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Why buying domestic products is healthy 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) Natural sodium, found in food, is not at all similar to sodium chloride (salt), and this is a major common misunderstanding. The human organism does not need sodium chloride at all, it needs sodium found in fruits and vegetables.

However, sodium chloride does have similarities to cyanide and arsenic because it is also a protoplasmic poison, which means that it kills cells on contact by disrupting the cells integrity – all 75 trillion.

Eliminating sodium chloride (salt) from your diet will especially be beneficial for those with edema and high b lood pressure, obesity, and hypertention. The list goes much longer than the one mentioned, and it could be stated that most illnesses are affected by sodium chloride in their diet.

A healthy individual would regect salt in a diet via vomitting or diarrhea; however, an unhealthy person does not have the energy to do this, so their body must deal with it in other ways.

The body reacts to the salt as it would any poison. Salt does not retain water in the body; the body dilutes the salt in order to reduce the damages caused by the salt. Further, it stores it somewhere where damage can be deferred to a later date with hopes that the body will have the ability to eliminate it before further damaged it caused.

According to findings by Victoria Bidwell in her book THE HEALTH SEEKERS’ YEARBOOK, “one ounce of ingested salt holds 3 quarts of water – or 6 pounds of excess bodily water and fluid – in suspension. Consider… an ounce of salt in the body will “seize and hold” 3 quarts of water. This means that… salt holds 70 tims its weight in water!!!”

Putting salt on a wound will show any individual how the body reacts to salt.

Salt is addictive and come with withdrawal symptoms when the human organism tries to eliminate it from the diet.

Biochemistry tells us that sodium chloride separates into individual ions in the body. After the stomach does what it can, it sends the sodium and chloride to the liver then kidneys because those organs can only do so much. Finally, a large amount of water molecules are used to surround each of these now two damaging ions in a stored area of the body. This build up of water molecules is why individuals with a lot of salt in safe storage have swollen legs, hands, feel, and puffy eyes.

Moreover, potassium is quickly lost in the urine to offset the absorption of salt by tissue. Low potassium means low blood sugar, which means low energy and irratibility.

To top it all off, when we cook our food, we destroy the potassium that was originally found in the food leaving the human organism with that much less to fight the battle.

Even an athlete, which most people are not, cannot avoid the high blood pressure and strokes caused by the constricting blood vessels that come from salt (sodium chloride). Anemia and atrophy of the lungs are a sure reaction caused by the lack of oxygen in the blood vessles (THE HEALTH HAZAREDS OF SALT, Andrew and Cheryl Zupko). “Acne, stomach ulcers, edema have all been linked to excessive salt intake (Zupko A & C).”

Zupko A & C also state, “A severe enough potassium deficiency caused by excessive salt intake will cause the muscles, valves, and arteries along the entire coronary route to adapt by shrinkin g, calcifying, and scarring, all the which untimately destroy tissue integrity… heart failure.”

In summary, sodium is an essential nutrient, sodium chloride is not; it is a combination of sodium and chloride that is toxic to the human organism. Sodium is found in the perfect ratio in fruits and vegetables; sodium chloride is unusable to the human organism and acts as a cell killer.

Sodium chloride (aka table salt) 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) The following is taken from Victoria Bidwell’s book, “The Health Seeker’s Yearbook.” Bidwell section on the poisons in baby food is a message to be taken seriously. She states from her research that:

“1. High levels of lead in formula milk can cause lead-poisoning.”

“2. Most formulas are laced with toxic chemical additives.”

“3. Artificial formula milks contribute directly to obesity due to the high refined sugar content. These drinks are habit-forming and lead to sugar addiction and to sugar disorders that can last a lifetime.”

“4. Baby foods are highly salted, to match the taste buds of the Average American Parent who is a “saltaholic.” High salt levels contribute directly to cardiovascular disease at this early age and create a SAD child-salt-addict.”

“5. Formula milk does not contain all the components in the correct balance to ensure healthy, normal growth in an infant.  Formulas do not change with the hormonal and nutritional needs of the growing baby, as does mother’s milk.”

“6. A formula with cow’s milk contains too much fat and calcium, and not enough tryptophan and lecithin for the human child.”

“7. Commerical/ cow’s/ formula milks have been heated and precessed. Being difficult for babies to digest, they contribute to allergies/rashes/colds/nausea…and other signs of Toxemia.”

Poison in baby food 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) The connection between high blood pressure medicine and tylenol are not apparent to the general public because of their lack in information on the subject of health and wellness. The article will explain the connection using examples that should assist in clearing any clouds.

So, you have high blood pressure. First of all, you caused it; we know this because if you were to change your diet to a low-fat, raw, plant-based diet, the high blood pressure would go away – try it! A theory can only be judged if it has been experienced and tested to the fullest.

Because of their trust in strangers that are ‘qualified’ in medicine [not health], individuals use medicine [toxic, poisonous drug chemicals] to lower cholesterol instead of addressing the cause [a poor diet and lifestyle]. Other sources of this ‘knowledge’ [theoretical knowledge to be more accurate; aka propaganda knowledge] comes from the pharmaceutical companies themselves, which promote directly to the people via media [TV commercials, TV shows, film, and news].

Now the comparison: High blood pressure is due to high fat in the blood and arterial walls. The blood has difficulties getting through to the brain and the other vital organs in order to survive and live, so the body, in its wisdom, increases the pressure in order to get the blood to it destination and maintain life; however, the doctors in their lack of wisdom and understanding of the cause of disease, reduce the blood pressure, which in turn reduces the blood to the vital organs, which further eventually leads to death. Of course it is not the drugs that kill you, it is the lack of blood flow to your vital organs. The cause is not addressed.

Tylenol is an an amazing poisonous neurological chemical because it controls your body. In times of high temperatures, for example, it neurologically crosses wires in the body that convinces the body that it is well when it is not. The body then lowers the temperature, which it increased to destroy bacteria, due to dangerously high levels of bacteria due to toxemia, making us “feel well” and act as though we are when we are not and should be acting accordingly. Feeling sick is the body’s way of keeping you in bed and at rest. “Medicine” does not address the bacteria, convinces you that you are well, and adds damage to the already toxic body with itself, which further adds to the problem. The illness will return over and over and over again until it decides to come back as something more dangerous in order to get the individuals attention.

The similarities between high blood pressure (HBP) medicine and Tylenol is that they both force our body to die by neurologically adjusting our bodies wisdom to survive. The HBP medicine addresses the effect instead of the cause by reducing the blood flow, and the Tylenol does the same by making us feel as though we have no headache when we do and lowering our temperature when it should be high in order to destroy bacteria. The two “medicine” both address the effects, which creates an ongoing “chasing the tail” solution, which perpetually keeps us sick and on these toxic, poisonous chemicals masked as “medicine.”

Teaching our children to respect the wisdom of their bodies at a young age is a lot easier than teaching them when the have been brainwashed by the status quo and so polluted medically that they would prefer toxins to nature’s doctors. If we want things to change, we must reach out to the children and educate them before they are brainwashed by the system that is 100 years behind in the comprehension of health and blinded by profit.

We as a specie have been around for 10 million years and have survived without drugs for 99.9999999999% of the time we have existed here. In the past 50 years, disease has been reaching new highs and names for effects are surpassing 10,000. If we wish to survive, we must go back to the fundamentals and discard the “modern medicine” ideologies. If you were to bet on something, would you not take the bet that is 99.99999999999% affective?

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The connection between high blood pressure medicine and tylenol 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) A recent article published on Yahoo Health presented information stating that breast cancer is a growing threat to the poor according to a study. This is the same findings that the documentary House of Numbers found when they analyzed the remarkable relationship between AIDS and the poor. According to the findings from House of Numbers, unhealthy individuals are remarkably and very clearly at more danger of getting AIDS. The difference with the poor and the malnourished individuals on the SAD diet, which is the Standard American Diet, is that the poor have different kinds of disease than the wealthy, industrialized nations.

“The number of cases and deaths from breast and cervical cancer is rising in most countries across the world, especially in poorer nations where more women are dying at younger ages, according to a global study of the diseases.” – Yahoo Health post

The poor generally do not get the same diseases as the rich, and the rich do not get the same diseases and illnesses as the poor. This is clearly explained in “The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell. Disease is inevitable when people are malnourished and in unsanitary environments. A healthy, strong body is not prone to those diseases.

The study posted on Yahoo fails to highlight that the number of breast cancer victims are still a growing concern, and the fact is that just because the women are being diagnosed with their diseases are found early, it does not mean that they last any longer than they would if the cancer was found at a later time. Meaning that individuals simply get diagnosed earlier giving the impression that they are living longer.

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Ref. http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/us_cancer_breast_cervical

Breast Cancer on the rise in poor income families 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) Eating the wrong food, when we are sick (or not), creates byproducts that are toxic. These toxic byproducts takes the attention of the body from other health issues, which slows down the healing process. The reason the body gets sick in the first place is because the body has more toxins than it can handle.

Eating foodstuff that we are physiologically and biochemically designed for does not have these byproducts. Eating fruit and selected vegetables raw, whole, organic, fresh, and ripe do not come with toxic byproducts, which give the body the ability to focus and repair negative health issue created by wrong food as well as other co-factors such as  poor emotional stability, emotional stress, and physical stress.

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How does eating junk food when we are sick make us worse? 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) Many people think that just because they are young and appear fit (stress on the work appear), they can abuse their body by eating deep-fried and pan-fried food; they seem to think that oily food will not hurt them, and believe that they are not able to have heart disease simply because they exercise and look fit. This is simply not true at all.

When oil is heated, it becomes rancid and poisonous to the human body. It is refined; it does not contain any other nutrient. It is 100% fat. This toxic abuse stresses the nervous system and takes away the nervous systems ability to heal the every day damage that is received uncontrollably, such as pollution.

Oil is 100% fat; it is refined: stripped of macro- and micro-nutrients (Vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes, co-enzymes, phytonutrients,  essential fatty acids, protein and carbohydrates).

The following excerpt from the book The China Study supports the claim that most people that are fat definitely have some stage of heart disease, and they must do something to prevent a heart attack before it is too late.

Building heart disease by eating fried food is a self-affliction more dangerous than most peoples simple mind can understand. It is suggested that those people change before it is too late. If you eat oily food, fatty food, junk food, and cannot see your abdomen muscles, you are fat and well on your way to heart disease (Not to mention under-muscled).

(Excerpt from The China Study) “Over the next twenty-four hours, 3,000 Americans will have heart attacks, roughly the same number of people who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.”

“The heart is the centerpiece of life and, more often than not in America; it is the centerpiece of death. Malfunction of the heart and/ or circulation system will kill 40% of Americans, more than those killed by any other injury or ailment, including cancer. Heart disease has been our number one cause of death for almost one hundred years. This disease does not recognize gender or race boundaries; all are affected. If you were to ask most women what disease poses the greatest risk to them, heart disease or breast cancer, many women would undoubtedly say breast cancer. But they would be wrong. Women’s death rate from heart disease is eight times higher than their death rate from breast cancer.

If there is an American game, it is baseball; an American dessert, apple pie. If there is an American disease, it is heart disease.”

“At the end of the Korean War, a landmark scientific study was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Military medical investigators had examined the hearts of 300 male soldiers killed in action in Korea. The soldiers, at an average age of twenty-two years, had never been diagnosed with heart problems. In dissecting these hearts, researchers found startling evidence of disease in an exceptional number of cases. Fully 77.3% of the hearts they examined had gross Evidence of heart disease. (In this instance, gross means large.)”

“That number, 77.3%, is startling. Coming at a time when our number one killer was still shrouded in mystery, the research clearly demonstrated that heart disease develops over an entire lifetime. Furthermore, almost everyone was susceptible! These soldiers were not couch- potato slouches; they were in top condition in the prime of their physical lives. Since that time, several other studies have confirmed that heart disease is pervasive in young Americans.”

“But what is heart disease? One of the key components is plaque. One out of twenty diseased men had so much plaque that 90% of an artery was blocked. Why hadn’t these soldiers had a heart attack already? After all, only 10% of the artery was open. How could that be enough? It turns out that if the plaque on the inner wall of the artery accumulates slowly, over several years, blood flow has time to adjust. Think of blood flowing through your artery as a raging river. If you put a few stones on the sides of a river every day over a period of years, like plaque accumulating on the walls of the artery, the water will find another way to get to where it wants to be. Maybe the river will form smaller streams over the stones.”

“When the artery becomes blocked over such a short period of time, there is little chance for collateral blood flow to develop. When this happens, blood flow downstream of the rupture is severely reduced and the heart muscles don’t get the oxygen they require. At this point, as heart muscles cells start to die, heart pumping mechanisms begin to fail, and the person may feel a crushing pain in the chest or a searing pain down into an arm and up into the neck and jaw. In short, the victim starts to die. This is the process behind most of the 1.1 million heart attacks that occur in America every year. One out of three people who have a heart attack will die from it.”

“We now know that the small to medium accumulation of plaque, the plaque that blocks less than 50% of the artery, is the most deadly.”

Section 2

“No study has been more influential than that of the Framingham Heart Study. After World War I, the National Heart Institute was created with a modest budget and a difficult mission. They didn’t know why these lesions developed or how they led to heart attacks. In search for these answers, the National Heart Institute decided to follow a population in the population and to see who got heart disease and who didn’t.”
“Over 5,000 residents of Framingham, both male and female, agreed to be poked and prodded by scientists over the years so that we might learn something about heart disease.”

“The Framingham Heart Study developed the concept of risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, physical activity, cigarette smoking and obesity. Because of the Framingham Study, we now know that these risk factors play a prominent role in the causation of heart disease. Over 1,000 scientific papers have been published from this study, and the study continues to this day, having now studied four generations of Framingham residents.”

“The shining jewel of the Framingham Study is its findings on blood cholesterol. When this study was started, most doctors believed that heart disease was an inevitable wearing down of the body, and we could do little about it. Our hearts were like car engines. As we got older, the parts didn’t work as well and sometimes gave out. By demonstrating that we could see the disease in advance by measuring risk factors, the idea of preventing heart disease suddenly had validity. Researchers wrote, it appears that a prevention program is clearly necessary. We spend over 30 billion dollars a year on drugs to control these risk factors and other aspects of cardiovascular disease.”

“Early research led to the alarming conclusion that we have some of the highest rates of heart disease in the world. The Papua New Guinea Highlanders, for example, pop up in research quite a bit because heart disease is rare in their society. American men died from heart disease at a rate almost seventeen times higher than their Chinese counterparts. Why were we succumbing to heart disease in the sixties and seventies, when much of the world was relatively unaffected?”

“Quite simply, it was a case of death by food. The cultures that have lower heart disease rates eat less saturated fat and animal protein and more whole grains, fruit and vegetables. In other words, they subsist mostly on plant foods while we subsist mostly on animal foods. For example, Japanese men who live in Hawaii or California have a much higher living in Japan.”

“Smoking habits are not the cause because men in Japan, who were more likely to smoke, still had less coronary heart disease than the Japanese Americans. In simple terms, animal foods were linked to higher blood cholesterol; plant foods were linked to lower blood cholesterol.”
“Research ahead of its time.”

“One of the most progressive doctors was Dr. Lester Morrison of Angeles. He started a study in 1946 (two years before the Framingham Study) to determine the relationship to dietary fat intake to the incidence of atherosclerosis. In his study he instructed fifty heart attack survivors to maintain their normal diet and fifty different heart attack survivors to consume an experimental diet.”

“After eight years, only twelve of fifty people eating their normal American Diet were alive (24%). In the diet group, twenty-eight people were still alive (56%), almost two and one-half times the amount of survivors in the control group. After twelve years, every single patient in the control group was dead. In the diet group, however, nineteen people were still alive, a survival rate of 38%.”

“Today, this epic battle between defenders of the status quo and advocates of diet is as strong as ever. Mostly, the status quo has been protected. Despite the potential of diet and disease prevention, most of the attention given to heart disease has been on mechanical and chemical intervention for those people who have advanced disease. Diet has been pushed aside. Surgery, drugs, electronics devices and new diagnostic tools have stolen the spotlight.”

“We now have coronary bypass surgery, where a healthy artery is pasted over a diseased artery, thereby bypassing the most dangerous plaque on the artery. The ultimate surgery, of course, is the heart transplant, which even utilizes an artificial heart on occasion. We also have a procedure that doesn’t require cracking the chest plate open, called coronary angioplasty, where a small balloon is inflated in a narrowed, diseased artery, squishing the plaque back against the wall, opening up the passage for increased blood flow. We have defibrillators so that few can observe individual arteries without having to expose the heart. The past fifty years have truly been a celebration of chemicals and technology (as opposed to diet and prevention).”

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Source: “The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell

Young with heart disease 101 Health Steps

Vaccine Report – Infowars Nightly News 101 Health Steps

Fluoride Report – Infowars Nightly News – 30 September 2011 101 Health Steps

Source: TheHealthRanger YouTube Channel

The Vitamin Water Deception – exposes truth behind this non-healthy beverage 101 Health Steps

Editor’s note: (Typical confusion explained) Coffee is linked with lower depression risk in women. Does this mean that all women should all go out and start drinking four cups a day of this protoplasmic poison? Should women go out and ignore the other damages that come with coffee drinking? This is the type of article that confuses individuals; however, if individuals had been taught to think, there would not be any confusion here. The article states how coffee boosts energy; however, it manages not to mention that this boost is artificial and forces the body to over use the adrenal glands; coffee drinkers are adrenal junkies. This study leads individuals to understand that being artificially stimulated is good when all it does is turn people into adrenal junkies. It is stated that coffee protects against depression, but is being high all day a good solution for depression versus addressing the issues (cause)? Just because some weak, falsely directed study most probably  funded by some corporation’s best interest makes a statement, it does not mean it is beneficial. So what if it happens to lower depression, how about the fact that it is an addictive protoplasmic poison. The article states, “…the study does not prove that coffee lowers depression risk;” however, the easy to falsely interpret/ incomplete study (as stated: “many more studies will be needed to show whether coffee can be used to prevent depression”) was released for the public to read and form a limited and guided opinion.

(Reuters) – Women who drink four cups of coffee a day are 20 percent less likely to become depressed than women who rarely drink coffee, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Caffeine is the most frequently used central nervous system stimulant in the world, and coffee consumption accounts for about 80 percent of caffeine use. Read more (But not necessary)

Coffee linked with lower depression risk in women 101 Health Steps

Editor’s comment: This article is not really necessary for the avid health buff because health enthusiasts eat whole, fresh, ripe, organic, raw fruits and vegetables in the correct caloric ratio which mimics their physiological needs; however, this article is covered for those millions of people that do not think that corporations would do such things as change name to confuse individuals; further, this article brings awareness to support why mainstream has not yet decided to talk about real healthy diets such as the one mentioned: big corporations have the monopoly. Just to make it clear, this is not the first time an unhealthy substance has been renamed: just take a look at what they have done with MSG and Aspertame over the years – just to mention a few.

(AP) A recent attempt by the corn industry to change the name of a widely used but increasingly controversial sweetener was misleading and could have robbed consumers of important information, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration said in documents obtained by The Associated Press. The comments came last year as the Corn Refiners Association sought clarity over whether it could change the name of high fructose corn syrup to just “corn syrup.” That informal request was subsequently withdrawn and in September 2010, the group filed a formal petition seeking a more radical name change: “corn sugar.” The corn industry is attempting an image makeover for high fructose corn syrup after some scientists linked it to obesity and other health problems and some food companies started touting products that did not contain the ingredient. High fructose corn syrup is present in most sodas and a staggering array of processed foods. Read more

By THOMAS WATKINS – Associated Press

Published on Yahoo News

Corn Syrup: Changing the name to decieve you 101 Health Steps

Editor’s comments: Colin Campbell’s book, “The China Study” ends the debate for those whom think there is a debate that cows milk is healthy or should be a part of a human’s diet. Cow’s milk is designed for calves only.

(Natural News) When you wake up and go to the kitchen to pour yourself a cold glass of milk, it seems you are filling your body with calcium, vitamins, and an abundance of goodness. That seemingly white beverage may look innocent, but the hidden ingredients packed into the liquid that is a popular staple in the American diet are anything but.

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists have found through analysis that one single glass of milk can contain a delightful (or not) medley of up to 20 different kinds of painkillers,antibiotics and growth hormones (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…). These medicinal residues, found in samples of cow, goat, and human breast milk, are from a variety of chemicals used to treat animal and human illness.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/033075_milk_chemical_contamination.html#ixzz1SzkjCb5u

Scientists find a mass of synthetic chemicals in every glass of milk 101 Health Steps

(101 Health Steps) The State of California is leading the rest of the States by passing a bill (AB499) that allows the State of California to vaccine a child without the parents’ consent. Remember what the Activist Post reported in their article titled “Vaccine Assult on Children by World Government? How about what Bill Gates stated at a TED lecture: Remember what Bill Gates has said about reducing population? Would children be safer if they were home schooled? Are citizens’ rights being taken away and given to large corporations that have a contract (law) to continue to give investors more profits?

Source: National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)

NEW LAW: Vaccinating children without your consent 101 Health Steps

Fear of flying? Hospitals may be scarier — so take precautions

To those who fear flying: Your chances of dying in a hospital because of a medical mistake are much, much higher than going down in an airplane, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Donaldson cited the oft-made comparison of the aviation and health-care industries in an effort to promote the WHO’s surgical safety checklist for hospitals, but there are also several ways patients can protect themselves from errors, and in particular, from infection.

Here are a few tips from the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths:

- Ask hospital workers if they’ve washed their hands, or used an alcohol-based cleaner, before they touch you.

- If the doctor uses a stethoscope, ask him or her to wipe it with alcohol.

- Avoid putting your hands near your mouth.

- If you’re going for surgery, stop smoking in advance — smokers are more likely to get infections and take longer to recover. Don’t shave the area where you’ll be having the surgery (bacteria could enter through nicks). And remind the surgeon that you may need an antibiotic before surgery.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a list of 20 tips for avoiding errors.

And of course, avoiding hospitals cuts down the risk of contracting a hospital infection. Eating healthily and exercising, so as to avoid chronic illnesses that might bring you to the hospital, can’t be bad.

WHO: “1 in 10 patients encounter medical errors at the hospital!” 101 Health Steps

Editor’s Comment: If you do not believe that vaccines are designed to kill, just listen  to Bill Gates explain towards the end of the clip at this link:  http://youtu.be/WUJMR3BUm2s. He also mentions health care and reproductive services as means to lowering the population. This clip is not taken out of context just in case the thought presented itself to those that enjoy being skeptical due to being so scared that their false reality being exposed and their realization that they have been living a lie. No one likes to be wrong. We all tend to do whatever it takes to deny that evil exists and the world is as it appears to be thanks to mainstream media, but we keep being reminded: Pol Pot, Hitler and so on.

The medical charity, Doctors Without Borders (MSF – Medecins Sans Frontieres), launched a mass vaccination against measles on the 18th of August 2011 at a refugee camp in southern Ethiopia hosting Somalis. The vaccination program is targeting children under 15. Many if not all of the Somali refugees also suffer from malnutrition reported aid agencies. “Malnutrition is very high,” said MSF emergency coordinator Guillem Perez. A drought in the Horn of Africa has left some 12 million people facing starvation.

What is wrong with this story? Seems like a normal enough thing to do—go into a refugee camp and vaccinate everyone. But there was a time, when doctors were doctors, that they would not vaccine children when their immune systems were compromised by the flu or even a bad cold. Certainly no doctor in his right mind would vaccinate if their patients had a high fever or any serious acute situation going on.

Now, why was it that prudent doctors used to take some precautions before vaccinating children? Any doctor worth his weight in salt knows that vaccines put stress on the body’s physiology and that is why some children die quickly after being vaccinated. Usually side effects are not fatal but they do indeed damage the nervous and other systems. READ MORE

Vaccine Assault on Children by The World Government 101 Health Steps

Law professors: Academics ‘guest authoring’ ghostwritten studies should be charged with fraud

Academics who lend their names to medical and scientific articles ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry should be charged with fraud under the the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), according to two University of Toronto Faculty of Law professors.

The pharmaceutical industry often conducts research, but allows academic experts to submit it to scientific journals under their own name. Although medical professionals and academics have called for these “guest authors” to be sanctioned by journals, academic institutions and regulatory agencies, their recommendations have not been widely embraced.

“It’s a prostitution of their academic standing,” Professor Trudo Lemmens said. “And it undermines the integrity of the entire academic publication system.”

In an article published Tuesday in PLoS Medicine, Professors Simon Stern and Trudo Lemmens argued that, “guest author’s claim for credit of an article written by someone else constitutes legal fraud, and may give rise to claims that could be pursued in a class action based on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.”

“Guest authorship is a disturbing violation of academic integrity standards, which form the basis of scientific reliability,” they claimed. “Pharmaceutical sponsors borrow the names of academic experts precisely because of the value and prestige attached to the presumed integrity and independence of academic researchers.”

Academics who lend their names to ghostwritten studies give false respectability to claims of safety and effectiveness that threaten to undermine the integrity of medical research and patient care, according to Stern and Lemmens. This false respectability extends to the courtroom as well, when the studies are used as evidence in lawsuits to support pharmaceutical companies’ claims.

“Expert witness testimony comes into court through the agency of lawyers, who are officers of the court,” they explain. “When a pharmaceutical company helps to produce ghostwritten articles and its lawyers cite them in court, the lawyers are, at the very least, reckless about the falsehood and they have a duty to disclose the truth.” READ MORE

Proof that some medical studies are fraudulent and misleading 101 Health Steps

Editor’s note: This article is a great reminder why choosing organic is vital; it is just not enough to go plant-based in your diet.

‘Dirty Dozen’ List Reveals Fruits/Veggies With Most Pesticides

Apples again top the “dirty dozen” list of produce most contaminated with pesticides, while onions top the list of the “clean 15.”

The rankings come from consumer advocates at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG), based on pesticide tests from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the FDA. It updates last year’s list with recently released data from 2009 tests.

“Pesticides are toxic,” Sonya Lunder, EWG senior analyst, says in a news release. “They are designed to kill things and most are not good for you. The question is, how bad are they?”

It’s a good question. A rule of thumb is to avoid exposures that are a thousand times less than levels known to be toxic. A 2009 study led by EPA researcher Devon Payne-Sturges found that about 40% of U.S. children have levels of one type of pesticide well above this 1,000-fold margin of exposure.

Where do kids, and adults, get exposed to pesticides? For most of us, it’s through the fruits and vegetables we eat.

The EWG is quick to point out that people should eat more fruits and vegetables, not less — regardless of the Dirty Dozen report.

“The health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure,” the EWG notes in a news release.

But EWG calculates that by choosing fruits and vegetables from the Clean 15 list instead of the Dirty Dozen list, people can cut their pesticide exposure by 92%.

Even so, nobody is telling anyone to avoid apples, the most pesticide-laden fruit. But EWG recommends choosing organic produce instead of the produce on the Dirty Dozen list. That won’t totally cut pesticide exposure, but it could help.

Can you wash pesticides off fruit and vegetables? Yes, it really can help. But the depressing news is that most of the produce was carefully washed before the USDA/FDA tests.

The EWG rating system is based on a score given to each item in six categories:

• Percentage of samples with detectable pesticide
• Percentage of samples with two or more pesticides
• Average number of pesticides found in a single sample
• Average amount of all pesticides found
• Maximum number of pesticides found in a single sample
• Total number of pesticides in the fruit or vegetable

A 2010 study by Harvard researcher Chensheng Lu and colleagues evaluated pesticides in foods eaten by children in two U.S. cities (Atlanta and Seattle). It found that many of the pesticide-containing foods these children ate were on the EWG Dirty Dozen list.

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(101 Health Steps)  Editor’s comments: This article is a great reminder of why individuals would benefit from taking responsibility and making their meals at home themselves as was done decades ago.

We knew that there were a fair number of restaurants around town who were hiding their letter grades, but the sheer number of them is still surprising. The Department of Health is currently going on a six-month-long unannounced inspection blitz to stop scofflaw spots from hiding (or, worse, not posting) their grades, and in the process they’ve caught 804 restaurants in the act. And nearly two dozen of them had A’s!

Restaurants who didn’t post their grades (all 704 of them) or tried to obscure them with things like plants (an additional 100) are being issued violations that can cost as much as $1,000 for the first offense. And 23 of the restaurant’s caught didn’t even have anything to be ashamed of—maybe they thought the A stood for Adulteress?

By law, letter grade cards must be on a front window, door or outside wall of a restaurant “where it is easily seen by people passing by, and within 5 feet of the entrance and from 4 to 6 feet off the ground or floor.” So far more than three-quarters of the city’s 24,000 restaurants and bars have been inspected under the new system and been awarded a grade.

If you notice that a restaurant has not posted a grade that it received or posted the wrong grade (you can look them up here) the Department of Health urges you to snitch to 311.

Source: Gothamist

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