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Why Haven't Americans Been Told
About The Cholesterol Fairy Tale . . .
And The Hidden Hazards Of
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs?

 

Big Pharma Company "Accidentally"Contaminates
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AVIAN FLU VIRUS in 18 Countries

 

FDA Declares Form of Vitamin B6 a Drug

 

Mike Adams

Natural News

February 14, 2009

 

The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be "a new drug."

 

Now, any nutritional supplements containing pyridoxamine will be considered adulterated and illegal by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products. See the history of FDA raids on vitamin companies here: http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html

 

Pyridoxamine occurs naturally in fish, chicken and other foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6), putting the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary supplements even though it is already present in the food supply.

 

The FDA’s war on Mother Nature

 

It’s not the first time the FDA has declared a natural molecule to be a "drug" while attacking nutritional supplements that contain the same molecule. A similar story unfolded with red yeast rice and the lovastatin molecules it contains that lower high cholesterol. The drug companies engaged in biopiracy, ripping off the molecule from red yeast rice to make their now-famous "statin drugs." Once the statin drugs were patented, Big Pharma and the FDA went after red yeast rice, claiming the supplement was "adulterated with pharmaceuticals."

 

It wasn’t really adulterated, of course. It just contained a natural statin-drug-like molecule that the drug companies copied and patented.

 

It would be like Big Pharma patenting vitamin C, then the FDA claiming that all oranges and lemons were adulterated with drugs because they naturally contain their own vitamin C.

 

This is the insanity of the FDA as it operates today. You can read more about the FDA on our channel webiste www.FDAreform.org which is updated every few days.

 

So will this ruling on pyridoxamine affect nutritional supplements? Yes, any supplements containing this form of vitamin B6 can now be declared "adulterated" by the FDA. Manufacturers of such supplements can be arrested and shut down for engaging in "illegal drug trafficking." Such is the nature of the FDA’s agenda to criminalize nutritional supplement companies and limit consumers’ access to Mother Nature’s remedies.


Aspartame, Brain Cancer and the FDA


Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Millions of people are eating and drinking aspartame and have been doing so for several decades now. If you are one of these millions consuming some of the 6,000 products that contain aspartame, or know someone who is, please keep reading as the information that follows is crucial to your health.

There have been more reports to the FDA for aspartame reactions than for all other food additives combined. This amounts to over 10,000 complaints, but by the FDA’s own admission, less than 1 percent of those who experience a reaction to a product ever report it. This means that the 10,000 documented accounts probably mean that there are roughly a million people who have experienced reactions to aspartame.

While a variety of symptoms have been reported, almost two-thirds of them fall into the neurological and behavioral category consisting mostly of headaches, mood alterations, and hallucinations. The remaining third is mostly gastrointestinal symptoms.

Aspartame and Your Brain: What Did Early, and Present Day, Tests Reveal?

From the very beginning, the risks of this toxic artificial sweetener were presenting themselves loud and clear (it’s just too bad the policymakers chose to ignore them).

In a two-year study conducted by the manufacturer of aspartame, twelve of 320 rats fed a normal diet and aspartame developed brain tumors while none of the control rats developed tumors, and five of the twelve tumors were in rats given a low dose of aspartame.

Other studies have shown that aspartic acid, one of the main ingredients in aspartame, causes damage to the brains of infant mice.

In 1981, an FDA statistician stated that the brain tumor data on aspartame was so "worrisome" that he could not recommend approval of NutraSweet.

And a late FDA toxicologist testified before the U.S. Congress that aspartame was capable of producing brain tumors. He stated in his testimony that G.D Searle's (the maker of aspartame) studies were "to a large extent unreliable" and that "at least one of those studies has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals ... "

Moving forward to present day, a review conducted in 2008 by scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University of Limpopo found that consuming a lot of aspartame may inhibit the ability of enzymes in your brain to function normally, and may lead to neurodegeneration.

According to the researchers, consuming a lot of aspartame can disturb:

" The metabolism of amino acids
" Protein structure and metabolism
" The integrity of nucleic acids
" Neuronal function
" Endocrine balances

Further, the breakdown of aspartame causes nerves to fire excessively, which can indirectly lead to a high rate of neuron depolarisation.

How, then, did this clearly harmful chemical make it to the market?

Fraud, plain and simple.

The evidence that showed aspartame was harmful was ignored or falsified, and it was pushed through the FDA’s approval process by a select few who stood to benefit handsomely from its profits.

Why Else Might You Want to Avoid Aspartame?

If a risk of brain tumors isn’t enough to sway you, you may be interested to know that aspartame is 40 percent aspartic acid. When aspartic acid is consumed, it significantly raises your blood level of aspartate, which leads to a high level of those neurotransmitters in certain areas of your brain, where they slowly begin to destroy neurons.

But you likely would not notice the symptoms until 75 percent or more of your neurons are already gone. Then, chronic illnesses such as the following, which may by caused by long-term exposure to excitatory amino acid damage, may occur:

" Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease
" Memory and hearing loss
" Hormonal problems
" Epilepsy
" AIDS
" Brain lesions
" Neuroendocrine disorders

And there’s more. Aspartame is 50 percent phenylalanine. Excessive levels of phenylalanine in your brain can cause the levels of serotonin in your brain to decrease, leading to emotional disorders such as depression. It can also cause schizophrenia or make you more susceptible to seizures.

As for the other 10 percent, well that’s methanol, also known as wood alcohol. Not only is methanol on its own a poison, but it breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde -- a deadly neurotoxin -- in your body. Methanol poisoning can lead to a variety of symptoms such as:

" Vision problems
" Headaches, ear buzzing, dizziness
" Nausea and gastrointestinal disturbances
" Weakness, numbness and shooting pains in your extremities
" Behavioral disturbances
" Memory lapses

Aside from the damage it can do to your brain, aspartame can cause cancer. One well-controlled, peer-reviewed, SEVEN-year study even found that as little as 20 mg per day can cause cancer in humans.

One 12-ounce diet soda contains about 180 mg of aspartame, so you do the math on that risk!

Ready to Give up Your Diet Soda (and Aspartame) Habit?

Diet soda is a major source of aspartame in many people’s diets. If diet soda is the culprit for you, be sure to check out Turbo Tapping, which is an extremely effective and simple tool to get rid of your soda addiction in a short period of time.

There are, of course, many other sources of aspartame as well. Sold commercially under names like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Equal-Measure and Canderel, aspartame is found in:

" Diet sodas, juice drinks, and flavored waters
" Chewing gum
" Table-top sweeteners
" Diet and diabetic foods
" Breakfast cereals, such as Fiber One
" Fiber supplements, such as orange flavored Metamucil
" Jams
" Sweets
" Certain vitamins (including childrens) as well as prescription and over the-counter drugs such as Alka Seltzer Plus, and some Tylenol medications

So avoiding this product means reading labels on everything you buy to make sure it’s aspartame-free.

If you’d like to learn more about this dangerous artificial sweetener, or perhaps convince one of your loved ones to stop using it, there are several resources I recommend. First, I spent years researching and writing Sweet Deception. It is the most comprehensive book on the market addressing this issue, and if you or your loved ones drink diet beverages or eat diet foods, please read it sooner rather than later.

I also highly recommend watching Sweet Misery, which is part documentary, part detective story that sheds much-needed light on the controversy surrounding aspartame. Finally, H.J. Roberts’ three-pound tome, Aspartame Disease -- An Ignored Epidemic, is another must-read if you’re anywhere near the fence on this issue.

Please also help us to get the word out about this toxic substance by sharing this article with your friends and family. Millions of people are putting themselves at risk every day -- all because they don’t have access to the truth.


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Obesity Tied to Early Heart Attacks
Heart attacks occur earlier in people who are overweight or obese, and obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature heart attacks.
Dr. Peter A. McCullough, whose research determined this, said that, "Since two thirds of Americans have excess body fat we expect an explosion in the rates of heart attacks among women in their 40’s and 50’s."
McCullough and his colleagues examined the records of more than 111,000 patients who suffered a heart attack. They found that the average age at first heart attack was 74.6 years in the leanest patients and 58.7 years in the most obese.

Sources:
Reuters October 9, 2008

Chronic Kidney Disease Has Increased Sharply

A 30 percent increase in chronic kidney disease over the past decade has prompted the U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS) to issue, for the very first time, a separate report documenting the magnitude of the disease. Chronic kidney disease now affects an estimated 27 million Americans and accounts for more than 24 percent of Medicare costs.
Total cost for end-stage kidney disease alone is now $33.6 billion. In addition, more than 18,000 kidney transplants were performed in 2006, an increase of 3.5 percent over 2005.
Use of deceased donor kidneys increased between 2003 and 2006 at a rate of about 6 to 7 percent. Use of living donors fell 3 percent during that period, but the use of living unrelated donors continues to increase relative to the total number of living donations, and now accounts for 45 percent of all living donor transplantations.

Sources:
Science Daily October 9, 2008

 

 Aerial Spraying of Monsanto's Herbicide
Roundup 'Damages DNA'

GM Watch, May 21, 2007

Straight to the Source

 

 

NOTE: Monsanto's Roundup has been used over thousands of acres of land in a bid to destroy coca plantations as part of the US-backed 'war on drugs'. Both the Colombian government, which has been in charge of the aerial spraying, and the US Environmental Protection Agency have maintained that the herbicide is entirely safe.

 

EXTRACTS: In addition to expected symptoms - including vomiting and diarrhoea, blurred vision, and difficulty in breathing - the researchers found a significantly higher degree of DNA damage - 600 to 800 per cent higher...

 

..None of the individuals used or had been exposed to other herbicides [other than Roundup] or pesticides when the samples were taken.

 

DNA damage may activate genes associated to the development of cancer, lead researcher Cesar Paz y Mino told SciDev.Net, and may also lead to miscarriage or malformations in embryos. ---

 

--- Aerial spraying of herbicide 'damages DNA' Aerial spraying could damage locals health Lisbeth Fog

SciDev.Net, 17 May 2007 http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&...

 

[BOGOTA] Aerial spraying of a herbicide by the Colombian government on the border of Colombia and Ecuador has caused a high degree of DNA damage in local Ecuadorian people, according to a study.

 

The research will be published in the next issue of Genetics and Molecular Biology.

 

The scientists, from the Pontificia Catholic University in Ecuador, analysed blood samples from 24 Ecuadorians living within three kilometres of the border of the two countries. Aerial spraying of a herbicide formulation containing glyphosate - sold under the name Roundup by Monsanto - took place on the Colombian side of the border between late 2000 and early 2001.

 

The Colombian government sprays illegal coca plantations - used to make cocaine - as part of its 'war on drugs'.

 

According to the paper, the application rate of the herbicide (litres per hectare) was 20 times the maximum recommended rate for the formulated product.

 

Half the individuals in the group received spraying directly over their houses, and the blood samples were taken within two months of the spraying taking place.

 

For comparison, blood samples were taken from 21 Ecuadorian individuals living 80 kilometres away from the border, where aerial spraying of the herbicide formulation did not take place.

 

In addition to expected symptoms - including vomiting and diarrhoea, blurred vision, and difficulty in breathing - the researchers found a significantly higher degree of DNA damage - 600 to 800 per cent higher - in the people living near the border compared with those 80 kilometres away.

 

The researchers ruled out tobacco, alcohol, non-prescription drugs and asbestos as causing the DNA damage. None of the individuals used or had been exposed to other herbicides or pesticides when the samples were taken.

 

DNA damage may activate genes associated to the development of cancer, lead researcher Cesar Paz y Mino told SciDev.Net, and may also lead to miscarriage or malformations in embryos.

 

Both Colombia and Ecuador have formed national scientific and technical commissions to study the effects of aerially spraying this herbicide formulation, with the Ecuadorian commission concluding it does affect humans and the Colombian commission refuting this claim (see Pesticides used in Colombian war on drugs 'not harmful').

 

President of the Colombian commission, Alberto Gomez Mejia, told SciDev.Net that it is difficult to establish the real cause of the effects of agrochemicals in humans.

 

Reference: Genetics and Molecular Biology 30, 456 (2007)

 

GM WATCH daily list http://www.gmwatch.org ---


The healing power of honey:
From burns to weak bones, raw honey can help by Kelly Joyce Neff

 

The healing power of honey: From burns to weak bones, raw honey can help

From:

News Target.com - information that empowers

NewsTarget) Raw honey – which has not been pasteurized or filtered, and ideally taken directly from the hive – is a treasure chest of nutritional value and medicinal remedies. It contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals and is a natural and powerful medicine, both internally and externally.

 

The list of honey's beneficial functions is a long one. Honey increases calcium absorption; can increase hemoglobin count and treat or prevent anemia caused by nutritional factors; can help arthritic joints, when combined with apple cider vinegar; fights colds and respiratory infections of all kinds; can help to boost gastrointestinal ulcer healing; works as a natural and gentle laxative; aids constipation, allergies and obesity; provides an array of vitamins and minerals; and supplies instant energy without the insulin surge caused by white sugar. Many have found raw honey helpful for its positive effects against allergies and hay fever, and one or two teaspoons last thing at night can help with insomnia. As an antiseptic, honey is also a drawing agent for poisons from bites or stings or infected wounds, and has outperformed antibiotics in treatments for stomach ulcerations, gangrene, surgical wound infections, surgical incisions and the protection of skin grafts, corneas, blood vessels and bones during storage and shipment.

 

"Raw honey is exceptionally effective internally against bacteria and parasites. Plus, raw honey contains natural antibiotics, which help kill microbes directly. Raw honey, when applied topically, speeds the healing of tissues damaged by infection and/or trauma. It contains vitamins, minerals and enzymes, as well as sugars, all of which aid in the healing of wounds."

 

So writes Dr. Cass Igram, D.O. in The Survivor's Nutritional Pharmacy. In a fascinating modern development, scientists and doctors are beginning to rediscover the effectiveness of honey as a wound treatment. In recent years, honey has been used effectively in clinical settings for the treatment of fist-sized ulcers extending to the bone, as well as for first, second and third degree burns. Complete healing has been reported without the need for skin grafts and with no infection or muscle loss. It can be applied full strength to such conditions, covered with a sterile bandage, and changed daily. When the wounds are clean, honey acts as a healer. This also is the same procedure for infected wounds, ulcerations and impetigo. Garlic honey can also be applied directly to infected wounds, which will help clean up the area of infection.

 

Dr. Peter Molan, professor of biochemistry at Waikato University, New Zealand, has been at the forefront of honey research for 20 years. He heads the university's Honey Research Unit, which is internationally recognized for its expertise in the antimicrobial properties of honey. Clinical observations and experimental studies have established that honey has effective antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Astonishingly, it painlessly removes pus, scabs and dead tissue from wounds and stimulates new tissue growth. "Randomized trials have shown that honey is more effective in controlling infection in burn wounds than silver sulfadiazine, the antibacterial ointment most widely used on burns in hospitals," explains Dr. Molan.

 

Dr. Molan believes that if honey were used from the start in cases of septicemia, there would be far less tissue damage resulting. "The remarkable ability of honey to reduce inflammation and mop up free radicals should halt the progress of the skin damage like it does in burns, as well as protecting from infection setting in", says Dr. Molan. "At present, people are turning to honey when nothing else works. But there are very good grounds for using honey as a therapeutic agent of first choice."

 

Researchers believe that the therapeutic potential of honey is grossly underutilized. With increasing interest in the use of alternative therapies and as the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreads, honey may finally receive its due recognition as a wound healer.

 

Indeed, it works: Raw honey makes a sterile, painless and effective wound dressing. Apply it directly to open cuts, abrasions and burns, and cover it with a piece of gauze. The results will occur quicker than with conventional alternatives, such as salves and creams.

 

Honey is also exceptionally effective for respiratory ailments. One Bulgarian study of almost 18,000 patients found that it improved chronic bronchitis, asthmatic bronchitis, chronic and allergic rhinitis and sinusitis. It's an effective treatment for colds, flu, respiratory infections and a generally depressed immune system. Whereas sugar shuts down the immune system, a good quality honey will stimulate it into action.

 

Here are some more ways to utilize the healing power of honey:

 

BURNS - Apply freely over burns. It cools, removes pain and aids fast healing without scarring. Apart from being a salve and an antibiotic, bacteria simply cannot survive in honey.

 

BED WETTING - A teaspoon of honey before bed aids water retention and calms fears in children.

 

INSOMNIA - A dessertspoon of honey in a mug of warm milk aids sleep and works wonders.

 

HYPERACTIVITY - Replace all use of white sugar with honey. White sugar is highly stimulating with no food qualities. Honey provides the energy without the "spike."

 

NASAL CONGESTION - Place a dessertspoon of honey in a basin of water and inhale fumes after covering your head with a towel over the basin. Very effective!

 

FATIGUE - Dissolve a dessertspoon of honey in warm water or quarter honey balance of water in a jug and keep in the fridge. Honey is primarily fructose and glucose, so it's quickly absorbed by the digestive system. Honey is a unique natural stabilizer: Ancient Greek athletes took honey for stamina before competing and as a reviver after competition.

 

FACIAL DEEP CLEANSER - Mix honey with an equal quantity of oatmeal, and apply as a face pack. Leave on for half an hour, then wash it off. Great as a deep cleanser for acne and other unwanted blemishes.

 

POOR DIGESTION - Mix honey with an equal quantity of apple cider vinegar and dilute to taste with water. This is also wonderful for the joints – and promotes weight loss.

 

HAIR CONDITIONER - Mix honey with an equal quantity of olive oil, cover head with a warm tower for half an hour then shampoo off. Feeds hair and scalp. Your hair will never look or feel better!

 

SORE THROATS - Let a teaspoon of honey melt in the back of the mouth and trickle down the throat. Eases inflamed raw tissues.

 

FOR STRESS - Honey in water is a stabilizer, calming highs and raising lows. Use approximately 25 percent honey to water.

 

ANEMIA - Honey is the best blood enricher by raising corpuscle content. The darker the honey, the more minerals it contains.

 

FOOD PRESERVATIVE – If you replace the sugar in cake and cookie recipes with honey, they'll stay fresher longer due to honey's natural antibacterial properties. Reduce liquids in the mixture by about one-fifth to allow for the moisture present in the in honey.

 

BABY'S BOTTLE - Four teaspoons of honey to a baby's bottle of water is an excellent pacifier and multivitamin additive. If the baby's motions are too liquid, then reduce the honey by half a teaspoon; if too solid increase by half a teaspoon. (Caution: Don't give raw honey to babies under 1 year old; it's just too rich.) For teething, honey rubbed on a baby's gums is also a mild sedative and anesthetic.

 

OSTEOPOROSIS – Research has shown that a teaspoon of honey per day aids calcium utilization and prevents osteoporosis – probably not a bad idea for anyone over 50.

 

LONGEVITY - The most long-lived people in the world are all regular users of honey. An interesting fact, yet to be explained, is that beekeepers suffer less from cancer and arthritis than any other occupational group worldwide.

 

MIGRAINE - Use a dessertspoon of honey dissolved in half a glass of warm water. Sip at the start of a migraine attack, and, if necessary, repeat after another 20 minutes.

 

CONJUNCTIVITIS - Dissolve honey in an equal quantity of warm water. When cooled, apply as a lotion or eye bath.

 

COUGH MIXTURE – Combine 6 ounces (170 grams) liquid honey, 2 ounces (55 grams) glycerin and the juice of two lemons. Mix well. Bottle and cork firmly, and use as required.

 

Raw honey may become granulated, as some does after a week and another maybe only after several years. If the granulations bother you, simply place the honey into a pan of hot water (not boiling) and let it stand until becoming liquid again.

 

Kelly Joyce Neff has an interdisciplinary degree in Celtic Studies which includes work in cultural anthropology, history, linguistics, language, and literature. She is a traditional midwife and herbalist, a reiki master, and an active craftsperson. She lives in San Francisco.

Thursday, February 01, 2007


Hundreds of personal care products contain untested, unapproved nano-scale ingredients that may pose consumer safety concerns

Title

Hundreds of personal care products contain untested, unapproved nano-scale ingredients that may pose consumer safety concerns by Ben Kage

From:

NewsTarget.com printable article Originally published October 11 2006

 

(NewsTarget) A computer analysis of 25,000 personal care product labels -- conducted by non-profit research organization, the Environmental Working Group -- found that hundreds of the products contain nano-sized or micronized materials, which can be very hazardous and unpredictable, according to the FDA.

 

Nano-materials' small size and exceptionally high surface area to volume ratio can produce chemical or physical properties that are vastly different from their larger counterparts. The analysis showed that more than 250 of the analyzed personal care products contain one or more of 57 different nano-scale ingredients that were identified on the labels, and another 9,500 contained ingredients that could be either nano- or conventional-sized, but were not clearly identified one way or the other.

 

Without a clear government definition for nano-sized materials, quantifying how much is present in any given personal care product is difficult, stated a news release at the EWG website, ewg.org. Neither the FDA nor the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel (CIR) has substantiated the safety of nano-scale materials, which means cosmetics manufacturers do not have to divulge the science supporting the safety of the materials to either the FDA or consumers. It is standard to rely on the CIR to assess the safety of ingredients, but the EWG release noted that the panel had not assessed a single nano-material, and had only reviewed 11 percent of conventional cosmetic ingredients.

 

"The industry may have the studies to support the safety of these nano-materials, but they are not required to make any of this information available to the public," said Jane Houlihan, vice president for research at EWG, and author of the assessment. "Manufacturers seem to be following the pattern they established with conventional chemical ingredients: Put poorly tested chemicals into personal care products and do the science later if at all."

 

In response to the safety issues raised by the lack of safety definitions for nano-materials, the EWG is calling for the FDA to:

 

-- "Define, through a public process, what substantiation of safety means for nano-materials. Require industry to make public all of the studies it has substantiating the claim that products containing nano-materials are safe." -- "Identify the presence of nano-materials in all products."

 

-- "Request information on particle size from all personal care product manufacturers."

 

A list of nano-materials and micronized ingredients, as well as the products that contain them, can be found at www.ewg.org.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

 


12 Percent of Americans May Have Diabetes by 2050

 
The FDA may finally be taking a way overdue baby-step at tackling drug safety problems that have plagued the agency, notifying drugmakers that manufacture antihistamines with carbinoxamine as the active ingredient -- and not approved for use by the FDA -- they have up to 90 days to stop producing those medications.
The reason: Carbinoxamine has been linked to the deaths of 21 children, under age 3. Even worse, 26 drugmakers produce some 120 medications containing carbinoxamine, and only two drugs (both made by Mikart Inc.) have been approved by the FDA.
Unfortunately, that's just the tip of the iceberg because carbinoxamine drugs represent only a fraction of the thousands of prescription drugs sold on the market that never got approved by the FDA. In fact, the federal agency figures 2 percent of the prescription drugs sold in America have never been reviewed or, for that matter, deemed safe.

Remember, the common cold is a product of a weakened immune system, a condition that be prevented safely, naturally and without the need for a potentially toxic drug. As reported at http://www.mercola.com/blog

As Reported At USA Today June 8, 2006

Washington Post June 9, 2006

 

Dr. Weil Self Healing  

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Warning: Toxic Chemical Triclosan Can Turn Your Toothpaste into Chloroform

By Mike Adams
Newstarget.com, February 13, 2006
http://www.newstarget.com/017804.html

For years, I have warned people of the danger of personal care products. If you look at the ingredients manufacturers put in their products -- soaps, deodorants, toothpastes and so on -- you will be horrified. These ingredients are highly toxic and cause cancer. They promote leukemia, nervous system disorders and liver problems. Now, some new information has come from Virginia Tech. Researchers that have found that the chemical triclosan, which is found in a lot of antimicrobial soaps and toothpaste products, can react with chlorine in the tap water. Guess what you get?

(This is the horrifying part.) Chloroform. This is a toxic chemical that can give you cancer. In the old movies, you might have seen someone give a person chloroform to knock them unconscious. If you breathe enough chloroform, you will die.

If you are brushing your teeth with toothpaste that has triclosan in it, and you are rinsing with tap water that has chlorine in it, you are getting a little chemical reaction right in your mouth. What a wonderful gift from the toothpaste manufacturers. That's not to mention that some of the toothpastes contain fluoride that isn't really fluoride but fluorosilicic acid, which is a toxic waste product that is molecularly similar to fluoride but has a much different effect on the human body -- a toxic effect. When you wash your hands with antibacterial soap that contains triclosan, you are getting the fumes emitted from this chemical reaction.


NEWS ALERT-IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:
If You Take DHEA Supplements, You Might Be A Criminal!

JUNE 14, 2005 CHICAGO / On May 26, 2005, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona), George Allen (R-Virginia), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a new Senate bill, S. 1137, which seeks to add DHEA to the list of federally controlled anabolic steroids.

DHEA - or dehydroepiandrosterone - is secreted by the adrenal glands and is the most abundant natural steroid-like compound in the human body. It is involved in the manufacture of testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and corticosterone. DHEA declines with age, so by age 65, our bodies make only 10 to 20% of what they did at age 20. DHEA has been an enormously popular anti-aging supplement for middle-aged and elderly Americans. Many anti-aging specialists believe that replacing DHEA in later life will have multiple beneficial effects. Anti-aging physicians recommend DHEA to patients because it can enhance immune resistance against infection, reduce the risk of age-related diseases, including cancer, coronary artery disease, and osteoporosis, improve blood sugar control and help prevent type II diabetes, facilitate weight loss and help convert fat to lean muscle, control Alzheimer's disease, lupus, AIDS, Epstein-Barr virus infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome, treat herpes, menopause, depression, memory, and erectile dysfunction, and increase life expectancy.

The suggestion that DHEA can cause adverse side effects such as liver damage, stroke, heart disease, cancer, etc. in humans has, to-date, failed to be proven by scientific study. Indeed, its daily use by millions of people for general health benefits argue strongly to the contrary. The careful use of DHEA in a controlled setting, monitored by a physician, is both and safe and efficacious. To strip Americans of their access to DHEA without demonstrated public health risks is unwarranted.

Senate Bill 1137 seeks to ban the over-the-counter availability of DHEA, effectively criminalizing those who rely on this supplement for its life enhancement benefits. DHEA will move from a current safe supplement to the list of controlled substances classifying it as an anabolic steroid if opposition is not mounted against this new bill.

Please take action today to oppose S.1137 or DHEA will no longer be obtainable. To write your elected officials and tell them that you support the continued freedom of availability of DHEA supplements, go to the “Save Our Supplements” website www.saveoursupplements.org. Just put your ZIP code into the designated box in the top left corner and click “Go” to send an e-mail to your Senators and Representative letting them know you oppose any legislation that would make DHEA illegal.

Freedoms must be fought for and protected, if we are to preserve our right of an individual's right to choose - including continued access to options in healthcare. Your health depends on your taking action today!

Thank you for your prompt action.
Sincerely,

Medical Education Committee
World Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
Michael Klentze, MD, PhD
Vittorio Calabrese, MD, PhD
Giovanni Scapagnini MD, PhD
Dato Harnam MD, PhD


How safe are our supplements in America - Really ?
By Dr Andrew Saul
Natural health products, such as amino acids, herbs, vitamins and other nutritional supplements, have an extraordinarily safe usage history. In the USA, close to half of the population takes herbal or nutritional supplements every day. That is over 145,000,000 individual doses daily, for a total of over 53 billion doses annually.
The most elementary of forensic arguments is, where are the bodies? Turn to the 2003 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposures Surveillance System, published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Pharmaceutical drugs, on the other hand,
caused over 2,000 poison control-reported deaths, including
Antibiotics: 13 deaths
Antidepressants: 274 deaths
Antihistamines: 64 deaths
Cardiovascular drugs: 162 deaths
It would be incorrect to state that only prescription drugs kill people. In 2003,
there were 59 deaths from aspirin alone. Other deaths reported by the American Association of Poison Control Centers included: aerosol air fresheners: 2 deaths nailpolish remover: 2 deaths perfume/cologne/aftershave: 2 deaths charcoal: 3 deaths dishwashing detergent: 3 deaths (and interestingly, weapons of mass destruction: 0 deaths)
In America in 2003, there were 28 deaths from heroin, and yet acetaminophen ("Tylenol") alone killed 147. Though acetaminophen killed over five times as many, few would say that we should make this generally-regarded-as-safe, over-the-counter pain reliever require a prescription. Even caffeine killed two people in 2003, a number equal to the two fatalities attributed to non-iron vitamin/mineral supplements. Tea, coffee and cola soft drinks are not sold with restriction, prescription, or in childproof bottles, and rather few would maintain that they need to be.
IN PERSPECTIVE
Supplementation's harshest critics have traditionally railed against vitamins
(especially in large doses) as being outright "dangerous" and at the very least "a waste of money." Yet nutritional supplements are very safe, and for much of the population, very necessary. . . To illustrate how extraordinarily important supplements are to persons with a questionable diet, consider this: Children who eat hot dogs once a week double their risk of a brain tumor. Kids eating more than twelve hot dogs a month (that's barely three hot dogs a week) have nearly ten times the risk of leukemia as children who ate none.
(Peters JM, Preston-Martin S, London SJ, Bowman JD, Buckley JD, Thomas DC.
Processed meats and risk of childhood leukemia. Cancer Causes Control.
1994 Mar; 5(2):195-202.
Zinc How important is it ?
Zinc, the brain and behavior.
Pfeiffer CC, Braverman ER.
The total content of zinc in the adult human body averages almost 2 g.
            This is approximately half the total iron content and 10 to 15 times
the total body copper. In the brain, zinc is with iron, the most concentrated metal. The highest levels of zinc are found in the hippocampus in synaptic vesicles, boutons, and mossy fibers. Zinc is also found in large concentrations in the choroid layer of the retina which is an extension of the brain. Zinc plays an important role in axonal and synaptic transmission and is necessary for nucleic acid metabolism and brain tubulin growth and phosphorylation. Lack of zinc has been implicated in impaired DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis during brain development. For these reasons, deficiency of zinc during pregnancy and lactation has been shown to be related to many congenital abnormalities of the nervous system in offspring.
Furthermore, in children insufficient levels of zinc have been associated
with lowered learning ability, apathy, lethargy, and mental retardation.

Hyperactive children may be deficient in zinc and vitamin B-6 and have an excess
of lead and copper. Alcoholism, schizophrenia, Wilson's disease, and Pick's disease
are brain disorders dynamically related to zinc levels.
Zinc has been employed with success to treat Wilson's disease, achrodermatitis
enteropathica, and specific types of schizophrenia.
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Watchdog Group Petitions FDA for Warning Labels on 356 Personal Care Products
Shampoos, Skin Creams and Other Products Found to Lack Safety Data

WASHINGTON, June 14-2004 Environmental Working Group (EWG) today petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to recall or issue warning labels on a wide array of personal care products whose ingredients have not been adequately assessed for safety or may harm health.

The legal action was prompted by a 6-month EWG computer investigation. Researchers found that 356 personal care products contain ingredients that, according to the chemical industry's own review panel, lack sufficient data to support their safe use in personal care products. The products included shampoos, shaving products, moisturizers and other common items sold under brand names such as Jergens, L'Oreal, St. Ives, Dove and more.

The EWG study found that another 19 products, including Desitin Diaper Rash Ointment and Stridex Triple Action Pads, contain ingredients that, according to industry assessments, may cause harm when used as directed on the product label. EWG seeks a recall or warning label on those products as well. Only 11 per cent of 10,500 personal care product ingredients have been publicly assessed for safety.

The EWG petition is the most comprehensive legal challenge FDA has faced over personal care products to date. Because FDA has no definition for the term "safe" as it applies to personal care products, EWG requested the Agency give practical meaning to its term "adequately substantiated for safety." EWG also petitioned FDA to require internet vendors to clearly list all ingredients in all products they are selling, and to assess the safety of chemical ingredients that have not been studied by industry or the government.

The FDA has no authority to require safety tests before chemicals can be put in personal care products and used by consumers.

"Most consumers believe that if a product is on a store shelf, government scientists have approved it," said EWG Vice President for Research Jane Houlihan. "But the $35 billion cosmetics industry appears to have the freedom to put whatever chemicals it wants into our personal care products. FDA needs to update decades-old safeguards and make sure that personal care products on store shelves contain only ingredients that have been proven safe."

Charlotte Brody, executive director of Commonweal, said, "Cosmetics companies that sell products in Europe have to remove chemicals that can cause cancer, mutations, and birth defects from their products no later than September to comply with a new law. Today I ask those companies to sell their safer, reformulated products to American consumers as well."

Arianne Callender, general counsel for EWG, said, "The FDA studies food and drugs with care and caution before allowing them to be sold in stores. Shouldn't our personal care products at least meet the same safety standards as food? We petition FDA today to remove from store shelves or put warning labels on products whose ingredients have not met scientific safety standards. We ask for meaning behind the word, 'safe,' and we seek scientific study of ingredients in personal care products that could cause harm."

Consumers can read the petition at http://www.ewg.org and use EWG's "Skin Deep" website to learn what health effects are associated with ingredients in their own personal care products.


Cosmetic Safety Database by Environmental Working Group
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1. In Australia the number one disease among children is brain tumors and brain cancer… just surpassed Leukemia

2. After 10 years of cell phone use, sperm count in adult males is down 30%.

3. In Japan you aren’t allowed to use Cell Phones on the train… due to 2nd hand EMF.

4. In England it is recommended that teenagers 16 and under refrain from unnecessary cell phone use.

5. None of the Cell Phone Companies are insured … they are all self insured … Lloyds of London won’t insure.

6. 7 State Class Action Lawsuits

10 Brain Cancer Lawsuits

2 Workman’s Comp Lawsuits in California

7. In new Verizon contracts in fine print … upon signing this contract you agree not to sue the Cell Phone Maker or participate in a Class Action Lawsuit.

8. With 500 minutes of cell Phone use per month you have a 300% increased probability of getting brain cancer.

9. There are 40,000 to 50,000 new cases of brain tumors and eye cancer per year attributed to Cell Phone use.

10. The average kid uses a Cell Phone 2600 minutes per month.

11. If the current trend continues there will be 500,000 new cases of tumors per year by the year 2010.

12. Disney Corporation 5 years ago turned down 2 mil per year licensing fee for use of Disney Characters … just signed a 2 billion contract with Sprint.

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Before You Eat Splenda
12 Questions You Need Answered

A national consumer group has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate misleading claims made by Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Nutritionals division that imply Splenda is a "natural" product. According to a letter from Generation Green, an advocacy group favoring corporate and governmental policies that protect children from exposure to toxins, McNeil has intentionally blurred the line between artificial and natural by using the word "sugar" in advertising Splenda.

The letter urges federal regulators to halt McNeil's misleading advertising campaign and compel the company to disseminate accurate information to its customers.

Generation Green disputes McNeil's claim that Splenda is "made from SUGAR so it tastes like SUGAR." Fact is, sugar isn't even listed as an ingredient on any Splenda labeling. Moreover, some of the chemicals that are included in the making of Splenda include chlorine and phosgene, a poisonous gas.

And with the new push to use Splenda as an ingredient in baking, McNeil's advertising efforts have certainly conveyed that "natural" message effectively, if not explicitly in ads or on packages, and especially for parents to share with their kids. Even worse, during an online forum, Dr. Arthur Agatston, creator of the seriously flawed South Beach Diet said "Splenda is natural," when asked by a consumer about side effects.

Just a few of the horrible side effects of Splenda:

Up to a 40 percent shrinkage of the thymus glands
Enlarged liver and kidneys
Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus

I strongly urge you to learn more about the dangerous truth behind Splenda by reading a special testimonial page devoted to this subject. Nearly every month, we receive an unsolicited report from someone who has had an adverse reaction to Splenda. I certainly don't want you to be the next one! From www.mercola.com

 

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