Month: February 2012

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Microsoft Buys Eugenics Technology From Merck

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) When you buy Microsoft products, you are now promoting the pharmaceutical industry and its global vaccine agenda. That's the new reality in which we live, where the world's largest software company is "in bed" with the world's largest vaccine pusher.

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How so? In 2009, Microsoft purchased a key piece of technology from the drug company Merck, the world's largest maker of vaccines (which Bill Gates says can help "reduce the global population" by 10 to 15 percent). That technology, as you'll see below, can conceivably be used to develop eugenics vaccines that target specific races and nationalities with infertility-inducing pharmaceuticals — something that is entirely consistent with Bill Gates' openly-admitted goal of reducing world population through the use of vaccines

This gene-targeting vaccine research technology purchased by Microsoft was developed by the company known as Rosetta Biosciences, formerly owned by Merck. Their software is described as a way to "figure out how genes interact with each other, analyze peptides and metabolites, and determine how they relate to gene expression."

An announcement on the Rosetta Biosoftware web site explains, "The deal allows Microsoft to incorporate genetic, genomic, metabolomic and proteomics data management software into the Microsoft Amalga Life Sciences platform for enhanced translational research capabilities."

This same announcement goes on to say that vaccine maker Merck will "provide strategic input to Microsoft" as a part of the deal. Merck's strategy, of course, is to make money by pimping vaccines and pharmaceuticals, including the now-infamous Gardasil vaccine.

Rupert Vessey, the vice president of Merck Research Laboratories, openly admits this deal puts Microsoft in the role of being a drug developer. He says, "We look forward to collaborating with Microsoft to develop new bioinformatic solutions to enable and expedite drug discovery and development…"

This is a key statement to understand, because the term "bioinformatic" can only mean one thing. What stores information in biology? These is only one digital storage system in human biology, and that system is, of course, DNA. Therefore, the idea of developing "bioinformatic solutions" really means to develop "gene-targeting drugs and vaccines."

This is fully consistent with Bill Gates' admitted agenda of reducing world population with the help of drug company technologies. At a TED conference, he announced in front of a live audience: "…if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [global population] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."

All this comes on the heels of other recent news that Bill Gates is funding sperm-destroying technology to cause widespread male infertility (http://www.naturalnews.com/034834_Bill_Gates_sperm_infertility.html). His foundation has also funded genetically modified mosquitoes and other mad science experiments.

Microsoft the new leader in eugenics technology?
What's clear from all this is that Bill Gates is pursuing an agenda of human depopulation. This is a similar agenda of those who pursue eugenics efforts around the globe, including Adolf Hitler and a long list of former FDA Commissioners in the United States. One of the most common ambitions of those in the highest positions of power, it seems, is to cull the human population and eliminate "the little people," leaving only a "master race" of supreme beings.

Even major universities around the globe are now teaching students that human beings are evil for merely being alive and exhaling carbon dioxide, and that killing off humans is "green" for the planet.

In order to kill off large swaths of human beings, the most efficient mechanism to use is a self-replicating, gene-targeted bioweapon. Microsoft's Amalga Life Sciences technology, purchased from vaccine developer March, theoretically provides a viable platform to develop precisely such bioweapons. It is interesting that no announcements from the company appear to have been made since being acquired by Microsoft in 2009, indicating that their work is now being conducted in total secrecy, behind closed doors.

U.S. government admits developing weaponized, deadly flu strains
Recent headlines reveal that the United States government has also secretly funded bioweapons research that resulted in the development of super-deadly flu strains that could wipe out far more than just 15 percent of the human population. As revealed in recent news headlines:

"Scientists agreed Friday to a 60-day moratorium on research into a modified avian flu virus that has been demonstrated to be more transmissible among mammals. Although the investigators believe their research has a public health benefit, they acknowledge the fear of some governments and others that the genetically altered virus could escape from labs and infect people."

That may be precisely the point, it turns out. There is no better way to promote the vaccine profits of the pharmaceutical industry than to actually release an engineered bioweapon virus into the wild. And there is no faster way to reduce the world population than to engineer either a vaccine or a weaponized flu virus that burns through the human population, targeting those of an "undesirable" genetic profile who need to be "cleansed" from the human gene pool.

This about this the next time you think about purchasing Microsoft Office, Windows or some other Microsoft product. By doing so, you are funding what could very well be a global eugenics agenda with the ultimate goal of wiping out a significant proportion of the human race.

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How To Keep Your Computer Screen From Frying Your Eyes

by Sayer Ji

Over the past few years I’ve spent long weeknights and weekends glued to the LCD fishing for clinical pearls, as it were, for the GreenMedInfo.com project.  Admittedly, my eyes have been getting a bit "fried," so I’ve been crossing my fingers in the hopes of finding something that can help reduce the damage associated with long-term exposure.  I know I'm not alone here, as millions of folks out there are facing the same challenge, which makes me even happier to report that I have finally found something truly "evidence-based" that may help!

 

In the study above, 37 healthy subjects (ages 22-30) with long-term computer display light exposure received either 6 mg lutein/day, 12 mg lutein/day or a placebo. The 12 mg a day group saw a trend towards increased visual acuity, with contrast sensitivity increasing in the 6 and 12 mg a day groups, with "statistical significance" reached at most visual angles in the 12 mg a day group. The researchers concluded "Visual function in healthy subjects who received the lutein supplement improved, especially in contrast sensitivity, suggesting that a higher intake of lutein may have beneficial effects on the visual performance."

A bit about lutein…

Lutein comes from the Latin word luteus meaning "yellow," and is one of the best known carotenoids in a family containing at least 600. In the human eye it is concentrated in the retina in an oval-shaped yellow spot near its center known as the macula (from Latin macula, "spot" + lutea, "yellow"). This "yellow spot" acts as a natural sunblock, which is why adequate consumption of lutein and zeaxanthin (another yellow carotenoid) may prevent macular degeneration and other retinal diseases associated with ultraviolet light-induced oxidative stress.

Keep in mind that the egg (which resembles the mammalian eye) has a wide range of nutrients within the yolk that are ideally suited to support eye health, including vitamin A, E (including tocotrienols), Omega-3 fatty acids, as well as lutein and zeaxanthin. 

Kale is also an exceptionally rich in lutein, zeaxanthin and related eye friendly carotenoids. One cup of raw kale contains 26.5 mg of Lutein+Zeaxanthin – which would cost as much as $1 a pill when obtained through supplement form. 

At GreenMedInfo.com we have indexed a broad range of natural substances with proven macula protective properties. One of the more interesting substances on the list is zinc. Why so? Well, zinc is used in sunblock as a sun protection factor (SPF) due to its ability to reflect light off the skin. Its bright white appearance, for instance, is due to this light-reflecting property. Zinc has a similar role within the macula of the eye. It is capable of reflecting light off the macula, as well as enhancing free radical scavenging activity within that tissue.

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The War Against Nutritional Medicine

Why We Love Our Critics
by Andrew W. Saul, OMNS Editor

(OMNS, Jan 23, 2012) When physicians criticized Linus Pauling for advocating vitamin C, Dr. Pauling wrote a book that became an all-time nutritional bestseller: Vitamin C and the Common Cold. (1) It won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. Then, after he and colleagues demonstrated that vitamin C fights cancer, he was attacked again. When medical orthodoxy prevented him from publishing timely rebuttals in their pharma-funded journals, Pauling wrote more books. (2,3) When critics go after the Gerson nutritional therapy, Charlotte Gerson writes another book. (4) She will turn 90 on March 24. The more efforts to silence, the more education gets out.

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When psychiatric journals refused to publish Abram Hoffer's controlled studies showing that niacin cured many forms of mental illness, Dr. Hoffer started his own Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. (5) When scientific journals refused to publish studies questioning water fluoridation, the journal Fluoride was started to get the research in print. (6) Someday, you might actually be able to find these journals at the US National Library of Medicine/Medline. But don't hold your breath. NLM, your taxpayer-supported "largest medical library on earth," censors your access to journals it does not like. (7) Worldwide, as well as in the United States of America, most people feel that such behavior from a public library is reprehensible. If you are among these who do, you can write to NLM's Medline boss and tell him so. (8) They will not let you write to committee members, who make their decisions in closed meetings. (9)

Every time pharmaphilic opponents of nutritional medicine try to monopolize the news media, the Orthomolecular Medicine News service publishes another press release or two, directly to the public. OMNS articles are all over the internet, and there have been 120 different releases, all free of charge and without advertising. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/ Thank you for your continued interest and support.

Not everyone likes this newsfeed. Most of the media ignore it. Not surprising. Perhaps they think that no one is searching the internet for a second opinion, and that people only read and believe what they, the major magazines and newspapers, select as fit to print. Maybe the TV networks have forgotten about YouTube, and websites where there is a growing presence of free-access orthomolecular video. (10)

And as for Wikipedia, if you want to read what cliques of amateurs have need to say about subjects that do or do not fit their belief systems, be our guest. I taught for the State University of New York for nine years, and I never met a single faculty member that would pay the slightest heed to a Wikipedia reference. They know better. You know better. That is why OMNS goes directly to academics, researchers, and physicians for information and commentary. Many years ago, my father taught me that when you want to know, "Go to the organ grinder, not the monkey."

As you read this, the medical monopoly is melting like an iceberg in the Panama Canal. Nutritional medicine is catching on worldwide. Original case reports and research papers of Dr. Max Gerson are, this minute, being translated from German into English for the first time ever. They will be published for free access online this year. No longer will cancer organizations get away with rhetoric such as, "If the Gerson approach worked, there would be evidence that demonstrates it." Well, it does, and there are. If your doctor does not know this, teach him or her to click a mouse button.

We love piquing the medical industry. We are grateful for our critics. We love it when they respond, because we just go ahead and issue yet another OMNS release showing how nutritional therapy is proven safe and effective. When they don't respond, we will keep provoking them until they do. For example, let them explain these:

  • A Harvard study showed a 27% decrease in deaths among AIDS patients taking vitamin supplements. (11)
  • There has never been a single death from a vitamin. That's right: zero. (12)
  • Women who take two aspirin tablets per day have an 86 percent greater risk of pancreatic cancer. (13)
  • Milligram for milligram, vitamin supplementation is cheaper than trying to get vitamins from food. (14)

Here is the latest thorn in Big Pharma's paw. Starting Feb 1, the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service will be available in Japanese, thanks to the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy, the Japanese Society of Orthomolecular Medicine, and other progressive medical organizations.

We are not going to rest with that. If you are multilingual and interested in volunteering to translate OMNS releases into other languages, please write in and let us know. You can pick the release http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/ and you can pick the language.

Vitamin and nutrient therapy is safer and more effective than drug therapy. Let's get this message out to every person, everywhere, in every language.

References:

1. Pauling L. (1970) Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Revised edition, 1976.

2. Cameron E, Pauling L. (1979) Cancer and Vitamin C. Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Menlo Park, CA. Warner Books, New York 1981; Revised edition, 1993, Philadelphia: Camino Books.

3. Pauling L. (1986) How to Live Longer and Feel Better. New York: W. H. Freeman. Revised and updated edition, 2006, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. Reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html

4. Gerson C. (2011) Defeating Arthritis, Bone and Joint Diseases. Carmel, CA: Gerson Health Media. Also: (2010) Defeating Obesity, Diabetes and High Blood Pressure: The Metabolic Syndrome. Carmel, CA: Gerson Health Media. And: (2007) Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases. Totality Books. Reviewed at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2007/pdf/2007-v22n04-p217.pdf Also: (2001) Gerson C, Walker, M. The Gerson Therapy. NY: Kensington Publishing.

5. Free access to archive at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/

6. Free access to archive at http://www.fluoride-journal.com/ or http://www.fluorideresearch.org/

7. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml and http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n07.shtml

8. Sheldon Kotzin, Executive Editor, MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland [email protected] This email was verified Jan 19. 2012.

9. http://www.doctoryourself.com/medline.html , scroll about halfway down the page.

10. Intravenous vitamin C instructional videos for doctors: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n03.shtml

11. Fawzi WW, Msamanga GI, Spiegelman D, Wei R, Kapiga S, Villamor E, Mwakagile D, Mugusi F, Hertzmark E, Essex M, Hunter DJ. A randomized trial of multivitamin supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality. N Engl J Med. 2004 Jul 1;351(1):23-32. Free full text article at http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa040541

12. Most recent year: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n16.shtml Previous 27 years: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml

13. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n12.shtml

14. A single large orange costs at least 50 cents and may easily cost one dollar. It provides less than 100 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C. A bottle of 100 tablets of ascorbic acid vitamin C, 500 mg each, costs about five dollars. The supplement gives you 10,000 mg per dollar. In terms of vitamin C, the supplement is 50 to 100 times cheaper, costing about one or two cents for the amount of vitamin C in an orange.

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Grapes Help Prevent Age-Related Blindness Better Than Lutein

by: Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) Lutein has long been hailed for its ability to help protect against, and even reverse, the devastating effects of age-related macular degeneration. But a new study published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine suggests that grapes may work even better than lutein at mitigating age-related blindness due to their high levels of antioxidants.

For her study, Dr. Silvia Finnemann, PhD, from Fordham University's Department of Biological Sciences evaluated three groups of rats fed varying diets. She gave the first group of rats a diet enriched with added grapes, the second a diet enriched with lutein, and the third a normal diet. At the conclusion of the study, the grape group experienced significant protection against oxidative damage, even more so than the lutein group.

"The protective effect of the grapes in this study was remarkable, offering a benefit for vision at old age even if grapes were consumed only at young age," said Dr. Finnemann. "A lifelong diet enriched in natural antioxidants, such as those in grapes, appears to be directly beneficial for RPE (retinal pigment epithelium cells) and retinal health and function."

Age-related macular degeneration is a condition that afflicts millions of elderly people worldwide every single year, and is said to be the number one cause of blindness in this age category. When the photoreceptors in the retina begin to lose their function either because of metabolic waste buildup or oxidative damage, vision loss begins to set in and run its course — and this is a gradual process that happens over time.

But grapes, with their high levels of flavonoids like quercetin and resveratrol, are able to prevent this buildup of metabolic waste, also known as lipofuscin, in RPE, as well as protect metabolic pathways against oxidative damage. So consuming grapes, preferably beginning at an early age, is a great way to help maintain vision and ensure that the macula, which is the central portion of the retina, does not deteriorate and cause blindness.

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Processed Meat Once Again Linked To Huge Increases In Pancreatic Cancer

by: PF Louis

(NaturalNews) Daily breakfasts with bacon or sausage are still common for many who haven't become vegetarians. Just think about the amount of breakfast burritos and McMuffins sold. Indulging in other processed meats such as lunch and dinner sausages, pepperoni pizzas, salami and corned beef sandwiches increases the odds of getting pancreatic cancer.

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According to a Swedish epidemiological study conducted by Professor Sussana Larsson at the Karolinska Institute and published in the British Journal of Cancer, just 50 grams a day of processed meat, equivalent to one sausage, increases the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 percent.

Eating 100 grams of processed meat per day increased the risk to 38 percent, according to the study that included data from 11 trials and 6,643 patients with pancreatic cancer. The importance of this study of pancreatic cancer was emphasized because although it is relatively rare, it has an extremely low survival rate, especially with conventional medicine.

As a result of this study, the UK is officially advising citizens to keep their daily processed meat level at or below 70 grams. Professor Larsson also said that while red meat in general increases the risk of colorectal cancer, there was more of link to pancreatic cancer from processed red meats.

This is not the first such research linking pancreatic cancer to processed meats. Others cite even higher risk percentages. The health ranger explains why processed meats are the worst.

Alternative cancer approaches can handle pancreatic cancer
The high, often rapid mortality rate of pancreatic cancer in conventional medicine motivated Texas small town dentist William Donald Kelley to research and create his own approach for curing his pancreatic cancer.

This was done in three phases: First he realized that a major dietary change was necessary. He avoided red meats, sugar, and processed foods while focusing on fresh whole mostly raw vegetables, grains, and fruits. Then he discovered an early 20th Century Scottish embryologist John Beard's discovery of curing cancer by injecting pancreatic juices, which contained proteolytic enzymes.

This type of enzyme can burst open cancer cell walls. But they are also used for breaking down tough complete proteins found in meat. So heavy meat eating occupies the type of enzymes needed for any cancer. Kelly found which proteolytic enzymes worked best and added enzyme activators that he observed were lacking.

In order to eliminate dead cancer cell toxins, Kelley added daily liver cleanses with coffee enemas. Then he discovered that a handful of people needed some meat in their diet to complete their cure.

So he created a system of metabolic typing to determine the exact diets cancer patients needed. Eventually his cure rate exceeded 90%, and obviously he had cured himself.

Today, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez carries on with Kelley's protocol, albeit slightly modified, in NYC, despite several attempts to shut him down. He and Dr. Linda Isaacs continue their practice with funding from several different sources under the FDA's Investigational New Drug (IND) and compassionate use guidelines.

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Scientists Created Superbug That Could Set Off Next Global Pandemic

by: Jonathan Benson

(NaturalNews) During roughly the same time period that health experts worldwide have been warning that the infamous H5N1 avian flu virus could soon morph into a highly-transmissible, exceedingly-deadly "super strain" capable of killing millions, scientists from around the world have been exposed deliberately developing such a strain in laboratories.

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Last month, we reported about research work conducted by Ron Fouchier from Erasmus Medical College in the Netherlands that had successfully created a super-deadly strain of H5N1. Fouchier and his colleagues had originally planned to publish their controversial findings in medical journals until the scientific community and many members of the public decried the research, calling for an immediate end to it.

Not only is the publishing of critical data about a deadly new strain of H5N1 a massive public health risk, but the research itself is a huge risk as well, as the strain could end up escaping from labs and quickly spreading around the world. Bio-terrorists could also gain hold of the strain — or produce a similar one themselves — to be used for starting the next global pandemic.

Whatever the case may be, it is all too coincidental that such research has been taking place for the past several years at the same time that authorities from around the world have been fear-mongering about how H5N1 could eventually mutate. As it currently stands, H5N1 has not naturally become more virulent. The only seriously virulent strains in existence right now are those deliberately created by scientists using public funds.

Opposition to Fouchier's work has continued so fervently since day one that he and his team have decided to temporarily halt any further research on their H5N1 strain, according to Russia Today. The damage has technically already been done, though, as the strain has already been created. However, details of the methodology used to create it have not been published, at least not yet.

Arguments in favor of Fouchier and the others research on H5N1 simply do not hold water, as they appear to offer nothing more than a convenient excuse for the intentional creation of a deadly, bio-weaponized viral strain. If and when the next global pandemic finally does arrive, in other words, we will all know who to blame if it happens to be a mutated form of H5N1.

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Open Letter To Educators Worldwide: Watch For Side Effects Of HPV Vaccines

by: Rosemary Mathis, Vice President of Victim Support, SANE VAX, INC.

(NaturalNews) No one can disagree with the fact that children are the future of the world. Without children, there would be no future. As educators you are responsible for not only teaching young minds, but also for the children's physical health and well-being for several hours each day.

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The SaneVax team knows you take your position seriously. Since the adverse events to be expected after HPV vaccine administration, (GardasilR, CervarixR, or Silgard) are not widely published, we would like to provide you with a list of potential health problems your students may experience after administration of HPV vaccines.

Although the manufacturers say these adverse events are rare, in one clinical trial 73.3% of the trial participants experienced new medical conditions after vaccination. Many of them were quite serious. Any new medical condition experienced after vaccination should be considered a potential adverse effect until proven otherwise.

These conditions are quite frequently attributed to causes other than vaccination; hence delaying necessary medical care. This is particularly true of HPV vaccinations, because the side effects may not show up for months.

The most common side effects of HPV vaccines are pain, swelling, itching, bruising and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and fainting.
The following side effects are less common, but more dangerous:

*Difficulty breathing, shortness of breath or wheezing (bronco spasm)
*Hives and/or rash
*Swollen glands (neck, armpit, or groin)
*Joint, leg, or chest pain
*Unusual tiredness, weakness, lethargy, brain fog, or confusion
*Chills
*Generally feeling unwell
*Aching muscles and/or muscle weakness
*Difficulty keeping food down, vomiting or stomach ache
*Seizures
*Shortness of breath
*Chest pain
*Bad stomach pain
*Skin infection
*Bleeding or bruising more easily than normal

This list is by no means comprehensive; it is taken directly from HPV patient Product Information inserts. Many young girls from around the world have experienced many more severe events after HPV vaccination. For the health and safety of the children in your care, please be alert to any changes in your student's health and behavior post-vaccination.

Should a student experience any of the less common side effect symptoms even months after vaccination, please alert their parents to the possibility that the student may be exhibiting a vaccine reaction, so they can consult their physician for proper medical care.

The SaneVax team would like to thank you for taking care of and watching out for the health and well-being of the students throughout the world.

Norma Erickson, President of SaneVax Inc.
Rosemary Mathis, Vice President, Victim Support
Freda Birrell, Secretary
Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations
Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research
Linda Thompson, Treasurer

Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/

About the author:
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine. Our primary goal is to provide the information necessary for you to make informed decisions regarding your health and well-being. We also provide referrals to helpful resources for those unfortunate enough to have experienced vaccine-related injuries.

Articles on this site are written by Norma Erickson, President and Leslie Carol Botha, women's health educator, broadcast journalist and Vice-President Public Relations for SANE Vax, Inc. We also allow content from various contributing authors. Other members include Rosemary Mathis, mother of a Gardasil-injured daughter and Vice President Victim Support; Janny Stokvis, Vice-President Research, Freda Birrell, Secretary and HPV vaccine lobbyist United Kingdom /Scotland, and Linda Thompson, Treasurer.

We are demanding the HPV vaccines be taken off the market until an independent study on their safety and efficacy has been conducted. Until then, we are committing our efforts to an educational media campaign to alert the public about the dangers of the HPV vaccines.

SANE Vax, Inc. is involved in the ground-breaking production of the One More Girl Documentary which will premier in 2012. Please join our cause by contributing to this project by contacting Ryan Richardson, Producer at [email protected].

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Children’s Medicines Coated With Brain-Damaging Aluminum

by: S. D. Wells

(NaturalNews) Aluminum Lake food coloring, used to heavily coat liquid medicines for children, contains dangerous amounts of aluminum and harmful synthetic petrochemicals. These "petrochemicals" are carcinogens containing petroleum, antifreeze and ammonia, which cause a long list of adverse reactions. Aluminum poisoning can lead to short and long term central nervous system (CNS) damage, such as memory impairments, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, and dementia.

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Research shows that just 4ppm of aluminum can cause the blood to coagulate. This is what causes Alzheimer's Disease and has been documented to inhibit learning. Aluminum consumption can also be associated with the development of bone disorders, including stress fractures.

Also known as tartrazine, FD&C Yellow Aluminum Lake is a chemical concoction derived from coal tar. It is known to be a reproductive toxin. All artificial colors contain Aluminum Lake, so when your child gets to pick between red, blue or green medicine, they're really choosing which poison they get to consume. Several chemically enhanced food colorings contain ammonia and therefore produce compounds proven to cause various cancers in animal studies, according to CSPI, the Center for Science in the Public Interest. (http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm)

Most widely used food colors and their damaging actions:

• Blue #1: Research shows it causes kidney tumors in mice.

• Blue #2: Research shows even higher incidence of tumors, specifically gliomas in male rates (a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine).

• Red #2: Toxic to rodents, even at modest levels, and causes tumors of the bladder.

• Red #3: FDA recognized it in 1990 as a cause of thyroid cancer in animals. It was banned in cosmetics, but still allowed in food and medicine.

• Red #40: Most popular dye of all. Debilitates the immune-system in mice. Allergic reactions common.

• Green #3: Causes bladder and testes tumors.

• Yellow #5: Affects behavior and induces severe hypersensitivity reactions.

• Yellow #6: Causes adrenal tumors in animals.

The following is taken directly from FDA's Regulatory Process and Historical Perspectives: "Color additives are important components of many products, making them attractive, appealing, appetizing, and informative. Added color serves as a kind of code that allows us to identify products on sight, like candy flavors and medicine dosages." Really?! Decoding medicine dosages on sight?

There has been a 55% increase in U.S. toxic food dyes just since the year 2000. There are over 15 million pounds of dyes put in foods, drinks, candy and medicine every year, and the FDA does nothing to protect consumers from the colorful barrage of poison. (http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/artificial-food-colors.htm)

Studies reveal that children have consumed as much as three pounds of dye by the age of twelve
Here are some popular product and "brand" names you may mistake as exempt products: RD&C dyes and colors in baked goods, beverages, candy, cereal, drugs, pet food, personal care products, cosmetics, cough syrups, NyQuil,Tylenol, Robitussin,Jello, gelatins, Cheetos, Skittles, Fruity Pebbles, Marachino cherries, sausage, Mountain Dew, Doritos, chewing gum, and powdered drink mixes.

American companies doing business in Europe currently have to change their products to natural colorings to meet European Union strict regulations. The FDA's rationale is that because artificial food colorings are used mainly in foods and medicines of low or no nutritional value, that the American public should "already be aware" of health implications, so it doesn't matter if other toxins are added.

What are your options as opposed to poisonous medicines? Consult a naturopath (ND) for advice on ingredients in food and medicine.

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Nursery Water: “Purified or Poisoned” with Fluoride?

Would you let your infant drink from the Tap?
How about "Nursery Water" with added Fluoride?

Isn't the point of distilling water to take contaminants and chemicals OUT?


Nursery water contains .7 ppm/7 mg of fluoride per gallon.

Do Infants Need Fluoride?
What the Fluoride Action Network says:

 

"In contrast to recommendations adopted in the 1950s, fluoride supplementation is no longer recommended for newborn children. This includes both fluoride in drops, and fluoride in drinking water.

Not only is fluoride ingestion during infancy unnecessary,it can also be harmful – as suggested by a mounting body of evidence linking fluoride exposure during the first year of life with the development of dental fluorosis. (For pictures of dental fluorosis, click here)

Because of the risk for dental fluorosis, and the lack ofdemonstrable benefit from ingesting fluoride before teeth erupt, the American Dental Association – and a growing number of dental researchers – recommend that children under 12 months of age should not consume fluoridated water while babies under 6 months of age should not receive any fluoride drops or pills.

Fluoridated drinking water contains up to 200 times more fluoride than breast milk (1000 ppb in fluoridated tap water vs 5-10 ppb in breast milk). As a result, babies consuming formula made with fluoridated tap water are exposed to much higher levels of fluoride than a breast-fed infant. (A baby drinking fluoridated formula receives the highest dosage of fluoride among all age groups in the population (0.1-0.2+ mg/kg/day), whereas a breast-fed infant receives the lowest).

Dental fluorosis is not the only risk from early-life exposure to fluoride. A recent review in The Lancet describes fluoride as "an emerging neurotoxic substance" that may damage the developing brain. The National Research Council has identified fluoride as an "endocrine disrupter" that may impair thyroid function, while recent research from Harvard University has found a possible connection between fluoride."

 

The Material Data Safety Sheet on Sodium Fluoride lists it as a "Severe (Poison)"…

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DANGER! MAY BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED OR INHALED. AFFECTS RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, HEART, SKELETON, CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND KIDNEYS. CAUSES IRRITATION TO SKIN, EYES AND RESPIRATORY TRACT. IRRITATION EFFECTS MAY BE DELAYED.

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Health Rating:3 – Severe (Poison)
Flammability Rating: 0 – None
Reactivity Rating: 1 – Slight
Contact Rating: 3 – Severe
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Potential Health Effects
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If inhaled or swallowed, this compound can cause fluoride poisoning. Early symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness. Later effects include central nervous system effects, cardiovascular effects and death.

Inhalation:
Causes severe irritation to the respiratory tract, symptoms may include coughing, sore throat, and labored breathing. May be absorbed through inhalation of dust; symptoms may parallel those from ingestion exposure. Irritation effects may not appear immediately.
Ingestion:
Toxic! May cause salivation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Symptoms of weakness, tremors, shallow respiration, cardopedal spasm, convulsions, and coma may follow. May cause brain and kidney damage. Affects heart and circulatory system. Death may occur from respiratory paralysis. Estimated lethal dose = 5-l0 grams.
Skin Contact:
Causes irritation, with redness and pain. Solutions are corrosive. Effects may not appear immediately.
Eye Contact:
Eye irritant! May cause irritation and serious eye damage. Effects may not immediately appear.
Chronic Exposure:
Chronic exposure may cause mottling of teeth and bone damage (osteosclerosis) and fluorosis. Symptoms of fluorisis include brittle bones,weight loss, anemia, calcified ligaments, general ill health and joint stiffness.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Populations that appear to be at increased risk from the effects of fluoride are individuals that suffer from diabetes insipidus or some forms of renal impairment."

 
Additional Reading:

 

TOXNET's page on Sodium Fluoride

Greenmedinfo.com's toxicological citations on Fluoride

Our Verdict:

 
The risks associated with the intentional dosing of infants with fluoride are probably far higher than the purported health benefits, which furthermore are topical and not systemic.
Infants are at much higher risk for adverse effects due to the relatively higher body burden (lower body weight vs. chemical exposure) and less developed blood-brain-barrier and detoxification systems than adults.
Nursery water is a misleading and potentially dangerous product in the context of an already fluoride saturated world.

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Home Births Increased By Nearly 30 % Since 2004

by: Elizabeth Walling

(NaturalNews) More parents are taking control of their birthing options by choosing home births, says a new study from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Statistics released in late January say home births in the United States have risen by nearly 30 percent between 2004 and 2009.

 

"A lot of women really like the idea of home birth because they want a lower-intervention birth. A lot of women are worried about higher C-section rates and other types of intervention that happen once you go to the hospital," said lead author Marian MacDorman from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics.

Statistics from the study show that women with other children are more likely to choose a home birth, as are white women and those age 35 and over.

Why are more women choosing home births?
Just one hundred years ago, home births were the norm across the country. But as we entered an era of new technology, home birth rates decreased rapidly until 99 percent of babies were born in a hospital setting in 1969. At this point most parents believed that modern medicine held all the keys to a safe birth. Unfortunately, this proved to be wrong.

Since then, many have questioned the need for so many medical interventions in what should be considered a completely natural event. As parents have discovered the hospital setting is not necessarily best for mother and baby, home births have been making a comeback.

Done with some careful planning and preparation, a home birth can be quite safe. A knowledgeable birth attendant can help decide if further care is needed during any part of the birth.

In fact, a study in 2009 showed that planned home births with registered midwives were as safe or even safer than hospital births. Home birthing mothers with midwives experienced a lower risk of complications like C-sections, infections and bleeding.

Saraswathi Vedam from the Home Birth Section of the American College of Nurse-Midwives says home birthing can definitely be a safe option for many women.

"Women who are healthy and have a profile of having a good outcome for them and their babies have come to understand that the equipment and personnel a hospital has to offer is not necessary for all women. It's most appropriate for women and infants who have medical indications that could benefit from what the hospital offers," she says.