[Biofuel] OIL-PULLING
I find coconut oil is most effective, at least for me. Coconut oil is anti-fungal as well as made up of medium-chain fatty acids which are potent anti-microbial agents. OIL-PULLING _http://www.oilpulling.com/_ (http://www.oilpulling.com/) Dr. F. Karach, M.D., presented a paper before the All-Ukrainian Association. The meeting was attended by oncologists and bacteriologists belonging to the Academy of Science of the USSR. Dr. Karach explained an unusual simple healing process using cold-pressed oils The results of this therapy invoked astonishment and doubt concerning the contents of his report. However, after further examining the workings of the oil therapy, one has but to then test it on oneself to prove its validity and effectiveness. It is most astonishing that such results can be achieved with this absolutely harmless biological healing method. This simple method makes it possible to effectively treat the most varied diseases, in some cases enabling one to avoid surgical intervention and the taking of medications that can have harmful side effects. The exciting factor of this healing method is its simplicity. It consists of swishing cold-pressed oil in the mouth (Sunflower or Sesame. Pl. note you don't need to go for organic oils only, A normal refined sunflower oil bought from any supermarket proven to be effective in many people). The healing process is accomplished by the human organism on its own. In this way it is possible to heal cells, tissue and all organs simultaneously; the body itself gets rid of toxic waste without disturbing the healthy microflora. Dr. Karach says human beings are living only half their life span. They could potentially live healthy to be 140 to 150 years old. The method The method In the morning before breakfast on an empty stomach you take one tablespoon in the mouth but do not swallow it. Move Oil Slowly in the mouth as rinsing or swishing and Dr Karach puts it as ' sip, suck and pull through the teeth' for fifteen to twenty minutes. This process makes oil thoroughly mixed with saliva. Swishing activates the enzymes and the enzymes draw toxins out of the blood. The oil must not be swallowed, for it has become toxic. As the process continues, the oil gets thinner and white. If the oil is still yellow, it has not been pulled long enough. It is then spit from the mouth - the oral cavity must be thoroughly rinsed and mouth must be washed thoroughly. Just use normal tap water and good old fingers to clean. Clean the sink properly, you can use some antibacterial soap to clean the sink - because the spittle contains harmful bacteria and toxic bodily waste. If one were to see one drop of this liquid magnified 600 times under a microscope, one would see microbes in their first stage of development. It is important to understand that during the oil-pulling/swishing process one's metabolism is intensified. This leads to improved health. One of the most striking results of this process is the fastening of loose teeth, the elimination of bleeding gums and the visible whitening of the teeth. The oil pulling /swishing is done best before breakfast. To accelerate the healing process, it can be repeated three times a day, but always before meals on an empty stomach. Oilpulling Therapy STEP BY STEP _http://www.oilpulling.com/oilpullingmethod.htm_ (http://www.oilpulling.com/oilpullingmethod.htm) Step 1: The first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and before drinking any liquids (including water), pour exactly one tablespoon of sunflower or sesame oil (or whatever oil you have chosen) into your mouth. Step 2: Swish the oil around in your mouth without swallowing it. Move it around in your mouth and through your teeth, as if it was mouthwash (don't tilt your head back to gargle though). You'll find that the oil will start to get watery as your saliva mixes with it. Keep swishing.If your jaw muscles get sore while swishing, you're putting too much into it. Relax your jaw muscles and use your tongue to help move the liquid around the inside of your mouth. When you do this correctly, you'll feel very comfortable. Pretty soon, it will become second nature. Step3: As the end of the oil pulling session approaches, you may notice the oil/saliva mixture in your mouth has become thicker. This is quite normal, since it is pulling out toxins from your body. When 20 minutes is up, spit out the oil into the toilet. Don't be alarmed if it looks yellowish--this is also normal. Step4: Rinse out your mouth a couple of times with warm water and spit into the toilet. Rinse and spit with a good mouthwash. I prefer to dilute with water (or use full strength), regular hydrogen peroxide and I rinse and spit with that. The hydrogen peroxide is very effective in rinsing out any toxins which may be left in the
[Biofuel] Groundbreaking Primate Study Links Mercury Vaccine Preservative To Brain Injury
Groundbreaking Primate Study Links Mercury Vaccine Preservative To Brain Injury _http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166102.php_ (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166102.php) Article Date: 03 Oct 2009 A new study in the leading scientific journal NeuroToxicology lends further credence to parents and scientists concerned about an increasingly aggressive childhood vaccine schedule and toxic vaccine components. A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that infant macaque monkeys receiving a single Hepatitis B vaccine containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal underwent significant delays in developing critical reflexes controlled by the brainstem. The infant macaques that did not receive vaccines developed normally. Government vaccine guidelines were expanded in 1991 to include a Hepatitis B vaccine for infants within the first few days of life, even though the disease is primarily transmitted sexually or spread through the use of dirty needles. The introduction of the shot was part of a greatly accelerated vaccine schedule that coincides with the drastic increase in autism, which now affects one in 100 American children. Thimerosal was removed from U.S. Hepatitis B vaccines in 2000 but was not recalled from the market and was administered for approximately two more years. It still remains in other vaccines including all multi-dose shots for both the seasonal flu and H1N1. Current government recommendations for seasonal flu and H1N1 call for pregnant women to receive both vaccines, and children as young as six months to receive as many as four separate flu shots. This also doesn't take into account that nursing infants may be exposed to additional mercury through breastmilk should both mother and baby be vaccinated, says National Autism Association (NAA) board chair Lori McIlwain. This study's outcome confirms that such an over-the-top toxic vaccine schedule is an assault on the developing brains of our children. Specifically, the study found: -- Thirteen newborn rhesus macaques were given a Hepatitis B vaccine containing a standardized dose of thimerosal adjusted for their weight, four received a saline placebo, and three were not given any shots. -- Vaccinated animals experienced a significant delay in the acquisition of three survival reflexes compared to unvaccinated animals. Root, snout, and suck reflexes, critical to animal survival in the wild, were delayed in the vaccinated macaques. -- These reflexes are controlled by the brainstem, a vital part of the brain that regulates automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, and intestinal activity.v -- Neonatal responses in unvaccinated control animals were not delayed. -- The delay in acquisition of three of the four survival reflexes was not contingent on birth weight or gestational age. For years, parents of children with autism have lobbied government health agencies to conduct research comparing the health of vaccinated children to that of unvaccinated children, and to remove thimerosal from all vaccines. Neither request has been met. This study underscores the lack of appropriate government action to ensure the safety of vaccines. Had our government agencies conducted the most basic research on the implications to children's health from the vaccines they rigorously promote, they could have spared thousands of children the neurological injuries they endure today, said Ms. McIlwain. It's shameful. Source: National Autism Association -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20091008/cd6a6464/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] The psychological effects of Lyme disease
The psychological effects of Lyme disease _http://www.igenex.com/psychological_effects.htm_ (http://www.igenex.com/psychological_effects.htm) By Valerie Andews Can a tick bite drive you crazy? Doctors warn that Lyme disease may cause personality changes A walk in the woods nearly cost Mike M. his sanity. After receiving multiple tick bites, Mike broke out in an angry rash and his joints began to ache. In the next few months, his behavior grew increasingly bizarre. He was no longer able to read or concentrate, and became so anxious he couldn’t leave the house. Eventually, Mike was treated for chronic Lyme disease, an illness that can play havoc with the mind. Since its discovery in 1975, Lyme disease has reached epidemic proportion in the United States. While the Centers for Disease Control reports 19,000 cases of this tick-borne illness in 2002, the agency estimates that the actual number may be tenfold higher: 190,000—that’s four times the rate of new HIV infections. “Lyme disease is a major problem yet, tragically, many people fail to receive the proper treatment,” says Bernard Raxlen, MD, a Greenwich, CT, psychiatrist and secretary of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), a medical organization dedicated to ongoing research and increasing public awareness of this devastating illness. Lyme often begins with flu-like symptoms, headaches, fatigue, swelling of the joints, muscle pain and gastrointestinal distress. Most physicians have been taught to look for evidence of a tick bite and a red bull’s-eye rash, yet fewer than half of all Lyme patients recall being bitten or develop tell-tale skin eruptions. As a result many are misdiagnosed with other disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or MS. As Lyme disease progresses, it can attack the nervous system, producing learning disabilities, mood swings, anxiety and depression, panic attacks, obsessive behavior, sudden rages and other psychiatric diagnoses. Says Raxlen, “When this happens, we’re looking at a completely different syndrome and one that is harder to cure.” A recent European study shows that psychiatric in-patients are nearly twice as likely as the average population to test positive for Lyme, and the National Institutes of Health are currently sponsoring a major study of neuropsychiatric Lyme disease in an effort to illuminate specific changes in the brain. Psychiatric Lyme has been linked with virtually every psychiatric diagnosis and can affect people of all ages and from every walk of life. A former honor roll student is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and pegged as a “problem kid” because he can’t sit still in class. A lawyer has to close her practice because she can’t concentrate and suffers from anxiety attacks. A young mother is so sensitive to noise that she can no longer tolerate her baby’s cry and is afraid that she will harm her child. A retired salesman develops a compulsive habit of writing all over everything—he covers everything from the tablecloth to matchbooks with meaningless scribbles. Family members are baffled by these transformations; counselors and physicians are consulted, often to no avail. While these individuals may also have migrating muscles pain, headaches and problems with their joints—common signs of Lyme—these symptoms are rarely picked up in a mental health evaluation. And when traditional psychiatric medication fails to produce a cure, the patient grows more desperate. The Search for a Diagnosis “Most people come to see me because they’ve got something wrong that nobody else can figure out,” says Debra Solomon, MD, a psychiatrist who practices in North Kingston, RI. Fifteen years ago Solomon was confronted with a medical mystery. More and more patients were coming in with the same group of symptoms—fatigue, headaches, migrating joint and muscle pain, accompanied by anxiety, depression, and memory problems. When one of her patients turned out to have Lyme disease, she tested the others, and found that nearly all were positive. Recent studies show that certain areas of Rhode Island have the highest tick population in the world. Today many of Solomon’s patients come from the island Jamestown, a small farming community where ticks are abundant. Among her cases are: A college student in her early twenties who started hearing voices. “She came from a good family and had no previous emotional problems,” says Solomon. A businesswoman who suddenly became manic-depressive. “In periods of high energy, she wouldn’t sleep and felt all-powerful. She’d start a new business and begin spending lots of money, then she’d crash.” A high school athlete had to drop basketball because he didn’t have the stamina and couldn’ t get through his classes without falling sleep. “The teachers accused him
[Biofuel] How to Ensure Good Digestion
How to Ensure Good Digestion _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig3.php_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig3.php) by Bee Wilder Stomach Acid Problems Many people today, and most candida sufferers, have digestive problems, which is mainly caused by the stomach producing too little stomach acid. We may think our stomachs are overly acidic because of heartburn, sour stomach, or overall stomach upset, nausea and pain, when in fact having too little acid creates exactly the same symptoms as an over acid stomach. The technical term for low stomach acidity is hypochlorhydria, and a stomach that is not producing any acid is called achlorhydria. The most common symptoms of low stomach acidity include: -- heartburn (if there isn't enough stomach acid the valve that closes the end of the esophagus won't close properly, so even low stomach acid can burn the esophagus) -- upset stomach, nausea -- vomiting -- sour stomach -- a heavy feeling, as if the food is just sitting in the stomach in a lump Our stomachs are supposed to be acidic, so it important that it produce high concentrations of hydrochloric acid (HCl). When the stomach produces HCl it also produces bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) which protects the lining of the stomach from being damaged or eaten up by HCl. When the stomach doesn't produce enough HCl, it also will not produce enough bicarbonate of soda so the stomach can become ulcerated. When hydrochloric acid is low it causes malnutrition and many digestive problems. HCl mainly digests protein, breaking it down into small molecules, which are further digested in the intestinal tract. Low stomach acid is associated with a higher incidence of gastrointestinal problems like h. pylori bacteria which cause stomach ulcers, acid reflux (heartburn), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease, diarrhea, constipation, etc. Our stomachs need adequate acid so we can get the benefit of a good diet and the nutrients it contains, and in order for digestion to proceed like it should throughout the intestines. How Foods Are Digested Carbohydrates (carbs) start being digested by enzymes produced in the mouth - carbs are all foods that are not classified as protein or fat, including vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, sugar, starches, herbs, spices, etc. Some carbs also contain protein and fat, such as grains, nuts, seeds and some vegetables. Also some protein foods also contain carbs and fats such as eggs. HCl (hydrochloric acid or stomach acid) mainly digests protein. When a person starts to eat the stomach is stimulated to start producing hydrochloric acid (HCl). Stomach acid gradually increases during a meal. When the stomach acid gets high enough, which normally takes about 20-30 minutes after eating, it neutralizes enzymes from the mouth so carb digestion stops. Digestive enzymes from the mouth only work on carbs while the mixture is alkaline. Therefore, if HCl supplements are taken too early it stops carb digestion in the stomach too soon. HCl also neutralizes any digestive enzyme supplements, so taking them is a waste. That is why it is important to take HCl supplements 30-45 minutes after eating a meal. When the mixture of food, water and HCl (called chyme) empties out of the stomach it has to go through a hole that is the size of the end of a pencil. The mixture squirts through that small hole in spurts. That rate at which foods empty out of the stomach is highly regulated. If the mixture is too solid and doesn't contain enough fluid it isn't as able to get through that small hole. That is why drinking enough fluids with meals is also very important. When the mixture starts squirting through that small hole, if the pancreas detects it contains enough fluids and HCl it is able to do its job. First the mixture must be made alkaline, so the pancreas pours lots of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) onto the mixture as it is squirting through that small hole. Pancreatic digestive enzymes only work on an alkaline mixture, just like enzymes in the mouth. Next, the pancreas produces several enzymes which digest carbs, fats and further digests protein, i.e. protease digests protein, amylase digests carbs and lipase digests fats. The small intestine also produces digestive enzymes that only work on an alkaline mixture. Therefore taking HCl supplements and improving its production in the stomach, along with having enough fluids with meals, is very important for proper digestion, whereas taking digestive enzymes is a waste and doesn't help digestion. Improve Digestion with Foods, Spices and Herbs The following foods, spices, and herbs stimulate stomach acid production, but sometimes it is necessary to also take HCl supplements. -- Meats and eggs. -- Good fats such as coconut
[Biofuel] Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets By Bob Egelko The San Francisco Chronicle, September 23, 2009 _http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19177.cfm_ (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19177.cfm) OCA Editors' Note: OCA applauds our ally the Center for Food Safety _http://truefoodnow.org/_ (http://truefoodnow.org/) for this watershed moment in their efforts to bring GMOs under the rule of law. The victory breathes new life into our consumer campaigns for marketplace rejection of food brands that have indicated they would use GMO sugar. TAKE ACTION: _http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/t/1961/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1 2700_ (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/t/1961/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12700) Write to American Crystal Sugar President David Berg who believes consumers acceptance of GMO sugar be a big nonevent. Tell him you're joining the boycott of foods with non-organic sugar. SAN FRANCISCO -- The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision in 2005 to allow Monsanto Co. to sell the sugar beets, known as Roundup-Ready because they are engineered to coexist with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. Sugar beets produce 30 percent of the world's sugar and, according to consumer groups, half the granulated sugar in the United States. This year's planting, centered in Oregon's Willamette Valley, is the first to include a full crop of the Monsanto product. White said the USDA, in concluding that the new crop would have no significant environmental effects, discounted the likelihood that wind-borne pollen would spread to fields where conventional sugar beets, table beets and the beet variety known as Swiss chard are grown. Planting genetically modified sugar beets has a significant effect on the environment, White said in his ruling Monday, because of the potential elimination of a farmer's choice to grow non-genetically engineered crops, or a consumer's choice to eat non-genetically engineered food. He said the department must prepare an environmental impact statement, which would include public input. White did not immediately prohibit distribution of the genetically modified sugar beets, but a lawyer for plaintiffs in the case said they would ask the judge for an injunction against sales until the review was completed. The ruling sends a very clear message to the USDA to protect American farmers and consumers and not the interests of Monsanto, said Kevin Golden, a San Francisco attorney for the nonprofit Center for Food Safety, which opposes genetically modified foods and supports organic farming. Golden said the ruling could also affect herbicide use, because the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed more herbicide spraying in areas where the resistant crops are grown. Representatives of the Agriculture Department and Monsanto were unavailable for comment. Luther Markwart, spokesman for the 10,000-member American Sugar Beet Growers Association, said the group is looking forward to aggressively advocating for farmers who want to use the altered beets. The ruling followed a similar decision in 2007 by another federal judge in San Francisco, Charles Breyer, to halt the nationwide planting of Monsanto's genetically engineered strain of alfalfa until the USDA conducted an environmental study. A federal appeals court upheld Breyer's decision last year. The department's 2005 decision on sugar beets acknowledged that pollen from the genetically modified crop could spread to other beet crops. But the USDA said farmers would not be harmed because they would still be able to buy non-genetically modified seeds. White, however, cited studies that said winds can carry sugar beet pollen at least 2 1/2 miles, much farther than the voluntary buffer zones between beet crops recommended by Oregon agriculture officials. He said the department had failed to consider the economic effects of its decision and had provided no evidence for its conclusion that non-genetically modified sugar beets would remain available to farmers. © 2009 Hearst Communications Inc. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20091002/1d732562/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages):
[Biofuel] The Kitchen Transition
The Kitchen Transition _http://www.westonaprice.org/transition/kitchen.html_ (http://www.westonaprice.org/transition/kitchen.html) By Lori Lipinski, CNC For many people the concept of eating healthy means sticking to a temporary diet for a short period of time. But when you truly understand what it means to eat healthy, you realize this is not just something cool to do for a little while and then quit--it's something you need to do everyday. Eating healthy is a way of life. For most people this transition can be a little overwhelming at first. Many people are so afraid to change, they never do. Others make changes, but easily give up and go back to their old ways. Some jump in head first and change everything, but have no idea where to go from there. Sure, when it comes right down to it, most people want to be healthier, but just don't really know how to make it happen. If you want to be healthy, it makes sense to stop doing things that make you unhealthy! This article will help you get started making the kitchen transition by getting rid of six ingredients that compromise your health. You'll also learn why these foods should be eliminated from your diet and what foods to replace them with. Pick a day for your kitchen makeover. Get out a big trash can and then open up the refrigerator and all your cupboards. Now you are ready to begin! REFINED SUGAR AND ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS In today's over-processed, sugar-crazed society, the average person consumes 154 pounds of sugar per year! That's 53 teaspoons of sugar per day! Now let's pretend that sugar actually has some benefits, eating one-half pound per day may not seem like such a bad idea. But the truth is that refined sugar has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. Not only does it completely lack nutritional value, it also robs the body of enzymes, minerals and vitamins, especially B-vitamins. Symptoms of B-vitamin deficiency include: fatigue, depression, anxiety, inability to concentrate, poor memory, insomnia, rapid/irregular heart beat, swollen/inflamed tongue, dry skin around the nose and cracking around the lips. Considering the amount of sugar consumed in this country, it's no surprise so many Americans suffer from symptoms of a B-vitamin deficiency. Eating too much sugar also creates blood sugar imbalances in the body. When blood sugar drops too low (shortly after eating a high-sugar meal or snack) the fuel supply to the body is impaired, with adverse effects on mental function, physical energy and emotional stability. Symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can range anywhere from headaches, irritability and shaking when hungry to explosive anger, panic attacks, or crying easily for no apparent reason. Not only can sugar affect the quality of your day but it can also make you sick. Many studies have shown that sugar is very effective in weakening the immune system and is a source of fuel for feeding cancer and tumors. In an attempt to avoid the problems associated with sugar, many people have been convinced that artificial sweeteners are a better alternative. The word artificial should give you a clue that they are not. Artificial sweeteners are associated with cancer, weight gain, increased cravings for sweets, impaired coordination, decreased mental function, diabetes, MS, Parkinson's, seizures and migraine headaches. Trash It: It's fair to say that no other food contributes to as many health problems as sugar. So if you want to achieve your optimum health potential, avoiding sugar is the best place to start. You can begin your kitchen transition by throwing out that big bag of sugar and all those little packets of artificial sweeteners. Then get rid of all the products in your cupboards and refrigerator that are made with refined sugar (sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin). This will include all commercial brands of cookies, candy, pop, ice cream, pastry, cakes and pies. It may seem like a good idea to pass these foods along to family, friends, neighbours, or coworkers--but considering the problems caused by excess sugar consumption, it's best just to throw them out. Even if it seems like a waste of money at the time, the savings in your health, and the health of those you care about, will be well worth it. Stash It: The best sweeteners to use are those that occur naturally such as raw cane sugar (Rapadura), pure maple syrup, raw honey or molasses. These are best used for baking. Stevia, an herb that is much sweeter than sugar but does not affect blood sugar levels, can be used for sweetening beverages (if necessary in the initial stages of transitioning your diet). Keep in mind that even natural sweeteners can affect your blood sugar and contribute to cravings for sweets. For this reason it's best to avoid eating sweets by themselves; instead
[Biofuel] German consumers get “No Genetic Engi neering” label for food
German consumers get “No Genetic Engineering” label for food
_http://current.com/1919e4c_ (http://current.com/1919e4c)
German consumers can now find out if their food has been genetically
modified. Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Ilse Aigner,
recently
introduced a new “No Genetic Engineering” logo.
The green and white logo, which reads Ohne Gentechnik in German, will
guarantee that food has no trace of genetically engineered substances.
The primary application of the label is to identify foods, such as meat or
milk, derived from animals not fed GM feed.
Aigner said companies have had the option to use such a label since 2008,
but few companies have done so to date.
“Through the adoption of a universal logo, consumers’ freedom to choose
will be strengthened, and I hope that the label will be used actively,”
Aigner said.
A majority of Germans prefer not to buy GM food and consumer and
environmental organizations have welcomed the label. A poll conducted recently
by
forsa, the German polling firm, concludes that the new label would make sense
to 78% of all Germans.
“The new seal achieves clarity in the labeling jungle,” said genetic
engineering expert for Greenpeace Barbara Kamradt, adding that it will also
increase the value of these products.
(Source: The Local {Germany})
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[Biofuel] FACTS FALLACIES of COLLOIDAL SILVER - The Chemical and Physical Basis of the T
The Chemical and Physical Basis of the Therapeutic value of colloidal forms of silver _http://www.csfacts.com/pages/dudley.html_ (http://www.csfacts.com/pages/dudley.html) John Marshall Dudley Abstract: Silver in its various forms has had a long history of reported therapeutic value. Recently, through the work of Dr. Bob Beck and other researchers, it has become popular, individually, as well as part of a 4 part protocol advocated by Dr. Bob Beck claiming cures for an almost astounding number of ailments, from the colds/flu to lupus, AIDS, and cancer. We note that a search of literature has revealed that there is no consensus on how it works, or even what it does. Most discussions appear to be theories or speculation with little or no supporting scientific evidence. Silver colloids were analyzed from several scientific perspectives to determine what the expected action is on various pathogens as well as its effect, if any, on so called friendly or non-pathogenic bacteria. The result is what has been generally reported by many people and researchers and is exactly what is to be expected. This is important, since winning the approval of medical professionals and even that of many patients requires an understanding of what colloidal silver therapy does and does not do as well as how it works. Text: Silver has been reported to have therapeutic value throughout the ages. It has been suggested that one reason the upper class did not succumb to many of the plagues that almost wiped out many villages was because they ate with silver utensils, off silver plates and drank from silver goblets. Churches did, and still do, use cups made of silver for communion, where one goblet is passed from person to person. Earlier last century people put silver dollars in their milk and wells to ward off spoilage and illness (4). The knowledge of the miraculous healing powers of silver was so well known that in the legends of werewolves, silver was required to kill the lychantrophy, and supposedly, evil witches cowered at the power of silver to eliminate evil. More recently, many researchers such as Dr. Bob Beck have reported that silver in a colloidal state eliminates virtually all known pathogens, viruses, fungi, bacteria, protozoa, and yeasts. Yet, it appears that there is rarely any effect on the good bacteria in the intestinal tract, either because it does not attack such bacteria, or it is absorbed into the blood stream before reaching the intestinal tract. Silver is referred to as a transition metal in chemical literature, along with copper and gold. These are metals that are heavier than the life-giving light metals, such as sodium, calcium, and potassium, yet lighter than the toxic heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and mercury. Gold and silver are considered noble metals because they tend to not react easily in forming compounds. The transition metals are known for their catalytic properties. Ionic silver (such as any silver compound dissolved in water), has very little if any catalytic effect, and neither does macroscopic silver. Very finely powdered silver, however, becomes a very good oxidizing catalyst. Starting with atomic or ionic silver, the catalytic effect increases with particle size until it reaches a peak at some value, then drops off to a much lower level when the particles approach the wavelength of light. This is easy to explain by examining how a catalyst works. Each positively charged silver atom will attract one negatively charged atom or molecule. Once they touch, the charge is neutralized. If you have more than one positively charged atom of silver in a particle, then each can attract a negatively charged atom or particle. If a clump of silver atoms binds with two negatively charged particles, such as oxygen and something else, these two particles will no longer electrostatically repel each other, but will be brought together and will react, oxidizing the particle. The larger the particle, the more positively charged silver atoms can attract oxygen and other negatively charged particles to the surface. If particle size becomes too large, then the amount of silver hidden in the center of the particle means that the increase in mass, which goes up with the cube of the diameter, is increasing faster than the active surface areas, which goes up at the square of the diameter. The catalytic effect thus peaks at some particle size and decreases with respect to the amount of silver if the size is increased further. Bacteria come in two forms - anaerobic and aerobic. Earlier this last century, it was discovered by Dr. Gram that he could stain bacteria with a specially prepared Gram stain, and that in general good bacteria stained, but pathogenic bacteria did not stain. It was later discovered that the pathogenic bacteria are
Re: [Biofuel] Unrefined Salt: Another missing link to optimal health + Related A
Keith The difference in how seasalt effects us and how commecial white table salt effects us is like night and day. I would be very interested in any articles that show that seasalt has killed anybody - those ones you posted all used commercial salt. Except the premature baby and that article does not even say that the saline was what killed it - just that he was left on a saline drip which apparently left the child dehydrated. They don't even know that the child was dehydrated . They go on to say that a coroners' investigation will now be held and there will be an inquest. Sounds like the cause of death is unknown to me - they don't even seem to know for sure if the child was dehydrated.. This website has a quite a bit of info on salt, the various kinds, etc _http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_WhatIsSalt.asp_ (http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_WhatIsSalt.asp) Seasalt is very healing - in fact, essential to the adrenals for example and are an important part of healing the adrenals and endocrine system. A yahoo group for Lyme Disease which I belong is all about using seasalt and vitamin C to kill not only the bacteria which causes Lyme , but also the various 'critters' which cause various co-infections. . Lyme Strategies This forum is dedicated to the ongoing research of practical approaches to Lyme infection. It is based primarily upon the the Oral Salt/Vitamin C approach pioneered and described at the Lyme Photos website: _http://www.lymephotos.com/index.shtml_ (http://www.lymephotos.com/index.shtml) _http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/lymestrategies/_ (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/lymestrategies/) There are also a few members taking this protocol to kill the mycoplasma that causes arthritis The Case for Mycoplasma’s Role as a Cause of Autoimmune Rheumatoid Diseases _http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Mycoplasmas%20Properties%20%20Their %20Role%20in%20Autoimmune%_ (http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Mycoplasmas%20Properties%20%20Their%20Role%20in%20Autoimmune%20Diseases.pdf) 20Diseases.pdf Physicians' Protocol for Using Antibiotics in Rheumatic Disease The following is a modified version of Dr. Brown's protocol. _http://www.mercola.com/2000/aug/27/rheumatoid_arthritis.htm_ (http://www.mercola.com/2000/aug/27/rheumatoid_arthritis.htm) _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/08/27/rheumatoid-ar thritis-part-one.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/08/27/rheumatoid-arthritis-part-one.aspx) and there are a few whom found that the salt also cured the barteria that causes Crohn's Disease etc COMMENTS FROM DR. GABE MIRKIN Sections - Treatment For Severe Arthtritis; E Coli In Gut Causes Rheumatoid Arthtritis; Reactive Arhtritis; Antibiotics and Arthritis; Why Arthritis May Be Caused By Infection; Anykylosing Spondylitis; Doxycycline For Arthtritis; Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis Early With Antibiotics _http://rheumatic.org/mirkin.htm_ (http://rheumatic.org/mirkin.htm) This protocol requires people to eat 18 to 22 grams of seasalt a day, and the same amount of vitamin C. [ a heaping Tablespoon of seasalt equals about 18 grams of seasalt] This is not a new protocol - it has been around for more then just several years - and nobody has died from seasalt. It is not unusual for some people whom have digestive issues to need buffered vitamin C however. There are several members whom have been taking this everyday for 2 years plus others whose disease is in remission or 'cured' whom feel that their body has benefited in many ways from the salt and so still take at least 10 to 15 grams of seasalt a day. Some of these 'critters' are very difficult to kill, as they do not live only in the blood - but change into different forms [for example mycoplasma or L-forms] and live and hide in the muscles, bones, and organs. And many treatments such as antibiotics can only access critters' in the blood. One of the co-infections, Bartonella, has no walls and is also frequently found in the lining of the veins as well as inside red blood corpuscles - as well as organs such as the brain and the heart. But salt can access the critters wherever they are - salt water can go wherever water or liguid is in the body, including inside cells. Some people eventually will also combine frequency machines and/or colloidal silver, or herbs, etc to their protcols for killing the various 'critters' that they have - depending on what co-infections they have. According to several sources, in traditional China, salt was a popular choice of poison for suicides, all it took was a few spoonsful. Refined or not, salt is still a killer: It must have taken a lot more then a few spoonfuls of salt to kill those Chinese people. For example, I am still here and have been taking over 2
[Biofuel] UPDATE: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Test Infects Entire U.S. Naval Vessel, Kills Capt
UPDATE: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Test Infects Entire U.S. Naval Vessel, Kills Captain and Chief Petty Officer - also THREE OTHER U.S. NAVAL SHIPS reported to be under similar at-sea quarantine (NOW CONFIRMED) _http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/h1n1-vaccine-infects-entire-naval- vessel-kills-captain-and-chief-petty-officer/_ (http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/h1n1-vaccine-infects-entire-naval-vessel-kills-captain-and-chie f-petty-officer/) [Ed note: We are waiting to see just exactly *what* these Navy sailors were injected with. also - Just now on IRN Radio news - 6 million doses of the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine [DEATH AND STERILIZATION SHOT] will be ready in first week of October – young children should be FIRST to get them. WHAT A WITCH. -a.s.] Courtesy of Bob Chapman of _The International Forecaster_ (http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342site=labvirus.wordpress.comurl=http://www.theinternati onalforecaster.com/) Subject: Vital data about US Navy results of swine flu vaccine on ship Data gleaned indirectly from anonymous testimony of Navy wives of the affected crew via the internet radio show A Marine Disquisition _http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067_ (http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067) : -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090927/3278082c/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Unrefined Salt: Another missing link to optimal health + Related Articles
Last month we introduced our readers to the miraculous benefits of the water cure. What wasn't emphasized last month is the importance of unrefined salt as a key element in realizing the benefits of the water cure. After all, sodium and other trace minerals found in unrefined salt enable our bodies to effectively utilize the water we consume as well as utilize the nutrients in our food. The proper ratio of salt and water is the key. The following is taken straight from Dr. Batmanghelidj's book, “Water: Rx for a Healthier Pain-Free Life” and is available at: _www.watercure2.com_ (http://www.watercure2.com) *** Unrefined Salt: Another missing link to optimal health by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D _http://proliberty.com/observer/20010808.htm_ (http://proliberty.com/observer/20010808.htm) Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water content of the body. Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolisms. Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells. It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells. There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is held outside the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by salt - unrefined salt. When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage. This is the reason why in severe dehydration we develop an edema and retain water. The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells. The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys. This is how we get edema: not drinking enough water. Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal. The collected water, that mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get onto the blood circulation. If reliance of this process of emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get waterlogged at night, and breathing becomes difficult. The person needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep. This condition is the consequence of dehydration. However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water at the beginning. Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase at the same rate that you drink water. When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of the salt that was held back. This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body; by drinking more water. Not diuretics, but more water! In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have irregular or very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the body. Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body is still in an overdrive mode to retain it. Once the edema has cleared up, salt should not be withheld from the body. Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the body. Here are some of the more vital functions of salt in the body: 1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure - in conjunction with water. Naturally, the proportions are critical. 2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells. 3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics. 4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body. It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy need by the cells. 5. Salt is vital to the nerve cells' communication and information processing all the time that the brain cells work, from the moment of conception to death. 6. Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract. 7. Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic fibrosis. 8. Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses. 9. Salt is a strong natural antihistamine. 10. Salt is essential for the
[Biofuel] Smart Choices food label is marketing fraud; Tufts University involvement ques
Smart Choices food label is marketing fraud; Tufts University involvement questioned (opinion) _http://www.naturalnews.com/027077_nutrition_food_Tufts_University.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/027077_nutrition_food_Tufts_University.html) by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor (NaturalNews) The big food companies have dreamed up yet another clever con to sell processed junk foods to parents and children: A Smart Choices label that implies the food product is a smart choice for health and nutrition. The problem is that the standards for qualifying for this designation were set by the food companies themselves, and processed junk foods like Froot Loops (a sugary breakfast cereal) qualify. Froot Loops is 41 percent processed white sugar. It also contains processed flour and partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil. But that's not all you'll find in the box: Froot Loops is also made with synthetic coloring chemicals, including Red #40, Blue #2, Yellow #6 and Blue #1. The No. 1 ingredient of Froot Loops is sugar, and each serving contains 12 grams of sugar. So how, exactly, did Froot Loops qualify for the Smart Choices label? I'll tell you how: Because the Smart Choices label is a marketing fraud. It's a manipulative, dishonest food package labeling system that is intentionally designed by the processed food companies to mislead and misinform consumers into buying processed food products, in my view. You'd have to be deeply misinformed about nutritional basics to think that a processed breakfast cereal made of 41% sugar, partially-hydrogenated oils and artificial coloring chemicals is a smart choice for any child. A more appropriate label might be Diabetes Choices or Obesity Choices, but certainly not Smart Choices. In my opinion, this marketing fraud is little more than a marketing gimmick. It makes you wonder who, exactly, came up with it. Did Tufts University sell out to the food giants? The president of the Smart Choices board is Eileen T. Kennedy, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. (_http://nutrition.tufts.edu/11745629_ (http://nutrition.tufts.edu/11745629) ...) Eileen Kennedy and other Tufts University faculty members have established ties with the Kellogg's company, having participated in a Children's Health forum that was co-sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. That event, held in June of this year, was entitled: 'Children's Health: The Future of Food Nutrition Policy'. It claimed to offer in-depth discussions on topics like childhood obesity, nutrition standards, global child nutrition and school food. (_http://www.reuters.com/article/pres_ (http://www.reuters.com/article/pres) ...) (Did their discussions ever mention that perhaps children shouldn't eat breakfast cereals made with 41% processed sugar?) In promoting the event, Eileen Kennedy was quoted in a joint press release, admitting how closely her university works with food companies: Working with our colleagues across academia, the food and nutrition industry, government agencies and nonprofit organizations, we will influence and change the nutritional landscape for our children. She certainly accomplished that. Now, products made with 41% refined white sugar are fraudulently marketed as Smart Choices. Guess who else was invited to speak at the event? Dr. Cathy Woteki from Mars, Inc., makers of candy bars and other sugar processed foods that are aggressively marketed to children. Tufts University: Sugar for kids? It all makes you wonder: With all these corporate junk food giants being so heavily involved in this event presented by Tufts University, what exactly does this university really stand for in regards to healthy food for children? Does Tufts University itself stand behind the promotion of sugary junk foods for children? Does it endorse products like Froot Loops being labeled as Smart Choices for kids? Here are the ingredients of Froot Loops: SUGAR; WHOLE GRAIN CORN FLOUR; WHEAT FLOUR; WHOLE GRAIN OAT FLOUR; OAT FIBER; SOLUBLE CORN FIBER; PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (ONE OR MORE OF: COCONUT, SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OILS)†; SALT; SODIUM ASCORBATE AND ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C); NIACINAMIDE; REDUCED IRON; NATURAL ORANGE, LEMON, CHERRY, RASPBERRY, BLUEBERRY, LIME AND OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS; RED #40; BLUE #2; TURMERIC COLOR; YELLOW #6; ZINC OXIDE; ANNATTO COLOR; BLUE #1; PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6); RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2); THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1); VITAMIN A PALMITATE; BHT (PRESERVATIVE); FOLIC ACID; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN B12. Is Eileen T. Kennedy, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, really going to tell us -- with a straight face -- that this cereal is good for kids? Really? Aiming low She might answer, of
[Biofuel] The New Medicine of Dr Hamer + Related Links
My Note - Walter Last is a retired biochemist, research chemist,nutritionist and natural therapist who has worked in G e r m a n y, New Zealand and Australia, where he is now based. He has also written numerous health-related journal articles as well as several books. In his work his books, he combines the training and work experience of Research Chemist Biochemist and Toxicologist with that of Practicing Nutritionist and Natural Therapist. The New Medicine of Dr Hamer by Walter Last _http://www.health-science-spirit.com/hamer.html_ (http://www.health-science-spirit.com/hamer.html) Dr Hamer had an exceptionally high success rate with his cancer therapy, by far the highest I have seen of any therapy. During one of several trials of the persecuted Dr Hamer the public prosecutor (Wiener-Neustadt in Austria) had to admit that after 4 to 5 years 6,000 out of 6,500 patients with mostly advanced cancer were still alive. That is over 90%, almost a reversal of the results to be expected after conventional treatment of advanced conditions. Dr Hamer started his cancer research when he developed testicle cancer after his son was shot dead. He wondered if his son’s death was the cause of his cancer. Subsequently he investigated and documented over 15,000 cases of cancer and always found the following characteristics to be present, which he termed the Iron Rules of Cancer. The Iron Rules of Cancer 1. Every cancer and related disease starts as a DHS that is a Dirk Hamer Syndrome, which is a serious, acute-dramatic and isolating conflict-shock-experience. It manifests simultaneously on three levels, psyche, brain and organ. 2. The theme of the psychic conflict determines the location of the focus or HAMER Herd in the brain, and the location of the cancer in the organ. 3. The course of the psychic conflict correlates with the development of the HAMER Herd in the brain, and the course of the cancer in the organ. At the moment of the conflict-shock a short circuit occurs in a pre-determined place of the brain. This can be photographed with computed-tomography (CT) and looks like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a stone has been dropped into it. Later on, if the conflict becomes resolved, the CT image changes, an edema develop, and finally scar tissue. How specific and precisely located these brain lesions are may be seen from the following. After a professional lecture a doctor handed him the brain CT of a patient and asked to explain it. From this Dr Hamer diagnosed the patient to have a fresh bleeding bladder carcinoma in the healing phase, an old prostate carcinoma, diabetes, an old lung carcinoma and sensory paralysis in a specific area, in addition to the corresponding emotional conflicts. Amazingly, Dr Hamer was able to show that at the same time as the concentric brain lesion appears also the target organ CT may show such a concentric lesion. According to Dr Hamer this happens instantly when the psychic shock hits the subconscious level and this same second is the start of cancer. However, also other diseases can be caused by the same mechanism. How severe a disease becomes may depend on other psychological, energetic and nutritional factors but its nature and location are determined by the content of the conflict shock. Hamer believes that the correlation between key emotional shock events, the target brain areas and the related organs has developed as an adaptation of our human evolution from similar programs in the animal world. When we unexpectedly experience emotional distress, an emergency repair program is set in motion, a biological conflict program with the aim of returning the individual to normal. Such programs can even apply to families or other groups. Hamer gives the following example. A mother sees her child in a bad accident. In evolutionary terms small children recover faster when they receive extra milk. Therefore, the biological conflict program tries to stimulate milk production by increasing the number of breast cells. If the mother is right-handed, that will instantly cause the appearance of a Hamer Herd in a specific part of her right brain, which in turn relates to the left breast. When the child is well again, conflict resolution begins and extra milk is no longer needed. The mother gets a benign form of tuberculosis in that breast which breaks up the excess breast cells. However, if the mycobacteria required for this are lacking, then the area may just calcify and remain as a dormant tumor. The same process applies also to animals. A sheep that loses its lamb to a wolf is prone to develop teat cancer; the side depends on whether it is right or left footed. However, commonly the sheep resolves this conflict by bearing another lamb. The following example may
[Biofuel] Limit Your Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation
Limit Your Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation _http://www.ewg.org/cellphone-radiation_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphone-radiation) By Mi-Young Kim Four billion people around the globe own cell phones. As the market for new devices has grown, so have concerns about the safety of cell phone radiation. Recent studies find significantly higher risks for brain and salivary gland tumors among people using cell phones for 10 years or longer. The state of the science is provocative and troubling, and much more research is essential. We at Environmental Working Group are still using our cell phones, but we also believe that until scientists know much more about cell phone radiation, it’s smart for consumers to buy phones with the lowest emissions. The U.S. government ought to require cell phone companies to label their products’ radiation output so that consumers can do the numbers at the point of sale. It doesn’t, so EWG has created this user-friendly interactive online guide to cell phone emissions, covering over 1,000 phones currently on the market. 10 Best Phones Listing is based on phones currently available from major carriers. You can also see all available phones ranked by radiation. _http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?allavailable=1_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?allavailable=1) 1. _Samsung Impression (SGH-a877)_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Samsung/Impression+(SGH-a877)/) [_ATT_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=1brand=) ] 2. _Motorola RAZR V8_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Motorola/RAZR+V8/) [_CellularONE_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=4brand=) ] 3. _Samsung SGH-t229_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Samsung/SGH-t229/) [_T-Mobile_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=7brand=) ] 4. _Samsung Rugby (SGH-a837)_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Samsung/Rugby+(SGH-a837)/) [_ATT_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=1brand=) ] 5. _Samsung Propel Pro (SGH-i627)_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Samsung/Propel+Pro+(SGH-i627)/) [_ATT_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=1brand=) ] 6. _Samsung Gravity (SGH-t459)_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Samsung/Gravity+(SGH-t459)/) [_CellularONE_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=4brand=) , _T-Mobile_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=7brand=) ] 7. _T-Mobile Sidekick_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/T-Mobile/Sidekick/) [_T-Mobile_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=7brand=) ] 8. _LG Xenon (GR500)_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/LG/Xenon+(GR500)/) [_ATT_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=1brand=) ] 9. _Motorola Karma QA1_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Motorola/Karma+QA1/) [_ATT_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=1brand=) ] 10. _Sanyo Katana II_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone/Sanyo/Katana+II/) [_Kajeet_ (http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=provider_id=13brand=) ] Links: [1] http://www.ewg.org/project/2009cellphone/get-a-safer-phone.php [2] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Headset [3] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/8-Safety-Tips [4] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/fullreport [5] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/executivesummary [6] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Health-problems [7] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/cellphone-safety-standards [8] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Government-Action [9] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Bluetooth-Cell-Cordless-Phones [10] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/References [11] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/newsrelease [12] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/faq [13] http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1144/t/1874/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27776 [14] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone [15] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone [16] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/8-Safety-Tips [17] http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/fullreport [18] http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1144/t/1874/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27776 [19] https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1144/t/9666/ewgcontrib?donate_page_KEY=5217 [20] http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1144/t/1874/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27776 [21]
[Biofuel] What You Should Know About Your Glands
What You Should Know About Your Glands By John Tintera, MD _http://www.westonaprice.org/archive/tintera.html_ (http://www.westonaprice.org/archive/tintera.html) [Reprinted with kind permission of the Adrenal Metabolic Research Society/Hypoglycemia Association Inc., Ashton, MD. This article was first published in Woman's Day, February 1958. Dr. Tintera was a pioneer in the use of adrenal cortex extract for the treatment of hypoglycemia, allergies, fatigue and adrenal exhaustion. ] Your adrenal glands are the regulators of your disposition, your efficiency, and even of your personality. Whether they regulate well, and help you, or regulate poorly, and harm you, depends, in large measure, upon what you eat. Therefore, it is quite possible to improve your disposition, increase your efficiency, and change your personality for the better by selecting the foods you eat with a knowledge of what happens to those foods once they are inside you. This means getting to know your adrenal glands and what they do and showing them proper respect. The adrenals are part of the endocrine system of glands which are the chemical policemen that regulate the functioning of our bodies and minds. The study of this system is endocrinology. It is one of the remaining frontiers of medical science. I work on that frontier; I am an endocrinologist. What isn't yet known may well be more than is known. But what is known proves that these endocrine glands play decisive parts in making and keeping all of us the kinds of persons we are, for good as well as for ill. The most important and decisive part is played by the adrenals. Only in this century has science become sharply aware of the importance and subtle workings of the endocrines. Implausible, this; but understandable. The connections among the glands and their cooperative endeavors are so very well hidden, it is no wonder they weren't easily found out. All other glands have ducts or channels which carry their secretions to the places where those secretions serve purposes which are self-evident. The endocrines have no ducts. That they secrete and so are glands is anything but obvious; the purposes of their secretions are heavily cloaked by chemical subtleties. Their appearances are different and they're widely separated. The pituitary gland is a round mass no larger than a large green pea, attached by a stalk to the brain stem. Yet it has three sections, each a busy factory turning out a variety of chemicals. The thyroid gland, deep down in the throat, resembles a small oyster although in color it is beefy red. Adjacent are the parathyroids and they remind you of BB shots. Most persons have four, but some have only one and others have as many as eight. The adrenals rise somewhat like mushrooms, one from the top of each kidney. They're each two glands actually, a core (the medulla) and casing (the cortex) like a nut and its husk. But that's little in the way of concealment when you consider the pancreas gland which lies against the back wall of the abdomen. It has a duct leading into the intestine which is plain to see and so you might think it was no endocrine. But a few tiny segments (islets) secrete without there being a duct for the secretions, and so these segments form an endocrine gland. Recently, a much-neglected endocrine gland, the pineal, located in the middle of the brain, has been shown to have an influence on some of the functions of the adrenal, specifically in relation to mental disorders. Little more than this is known about the pineal. The sex glands (ovaries and testes) complete the endocrine system. The endocrines are connected by the blood stream. They work this way: the pituitary secretes a particular chemical into the blood which floats it to the casings of the adrenals. They respond by secreting a particular chemical which the blood floats back to the pituitary and causes it to slow production of the adrenals-rousing chemical. As more and more of this adrenals-responding chemical comes into the blood, the pituitary stops producing its chemical altogether, until such time as the adrenal chemical is again insufficient. The pituitary manufactures and secretes particular chemicals to stir up each of the other endocrines, and each one responds in the same way. All these command-and-response chemicals also are speeding, slowing, and above all, coordinating all other bodily systems: the heart-lungs-blood system, the digestive system, the thinking-feeling-perceiving system. In the last few years it has been shown that the seeming master of all this, the pituitary, has a master. The pituitary is connected to the floor of one of the tiny pouches or ventricles in the brain which has nerve connections with the brain's centers of seeing, tasting, hearing, and feeling. This floor is called the
[Biofuel] Pfizer to Pay Record Fine in Fraud Probe
September 7, 2009 Pfizer to Pay Record Fine in Fraud Probe _http://www.drrathresearch.org/health_news/ohn_090709_pfizer.html_ (http://www.drrathresearch.org/health_news/ohn_090709_pfizer.html) In what it calls the largest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Wednesday that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and a subsidiary have agreed to pay a $2.3 billion penalty for illegally promoting certain drugs. Those drugs included _Bextra_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=22063) , part of a group of painkillers called _Cox-2 inhibitors_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=95210) , which Pfizer pulled from the market in 2005 after reports of potential _heart_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3668) risks to patients. The other drugs were _Geodon_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=19178) , an _antipsychotic_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11993) ; _Zyvox_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=45189) , an _antibiotic_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8121) ; and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug, the Justice Department said in a news release. In each case, the Justice Department accused Pfizer of marketing the drugs for uses other than those approved by the U.S. _Food and Drug Administration_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8468) , a practice called off-label use. According to the news release, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act stipulates that a company must specify the intended uses of a product in its new drug application to FDA. Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called 'off-label' uses. Pfizer promoted Bextra for several uses and dosages not sanctioned by the FDA due to safety concerns, the Justice Department said. As part of the settlement, Pfizer also agreed to enter into a so-called expansive corporate integrity agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. That agreement calls for the establishment of procedures and reviews designed to prevent a similar occurrence, the agency said. Today's landmark settlement is an example of the Department of Justice's ongoing and intensive efforts to protect the American public and recover funds for the federal treasury and the public from those who seek to earn a profit through fraud, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli said in the news release. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the _Department of Health and Human Services_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10711) , said: The Department of _Health and Human Services_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10712) will continue to seek opportunities to work with its government partners to prosecute fraud wherever we can find it. But we will also look for new ways to prevent fraud before it happens. Health care is too important to let a single dollar go to waste. In a statement, Pfizer general counsel Amy W. Schulman said the agreement ends all material pending matters with the Justice Department. This gives us a very important opportunity to put final closure on the universe of material open items involving our U.S.-based operations, she said, Bloomberg News reported. Author: HealthDay staff Source _http://www.medicinenet.com/_ (http://www.medicinenet.com/) Comments: The largest drug maker in the world pleaded guilty to the U.S criminal charges for illegal promotion of three of its drugs. Although $2.3 billion fine is largest health care settlement in the U.S history, it is not the one-of-a-kind for Pfizer. Judges call Pfizer a “repeating corporate cheat”, for the company has been pitching drugs to patients and doctors for unapproved conditions, and is caught doing so, for more than once. Last October, Arizona and 31 other states reached a $60 million settlement with Pfizer over its promotion of Bextra, Celebrex, and another anti-inflammatory drug. Sales and marketing executives at Pfizer are accused of promoting Bextra for acute pain, surgical pain and other unapproved uses. Bextra was later withdrawn from the market for the severity of its side effects, including heart attacks and like. Bextra is of the same class as Merck’s Vioxx (cox-2 inhibitor) and another similar drug Celebrex, from Pfizer. Vioxx was withdrawn in 2005, while Celebrex continues to be promoted and sold despite accusations in 2009 that efficacy results of Celebrex were fabricated and some were never submitted to the FDA. Unfortunately though, current settlement and guilty plea is not expected to hurt Pfizer's ability to sell drugs in the future. This is one more support to Dr. Rath's work. For more than a decade, Dr. Rath has been fighting to expose unethical practices and
[Biofuel] The Ghosts of Auschwitz Have Arrived in Latin America
The Ghosts of Auschwitz Have Arrived in Latin America By Dr. Matthias Rath _http://www.sanofi-aventis.com/presse/communiques/2009/ppc_24324.asp_ (http://www.sanofi-aventis.com/presse/communiques/2009/ppc_24324.asp) On the occasion of the decision of French drug maker Sanofi to invest $140 million to build a plant for the manufacturing of dubious vaccines for a non-existing influenza epidemic in Mexico, a short historical review is appropriate: -- 1925. Together with BAYER and BASF, the drug company HOECHST formed the infamous chemical and drug cartel IG FARBEN that brought the Nazis to power and prepared them for WWII – in an attempt to conquer the emerging global market of patented chemicals and drugs.1 -- 1941/2. HOECHST, BAYER and BASF (IG Farben) chose the city of Auschwitz to construct the world’s largest chemical plant at that time to produce synthetic gasoline, rubber and other chemicals for their military conquest of Eastern Europe, Russia and eventually Asia. -- 1941-1945. As the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, HOECHST and BAYER used the nearby concentration camp Auschwitz not only for slave labor to construct their plant, but also as a giant human testing cage to test their patented drugs on thousands of innocent inmates who served them as human guinea pigs. The corporate interests behind the pharmaceutical business with disease became the Ghosts of Auschwitz.2 -- 1948. During the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal these Ghosts of Auschwitz were put on trial and several members of IG Farben’s board of directors were sentenced for slave labor, mass murder and other crimes against humanity.3 -- For half a century the Ghosts of Auschwitz spent billions trying to keep their horrifying past out of the history textbooks and out of the memory of mankind. -- 1997. More than half a century after the end of WWII this strategy collapsed. In a public lecture in the city hall of Chemnitz, Germany, I addressed the criminal past of HOECHST, BAYER and BASF as the key architects and profiteers of WWII – and of Auschwitz. The Ghosts of Auschwitz were brought into the daylight for the world to see.4 -- 1999. Only 2 years (!) after this exposure of its criminal past, HOECHST was forced to end its 140 year corporate history and merge with Rhone-Poulenc under the new name of Aventis. The exposure of the Ghosts of Auschwitz forced one of the largest drug companies into oblivion – in a futile attempt to escape its past.5 -- 2004. Only a few years later, Nick Sarkozy – a thus far inconspicuous French minister of Finance – abused billions of French tax payer’s money to have the French drug dwarf Sanofi swallow the drug giant Aventis – and with it the Ghosts of Auschwitz.5 -- With that decision the fate of Nick Sarkozy became intimately linked to the fate of the pharmaceutical drug industry. With that decision too, Nick Sarkozy became the political executor of the Ghosts of Auschwitz. -- 2007. Not surprisingly, only 3 years later the same Nick Sarkozy was made President of France with massive support of the Ghosts of Auschwitz. But that was just the beginning. With the assignment to Sarkozy of turning the Brussels’ EU into their new global politburo, the Ghosts of Auschwitz set out to accomplish what they had not been able to accomplish during the Nazi era and WWII: the political, economic and military control over the entire European continent as a stepping stone to control the world. -- Since the ascent of Nick Sarkozy as the chief political executor of the Ghosts of Auschwitz there was no global drug scam that was not connected – or even orchestrated by these interests – including the mass vaccination of young girls with the harmful papilloma-virus vaccine and also the artificial H1N1 influenza epidemic. -- 2009. With the decision of Sanofi-Aventis to build a 100 Million Euro ($ 140 Million) H1N1 influenza vaccine plant in Mexico – i.e. a factory for the production of biological warfare material to be used to seize control over the economies and societies of Latin America – the Ghosts of Auschwitz have arrived in Latin America.6 References: 1. _http://www.profit-over-life.org/books/books.php?book=30_ (http://www.profit-over-life.org/books/books.php?book=30) 2. _http://www.profit-over-life.org/guide/index.html_ (http://www.profit-over-life.org/guide/index.html) 3. _http://www.profit-over-life.org/about/unpublished_docs.html_ (http://www.profit-over-life.org/about/unpublished_docs.html) 4. _http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/The_Chemnitz_Programme/chemnitz12.htm_ (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/The_Chemnitz_Programme/chemnitz12.htm) _5. www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/business/france-helped-broker-the-aventis-sanofi-deal.html_
[Biofuel] Stomach Acid Problems
Stomach Acid Problems _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig14.php_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig14.php) by Bee Wilder Many people today, and most candida sufferers, have digestive problems, which is mainly caused by the stomach producing too little stomach acid. We may think our stomachs are overly acidic because of heartburn, sour stomach, or overall stomach upset, nausea and pain, when in fact having too little acid creates exactly the same symptoms as an over acid stomach. The technical term for low stomach acidity is hypochlorhydria, and a stomach that is not producing any acid is called achlorhydria. The most common symptoms of low stomach acidity include: -- heartburn (if there isn't enough stomach acid the valve that closes the end of the esophagus won't close properly, so even low stomach acid can burn the esophagus) -- upset stomach, nausea -- vomiting -- sour stomach -- a heavy feeling, as if the food is just sitting in the stomach in a lump Our stomachs are supposed to be acidic, so it important that it produce high concentrations of hydrochloric acid (HCl). When the stomach produces HCl it also produces bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) which protects the lining of the stomach from being damaged or eaten up by HCl. When the stomach doesn't produce enough HCl, it also will not produce enough bicarbonate of soda so the stomach can become ulcerated. When hydrochloric acid is low it causes malnutrition and many digestive problems. HCl mainly digests protein, breaking it down into small molecules, which are further digested in the intestinal tract. Low stomach acid is associated with a higher incidence of gastrointestinal problems like h. pylori bacteria which cause stomach ulcers, acid reflux (heartburn), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease, diarrhea, constipation, etc. Our stomachs need adequate acid so we can get the benefit of a good diet and the nutrients it contains, and in order for digestion to proceed like it should throughout the intestines. How Foods Are Digested Carbohydrates (carbs) start being digested by enzymes produced in the mouth - carbs are all foods that are not classified as protein or fat, including vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, sugar, starches, herbs, spices, etc. Some carbs also contain protein and fat, such as grains, nuts, seeds and some vegetables. Also some protein foods also contain carbs and fats such as eggs. HCl (hydrochloric acid or stomach acid) mainly digests protein. When a person starts to eat the stomach is stimulated to start producing hydrochloric acid (HCl). Stomach acid gradually increases during a meal. When the stomach acid gets high enough, which normally takes about 20-30 minutes after eating, it neutralizes enzymes from the mouth so carb digestion stops. Digestive enzymes from the mouth only work on carbs while the mixture is alkaline. Therefore, if HCl supplements are taken too early it stops carb digestion in the stomach too soon. HCl also neutralizes any digestive enzyme supplements, so taking them is a waste. That is why it is important to take HCl supplements 30-45 minutes after eating a meal. When the mixture of food, water and HCl (called chyme) empties out of the stomach it has to go through a hole that is the size of the end of a pencil. The mixture squirts through that small hole in spurts. That rate at which foods empty out of the stomach is highly regulated. If the mixture is too solid and doesn't contain enough fluid it isn't as able to get through that small hole. That is why drinking enough fluids with meals is also very important. When the mixture starts squirting through that small hole, if the pancreas detects it contains enough fluids and HCl it is able to do its job. First the mixture must be made alkaline, so the pancreas pours lots of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) onto the mixture as it is squirting through that small hole. Pancreatic digestive enzymes only work on an alkaline mixture, just like enzymes in the mouth. Next, the pancreas produces several enzymes which digest carbs, fats and further digests protein, i.e. protease digests protein, amylase digests carbs and lipase digests fats. The small intestine also produces digestive enzymes that only work on an alkaline mixture. Therefore taking HCl supplements and improving its production in the stomach, along with having enough fluids with meals, is very important for proper digestion, whereas taking digestive enzymes is a waste and doesn't help digestion. Improve Digestion with Foods, Spices and Herbs The following foods, spices, and herbs stimulate stomach acid production, but sometimes it is necessary to also take HCl supplements. -- Meats and eggs. -- Good fats such as coconut oil, butter, lard, naturally
Re: [Biofuel] U. S. Head of Military Intelligence Publically States 9/11 was Sta
Stubblebine is a lowlife, a fraud and a con.- however he is very good at his 'professsion' . Or at least he is if you think he has good will towards the avarage citizen or for what is good for the average citizen . His wife, Rima, is of the same caliber - actually she may be worse. But they work together. I personally have a problem with people whose ethics and morals are for sale - or whom just do not have any and all that matters to them is money. However this man and his wife learn form their mistakes and frequently are quite smart ... or cunning , whatever word you want to use. On the other hand those people whom support Codex and how it effects our health and rights, those people will have no problem with the Natural Solutions Foundation nor its founders. Or at least relatively little. Though realize that if you wish to sign any so-called 'petitions' on their website, that frequently these are bogus and do nowhere - at least when they are supposed to be against Codex and for health freedom. . I got most of this information I have on these two from Health Freedom Advocates - both those in the States as well as couple in Britain. The Stubbelbines have also started a yahoo 'health' group - about vaccinations actually. They even frequently ask for donations of the members - the only yahoo health group that I have ever heard of that does that. Most groups will ban you for asking for donations - but I guess as it is the 'owners' who do the asking for some reason it is allowed. A year or so ago, I joined their group out of curiousity and was templed to ask for donations to assist the health freedom effrorts - but got disgusted and left instead. However, I did discuss this group with health freedom advocates in both the States as well as Britain though. I am not involved in this effort myself, I just know some people whom are and have an interest in trying to stop Codex from controlling issues in Canada and the States. I assume that the people here are familiar with Dr Rath and the Rath Foundation? A Modern Major General Exposed? the Natural Solutions Foundation _http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-moderngenera l.html_ (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-moderngeneral.html) Codex Meeting in Ottawa- Business as Usual or Stunning Victory for Health Freedom? _http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm_ (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm) Codex and Health Freedom- Be Wary of the Instant Experts _http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm_ (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm) Miracle in Rome? _http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm_ (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm) CONTROLLED OPPOSITION GROUPS Citizens for Health and Natural Solutions Foundation are controlled opposition groups on the Codex issue. We believe the true purpose of these groups is to assist the pharma dominated vitamin trade associations by recommending grass roots actions which appear plausible on the surface to the poorly informed, but which upon close inspection fail to hold up to careful scrutiny. IAHF has not been alone in exposing NSF as a controlled opposition group- for additional clarification please see these articles from The Dr. Rath Health Foundation, The National Health Federation, and the Alliance for Natural Health: Seeing Through Spin of Citizens for Health and The Natural Solutions Foundation on the CODEX Vitamin Issue. - exposes NSF as a controlled opposition group.They're formally trained in Neurolingustic Programming, the Delphi Technique, the Semantic Differential, and many other tactics of psychological warfare and disinformation. The pretend to be on our side, but the reality is that all they ever do is work against us. _http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3312735.htm_ (http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3312735.htm) Here is a little background info more about Stubblebine plus his wife. CANADIAN SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGIES INC Albert N. Stubblebine III (Maj. Gen., US Army, Ret) - Croton on Hudson NY Albert N. Stubblebine III (Maj. Gen., US Army, Ret) was graduated from The United States Military Academy (West Point) and served with distinction in the US Army for 32 years. Starting his career as an Armor officer, he had the opportunity to command troops frequently at every echelon of command. He was tasked with re-evaluating the North Korean Order of Battle using top secret reconnaissance data. He was so intrigued with the new intelligence capabilities that he transferred branches to join the recently-formed Intelligence Branch of the US Army. He attended the National
[Biofuel] FTC orders Daniel Chapter One to lie to customers about cancer remedies; ministr
FTC orders Daniel Chapter One to lie to customers about cancer remedies; ministry defends health freedom _http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/holistic_alternative_medicin e/news.php?q=1252010677_ (http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/holistic_alternative_medicine/news.php?q=1252010677) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at war with online retailers of nutritional supplements and natural remedies, but it recently lost a major battle: Lane Labs, which has suffered under FTC and FDA tyranny for years, recently won a significant battle against the corrupt agency. After the FTC tried to sue Lane Labs for $24 million, claiming contempt of court for the company telling the truth about the efficacy of its products, a federal judge ruled against the FTC, explaining that Lane Labs _http://www.naturalnews.com/001552_the_FDA_Lane_Labs_nutritional_supplements.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/001552_the_FDA_Lane_Labs_nutritional_supplements.html) was telling the scientifically-validated truth about its products when it described their health benefits. This defeat of the FTC's latest attempt to censor the truth about nutritional supplements is making waves in the nutrition industry. It signals a crack in the wall of FTC tyranny and a possible route for establishing Free Speech for nutritional supplement companies that only seek to tell the truth about their products. In the world of truth-telling, no one speaks the truth about natural remedies more openly and honorably than a small company called Daniel Chapter One (_www.DanielChapterOne.com_ (http://www.DanielChapterOne.com) ), a religious ministry that also sells anti-cancer herbs, many of which are advocated in the Bible and other religious writings. Supported by a radio show and a website, Daniel Chapter One dares to tell people the truth about its natural remedies, even in the face of extreme intimidation and threats from the FTC. _http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FTC.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FTC.html) The FTC is demanding that Daniel Chapter One lie to all its customers by signing and distributing a document claiming their natural cancer remedies do not work. That same document would also direct customers to the National Cancer Institute -- a pro-Pharma government group engaged in widespread scientific fraud and public disinformation campaigns (the NCI runs ads warning people to avoid all sunlight, for example, promoting widespread vitamin D deficiencies). Daniel Chapter One needs your support, and it's an organization worth fighting for. They are, in essence, taking point position on a very dangerous mission, working to break the FTC's iron grip and restore Free Speech rights to the entire industry. Although Jim and Trish have been threatened with imprisonment, having their products confiscated, having their ministry raided and shut down and being fined millions of dollars, they have held firm in their belief that telling the truth about medicinal herbs is their God-given right. Today, Daniel Chapter One finds itself embattled against the federal government, standing virtually alone in an industry where most companies are too intimidated to stand up for their own rights. To help promote health freedom, they've launched another website called Daniel Chapter One Freedom (_http://danielchapteronefreedom.com_ (http://danielchapteronefreedom.com) ), and I encourage you to join their email newsletter on that site. Write your representatives in Washington, too, to insist that the FTC end their attempts to silence and intimidate not just Daniel Chapter One but other nutritional supplement companies as well. The FTC's attack on Daniel Chapter One is more than just an assault on Free Speech, by the way: It's also an assault on religious freedom. The organization is a ministry, after all, but that hasn't stopped the FTC from threatening to imprison its founders. Today, Daniel Chapter One issued an important press release, reprinted here in full for you to read: Announcement from Daniel Chapter One The Federal Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge just Ordered Daniel Chapter One to stop sharing truthful health information and testimonies, not only about their 7 Herb Formula, BioShark, BioMixx and GDU but about ANY dietary supplement, food, drug, or other health related product, service, or program. Fight for Right: In Sept. 2008 the health ministry Daniel Chapter One was attacked by the Federal Trade Commission and charged with making what the FTC calls implied claims about their dietary supplements. Without warning or grace period, Daniel Chapter One was struck with an FTC Order that was extremely burdensome in its demands. More offensive than the threat of a large monetary fine was the demand that Daniel Chapter One turn over personal customer information,
[Biofuel] Most Common Cause of Fatigue that is Missed or Misdiagnosed by Doctors
Most Common Cause of Fatigue that is Missed or Misdiagnosed by Doctors By Dr. Mercola _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/05/most-common-c ause-of-fatigue-that-is-missed-or-misdiagnosed-by-doctors--.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/05/most-common-cause-of-fa tigue-that-is-missed-or-misdiagnosed-by-doctors--.aspx) Your adrenal glands are each no bigger than a walnut and weigh less than a grape, yet are responsible for one of the most important functions in your body: managing stress. “The adrenals are known as ‘the glands of stress,’” writes James Wilson in his book Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. “It is their job to enable your body to deal with stress from every possible source, ranging from injury and disease to work and relationship problems. Your resiliency, energy, endurance and your very life all depend on their proper functioning.”[1] When your adrenal glands are fatigued, a condition known as adrenal fatigue or adrenal exhaustion, your entire body feels it and suffers from extreme exhaustion as well. It’s estimated that up to 80 percent of adults experience adrenal fatigue during their lifetimes, yet it remains one of the most under-diagnosed illnesses in the United States.[2] The Optimal Function of Your Adrenal Glands Your body has two adrenal glands, located just above each of your kidneys. As part of your endocrine system, your adrenal glands secrete more than 50 hormones, many of which are essential for life and include: -- Glucocorticoids. These hormones, which include cortisol, help your body convert food into energy, normalize blood sugar, respond to stress and maintain your immune system’s inflammatory response. -- Mineralocorticoids. These hormones, which include aldosterone, help keep your blood pressure and blood volume normal by maintaining a proper balance of sodium, potassium and water in your body.[3] -- Adrenaline. This hormone increases your heart rate and controls blood flow to your muscles and brain, along with helping with the conversion of glycogen to glucose in your liver. Together, these hormones and others produced by your adrenal glands control such body functions as:[4] -- Maintaining metabolic processes, such as managing blood sugar levels and regulating inflammation -- Regulating your body’s balance of salt and water -- Controlling your fight or flight response to stress -- Maintaining pregnancy -- Initiating and controlling sexual maturation during childhood and puberty -- Producing sex steroids such as estrogen and testosterone Ironically, although your adrenal glands are there, in large part, to help you cope with stress, too much of it is actually what causes their function to break down. In other words, one of your adrenal glands most important tasks is to get your body ready for the “fight or flight” stress response, which means increasing adrenaline and other hormones. As part of this response, your heart rate and blood pressure increase, your digestion slows, and your body becomes ready to face a potential threat or challenge. While this response is necessary and good when it's needed, many of us are constantly faced with stressors (work, environmental toxins, not enough sleep, worry, relationship problems and more) and therefore are in this fight or flight mode for far too long -- much longer than was ever intended from a biological standpoint. The result is that your adrenal glands, faced with excessive stress and burden, become overworked and fatigued. Some common factors that put excess stress on your adrenals are:[5] -- Anger, fear, anxiety, guilt, depression and other negative emotions -- Overwork, including physical or mental strain -- Excessive exercise -- Sleep deprivation -- Light-cycle disruption (such as working the night shift or often going to sleep late) -- Surgery, trauma or injury -- Chronic inflammation, infection, illness or pain -- Temperature extremes -- Toxic exposure -- Nutritional deficiencies and/or severe allergies Signs and Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue When your adrenal glands become depleted, it leads to a decrease in certain hormone levels, particularly cortisol. The deficiencies in certain adrenal hormones will vary with each case, ranging from mild to severe. In its most extreme form, this is referred to as Addison’s disease, a condition that causes muscle weakness, weight loss, low blood pressure and low blood sugar, and can be life threatening. Fortunately, only about four persons per 100,000 develop Addison’s disease, which is due to autoimmune disease in most cases but can also develop after very severe stress.[6] At the other end of the spectrum, as well as in between, lies adrenal fatigue (also known as hypoadrenia). Though the symptoms are less
[Biofuel] Book Review - The UltraMind Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman
Book Review The UltraMind Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman _http://www.treelight.com/health/reviews/UltraMind.html_ (http://www.treelight.com/health/reviews/UltraMind.html) Summary A brilliant exposition that shows how you treat mental illness and energy imbalances by addressing seven major subsystems of the body. A comprehensive program that is founded on (and gives clear explanations of) the systemic science that determines how well and how happily we live. [5 stars] by Eric Armstrong Attacking Depression, Dementia, and other Mental Diseases Dr. Hyman has a private practice which is booked months in advance. His book is The UltraMind Solution _http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1416549714_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1416549714). I listened to his talk on PBS the other day and was highly impressed, so I ordered the book. His thesis: Depression, dementia, Alzheimer's, ADD, ADHD, Parkinson's, bipolar disorder, and such are not diseases of the mind--they're problems of the body! They're symptomatic by-products of problems in one or more of body's seven major regulatory systems. When you identify and address problems in those systems, the symptoms go away. The systems he identifies are nutrient intake, digestion, detoxification, hormones, immune/inflammation, energy metabolism, and the mind/body stress-or-relax equation. That's as reasonable a division as any I've seen, and more comprehensive than most, so I'm intrigued to find out more about his program. In my own life, I've noticed that I'm significantly more likely to feel depressed when I'm low energy, and that almost nothing fazes me when my energy levels are high. So I was delighted to see how much attention he gives to energy metabolism. The information on the subject alone will be worth the price of the book. Based on his talk, it's clear that he's one of the few MD's who gets it. He doesn't go around throwing drugs at people in a hopeless attempt to cure the symptoms. Instead, he uses medical diagnostics and good old-fashioned deduction to find the causes of those symptoms. After identifying the underlying problems, he works with the patient to address them. With the causes removed, the symptoms simply disappear. But perhaps more importantly, the patient discovers a lifestyle that leads to a long life filled with active, productive years. Supplements are a big part of his regimen, as are whole foods (as in, it came from the tree). But they're not the only weapon at his disposal. When necessary, he uses more sophisticated weaponry--for example, to address a hormonal imbalance. Many of recommendations sound familiar to those who practice a healthy lifestyle--avoid sugar, flour, dairy, and the gluten-grains (wheat, rye, barley, and oats). But for those of us with an analytical disposition, he explains why--tracing the causal connections and explaining the science behind them. Bottom Line The UltraMind Solution is highly recommended reading. (It's also available in audio CD _http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001R91K02_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001R91K02)form.) Resources Articles: Why You Want Functional Medicine _http://treelight.com/health/healing/FunctionalMedicine.html_ (http://treelight.com/health/healing/ FunctionalMedicine.html) Books: The UltraMind Solution, by Dr. Mark Hyman Ultrametabolism, by Dr. Mark Hyman Other MDs who get it: Dr. Mercola (mercola.com) Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of Eat to Live and Fasting and Eating for Health. Copyright © 2009 by Eric Armstrong. All rights reserved. Contact me to send feedback, register for updates, or make a donation. And by all means, be sure to visit The TreeLight Store. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090904/921c718e/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Eliminate Indigestion -- Naturally
Eliminate Indigestion -- Naturally _http://www.treelight.com/health/healing/Indigestion.html_ (http://www.treelight.com/health/healing/Indigestion.html) Summary You don't have to live with indigestion. You can eliminate it with small diet changes, without antibiotics. by Eric Armstrong Understanding Indigestion Chronic indigestion is painful. It can erode the lining of the stomach and esophagus, make you dizzy, promote anxiety, and even lead to panic attacks, as described in Dealing With Anxiety Attacks _http://www.treelight.com/health/healing/Anxiety.html_ (http://www.treelight.com/health/healing/Anxiety.html) . So eliminating indigestion has a major impact on quality of life. A severe attack of indigestion can also mimic the symptoms of a heart attack. The good news is that it can scare a person into straightening up their life. The bad news is that it leads to an avoidable, inconvenient trip to the hospital, expensive tests to rule out heart problems, and it's one hell of a scary thing. The intestinal gas that characterizes indigestion causes the bloated sensation. It can also make you dizzy. The gas comes from food that isn't completely digested--so the common approach of restricting stomach acids with medications is counterproductive, because they impede digestion, which makes gas even more likely as the food ferments in your stomach. In more severe cases, stomach acid causes pain when it attacks a weakened stomach lining or it moves into the esophagus (acid reflux). But while reducing stomach acid in these cases reduces your symptoms, it does nothing whatever to address the real cause of the problem--the eroded stomach lining, eroded esophageal valve, or the deteriorated intestinal environment that causes them. Unfortunately, doctors are still recommending drugs to control stomach acids--and the airwaves are filled with advertisements and prescription medications to do just that. The problem with such medications is that they don't address the real cause of the problem. They only address the symptoms. Meanwhile, they leave the real problem untouched and in many cases make it worse. Symptom relief is desirable, of course. But it should only be needed for a short while, until the real problem is addressed. Indigestion is the kind of disease that drug companies love. It's not life-threatening, at least not for a very long time. But it is incredibly uncomfortable, so people are willing to pay for a solution -- and pay, and pay, and keep on paying for those little pills and tablets that bring relief. So don't count on seeing advertisements anytime soon that tell you how to eliminate the problem forever. Doctors, meanwhile, go along with the charade. Curiously, they're satisfied as long as the drug relieves the symptoms. They seem to be all but totally uninterested in identifying the deeper causes and addressing them. Soapbox: In some ways, capitalism has taken a major turn for the worse. There is no incentive whatsoever for major drug companies to invest in research that would lead to a long-term cure for indigestion--especially when the cure involves simple diet changes. It's like killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Like acne, rosacea, and bad-breath, these million dollar diseases create a clientele that deliver trillions of dollars into corporate coffers every year. So you're not going to get an explanation of simple dietary remedies from them anytime soon. They're too busy finding ways to give you temporary relief. The Real Cause of Indigestion It's pretty well known that indigestion is caused by harmful bacteria in the stomach (Heliobacter Pylori, or H. Pylori). When things are severe, a doctor will attempt to cure the problem with a course of antibiotics, but there are several downsides to that approach: -- You have to go to a doctor and get a prescription. -- Antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately--the good along with the bad. -- The constant use of antibiotics and antiseptic soaps is creating new breeds of germs that are immune to them, so prescriptions are becoming less and less effective. -- If you don't make diet changes, the conditions that led to the problem in the first place will eventually cause it to resurface. I'm pleased to say, though, that there is a simply dietary remedy for indigestion. Like most dietary remedies, there are several facets to the problem, so there are several avenues of attack. When combined, they lead not only to a cessation of symptoms, but they rectify the real problem. We'll talk about that next. The Anti-Indigestion Protocol In the absence of major complications, a few simple lifestyle changes will put an end to indigestion in the average individual. First, for symptom relief: -- Burp · -- Don't lie down after eating. -- Use natural, healing remedies
[Biofuel] OT: Research Trove: Patients’ Onl ine Data
Research Trove: Patients* Online Data _http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/health/25web.html?ref=health_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/health/25web.html?ref=health) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After Amy Farber learned she had the rare and fatal disease called LAM in 2005, she became determined to increase and speed up research into her illness with the hope of finding a cure in her lifetime. Dr. Farber, now 39, was a law student with a doctorate in anthropology who was about to start a family. She quit law school and founded the LAM Treatment Alliance to raise money and connect a network of scientists around the world to research this mysterious disease, which destroys young women*s lungs. To her dismay, she says, she encountered a cumbersome research system fraught with obstacles to collaboration and progress — one that failed to focus on patient needs. **We can do better,** she remembers thinking. She took her frustrations to Dr. George Demetri, a member of her organization’s advisory board. A professor and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Demetri had long wanted to use the Internet to connect patients around the globe and mine their collective wisdom for new insights into the rare cancers he studies. That led her to Frank Moss, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, and a new collaboration between her group and the Media Lab: LAMsight, a Web site that allows patients to report information about their health, then turns those reports into databases that can be mined for observations about the disease. Since the Internet*s earliest days, patients have used the Web to share experiences and learn about diseases and treatments. But now advocates like Dr. Farber say that online communities have the potential to transform medical research — especially into rare diseases like hers that lack the number of patients needed for large-scale studies and rarely attract research financing from the drug industry. Also, she said, it empowers patients to contribute, ask questions and help lead the way to discoveries. **Patients have been a tremendously underutilized resource,** she said. Mr. Moss, who came to the laboratory in 2005 from the drug industry, agrees. Patients* everyday experiences in living with an illness are an enormous source of untapped data, he said; aggregated, those data could generate new hypotheses and avenues for research. **We’re really turning patients into scientists and changing the balance of power between clinicians and scientists and patients,** he said. Scientists and entrepreneurs are increasingly exploring ways to tap that potential, and not just for rare diseases. Several private companies are now collecting patient data and genetic information online to use in recruiting patients for clinical trials, conducting research internally or to sell to drug and biotechnology companies. Supporters of this model — sometimes called crowd-sourcing or open-source research — call it democratization of research and say they are pioneering new models that put patients in control of their data and build bridges between researchers, patients and their doctors. They say these methods are far cheaper and faster than traditional research, which has high start-up costs and relies heavily on clinicians. Still, some experts are skeptical. Questions abound about how these sites will guarantee patient privacy; whether patients fully understand what it means to share their medical information online; whether private businesses should have to follow the same strict patient protection rules that govern most researchers; and the quality problems of user-generated data. The Web offers great potential to reach large numbers of patients quickly, but self-reported data creates considerable research dilemmas, said Dr. James Potash, an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Potash cited two studies that examined the quality of information reported online by depressed patients. Patients reported their diagnosis online; doctors then interviewed them to confirm it. In one study, only two-thirds of the online responses were validated; in the other study, it was three-fourths. Those numbers are not good enough for high-quality research, Dr. Potash said. Without the ability to ensure a correct diagnosis and accurate patient information, usually gained in face-to-face interviews, researchers can end up with a **garbage in, garbage out** problem, he said. **Faster is only better if the work is done well,** he said. **You don*t want to speed the train up and have it fly off the tracks.** Dr. Demetri, of Harvard, acknowledges the challenges of using data self-reported online. “We all are sensitive to the fact that we are making the rules up as we go
Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel] Crosspost: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
Thank you for this Dawie. Very enjoyable. Have you ever checked out Joel Saltin's website _http://www.polyfacefarms.com/_ (http://www.polyfacefarms.com/) ? I found it very interesting. I am thinking of getting a few of his books. And is very nice country there too. blessings Shan [Biofuel] Crosspost: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal Dawie Coetzee Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:44:32 -0700 Posted on the Distributism Yahoo group: _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/distributism/message/10703 _ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/distributism/message/10703 ) This is an EXCELLENT essay by a family farmer in Virginia who also wrote a book by the same title. It documents in spades how the We're from the government and we're here to help you permeates EVERY aspect of our lives. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1 Sep 03 Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal's office. And it doesn't stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process. Remainder of article here: _http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm_ (http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090804/fb8cd5ea/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org _http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel_ (http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel) Biofuel at Journey to Forever: _http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html_ (http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090902/cffa4dd3/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Law on Raw Milk Should Be Overturned
Law on Raw Milk Should Be Overturned by Sally Fallon, president, Weston A. Price Foundation _http://www.townsendletter.com/July2009/rawmilk0709.html_ (http://www.townsendletter.com/July2009/rawmilk0709.html) Testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Food-Borne Illness (April 15, 2007) Thank you, Senator Florez, for the opportunity to testify before the joint committees today. My name is Sally Fallon. I am testifying in my capacity as the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation; as the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, which advocates the consumption of unpasteurized whole milk from pasture-fed cows; and as secretary of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal defense of farms engaged in raw milk production and direct farm-to-consumer sales. Most importantly, I am testifying here today in my capacity as a mother. And it is as a mother that I will start with three testimonials typical of those we receive almost every day. One comes from a physician who prescribes raw milk to his patients, often with remarkably beneficial effects. One dramatic case involved a 9-month-old boy who had had three ear infections in three months. The child had been fed a number of formulas based on processed cow's milk and soy protein, and the mother had even tried pasteurized goat milk. With each formula, the child suffered recurrent vomiting, diarrhea, and failure to gain weight and thrive; and he had been ill with either viral or bacterial infections almost continuously since early infancy. After the mother switched to a formula based on raw goat milk, however, the diarrhea and vomiting ceased and the child began to gain weight. One year later, he has normal growth and is perfectly healthy. The second comes from a Weston A. Price local chapter leader who reported on a 2-year-old boy with very serious asthma. After the mother put the boy on raw cow*s milk, the child went through the entire winter without a visit to the doctor for any reason and no asthma attacks – except for one, a serious attack that occurred after the boy consumed pasteurized milk while on a family trip. The third involves an autistic 8-year-old boy who had not spoken a word since the sudden onset of autism at the age of 2. After two months on raw cow*s milk, all autistic behavior disappeared, and the child began to babble as a prelude to speech. The only dietary or treatment change was a switch from pasteurized to raw milk. Now please imagine the joy and relief that raw milk has given to the families of these children – an end to suffering, an end to worry. Family life can be normal and happy again. It is testimonials like these that make us so passionate about having access to raw milk and so concerned about the manner in which access to raw milk has been undermined in the state of California with the stealth passage of AB 1735, a law that mandates standards so strict that commercial production of raw milk will become impossible. Our experts here today will testify to the fact that the 10 coliform limit is not only unnecessary for the safety of raw milk, but would actually make raw milk more vulnerable to pathogens. Make no mistake, those who worked behind the scenes for the passage of this law, and our opponents testifying today, do not want the sickly, asthmatic, or autistic child to have access to Nature's perfect healing food. Although couched in terms of public safety, AB 1735 has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with protecting California*s annual $4.5 billion industrial dairy industry, which has to be propped up with an average of $1.6 billion in subsidies every year. This is a modern day example of sacrificing our children on the altar of Baal. The 10 coliform standard is a **test of sterility**, designed not to ensure the cleanliness of a farm but to verify the effectiveness of a processing facility. The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance allows 100,000 coliforms per ml in raw milk from the dairy farm. This 10 coliform standard was not designed to test the cleanliness of a farm, but the effectiveness of the sterilization process at the milk processing plant. It is inappropriate to use a **test of sterility** on raw milk, which is not a sterile product, but a probiotic product. Nonpathogenic coliforms are what consumers are seeking when they choose a raw milk product. Coliforms protect us against pathogens and produce many important nutrients in the digestive tract. They are our friends, not our enemies; and they are being increasingly used by doctors to treat everything from intestinal problems to wounds. Obviously, it is unscientific to claim, as our opponents do, that these same coliforms in milk are dangerous. The medical paradigm has changed; germs are no longer the enemy.
[Biofuel] Eighteen Overlooked Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue
Eighteen Overlooked Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue _http://www.naturalnews.com/024985_cortisol_blood_adrenal_fatigue.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/024985_cortisol_blood_adrenal_fatigue.html) by Patty Donovan, citizen journalist (NaturalNews) More and more alternative health practitioners are beginning to recognize how widespread adrenal fatigue (hypoadrenia) is in the general population. In mainstream medicine, doctors refuse to recognize there is a problem with the adrenal glands unless you meet the diagnostic criteria for Addison's disease (extremely little adrenal function) or Cushing's disease (hyper adrenal). These diseases together affect less than 2% of the population, but some experts believe that upwards of 80% of the population suffers from some level of adrenal insufficiency. Besides the usual symptoms of overwhelming fatigue and inability to handle stress, the symptoms listed below provide a more complete picture of adrenal fatigue and are often overlooked even by alternative practitioners. •ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS or CHRONIC COUGH: Any person with lung problems, especially asthma and bronchitis should be checked for poor adrenal function. The lungs cannot respond appropriately to stress, allergens etc because of lack of cortisol. Asthma is often considered an emotional disease because stress can trigger an attack. Fix the adrenals so the body can respond normally to stress and the asthma will disappear. •ALLERGIES: Most allergies involve an inflammatory process. As the adrenal function decreases, allergies worsen. Generally, if the adrenal glands were functioning properly, the body would not respond to the allergen. This same anti-inflammatory effect is important in asthma also. As the adrenal glands heal, allergies are markedly reduced. •RECURRENT INFECTIONS: Severe and/or recurrent infections (especially respiratory) often indicate adrenal problems. The more severe, the more frequently it occurs or the longer it lasts, the more likely adrenal fatigue is involved in the infection. •MUSCLE WEAKNESS AND BACK PAIN: Dr. Goodheart identified five skeletal muscles which can indicate adrenal function. These are 1) sartorius, 2) gracilis, 3) posterior tibialis, 4) gastrocnemius, and 5) soleus. When the adrenal glands are malfunctioning, there will be weakness in one or more of these muscles. The sartorius and gracilis attach on the pelvis. Weakness in these muscles can cause the sacro-iliac joint to subluxate posteriorally (toward the back) leading to low back pain. In persons with adrenal fatigue, low back pain is frequently caused by instability of the pelvis rather than an actual back problem. These same two muscles also attach to the knee and help provide support. Weakness will cause knee pain, weakness and instability of the joint. Any person with knee problems should be checked for adrenal fatigue. The other 3 muscles mentioned stabilize the feet and ankles. Weakness of any of these muscles leads to complaints of tired, aching feet, weak ankles or aching calves. The symptoms related to the muscle weakness will improve when the adrenal glands are treated. •SLEEP DISTURBANCES: Cortisol production follows a curve from highest levels around 8am, dropping throughout the day until the lowest levels are reached about 11pm. In early stages of adrenal fatigue the body compensates with high night time cortisol. In this case the person finds it difficult to relax from the stress of the day and has trouble going to sleep. High night-time cortisol results in reduced REM sleep which is neither restful nor restorative. This can lead to depression and reduced energy levels the next day. In later stages of adrenal fatigue, the body may produce adrenaline (**fight or flight** hormone) in an attempt to compensate for low cortisol. This too will result in insomnia. •DIZZINESS (POSTURAL HYPOTENSION): When a person stands from a sitting or lying position, the systolic blood pressure usually rises about 10 points as blood vessels in the lower body constrict to force blood to the heart, lungs and brain. This is a result of the action of epinephrine on the blood vessels. In people with adrenal fatigue, the blood vessels are unable to respond to the release of epinephrine because of lack of cortisol, so blood pools in the abdomen and pelvis and blood pressure drops. This systolic drop ranges from 10 to 40 points and is present in over 90% of those with hypoadrenia. Dizziness is usually present on standing; however, in some people it is present intermittently or constantly throughout the day as even resting blood pressure is low. Paradoxically, in order to prevent pooling of blood in the abdomen and lower extremities, the body may keep blood pressure extremely elevated. Pressure will still drop when the person stands but only to around 150. Remember, it may have
[Biofuel] One in Seven Scientists Say Colleagues Fake Scientific Study Results
One in Seven Scientists Say Colleagues Fake Scientific Study Results _http://www.naturalnews.com/026865_natural_health_technology_renewable_energ y.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/026865_natural_health_technology_renewable_energy.html) One in seven scientists report that they have known colleagues to falsify or slant the findings of their research, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and published in the journal PLoS One. A number of scientific data falsification scandals have emerged in recent years, such as the case of a South Korean researcher who invented data on stem cell research. At the same time, increasing controversy over close industry ties to medical research has called into question whether researchers who take money from drug companies might be induced to falsify their data. Increasing evidence suggests that known frauds are just the tip of the iceberg and that many cases are never discovered, said researcher Daniele Fanelli. The researchers reviewed the results of 21 different scientific misconduct surveys that had been performed between 1985 and 2005. All respondents were asked whether they or anyone they knew of had taken part in either fabrication (outright invention of data) or questionable practices. Questionable practices were any improper procedure short of fabrication, including failing to publish results contradicting one's prior research, modifying data based on a gut feeling, changing conclusions after pressure from a funder or selectively choosing which data to include in an analysis. One in seven scientists said that they were aware of colleagues who had engaged in fabrication, while nearly half -- 46 percent -- admitted to knowing of colleagues who had used questionable practices. Only two percent, however, admitted to fabricating results themselves. While two percent is higher than previous estimates of the prevalence of data fabrication, researchers believe that the number is still too low. In all likelihood, it reflects both a reluctance by researchers to admit to serious misconduct and a tendency to interpret one's behavior as favorably as possible -- questionable instead of fabrication, or acceptable rather than questionable. Researchers in the medical and pharmacalogical fields were the most likely to admit to misconduct than researchers in other fields. Sources for this story include: _www.timesonline.co.uk_ (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/) . - Related A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies Scott S. Reuben, a prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist, allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex. _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/04/A-New-Low-in- Drug-Research-21-Fabricated-Studies.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/04/A-New-Low-in-Drug-Research-21-Fabricated-Studie s.aspx) Ghosted Journal Articles Undermine Integrity of Medicine ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) _http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2800end=2820view=yesid= 3667#newspost_ (http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2800end=2820view=yesid=3667#newspost) Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy Newly unveiled court documents show that ghostwriters paid by a pharmaceutical company played a major role in producing 26 scientific papers backing the use of hormone replacement therapy in women, suggesting that the level of hidden industry influence on medical literature is broader than previously known. _http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html?_r=1hp_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html?_r=1hp) Merck published fake journal _http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/print/55671/_ (http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/print/55671/) Top Pain Scientist Fabricated Data in Studies, Hospital Says A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex, according to the hospital where he worked. Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass., said that its former chief of acute pain, Scott S. Reuben, had faked data used in the studies, which were published in several anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008. _http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672510903888207.html_ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672510903888207.html) Why You Can’t Trust Most Studies on Health A study of 49 papers in leading journals that had been cited by more than 1,000 other scientists -- in other words, well-regarded research -- showed that within only a few years, almost a third of the papers had been refuted by other studies. And the “hotter” the field, the greater the competition and the more likely it is
[Biofuel] Pat Coleby on Vitamin C Treatment for SNAKE BITES
Pat Coleby on Vitamin C Treatment for SNAKE BITES Early in 1930, an American, Dr Klenner, did much research on the use of Vitamin C on humans (extensive article on Vitamin C by Dr Klennner here _http://www.nutri.com/wn/klenner.html_ (http://www.nutri.com/wn/klenner.html) ). In turn a Californian Vet, Dr Wendell Bellfield, carried on the good work with impressive results on all sorts of dog ailments that are generally considered incurable or fatal. Today, in USA, there are now a significant number if Vets practicing alternative Medicine such as this. After studying the literature, I (Pat Coleby - is a farmer who writes books on animal care and lectures widely on the subject as well as being a consultant.) decided that I really had nothing to lose trying Vitamin C on my own farm animals. The first one was a pony, almost moribund, whose blood was later diagnosed as having the largest amount of Tiger Snake venom the Vet had ever seen in an animal. Within 24 hours of being unable to move, and also having considerable difficulty in breathing due to pneumonia, the pony was grazing happily in its owners garden, apparently quite healthy. I only had one 30ml bottle of Vitamin C, half of what I would have liked, so I put half of the bottle into each side of the neck by intramuscular injection. After that we treated sundry dogs, two cats and several goats including a stud buck. All recovered. A very valuable Alpaca which was being watched by its owner from her kitchen window went down to the dam to examine something. The owner, horrified, watched a large snake rise up and strike it on the nose - the worst place - and thanked her lucky stars the Vitamin C was in the fridge - not still on the shopping list. Rushing out with only 15 mls in the syringe - she injected the Alpaca before any symptoms arose. The snake had looked like a brown or a tiger, the result - happy ending. The great advantage of Vitamin C is that anaphylaxis does not occur and the variety of snake does not matter. Vitamin C is cheap, easy to store and taking it on a hunting trip is no problem. All you need is a 20 ml syringe, some largish needles - say No 18 - and the bottle of Vitamin C. It can all be carried in a small wallet on ones belt. In between times it should be kept in the fridge. Although the stuff can be carried in Summer without deteriorating, I suggest to hunters that they get a fresh supply each Spring just to be on the safe side. After much reading of printouts of Bellfield's and other literature, many supplied by Dr Glen Dettman, a retired pathologist who lives near Melbourne, I have tried Vitamin C on many situations. A dog in a tick coma, spider bites, dogs with Parvo, Tetanus following a terrible injury from a car, and in cases of shock - all with unfailing success. Vitamin C can be used as crushed tablets or powder straight into the mouth in cases of sickness. From my own experience, rubbing the powder into a redback spider bite took the pain (which is incredible) our within seconds. I followed it up with 10 grams by mouth. The spread of the poison in my arm stopped and I was able to resume work within a few minutes. The first goat I treated with Vitamin C was given a teaspoon of ascorbic acid powder (about 5 grams) every half hour for two hours, like the Alpaca, he was bitten right on the nose as I later found out. He recovered perfectly well. That was in the days before the injectable supplies were available. 50 ml bottles of Vitamin C can be obtained from some Chemists, most fodder or pet stores. Make sure the brand is 2 mls per gram and not 4 otherwise you need twice as much at twice the cost. I mentioned the size of the needles as 18 or thereabouts because the stuff can be slightly glutinous and speed is generally all important on the occasions when it is needed. Snake venom affects the nervous system which slows down until natural functions cease and death occurs. A painful way to die. It can cause instant death but this is most unusual and I have never seen it. When a dog has been bitten, its eyes will soon appear to look all black. That is the pupils have relaxed and dilated. Since snake bite can - and usually does - occur unwitnessed, if your dog slows down and becomes lethargic or distressed, do look at the eyes at once and even if they do not show much sign get on with the injection. If by chance the fang marks are detected, (it is usually damp around the bite) rub in Vit C. Even a chewed up tablet will work. But do not waste time looking for the marks. They often only show up a few days later when the hair falls away around them. Dogs of 30 to 50 kg will require about 10 - 15 mls* by intramuscular injection in the side of the neck. It was taught by the teaching Vet at the Veterinary College to avoid doing injections in the back legs because it is too
[Biofuel] Ghosted Journal Articles Undermine Integrity of Medicine
_Ghosted Journal Articles Undermine Integrity of Medicine_ (http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2800end=2820view=yesid=3667#newspost) _http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2800end=2820view=yesid= 3667#newspost_ (http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2800end=2820view=yesid=3667#newspost) ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) A Catalyst for Public Debate: Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability For years we have disseminated reports documenting one after another uncovered case of corruption demonstrating that so-called **peer review** is a sham: clinical trials, journal publications, and the practice of medicine have been corrupted by the commercial influence of pharmaceutical companies. Today's New York Times reports (below) that **court documents provide a paper trail showing that Wyeth contracted with a medical communications company to outline articles, draft them and then solicit top physicians to sign their names, even though many of the doctors contributed little or no writing.** It is a sordid example of corruption in medicine, but hardly unique. In this case, 26 ghostwritten articles signed by prominent academic Obg/ Gyn physicians, were published in 18 journals, promoting Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy, Premarin--a treatment that has been linked to increased breast cancer, stoke, and dementia. The issue of ghostwritten promotional articles, signed by prominent academic scientists at prestigious medical centers, is not a newly discovered form of corruption. It was raised as early as 1998 (Carey, Fontarosa, et al) [1]. Last year, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that Merck commissioned ghostwriters to produce dozens of articles pushing Vioxx, a drug that caused thousands of cardiac deaths. And this year, documents uncovered in an Australian court showed that Merck even commissioned a fake journal published by Elsevier: **The drug company also allegedly produced an entire journal - called The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine - and passed it off as an independent peer review publication.** See _HERE_ (http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/print/55671/) _http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/print/55671/_ (http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/print/55671/) Eli Lilly paid ghostwriters to push Zyprexa; and Pfizer-funded ghostwriters generated 85 articles about Zoloft in the late 1990s, according to the British Journal of Psychiatry. [2] Yet, no meaningful disciplinary action has been taken against anyone: academics continue to append their name to ghostwritten articles for cash; journals taken no steps to cleanse the medical-scientific literature of ghostwritten, hence, fraudulent articles; nor have steps even been taken to bring transparency to peer review. Our view that this is an endemic problem linked to industry's influence on medicine, is corroborated by a spokesman for Wyeth who acknowledged that pharmaceutical companies routinely hired medical writing companies to assist authors in drafting manuscripts. When a High School student pens his name to an article written by someone else, it's called cheating, earning the student an F grade and precluding entry into a reputable college. Shouldn't we expect medical professionals at major academic institutions to, at the very least, adhere to academic standards required of High School students? Dr. Daniel Carlat suggests that the proper collective response from all of the participants in fraud should have been: We sincerely apologize for having deceived the medical community by engaging in ghostwriting without disclosure. We have contributed to the erosion of the public's trust in medicine, and we regret it. See _HERE_ (http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/08/ghostwriting-for-premarin-steroids-on.html) _http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/08/ghostwriting-for-premarin-ster oids-on.html_ (http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/08/ghostwriting-for-premarin-steroids-on.html) References: 1. Flanagin A, Carey LA, Fontanarosa PB, Phillips SG, Pace BP, et al. (1998) Prevalence of articles with honorary authors and ghost authors in peer-reviewed medical journals. JAMA 280: 222-224. 2. Healy D, Cattell D (2003) Interface between authorship, industry and science in the domain of therapeutics. Br J Psychiatry 183: 22-27. Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav 212-595-8974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) THE NEW YORK TIMES August 5, 2009 _Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html?hp) By NATASHA SINGER (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090806/f11ce602/attachment.html
[Biofuel] Total Cancer Remissions through Blood Electrification Combined with Magnetic Pul
The following is a condensation of an article by Dr Robert Beck. Total Cancer Remissions through Blood Electrification Combined with Magnetic Pulsing plus Silver Colloid Ingestion _http://www.health-science-spirit.com/cancerremissions.html_ (http://www.health-science-spirit.com/cancerremissions.html) by Walter Last My archives contain a tantalizing report from several decades ago describing an authenticated record of an older man who was struck by lightning, survived, and subsequently grew a third set of teeth and a bushy head of youthful new dark hair. His grossly metastasized, inoperable cancers vanished. He threw away his glasses and cane, and appeared much younger and was totally healthy for the first time ever. This fascinated scientists and years later almost encouraged some highly illegal and bizarre human experiments in an abandoned aircraft hangar in Wendover, Utah where Tesla coil research with ball lightning was underway. The incident generated wide speculation but few insights at the time. This mystery remained sleeping until 1990 when an astounding discovery was reported at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC by Drs. Kaali and Wyman. Not surprisingly, these data were apparently immediately suppressed. (See Science News; Mar. 30, '91 pg. 207; and LongevIty: Dec.' 92 pg. 14.) As a totally unexpected and unpredictable outcome of my self-funded research since 1991 into blood electrification with micro currents for AIDS (currently showing excellent results) a growing number of users previously unknown to me, began independently reporting remarkable spontaneous remissions of numerous other diseases Including cancer. Most involved no doctors, medication, or time off. Recoveries occurred after subjects had self-administered an altered do-it-yourself in vivo blood electrification treatment partially described as an In Vitro process in US Patent #5,188,738 issued to Dr. Steven Kaali in ‘93. (This work may have been anticipated twenty years earlier in 1973 by patent # 3,753,886 and by several others dating back to the turn of the century...) We were puzzled to find explanations. This preliminary report offers one possible theory. The magnetic pulser success with Cancer was independently proven in 1984 and described in US Patent #4,665,898 and eleven other independent researchers and patents going back over fifty years. The Einstein disclosure describes removing blood from one arm, electrifying it, and returning it to the other arm in a process similar to dialysis. It also describes surgically implanted active electrode chambers containing miniature batteries sewn inside blood vessels. This author's preferred approach leaves all blood in the body, is totally non-invasive, costs practically nothing and is safely accomplished in about a month with ~two hours per day exposures as one goes about his normal activities. It handles most pathogens while blood flows naturally through the ~60cc volume of the electrified forearm's ulnar branch arteries from elbow to wrist. Without medications, invasive techniques or doctors, most pathogens, viruses, microbes, parasites and fungi just tend to disappear. Progress can be easily observed with dark-field and phase-contrast microscopy. The entire process and simple apparatus is fully described in my '91 paper and recent issues of Explore. (Vol. 7 #1.) Also simple instructions for self-made silver colloids of far better quality than you can usually buy are given. You can turn any glass of tap or distilled water into a 3 ppm top quality colloid in about two minutes anywhere with a shirt pocket battery-operated instrument. To date many **spontaneous remissions** of dozens of *incurable* illnesses including HIV have been reported by users and researchers of this **blood purification** when combined with ingestion of pennies-per-gallon instantly self-made silver colloid. Since none of dozens of friends using these apparent miracles has experienced infections, colds, flu, pneumonia, or lost a single day's productivity in over three years, evidence strongly suggests restored immune systems or dramatically improved blood functioning. It is also fascinating to note that several pet owners report their cats now refuse to drink water if silver colloid is not added. Trips to veterinarians with previously recurring infections were cut dramatically. It has long been known that dissections of cadavers dying of natural causes reveal many have had cancer several times during their lifetime resulting in spontaneous remissions generally without their knowledge and without ever visiting a doctor. An optimally functioning immune system somehow *handles* diseases of which the subject seldom becomes aware. Several promising broad-spectrum natural immunological agents like interferon and interleukin are produced by healthy
[Biofuel] Diet and Recovery from Chronic Disease
Diet and Recovery from Chronic Disease By Ron Schmid, ND _http://westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/chronicdisease.html_ (http://westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/chronicdisease.html) Weston Price showed us that the fundamental cause of disease is inadequate nutrition. In virtually every indigenous culture he visited and studied, from tropical regions to the extreme north, people who were eating entirely according to the traditional wisdom of their ancestors were immune to chronic diseases. His interviews of medical practitioners who served in these areas confirmed the fact that diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, tuberculosis and gastrointestinal problems requiring surgical intervention did not occur until the people began eating the white man's foods--sugar, flour, vegetable oils, canned goods and other refined foods.1 Price was not alone in his discoveries. In the first three decades of the twentieth century, many explorers, anthropologists and physicians who traveled in remote areas and lived amongst traditional people described the splendid health and absence of chronic disease these people enjoyed.2,3 I first read Price*s classic work, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, in the 1970s when I was studying to be a naturopathic physician. I began incorporating the dietary principles I learned into my own diet, and this step was instrumental in healing my chronic intestinal problems. Then, as I began my work as a physician, I used the principles I learned from Dr. Price with my patients. In 1987, I published my first book, Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine, in which I wrote extensively about Dr. Price's work and its application. And yet, many of the people who have consulted with me over the years have had the same problem that I had: despite having some understanding of the nutritional principles that Dr. Price discovered and elucidated, they often have great difficulty in finding and implementing a diet that will prevent or reverse chronic diseases. WRONG ASSUMPTIONS One mistake made by nearly anyone seeking healing through food is the assumption that one diet is right for everyone. A corollary of this premise is the notion that a diet that worked well for you for a while will continue to be right for you indefinitely. On the contrary, each of us has different needs and idiosyncrasies. What works beautifully for me may not work well for you, and vice-versa. Furthermore, one's needs change over time, so that your best diet today may well need to evolve dramatically over the weeks, months and years. An example: if you go from a diet of mostly steak, pasta, Scotch and cheesecake, to raw fruits, vegetables and juices, you might well feel better, lose unwanted weight, and think you*ve discovered the fountain of youth--for a while. But at some point--a point that will vary markedly for different people--you'll run into trouble. And many people will then think, **Gee, I did great on that diet. Why won*t it work now? Something else must be wrong since my diet is fine.** But this is probably the wrong conclusion. The physical part of the explanation for health problems can almost always be found in the diet. My objective in this article is to explain some ideas about how each individual may use the nutritional principles Dr. Price discovered in order to move toward his or her health goals. I'm a believer in the ancient credo Physician, heal thyself, so I will start out with my own case and go on from there to details about my work with patients and then generalizations I think apply to most of us. THE CHOLESTEROL TRAP I initially fell into the trap of being overly influenced by the conventional wisdom about animal fats and cholesterol. Like most of us, I*d been thoroughly indoctrinated about the alleged dangers, and in the 1970s and 1980s I read a lot of literature about primitive and Paleolithic diets, which maintained that such diets, while high in protein, were low in fat. I bought into this idea, and advocated the use of moderate amounts of meat and raw dairy foods along with large amounts of vegetables, fish, and some fruit and whole grains (a diet not unlike that which many Price Foundation members report that they eat). Now that is a diet that many people do very well with for some time, and this was true for me. But as I described above, the belief that the same diet that you may have thrived on for a number of years will always be right for you is often fallacious. It*s quite natural to make this error; we all become attached to the things we like, to our routines. Change is difficult. AN ATTACK OF LYME In the summer of 2002, I came down with a severe and debilitating case of Lyme disease. I'd had unexplained joint and muscle pain for several weeks, which I'd attributed to the normal strains of being an aging
[Biofuel] SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH
SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH VIDEO. Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology explores the damage caused by sugary foods. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717] Starts off telling you that this story has a little bit of something for everybody little bit of biochemisty, clinical research, public health, politics,racial innuedo..plus he hopes to debunk the last 30 years of nutrition information in America . Anybody whom eats fruit frustose needs to listen to this. Did you know that now 6 month old babies are obese? if obesity is about diet and exericise, can this be explained? _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oMfeature=related_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oMfeature=related) RELATED ARTICLES The Saccharine Disease: Conditions caused by the Taking of Refined Carbohydrates, such as Sugar and White Flour 1974 by Surgeon Captain T.L. Cleave (1906-83), Director of Medical Research at the Royal Naval Medical School, whittled down the root cause of dozens of the ills of industrial societies to one simple factor, also noted by nutrition pioneer Sir Robert McCarrison: their dependence on refined carbohydrates -- the master-disease. Full text online. Continues the tradition of the Cheshire Medical Testament, Weston Price, etc. This powerful book is best encapsulated by repeating its subtitle: Conditions Caused by Taking of Refined Carbohydrates as Sugar and White Flour. Thanks to Keith Addison (Keith at journeytoforever.org) for both the suggestion to include it and for the lend of this book. Keith has a remarkable website, also mentioned on our links page. Downloads as a PDF of 974 kb. OUT OF PRINT. _http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#cleave_ (http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#cleave) _http://soilandhealth.org/files/VPPrTSElIG/020313.cleave.saccharine.pdf_ (http://soilandhealth.org/files/VPPrTSElIG/020313.cleave.saccharine.pdf) (http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Cleave/cleave_toc.html) Killer Sugar! Suicide With A Spoon Simple sugars have been observed to aggravate asthma, muster mental illness, move mood swings, provoke personality changes, nourish nervous disorders, hurry heart disease, deliver diabetes, grow gallstones, hasten hypertension, add arthritis, and on top of all of that...It will kill you! High Sugar Intake Corrupts Muscle Performance And Impedes Strength Development Dramatically! _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/01/09/killer-sugar- suicide-with-a-spoon-sugar-dangers.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/01/09/killer-sugar-suicide-with-a-spoon-sugar-dangers. aspx) Would You Give Your Toddler 17 Teaspoons of Sugar a Day? This means the more added sugars from sodas and sweets in kids' diets, the fewer the number of good nutrients their bodies get in order to remain healthy. _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/02/05/sugar-kids.as px_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/02/05/sugar-kids.aspx) SUGAR: YOU JUST LOVE YOUR CHILDREN TO DEATH _http://www.stopcancer.com/000/009.htm_ (http://www.stopcancer.com/000/009.htm) Counting the Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/05/04/sugar-dangers -part-two.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/05/04/sugar-dangers-part-two.aspx) 76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health _http://www.mercola.com/article/sugar/dangers_of_sugar.htm_ (http://www.mercola.com/article/sugar/dangers_of_sugar.htm) Sugar: Too Sweet to be True Health experts agree that the overuse of sugar is directly linked to many growing health concerns ranging from obesity and tooth decay to depression. _http://www.alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=2906It emid=22_ (http://www.alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=2906Itemid=22) Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward Magalie Lenoir#, Fuschia Serre#, Lauriane Cantin, Serge H. Ahmed* University Bordeaux 2, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5227, Bordeaux, France. Can download pdf on right hand side _http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F 10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.698_ (http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.698) (http://www.stopcancer.com/000/009.htm) Replacing Refined Sugars with Natural Sugars One Step At a Time Sugar has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. Not only does it totally lack nutrients, but when you eat sugar it actually robs your body of nutrients-- vitamins, minerals and even enzymes. Sure sugar may be temporarily pleasing to the taste buds, but the rest of the body suffers for it. The sad thing is that most people are not aware of the
Re: [Biofuel] Things you're not supposed to know about Swine flu vaccine
Hello Ivan. Somehow I seem to get the impression that you think that vaccines were responsible for getting rid of polio. Maybe I am mistaken? However, just in case I am not, thought I would suggest some reading that you might find interesting. My favourite aunt was afflicted with polio as a child, which resulted in her being crippled for the rest of her life. I was the flower girl at her wedding, it was the only time since before she got polio that she walked without her canes. So I decided to learn about polio. I just wish that I had looked into it years before I did - she died from complications when she broke her hip several years ago. Dr Bruno specializes in Post-Polio and might have been able to help her. I just don't like crediting people or organizations with things that they are not responsible for. GRAPHICAL EVIDENCE SHOWS VACCINES DIDN'T SAVE US there is a chart graph here for polio also. _http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web1.html_ (http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web1.html) “Polio” by Neil Z. Miller of Think Twice Global Vaccine Institute The polio vaccine: a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy,and long-term health-related consequences. Current disease reduction techniques that emphasize short-term gains over long-term health consequences need to be reevaluated and discontinued while new and safer health paradigms are researched and implemented. SECTIONS: What is polio?; How is polio contracted?; Can polio be treated?; Does a polio vaccine exist?; Which vaccine is in use today?; Are polio vaccines safe?; How effective are polio vaccines?; Polio vaccines and cancer; Polio vaccines and AIDS; Didn’t AIDS originate in Africa?; Test the polio vaccines; AIDS within the Gay community; Polio vaccines and Mad Cow disease; AIDS with no identified risk factor (NIR); More animal viruses; Mutated polio strains; How is today’s polio vaccine produced?; Are positive changes possible?; 177 References. Every year, more than 12,000 people in the United States file vaccine-damage reports with the FDA documenting serious ad-verse reactions to mandated immunizations (children are mainly affected). The FDA estimates that this represents just 10 percent of the true rate. Yet, even these figures pale in comparison to the number of cases of new diseases scientifically linked to inoculations: MMR and autism, polio vaccines and cancer, the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis, the Hib vaccine and diabetes, to name just a few. I want everyone to think through this enigmatic and controversial subject on their own. I believe that parents are capable of obtaining the facts and making knowledgeable choices regarding the care and welfare of their children.References 177. _http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf_ (http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf) Polio Index: What part did vaccines play in the eradication of Polio? A few facts: Before the first Salk vaccine trials, polio incidence had already declined greatly. Decline was even greater by the time the Salk and Sabine vaccines came into widespread use. The intensive use in 1958 was followed by more than a doubling of incidence. At no time after the introduction of the two vaccines against polio was decline greater than before vaccine introduction. Graph showing Death from Polio: Australia; The Polio Death Rate was Decreasing on its Own Before the Vaccine was Introduced; _http://www.vaclib.org/basic/polio.htm_ (http://www.vaclib.org/basic/polio.htm) Polio poster girl cured Eleanor McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer): Another typical case of the difference between the medical and non-medical approach to healing is that of THE POLIO POSTER GIRL for the March of Dimes. Little Winifred Gardella, had been treated for polio by medical doctors for two and a half years, and the best they could do was to release her as a hopeless cripple wearing crutches and leg braces — with no hope for the rest of her life. Her picture was used on the March of Dimes posters to jerk more donations from people, to carry on more of this failure system of medical mix-up and mess. After she left the medical hosptial, her mother took her to a drugless doctor, Dr. Lewis Robertson (Chiropractor), who treated her with special drugless methods and had her well and walking in less than six months. (See photographs, Fig. I and 2). These are just two (flu and polio) of the thousands of better and more successful treatments which the qualified drugless doctors have, which should be used, instead of the damaging medical methods. _http://www.whale.to/v/poliogirl.html_ (http://www.whale.to/v/poliogirl.html) Louella Harris: A Missionary For Upper Cervical Chiropractic Louella Harris, a patient turned spokesperson, is on a mission. In 1958, she became a victim of polio at age 3, eight months after taking a vaccine in Kenya, East Africa. For much
[Biofuel] NUTRITIONAL AUTONOMIC RESPONSE TESTING
NUTRITIONAL AUTONOMIC RESPONSE TESTING _http://www.royalrife.com/nart.html_ (http://www.royalrife.com/nart.html) Nutritional autonomic response testing or NART is a method of muscle testing to determine which tissues are stressed, which are the most stressed, and which supplements are best for the tissue and person. This technology was pioneered by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt (ART)and Dr. Fred Ulan (NRT) with additions from other sources. Principle: If a tissue is stressed, pressing on the tissue will cause a muscle weakness in the person and in anyone who is touching them. Principle: if a tissue is stressed, placing either the problem or the solution on the body will make the arm strong. (Either mercury or chlorella will make the mercury-stressed tissue test strong.) 1. Test for a strong muscle: NART testing is usually done with the subject reclining on their back. Their legs must not be crossed. The person should be wearing their usual clothing, jewellery, glasses and watch so we can test and see if these are problems. An arm is extended straight up toward the ceiling with the fingers pointing up. The tester applies pressure to the wrist, pushing toward the subject's feet. Pressure is gradually increased over a period of about 2 seconds until the arm either gives or locks. You are feeling for a lock or lack of lock. If there is no lock, use a second person as an indirect tester. Have them stand near and touch the subject and use their horizontal arm instead of the subject's arm. Or, use the items in number 2 below to find the reason for the weakness. 2. Test for open regulation to see if the autonomic nervous system sends adequate signals: Hold your fingers together, arched back. Place the center the of your palm over either of the subject's ears. Their arm should go weak. If it does not go weak, the autonomic nervous system regulation is blocked. This must be corrected before any other test will be valid. Look for: * Their watch. The quartz oscillator can irritate the nervous system and prevent normal function. * Their glasses. A metal frame that goes all the way across the face can be an issue. Glasses should have plastic frames or glass lenses with just a wire connecting them. The temple part of the frame does not appear to be an issue. * Food sensitivities. Place a vial of a quality enzyme such as Optimal Digestive System or Zypan on or touching the subject and test for open regulation again. When you find the material that opens the regulation, you will need to leave it there for the rest of the test. * Toxic metals. You can use a metals test kit or a vial of Metals Release on or touching the subject and test the arm. * Chemicals. You can use chemical vials or either rubbing alcohol or DMSO (either a cause or cure). Or you can use silymarin or Miracle II Neutralizer. * Infections. For this, you can use a thin plastic bag of all your infection remedies. * Scars. (Common.) If the person has any scars, especially ones that have been sutured, you or they can press on the scar and test. If a woman has had an episiotomy, have them reach back and press on the area. You may be able to keep their regulation open with a vial of wheat germ oil or sesame oil, or other topical scar remedy. Scars can be treated with a small laser or Scenar. * Teeth. An infected tooth socket can block a person. Use one of the Tooth Tonic products. * Hiatal Hernia. Hiatal hernia is very common and it is very disruptive to the whole body. If all else fails, you may need to correct this before testing. And if you do correct it, the person may still not be testable until the next day. * Need for chiropractic adjustment. It may be necessary to have adjustments done before testing is possible. * Black clothing. The body has an electical field that is a bit like the earth's magnetic field. Black clothing covering the navel often disrupts this field and blocks the person. * Other possibilities. Jewellery or tattoos may block testing. Record your findings. You can use the form at _http://www.royalrife.com/NART-findings.pdf_ (http://www.royalrife.com/NART-findings.pdf) 3. Test for switching to see if autonomic nervous system messages are sent accurately or if they are skewed or reversed: On either hand, have them touch the tip of the pinky finger to the tip of the thumb. Test an arm. It should stay strong. Then test the other hand. If either test fails, they are switched. Check all the items in number 2 above. If both sides fail, the person is double switched. This is often an autoimmune problem. You may be able to unswitch them with items above, or with a sample of their own saliva, or with cetyl myristoleate (a good remedy for auto- immune problems). The material that corrects switching must be left on them for the
[Biofuel] Your Car and Home Could Soon Be Powered By Urine
Your Car and Home Could Soon Be Powered By Urine _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/28/Your-Car-and- Home-Could-Soon-Be-Powered-By-Your-Urine.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/28/Your-Car-and-Home-Could-Soon-Be-Powered-By -Your-Urine.aspx) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090728/eff2795f/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Ignore Bartonella and Stay Ill, Lose a Relationship or Job or Hurt an Organ
Ignore Bartonella and Stay Ill, Lose a Relationship or Job or Hurt an Organ _http://www.personalconsult.com/articles/bartonellanewinfo2008.html_ (http://www.personalconsult.com/articles/bartonellanewinfo2008.html) Trivializing Bartonella attached to Red Blood Cells is Ignoring TNT? Radically New 2008 Information about a Flea and Tick Infection More Common than Lyme By Dr. James Schaller, MD. As you read this article, Bartonella is making microscopic fat deposits in some human hearts. These will undermine the normal pacemaker stimulation in their heart and cause death. Others have Bartonella inside weakening blood vessel walls which might create a stroke. Still others with Bartonella are struggling with an agitated depression or aggressive rage that makes them prone to suicide. The psychiatric treatment of a patient with Bartonella is highly specialized and most family physicians and psychiatrists do not know how to treat a patient suffering from Bartonella-caused psychiatric disorders. Bartonella is connected to red blood cells that are entering every human organ. Some are leaving their red blood cell carriers and entering tissues next to capillaries all over the body. Bartonella bacteria enter all organs and cause the following sample illnesses: -- All Psychiatric disorders -- Fatigue -- Numbness or Loss of Sensation -- Dizziness -- Headaches, -- Tremors -- Irritability -- Agitation -- Aggression -- Impulsivity -- Oxygen Deprivation -- Panic Attacks -- Fainting -- Muscle Spasms and/or Weakness -- Joint Pain -- Upper and Lower G.I. Tract Disorders -- Kidney, Bladder, and Urogenital Disorders -- Sleep Disorders -- Memory Problems -- Drowsiness -- Lumps in the Skin -- Dozens of Types of Rashes -- Polyps in or on Major Organs -- Eye Disorders, e.g., Blurred Vision, Depth Perception, and Retinal Damage -- But Some Patients Have No Clear Symptoms This modified list from Breitschwerdt and others (Emerging Infectious Diseases June 2007; 13:938ff) which is just a very small sample of Bartonella medical ills. For example, in another series of articles, 15-20 eye ailments are listed and 15 heart problems. I have not found any brilliant eye surgeons or cardiologists that know this emerging medicine. It is certainly not their fault. You have to read about 1500 articles to learn the basics of this infection, and even then, that is the basics. It is one reason we are going to do careful work in this area for a couple years, as a special focus on our list of areas to specifically research and study and invent if possible some treatment solutions among the many claims as to what might work. Periods of ignorance are routine in medicine. In the same manner Lyme disease was initially seen as only an arthritis disease and Babesia as a disease causing only fevers, fatigue and sweats. We have learned with each passing year that Lyme and Babesia infections have hundreds of symptoms. Bartonella was initially seen as a virus and as having 2-3 species with American forms generally only causing a cold, a mild fever and a passing increase in lymph node size or tenderness. The reality is that thousands of articles show Bartonella harms many parts of the body and can cause multiple types of tissue injury. It is also so common that just this past season another human species was found --Bartonella rochalimae. With the publication of my Babesia textbook, I was able to consolidate the exceptional experience of top practitioners into a single book to help patients and physicians to quickly learn about Babesia. As you can see from the new patent pending Fry blood slides in this article, which show Babesia with many Bartonella images, you can see the discovery of a revolutionary blood smear test which shows all species of Bartonella and Babesia. The light has been turned on in the midnight kitchen, and all the largest **Bartonella bugs** can be seen crawling around in the kitchen with this special blood stain. It is a very useful tool among many to diagnose Bartonella. Currently, approximately 10 species of Bartonella and 13 species of Babesia exist which infect humans. This specialized patent pending slide has made them markedly visible-like a July 4th firework explosion. While treating patients from all over the world with this new tool to direct me, this stain also allows me to see what really kills both of these infections -- what I suggest and what patients use to self-treat. I have sent the same slide to the largest labs in the USA. Not one patient has been diagnosed on a manual smear by leading large medical labs! Their stains are junk, and their ability to see these two infections is worthless. The year 2007 will mark the death of the expression **co-infection,** because increasingly patients have awareness that Babesia and Bartonella are not
[Biofuel] FDA documents showing GMO hazards
FDA documents showing GMO hazards _http://biointegrity.org/list.html_ (http://biointegrity.org/list.html) INDEX: KEY FDA DOCUMENTS REVEALING (1) HAZARDS OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS--AND (2) FLAWS WITH HOW THE AGENCY MADE ITS POLICY Alliance for Bio-Integrity HOME About the Documents You will see scanned reproductions (exact copies) of some of the Food Drug Administration' Drug Administration'WBRs (FDA) internal memoranda about the hazards of genetically engineered foods. These documents became available through the A Drug Administration'WBRs (FDA) internal memoranda about the hazards of genetically engineered foods. These documents became available through the Alliance for Bio-Integrity'WBRs lawsuit (Alliance for Bio-Integrity et al., vs. Shalala, et al.) to ga How to View and Print In order to make these documents easily accessible, we've saved each page in two different formats: one intended for viewing on your monitor using your internet browser (click on View Document), and one formatted in PDF suitable for printing onto a 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper (click on Print Document). To print the PDF files you will need free software called Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it ._here_ (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html) . Depending on your computer and internet connection, downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader may take up to fifteen minutes. You may find that the best way to view and read the documents on your monitor is to select the PDF files; they are larger files and therefore may take slightly longer to download, but the Acrobat Reader enables you to enlarge or reduce the image size to fit your monitor. A. FDA Scientists Discuss Various Safety Concerns 1.. Comments from Dr. Linda Kahl, FDA compliance officer, to Dr. James Maryanski, FDA Biotechnology Coordinator, about the Federal Register document Statement of Policy: Foods from Genetically Modified Plants. Dated January 8, 1992. (3 pages) View Our _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/01/index.html) - _View Document _ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/01/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/01/01.pdf) 2.. Memorandum from Dr. Edwin J. Mathews to the Toxicology Section of the Biotechnology Working Group. Subject: Analysis of the Major Plant Toxicants. Dated October 28, 1991. (2 pages) _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/02/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/02/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/02/02.pdf) 3.. Memorandum from Dr. Samuel I. Shibko to Dr. James Maryanski, FDA Biotechnology Coordinator. Subject: Revision of Toxicology Section of the Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from Genetically Modified Plants. Dated January 31, 1992. (3 pages) _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/03/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/03/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/03/03.pdf) 4.. Comments from Dr. Louis J. Pribyl re: the Biotechnology Draft Document, 2/27/92. Dated March 6, 1992. (5 pages) _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/04/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/04/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/04/04.pdf) 5.. Comments from Dr. Louis J. Pribyl re: ... the March 18, 1992 Version of the Biotechnology Document. Dated March 18, 1992. (1 page) _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/12/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/12/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/12/ljpp.pdf) 6.. Comments from Division of Food Chemistry and Technology and Division of Contaminants Chemistry. Subject: Points to Consider for Safety Evaluation of Genetically Modified Foods. Supplemental Information.6.. Comments from Division of Food C_View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/10/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/10/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/10/10.pdf) 7.. Memorandum from Dr. Mitchell Smith, Head, Biological and Organic Chemistry Section, to Dr. James Maryanski, Biotechnology Coordinator. Subject: Comments on Draft Federal Register Notice on Food Biotechnology, Dec. 12, 1991 draft. Dated January 8, 1992. (2 pages) _View Our Summary_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/07/index.html) - _View Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/07/view1.html) - _Print Document_ (http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/07/07.pdf) 8.. Letter from Dr. James Maryanski, Biotechnology Coordinator, to Dr. Bill Murray, Chairman of the Food Directorate, Canada. Subject: the safety assessment of foods and food ingredients developed through new biotechnology. Dated October 23, 1991.
[Biofuel] Exemptions From Vaccinations-Know Your Rights!
Protect yourselves from potentially dangerous vaccinations and help others do likewise. CANADA - IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTIONS (includes current statutes, letters forms) _http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/canada.htm_ (http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/canada.htm) HEALTH CANADA STATEMENT ON IMMUNIZATION Unlike some countries, immunization is not mandatory in Canada; it cannot be made mandatory because of the Canadian Constitution. Only three provinces have legislation or regulations under their health-protection acts to require proof of immunization for school entrance. Ontario and New Brunswick require proof for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella immunization. In Manitoba, only measles vaccination is covered. It must be emphasized that, in these three provinces, exceptions are permitted for medical or religious grounds and reasons of conscience; legislation and regulations must not be interpreted to imply compulsory immunization. (http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/canada.htm) AND _http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/navigation?file=homelang=en_ (http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/navigation?file=homelang=en) U.S. and Elsewhere: _http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/vaccination-exemption.html_ (http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/vaccination-exemption.html) VACCINATION EXEMPTION FORMS AND INFORMATION _http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/vaccination-exemption.html_ (http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/vaccination-exemption.html) All states allow a medical exemption and some states allow philosophical and/or religious exemptions. However, the American Medical Association is actively promoting the abolishment of religious and philosophical exemptions. _http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm#ama_ (http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm#ama) Subject Links _Forms1/Flyers_ (http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/print.htm) | _Forms2/Refusals_ (http://www.vaclib.org/links/forms.htm) | _Legal_ (http://www.vaclib.org/indexdoc.htm#legal) | _Letters_ (http://www.vaclib.org/legal/letters.htm) _Mandatory_ (http://www.vaclib.org/toc.htm#mandat) | _Membership_ (http://www.vaclib.org/basic/memberindex.htm) | _Package Inserts_ (http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/inserts.htm) | _Religion_ (http://www.vaclib.org/links/religion.htm) _Resources_ (http://www.vaclib.org/indexdoc.htm#resources) | _Rights_ (http://www.vaclib.org/toc.htm#rights) | _Search_VacLib.org_ (http://www.vaclib.org/search.htm) | _Travel_ (http://www.vaclib.org/legal/immigration.htm) | _Tuberculosis__TB_Test_ (http://www.vaclib.org/basic/tb.htm) | _VAERS_ (http://www.vaclib.org/toc.htm#vaers) Scroll down for links to General Information and Exemption Letters. Religious exemption information for most states in one document! Includes section on Hepatitis religious objection: _http://www.rutherford.org/documents/pdf/brief_bank/B18-RE~1.PDF_ (http://www.rutherford.org/documents/pdf/brief_bank/B18-RE~1.PDF) [size= 45K] If you want a great letter written by a lawyer to an Oregon School Board Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm _http://www.vaclib.org/letters/Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm_ (http://www.vaclib.org/letters/Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm) This letter was originally found at: _http://www.childscreen.org/Letter%20to_ (http://www.childscreen.org/Letter%20to) %20the%20Oregon%20School%20District.htm, but is no longer posted on this site so it has been moved to _http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/letters/Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm_ (http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/letters/Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm) Here is a great AFFIDAVIT that can be used for Daycare, Preschools and Schools. AFFIDAVIT for Colorado Older Child (preschool and school age). You can use this as a template for other states and simply replace the Colorado with your state and your state's statute. Please read the entire post about birth certificates as well. _http://www.warriormatrix.com/viewtopic.php?p=2425#2425_ (http://www.warriormatrix.com/viewtopic.php?p=2425#2425) Or download the Microsoft Word document here. VaccineTruth.net/letters/AFFIDAVIT for Colorado Older Child.doc _http://www.vaclib.org/letters/AFFIDAVIT%20for%20Colorado%20Older%20Child.do c_ (http://www.vaclib.org/letters/AFFIDAVIT%20for%20Colorado%20Older%20Child.doc) Edit for your state and insert your state's statute. (This affidavit is also available as a birth exemption, for adults in colleges and employment situations. Our 1-888 number and email address for Exemption information are posted here: _http://www.vaccinetruth.net/contact.htm_ (http://www.vaccinetruth.net/contact.htm) AND much more ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
[Biofuel] New Book - Poisoned Profits - The toxic Assault on Our Children
The Environmental Assault We and our children are exposed to toxins invisibly, stealthily, without our knowledge. The U.S. now makes or imports 42 billion pounds of chemicals per day (not even counting pesticides, drugs, food additives or polymers). Causing Harm POISONED PROFITS, based on more than five years of investigative research and reporting, reveals the cumulative scientific evidence connecting the massive increase in environmental poisons to the epidemic of autism and ADHD, birth defects, asthma, and cancer among our nation´s children. The Manufacturers and Their Defense Team The authors conclude that the poisoning of the environment is as grave a threat to the future as any problem confronting our nation. Why? Corporations control the system, molding laws to their liking. The book shines a light on the motives and means of corporate-paid lawyers, **product defense** companies, fake grassroots groups, research centers and scientists. The Victims POISONED PROFITS, cast as a crime story, relates what happens to the victims-the families and communities polluted by different toxic substances-by pesticides, nuclear waste, industrial chemicals, air pollutants. Here are the stories of Dickson, Tennessee, where an extraordinary number of babies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water; and Port Neches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near a petrochemical plant contracted cancer that it was nicknamed **Leukemia High** ; and a small brother and sister in Indiana who, exposed to pesticides, slipped into severe retardation. Genes + The Environment In layman´s language, the book explains how genes and the environment act upon each other, how mental and behavioral illnesses can be environmentally-triggered, affecting both the body and mind. And it explains the ways in which the fetus and young child are much more vulnerable than adults. Our nation picks up the tab for these illnesses-POISONED PROFITS gives the dollar figures for reduced productivity on one hand, the staggering cost of care for sick children on the other. Solutions Instead of fighting against disability and disease with cures, a never-ending struggle, the authors affirm that we now have the knowledge to prevent harm and they describe the solutions. POISONED PROFITS demonstrates how people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents´ groups, the rise of *ecotheology* or the new **green chemistry** that replaces bad elements with harmless ones. The Shabecoffs also include a guide for parents on how to reduce toxic risks to their children in their everyday lives. POISONED PROFITS was researched and written with support from the Ford, V. Kann Rasmussen, Heinz Family and Rockefeller foundations, under the sponsorship of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Institute for Children*s Environmental Health are current sponsors. Some of the nation*s leading environmental health scientists served as advisors to the book. Available wherever books are sold, or through _www.poisonedprofits.com_ (http://www.poisonedprofits.com) . (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090717/ac02b097/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Commentary about US Congressional health reform proposals.
Why We Must Ration Health Care _http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=a ll_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?pagewanted=all) By PETER SINGER Published: July 15, 2009 You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? [CONTINUED.] -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090717/7caac22a/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] From Norway, an eco-alternative to teak
* Story Highlights * Norwegian company has developed eco-friendly way to simulate hardwood * Kebony uses sustainable wood including maple, pine and beech * Wood is treated to give it the same look, performance as tropical hardwood * Product widely used in Norway, now the company is expanding internationally From Norway, an eco-alternative to teak _http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/05/kebony.wood.deforestation/#cnnST CText_ (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/05/kebony.wood.deforestation/#cnnSTCText) By Hilary Whiteman CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- The sleek, dark wood has all the characteristics of endangered mahogany from Peru's Amazon rainforest. In reality, it was manufactured in Norway, in a five-day process that instills all the qualities of rare, tropical hardwood into sustainable softwood. The company that makes it, Kebony, says it comes with none of the environmental cost. **This is a mega turn, people have to act,** Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen told CNN. **We have a green solution for the tropical wood market and we are there to take that market or at least be part of it.** VideoChristian Jebsen talks to CNN » The global market for wood products from tropical forests is estimated to be worth some $20 billion each year, according to the International Tropical Timber Organization. Most of the wood on the world market now comes from Southeast Asia and Africa, according to the Rainforest Foundation Norway. Tighter controls on logging in Brazil have reduced the amount of hardwood being shipped out of the Amazon, once a popular source for the finest quality mahogany, teak and cedar. **Each tree is worth maybe $25,000-$40,000 on the international market. And there are lots of trees being taken out [worldwide] -- so this is a large business, a huge business,** said Lars Løvold, director of the Rainforest Foundation Norway. The United Nations estimates some 13 million hectares of forest are lost worldwide each year, equivalent to an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua. Their absence is said to contribute more carbon emissions each year than the global transport sector. Demand for luxury hardwood is by no means the main cause of deforestation. Clearing land for agriculture and the collection of wood for fuel are the main drivers, but Løvold said the lucrative market for hardwood provides a compelling incentive for loggers to move into previously untouched areas. **Almost all deforestation starts with the logging,** Løvold told CNN. **The logging doesn't necessarily end up in the total clearance of an area, it just opens up the area, it takes out all the valuable trees and makes it much easier.** Kebony*s move into the global wood market follows more than a decade of research started in the late 1990s by Canadian scientist Marc Schneider of the University of New Brunswick. Rigorous testing took place before the first trial production in 2004. Strong demand for the product convinced the company to build a new plant with ten times the production capacity, which opened in January. **What we are doing with our technology is to permanently transform the wood so it doesn*t change. Our process is 100 percent environmentally friendly,** Jebsen told CNN. The process involves injecting softwood with a patented formula which includes Furfuryl alcohol, a waste by-product of sugar cane production. The wood is then subjected to pressure, heated and dried before being cured at high temperatures to create a product that the company says is stronger, more stable than untreated softwood and weather-proof. Kebony*s environmental credentials have been endorsed with the receipt of the Nordic region's eco-label, the Swan. It's also received Norway*s n ational environmental prize, the **Glass Bear.** On a cost basis, the company says it can compete with the price of authentic teak on the European market. **You can buy a cubic meter of teak in Europe for anything between 3,000 euros ($4,000) up to 10,000 euros ($14,000), depending on the quality. I would say we are competitive with that,** Jebsen said. Kebony is **slightly more expensive** when compared to pressure-treated wood, but it doesn*t contain any of the potentially harmful metals or pesticides that are commonly used to improve the wood's durability. Jebsen sees some of the company's best opportunities in the boat-building industry, where rare teak from Myanmar is being used at the luxury end of the market. **We believe multiple boat manufacturers will start to use Kebony very soon -- some have already started,** he said. The company is also planning a move into the U.S. decking market where it*s scouting for clients and recruiting distributors. **The U.S. decking market, which is using toxic impregnated, metal-based wood modification methods, together with
[Biofuel] The many uses of Iodine. + Related Articles
The Forgotten Iodine PanAmerican School of Natural Medicine _http://iodine4health.com/overviews/uses/panam_uses.htm_ (http://iodine4health.com/overviews/uses/panam_uses.htm) [The website where I got this information has now disappeared. If anyone has a link to this article, please send it to me . Thank you.] The many uses of Iodine. 1. Germicide: Elemental iodine is a potent germicide with wide spectrum and low tissue toxicity. A solution of 50 ppm (eg, 50 mg/L) kills bacteria in 1 min and bacterial spores in 15 min. Topically, Iodine is excellent for toenail fungus, ringworm, fever blisters, moles and skin tags, warts, hangnails, etc. Just a few drops on a q-tip is all it takes. Use daily until the topical gaffes are gone. 2. Water purification: Iodine has been used to disinfect water for nearly a century. It has advantages over chlorine in convenience and probably efficacy; many travellers find the taste less offensive as well. It appears safe for short and intermediate length use (3-6 months), but questions remain about its safety in long-term usage. It should not be used for a long term by persons with allergy to iodine, persons with active thyroid disease, or pregnant women 3. Radioactive Fallout: There is no medicine that will effectively prevent nuclear radiations from damaging the human body cells that they strike. However, a salt of the elements potassium and iodine, taken orally even in very small quantities 1/2 hour to 1 day before radioactive iodines are swallowed or inhaled, prevents about 99% of the damage to the thyroid gland that otherwise would result. The thyroid gland readily absorbs both non-radioactive and radioactive iodine, and normally it retains much of this element in either or both forms. When ordinary, non-radioactive iodine is made available in the blood for absorption by the thyroid gland before any radioactive iodine is made available, the gland will absorb and retain so much that it becomes saturated with non-radioactive iodine. When saturated, the thyroid can absorb only about l% as much additional iodine, including radioactive forms that later may become available in the blood: then it is said to be blocked. (Excess iodine in the blood is rapidly eliminated by the action of the kidneys.) 4. Fibrocystic Breasts: Many women develop fibrocystic breast disease. In the 1970s, pioneering trace element researcher Dr. John Myers showed that iodine would eliminate even the most severe cases of fibrocystic breast disease. In medium to minor cases, 6 to 8 drops of SSKI or Lugol's taken in a few ounces of water daily will frequently reduce fibrocystic breast disease to insignificance within three to six months. [16] 5. Herpes virus: If the truth be known, there are many chemicals that destroy or inactivate the herpes simplex virus. Iodine is a very common antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal agent for topical use. A bit of a water soluble iodine complex like Povidine Iodine (Betadine iodine) might be added to the zinc gluconate wash to help in the struggle against herpes. Tincture of iodine is also used, but it is in alcohol, which may sting tender tissues. Iodine stains the skin and clothing, and it is absorbed into the skin where it has its activity. An iodine-colored zinc gluconate wash might be helpful in reminding one to retreat. Iodine disappears into the skin at rates that are different between people. For example, in a very small 1975 study patients with vulvovaginal and cervical herpes virus infections were treated with a regimen of external and intravaginal povidone-iodine preparations. In all but one case, the expected duration of symptoms and healing time were shortened. 7. Ophthalmia neonatorum prevention. **Ophthalmia neonatorum** is defined as conjunctivitis with eye discharge that occurs during the first month of life. Various bacteria can cause this condition, including gonococcus and Chlamydia trachomatis . Several agents have been used as drops in the eyes to prevent this condition in infants, including erythromycin, silver nitrate, gentamicin, and Povidone-iodine. Tetracycline and penicillin drops have also been used. Although this condition is now uncommon in industrialized nations, it remains a problem in the developing world with an incidence as high as 20-30% and cases of blindness reported in Africa each year. Povidone-iodine ophthalmic solution appears to have broad spectrum activity against bacteria, and is less expensive than many antibiotics. It therefore may be a cost-effective option in some populations. One drop of 2.5% solution in each eye has been demonstrated as being effective in multiple studies. 8. Molluscum contagiosum: Iodine has been suggested as a topical treatment for molluscum. 9. Ovarian cysts: It*s very likely that SSKI helps eliminate fibrocystic breast disease and
[Biofuel] Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia Knowing It Didn ’t Help
Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia Knowing It Didn’t Help _http://www.infowars.com/lilly-sold-drug-for-dementia-knowing-it-didn%E2%80% 99t-help/_ (http://www.infowars.com/lilly-sold-drug-for-dementia-knowing-it-didn’t-help/) Margaret Cronin Fisk, Elizabeth Lopatto and Jef Feeley Bloomberg June 12, 2009 Eli Lilly Co. urged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia, an unapproved use for the antipsychotic, even though the drugmaker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed internal company documents. In 1999, four years after Lilly sent study results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showing Zyprexa didn’t alleviate dementia symptoms in older patients, it began marketing the drug to those very people, according to documents unsealed in insurer suits against the company for overpayment. Regulators required Lilly and other antipsychotic drug- makers in April 2005 to warn that the products posed an increased risk to elderly patients with dementia. The documents show the health dangers in marketing a drug for an unapproved use, called off-label promotion, said Sidney Wolfe, head of the health research group at Public Citizen in Washington. **By definition, off-label means there is no clear evidence that the benefits of a drug outweigh the risks,** Wolfe said. **The reason why off-label promotion is illegal is that you can greatly magnify the number of people who will be harmed.** In 1999, when Lilly began its marketing push, Zyprexa*s only approved use was for patients suffering from schizophrenia, according to the FDA. In 2008, Zyprexa was Lilly*s best-selling drug, with $4.7 billion in sales, while antipsychotics as a group topped U.S. drug sales last year, with $14.6 billion. _READ FULL ARTICLE_ (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=aTLcF3zT1Pdo#) _http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=aTLcF3zT1Pdo_ (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=aTLcF3zT1Pdo) # (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090616/771b7067/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] BIG PHARMA CONCOCTS FIRST SWINE FLU VACCINE
BIG PHARMA CONCOCTS FIRST SWINE FLU VACCINE _http://www.infowars.com/big-pharm-concocts-first-swine-flu-vaccine/_ (http://www.infowars.com/big-pharm-concocts-first-swine-flu-vaccine/) Agence France-Presse June 12, 2009 Editor’s note: It looks like governments around the world will either force these vaccinations on the public or launch a massive propaganda campaign to trick you into submitting to a jab. If they attempt to force these untested and essentially experimental vaccinations on you, cite the Nuremberg Code, which states: **The voluntary consent of the human subject is essential.** No experimental vaccine should be **conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as a subjects.** In addition to the **experimental physicians** submitting to their own toxins, Obama, every member of Congress, the CEOs of the drug companies, all members of WHO and the United Nations, all members of the CFR and Bilderberg, etc., should submit to a jab. A third party should be on hand to make sure these folks do not get a saline injection instead of the vaccine. Swiss drugs giant Novartis has completed a first batch of swine flu vaccine for pre-clinical trials and aims to make a version available from September, the company said. **Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations,** the company said. The 10-litre batch **will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials**. Novartis hopes to start clinical trials in July and **expects licensure in the fall (September to November) of 2009**, it said. It added that **more than 30 governments have made requests to Novartis to supply them with influenza A(H1N1) vaccine ingredients.** The company used cell-based technology to produce the vaccine, a faster method than the traditional technology that uses eggs, according to Novartis. Read entire article at _http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25627061-23109,00.html_ (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25627061-23109,00.html) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090614/00e4ad50/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Low Dose Immunotherapy
Low Dose Immunotherapy
_http://www.food-allergy.org/epd.html_
(http://www.food-allergy.org/epd.html)
Low dose immunotherapy is a method of treating food and environmental
allergies. The original form of low dose immunotherapy, enzyme potentiated
desensitization (EPD), was developed in England in the 1960*s. While trying to
eliminate nasal polyps by injecting them with the enzyme hyaluronidase, Dr.
S. Popper serendipitously discovered that patients* pollen allergies were
eliminated, although their nasal polyps remained. Further research showed
that an enzyme which was a contaminant the hyaluronidase,
beta-glucuronidase, plus extremely low doses of allergens, was responsible for
the
desensitization. After Dr. Popper’s untimely death, Dr. Leonard McEwen
developed
injections of very low doses of allergens combined with the enzyme
beta-glucuronidase (an enzyme normally present in the human body) and called
the shots
EPD.
EPD was administered in the United States for several years under an
Investigational Review Board (IRB) study. The IRB study showed that EPD was
extremely safe (safer than **conventional** allergy shots) and effective for
nearly 80% of the people treated for most allergic conditions. When the IRB
expired, application needed to be made with the FDA for Investigational New
Drug (IND) status for EPD. The IND application was not submitted soon
enough, so in 2001 the FDA **shut down** EPD. Difficulties plagued the
initiation of an IND trial, so an American-made injection was developed and
was
called Low Dose Allergens (LDA). In addition to the common allergens in EPD,
LDA contains uniquely American antigens which are not present in EPD such as
cottonwood, sage, mountain juniper, some New World evergreens, American
perfumes, **new** foods such as avocado, etc. In my own personal experience,
LDA has been more effective than EPD, especially for chemical sensitivities
such as to perfume, possibly because it is designed to **fit** the
allergic exposures Americans experience rather than the exposures that the
British
experience.
Low dose immunotherapy (both EPD and LDA) is effective for inhalant
allergies, food allergies and intolerances, and chemical sensitivities.
Because
all of the patient*s problems are being treated at once, a great improvement
in general health should occur. Some of the conditions that have been
successfully treated with low dose immunotherapy include hay fever, asthma,
urticaria (hives), eczema, angioedema, anaphylaxis, food allergies,
preservative allergies, chemical sensitivities, ADHD (attention deficit
hyperactivity
disorder), autism, Tourette’s syndrome, irritable bowel disorders, Crohn’
s disease, ulcerative colitis, migraine and other headaches, rheumatoid
arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and systemic lupus erythmatosis.{1}
Because low dose immunotherapy **exploits** a natural phenomenon, it can
be diverted by high-dose exposures to allergens at the time of the
injection, medications, etc. Therefore, patients must exercise strict control
of
their environmental and dietary exposures to allergens as well as avoiding
many medications at the time of their treatments. For this reason, low dose
immunotherapy has the reputation of being somewhat of an ordeal to go
through. Indeed, it does involve much participation on the part of the patient.
If
simple dietary manipulation is sufficient to restore your health, you may
not want to take low dose immunotherapy. However, since my food allergies
progressed to the point that diet was no longer sufficient help, I opted for
low dose immunotherapy, which I find much less inconvenient than continual
poor health.
Low dose immunotherapy injections are usually taken at two month intervals
initially. As the patient progresses, the interval between injections is
gradually extended until they are taken at yearly intervals after several
years. Some patients may even be able to stop treatment for extended periods
of time without their allergy symptoms returning. Other patients have taken
injections 1 to 4 times a year for up to 20 years. Most patients can
either go a long time between injections or stop entirely after about 16 to 18
injections.{2} For severe food allergies, 6 to 12 doses or 1 to 2 years of
treatment may be necessary before good results are achieved. However, the
patient should notice some improvement within the first three doses.{3} If no
improvement is noted, factors which may be interfering should be
considered. The most common problem when low dose immunotherapy does not work
is
intestinal dysbiosis.{4} (For more about this problem, click here
_http://www.food-allergy.org/root3.html_
(http://www.food-allergy.org/root3.html) ). Low dose immunotherapy helps
70-80% of the people treated,
although some patients may go through a period of feeling worse before they
feel
[Biofuel] THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LIFT A PEA -[about NAET or Nambudripad Allergy Elimination]
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LIFT A PEA _http://www.healingartscenter.com/Library/articles/art01.htm_ (http://www.healingartscenter.com/Library/articles/art01.htm) Source: Linda Weber, Natural Health Magazine July/August, 1998. FIVE MILLION AMERICANS SUFFER FOOD ALLERGIES. A revolutionary treatment detects them by testing the strength of your arm while you hold a suspected food. After a 15-minute acupressure treatment, you*re cured - for good ! IT'S 8 A.M. AND DR. ELLEN CUTLER*S first patient of the day, husky Robert Peterson lies face up on an examining table in Cutler*s chiropractic clinic in Corte Madera, California. Standing to the side of Peterson, Cutler pushes against her patient's uplifted right arm which remains strong and straight. The doctor then places a tiny sealed glass vial containing a clear liquid in her patient*s left hand. A label on the vial reads **peas**. Cutler then repeats the muscle-testing procedure. Again Peterson tries to resist the doctor*s pressure, but this time his arm crumples like a rag doll's. **You're allergic to peas**, Cutler says. The diagnostic technique Cutler performed on this patient, called muscle-response testing, is widely discredited by conventional doctors. But to many of the country*s 50,000 chiropractors, it*s a valued tool for detecting allergies and organ weaknesses in their patients. It doesn*t matter who the patient is or how muscular -- if the strongest man in the world is allergic to the pea, his arm will go limp, according to advocates of the technique. Muscle-response testing is the first part of an obscure treatment for allergies called Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique or NAET. NAET is used by more than 400 practitioners in the United States, mostly chiropractors, to eliminate reactions that a surprising number of people have to common foods as well as to chemicals, plants, animal dander, and other substances. After the muscle test, the doctor does a simple 15-minute acupressure treatment along the spine while the patient hold the allergen or a vial containing a solution of it. The patient then must avoid the offending substance for 25 hours. Between 80 and 90 percent of the time, according to doctors who use it, NAET works permanently. To any of the country's estimated 5 million people whose lives are a living hell because of food allergies, this is news from heaven. Because I've been one of those 5 million for more than 10 years, I badly wanted Dr. Cutler to work her magic on me, but I had my doubts. The idea that holding an allergen while getting acupressure can cure a person of long-standing allergy symptoms seemed too good to be true. Carrot Allergy Cured NAET was discovered in the mid-1970's by Devi Nambudripad, D.C., a chiropractor, acupuncturist, and registered nurse in Buena Park, California. In her book, Say Goodbye to Illness, (Delta Publishing, 1993), Nambudripad (who was not available for interviews for this article) describes the technique she developed after her own multiple food allergies had forced her for several years to rely largely on a diet of white rice and broccoli. Since childhood, Nambudripad had suffered from many ailments including chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, arthritis, depression, sinusitis, migraine headaches, and a combination of exhaustion and insomnia. It wasn*t until she became an adult, however, that she discovered she could eliminate many of her symptoms by banishing certain foods from her diet. As soon as she reintroduced those foods, though, the debilitating symptoms would return. She accidentally discovered the NAET technique one day when she gave in to the urge to nibble on a carrot, a food she was allergic to. She had an immediate severe reaction. After treating herself with her acupuncture needles, she felt uncharacteristically energetic and noticed that a piece of carrot was still clinging to her skin. Based on her understanding of how energy in the body behaves (which she was studying at the time in acupuncture college), she concluded that something had happened to change the way her body responded to the energy field of the carrot. She did a muscle test and found that she was no longer allergic to it. (See **Muscle Test Yourself,** page 111.) From that point on, Nambudripad says she could eat carrots with no adverse effects. She solidified her NAET theory in the ensuing years and began using the technique on patients in 1986. To date, she has taught the method to approximately 1,000 health care practitioners worldwide, a majority of them chiropractors. How NAET Works IN SAY GOODBYE TO ILLNESS, Nambudripad uses the insights of many disciplines - chiropractic, Oriental medicine, immunology, environmental medicine, genetics, and Western physiology and physics - to explain how NAET works. Vastly simplified, her theory is that
[Biofuel] The Disappearing Male on CBC again
The Disappearing Male Thursday June 11 at 8 pm on CBC-TV Saturday June 13, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld Lots of great links here: _http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/) Episode Features * _The Disappearing Male: Main_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/) * _Fact Sheet: Male Infertility_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/infertility.html) * _Backgrounder: Endocrine 101_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/endocrine.html) * _Backgrounder: The Chemicals_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/chemicals.html) * _Profiles: Scientists_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/scientists.html) Facts about Male Infertility * Sperm counts have been cut in half in the last fifty years - and 85% of that is abnormal. * In the last few decades there has been a 200% increase in male genital birth defects. * Male birth rates have declined. Since 1970 there have been nearly 3 million fewer baby boys. _Read more facts about male infertility_ (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/infertility.html) . Studies Reports * _Human Impacts of Man-Made Chemicals_ (http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/migrated/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5988.pdf) * _Declining Sex Ratio in a First Nations Community_ (http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8479/8479.pdf) * _In Harm's Way: Toxic threats to Child Development_ (http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=boston_ihw-report#ihwRptDwnld) * _Birth Defects and the Environment_ (http://www.protectingourhealth.org/newscience/birthdefects/2004-0501birthdefectspreview.htm) * _Challenged Conceptions: Environmental Chemicals and Fertility_ (http://www.healthandenvironment.org/infertility/vallombrosa_documents) * _Are EDC's Burning Issues of Gender_ (ht tp://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/113-10/ehp0113-a00670.pdf) * _Men, Boys and Environmental Health Threats_ (http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/english/father_s_day_report.pdf) * _Bad Chemistry_ (http://www.nrdc.org/OnEarth/06win/chem1.asp) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090608/36c1bc72/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] New documentary 'Food, Inc.' offers troubling view of American food industry
New documentary **Food, Inc.** offers troubling view of American food industry Published: Friday, June 5, 2009 | 2:47 PM ET Canadian Press Ann Levin, For The Associated Press _http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/090605/x060515A.html_ (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/090605/x060515A.html) NEW YORK - The new documentary **Food, Inc.** begins with idyllic scenes of American farmland, panning from golden fields of hay to a solitary cowboy rounding up a herd of cattle. Then the camera zooms in on a grocery cart overflowing with packaged food and rolling down the aisles of a gaudily lit supermarket. Eerie, horror movie-style music swells in the background. It's meant to signal the audience that the pastoral fantasy of agrarian America on everything from packages of breakfast sausage to cereal boxes is not what it seems, that great danger lurks behind the cheery images of 1930s-era red barns and white picket fences. Director Robert Kenner is bent on showing us a far grimmer reality. He tells of dust-choked poultry houses where chickens never see the light of day and are pumped so full of chemicals they produce more meat than their organs can support. Eventually they collapse under the weight of their abnormally large breasts and die before reaching the slaughterhouse. He shows us industrial feed lots where cows are fattened on chemical-enhanced feed and forced to spend their days standing ankle-deep in manure. Kenner relates the heart-wrenching story of Republican-turned-activist Barbara Kowalcyk, who prowls the halls of Congress with her mother to try to force lawmakers to enact food safety legislation that she believes could have saved the life of her 2 1/2-year-old son Kevin, who died of E. coli poisoning 12 days after eating contaminated hamburgers. Kenner is hoping his film will raise awareness of the enormous price in health and safety that he says Americans pay to gorge themselves on the relatively cheap calories that stock supermarket shelves courtesy of a handful of multinational corporations. Just as the Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth helped galvanize the fight against global warming, Kenner and his partners want to spur legions of activists to rise up and take aim at lawmakers and government regulators they believe have been corrupted by lobbyists for agribusiness. An alliance of trade associations that represent America's meat and poultry producers have set up a website to counter virtually every claim in the documentary, from the contention that E. coli contamination could be reduced by feeding cattle grass instead of grain, to charges that U.S. federal inspection agencies are understaffed and ineffective, and foodborne illnesses are on the rise. The food industry says the film has **an astonishing number of half-truths, errors and omissions** and that scrapping current production methods in favor of locally grown, seasonal organic food would result in a dramatic increase in food prices and fewer fruits and vegetables year-round. Janet M. Riley, senior vice president at the American Meat Institute, says that contrary to the menacing image presented in the film, the industry - comprised of **ordinary, hardworking people** - provides **the safest, most affordable, most abundant food supply in the world.** She also says it would be foolhardy to abandon modern food production methods during a global recession, when people are starving in parts of the world. **Why would we want to turn the clock back to a less efficient way to produce food?** she says. Kenner's arguments will be familiar to readers of **The Omnivore's Dilemma** author Michael Pollan, whose numerous books and articles have decried the physical and even moral hazard of the industrial food system. Pollan is featured in the film, as is **Fast Food Nation** author Eric Schlosser, who wrote the best-selling 2001 expose of the fast food industry that was later turned into a movie. Pollan, who has criticized industrial agriculture for a decade, calls Kenner's documentary **the most important and powerful film about our food system in a generation.** He says the director has broken new ground with his reporting on such things as a new, high-tech system of meat processing that bathes beef filler in ammonia to kill harmful bacteria. Even though alternative agriculture represents just a small part of the U.S. food industry, Pollan says he is **full of hope** about the future. He cites the booming demand for organic food and the growing popularity of farmers markets. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sales of organics have more than quintupled, increasing from US$3.6 billion in 1997 to US$21.1 billion in 2008. Kenner, too, is optimistic, ending the film on an uplifting note. He sees a hopeful model in the fight
[Biofuel] Documentary tells how Quebec town launched anti-pesticide movement
Documentary tells how Quebec town launched anti-pesticide movement _http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/02/hudson-chemical.html_ (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/02/hudson-chemical.html) The town of Hudson, Que., glimpsed itself on screen Monday night, depicted as **ground zero** in the battle against the use of lawn herbicides and pesticides. That*s how Paul Tukey, a U.S. television host and author, saw the town that was the first to ban use of these products in its jurisdiction. **I knew as a journalist that there had to be a good back story,** Tukey told CBC News. **That somebody had to go out on a limb and take on these chemical companies, because the chemical companies, trust me, go to unbelievable lengths to ensure they have the right to sell these chemicals.** Tukey produced and directed the documentary Hudson: A Chemical Reaction to tell that back story, which included fighting chemical companies all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The documentary film had its premiere Monday night in a special screening for environmental group Go Green Hudson and the people of Hudson, Que. **What a great story, and it*s all really based around one woman, Dr. June Irwin. She*s still a practising dermatologist well into her 70s on the West island of Montreal,** he said. **June Irwin fundamentally changed the North American landscape forever just by daring to speak out,** said Tukey. **She went to every single town meeting in Hudson from June of 1985 to until they passed the ban. Literally every single month she would show up and she would read a document full of facts and full of anecdotes that came in the news. She would read this aloud and say why aren*t we getting rid of these things? Why are we allowing these products to be on our properties?** Grassroots revolution The town of Hudson*s triumph at the Supreme Court in 2001 was only the start of the story, Tukey said. His documentary, shot last year in Hudson and across Canada, chronicles how Hudson*s decision kickstarted an environmental movement toward organic lawn care. **When June got it passed in Hudson, other folks across Canada started to say, look at what Hudson has done, and that*s really depicted in our movie,** Tukey said. Quebec banned the chemicals throughout the province and individual municipalities across Canada followed Hudson*s lead. Tukey worked with filmmaker Brett Plymale to create the film, talking to the people of Hudson and researching the history at the local newspaper. But the story of Hudson had been close to his heart for some time, because he had worked in the lawn care industry in his home state of Maine. **I started in the late 1980s, and by the late 1990s I was coming home in the evening with blurred vision and nosebleeds and nausea, and I was really quite a physical mess,** he said. A doctor attributed his health problems to his work with lawn chemicals. Tukey said he then became interested in organic gardening, an interest he indulged by talking to experts across the U.S. for his TV series, People, Places Plants. In 2007, he wrote The Organic Lawn Care Manual, which had a single page of background about the story of Hudson. His documentary Hudson: A Chemical Reaction, produced by PFZMedia, is scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival this September. _http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/02/hudson-chemical.html_ (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/02/hudson-chemical.html) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090603/bb85a59b/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Antidepressants-Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
Antidepressants-Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft Increase Risk of Breast Cancer _http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/602/9/_ (http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/602/9/) Sunday, 31 May 2009 Inexplicably, the FDA has dragged its feet about adding a warning label to both tamoxefin and the antidepressants, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft--despitethe unanimous recommendation of its own advisory panel in 2006. An independent large study conducted by MEDCO Health Solutions Inc. found that women treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer doubled the risk of the disease returning if they used antidepressants--in particular, Paxil and Prozac. The researchers used medical records to identify 353 women taking tamoxifen plus other drugs that might interfere with it, and 945 women taking tamoxifen alone. Those taking a drug combo did so for about a year on average. Next, researchers checked to see how many were treated for second cancers in the following two years. **Breast cancer recurred in about 7 percent of women on tamoxifen alone, and in 14 percent of women also taking the antidepressants Paxil and Prozac, and, to a lesser extent, Zoloft.** Medco*s chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Epstein, said: If women want to take an antidepressant, **you probably want to stay away from those three.** Inexplicably, the FDA has dragged its feet about adding a warning label to both tamoxefin and the antidepressants, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft--despite the unanimous recommendation of its own advisory panel in 2006. Posted by Vera Hassner Sharav ASSOCIATED PRESS May 31, 2009 Study: Drug combos may raise breast cancer risk By MARILYNN MARCHIONE ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows. About 500,000 women in the United States take tamoxifen, which cuts in half the chances of a breast cancer recurrence. Many of them also take antidepressants for hot flashes, because hormone pills aren't considered safe after breast cancer. Doctors have long known that some antidepressants and other medicines can lower the amount of tamoxifen's active form in the bloodstream. But whether this affects cancer risk is unknown. The new study, reported Saturday at a cancer conference in Florida, is the largest to look at the issue. It found that using these interfering drugs - including Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft - can virtually wipe out the benefit tamoxifen provides. Many doctors question the magnitude of harm from combining these medicines, and a second, smaller study suggests it may not be very large. But the bottom line is the same: Not all antidepressants pose this problem, and women should talk to their doctors about which ones are best. **There are other alternatives we can consider** that are safer, said Dr. Eric Winer, breast cancer chief at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston. He had no role in the study, which was done by Medco Health Solutions Inc., a large insurance benefits manager. Researchers used members' medical records to identify 353 women taking tamoxifen plus other drugs that might interfere with it, and 945 women taking tamoxifen alone. Those taking a drug combo did so for about a year on average. Next, researchers checked to see how many were treated for second cancers in the following two years. Breast cancer recurred in about 7 percent of women on tamoxifen alone, and in 14 percent of women also taking other drugs that could interfere - mainly the antidepressants Paxil and Prozac, and, to a lesser extent, Zoloft. If women want to take an antidepressant, **you probably want to stay away from those three,** said Medco's chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Epstein. No greater breast cancer risk was seen in women taking the antidepressants Celexa, Lexapro or Luvox with tamoxifen, and there are reasons to think that other antidepressants may be safe as well, Epstein said. A second study led by Dr. Vincent Dezentje of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands found little risk from combining tamoxifen and popular antidepressants. However, only 150 women in the study took such combos for more than two months, and they were compared to women taking combos for a shorter time - not to women using tamoxifen alone. The Dutch and Medco studies were presented at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The federal Food and Drug Administration has been considering a change to tamoxifen's label to warn about the antidepressants drugs and a gene variation some women have that can make tamoxifen less effective. An advisory panel unanimously recommended a change in 2006, but the agency is still considering it. **This is a very controversial area,** said Dr. Claudine
[Biofuel] Health risks of radiation - IAEA prevents WHO from telling the truth
There are several urls throughout this article - go the url/website to investigate them. Shan The Guardian (London) May 28, 2009 Toxic link: the WHO and the IAEA A 50-year-old agreement with the IAEA has effectively gagged the WHO from telling the truth about the health risks of radiation By Oliver Tickell _http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/28/who-nuclear-power-chern obyl_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/28/who-nuclear-power-chernobyl) Fifty years ago, on 28 May 1959, the World Health Organisation*s assembly voted into force an obscure but important agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency - the United Nations **Atoms for Peace** organisation, founded just two years before in 1957. The effect of this agreement has been to give the IAEA an effective veto on any actions by the WHO that relate in any way to nuclear power - and so prevent the WHO from playing its proper role in investigating and warning of the dangers of nuclear radiation on human health. The WHO*s objective is to promote **the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health**, while the IAEA*s mission is to **accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world**. Although best known for its work to restrict nuclear proliferation, the IAEA*s main role has been to promote the interests of the nuclear power industry worldwide, and it has used the agreement to suppress the growing body of scientific information on the real health risks of nuclear radiation. Under the agreement, whenever either organisation wants to do anything in which the other may have an interest, it **shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter by mutual agreement**. The two agencies must **keep each other fully informed concerning all projected activities and all programs of work which may be of interest to both parties**. And in the realm of statistics - a key area in the epidemiology of nuclear risk - the two undertake **to consult with each other on the most efficient use of information, resources, and technical personnel in the field of statistics and in regard to all statistical projects dealing with matters of common interest**. The language appears to be evenhanded, but the effect has been one-sided. For example, investigations into the health impacts of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine on 26 April 1986 have been effectively taken over by IAEA and dissenting information has been suppressed. The health effects of the accident were the subject of two major conferences, in Geneva in 1995, and in Kiev in 2001. But the full proceedings of those conferences remain unpublished - despite claims to the contrary by a senior WHO spokesman reported in Le Monde Diplomatique. Meanwhile, the 2005 report of the IAEA-dominated Chernobyl Forum, which estimates a total death toll from the accident of only several thousand, is widely regarded as a whitewash as it ignores a host of peer-reviewed epidemiological studies indicating far higher mortality and widespread genomic damage. Many of these studies were presented at the Geneva and Kiev conferences but they, and the ensuing learned discussions, have yet to see the light of day thanks to the non-publication of the proceedings. The British radiation biologist Keith Baverstock is another casualty of the agreement, and of the mindset it has created in the WHO. He served as a radiation scientist and regional adviser at the WHO*s European Office from 1991 to 2003, when he was sacked after expressing concern to his senior managers that new epidemiological evidence from nuclear test veterans and from soldiers exposed to depleted uranium indicated that current risk models for nuclear radiation were understating the real hazards. Now a professor at the University of Kuopio, Finland, Baverstock finally published his paper in the peer-reviewed journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival in April 2005. He concluded by calling for **reform from within the profession** and stressing **the political imperative for freely independent scientific institutions** - a clear reference to the non-independence of his former employer, the WHO, which had so long ignored his concerns. Since the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in April 2007, a daily **Hippocratic vigil** has taken place at the WHO*s offices in Geneva, organised by Independent WHO to persuade the WHO to abandon its the WHO-IAEA Agreement. The protest has continued through the WHO's 62nd World Health Assembly, which ended yesterday, and will endure through the executive board meeting that begins today. The group has struggled to win support from WHO*s member states. But the scientific case against the agreement is building up, most recently when the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) called
[Biofuel] Medical Mystery ME/CFS solved
forwarding ~~~ Send an Email for free membership ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: Help ME Circle 28 May 2009 Editorship : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail scanned by Comodo I. Security ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ Medical Mystery ME/CFS solved To day May 28th at 11 A.M., the members of the press are invited at a press conference, which will be held at the Ritz Hotel in London. Belgian scientists (Brussels) have identified causes and mechanisms of the medical mystery Myalgic Encephalomyelits (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). In light of the nature of the discoveries and its consequences for public health, the scientists who will be present at this press conference felt obliged to inform the public prior to publication of the results in a medical journal. Professor Kenny de Meirleir MD, PhD, (Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Director HIMMUNITAS Foundation Brussels) sent me his speech for this press conference, named: ME: End of an Era of Medical Negation But there were some changes in the last days and they will use slides now; instead of the address, I'm allowed to post now an ‘uncorrected’ abstract of the study: *Research on extremely disabled ME patients reveals the true nature of the disorder* He will also speak about this subject at the 4th Invest in ME International ME/CFS Conference in London on 29th May. If I remember well, the ME/CFS urine test, of which is spoken below, will come on the market as a do it yourself test. So you know in a few minutes, if you are an ME/CFS patient or not. Jan van Roijen Kenny De Meirleir(1), Chris Roelant(2), Marc Fremont(2), Kristin Metzger(2), Henry Butt(3) Research on extremely disabled M.E. patients reveals the true nature of the disorder (1) Vrije Universiteit Brussel HIMMUNITAS foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2) Protea Biopharma, Brussels, Belgium (3) Bioscreen Bio 21, University of Melbourne,Melbourne, Australia In this study we compared totally bedridden patients (Karnofski score 20-30) with less ill ME patients (Karnofski score 60-70), family controls, contact controls and non-contact controls. EBV, HHV6 and Borna virus titers were not different in the three groups. Plasma LPS distinguished the groups, with the highest values in the bedridden patients. LPS is a strong activator of the immune system and high plasma concentrations suggest a hyperper- meable gut. There are many possible causes for this, but a lack of ‘local’ energy production is one of them. In a separate study (In Vivo, in press) we observed intestinal overgrowth of Gram positive D/L lactate producing bacteria which are also known to produce H2S in presence of certain heavy metals as a survival defence mechanism. We therefore hypothesized that the urine of the bedridden ME patients would contain more H2S derived metabolites than the less ill and the controls. Using a proprietary simple color change urine test this hypothesis was confirmed. In the extremely ill, urine added to the yellow color reagent immediately turns dark blue, whereas in the less ill the reaction is slower and in the controls no reaction occurs. Being a potent neurotoxin, H2S induces photophobia, intolerance to noise, mitochondrial dysfunction by inhibition of cytochrome oxidase and depresses the cellular immune system and induces neutropenia and low numbers of CD8+ lymphocytes. Its effects, at least in part explain the clinical condition of the severely disabled ME patients. Furthermore the effects of the bacterial H2S induces increased ROS production by the liver and retaining of heavy metals particularly mercury in the body. The latter is also neurotoxic, induces apoptosis and interferes with the aerobic metabolism. Chronic increased production of H2S by intestinal bacteria leads to build-up of mercury in the body as proven by a Zn DTPA/DMPS challenge test. Finally in 20% of the ME patients (in the severely ill) we found using a special luminescence technique aberrant prions which also interfere with the energy metabolism. These patients have gone on to develop A.P.D. (aberrant prion disease – patent pending). These aberrant prions give rise to a transmissible disorder. 10% of the A.P.D. patients have very high prion counts in their saliva and can directly transmit it to others. APD patients can transmit these proteins via blood and likely also through sexual contact which then can give rise to slowly developing aberrant prion disease. In a separate experiment 40 healthy blood donors were screened for A.P.D. One individual tested very positive, indicating that apparently healthy individuals can already be carriers and that blood transfusion carries the risk of transmitting A.P.D. In conclusion, ME is a disorder which is caused by increased endogenous H2S
Re: [Biofuel] OT: Are We Really Living Longer? [aging, longevity, life expectan
You have a very good memory for what is where, Keith. And I think that you dislike the drug companies as much as I do. Have you ever considered doing research into the drug companies for lawyers etc that are suing them? I think that you would be good at it. If I ever sue them again, I might ask you Thanks for the urls. blessings Shan From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org) References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:00:12 +0900 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] OT: Are We Really Living Longer? [aging, longevity, life expectancy] Thank you, that's useful to know. Are We Really Living Longer? [aging, longevity, life expectancy] Excerpts from: Are We Really Living Longer?, _http://westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2007sp.html_ (_http://westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2007sp.html_ (http://westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2007sp.html) ) Caustic Commentary, WAPF (Weston A. Price Foundation), Spring 2007. _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php_ (_http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php) ) An astute member has sent us some interesting statistics about centenarians [people who are 100 years of age or older]. From a video segment recently aired on Nova [2007 population 306 million], we learn that only one in 10,000 Americans will live to age 100 [0.33% of the total population]. US census data indicates that in 1990, there were an estimated 37,306 centenarians out of 248,709,873 . . . [or 1.5% of the total population]. According to numbers compiled at the University of Virginia, in 1830 there were 2,600 centenarians out of 12,866,020 people, or . . .[or 2.02% of the total population]. Summary by Year -- 2007:0.33% of total population were 100 years of age or more -- 1990: 1.50% of total population were 100 years of age or more -- 1830: 2.02% of total population were 100 years of age or more So much for assurances that this generation will live longer than ever. Indeed. You can't read Weston A. Price and still believe that though. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston A. Price _http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html_ (http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html) This previous post might be of interest... _http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg60308.html_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg60308.html) Best Keith -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090528/73b8e991/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Monsanto’s Terminator Making a Comeba ck? Enter the Zombie!
Monsanto’s Terminator Making a Comeback? Enter the Zombie! _http://farmwars.info/?p=845_ (http://farmwars.info/?p=845) By Barbara H. Peterson Monsanto and its cohorts in crime promised us that they would not be using Terminator technology called GURT, or genetic use restricted technology. In fact, the United Nations actually issued a moratorium on the project. So we’re safe, right? Wrong. As usual, the boys in the little white lab coats have not been idle. In spite of the moratorium, not only are they working heatedly on Terminator technology, but are getting ready to introduce Zombie technology. Terminator, and Traitor or Zombie technologies are just variations of GURT. Whereas Terminator technology produces plants with sterile seeds, Zombie technology carries this a step further by creating plants that could require a chemical application to trigger seed fertility every year. Pay for the chemical or get sterile seed. This is called reversible transgenic sterility. They have been working steadily on perfecting this technology, and are now poised to introduce it to the world as a solution to the current GMO contamination problem. Move over Terminator, here comes the Zombie. If a field gets contaminated with seeds containing the Terminator gene, the resulting plants will have sterile seeds, so the reproductive cycle ends. If the contamination is from the Zombie gene, the resulting plants will most likely require a certain pesticide or will be sterile. Plants are engineered with sterility as the default condition, but sterility can be reversed with the application of an external stimulus that restores the plant’s viability. In order to bring the “zombie” seed back from the dead, the farmer or breeder must use an external stimulus (such as a proprietary chemical) to restore the seed’s fertility. (Terminator the Sequel, 2007 PDF doc) Either way, if you are a small farmer with a contaminated field, your seed-saving venture for the following year will be less than successful. Planting sterile seeds takes the same amount of work as well as monetary outlay that planting good seeds does, but without the return on investment. And, you cannot tell the difference between the good, the bad, and the ugly seeds until it’s too late. That is, if the patent enforcement brigade doesn’t raid your property first and force you to destroy your crops and all of your seeds due to patent infringement. Then you get nothing, and have to pay for the privilege. Oh, and did I forget to mention that Monsanto announced in 2006, its takeover of Delta Pine Land? _http://www.banterminator.org/News-Updates/News-Updates/Monsanto-Announces-T akeover-of-Delta-Pine-Land_ (http://www.banterminator.org/News-Updates/News-Updates/Monsanto-Announces-Takeover-of-Delta-Pine-Land) This would not be of much consequence, but for the fact that Delta Pine Land is a joint owner along with the USDA of US patent # 5,723,765 - GURT technology. In March 1998 the US Patent Office granted Patent No. 5,723,765 to Delta Pine Land for a patent titled, Control of Plant Gene _Expression. The patent is owned jointly, according to Delta Pine’s Security Exchange Commission 10K filing, ‘by DPL and the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture.’ (_http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=3082_ (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=3082) ) This makes, as of 2006, Monsanto and the United States of America (Corp USA), as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), which is currently Tom Vilsack, joint owners of the GURT patent. Kind of gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling all over, doesn’t it? Barbara H. Peterson Read the following article from ETC Group and download the full 28 page report here: _etcomm95_tsequel_11june071_ (http://farmwars.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/etcomm95_tsequel_11june071.pdf) Here is another report on GURT technology from Germany: _german_scientists_on_sst_ (http://farmwars.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/german_scientists_on_sst.pdf) Terminator: The Sequel _http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=635_ (http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=635) Despite the fact that governments re-affirmed and strengthened the United Nations’ moratorium on Terminator technology (a.k.a. genetic use restriction technology [GURTs]) in March 2006, public and private sector researchers are developing a new generation of suicide seeds - using chemically induced “switches” to turn a genetically modified (GM) plant’s fertility on or off. Issue: Under the guise of biosafety, the European Union’s 3-year Transcontainer Project is investing millions of euros in strategies that cannot promise fail-safe containment of transgenes from GM crops, but could nonetheless function as Terminator, posing
[Biofuel] OT: Are We Really Living Longer? [aging, longevity, life expectancy]
Are We Really Living Longer? [aging, longevity, life expectancy] Excerpts from: Are We Really Living Longer?, _http://westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2007sp.html_ (http://westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2007sp.html) Caustic Commentary, WAPF (Weston A. Price Foundation), Spring 2007. _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/dig20.php) An astute member has sent us some interesting statistics about centenarians [people who are 100 years of age or older]. From a video segment recently aired on Nova [2007 population 306 million], we learn that only one in 10,000 Americans will live to age 100 [0.33% of the total population]. US census data indicates that in 1990, there were an estimated 37,306 centenarians out of 248,709,873 . . . [or 1.5% of the total population]. According to numbers compiled at the University of Virginia, in 1830 there were 2,600 centenarians out of 12,866,020 people, or . . .[or 2.02% of the total population]. Summary by Year -- 2007: 0.33% of total population were 100 years of age or more -- 1990: 1.50% of total population were 100 years of age or more -- 1830: 2.02% of total population were 100 years of age or more So much for assurances that this generation will live longer than ever. (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090526/59b23f99/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Mercury In High Fructose Corn Syrup + Related articles
In this article two URLs are mentioned + **Related articles** below From these addresses you will find below: the abstract of: *Mercury from chlor-alkali plants: measured concentrations in food product sugar* by Dufault et al. and: Some quotes from: *Not So Sweet-Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup* by David Wallinga Much High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated With Mercury, New Study Finds _http://apothecure.blogspot.com/2009/02/much-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html_ (http://apothecure.blogspot.com/2009/02/much-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html) Apoth éCure Pharmacy Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Reprinted in Part from a January 26, 2009 Public Press Release Brand-Name Food Products Also Discovered to Contain Mercury Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient; including products by Quaker, Hershey's, Kraft and Smucker's. HFCS use has skyrocketed in recent decades as the sweetener has replaced sugar in many processed foods. HFCS is found in sweetened beverages, breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS. Consumption by teenagers and other high consumers can be up to 80 percent above average levels. Mercury is toxic in all its forms, said IATP's David Wallinga, M.D., and a co-author in both studies. Given how much high fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the FDA to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply. In the Environmental Health article, Dufault et al. found detectable levels of mercury in nine of 20 samples of commercial HFCS. Dufault was working at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when the tests were done in 2005. She and co-authors conclude that possible mercury contamination of food chemicals like HFCS was not common knowledge within the food industry that frequently uses the sweetener. While the FDA had evidence that commercial HFCS was contaminated with mercury four years ago, the agency did not inform consumers, help change industry practice or conduct additional testing. For its report Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup, IATP sent 55 brand-name foods and beverages containing HFCS as the first or second ingredient to a commercial laboratory to be tested for total mercury. Nearly one in three products tested contained detectable mercury. Mercury was most prevalent in HFCS-containing dairy products, followed by dressings and condiments. In making HFCS, caustic soda is used, among other things, to separate corn starch from the corn kernel. For decades, HFCS has been made using mercury-grade caustic soda produced in industrial chlorine (chlor-alkali) plants. The use of mercury cells to produce caustic soda can contaminate caustic soda, and ultimately HFCS, with mercury. The bad news is that nobody knows whether or not their soda or snack food contains HFCS made from ingredients like caustic soda contaminated with mercury, said Dr. Wallinga. The good news is that mercury-free HFCS ingredients exist. Food companies just need a good push to only use those ingredients. While most chlorine plants around the world have switched to newer, cleaner technologies, many still rely on the use of mercury cells. In 2005, 90 percent of chlorine production was mercury-free, but just 40 percent of European production was mercury-free. Four U.S. chlor-alkali plants still rely on mercury cell technology. In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama introduced legislation to force the remaining chlor-alkali plants to phase out mercury cell technology by 2012. Much High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated With Mercury, New Study Finds Brand-Name Food Products Also Discovered to Contain Mercury _http://www.iatp.org/iatp/press.cfm?refID=105025_ (http://www.iatp.org/iatp/press.cfm?refID=105025) The Environmental Health article by Dufault et al. can be found at: _www.ehjournal.net_ (http://www.ehjournal.net) (http://www.iatp.org/iatp/press.cfm?refID=105025) Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup, by David Wallinga, M.D., Janelle Sorensen, Pooja Mottl and Brian Yablon, M.D., can be found at: _http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=105026_ (http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=105026) (http://www.iatp.org/iatp/press.cfm?refID=105025) IATP works locally and
[Biofuel] Warning: Potentially Life Threatening Vitamin Deficiency Affects 25% of Adults
Warning: Potentially Life Threatening Vitamin Deficiency Affects 25% of Adults _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/19/Warning-Poten tially-Life-Threatening-Vitamin-Deficiency-Affects-25-Percent-of-Adults.aspx _ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/19/Warning-Potentially-Life-Threatening-Vitamin-Deficiency-Affects-25-Percent-of-Adults.as px) By Dr. Mercola Vitamin B12 is fittingly known as the energy vitamin, and your body requires it for a number of vital functions. Among them: energy production, blood formation, DNA synthesis, and myelin formation. Myelin is insulation that protects your nerve endings and allows them to communicate with one another. If you know or suspect you’re vitamin B12 deficient, you*re not alone. Recent studies from the U.S. Framingham trial show one in four adults in the United States are deficient in this vitally important nutrient, and nearly half the population has suboptimal blood levels. How You Get Vitamin B12 Deficient Vitamin B12 is present in natural form only in animal sources of food, which is one of the reasons I advise against a strict vegetarian or vegan diet. There are many well-documented cases of blindness and brain abnormalities in strict vegetarians, resulting from vitamin B12 deficiency. The older you get the more likely you are to have a vitamin B12 deficiency. The two ways you become deficient are through a lack of vitamin B12 in your diet, or through your inability to absorb it from the food you eat. I recently visited India, which is primarily a vegetarian based culture. Current studies there show about 80 percent of adults are deficient in vitamin B12. Vegans and Vegetarians Vitamin B12 deficiency is extremely common in strict vegetarians and vegans. B12 is not readily available in plants, so if you do not eat meat or animal products you are at risk. Vitamin B12 is found almost exclusively in animal tissues, including foods like beef and beef liver, lamb, snapper, venison, salmon, shrimp, scallops, poultry and eggs. The few plant foods that are sources of B12 are actually B12 analogs. An analog is a substance that blocks the uptake of true B12, so your body’s need for the nutrient actually increases. If you are not a vegan/vegetarian, and are including food sources of B12 in your diet and are still deficient in the vitamin, it is likely due to one of the reasons I’ll discuss later in this report. Why Vitamin B12 is So Important for Your Health Vitamin B12, also known by the scientific name cobalamin, is water-soluble. Unlike other water-soluble vitamins, B12 doesn’t exit your body quickly in urine. It is stored in your liver, kidneys and other body tissues. As a result, a deficiency may not show itself for a number of years, depending on your diet and your body*s ability to efficiently absorb B12. This time lag is a serious concern, because after about seven years of B12 deficiency, irreversible brain damage can result. Vitamin B12 is a powerhouse micronutrient for a whole host of reasons. Your body needs B12 for: - proper digestion, food absorption, iron use, carbohydrate and fat metabolism - healthy nervous system function - promotion of normal nerve growth and development - help with regulation of the formation of red blood cells - cell formation and longevity - proper circulation - adrenal hormone production - healthy immune system function - support of female reproductive health and pregnancy - feelings of well-being and mood regulation - mental clarity, concentration, memory function - physical, emotional and mental energy As you can see from this list, your B12 level impacts a number of very important systems in your body -- everything from your DNA to how happy you feel. If you think you might be deficient in this vitamin, you need to take steps to get your B12 levels into the healthy range. I*ll discuss the proper test to determine your B12 blood level as well as the latest information on what constitutes a healthy range a little later in this article. Symptoms of Vitamin B12 Deficiency If you don*t have adequate vitamin B12 levels in your bloodstream, you might notice some of the following warning signs: - mental fogginess - problems with your memory - mood swings - lack of motivation - feelings of apathy - fatigue and a lack energy - muscle weakness - tingling in your extremities One of the most important functions of vitamin B12 is building the myelin which insulates and protects your nerve endings and allows them to communicate with one another. If you*re B12 deficient and your myelin is depleted, you can experience health problems as widespread as depression, dementia and even symptoms which mimic multiple sclerosis. Depression Depression is thought to be linked to a shortage of compounds called monoamines, which
[Biofuel] clothing from China contaminated with formaldehyde
Forwarded with thanks. I am sorry to be sharing this bad news. It is from a New Zealand newspaper. _http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/497/Poison-found-in-kids-clothes-f rom-China_ (http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/497/Poison-found-in-kids-clothes-from-China) Poison in children's clothing is emerging as the latest health risk from China. A few quotes: Scientists found formaldehyde in woolen and cotton clothes at levels 500 times higher than is safe. International research supported by the World Health Organisation shows exposure to formaldehyde in concentrations of 20 parts per million (ppm) can cause eye, skin and nasal irritations, respiratory problems, asthma and cancer. The European Union limits formaldehyde residues in children*s clothes to a maximum of 30ppm. The chemical is used to give a permanent press effect to clothes. Consumers are advised to wash and air all clothes before they are worn for the first time. New clothes sold at Target*s was tested. **Results were shocking, ranging from 230ppm to 18,000ppm.** Doris Cellarius, Sierra Club (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090515/2cd99d34/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] GETTING THE BODY TO MANUFACTURE NEUROTRANSMITTERS-depression, anxiety, sleep di,
GETTING THE BODY TO MANUFACTURE NEUROTRANSMITTERS _http://www.doctoryourself.com/nerves.html_ (http://www.doctoryourself.com/nerves.html) **The composition of each meal could have a direct effect on the production of chemical signals in the brain.** (The New York Times, January 9, 1979) Rather than give a synthetic drug to block or mimic the body*s chemical nerve messengers (neurotransmitters), it is possible nutritionally to encourage the body to make its own natural ones. If we are what we eat, then our nerves also depend on what they are fed. Here is tremendous potential for the alleviation of depression, anxiety, neuroses, panic attacks and sleep disorders. NOREPINEPHRINE A depletion of the neurotransmitter called norepinephrine may result in poor memory, loss of alertness, and clinical depression. The chain of chemical events in the body resulting in this substance is: L-phenylalanine (from protein foods) - L-tyrosine (made in the liver) - dopa - dopamine - norepinephrine - epinephrine This process looks complex but actually is readily accomplished, particularly if the body has plenty of vitamin C. Since one's dietary supply of the first ingredient, L-phenylalanine, is usually adequate, it is more likely to be a shortage of vitamin C that limits production of norepinephrine. Physicians giving large doses of vitamin C have had striking success in reversing depression. It is a remarkably safe and inexpensive approach to try. ACETYLCHOLINE Acetylcholine is the end neurotransmitter of your parasympathetic nerve system. This means that, among other things, it facilitates good digestion, deeper breathing, and slower heart rate. You may perceive its effect as **relaxation.** Your body will make its own acetylcholine from choline. Choline is available in the diet as phosphatidyl choline, found in lecithin. Lecithin is found in egg yolks and most soy products. Three tablespoons daily of soya lecithin granules provide about five grams (5,000 milligrams) of phosphatidyl choline. Long-term use of this amount is favorably mentioned in The Lancet, February 9, 1980. Lecithin supplementation has no known harmful effects whatsoever. In fact, your brain by dry weight is almost one-third lecithin! How far can we go with this idea of simply feeding the brain what it is made up of? In Geriatrics, July 1979, lecithin is considered as a therapy to combat memory loss. Studies at MIT show increases in both choline and acetylcholine in the brains of animals after just one lecithin meal. Supplemental choline has even shown promise in treating Alzheimer*s Disease. (Today's Living, February, 1982) Your body can make much of its own lecithin. Ample amounts of B-complex vitamins, especially B-6 (pyridoxine) must be present for this to occur. B-6 deficiency is very common in Americans, and that **deficiency** is measured against an already ridiculously low US RDA of only two milligrams. The amount of B-6 needed for clinical effectiveness in, say, rabbits is the human dose equivalent of 75 mg daily. That is over 35 times more than the RDA! Really enormous doses of B-6 taken alone have produced temporary neurological side effects. It usually takes between 2,000 and 5,000 mg daily for symptoms of numbness or tingling in the extremities. Some side effects have been reported as low as 500 mg daily, but these are very rare indeed. Therapeutic doses between 100 and 500 milligrams daily are commonly prescribed by physicians for PMS relief. A few hundred milligrams of individual B-6, especially if taken in addition to the entire B-complex to ensure balance, is very safe indeed. SEROTONIN Plentiful serotonin can mean a good night's sleep, and freedom from anxiety during the day. You cannot tell someone to relax unless they have the chemistry to do it. It is safer to let the body make the molecules than to use pharmaceuticals. Your brain produces serotonin from the amino acid L-tryptophan. L-tryptophan is one of the parts of protein essential to life. Chicken, nuts, beans, and dairy products are everyday sources of this natural and necessary substance. (_http://www.doctoryourself.com/prozac.html_ (http://www.doctoryourself.com/prozac.html) ) You can buy L-tryptophan, but is very expensive. There is little, if any, justification for this continued priceyness for L-tryptophan supplements, for it is put in liquid feedings for the elderly and is in all infant formulas. The good news is that your body can derive similar benefits from inex pensive, readily-available vitamin B-3, niacin. L-tryptophan is broken down into niacin by a 60 to 1 ratio. That means you need a lot of tryptophan to make a little niacin, and a lot of tryptophan is difficult to come up with nowadays. It also means, however, that only a little niacin (1/60th as much) can go a long way. Niacin does
[Biofuel] Toxic L-tryptophan: Shedding Light on a Mysterious Epidemic
There are 8 chapters altogether, plus a section on Acknowledgments and another on Comments by Scientists and Others. On the left hand side of the webpages are links to all the chapters/sections. There are aslo several links in each chapter - I have not put in the urls so please go to the websites. I have wondered for years what happened to L-tryptophan. It seems it would be very helpful to many of those with pain, sleep difficulties, Fibromyalgia, and many other conditions. Well, I guess now I know.except why is it still not available? or was this just an excuse for the FDA and Health Canada as they collaborate with Codex...is this what the future holds for Canada and the USA? best wishes, Shan (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) Toxic L-tryptophan: Shedding Light on a Mysterious Epidemic _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/index.cfm) by William E.Crist Preface by Jeffrey Smith _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/PrefacebyJeffreySmith/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/PrefacebyJeffreySmith/index.cfm) In chapter 4 of my book Seeds of Deception, I present the story of a deadly epidemic in 1989 that was linked to an L-tryptophan food supplement produced by genetically engineered bacterium. Much of the material was based on the research of William Crist, whose work is reproduced here. Introduction: Was Genetic Engineering the Cause of Contaminated L-tryptophan and the EMS Epidemic? _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/1Introduction/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/1Introduction/index.cfm) Knowing my long-standing interest in food purity issues, a friend in California suggested in 1996 that I look into the cause of the tragic eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) epidemic that had struck seven years earlier. The outbreak was traced to consumption of L-tryptophan food supplements produced by a Japanese company using genetically engineered (GE) bacteria. Exactly what role biotechnology played in the contamination of the supplement was hotly debated. After thousands of hours of self-sponsored research, I believe I can shed some light on that issue. Background Information: The EMS Epidemic, Initial Research Studies and News of Biotech Link _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/2BackgroundInformation/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/2BackgroundInformation/index.cfm) During the summer and autumn of 1989, an outbreak of a tragic and mysterious disease swept across the U.S. First scores, then hundreds of people fell seriously ill with a rare blood and muscle disorder. Doctors and hospital staffs were baffled by the unusual cluster of symptoms and were largely ineffective in treating the victims. The Pre-epidemic Cases: A Key to the EMS Puzzle? _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/3Pre-epidemicCases-KeytoEMSPuzzle/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/3Pre-epidemicCases-KeytoEMS Puzzle/index.cfm) **The existence of cases prior to those that constituted the great bulk of the epidemic is one of the most peculiar and interesting aspects of the EMS outbreak.** — Edwin M. Kilbourne,1 epidemiologist, Center for Disease Control For more than a decade now, researchers have been puzzled by cases of EMS that occurred for several years prior to the epidemic. Where Did the Contaminants Come From? _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/4WhereDidtheContaminant sComeFrom/index.cfm_ (http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/4WhereDidtheContaminantsComeFrom/index.cfm) **Although the [20kg/batch] powdered carbon may have contributed to the removal of the etiological [causal] agent, it does not explain how the agent was introduced into the product.** —Edward Belongia, M.D., et al., The New England Journal of Medicine 1 It*s been more than a decade since Belongia and his colleagues raised this salient point about what created the contaminants that caused EMS. Surprisingly, few researchers have addressed it. Problems with Identifying and Testing for Trace Contaminants _http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/5ProblemswithIdentificationTesting/in dex.cfm_
[Biofuel] Chloramine in your water and your plumbing and your health.................
Shan's Note: About a year or so ago, the water utility in my city changed to using chloramines to disinfect the water. It might be a good idea to check what your water utility is using Links to information about how chloramines in your water will eat your plumbing. If your water utlility has changed to using Chloramines to disinfect your water, it would be a good idea to keep any eye on it. And it does this to the plumbing, I wonder what it is doing to your insides? Chloramine Facts Sections - Definitions and Information; Characteristics of Chloramine; Inadequate Studies; Effects of Chloramine on Human Health; Filtration; Misleading Statements from the SFPUC;Business Effects; Plumbing Problems and Some Implications for Health; Environmental Effects; CCAC Recommendations Plumbing Problems and Some Implications for Health Chloramine can cause leaching of lead from lead pipes, lead soldering and from so called **lead free** brass plumbing parts. Lead leached by chloramine can cause lead poisoning. Lead poisoning can cause neurological damage, health problems and even death in young children. Chloramine can cause pinhole pitting in copper pipes. Leaks from the pinholes can cause mold to grow. Some molds are highly toxic to humans and can endanger the health of individuals, often permanently. Insurance companies do not cover damage from mold. As a result, some homeowners lose their homes. Chloramine can cause rubber corrosion of rubber plumbing parts like toilet flappers and rubber casings. Rubber corroded parts need to be replaced with chloramine resistant parts such as synthetic polymer. Rubber corrosion can be spotted as early as 6 months after chloramine has been added to the water supply. Signs of corrosion can be seen when little black specks appear in the water from plumbing parts. The thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in plumbing repair costs caused by chloramine are passed on to property owners. _http://gerardlum.com/ccac_v2/chloraminefacts.htm#plumbingproblems_ (http://gerardlum.com/ccac_v2/chloraminefacts.htm#plumbingproblems) _http://gerardlum.com/ccac_v2/literature_pdf/chloramine_facts_060911.pdf_ (http://gerardlum.com/ccac_v2/literature_pdf/chloramine_facts_060911.pdf) DOMESTIC WATER DISINFECTION USING CHLORAMINES 9./ How will chloramine effect household plumbing, pipes, and water heaters? After the conversion, rubber parts on some household plumbing and water heaters may degrade faster than previously experienced. When replacing rubber plumbing parts, ask for chloramine-resistant parts, which are reaavailable. Plumbing and hardware supply stores and lumbers will be able to provide further information. Please see Chloramine Degradation for more information _http://lbre.stanford.edu/luep/sites/all/lbre-shared/files/docs_public/stanf ord_chloramine.pdf_ (http://lbre.stanford.edu/luep/sites/all/lbre-shared/files/docs_public/stanford_chloramine.pdf) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090512/c2bb9f6c/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE IS THERE A NON-SURGICAL ANSWER?
DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE IS THERE A NON-SURGICAL ANSWER? _http://www.prolonews.com/degenerative_joint_disease_prolotherapy.htm_ (http://www.prolonews.com/degenerative_joint_disease_prolotherapy.htm) DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE IS NOT THE SAME AS AGING! Getting old has nothing to do with chronic pain. Chronic pain has it causes, yes, but they do not include advancing age! Pain is a signal that something is wrong, something has become injured or weakened. For most, this is a signal that the ligaments that stabilize joints have become lax or weak. This pain is signalling then the onset of most degenerative joint disease. Following an injury to the ligaments, the bones in the joint, the knee for example, are no longer held in a stable position. This leads to instability in the knee and the bones start crunching. Crunching in a joint is a sure sign that the joint stabilizing structures are in a weakened state. If the joint instability is not treated, the degeneration in the joint will continue. Eventually this will lead to articular cartilage breakdown with the articular cartilage eroding to a point that the knee will become stiff and painful because the knee is now functioning as a **bone on bone** joint. OSTEOARTHRITIS/DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE (DJD) Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis affecting most of the population over the age of 50. It is also termed degenerative joint disease because osteoarthritis involves the deterioration of the articular cartilage that lines the joints and related changes in adjacent bone and joint margins. This deterioration occurs because the supporting structures of the joints, primarily the ligaments, become injured. Once this happens the joint has some instability and starts moving excessively. This causes some crunching noises from the joint where the bones start hitting together. The areas where the bones start hitting causes an overgrowth of bone (generally at the joint margins). This overgrowth of bone along with the articular cartilage damage along with it is called osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease (DJD). The most frequent sites involved are the weightbearing articulations of the spine, hips, and knees, and the distal interphalangeal joints of the hands. Symptoms of DJD usually include brief joint stiffness upon awakening and joint pain or tenderness following usage, and are associated with the typical characteristic findings on X-Ray. CAN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATE? Most of the joints in the body are synovial joints, movable, highly versatile, lubricated joints. They provide pain free movement because of the unique poperties of their articular cartilage. In synovial joints, such as a knee, the articular cartilage covers and protects the bone ends, preventing friction between the bones, and acts a **shock absorber,** distributing the loads of weight over a larger contact area. Articular cartilage has no blood vessels or nerves. It is composed of a few cells (chondrocytes _http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chronic_pain.htm_ (http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chronic_pain.htm) ) that are embedded in a sea of collagen, water and a specialized protein structures called Proteoglycans. It is the condrocytes, that are reponsible for the synthesis of both the collagen and proteoglycans that make up the cartilage. The ability of the chondrocytes to replicate is really the key question when considering the potential of cartilage to proliferate or to repair itself. It has been shown in studies on adult human cartilage that there is no decrease in cell counts, even in individuals of advanced age. This fact only suggests that condrocytes have the ability to proliferate and repair. The prevailing notion that damaged cartilage having no regenerative properties is reponsible for arthroscopies and then subsequent joint replacements. The falsehood that the cartilage could not repair itself occured as a result of studies that seemingly confirming this in the early 1960*s. Coincidentally, the first total hip replacement was performed during this period and shortly followed by the first Arthroscopy. Much of the research on articular cartilage regeneration has been done in the 1980’s and 1990*s. It wasn’t until the early 1980*s that Dr. H.J. Mankin discovered that the condrocytes reaction to injury was to change into a more immature cell called a chondroblast which was capable of cell proliferation, growth and healing. His research is so-well excepted that two of his papers on this subject were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. CAN CARTILAGE REGENERATION BE ACCELERATED? As seen through research, the chondrocytes, upon injury, gain the ability to replicate, proliferate, and generate new cartilage. This key
[Biofuel] Now Available - Third Edition of Tips for First Responders!
Now Available - Third Edition of Tips for First Responders! _http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TipSheetsForFirstResponders.htm_ (http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TipSheetsForFirstResponders.htm) Tips for First Responders, a 14-page, color-coded, laminated 4.5 x 5.5-inch field guide. For the third editon a tip sheet has been added that offers information to first responders on how to assist Childbearing Women and Newborns. Tips also include persons with a wide range of disabilities, as well as Seniors, People with Service Animals, People with Mobility Challenges, People with Mental Illness, Blind or Visually Impaired People, Deaf or Hard of Hearing People, People with Autism, People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and People with Cognitive Disabilities. The tip sheets provide information first responders can use during emergencies as well as routine encounters. They are not meant to be comprehensive, but contain specific information that you can read quickly either before or while responding to an incident. Over 80,000 copies of the tips have been ordered by first reponders across the country. Partners in developing the Tip Sheets include the Bureau of Health Emergency Management, New Mexico Department of Health; the New Mexico Governor's Commission on Disability; the American Association on Health and Disability; and the Disability and Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention _View PDF Version of the Tips for First Responders_ (http://cdd.unm.edu/products/tips3rdedition.pdf) _http://cdd.unm.edu/products/tips3rdedition.pdf_ (http://cdd.unm.edu/products/tips3rdedition.pdf) You must have _Adobe Acrobat Reader_ (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html) to View this file _Download the Tips for First Responders order form in Adobe Acrobat Reader_ (http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TIPSheetOrderForm.pdf) _http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TIPSheetOrderForm.pdf_ (http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TIPSheetOrderForm.pdf ) You can print this form and fax or mail it to us. _Contact us for further information_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) _mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Or call Dr. Anthony Cahill at 505-272-2990 And another good resource: Pharma Fire Department Standard Operating Procedure for MCS _http://www.ohionetwork.org/2009/parma_mcs_protcol.pdf_ (http://www.ohionetwork.org/2009/parma_mcs_protcol.pdf) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090508/81bd16e5/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues
I hope nobody minds if I put my 2 cents in? The following were hastily thrown together and from only one website, but I think that it still illustrates how reliable, competent, and also unbiased that the FDA is In my opinion politics and healing should never be mixed. I do not believe that it would be possible to 'fix' the FDA, or Health Canada either for that matter. They both need to be thrown away and replaced with something that has healing and the best interests of all the people in mind. I read somewhere that way back when, healers were mostly monks for they had no other agendas nor concerns other then the health and healing of people..Sounds good to me; would certainly make me respect some established religions more as well. Actually I am far from unbiased as far as the present 'conventional' medical system is concerned and truely enjoyed reading these..I could very happily spent hours and hours gathering proof of what the drug companies as well as 'supporting' agencies do. best wishes Shan A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies _http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/03/13/a-new-low-in-drug-research-21-fabricate d-studies.aspx_ (http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/03/13/a-new-low-in-drug-research-21-fabricated-studies.aspx) Scott S. Reuben, a prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist, allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from painkillers like Vioxx and Celebrex. Baystate Medical Center said that Reuben had faked data used in the studies, which were published in several anesthesiology journals between 1996 and 2008. The hospital has asked the medical journals to retract the studies. The studies reported favorable results from the use of painkillers Bextra and Vioxx -- both since withdrawn -- as well as Celebrex and Lyrica. Dr. Reuben's research work also claimed positive findings for the antidepressant Effexor XR as a pain killer. The retractions, first reported in Anesthesiology News, have caused anesthesiologists to reconsider the use of certain practices adopted as a result of Dr. Reuben's research. His work was considered important in encouraging doctors to combine the use of painkillers like Celebrex and Lyrica for patients undergoing common procedures such as knee and hip replacements. Sources: _Wall Street Journal March 11, 2009_ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672510903888207.html) --- Warning! Drug Company Buries Unfavorable Antidepressant Drug Studies _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/21/seroquel-studies-bu ried-by-astrazeneca.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/21/seroquel-studies-buried-by-astrazeneca.aspx) Drugmaker AstraZeneca “buried” unfavorable studies on its antipsychotic drug Seroquel, according to an internal e-mail. The e-mail was made public due to litigation over the medicine. The drugmaker did not publicize results of at least three clinical trials of Seroquel and engaged in “cherry picking” of data from one of those studies for use in a presentation, an AstraZeneca official said in the December 1999 e-mail. The company faces about 9,000 lawsuits claiming it failed to properly warn users that Seroquel can cause diabetes and other health problems. Seroquel, which generated sales of $4.45 billion in 2008, is the company’s second-biggest seller after the ulcer treatment Nexium. AstraZeneca has denied wrongdoing, and is vowing to fight the lawsuits in court. Sources _Bloomberg.com February 27, 2009_ (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aS_.NqzMArG8refer=home) _Washington Post March 18, 2009_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703786.html?wprss=rss_health) Dr. Mercola's Comments: [ Continued..] (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) --- Drug Firms Ignore Federal Law, Not Reporting Studies _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/drug-studies.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/drug-studies.aspx) - Soy Maker Omits Studies That Soy May Cause Cancer _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/soy-cancer-part-two.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/soy-cancer-part-two.aspx) The Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition
Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues
I just wanted to thank you Keith for all the urls/information you posted, both in this 'thread' as well as the others. best wishes Shan -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090506/ce815d69/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues
Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues Tuesday, February 26, 2008 by: Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist _http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/022728.html) (NaturalNews) The recent widespread mainstream media coverage of the **blue man** Paul Karason and his rare skin condition known as Argyria is the latest in a series of largely misleading and sensationalized scare stories about the dangers of colloidal silver turning a person`s skin blue. Although this latest story did not appear to originate from mainstream medicine or the FDA, there is little doubt that they have welcomed it with open arms and have been quick to trot out **medical experts** and past FDA warnings to help **sing the blues** about colloidal silver. The truth is that mainstream medicine has a very good reason to cry long and loud about colloidal silver, because it does represent a very real danger - a danger to the huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry*s patented antibiotics. The truth is that silver has been used effectively by mankind to fight germs and ailments for thousands of years, and the instances of modern use of colloidal silver turning people*s skin blue are so rare as to be almost non-existent - and unlike thousands of prescribed and approved over-the-counter mainstream medications including the common aspirin, silver has never killed anyone. As a matter of fact, almost all of the relative handful of reported instances have involved one or more of the following: older silver products that contained as much as 10% or more silver (compared to mere parts per million in modern colloidal silver), silver nitrate, home made colloidal silver that was contaminated with salt, and silver that has been consumed continuously in very large quantities over a very long period of time. In the case of Karason, he made his own ionic silver at home for almost two decades and for many years consumed a quart or more per day. I daresay that any prescribed or over-the-counter medication whose recommended dosage was a couple of teaspoons a day would do far worse than turn a person blue if they drank a quart or more of it a year! For the sake of comparison, drinking a quart or more per day of colloidal silver would be like a person taking several bottles of aspirin a day, a practice that would be lethal in short order. Karason actually appears to enjoy his notoriety as the Papa Smurf blue man, and even though he sings the praises of how colloidal silver saved his life and the many ailments he believes it cured, the focus of attention is on his blue skin - a condition that is actually reversible with proper diet and herbal cleanses despite mainstream claims to the contrary. What is also true about colloidal silver is that it is far safer, more effective and less expensive than the marginally effective and side effect laden mainstream antibiotics - and has mainstream and university studies proving it dating back to the early 1900*s. The best and strongest of the FDA approved antibiotics are effective for a handful of bacteria at best, whereas colloidal silver is supremely effective against just about every kind of single celled pathogen, including bacteria, fungal growths and viruses (which antibiotics are often wrongly prescribed for, despite the fact that antibiotics have no effect on viruses). If the public were told the truth, a rarity when it comes to mainstream drugs versus natural competition, colloidal silver would represent a huge threat to literally billions of dollars of profits and so it is no wonder that mainstream medicine and their allies in the mainstream media are once again loudly singing the blues - just as they have repeatedly done in the past with misleading stories and studies about a great many popular natural plants, supplements, vitamins and minerals that represent threats to mainstream drug profits because they are safer, more effective and less expensive alternatives to the unnatural, side effect laden, hugely expensive and marginally effective synthetics created in the labs of the powerful world pharmaceutical empire. While there are a great many natural threats to mainstream profits, whose use and track records of safety and effectiveness date back hundreds and even thousands of years, perhaps no natural alternative to mainstream drugs represents as big of a threat to industry profits as colloidal silver, and it is no coincidence that colloidal silver has been placed at the very top of the FDA/mainstream medicine hit list. However, when it comes to warning and scaring people away from silver, both the mainstream medical industry and the FDA have serious credibility problems. First of all, silver has a history of safe and effective use dating back thousands of years. In addition, it continues to be widely used today, including
[Biofuel] Just Say No to the Mothers Act
Just Say No to the Mothers Act _http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00255.htm_ (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00255.htm) Monday, 27 April 2009, 1:08 pm The customer base the psycho-pharmaceutical industry is hoping to corral through passage of the Mothers Act is the more than four million women who give birth in the US each year. That number was 4,317,119 in 2007, according to the CDC. The Ac*'s passage, after eight years of solid efforts, would set the stage for the screening of all pregnant women for a whole list of mental disorders. The bill has already passed in the US House of Representatives and will soon be up for a vote in the Senate. The definition section of the Act specifically states that the term **postpartum condition** means **postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.** There is not one word about perinatal *mood* or *anxiety* disorders in the bill. The transformation of the postpartum language in the Act to further the formation of a new cottage industry for treating multiple disorders can be traced back to websites such as Postpartum Progress, Postpartum Support International, and a site called PerinatalPro, which leads directly to the treatment center owned by the site*s creator Susan Stone. On January 26, 2009, Susan cranked out an announcement on the internet with the headline: **U.S. Senator Robert Menendez reintroduces important postpartum depression legislation in Senate today!!** However, in Stone*s message to the pubic the **postpartum depression** in the headline suddenly transforms into **perinatal mood disorders,** and she warns of a crisis of epidemic proportions in stating: **The statistics we have on the numbers of women suffering from perinatal mood disorders (which range from 12 - 22% in the research) easily exceed the incidence associated with a public health crisis.** **And remember,** she says, **these statistics, do NOT include the suffering of women who miscarry, endure stillbirths, give up babies for adoption or terminate pregnancies, all of whom are also susceptible to these devastating disorders and whose circumstances are included in the furthering of research and support being sought.** In her message, Susan reports: **Today, I had the joy of participating in a conference call with the office of Senator Menendez and the other organizational sponsors of The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act where we received a heads up that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez was hoping to reintroduce the bill today.** While the Mothers Act refers to helping women with postpartum depression and psychosis only, the bill*s top promoters, obviously kept in the loop by the main sponsor in the Senate, clearly have a larger customer recruitment scheme in the works. On a Postpartum Progress page with a heading, **WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!** the website*s creator, Katherine Stone, explains that the word perinatal **refers in this case to the period during and after pregnancy.** **Among the mental disorders women face during this time, there are two main types: anxiety disorders and mood disorders,** she advises. **Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder,** she reports. **Mood disorders include depression, bipolar disorder and psychosis,** she explains. Under the heading **Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,** she writes: **All you have to do to be at risk for getting postpartum PTSD is to have the perception of a traumatic childbirth -- in other words, even if your doctors and nurses feel that everything went fairly normally, if it was upsetting and scary and unexpected to you that*s what counts.** She concludes with the misleading statement that, **all of these illnesses are completely treatable.** Katherine*s bio claims she **is a nationally-recognized, award-winning advocate for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.** In the Menendez press release on January 26, 2009, there was no mention of *mood* and *anxiety* disorders. If he was not in on this disease mongering plot, he would have told these two broads to knock it off by now. Drugging for profit Although no psychiatric drug has been FDA approved as safe for use by pregnant and nursing mothers, the treatment for all the perinatal mental disorders calls for the new generation of antidepressants, along with atypical antipsychotics and epilepsy drugs, now commonly referred to as **mood stabilizers.** The atypical antipsychotics are Seroquel by AstraZeneca, Risperdal and Invega marketed by Janssen, a division of Johnson Johnson, Geodon by Pfizer, Abilify from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis* Clozaril, and Eli Lilly*s Zyprexa. The average price for these drugs on DrugStore.com is about $900 for a hundred pills. The SSRI and SNRI
[Biofuel] HR20-New Mother’s Mandated Mental Hea lth Test-JUST PASSED HOUSE!
HR20-New Mother’s Mandated Mental Health Test - JUST PASSED HOUSE! _http://freedomfighterradio.net/?p=6603_ (http://freedomfighterradio.net/?p=6603) April 20, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter Category: Uncategorized Source: Gov Track A sweeping government policy for all new births in the United States has just passed the House of Representatives and is now headed to the Senate. The Mother’s Act, if passed, will mandate that all new mothers be screened by means of a list of subjective questions that will determine if each mother is mentally fit to take their newborn home from the hospital. Just imagine that after your child is born, you are told that you can’t take them home since a multiple choice questionnaire wasn’t answered correctly. Just imagine being told that the only way you can take your child home is if you or your spouse goes into treatment or on anti-depressants which we know causes psychosis, delusions, and even homicidal thoughts. It just doesn’t make sense. Unfortunately, this bill is on a fast track–No public debate, no public disclosure of the broad impact on our society and that is why we need you to act now! The Mother’s Act violates our Constitutional right to privacy and your right to liberty and it is just outright dangerous. That is why we need you to help stop this. We urgently need you to call and email each Senator on the HELP Committee and tell them you STRONGLY OPPOSE the MOTHER’S ACT and that you are OUTRAGED that there was NO public debate or disclosure on the impact this would have on our society as a whole. Please call the following Senators on the HELP Committee and tell them that you want the Mother’s Act to die in committee. Lisa Murkowski, R: 202-224-6665, AK John McCain, R: 202-224-2235, AZ Christopher Dodd, D: 202-224-2823, CT J ohnny Isakson, R: 202-224-3643, GA Tom Harkin, D: 202-224-3254, IA Pat Roberts, R: 202-224-4774, KS Edward Kennedy D: 202-224-4543, MA Barbara Mikulski D: 202-224-4654, MD Richard Burr, R: 202-224-3154, NC Kay Hagan, D: 202-224-6342, NC Judd Gregg, R: 202-224-3324, NH Jeff Bingaman, D: 202-224-5521, NM Sherrod Brown, D 202-224-2315, OH Tom Coburn, R 202-224-5754, OK Jeff Merkley, D 202-224-3753, OR Bob Casey, D 202-224-6324, PA Jack Reed, D 202-224-4642, RI Lamar Alexander R 202-224-4944, TN Orrin Hatch R 202-224-5251, UT Bernard Sanders, I: 202-224-5141, VT Patty Murray, D, 202-224-2621, WA Michael Enzi, R, 202-224-3424, WY (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090503/935f5cf1/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine!
Forwarded... Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine! _http://www.rense.com/general85/vacc.htm_ (http://www.rense.com/general85/vacc.htm) From Patricia Doyle, PhD 4-25-9 I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU. Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given. Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine. Do not take seasonal flu vaccine if you are told that it could help prevent this brand new Swine Flu variant. It won't do a thing to prevent this flu. What it will do is serve up new genetic material to the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel. The Spanish Flu variant will use the gene sequences in the vaccine in humans to develop more of the changes that make the virus more readily infect humans. We do not want to give this virus more human genetic material so that it will infect humans more readily person to person. This is what vaccinated individuals do for pandemic strains. There is also a safety issue in any experimental vaccine, much like the one in 1976. Some people even feel that such a vaccine for pandemic strain might require more than one vaccination which could actually be a binary set up. The first shot might just add some genetic code that stays dormant in the body until one gets the second vaccine shot which then serves to only cause infection. It could trigger Guillain-barre syndrome, Typhus or some other condition. An Influenza vaccine does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally, I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens us due to contaminants in the vaccine. I feel that people can better protect themselves by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be afraid of looking odd. I would not be ashamed to use a mask and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them. A big problem during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now. Medical supplies. personal hygene supplies and don't forget fido, or any other pet. Once a pandemic hits, it will be too late to stock up. Water, too. We may lose clean water and electric power, so be prepared. So, please, people, DON'T TAKE ANY VACCINES OFFERED. THEY COULD KILL YOU BEFORE ANY VIRUS KILLS YOU. Pat Doyle Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my Emerging Diseases message board at: _http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php_ (http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php) Also my new website: _http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/_ (http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/) Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090501/f5bc1c4a/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Important for Swine Flu Epidemic: Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic o
Important for Swine Flu Epidemic: Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918 _http://www.naturalnews.com/026148.html_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/026148.html) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090429/d563a9f5/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Repurposed rain gutters
Repurposed rain gutters _http://newworldgeek.com/?p=896_ (http://newworldgeek.com/?p=896) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090427/17bf9df3/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Grains, Nuts, Seeds Legumes Must Be Properly Prepared
Grains, Nuts, Seeds Legumes Must Be Properly Prepared _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/foods18.php_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/foods18.php) Table of Contents · _Why Soak or Ferment?_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a1) · _Acidic Mediums for Soaking_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a2) · _How to Prepare Grains _ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a3) o _Amaranth, Brown Rice, Buckwheat, Millet Quinoa_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a4) o _Gluten Grains_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a5) o _Corn, Special Treatment is Necessary_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a6) · _Soaking Legumes _ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a7) o _Dried Beans, i.e. Black, Lima, Pinto, Kidney, White, etc._ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a8) o _Dried Lentils and Split Peas_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a9) · _Soaking Nuts Seeds _ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a10) o _Cashews_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/#a11) Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Ph.D. point out, ...virtually all pre-industrialized peoples soaked or fermented their grains before cooking them or making them into porridge, breads, cakes and casseroles. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090427/283080d0/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Foods that Damage, Foods that Heal
Foods that Damage, Foods that Heal _http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print) © Copyright Bee Wilder Your journey towards health begins by reading and learning. Table of Contents _Primary Causes of Health Problems_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a1) * _Four Reasons Health Fails_ (http://www. healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a2) * _Your Health Depends Upon You!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a3) * _Lack of Nutrition Oxygen_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a4) * _The Optimal Diet Cures Diseases_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a5) * _Three Food Groups_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a6) * _Most Processed Foods Are Not Real Foods!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a7) * _Today's Standard Diet Does Not Support Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a8) * _Toxic Chemicals In Our Blood_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a9) * _Toxic Sources Issues That Adversely Affect Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a10) _Dirty Secrets of Agribusiness and the Food Processing Industry_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a78) * _Manipulating Governments to Pass Laws_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a11) * _Irradiation Microwaving Kills Foods!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a12) * _Agribusiness Produces Foods Unfit To Eat!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a13) * _Endocrine Disruptors_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a14) * _Antibiotics as Animal Feed Additives_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a15) * _Vaccines Other Drugs_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a16) * _Mass-Produced Poultry Eggs_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a17) * _Soil Lacks Nutrients_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a18) * _Genetically Modified Foods_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a19) _Traditional Mixed Farms Produce Healthy Foods_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a20) _Foods That Damage_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a21) * _Sugar Is Poison!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a22) * _Fruit Is Not As Healthy As You Think_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a23) * _Insulin Resistant Cells_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a24) * _Unnatural Oils Fats Damage the Entire Body_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a25) * _Cells Not Constructed As Nature Intended_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a26) * _Soy Soy-Based Foods Are Extremely Damaging To Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a27) * _Soy Allergies Are Common_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a28) * _Table Salt Is Poison!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a29) * _Grains, Nuts, Seeds Legumes Are Unfit For Human Consumption_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a30) * _Fibers Are Damaging To Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a33) * _Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Cause Disease_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a34) * _The Cholesterol Theory Is a Total Scam!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a35) * _What's Wrong with Published Food Guides?_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a36) * _Foods That Damage Summary_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a37) _Foods That Heal_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a79) * _Saturated Fats Are Vital To Your Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a38) * _Good Fats Do Not Make You Fat!_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a39) * _Protein Fats Are Critical to Your Health_ (http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal13.php?print#a40) * _Minerals, the Building Blocks of Health_
[Biofuel] Detoxify your house
Know what freshness smells like. It's not vanilla passion, or new car. It should smell like nothing. Detoxify your house _http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/623453_ (http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/623453) April 24, 2009 The You Docs (Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz) Toronto Star Stuff that's hanging around in your carpet, in your garage and under the sink can make you older. Clean your house and watch your body's clock turn back: Clean the toxic dump, a.k.a. your garage. Your walls haven't been avocado for years. So why keep the half-empty paint can? It and other chemicals lingering on those shelves often contain toluene, a potent reproductive toxin. Get them out. Today. Just don't throw them in the trash: Go to Toronto.ca to find the closest Household Hazardous Waste depot. Leave the bleach behind. The chemicals in chlorine bleach evaporates into the air you breathe and aren't good for you or the environment. Instead, use baking soda to clean sinks and tubs; rely on vinegar in a pump spray bottle for an A-plus job on windows and mirrors. Open the windows. The inside of a home generally has three to four times the dangerous pollutants and small particles that the outside world does. Open your home to the outside world as frequently as you can during low-traffic times. Leave your shoes at the door. You can track in toxins such as lawn-care pesticides, which sink into your carpet and can contaminate the kids who crawl on it. Know what freshness smells like. It's not vanilla passion, or new car. It should smell like nothing. Waiting to exhale: Want to make your environment better for you without having to petition to move the freeway or shut down a coal plant? Use these simple steps to make a big difference: Enact your own area-wide second-hand smoking ban. Non-smokers who hang out with smokers effectively become smokers themselves, and inhale cigarettes' more than 4,000 chemicals. The best way to purify your environment is to keep smokers 500 feet away from you and from any entrances you walk through. You'll have a 25 per cent lower risk of plaque rupture (a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes) than people who routinely walk through second-hand smoke on the way in and out of buildings. Move away from the printer. In one study, researchers found that a third of the office printers they tested spewed out high amounts of particles. Tiny particles not only are a hazard to your lungs, but they may also be linked to bad artery health. If dry-cleaning is optional, hand wash those items. Dry-cleaning chemicals have been linked to kidney and nervous system damage as well as cancer. If you must dry-clean, remove your clothes from the plastic wrap and let outdoor air circulate around them for one hour. A fresh approach: There are two things you probably shouldn't get at your next trip to the big-box store: green tea and olive oil. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have them. But buying them in big quantities means they'll sit around your kitchen, and new research suggests that both lose big amounts of their disease-fighting plant compounds over six months – even when you don't crack the seal on them. Green tea loses its catechins-free-radical-fighting compounds. So buy it in smaller quantities, brew it frequently, and drink it with lemon juice: This increases your ability to absorb these valuable compounds. Similarly, hanging around on a shelf for three to six months messes with olive oil's ability to fight free radicals, those damaging compounds implicated in heart disease and some cancers. The You Docs, Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz, are authors of the best- selling YOU: On a Diet. (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090424/a751b844/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Gland Self-Evaluation Quick Quiz
Gland Self-Evaluation Quick Quiz _http://www.canaryclub.org/testimonials/247.html_ (http://www.canaryclub.org/testimonials/247.html) Drs. Karilee and Richard Shames, authors of the book Feeling Fat, Fuzzy or Frazzled have graciously allowed us to use the following QUICK QUIZ from the questionnaires in the book. We recommend that you take the full questionnaire. If you answer yes to 2 or more questions on any one gland, you are a candidate for testing. New discoveries in science are revealing the profound impact of hormone imbalance in our lives. Glands work in harmony as a team, so when one or more of these glands become depleted or out of balance altering your hormonal output, it can wreak havoc on your health. This quiz will focus on three of those glands. The 3 glands addressed in this quiz are the Thyroid, Adrenal, Reproductive (ovaries or testes), which form a 3-legged stool on which the remaining endocrine system rests. For optimal health, it is vital that all three of these glands are in balance. In order to simplify their program, the Drs. Shames refer to 3 endo types, physical, mental, emotional to describe the feeling fat fuzzy or frazzled 3 legged stool model. [CONTINUED.] (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090421/e3d0a3bd/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] MSG Is Being Sprayed On Fruits, Veggies, Nuts, Grains And Seeds As They Are Grow
MSG Is Being Sprayed On Fruits, Veggies, Nuts, Grains And Seeds As They Are Growing...Even Those Used In Baby Food _http://www.rense.com/general85/msg.htm_ (http://www.rense.com/general85/msg.htm) Truth In Labeling.org 4-20-9 In the 1970s, reluctant food processors **voluntarily** took processed free glutamic acid (MSG) out of baby food. Today it*s back, in fertilizers called **Omega Protein Refined/Hydrolyzed Fish Emulsion** and **Steam Hydrolyzed Feather Meal,** both of which contain hydrolyzed proteins; and in a product called AuxiGro WP Plant Metabolic Primer (AuxiGro) produced by Emerald BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation), which contains both hydrolyzed protein(s) and **monosodium glutamate.** AuxiGro is being sprayed on some of the vegetables we and our children will eat, into the air we and our children must breath, and onto the ground from which it can move into drinking water. Head lettuce, leaf lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, and peanuts were among the first crops targeted. On September 12, 2000, the Auxein Corporation Web site gave the following information: Crops registered include: Celery; Fresh Market Cucumbers; Edible Navy and Pinto Beans; Grapes; Bulb Onions; Bell, Green and Jalapeno Peppers; Iceberg Head Lettuce; Romaine and Butter Leaf Lettuce; Peanuts; Potatoes; Snap Beans; Strawberries; Processing Tomatoes; Fresh Tomatoes; and Watermelons. Today, there is no crop that we know of that has not been approved for treatment with MSG by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Even in California -- the only state where there are any restrictions on the use of AuxiGro -- AuxiGro has been approved for use on a number of crops, and Emerald BioAgriculture continues to push for more. Field tests in California have been -- and may continue to be -- conducted on a variety of crops, and those AuxiGro treated crops may be sold in the open market without revealing that they have been treated. We can't tell you which crops those are because the CDPR has refused to send records of test trials (which are public information) to the Truth in Labeling Campaign. As of June 13, 2002, AuxiGro was registered for use in California on tomatoes, almonds, apricots, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, prunes, grapes (including grapes to be used in wine), and onions. At that time, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation said they were not aware of any testing of AuxiGro for use on other crops. They also said that they did not have any proposals presently in house to register additional crops for AuxiGro. It would appear, however, that what the CDPR said was not true, for the CDPR subsequently announced that Emerald BioAgriculture had applied for permission to use AuxiGro on tomatoes (new use), and on melons (new crop) -- and, to the best of our knowledge, approval is always preceded by field testing. On July 7, 2004, Emerald BioAgriculture requested approval of use of AuxiGro as a desiccant, disinfectant, fertilizer, fungicide, growth regulator - for increased yield and prevention of powdery mildew in various crops such as almonds, grapes, and melons. They also asked to add cole crops (including broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, collards, turnips, rutabaga, mustard, watercress, and kohlrabi) to the list of crops approved for AuxiGro use. Approval for use on organic crops--in all states--has been requested. What*s wrong with using glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein, as a spray on crops? - In protein, amino acids are found in balanced combinations. Use of free glutamic acid as a spray on crops throws the amino acid balance out of kilter. - It*s not the glutamic acid found in protein that is being sprayed on crops, it*s a synthetic product. The spray being used most widely is called AuxiGro. The **free glutamic acid** or so called **L-glutamic acid** component being used by its manufacturer, Emerald BioAgriculture, contains L-glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein; but it also contains D-glutamic acid, pyroglutamic acid, and other chemicals referred to in the industry as **contaminants.** The free glutamic acid used in AuxiGro is processed free glutamic acid. It is manufactured -- in chemical plants -- where certain selected genetically engineered bacteria -- feeding on a liquid nutrient medium -- excrete the free glutamic acid they synthesize outside of their cell membrane into the liquid medium in which they are grown. In contrast, the free glutamic acid found in protein, and the free glutamic acid involved in normal human body function, are unprocessed. free glutamic acid, and contain no contaminants. - No one knows what the long term effects of spraying processed free glutamic acid on crops will be. - That the processed free glutamic acid (MSG) will be absorbed into the body of the plant and into
[Biofuel] Canadian zombie legislation — Bills C 51, C52 rise from the dead as C6, C10 to th
April 21, 2009...9:19 am Canadian zombie legislation — Bills C51, C52 rise from the dead as C6, C10 to threaten our constitutional rights _http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/canadian-zombie-legislation-bills -c51-c52-return-from-the-dead-as-c6-c10-threaten-constitutional-rights/_ (http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/canadian-zombie-legislation-bills-c5 1-c52-return-from-the-dead-as-c6-c10-threaten-constitutional-rights/) We’ve been foaming at the mouth for a while here about HR875, NAIS, and Premises ID down south in the States, and how they’re threatening to give control of agriculture to industry and undermine organic small farms. Meanwhile, closer to home, the much-reviled food-supplement “regulation” bills C-51 and C-52 are being re-incarnated under new numbers and re-introduced into Parliament. In spite of the greatest citizen outrage in Canadian history (over C-51 and C-52), someone in Ottawa seems to still have not gotten the message. Here’s a summary of the situation from David Rowland, of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom. Hat tip to Judith for sending this our way. “We need your help to stop the Canadian federal government persisting in classifying our Dietary Food Supplements and other plant based medicinal concentrates, extracts and other products as Drugs. Do you realize that since January 1st 2004 the federal government has been forcing all healthy foods such as carrot juice, greens powders, vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc. to be regulated as drugs? April 2009 Safer than Foods Dietary food supplements are among the safest substances on the planet. There have been exactly zero fatalities caused by the Canadian health food industry during its entire 50-year history. In 2004, an independent study of the causes of death was conducted (by R. Law), using Canadian Government data, quasi government and NGO websites, documents, databases and research outputs. This study assigned units of risk for 59 documented causes of death, such as the following: - Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals 756 - Food 19 - Lightning 0.25 - Bee/wasp/hornet sting 0.06 - Natural healthcare/therapeutic products 0.014 Compared to your risk of dying from taking a food supplement, you are thus - 54,000 times more likely to die from taking pharmaceutical drugs - 1,357 times more likely to be killed by food (poisoning/allergy) - 18 times more likely to be killed by lightning, and - 4 times more likely to die from an insect bite. Drug Raids Under the guise of protecting the public from harm, Health Canada is systematically destroying businesses which provide eminently safe (and necessary) dietary food supplements. Aided by the RCMP (with guns drawn), Health Canada officials have staged four raids so far this year on supplement suppliers – breaking doors in, keeping families hostage in their own homes for up to 10 hours – and confiscating products, records, computers, and personal property unrelated to their supplement businesses. Costs of Compliance Five years ago there were an estimated 60,000 dietary food supplements on the market. Now there are only about 20,000. Two thirds of these entirely safe products have disappeared because Health Canada either refuses to grant licences for them, and/or because suppliers cannot afford the exorbitant costs of complying with oppressive regulations (which have never been sanctioned by Parliament). We have had to discontinue the following seven safe (and effective) products because their suppliers cannot afford the costs of complying with Health Canada’s insane dictates: Fish Oil Garlic, Caisse, Lymco, Purseng, Prana, KPH-1, and Electra. We have also had to discontinue the following products because we don’t sell enough of them to pay for the costs of keeping them on the market: Proanthocyanidins, Niacin, Estro-Mend, Progesto-Mend, Male-X Booster. We intend to keep all of our best selling products on the market; however, their prices will increase to the extent that we are forced to comply with Health Canada’s bureaucratic dictates. It now costs us an average of $2,000 per product to prepare the documentation to apply for an NPN product “licence” (even for products that we have sold for many years with approved DIN registrations). That means a total of $70,000 in product applications, with no guarantee that all of the licences will be granted. [Fortunately, we have thus far received “licences” for most of our best selling products.] It also will now cost us approximately $90,000 per year to do the drug testing that Health Canada insists be performed on all of our dietary food supplements. None of this testing does anything to protect the public from harm. Our industry has an impeccable safety record (zero deaths in 50+ years). Vitamost® products themselves also have an impeccable safety record: zero
[Biofuel] MOUNTAIN VIEW: That Smells Real Nice
MOUNTAIN VIEW: That Smells Real Nice _http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/mountain_view_that_smells_real_nice/sports/5023/_ (http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/mountain_view_that_smells_real_nice/sports/5023/) By LIZA FIELD Sometimes I wonder what part of the human brain came up with those dizzying, throat-stopping, rancid-odored drier-sheets and air-“fresheners.” —The insane part, I reckon; the part happy to be unhinged from reality. These chemical potions—usually dubbed names like “Country Fresh!” and “Morning Sunshine!” and “Mountain Breeze!”—have nothing to do with the countryside, mountains or fresh air, and are in fact implicated in everything from nausea to respiratory disorders to skin problems to cancer. Want to dry off with a “Nature’s Fresh-n-Soft” slathered “clean” towel? Alright! First, hold the towel to your face and inhale deeply—Mmmm!—like the happy folks in the commercials! If you feel slightly nauseated or need to cough, don’t worry; that’s a natural reaction to this “Natural-Soft” toxic soup of unnatural ingredients. Since “natural” is by no means the point here, ignore your body’s innate response and continue rubbing yourself down with this “fresh-dried” slatherment of benzyl acetate, limonene, ethanol, chloroform, pentane and other carcinogens and neurotoxins! And if you feel at all hesitant in coating yourself (and then overpowering anyone who comes near you that day) with the industrial-strength “fragrance ” that you can’t quite convince yourself smells divine, realize that these fragrances do serve a “real” purpose. Because the toxins used in “softening” fabric do heat up in the drier and smell like a genuine, gosh-awful, chemical-plant smokestack, strong perfumes are needed to mask that reality. And in order to convince consumers to tolerate these strong, pretend-nothing’s-wrong-here perfumes, a useful marketing ploy has proven handy: promote the negative characteristic as, in fact, desirable! Shouldn’t all laundry smell like—!—funeral-parlor preservative? Ah, forever-fresh! This disparity between the product’s reality and the image it promotes may seem comical (or depressing) spelled out this way. But that such a disparity regularly strikes us as unremarkable—in fact, quite the usual—indicates something of how normalized we’ve become to the blatantly-fake, and how easily we collude in the enterprise of calling one thing by a completely contrary label and collectively agreeing that Yes, like the emperor’s new clothes, it is wonderfully so…so…what-it-isn’t! Quite a few conditioners, deodorants and skin lotions (with names like “ safe-stuff,” “healing balm” and “pure-guard”) belong in the same category, reeking of putrid chestnut blossoms and adding a variety of chemical stiffeners or softeners, propylene glycols and aluminums and formaldehydes known to impair human health. Since the skin is a thin, widespread organ meant to expel toxins rather than be slathered in them, our common use of toxin-laden cosmetics, lotions, drier sheets, nail polishes and hair conditioners is one of the immunity-compromising practices implicated in rising cancer rates. Should the representation of a toxic chemical-bath as “Nature’s Down-Home Pure-itude!” be outlawed, then, since it encourages the consumer to inhale, wear and sleep in a cloud of carcinogens? Deregulation-enthusiasts like Rush Limbaugh would say “No.” This is America; everyone has the right to make a buck however he chooses, whether by deception or truth. And since money is of more worth than unmarketable values like truth, in the free-enterprise system that seems to comprise the whole of our reality, we can’t go around making laws that impair our pursuit of it. How could deception be regulated anyhow? Deception (and the eagerness to be deceived) has been around at least as long as the earliest stories of man. According to Genesis, Eve quickly reckoned the serpent was promoting something good-for-her. Esau seemed happy to trade his birthright for a mess of potage, and Moses easily duped the fed-up, tired-of-frogs Pharaoh into letting the Israelites leave town for a small escapade. Something in us apparently wants to be deceived. We want to believe we can really buy fresh countryside in an aerosol can, or bring back a happy, rural childhood by using drier sheets labeled “Country Mornings.” Certainly the false prophets that Jeremiah and other Hebrew figures railed against would have been out-of-business had the people not said “Preach to us soft things. Speak to us of ease!” We want to be told there’s no problem, and thus avoid the pain of change—an illusory goal in itself. More than any other species, humankind seems to have a profound gift for self-deception. While it may have evolved as a coping mechanism to deal with intolerable conditions, we seem often to make liberal use of it in
[Biofuel] Health Canada Raids Natural Doctor
Health Canada Raids Natural Doctor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCHlTxUqNMfeature=channel_page) PART ONE of a testimonial by Naturopathic Doctor, Eldon Dahl, describing his home and family being raided and held for 11 hours by Health Canada and the RCMP. (Check related videos for the other parts.) _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCHlTxUqNMfeature=channel_page_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCHlTxUqNMfeature=channel_page) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090418/5e290ae7/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Exploiting Kids as Guinea Pigs - The New GM Food Trials
Exploiting Kids as Guinea Pigs - The New GM Food Trials By Jenny Thompson on 04/13/2009 _http://www.healthiertalk.com/exploiting-kids-guinea-pigs-new-gm-food-trials -0441_ (http://www.healthiertalk.com/exploiting-kids-guinea-pigs-new-gm-food-trials-0441) It's an outrage. And it's infuriating. And they're using your money to make it happen. To whet your appetite for a stunning corruption of ethics, I'll start off with this quote from HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D.: Whistle-blowers in the GM industry all say the same thing: One genetic modification ALWAYS causes more than just the desired change (and that's if you only modify one thing!). Mess with Mother Nature, and sooner or later she will mess you up. That's a promise. Judgment at Nuremberg To violate the Nuremberg code you've got to do something so wrong that even a schoolboy would know it's wrong. Speaking of schoolboys… Could you ever imagine testing a potentially dangerous food on children? But wait. First we'll give the benefit of the doubt and say, sure, you might consider doing this if the food had been thoroughly tested in animals and was found to be harmless. But if you skipped the animal testing and went straight to the young human subjects, you would be violating the Nuremberg code. Twice. A group of more than 20 international scientists recently sent a letter of protest to Tufts University School of Medicine to express their shock and unequivocal denunciation of the experiments being conducted by your colleagues which involve the feeding of genetically modified golden rice to human subjects (adults and children.) According to the scientists, the Tufts experiments violate the Nuremberg code because they involve children as subjects (children can't legally give their consent), and because exactly zero animal trials have been conducted to establish the safety of golden rice. And here's the capper: The experiments were administered and funded by the National Institutes of Health. That's right: U.S. tax dollars at work, driving down ethical standards for research on children. If you'd like to read the section of the Nuremberg code that pertains to human experimentation, you can easily find it on the website for the Office of Human Subjects Research _http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/_ (http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/) . Which happens to be a division of…yep - the National Institutes of Health. Inadvertent and unpredictable Golden rice is a good idea on paper. But in the real world, one big if s till lingers. In developing countries, thousands of children go blind every year due to a dietary deficiency of vitamin A. Golden rice was genetically engineered to produce a beta carotene-packed staple food in the hopes that impoverished children and adults might have abundant, easy access to vitamin A. What's wrong with this picture? I'll let the scientists who sent the Tufts letter explain: There is now a large body of evidence that shows that GM crop/food production is highly prone to inadvertent and unpredictable pleiotropic effects, which can result in health damaging effects when GM food products are fed to animals. So it's hard to imagine why the Tufts program simply passed on the animal stage for testing golden rice. Here's how Dr. Adrian Dubock (Golden Rice Organization project manager) tried to justify the decision in an interview with the Daily Mail: As humans are the designed beneficiaries of Golden Rice, animal testing could not answer the questions posed. I've got to think Dr. Dubock is fully aware that his statement is some of the purest, grade A hogwash we've ever been offered. In any case, his plan to skip animals and use children is a reckless and dangerous decision and he should be held personally accountable. Sources: Tufts University Involvement in Golden Rice Feeding Trials Open Letter from GM Free Cymru, 2/12/09, gmfreecymru.org British Scientists Condemn Using Children in GM Food Trials as Unacceptable Sean Poulter, Daily Mail, 2/17/09, dailymail.co.ukWhat's the probability your supermarket plums are genetically modified? The Ideal Bite, idealbite.com (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090416/42130055/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates _http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-y ou-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html_ (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about- pirates-1225817.html) Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling Monday, 5 January 2009 Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even c hasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labelling as one of the great menaces of our times have an extraordinary story to tell – and some justice on their side. Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the golden age of piracy – from 1650 to 1730 – the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage Bluebeard that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often saved from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains Of All Nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then – plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry – you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked often, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages. Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied – and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively, without torture. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century. They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed quite clearly – and subversively – that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal Navy. This is why they were romantic heroes, despite being unproductive thieves. The words of one pirate from that lost age, a young British man called William Scott, should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirateing to live. In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it. Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to dispose of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention. At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters. This is the context in which the pirates have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the
[Biofuel] Tory MP fights for drug safety, pens book on daughter's death
Tory MP fights for drug safety, pens book on daughter's death _http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=storyfull_path=2009/apri l/13/qa_young/c=2_ (http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=storyfull_path=2009/april/13/qa_young/c=2) Terence Young's 15-year-old daughter died after taking a billion-dollar-selling drug to alleviate a stomach disorder, but he made a promise to expose the truth. By Cynthia Münster When Conservative MP Terence Young's 15-year-old daughter Vanessa dropped dead on March 19, 2000 after taking a billion-dollar-selling drug to alleviate a stomach disorder, he made a promise to himself to find out the cause of her death and expose the truth. Nine years later, Mr. Young, a former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and a Bell Canada executive, is the new MP for Oakville, Ont. He founded Drug Safety Canada, an advocacy group for increased drug safety, sued the drug manufacturer and settled out of court, and wrote Death by Prescription: A Father Takes On His Daughter's Killer—The Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Industry, published by Key Porter Books. Calm, but passionate, Mr. Young talks about the book, his daughter's tragic death, and the need for Canada's healthcare system to be overhauled. He describes the pharmaceutical industry as a multi-headed creature, and says that everywhere we look in society for objective information on prescription drugs is information that is coloured by pharmaceutical company money. Mr. Young says he's not a one-issue MP, but does want to continue his fight for increased drug safety and plans to introduce a private member's motion proposing to create an independent drug agency. Mr. Young will launch his book in Ottawa on Oct. 20. This interview was edited for style and length. What do you hope to accomplish through the book? There are a number of reasons I wrote the book, the first was, I believe, it will save lives, I believe it will reduce injuries. In fact, people have told me so, people who've followed the work that I do and people who've already read advance copies but also, the book was fulfilling an oath that I made to myself the day after Vanessa died, which was that I would find out exactly how and why she died and expose the truth. How hard was it to take on the big pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare industry? Well, it was very daunting, what I was able to do and I'm not sure how I did it. I knew I could not afford to be angry in my work, my advocacy or in the book, instead, I don't know, I was blessed I guess, I was able to transform the anger into resolve and I just determined that I would not give up, that I would never give up. For example, the lawsuit that we started, my lawyer Gary Will, he fought four motions over six years, legal motions which were designed to delay and put us off and they were hoping that I would give up or die. So that was going in parallel to my advocacy and in parallel to working on the book. And part of doing the lawsuit, in my understanding from reading the book, was also to expose this issue, right? Absolutely, that was the key reason. So how do you feel about settling out of court? Does it defeat the purpose? Oh, that's such a good question. Settling out of court was perhaps the hardest decision in my life. Because I had made this promise to myself, in Vanessa's name, to expose the truth, to discover the truth, and to expose it, I had always felt that a trial where the newspapers got a little bit more evidence every day, over one or two weeks, was the best way to do that, so I had always wanted a trial. But the legal reality in this country is, because of our civil procedure rules, is major corporations have a huge advantage over individuals and, first of all, they have very, very deep pockets; they can afford to pay lawyers $600 an hour for six years, they are very, very wealthy. But also, there is a civil procedure rule in Ontario courts that says if you refuse to settle and you insist on your day in court and then you don't win an award for damages that exceed the amount of that settlement, then you may be ordered to pay the legal fees of the opposite side, of the opposition. In my case, because it had been six years of legal action, plus the inquest, we estimated the legal cost on the other side to be in excess of a $1-million and so the decision I was making was to insist on our day in court for Vanessa, I was putting at risk losing my home and my livelihood, and so on, on top of losing Vanessa we could have lost our home and paying legal fees for the rest of our lives. My family had already suffered enough and so I sought the advice of close friends and spiritual advisers because I wanted to make sure it was the right decision and they were unanimous, they said, 'By writing the book you are fulfilling
[Biofuel] Warning: Never Swallow Regular Toothpaste
Warning: Never Swallow Regular Toothpaste _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/07/Warning-Never -Swallow-Regular-Toothpaste.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/07/Warning-Never-Swallow-Regular-Toothpaste.aspx) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090413/fe6252ff/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Dow to sue over Quebec pesticide ban
Dow to sue over Quebec pesticide ban Claiming **no scientific basis** for residential ban, U.S. company demands $2-million (U.S.) in damages under NAFTA's Chapter 11 MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT Globe and Mail update April 9, 2009 at 6:44 PM EDT _http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090409.wdow0409/BNStor y/National/home_ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090409.wdow0409/BNStory/National/home) Dow AgroSciences LLC has decided to sue the federal government over Quebec's ban on the residential use of pesticides. The U.S.-based company, maker of the herbicide 2,4-D, is claiming $2-million (U.S.) in damages, using controversial provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement that allow businesses to sue governments over regulations that harm their interests. Although Dow announced last year that it was mulling over such legal action, the company had until this month to file a formal notice of arbitration under NAFTA and begin its lawsuit. The case has attracted wide interest because so-called cosmetic pesticide bans are becoming increasingly popular, with Ontario recently following Quebec's lead in introducing one and many retailers removing chemical bug and weed killers from their shelves. Some environmental groups have been pointing to the possibility that Dow would launch its legal action as a reason for renegotiating the Chapter 11 provisions in NAFTA that allow investors to seek compensation over government regulations. But Dow said in its notice of arbitration, which has been posted on the Foreign Affairs and International Trade website, that its dispute has arisen because Quebec has “no scientific basis to impose the ban.” It says 2,4-D, a weed killer often used on dandelions, has received extensive testing and there is **no evidence** it poses a **health or safety risk to humans when used according to label directions.** Under NAFTA, Dow is required to challenge Ottawa, even though its problem is with a Quebec law. Health Canada, which regulates pesticides, has approved 2,4-D for use on residential lawns, and ironically, Dow is using the federal stamp of approval as part of the basis of its claim. A spokesperson for the company said its action wasn't taken to try to stop pesticide bans from spreading. **What is really important here is the scientific principle. Do we want regulations in Canada made on political whim or do we want them based on science?** said Brenda Harris, regulator and government affairs manager for Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. But Lisa Gue, a spokesperson for the David Suzuki Foundation, said she was **disappointed** that Dow chose to go forward with the claim. **We*re calling on the federal government to vigorously defend Quebec*s ban on 2,4-D.** Martin Mittelstaedt is The Globe*s Environment Reporter - Obviously, they haven't seen this latest study! Glyphosate formulations induce apoptosis and necrosis in human umbilical, embryonic, and placental cells _http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19105591?ordinalpos=1itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocS um_ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19105591?ordinalpos=1itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RV DocSum) Benachour N, Séralini GE. UniVersity of Caen, Laboratory Estrogens and Reproduction, UPRES EA 2608, Institute of Biology, Caen 14032, France. We have evaluated the toxicity of four glyphosate (G)-based herbicides in Roundup formulations, from 10(5) times dilutions, on three different human cell types. This dilution level is far below agricultural recommendations and corresponds to low levels of residues in food or feed. The formulations have been compared to G alone and with its main metabolite AMPA or with one known adjuvant of R formulations, POEA. HUVEC primary neonate umbilical cord vein cells have been tested with 293 embryonic kidney and JEG3 placental cell lines. All R formulations cause total cell death within 24 h, through an inhibition of the mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase activity, and necrosis, by release of cytosolic adenylate kinase measuring membrane damage. They also induce apoptosis via activation of enzymatic caspases 3/7 activity. This is confirmed by characteristic DNA fragmentation, nuclear shrinkage (pyknosis), and nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), which is demonstrated by DAPI in apoptotic round cells. G provokes only apoptosis, and HUVEC are 100 times more sensitive overall at this level. The deleterious effects are not proportional to G concentrations but rather depend on the nature of the adjuvants. AMPA and POEA separately and synergistically damage cell membranes like R but at different concentrations. Their mixtures
[Biofuel] Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto?
ISIS Report 06/04/09 Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto? _http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php_ (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php) Percy Schmeiser is a real life hero who played David to Monsanto’s Goliath, and like David, he won. Sam Burcher Percy and Louise Schmeiser in London Governments approve Monsanto’s GM crops Percy Schmeiser and his wife Louise are third generation farmers from the prairies of Western Canada in the province of Saskatchewan near the city of Saskatoon. They feel really blessed not only that his grandparents moved there, but by the fact that in Central Saskatchewan so many types of grain crops can be grown; pulses, oil seeds, in what the locals call God’s Country. The Schmeisers, like hundreds of thousands of farmers all over the world, were using their canola (oilseed rape) seed from year to year and developing new varieties suitable for climatic soil conditions on the prairies. Percy had also been the Mayor of his town for over thirty years, a member of the provincial Parliament and an active member of agricultural committees representing his province on new agricultural policy, law and regulations for the benefit of farmers. In 1996, the Canadian Federal Government and the US Government gave regulatory approval to four genetically modified (GM) crops: soya, corn or maize, cotton and canola. At the time not all GM crops in Canada were herbicide tolerant except for Monsanto’s Roundup Ready canola and soya, both resistant to the company’s herbicide Roundup. The US Government had also approved Bt cotton and Bt corn that has the added GM toxin from Bacillus thuringenisis (Bt). The Canadian government were fully complicit in allowing Monsanto to develop GM crops on Government test plots and research stations in return for a royalty on every bushel of GM crops sold. Monsanto versus farmer In 1998, two years after the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Canada, the Schmeisers received a lawsuit notice from Monsanto which said that they were growing Roundup Ready canola without a licence from Monsanto and that this was a patent infringement. Monsanto had a patent on a gene to make GM canola resistant to the glyphosate herbicide in its formulation Roundup. This came as a complete surprise to the Schmeisers who immediately realised that all their research and development on canola over the past fifty years had been contaminated by Monsanto’s GMOs. They felt that they had a case against Monsanto for liability and the damages possibly caused to them, and that was the beginning of [1] Schmeiser's Battle for the Seed (SiS 19). And 10 years on, the Schmeisers have been invited to London to tell their full story [2]. The Schmeisers stood up to Monsanto’s claims of patent infringement in the Federal Court with just one judge and no jury. The pre-trial took two years to go to court in which Monsanto claimed that despite having no knowledge of Percy Schmeiser ever having obtained any GM seed, he must have used their seed on his 1 030 acres of land because ninety-eight percent of the land was GM contaminated. And, because the Schmeisers had contaminated their own seed supply with Monsanto seed, ownership of the Schmeisers seed supply reverted to Monsanto under patent law. Monsanto owns all crops or seeds contaminated, the court ruled The Court ruled after a two-and-half-week trial that it was the first patent infringement case on a higher life form in the world. The Judge’s ruling and Percy Schmeiser’s name became famous overnight: - It does not matter how a farmer, a forester, or a gardener’s seed or plants become contaminated with GMOs; whether through cross pollination, pollen blowing in the wind, by bees, direct seed movement or seed transportation, the growers no longer own their seeds or plants under patent law, they becomes Monsanto’s property. - The rate of GM contamination does not matter; whether it’s 1 percent, 2 percent, 10 percent, or more, the seeds and plants still belong to Monsanto. - It’s immaterial how the GM contamination occurs, or where it comes from. The Schmeisers tracked down the source of the contamination. It was their neighbour who had planted GM crops in 1996 with no fence or buffer between them. Nevertheless, the Schmeisers’ seeds and plants reverted to Monsanto, and they were not allowed to use their own seeds and plants again, nor keep any profit from their canola crop in 1998. The Schmeisers appealed against the ruling, and after another two years, it was upheld by the Federal Court of Appeal judges even though they did not agree with all the trial judge’s statements. The Schmeisers believe that the case should have been thrown out of Court and not upheld. After having lost the two trials costing them $300 000 of their own money, Percy took the
[Biofuel] Chapter 6. THE HEALTH OF THE NERVES + links to many diseases/illnesses Researc
from the Book: Magnesium, The Nutrient That Could Change Your Life _http://www.mgwater.com/rodtitle.shtml_ (http://www.mgwater.com/rodtitle.shtml) (http://www.mgwater.com/rodtitle.shtml) Chapter 6. THE HEALTH OF THE NERVES _http://www.mgwater.com/rod06.shtml#abbott_ (http://www.mgwater.com/rod06.shtml#abbott) Think of all the jobs the nervous system must perform. Every activity of life, from the respiration of a single cell, to a gross motor function such as piloting an aircraft, is controlled by the nerves. Yet nutrition as it applies to the nerves is a sadly neglected affair. Any schoolchild knows he needs plenty of protein for muscle, vitamin C for healthy gums, and calcium for strong bones. But ask him what foods are good for his nerves and chances are he doesn't know. Fortunately, the fats, proteins, and vitamins that are needed for healthy nerve tissue are fairly abundant in the diet. However, one nutrient that recent research has found to be lacking in the diets of most people, and which lack may be the cause, of so much nervous illness, is magnesium. Information on, the essentiality of magnesium to the nerves was published by Penn and Loewenstein of Columbia University in Science (January, 1966), and will be discussed in a later chapter. Taking advantage of new advances in electronic measuring techniques, the scientists studied the electrical conduction of currents by the nerves. Their most important finding was that while calcium is the prime conductor of these minute electrical currents, it is magnesium that maintains normal levels of calcium in the system. How does magnesium regulate calcium levels? Inside the body, these two minerals are positively charged. When they come into contact with negatively charged particles, an electrical current is formed. It is believed that fatty acids comprising the major portion of nerve tissue are negatively charged. It is for this reason, then, that calcium and magnesium supplies must be constantly renewed; without them, the flow of current by the nerves cannot be maintained. In, like fashion, a storage battery **works** only when a positive and a negative electrode are present to maintain an electrical current. When the positive plates become exhausted, the battery is no longer any good. By this same mechanism, small amounts of electrical currents flow from the calcium ion to the negatively charged nerve lipids. When magnesium levels are low, the calcium supply becomes exhausted, and in the absence of adequate calcium, the nerve cells cease to function. Calms the Nerves Magnesium works in other ways to preserve the health of the nervous system. By the twentieth century, doctors had learned that magnesium injections exert a depressant effect upon the nerves. In fact, one of the early uses of the mineral was to induce sleep. It is significant that hibernating animals have very high magnesium levels. Magnesium has also been shown effective in controlling convulsions, in pregnant women, epileptic seizures, and **the shakes** in alcoholics. Yet one of the paradoxical effects of the mineral upon the nerves is that a magnesium-deficient person who takes magnesium feels more energetic than before, even though the mineral is a depressant and not a stimulant. Actually, magnesium relieves the nervous irritability and excessive energy that give rise to fatigue in the first place. It should not be surprising, then, that when a person's magnesium level is subnormal, the nerves are unable to control such functions as muscle movement, respiration, and mental processes. Twitching, irregular heartbeat, irritability, and nervous fatigue are symptoms of what is frequently found to be magnesium depletion. Most often, deficiency is simply a result of failure to obtain adequate magnesium from such dietary sources as wheat germ, cocoa, desiccated liver, eggs, green vegetables, soybeans, and almonds. In some instances, however, absorption of nutrients can be impaired by coexisting illness, such as an intestinal infection. In such an event, much of the ingested magnesium may be lost from the body. A Host of Disorders A case history presented in the Archives of Neurology (June, 1965) by Dr. Robert Fishman of New York illustrates just how **inadequate dietary intake coupled with excess gastrointestinal loss** can lead to a host of nervous disorders. A 29-year-old man suffering from intestinal trouble for six years finally had large portions of the large and small colon removed. Six months later, he was readmitted to the hospital for a broken vertebra resulting from a **generalized convulsion** he had experienced during sleep. Dr. Fishman writes: **During the week prior to admission, he was noted by his family to be increasingly irritable and mildly confused, and to have twitching of the muscles of the face, hands, and
[Biofuel] THE BOB BECK INTERVIEW
THE BOB BECK INTERVIEW _http://www.health-science-spirit.com/beckinterview.html_ (http://www.health-science-spirit.com/beckinterview.html) Bob Beck is a physicist, holding a PhD in physics from the University of Southern California. He also was previously a Professor at the University of California. He began his professional life as a photo-journalist and owned a photography studio in Hollywood. He is a researcher and inventor who likes to improve upon other people*s inventions. His version of the Brain Tuner has been used successfully to alleviate insomnia, depression, anxiety and addictions. He is also the inventor of the strobe flash light. He has been nominated by a Mexican hospital for the Noble Prize for his research in developing an aids cure. He believed that he would not receive the prize, which he did not, because he is not a **team player** in the organized health field. Leading Edge Newspaper publishers Kenneth and Dee Burke interviewed Bob Beck at the Global Sciences Congress in Denver, Colorado, where cutting-edge, innovative information continues to be presented year after year. Statement of Robert C. Beck: **All statements made by me are mine, and mine alone. I am expressing this as my opinion; I am expressing it as theoretical, although we have abundant proof; I am saying this information is given for your education and informational purposes only. I cannot make any medical claims, although we have hundreds of spontaneous remissions. Everything I say is copyrighted 1997 by Robert C. Beck.** LE: Bob, tell us about your low-cost technology that allows us to cure diseases like AIDS and cancer. CONTINUED .. AT URL (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090404/18c4a396/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] HEALING CRISIS The Road to Better Health
HEALING CRISIS The Road to Better Health _http://www.health-science-spirit.com/healingcrisis.html_ (http://www.health-science-spirit.com/healingcrisis.html) by Walter Last I routinely recommend to my patients to adopt a high-quality, low-allergy diet right on their first visit. When they come back two or three weeks later, they often say that they feel much better now but a week ago they had a cold. When I ask about the symptoms they turn out to be mainly a profuse mucus discharge, sometimes also diarrhoea, but rarely are there signs of a real infection. In fact, these patients just experienced their first healing crisis on their long path to better health. This concept of a healing crisis clearly shows the opposite perceptions that drug medicine and holistic medicine have of health and the healing process. In drug medicine it is assumed that a patient who is free of disease symptoms is more or less healthy and the aim of drugs is to achieve this condition by removing any disagreeable symptoms. Frequently alternative or complementary medicine is used in the same way, instead of more or less toxic drugs just more benign remedies are being used. This is what most patients want and according to their beliefs they either use drugs or natural remedies for this purpose. However, holistic medicine, following in the footsteps of the old nature cure movement, aims much higher. Here, health is regarded not just as a temporary absence of disease symptoms, but as a state of profound physical, emotional and mental wellbeing so that we simply cannot develop or catch a disease. Animals living in an unspoiled natural habitat in the wild commonly display this kind of health. If we want to come close to such outstanding health, we have to work for it by consciously minimising the multitude of negative influences on our health and maximise positive factors instead. However, experience shows that we do not follow a straight line of either health improvement or health deterioration. Similar to periods of illness interspersing times of relative wellbeing on the common road to chronic degenerative diseases and death, so we have also ups and downs on the road to superior health. The main difference is that the road to deteriorating health on average is sloping downhill while the other road on average goes up in health. Travelling downhill is easy, we do not need to do anything about it, but improving our health requires consistent effort. Contrary to the often-lengthy periods of ill health on the downhill road, the dips on the uphill road are usually short and sharp. They are called 'healing crisis' although I prefer the less dramatic name 'healing reaction', also 'cleansing reaction' or simply 'reaction'. After each reaction we advance to a higher level of health than before the reaction. Holistic therapists realise that the road to better health follows a definite pattern. The old school of nature cure called it HERING'S LAW OF CURE: All cure starts from within out, from the head down and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared. Dr John Whitman Ray has developed a method specifically designed to help us travel the long road to superior health. He called it Body Electronics, using nutrition as well as press point therapy to facilitate emotional release and expansion of consciousness. Out of this work Dr Ray found it necessary to modify Hering's Law to the following LAW OF HEALING CRISIS: A healing crisis will occur only when an individual is ready both physiologically and psychologically. The basic foundation for all healing is nutritional preparedness. A healing crisis will begin from within out, in reverse order chronologically as to how the symptoms have appeared, tempered by the intensity of the trauma. The individual will have the opportunity to re-experience each trauma, both physiological and psychological, beginning with the trauma of least severity. It must be recognised that traumas involving emotions, which include all traumas, will be released in order, beginning with unconsciousness, then apathy, grief, fear, anger, pain and eventually enthusiasm (love), in conjunction with the appropriate word patterns for each emotion and thought pattern (sensory memory) which are accessible at each level. Unconditional love and unconditional forgiveness are the keys to apply and transmute any resistance at any level, once these resistances are brought to view through the application of the laws of love, light and perfection. With this definition Dr. Ray emphasises the importance of the emotional side of our health problems. Each disease, accident or surgical intervention contains a strong emotional component which needs to be re-experienced during a reaction, otherwise the healing will remain incomplete and the problem will present itself again at a later time
[Biofuel] The SSD Project
The SSD Project (Applies to foreigners too) _https://ssd.eff.org/home_ (https://ssd.eff.org/home) The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it. Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090401/f881ad0b/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Minimally Invasive Oxygen/Ozone Shot Set to Replace Surgery for Pain of Herniate
Minimally Invasive Oxygen/Ozone Shot Set to Replace Surgery for Pain of Herniated Disks _http://www.prohealth.com/library/showArticle.cfm?libid=14436B1=EG040109_ (http://www.prohealth.com/library/showArticle.cfm?libid=14436B1=EG040109) The estimated improvement in pain and function is impressive when we looked at [more than 8,000] patients who ranged in age from 13 to 94 years with all types of disk herniations. A minimally invasive treatment - which safely and effectively uses injection of oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks - will become standard in the United States in the next few years, researchers explained at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 34th Annual Scientific Meeting. In a recent study,(1) the interventional radiologists examined just how ozone relieves the pain associated with herniated disks. Back pain is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. While the pain of herniated disks can be severe, it can ease over time, and many people may no longer feel the need for medical care. However, in some, the pain from herniated (or ruptured or slipped) disks is intolerable or persists. Having a herniated disk can affect how you perform everyday activities and can cause severe pain that influences almost everything you do; but you don*t have to undergo invasive surgery, noted Kieran J. Murphy, MD, an interventional neuroradiologist and chief of medical imaging at the University of Toronto, Canada. Oxygen/ozone therapy involves injecting a gas mixture of oxygen and ozone into a herniated disk. The treatment can limit pain and inflammation by reducing the disk’s volume. Currently, open diskectomy and microdiskectomy (both involving removal of disk material through an incision) are the standards in surgical treatment for herniated disk. Oxygen/ozone treatment of herniated disks is an effective and extremely safe procedure; interventional radiologists use imaging to guide a needle to inject oxygen/ozone into injured disks, explained Murphy. The estimated improvement in pain and function is impressive when we looked at patients who ranged in age from 13 to 94 years with all types of disk herniations,” he adds. “Equally important, pain and function outcomes are similar to the outcomes for lumbar disks treated with surgical diskectomy, but the complication rate is much less (less than 0.1 percent). In addition, the recovery time is significantly shorter for the oxygen/ozone injection than for the diskectomy, said Murphy. The spine is a stunningly beautiful piece of engineering, or, as our engineers say, the spine is like a complex electromechanical system. And the interventional radiology oxygen/ozone treatment takes a minimalist approach. It’s all about being gentle, said Murphy. Ozone shrinks disk volume; this is why it provides pain relief, said Murphy, whose second study explored the mechanism of why oxygen/ozone treatment works. The bones (vertebrae) that form the spine in the back are cushioned by small, spongy disks. When these disks are healthy, they act as shock absorbers for the spine and keep the spine flexible. But when a disk is damaged, it may bulge or break open. Surgical diskectomy risks leaving the patient with too little disk. There are millions of people with back pain who suffer and who can't work because of their pain. Undergoing invasive surgical diskectomy puts you on a path where you may be left with too little disk. Taking out a protruding disk may lose the shock absorption that naturally resides between them in the spine, said Murphy, who predicts this procedure will become standard in the United States within the next five years. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of various results published for oxygen/ozone treatment in regards to pain relief, reduction of disability and risk of complications.(2) More than 8,000 patients from multiple centers in multiple locations were included in the study. • The estimated mean improvement for patients after treatment based on the 10-point visual analog scale (VAS), a standard tool for rating the disabling effects of back pain, was a change of 3.9 (with 0 being no pain and 10 representing worst pain experienced). • The estimated mean improvement was 25.7 percent for the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), which measures one*s ability to manage everyday life - such as washing, dressing or standing (with 61 percent or higher representing back pain that has an impact on all aspects of daily living. The improvement scores for VAS and ODI outcomes are well above both the minimum clinically important difference and the minimum (statistically significant) detectable change, indicating that the improvement in pain and function is a real change that can be felt by the patient. Much research in oxygen/ozone treatments
[Biofuel] Fat, MSG, Aspartame, It's in all the food - Dr Russel Blaylock
Dr. Russel Blaylock discusses how our food today is adulterated with excitotoxins. Dr. Blaylock has written many books and does an excllent job explaining how these toxins affect our bodies. He cuts through the political and industry lies. This is a must see video. _www.TheFoodIsHorrible.com_ (http://www.TheFoodIsHorrible.com) (http://www.TheFoodIsHorrible.com) _http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-214166627927194ei_ (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-214166627927194ei) = -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090403/f813bfbb/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] A Poster for Environmental Illness
forwarding... Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) or Environmental Illnesses (E.I.) can kill. It is not a laughing matter. Please read through the files here and help to make a difference. Download the poster and ask medical offices and work places etc. to display it. The world is changed one act at a time. Take care and please keep safe. deborah _http://www.noccawood.ca/cgi-scripts/csNewsPro/news_upload/Help_20Educate_20Ab out_20MCS_2edb.ES%20Poster%20Landscape.pdf_ (http://www.noccawood.ca/cgi-scripts/csNewsPro/news_upload/Help_20Educate_20About_20MCS_2edb.ES%20Poster%20Lands cape.pdf) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090326/f71c256e/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Showing of Lyme Disease Film **Under your skin**
Free showing of the Lyme Disease documentary movie, **Under Our Skin** -- Wednesday, -- April 8 at 6:30 PM -- at National Integrated Health Associates, 5225 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 402, Washington DC 20015. Reigster at _www.nihadc.com/seminars/_ (http://www.nihadc.com/seminars/) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090324/ff2e70a8/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Probiotics Immunity: A Beautiful Partnership
Well we will disagree again. In the last 8 years of being involved with many people and health groups on the internet, you are the only person whom didn't seem to understand that yeast was a fungus and that the major part of the immune system is in the digestive system. And as owner of group for Environmental Illnesses I get many questions every day not only from groups but also from organizations. I could point out that science is a big subject or subjects and as you have not been very specific as to what area you write about, do not see the relevance. You posted it in html format, so it was much bigger than necessary and exceeded the server limit. The server stopped the message and the List administration wrote to you explaining why it was stopped and asked you to send it again in plain text/ASCII. Don't you know how to send a plain text message? It's a requirement on a mailing list, not only because of all the bloat but because html-coded messages can and do carry viruses, and plain text messages don't. Well as far as that goes, no I don't know how to send posts in plain test/ASCII . I have belonged posted to 2 different mailing lists which are similar to this one for over 8 years and not once has anybody said anything about this. [And of coarse I belong to many yahoo groups but they are another kettle of fish compared to this list.] Plain Test ASCII seems to be a requirement only on this list. But that is okay; different owners, different rules. I am truely not interested in debating this immune sytem issue, so I am just going to post a whole bunch of urls and let you read them. These were certainly not hard to find, I just did not have them on hand. These are not the ones that caused me to believe that the imume system is mostly in your digestive system but those ones are on my old computer and for many reasons the information has not been transferred to this computer yet. It has been at least 4 years or longer since I needed to check out this info. Gastrointestinal Tract The gastrointestinal tract is also a prominent part of the immune system.[3] The low pH (ranging from 1 to 4) of the stomach is fatal for many microorganisms that enter it. Similarly, mucus (containing IgA antibodies) neutralizes many of these microorganisms. Other factors in the GI tract help with immune function as well, including enzymes in the saliva and bile. Enzymes such as Cyp3A4, along with the antiporter activities, are also instrumental in the intestine's role of detoxification of antigens and xenobiotics, such as drugs, involved in first pass metabolism. Health-enhancing intestinal bacteria serve to prevent the overgrowth of potentially harmful bacteria in the gut. Microorganisms are also kept at bay by an extensive immune system comprising the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract) Nutrition and the immune system of the gut. Studies suggest that the development and expression of the regional immune system in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is relatively independent of systemic immunity. This is reflected in significant differences in functional response of T cells and B cells and affects cytokine patterns and activation pathways when regional immunity is compared to systemic immunity. _http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9684259_ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9684259) HIV Hiding from Drugs in Gut, Preventing Immune Recovery Gut-associated lymphoid tissue accounts for 70 percent of the body’s immune system. Restoring its function is crucial to ridding the body of the virus.” _http://www.physorg.com/news73573729.html_ (http://www.physorg.com/news73573729.html) Under Surveillance: The gut's immune system _http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/gut/papers/surveillance.dtl_ (http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/gut/papers/surveillance.dtl) Immunity, Inflammation, and Allergy in the Gut In both mouse and man, mutations in genes that control innate immune recognition, adaptive immunity, and epithelial permeability are all associated with gut inflammation. _http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/307/5717/1920_ (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/307/5717/1920) The Gut: Inside Out The gut epithelium and the associated mucosal immune system act as the mediators between the host and its symbiotic flora, and as MacDonald and Monteleone (p. 1920) discuss, different factors that interrupt this interplay can lead to inflammatory disorders of the gut. Despite the gut's extensive surveillance system, intestinal pathogens can wreak havoc, _http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;307/5717/1895_ (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;307/5717/1895) The Development of Gut Immune Responses and Gut Microbiota: Effects
Re: [Biofuel] Probiotics Immunity: A Beautiful Partnership
You do ask questions that nobody else asks, Keithkeeps me on my toes so to speak... Yes, 80% of your immune system is in your digestive systme. This is partly why those that are ill with most major illnesses will also have digestive problems which they probably got before they got their illness regardless if it is cancer, MS, Parkinson's, whatever. When you have any digestive problem even if it seems minor such as frequent burping, passing gas, mild acid reflux etc then your immune system is compromised. This is also another reason why it is not a good idea to have any surgury that messes with or takes out part of your digestive system. And why if one has a digestive condition then in my opinion, it is very important to deal with it and heal it. It leads to other things that eveyone would rather avoid..I also get rather emphatic about not eating processed food of any kind, nor GM foods, etc These are all hard on your digestive system. Therefor effect your immune system.. In reality, there is no digestive condition that is minor in my opinion. The good news though is that all digestive disorders can be remedied or healed. Only allopathic medicine is not going to tell you that. Here is an article that I think that you will find interesting Keith. Especially given your unique perception of the digestive system. I tried to post it but it was too big evidently. The Long Hollow Tube: A Primer on the Digestive System By Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD _http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/digestion_primer.html_ (http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/digestion_primer.html) I tried to find something that would specifically say for you how much of the immune system is in the digestive system but couldn't find one. I suspect this is 'fact' just as yeast is a fungus is a fact.. I have several articles on digestive issues such as Irritable Bowel Sysdrome, Leaky Gut, Acid Reflux etc but thought the one above was more an all around reading. Yeast/fungus in our digestive track also has a practical beneficial use actually too. When we die, our bodies become very acidic and this acts like a trigger on the yeast and it grows. It is the yeast/fungus that causes our bodies to decompose when we die. This is not supposed to happen when we are alive . Candida is very unhealthy and bad for a living body. best wishes Shan Re: [Biofuel] Probiotics Immunity: A Beautiful Partnership Keith Addison Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:38 -0700 Hm. Your gut acts as a huge immune organ, your first line of defense against infection, so you need an ample supply of probiotics - beneficial bacteria that live in the intestinal tract and help guard it. As they naturally do, until it all gets upset. Aristotle said worms are the intestines of the earth, but I think the living soil itself is an intestine, the worms are just a part of it. The soil's just the same as an intestine, only sort of inside-out (or maybe intestines are outside-in). It has the same beneficial microorganisms as a healthy gut, and the same solution when the healthy balance is upset and the pathogens take over: feeding sick soil well-made thermophilic compost is much the same as feeding probiotics to an ailing gut - but then you have to stop feeding it junk-food too (for the soil read chemicals). Healthy food is grown in healthy soil, and if that's what you eat you shouldn't need probiotics, and you shouldn't need vitamin and mineral supplements either. But we live in a toxic soup these days, we probably need all the help we can get, and probiotics, vitamins and mineral supplements definitely have their uses. Anyway, I think your gut isn't only the first line of defence, it's also the first line of attack. It's not really part of the immune system, essentially it's outside the body - it's a big hole that goes right through you, without the immune system's protection that your organs and internal systems get. The whole lining of the alimentary canal is a sort of inner skin. Medically the whole thing is a huge vulnerability. The gut contains something like 2 oz of bacteria, busily digesting your food for you, and indeed providing your body with the building blocks a healthy immune system needs, but the bacteria aren't an integral part of the body's immune system. Nor is your outer skin ever faced with such a massive bacterial overload to contend with, along with a daily supply of decomposing food. All goes well nonetheless, just as long as you're living right and eating real food, which will greatly strengthen your resistance to the environmental toxic overload as well as to pathogens and disease. The body's defenses are centered in the digestive tract where immune cells
[Biofuel] Treated-wood woes - Watch out for pressure-treated products
Treated-wood woes Watch out for pressure-treated products _http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=925397_ (http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=925397) By Lori Brown The right stuff Selecting building materials is vital to sustainable design because of the environmental impacts associated with processing and transportation. Actually seeing how products are made might make us reconsider using them in our green buildings and homes. Otto von Bismarck, a 19th-century aristocrat, once said, **The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night.** He*s right, but in my experience pressure-treated wood and particle board should be added to his list (although I’m glad I know the whole story). Pressure treatment is a chemical process in which wood is placed inside a closed cylinder. Vacuum and pressure are then applied to force preservatives into it. The chemicals help protect the wood from termites, other insects and fungal decay. Toxic treatment Pressure-treated lumber contains some of the most potent cancer agents, such as chromated copper arsenate, alkaline copper quat, micronized copper quat, copper azole and sodium borates. Classified as waterborne preservatives, these chemicals primarily are found in treated lumber used in residential, commercial and industrial structures. Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) contains chromium, copper and arsenic (yikes). The chemicals are what give treated lumber a green color, which goes to show that just because something is green doesn’ t make it good for the environment! When pressure-treated wood is exposed to the environment—or buried into the ground—it poses a threat to human health and the environment by allowing toxins to leach into the surrounding soil and water. Obviously, it should never be burned. More than 90 percent of outdoor wooden structures are made with pressure-treated wood. It is used frequently for fences, raised garden beds, formwork for patios, borders, mow strips, decks, picnic tables, pet houses and even children’s play equipment. In fact, nearly all wooden playground equipment has been treated with toxic chemicals. This is why it is highly recommended that children wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water after coming in contact with it. Other options Alternatives to pressure-treated wood depend on the project. The best for outdoor applications—such as decks and play sets—is to use redwood, which is more expensive but never needs sealing or staining. Redwood*s aesthetic appeal is undeniably greater than other lumber and building materials, and its resistance to decay and insects make it well worth the added expense. There are several recycled rubber and plastic garden borders on the market. For raised planters, you can use recycled wood and plastic lumber. Look for wood treated by TimberSIL, too. Instead of impregnating the lumber with a mix of nasty chemicals and heavy metals, this product is treated at very high heat with sodium silicate (glass). Take the time Locally, try talking to the good folks at Meek’s Lumber Hardware. They offer several alternatives using composite materials for decking that resemble natural wood, have lower maintenance requirements and incredibly long lifetimes. It is possible to avoid using treated lumber; it just requires a little extra time investigating other options that are right for your project. For your health and the protection of our environment, consider it time well spent. What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090316/5a4df0a6/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Non-Surgical Tendon, Ligament and Joint Reconstruction
Non-Surgical Tendon, Ligament and Joint Reconstruction by William J. Faber, D.O. _http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/fabernstljr.htm_ (http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/fabernstljr.htm) In acute injuries, the ligaments and tendons become torn. Ligaments function to limit the range of motion that bones can move between each other, and function to stabilize joints and hold the joint together. Tendons function to attach a muscle to bone in order to provide motion. Discs and cartilage serve to absorb shock and keep the bones from rubbing against one another. If the ligaments become torn or over-stretched the joint becomes unstable and resultant friction causes the discs or cartilage to become worn down causing a loss of height. The disc and cartilage may also become worn away by repeated motion. This loss of height causes further ligament laxity and thus more instability. The friction of the joint is a stress. Bones respond to stress by making more bone. This results in bone spurring which is the body*s attempt to splint or stabilize the unstable joint. Degenerative disease is merely the body's attempt to stabilize joints as the tendons and ligaments have not been able to heal because of lack of blood supply. If a patient has considerable degenerative arthritis, the loss of disc or cartilage height causes a laxity of the supporting ligaments. This causes joint instability. Reconstruction has been shown to be effective in these conditions, causing the lax ligaments to become strengthened, thus stabilizing the joint and allowing for increased function and endurance. Reconstruction therapy (also known as sclerotherapy and proliferative) is given by a slender needle similar to the hairline needles of the acupuncturist, into the fibro-osseous junction. This is the area where the tendon or ligament attaches to the bone. The substance used is sodium morrhuate which comes from cod liver fish oil and a local anesthetic. Repeated studies at the University of Iowa have shown that areas injected have increased in size by 35% to 40%, thus causing permanent strengthening. Therapy Benefits Each treatment session results in more and more tissue being laid down in the needed areas. As a result, the joints continue to become stronger. The patient notes more endurance, they can do more activities, as well as activities they couldn*t do before. The main side effect of the treatment is less pain as a result of the joint being stabilized. Also, snapping, clicking, and popping sounds go away or decrease. The patients can usually feel the joint becoming stronger with each treatment they receive. In Dr. George S. Hackett*s monograph Ligament and Tendon Relation Treated by Prolotherapy, illustrations #5 and #6 show normal rabbit tendons which have been injected three times each. The tendon on the right has been given a proliferative solution. The left tendons have been given placebo injections. Hackett found that the tendons injected with the proliferative solutions were 35% to 40% larger in diameter and weight compared to the control injected left tendon. In his monograph and article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Hackett states that 1600 patients with severe sacroiliac sprain were treated with reconstructive injections. They were examined by independent physicians 2 to 12 years after treatment was completed and 82% remained free of pain or recurrences. Double-blind Study Demonstrates Reconstruction Success In a study at the Sansum Medical Clinic of Santa Barbara, California led by Robert Klein, M.D., a rheumatologist, and Thomas Dorman, M.D., an internist, they conducted the most difficult task of a double-blind study in the most difficult cases of continuous low back pain patients who suffered for ten years or longer. They divided 81 patients who had surgery, medications, manipulations adjustments, exercise, physical therapy and other treatments which failed to provide adequate relief for 10 or more years. One group was given manipulation and a reconstructive solution of dextrose, glycerine and phenol. The other group was given sham manipulations and normal saline injections. Great care was taken to insure that neither the patient nor the physicians knew which solution was injected. Both groups were given a total of six treatments. It was found that 88% of the group injected with the reconstructive solution had moderate to marked improvement. They reported their findings in the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet on July 18, 1987. 40% More Strength and Endurance Proven Possible Harold Walmer, D.O. of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania has performed reconstructive therapy since 1952. He became interested in the marked increase of the white areas of the X-rayed tendons of Dr. Hackett. He spearheaded the research which further explored the
[Biofuel] Knee Replacement- The Cartilage Crisis
Knee Replacement- The Cartilage Crisis _http://www.prolonews.com/knee_pain1.htm_ (http://www.prolonews.com/knee_pain1.htm) The cartilage crisis directly parallels the increase in the incidence of arthritis. There are now 40 million people in the United States with arthritis and this number is expected to grow to 60 million by the year 2020. The cartilage crisis is so bad that the number of admissions to hospitals is directly related to the number of people with _osteoarthritis_ (http://www.prolonews.com/osteoarthritis__prolotherapy_e-newsletter_archives.htm) , as this is the third most common reason for hospital admission in the United States. Additionally, 120,000 _hip replacements_ (http://www.prolonews.com/hip_replacement_alternatives.htm) and an incredible 245,000 _knee replacements_ (http://www.prolonews.com/prolotherapy_can_help_people_with_artificial_knees.htm) are performed each year, making the odds one in 14 that you will get a hip or knee replaced. Why Are We In a Cartilage Crisis? This is not too difficult to figure out just from the figures of the number of people needing joint replacement surgery as directly correlated to the number of people who are developing arthritis, which is directly related to the number of people who have received _cortisone injections_ (http://www.prolonews.com/prolotherapy_e-newsletters_cortisone_shots.htm) , _arthroscopy_ (http://www.prolonews.com/arthroscopic_surgery_alternative.htm) , _RICE treatment_ (http://www.prolonews.com/r_i_c_e_therapies_and_sports_injuries.htm) , and _anti-inflammatory medications_ (http://www.prolonews.com/can_i_take_anti-inlammatory_agents.htm) over the past 40 years. These treatments accelerate _cartilage_ (http://www.prolonews.com/knee_ligaments_and_cartilage.htm) breakdown tremendously, and thus also accelerate the arthritic process. What is the Cartilage Crisis? Most of the joints in the body are synovial joints, that is movable, lubricated joints which are able to provide normal pain-free movement because of the unique properties of the _articular cartilage_ (http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chronic_pain.htm) . The articular cartilage covers and protects the ends of the bones in joints. The knee is the largest synovial joint. At the top of the knee are the massive quadricep muscles which cause the knee to extend. The _hamstring muscles_ (http://www.prolonews.com/ischial_tuberosity_pain.htm) are at the back of the knee and cause it to flex. The knee joint has a synovial membrane, which is tissue that lines the noncontact surfaces within the joint capsule. This tissue secretes lubricating synovial fluid, which nourishes all the tissues inside the joint capsule. The knee has internal _ligaments_ (http://www.prolonews.com/ligament_and_tendon_laxities.htm) (_cruciate ligaments_ (http://www.prolonews.com/acl_mcl_pcl.htm) ) and external joint ligaments (collateral ligaments) which stabilize the joint, especially during movement. The knee also has _menisci_ (http://www.prolonews.com/meniscal_injury.htm) , pads of fibrous cartilage which help the weight-bearing bones absorb shock. The ends of the tibia, femur, and _patellar_ (http://www.prolonews.com/prolotherapy_knee_cap_disorders.htm) bones of the knee joint are covered by articular cartilage. This is the structure that is in crisis. Articular cartilage allows near frictionless motion to occur between the surfaces of two bones. Furthermore, articular cartilage distributes the loads on the joint articulation over a larger contact area, thereby minimizing the contact stresses, and dissipates the energy force associated with the load. Articular cartilage is made of specialized protein structures, called _Proteoglycans_ (http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chronic_pain.htm) , water, and _collagen_ (http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue.htm) . The cells (_chondrocytes_ (http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chronic_pain.htm) ) of articular cartilage are responsible for the synthesis of both the collagen and proteoglycans that make up the cartilage and have the ability to synthesize all the various components of the specialized proteins that make up the proteoglycans. This ability of these chondrocytes to replicate is really the key question when considering the potential of cartilage to proliferate or to repair itself. It has been shown in studies on adult human cartilage that there is no decrease in cell counts, even in individuals of advanced age. This fact alone suggests that chondrocytes have the ability to proliferate and repair. Additionally upon certain injury such as mild compression, osteoarthritis, or lacerative injury, the chondrocytes are capable of mitotic division, indicative of growth and proliferation. The
[Biofuel] Probiotics Immunity: A Beautiful Partnership
Probiotics Immunity: A Beautiful Partnership by Dr. Brenda Watson, ND* March 3, 2009 _http://www.prohealth.com/ME-CFS/library/showArticle.cfm?libid=14361B1=EM0311 09C_ (http://www.prohealth.com/ME-CFS/library/showArticle.cfm?libid=14361B1=EM031109C) **When you keep the gut well supplied with probiotics, you make an invaluable contribution to your present and future health.** If you want to stay well, you need a strong immune system to protect you against disease and keep you from getting sick. Your gut acts as a huge immune organ, your first line of defense against infection, so you need an ample supply of probiotics - beneficial bacteria that live in the intestinal tract and help guard it. Your immune cells depend on their partnership with probiotics to help them shield the body from harm. Billions of Immune Helpers While your body consists of about ten trillion cells, the bacteria that live within us add up to close to a hundred trillion cells. The vast majority of these bacteria live in the digestive tract. Accompanying them are most of your immune receptors, which patrol the digestive tract, destroying invaders that could make you ill. Along with probiotics and immune cells, the mucous membrane lining in the digestive tract protects the body from invaders. When bacteria or other microbes contact this wall, immune cells determine whether it is a desirable probiotic - or an undesirable intruder. -- If accredited as friendly, the immune cells leave them alone. In fact, friendly bacteria even get fed – your sticky mucous membranes incorporate sugars that probiotics use for nutrition. -- But if the bacteria or microbes are seen as potential sources of trouble, the mucous ensnares them, and passes them through the intestines where they are eventually excreted. Barrier Defense Research on probiotics demonstrates that they have multiple functions that help mucous membranes and immune cells protect against infection. For example, a study in France found that strains of Bifidobacterium: -- Helped decrease harmful bacteria, -- Kept them from invading cells -- And killed off some types of Salmonella, a bacteria that frequently causes food poisoning (Gut, Nov 2000; pp 646-652). In Germany, when scientists gave a group of people a probiotic supplement for three months, they found that they suffered colds that were, on average, 2 days shorter than those caught by other folks (Clinical Nutrition, Aug 2005, pp 481-491). These researchers found that after only two weeks of supplements, the probiotics helped activate defense cells in the immune system. Wiping Out Infection Probiotics can help immune systems fend off invaders, but new research [also] shows their potential in keeping wounds free from infection. Applied to wounds infected with Staphylococcus aureus, probiotics seem to keep the bacteria from binding to the human cells. More studies are necessary, but current results show how probiotics may be used against antibiotic-resistant infections. [See for example _a recent Swedish study involving Clostridium difficile incidence in ICU patients_ (http://www.prohealth.com//library/showarticle.cfm?libid=14084) .] Probiotics Deficitis Because the immune system depends so heavily on the help of its probiotic partners, anything that threatens these helpful little friends also threatens our health. Changes in the American diet and lifestyle during the past few decades have not made life easy for beneficial bacteria, and may be one important reason our health overall has suffered. As Gary B. Huffnagle, PhD, points out in _The Probiotics Revolution_ (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553804928?ie=UTF8tag=prohealth-20linkCode=as2cam p=1789) (Bantam): **During the past forty or fifty years, Americans have inadvertently performed a massive experiment by making two significant lifestyle modifications: -- Greatly increasing our use of antibiotics -- And substantially changing our diet. Together these changes have produced an invisible epidemic of insufficient probiotics.*** * Fifty years ago, Americans used to eat plenty of whole grains with fresh fruits and vegetables. But our more recent reliance on processed foods, which contain little of the fiber that probiotics need to feed on, has favored the growth of yeast and harmful bacteria, and gradually starved out many of our beneficial organisms. Meanwhile, our use of antibiotics has also wiped out much of the probiotic bacteria in the gut. Promoting Immunity The beneficial probiotic bacteria in our digestive system have several crucial functions that help prevent pathogenic microbes from making us sick. -- Probiotics take food from pathogens. By consuming nutrients available in the gut, probiotics deprive disease-causing organisms the fuel they may use for reproduction. A fiber-rich diet
