found them guilty of false advertising. In fact, Monsanto's own test data revealed that only 2% of the product broke down after 28 days.

Whether glyphosate degrades in weeks, months, or years varies widely due to factors in the soil, including pH, clay , types of minerals, residues from Roundup Ready crops, and the presence of the specialized enzymes needed to break down the herbicide molecule. In some conditions, glyphosate can grab hold of soil nutrients and remain stable for long periods. One study showed that it took up to 22 years for glyphosate to degrade only half its volume! So much for trusting Monsanto's product claims.


Glyphosate can attack from above and below. It can drift over from a neighbors farm and wreak havoc. And it can even be released from dying weeds, travel through the soil, and then be taken up by healthy crops.

The amount of glyphosate that can cause damage is tiny. European scientists demonstrated that less than half an ounce per acre inhibits the ability of plants to take up and transport essential micronutrients (see chart).

As a result, more and more farmers are finding that crops planted in years after Roundup is applied suffer from weakened defenses and increased soilborne diseases. The situation is getting worse for many reasons.

The glyphosate concentration in the soil builds up season after season with each subsequent application. Glyphosate can also accumulate for 6-8 years inside perennial plants like alfalfa, which get sprayed over and over.

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Wheat affected after 10 years of glyphosate field applications.

Glyphosate residues in the soil that become bound and immobilized can be reactivated by the application of phosphate fertilizers or through other methods. Potato growers in the West and Midwest, for example, have experienced severe losses from glyphosate that has been reactivated.

Glyphosate can find its way onto farmland accidentally, through drifting spray, in contaminated water, and even through chicken manure!

Imagine the shock of farmers who spread chicken manure in their fields to add nutrients, but instead found that the glyphosate in the manure tied up nutrients in the soil, promoted plant disease, and killed off weeds or crops. Test results of the manure showed glyphosate/AMPA concentrations at a whopping 0.36-0.75 parts per million (ppm). The normal herbicidal rate of glyphosate is about 0.5 ppm/acre.

Manure from other animals may also be spreading the herbicide, since US livestock consume copious amounts of glyphosate–which accumulates in corn kernels and soybeans. If it isn't found in livestock manure (or urine), that may be even worse. If glyphosate is not exiting the animal, it must be accumulating with every meal, ending up in our meat and possibly milk.

Add this threat to the already high glyphosate residues inside our own diets due to corn and soybeans, and we have yet another serious problem threatening our health. Glyphosate has been linked to sterility, hormone disruption, abnormal and lower sperm counts, miscarriages, placental cell death, birth defects, and cancer, to name a few. (See resource list on glyphosate health effects.)

Nutrient loss in humans and animals

The same nutrients that glyphosate chelates and deprives plants are also vital for human and animal health. These include iron, zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium, calcium, boron, and others. Deficiencies of these elements in our diets, alone or in combination, are known to interfere with vital enzyme systems and cause a long list of disorders and diseases.

Alzheimer's, for example, is linked with reduced copper and magnesium. Don Huber points out that this disease has jumped 9000% since 1990.

Manganese, zinc, and copper are also vital for proper functioning of the SOD (superoxide dismustase) cycle. This is key for stemming inflammation and is an important component in detoxifying unwanted chemical compounds in humans and animals.

Glyphosate-induced mineral deficiencies can easily go unidentified and untreated. Even when laboratory tests are done, they can sometimes detect adequate mineral levels, but miss the fact that glyphosate has already rendered them unusable.

Glyphosate can tie up minerals for years and years, essentially removing them from the pool of nutrients available for plants, animals, and humans. If we combine the more than 135 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicides applied in the US in 2010 with total applications over the past 30 years, we may have already eliminated millions of pounds of nutrients from our food supply.

This loss is something we simply can't afford. We're already suffering from progressive nutrient deprivation even without Roundup. In a UK study, for example, they found between 16-76% less nutrients in 1991, compared to levels in the same foods in 1940.

Livestock disease and mineral deficiency


Roundup Ready crops dominate US livestock feed. Soy and corn are most prevalent–93% of US soy and nearly 70% of corn are Roundup Ready. Animals are also fed derivatives of the other three Roundup Ready crops: canola, sugar beets, and cottonseed. Nutrient loss from glyphosate can therefore be severe.

This is especially true for manganese (Mn), which is not only chelated by glyphosate, but also reduced in Roundup Ready plants (see photo). One veterinarian finds low manganese in every livestock liver he measures. Another vet sent the liver of a stillborn calf out for testing. The lab report stated: No Detectible Levels of Manganese–in spite of the fact that the mineral was in adequate concentrations in his region. When that vet started adding manganese to the feed of a herd, disease rates dropped from a staggering 20% to less than ?%.

Veterinarians who started their practice after GMOs were introduced in 1996 might assume that many chronic or acute animal disorders are common and to be expected. But several older vets have stated flat out that animals have gotten much sicker since GMOs came on the scene. And when they switch livestock from GMO to non-GMO feed, the improvement in health is dramatic. Unfortunately, no one is tracking this, nor is anyone looking at the impacts of consuming milk and meat from GM-fed animals.

Alfalfa madness, brought to you by Monsanto and the USDA

As we continue to drench our fields with Roundup, the perfect storm gets bigger and bigger. Don asks the sobering question: "How much of the hundreds of millions of pounds of glyphosate that have been applied to our most productive farm soils over the past 30 years is still available to damage subsequent crops through its effects on nutrient availability, increased disease, or reduced nutrient of our food and feed?"

Instead of taking urgent steps to protect our land and food, the USDA just made plans to make things worse. In December they released their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready alfalfa, which Monsanto hopes to reintroduce to the market.

Alfalfa is the fourth largest crop in the US, grown on 22 million acres. It is used primarily as a high protein source to feed dairy cattle and other ruminant animals. At present, weeds are not a big deal for alfalfa. Only 7% of alfalfa acreage is ever sprayed with an herbicide of any kind. If Roundup Ready alfalfa is approved, however, herbicide use would jump to unprecedented levels, and the weed killer of choice would of course be Roundup.

Even without the application of glyphosate, the nutritional quality of Roundup Ready alfalfa will be less, since Roundup Ready crops, by their nature, have reduced mineral . When glyphosate is applied, nutrient quality suffers even more (see chart).

The chance that Roundup would increase soilborne diseases in alfalfa fields is a near certainty. In fact, Alfalfa may suffer more than other Roundup Ready crops. As a perennial, it can accumulate Roundup year after year. It is a deep-rooted plant, and glyphosate leaches into sub soils. And "Fusarium is a very serious pathogen of alfalfa," says Don. "So too are Phytophthora and Pythium," both of which are promoted by glyphosate. "Why would you even consider jeopardizing the productivity and nutrient quality of the third most valuable crop in the US?" he asks in frustration, "especially since we have no way of removing the gene once it is spread throughout the alfalfa gene pool."

It's already spreading. Monsanto had marketed Roundup Ready alfalfa for a year, until a federal court declared its approval to be illegal in 2007. They demanded that the USDA produce an EIS in order to account for possible environmental damage. But even with the seeds taken off the market, the RR alfalfa that had already been planted has been contaminating non-GMO varieties. Cal/West Seeds, for example, discovered that more than 12% of their seed lots tested positive for contamination in 2009, up from 3% in 2008.

In their EIS, the USDA does acknowledge that genetically modified alfalfa can contaminate organic and non-GMO alfalfa, and that this could create economic hardship. They are even considering the unprecedented step of placing restrictions on RR alfalfa seed fields, requiring isolation distances. Experience suggests that this will slow down, but not eliminate GMO contamination. Furthermore, studies confirm that genes do transfer from GM crops into soil and soil organisms, and can jump into fungus through cuts on the surface of GM plants. But the EIS does not adequately address these threats and their implications.

Instead, the USDA largely marches lock-step with the biotech industry and turns a blind eye to the widespread harm that Roundup is already inflicting. If they decide to approve Monsanto's alfalfa, the USDA may ultimately be blamed for a catastrophe of epic proportions.

Please send a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging him not to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, and to fully investigate the damage that Roundup and GMOs are already inflicting.

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Achieve Sleep Naturally

by: Cindy Jones-Shoeman(NaturalNews) Western medicine advocates a pill for everything. If a person has a runny nose from a cold, there’s a pill for it. If a patient complains she can’t lose weight, her doctor can prescribe medication for it. If a businessman tells his physician he’s having problems sleeping, he can get a prescription for a pill that helps him doze off at night.

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But while there may seem to be a cure in the form of medication for everything, this philosophy disregards two very important concepts. One is that prescribing a pill for an overt problem doesn’t always solve the underlyingproblem. For example, if a person complains of stomach aches and she takes an antacid, she’s only treating a symptom of some other problem (that other problem could be almost anything, from regular overeating to eating the wrong foods or something more serious). The other concept that prescribing medication fails to recognize is that more often than not, the drugs people are prescribed are often more dangerous than the problem the medication is treating.With this in mind, why wouldn’t people choose natural cures over medicine every time? A case in point is that of sleeping aids. When a person is suffering from insomnia, it might be tempting to ask the doctor for medication that helps a person go to sleep. But taking sleeping medication, especially long-term, can be harmful. For example, one potential side effect of taking sleeping aids is engaging in behaviors called parasomnias. Parasomnias are behaviors that people have no control over–they are in a sleep state and will have no memory of what occurred. Parasomnias are frightening behaviors because they include things like sleep eating and sleep driving. Other sleeping aids can be habit forming. Finally, people might also have other reactions to these kinds of drugs, side effects which can include dizziness and heartburn.Why not try to achieve sleep naturally instead then? Rather than risk harmful side effects, here are some suggestions experts recommend to achieve and maintain sleep:

    • Maintain a regular sleep schedule, especially waking at the same time every day

 

  • Only use the bedroom for bedroom activities

 

 

  • Engage in relaxation techniques before going to bed

 

 

  • Take a warm bath or a hot foot bath

 

 

  • Take natural herbs such as Valerian and Chamomile

 

 

  • Make sure the bedroom is as dark as possible

 

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Latest Research Links Autism to Vaccines

by: Paul Fassa

(NaturalNews) Lately there has been a mainstream media (MSM) barrage reporting the vaccinations to autism link is now proven to be false. Even a not so MSM media site recently featured the article "Who Started the Vaccine Autism Hoax?"

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Disinformation is created out of intentional lies. That`s Big Pharma`s shtick. Then the MSM journalists take Big Pharma`s press releases and regurgitate them to meet their deadlines. Misinformation is their shtick. Fortunately, there are pockets of reality that expose these press release items as bogus.

An MSM Bombshell

A January 10 Mail Online (UK) article entitled "Scientists fear MMR link to autism." reported a Wake Forest University (USA) medical study that found measles virus in 70 out of 82 autistic children tested. None of them were wild measles strains. They were all vaccine strains, common to MMR shots.

This should at least exonerate Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who had a similar report published in 1998 and became the subject of a witch hunt that ruined his career. Of course the article contains maybes and reportage of how most of Wakefield`s research team recanted. Of course they did. They were coerced by the Medical Mafia!

Insiders Speaking Out

Even more damning to the vaccine industry`s disinformation are reports from insiders, conveniently ignored by the MSM. A December 30th, 2010 article in TopNews quoted a leading immunologist, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, trashing flu shots for all the right reasons. He mentioned how mercury and aluminum increases chances of neurological disorders that can inflict a lifetime of disability and pain.

He added that he didn`t think flu shots were effective to begin with, and certainly not worth receiving considering the risks from weakening one`s immune system. Fudenberg also indicated that the massive campaign urging everyone to get flu shots was financially inspired to cover thousands of rejected swine flu shots.

There is a lengthy list of toxins, including mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, squalene and others that are used in vaccines as well as various live attenuated viruses, which create dangers of their own.

Perhaps the most intriguing testimony comes from an ex-vaccine developer, now whistle blower, who hid his identity in order to maintain his pension income and avoid harassment. He used the pseudonym Dr. Mark Randall in a 2002 interview (source below) by investigative journalist and health freedom advocate Jon Rappoport.

Dr. Randall goes beyond the notion of removing toxic materials from vaccines, or creating green vaccines.

He asserted that all vaccines are useless and dangerous. Retro viruses from attenuated viruses can cause problems much later, and impurities are impossible to keep out of mass produced vaccines. Randall explained that true immunity is the body`s task.

It involves the outer skin to mucosal membranes of the sinus area, throat and bronchial tubes and lungs, tears, different glands and organs to sweat, tears, and urine. Then there are the millions of friendly bacteria of the gut, considered by many to be at least over 50% of the immune system.

So, by injecting directly into the blood stream, these lines of defense are bypassed. The immune system isn't able to function as a defender against the pathogens contained in the vaccine or even to recognize them again for future defense! Long term immunity is achieved by exposing the pathogens to the body`s complete immune system. Even contracting a disease and overcoming it achieves immunity.

Conclusion

Begging for green vaccines seems to be a politically correct attempt to avoid being marginalized as anti-vaccination. Only homeopathy offers an effective medical immunization model, using non-toxic, non-pathogenic solutions that are not injected. Even green allopathic vaccines would be more dangerous than effective.