(NaturalNews) First do no harm...
Somehow this, the most basic promise from physician to patient becomes lost and twisted in the fight to cure cancer. Due to what is called medical consensus, doctors are limited in their approach to fighting this deadly disease. The three basic tools at their disposal are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Generally they choose all three.
"...today, there are more people making a living from cancer, than are dying from it." - G. Edward Griffin
Cancer is big business in this country. Americans who reject the conventional medical model are quick to point out their fear that outlawing alternative treatments is part of a huge conspiracy to maintain the status quo - a conspiracy that includes medical doctors, scientists, other health care providers, and pharmaceutical companies.
While there is no doubt that pharmaceutical companies are morally bankrupt and fully corrupt, it is hard to believe that the vast majority of health care providers are as well. Some yes, but the majority? Doctors basically have their hands tied. They either follow the medical consensus or lose their license. As far as the rest? Most of them just believe what they are told. Studies have shown... blah, blah, blah. And like most other human beings, doctors are going to pay more attention to the studies that confirm beliefs they already hold than the one that refute them.
Doctors, even though they know this to be true even more than the rest of us, ignore the fact that study after "scientific" study will be overturned. What was true today so often will not be true tomorrow. And yet, they are quick to quote results of studies that confirm their beliefs and then totally turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to anecdotal evidence. It just doesn't register. Patient after patient can be cured through alternative treatments, but medical doctors cannot accept the possibility. Instead, they will be convinced the diagnosis was wrong (though the MRI clearly showed the tumor) or when nothing else can explain a patient's recovery - they call it a miracle - a spontaneous remission. Any expination is preferable to successful treatment with alternative medicine.
Budwig Protocol
Alternative treatment for cancer is much more effective if a patient has not been subjected to chemotherapy and radiation. The body has not yet been ravaged by radiation or crippled by chemicals that have decimated the immune system. And yet, most of Johanna Budwig's patients were sent to her by medical doctors after all other treatment failed. Her patients were dying--at the final stages of life. And yet, her natural treatment boasted a 95% cure rate - far surpassing any conventional treatment. Her treatment was based on the body's need for omega 3 fatty acids along with a healthy diet.
Gerson Therapy
Max Gerson accidentally learned how to cure cancer by experimenting with a diet to cure migraines that ended up also curing tuberculosis. Eventually he learned that nutrition and detoxification was the cure for all disease. His words, spoken more than 60 years ago, were a warning we did not heed.
"We cannot detoxify our bodies when we add poisons through our food, which is one of the reasons why cancer is so much on the increase. Saving time in the kitchen is fine but the consequences are terrible. Thirty or fifty years ago cancer was a disease of old age. Only elderly people whose liver was no longer working well - was worn out-became sick. They contracted cancer when they were 60 to 70 years old and cancer was a rare disease. Everybody knows that. And now four, even going on one out of three dies of cancer. Now in the second generation it is even worse."
B17, Nitriloside
Biochemist Ernst T. Krebs Jr. also believes diet to be the smoking gun when it comes to cancer, but he believes the missing nutrient is vitamin B17, which is all but missing from our modern diet. He contends that the Hunzas, Eskimos, Hopi Indians and others who consume a diet high in nitrilosides (which contain B17) never get cancer- ever. And yet, those who leave their community and eat a modern diet do get cancer.
Conclusion
Can you imagine a future when holistic treatment is practiced? A cancer patient would be treated with all of these protocols, not one. A truly healthy diet would be the basis of treatment. Omega 3 fatty acids, B17, enzymes, and abundant nutrients would aid the body in healing itself, while detoxing would remove all of the nasty chemicals, heavy metals, and pathogens. All medicine would heal, not burn tissues and push patients closer to death.
Maybe we could also imagine a future where our food is not poisoned with pesticides, herbicides, petroleum products, artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, MSG, GMOs, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, sugar substitutes, and trans fats. And if this were the case, as Gerson said, we wouldn't be developing cancer.
So we do the best we can with what we have. Organic food is essential. To stay healthy or to regain our health, our diet should be 80% fresh, raw, whole, organic produce - more vegetables than fruits. We must eliminate processed foods and their additives. In addition we must detox at least twice a year.
Check out Foods, Vitamins, and Herbs That Kill Cancer and Cure Cancer Naturally See the first source below for a powerful full body detox protocol and the second source for Budwig's recipe..
Sources:
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
https://www.youtube.com
About the author:
Kali Sinclair is a copywriter for Green Lifestyle Market, and a lead editor for Organic Lifestyle Magazine. Kali was very sick with autoimmune disease and realized that conventional medicine was not working for her. She has been restoring her health by natural means and is interested in topics including natural health, environmental issues, and human rights.
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(NaturalNews) Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease in which the body reacts to the protein found in gluten in a unique way. With most food allergies, people experience a reaction immediately or within minutes of consuming the offending substance. For those with celiac disease, a reaction occurs up to 72 hours later and could be extreme or largely go unnoticed, which can confuse and delay an accurate diagnosis.
T cells attack the lining of the small intestine in response to gluten being passed through the digestive tract. Over time, villi in the small intestine are damaged beyond repair, severely inhibiting the body's ability to absorb nutrients from food.
Symptoms
There are over 300 known symptoms of celiac disease. The more common symptoms are listed below.
- Abdominal bloating and pain
- ADHD
- Anemia
- Arthritis
- Anxiety
- Bone pain
- Bedwetting
- Chronic fatigue
- Constipation
- Delayed growth and puberty
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Eczema
- Failure to thrive
- Infertility
- Irritability
- Irregular menstrual periods
- Joint pain
- Malnutrition
- Migraines
- Miscarriages
- Osteoporosis
- Persistent canker sores
- Rashes
- Seizures
- Tingling sensation or numbness in hands or feet
- Unusually foul-smelling stool, blood or undigested foods in stool
- Unexplained weight loss
- Vomiting
Diet Is the Only Known Treatment
The treatment for sufferers of celiac disease is to avoid gluten entirely, to eat a completely gluten free diet. The FDA does not require food manufacturers to list gluten on their labels. Wheat is required to be clearly labeled, but gluten is not. The following foods contain gluten:
- Wheat
- Barley
- Bulgur
- Couscous
- Durum
- Einkorn
- Emmer
- Farina
- Farro
- Kamut
- Malt
- Mir
- Oats (unless labeled gluten free oats- oats are often contaminated)
- Rye
- Seitan
- Semolina
- Spelt
- Triticale
Gluten is commonly found in breads, bread crumbs, baked goods, beer, biscuits, brewer's yeast, brown rice syrup (often made with barley enzymes), cereals, communion wafers, crepes, croutons, dextrin, flour tortillas, food coloring, food starch, French toast, granola, gravies, herbal teas, malt vinegar, marinades, sauces, pancakes, pastas, roux, salad dressing, soup, soy sauce, starch, stuffing, waffles, and wine. Any processed food made in a facility that also processes foods with gluten may be contaminated.
Other non-food items that may not be gluten free include:
- Lipbalm, lipgloss, lipstick
- Supplements
- Pharmaceuticals
- Vitamin and mineral pills
- Over the counter medications
- Playdough (some kids will eat copious amounts of the stuff when playing with it)
This list is not meant to be comprehensive. Many processed foods contain gluten, and unless the package says certified gluten free, it probably isn't. Many items that one might think are gluten free like corn flakes and rice cereal use malt or barley extract as a sweetener. Restaurants that do not offer gluten free menus cannot guarantee that their food is gluten free. And sadly, many that do offer gluten free choices contaminate the food while preparing it.
Conclusion
Celiac disease is a very serious condition that requires strict dietary changes in order to heal the gut and properly digest the nutrients in food. Celiac disease is now recognized as either a pre-curser or a companion disease to many other autoimmune diseases. We highly recommend that anyone with any autoimmune disease completely remove gluten from their diet and concentrate on healing the gut.
If you have a gluten intolerance, celiac disease, or any allergies, it's time to Kill Candida and Balance Your Inner Ecosystem. Also, check out Is wheat Poison? What's Behind the Rise of Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance for more on wheat and gluten.
Sources:
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com
http://journals.lww.com
About the author:
Joel learned long ago that pharmaceuticals were not the answer to health and vitality. He gave up on Pharmaceuticals many years ago, and he also gave up wheat and refined sugars. His hobbies include gluten free baking, gardening, and fitness. Joel is passionate about agriculture and environmental issues. Joel believes that progressive, cutting-edge, organic agriculture can feed the world.
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(NaturalNews) Agriculture officials have once again ignored science by suggesting deregulation of two new GMO crops from Monsanto that contain built-in resistance to chemicals derived from the same family as Agent Orange. Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and Bollgard II XtendFlex cotton are now one step closer to commercial plantings after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) declared them to be safe and effective in its final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), released December 12, 2014.
Xtend technology represents the latest iteration of Roundup Ready genetically modified organisms (GMOs), a knee-jerk solution, if you will, to chemical-resistant "superweeds" that no longer respond to the original Roundup (primary ingredient: glyphosate) formula. Despite thousands of public comments from farmers, environmental experts and others warning that Xtend technology will only further contaminate the environment and food supply, the USDA sided with Monsanto in recommending their approval.
The two crops are resistant to a chemical known as dicamba, which the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) describes as a "close cousin" of 2,4-D, one of the primary active components in the infamous Agent Orange defoliant. These same crops will come stacked with Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene as well, which will allow them to be sprayed with a special "premix" of both dicamba and glyphosate.
"Dicamba-tolerant soy and cotton are simply the latest example of USDA's allegiance to the biotechnology industry and dependence upon chemical solutions," reads a statement issued by Food & Water Watch (FWW) Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. "This continues the disturbing trend of more herbicide-tolerant crop approvals taking place under President Obama's watch."
Dicamba use expected to increase 8,800 percent for Xtend soybeans
This short-sighted approach to weed management only continues the destructive cycle of herbicide overuse and abuse that caused superweeds and "superbugs" to emerge in the first place. Rather than take a step back and evaluate how we got into this mess in the first place -- transgenic monoculture methods are inherently unsustainable -- the USDA has once again decided to turn a blind eye to science and grant its blessing for more chemicals and more pollution.
"Once again, the USDA has neglected to look at the full range of impacts associated with these GMO herbicide-tolerant crops," added Hauter. "Instead the agency has opted for a short-term solution to superweeds that have become resistant to herbicides because of previous approvals of GMOs, thereby perpetuating and escalating chemical use."
One of the major selling points for GMOs has always been that they will reduce the need for chemical use. But as explained in the USDA's EIS for dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, dicamba use will increase by an astounding 8,800 percent for soybeans and 1,400 percent for cotton. These same crops will also allow for much longer spraying windows throughout the season, threatening other nearby crops as well as people living near the spraying areas.
"The USDA has ignored pleas from organic farmers and other specialty crop growers asking the agency not to approve these crops that will increase applications of this incredibly drift-prone herbicide," says FWW. "Farmers of nearby non-tolerant crops will pay the price for USDA's short-term weed management fix in the form of diminished or completely destroyed harvests caused by dicamba drift."
Meanwhile, Dow AgroSciences has leapt over one of its major hurdles in gaining approval for 2,4-D-tolerant corn and soybeans. Known as "Enlist," Dow's brand of Agent Orange crops are resistant to both glyphosate and glufosinate, a broad-spectrum herbicide linked to intestinal damage and endocrine disruption.
Sources:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org
http://www.panna.org
http://farmfutures.com
http://www.agrimarketing.com
http://deltafarmpress.com
http://responsibletechnology.org
http://science.naturalnews.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048621_GMOs_Agent_Orange_herbicides.html#ixzz3ReVSpqJ0
(NaturalNews) Five years ago, I wrote a fan-favorite song called "Vaccine Zombie." The song lyrics and music video are shown below, and you'll love the animation, the vocal harmonies and the overall hilarity of the song and music video.
What's really amazing, though, is how this song foretold today's vaccine hysteria a full five years ago! Watch the music video yourself to see what I mean. It's stunning how closely vaccine fanaticism in 2015 now resembles almost precisely what I described in 2010.
This was all done before the death of Michael Jackson, of course, so don't read anything into the Jackson-looking animated character doing the zombie moonwalk.
You can watch the video right now at these two video sites:
TV.NaturalNews.com:
http://TV.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=6D05173308...
Or YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYI-dC9G0us
You can also download the entire song as a high-quality MP3 file (along with ringtones, lyrics and more) at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccine-zombie.ht...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048609_vaccine_zombie_song_music_video_medical_fascism.html#ixzz3RePsWcvj
Vaccine Zombie lyrics even more true in 2015 than when I wrote them in 2010!
Here are some of the lyrics to "Vaccine Zombie":
Standin' in line for the vaccine shot
Hope I get mine cause believe it or not
I think I might die less I take what they got
My brain's too fried so I give it no thought, no thought
Cause the FDA said it's safe for me
The drug companies claim that it's made for me
And the government, they gonna pay for me
It's not too late for me, is it?
Now it's my turn to be injected.
They say it's gonna hurt but I'll be protected.
When they give the word I do as I'm directed.
I'm not the kind of person to do something unexpected
I do everything the doctors tell me
Swallow all those pills they sell me
I'm afraid that germs might kill me!
Vaccine zombie, zombie
I forgot how to think for myself
I don't understand a thing about health
I do the same as everyone else
I'm a vaccine zombie, zombie
... see the complete lyrics (there are a lot more) at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccine-zombie.ht...
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(NaturalNews) Gov. Chris Christie has been vilified for making a very simple statement -- that parents (and presumably patients themselves) should have the freedom to choose whether to vaccinate their children. I have been asked for years what I thought about vaccination, so let me lay out the issues. (By Lee Hieb M.D., originally published at WND.com)
Before getting into the science, lets discuss the philosophy:
- The voices shrieking to forcibly vaccinate people are the same voices shrieking to support a woman's right to choose abortion under Roe v. Wade. If a woman's body is sacrosanct, if she has the right to choose to deliver a child or not, if she has total authority over her body, how can she not have the right to accept or refuse a vaccination?
- Medical ethics are clear: No one should be forced to undergo a medical treatment without informed consent and without their agreement to the treatment. We condemn the forced sterilization of the '20s and '30s, the Tuskegee medical experiments infecting black inmates and the Nazi medicine that included involuntary "Euthanasia," experimentation and sterilization. How can we force vaccination without consent? Vaccination is a medical treatment with risks including death. It is totally antithetical to all ethics in medicine to mandate that risk to others.
- Science is never "concluded." Mr. Obama and other ideologues may think the truth is finalized ("The science is indisputable"), but the reality is our understanding of disease and treatment are constantly being updated. Just like Newton's mechanical paradigm of the universe was supplanted by Einsteinian physics, and physicists today modify that view, medical "truth" is not the truth for long. In an attempt to quantify change in medicine, years ago a cardiology journal discussed "The Half-life of Truth." cardiologists looked back in their journal at 20-year-old articles to see how much of what was believed then was still believed to be true. The answer? 50 percent. So in cardiology, at least -- and in all of medicine to greater or lesser degree -- only half of what we believe now will still be true in 20 or so years. The last word on vaccination is not in. It hasn't even begun to be written.
- If you believe absolutely in the benefit and protective value of vaccination, why does it matter what others do? Or don't do? If you believe you need vaccination to be healthy and protected, then by all means vaccinate your child and yourself. Why should you even be concerned what your neighbor chooses to do for his child -- if vaccination works? The idea of herd immunity is still based on the idea that in individual cases vaccines actually are protective.
- If you think the government has the right to forcibly vaccinate people -- for the good of society -- what is to prevent them from forcibly sterilizing people, or forcibly euthanizing people, or forcibly implanting a tracking device -- for the good of society? You make think those examples are extreme (although two-thirds have happened), but the principle is the same. You are allowing government to have ultimate authority over your body.
Here's the help you'll need to prepare your household for the realities of living under a government-dictated health-care system -- order Dr. Hieb's "Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare"[1]
So, I've been asked, "Why not vaccinate your children? Why not take the influenza vaccine?" Well, I believe the choice is up to you. I've covered my thinking about the influenza vaccine in an article in the Journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, available online,[2] but here are some facts about childhood vaccines that make me think twice about their use. I traced these points back to the source, so these are not blindly reprinted from hearsay Internet articles. In some cases I found public references to be wrong but the data to be correct when I got to the source. Much of this comes from government reporting. Anyone can research disease incidence by reading MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) from the CDC and accessing the search engine for VAERS (Vaccine complication reporting site) athttp://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php.[3]
1. Since 2005 (and even before that), there have been no deaths in the U.S. from measles, but there have been 86 deaths from MMR vaccine -- 68 of them in children under 3 years old. And there were nearly 2,000 disabled, per the aforementioned VAERS data.
2. In countries which use BCG vaccinations against tuberculosis, the incidence of Type I diabetes in children under 14 is nearly double. ("Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice" no. 6 pages 449-454, 1997)
3. As reported in Lancet in 1995, inflammatory bowel disease (i.e. Crohn's and ulcerative colitis) is 13 times more prevalent in persons vaccinated for measles.
4. In a nested case-control study within the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) in the United Kingdom, patients who had a first MS (Multiple Sclerosis) diagnosis recorded were compared with controls. The authors concluded that immunization with the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine is associated with a threefold increased risk of developing MS (Hernan et al., 2004). No increased risk of MS was associated with other vaccines, which included tetanus and influenza vaccinations.
5. In 1982 William Torch, a prolific researcher and publisher on Neurologic topics, presented a paper (later published) at the American Academy of Neurology reviewing SIDS deaths. He reported that in 100 consecutive cases, 70 percent of SIDS deaths occurred within three weeks of pertussis vaccination. In very convincing confirmation, a Japanese prefecture stopped vaccinating after associating SIDS with the pertussis vaccine. It is worth reading the entire description from Viera Scheibner, PhD:
In 1975, about 37 Crib Sudden Deaths were linked to vaccination in Japan. Doctors in one prefecture boycotted vaccinations, and refused to vaccinate. The Japanese government paid attention and stopped vaccinating children below the age of 2 years. When immunization was delayed until a child was 24 months of age, Sudden Infant Death cases and claims for vaccine related deaths disappeared. Japan zoomed from a high 17th place in infant mortality rate to the lowest infant mortality rate in the world when they stopped vaccinating. Japan didn't vaccinate any children below the age of 2 years between 1975 and 1988, for 13 years. But then in 1988, Japanese parents were given the choice to start vaccinating anywhere between 3 months and 48 months. The Ministry study group studied 2,720 SIDS cases occurring between 1980 and 1992 and they established that their very low SIDS rate quadrupled.
6. A mail survey was done of 635 children in the Netherlands in 2004. German measles and whooping cough (pertussis) were twice as common in unvaccinated children. However, throat inflammations, ear infections, rheumatologic complaints, seizures and febrile convulsions were much more common in the vaccinated group. Aggressive behavioral episodes were eight times more frequent in vaccinated children, and sleep disordered more often. Tonsils were removed in 33 percent of children who had been vaccinated vs. 7.3 percent unvaccinated.
7. In 1947, the first reports of brain inflammation and chronic brain damage, including death, after pertussis vaccination began to be published (Brody, 1947; Byers and Moll, 1948, Low, 1955, Berg, 1958; Strom, 1960, 1967; Dick, 1967, 1974; Kuhlenkampff, 1974; Stewart, 1977, 1979). But it took more than 40 years of collective evidence before academic medicine decided it was true --1981 National Childhood Encephalopathy Study (NCES) and in 1991 and 1994 by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
In 1991, after reviewing vaccine safety, the Institute of Medicine admitted, "In the course of its review, the committee encountered many gaps and limitations in knowledge bearing directly or indirectly on the safety of vaccines. These include inadequate understanding of the biologic mechanisms underlying adverse events following natural infection or immunization, insufficient or inconsistent information from case reports and case series, inadequate size or length of followup of many population based epidemiologic studies [and] few experimental studies published in relation to the number of epidemiologic studies published."
So the next question is: Does vaccination work? Does it really protect you against disease? The answer is variable. Smallpox vaccine seems to be nearly universally protective against the very fatal disease of smallpox, and use of vaccine led to the eradication of the disease in the wild. But the dirty little secret in recent outbreaks of mumps, measles and pertussis is -- they are occurring in vaccinated people in highly vaccinated populations!
In 2006 an epidemic of mumps broke out in my state of Iowa. Ultimately, 11 states reported 2,597 cases of mumps. The majority of mumps cases (1,487) were reported from Iowa. As reported in "Mumps Epidemic -- Iowa, 2006,"[4] "Despite control efforts and a highly vaccinated population, this epidemic has spread across Iowa and potentially to neighboring states." According to the CDC, "During the prevaccine era, nearly everyone in the United States experienced mumps, and 90 percent of cases occurred among children, although 97 percent of children entering school in Iowa had received two doses of MMR vaccine. " Of note, this outbreak mostly occurred in young adults of college age who had received the vaccine. Only 6 percent of those affected were known to be unvaccinated, 12 percent received one dose of MMR vaccine, 51 percent had two doses of MMR vaccine, and 31 percent (mostly adults) were not sure of their immunization history.
In 2008-2009, Australia had epidemics of whooping cough and measles. Health authorities there must reveal the vaccination status of children in epidemics. Eighty-four percent of Australian children who got whooping cough were fully vaccinated, and 78 percent who got measles had record of measles vaccination.
In the 2010 outbreak of whooping cough in California, well over half the victims were fully vaccinated.
Whooping cough continuously declined in the U.S. from over 100,000 cases in 1922 to around 1978 when 2,063 cases were reported. That year, pertussis vaccine became mandated for school attendance. Beginning around 1995, when the U.S. had 5,137 cases, the incidence has increased, to 2012 when over 48,000 cases were reported, including 20 deaths. The majority of deaths were in newborns under three months of age. Why is this happening? It is not because people are not becoming vaccinated. The CDC says more than 84 percent of children under 3 years old have been vaccinated with four doses of pertussis vaccine. But the current vaccine does not include all strains of pertussis. And the most vulnerable to the disease -- the small infants -- are not able to take the vaccine. Since older children and adults are much less likely to die of whooping cough, the question that must be asked is this: Is vaccination effective in producing antibody transfer from mother to infant? Or is it better to allow the natural disease to occur?
Finally, it turns out that death and disability from many childhood diseases is preventable by means other than vaccination. Vitamin A has been known since the 1930s to reduce mortality from measles by 60 percent. Vitamin D is protective against viral illness. And numerous authors and studies have shown the damaging effects of chemical antipyretics (fever lowering drugs) on the natural course of disease -- a practice still sadly in widespread use in America. Better understanding of disease mechanisms, utilizing nutritional support and better scientific care of the sick child are safer alternatives to widespread vaccination.
Perhaps one of the best perspectives on the whole vaccination paradigm is provided by Dr. Harold Buttram, M.D., FAACP:
As one of today's senior citizens who grew up in a Midwestern state in the 1930s, and as a doctor who has treated many children, I may have a special vantage point of time and experience in regard to the changes that have taken place in the health of America's children since the relatively innocent times of the 1930s. At summer camps in the New Mexico Mountains that I was fortunate to attend, no boy had allergies, none was on medication, and no boy was ever sick with the common ailments of today. It was much the same in schools. I don't recall ever seeing a child with easily recognized behaviors now described as hyperactivity (ADHD) or autism.
Today in stark contrast, approximately one-third of our youngsters are afflicted with the 4-A Disorders (Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies), as described and documented by Dr. Kenneth Bock. School budgets are being strained to the breaking points in providing special education classes for autistic and learning disabled children. Allergy problems are proliferating, as indicated by long lines of children at school nursing stations for their noontime medications.
Could today's infant and childhood vaccine programs, with their steadily increasing numbers of vaccines, be a contributory cause of this ominous health trend? As reflected in the U.S. Congressional Hearings (1999 to December 2004) on issues of vaccine safety, in which major deficiencies in vaccine safety testing were disclosed, it is a real possibility that vaccines may be one of the major, if not the major cause of this trend.
I, too, am old enough to remember these times. We are changing the pattern of disease, but not necessarily making our children nor ourselves healthier. We are converting benign childhood disease into more severe adult disease. Consider the chickenpox vaccine. We used to have chickenpox parties where small children were purposely exposed to kids sick with chickenpox. In those days, every mother or grandmother knew it was safer for toddlers to get the disease early and not wait until teenage years. Now we vaccinate, but of course that vaccine is only effective for 15-20 years, so now adults must constantly be revaccinated or run the risk of getting a life-threatening severe form of chickenpox. The shingles uptick is directly attributable to the lack of re-exposure of older people to the wild chickpox virus. But not to worry -- the drug companies can sell us a shingles vaccine for a disease their previous vaccine created.
We have forgotten that for most normal children, childhood diseases are benign. As recounted about mumps in the Iowa Department of Public Health Manual, "it is more common in infants, children and young adults. Of people who are not immunized, >85 percent will have mumps by adulthood, but symptoms may have been mild and therefore not recognized."
At the end of the day, the issue here is one of freedom, and freedom is the freedom to choose -- even if we make a bad choice. The argument that I must vaccinate my children for the good of the community is not only scientifically questionable, it is an unethical precept. It is the argument all dictators and totalitarians have used. "Comrade, you must work tirelessly for the good of the collective. You must give up your money and property for the good of the collective, and now ... you must allow us to inject your children with what we deem is good for the collective." If American's don't stand up against this, then we are lost. Because we have lost ownership of ourselves. Our bodies are no longer solely ours -- we and our children are able to be commandeered for the "greater good."
Read more at WND.com.
Sources:
[1] http://superstore.wnd.com
[2] http://www.jpands.org[PDF]
[3] http://www.medalerts.org
[4] http://www.cdc.gov
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(NaturalNews) Most Natural News readers know that there is rising resistance to pharmaceutical antibiotics. Fewer know of the inherent dangers of pharmaceutical antibiotics that are rarely publicized by mainstream media (MSM). What's even less known are safe and effective alternatives, especially the home-made variety.
Pharmaceutical antibiotics are designed for bacteria only. So if you're suffering from a viral or fungal infection and you're prescribed an antibiotic, you not only are out of luck for a solution but are throwing the dice against some potential short-term and long-term side effects.[1]
Apparently, as pharmaceutical antibiotics are complex synthetic formulations, pathogenic bacteria for which they are designed have more loopholes to discover in order to resist them. Conversely, it seems that the same is not true with natural antibiotics, many of which can also multi-task as antifungals and antivirals.
Here's a tonic that you can easily make to have on hand for a variety of ailments, made with several traditional time-proven ingredients that are antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal.
Back to the basics: A traditional tonic from medieval Europe
This cleansing tonic performs as a total multi-tasking anti-pathogen for bacteria, viruses and fungal infections. It's easy to make and cheap. You won't have to worry about side effects either. The source for this recipe claims that it's useful for resolving candidiasis also.[2]
Ingredients:
- 24 oz / 700 ml apple cider vinegar (always use organic)
- 1/4 cup finely chopped garlic
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 fresh peppers, the hottest you can find (be careful with the cleaning -- wear gloves!!!)
- 1/4 cup grated ginger
- 2 tbsp grated horseradish
- 2 tbsp turmeric powder or 2 pieces of turmeric root
Preparation:
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, except for the vinegar.
- Transfer the mixture to a Mason jar.
- Pour in some apple cider vinegar and fill it to the top. It is best if 2/3 of the jar consist of dry ingredients and the rest is filled with vinegar.
- Close well and shake.
- Keep the jar in a cool and dry place for 2 weeks. Shake well several times a day.
- After 14 days, squeeze well and strain the liquid through a plastic strain. For better results, put a gauze over it. Squeeze well so the whole juice comes out.
- Use the rest of the dry mixture when cooking.
This recipe's source advises starting with a teaspoonful at first, and not on an empty stomach. Each of the ingredients have powerful medicinal properties.
It is also similar to the original Schultz formula that was presented on Natural News some time ago with the exemption of turmeric. You can check it out with this article that has a link for a step-by-step photo-enhanced recipe.
Big Pharma's hidden antibiotic dangers
Much has been made of antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can be lethal.
But instead of resorting to natural means that are clinically proven effective, such as colloidal silver, oil of oregano and Manuka honey, most of the MSM and scientific community relies on Big Pharma for finding more costly synthetic "solutions."
The addiction to pharmaceutical antibiotics has led to the fluoroquinolone series of antibiotics, such as Cipro and others. Even after a national TV news special featured the gruesome effects of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, the media and medical mafia still maintain that the "benefits outweigh the risks."
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and its disease cousin toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are side effects of many non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics. TEN is the most gruesome and fatal. It involves the patient's skin tearing away and forcing them to be treated as a severe burn victim. It happens more often than it's reported.[3]
Pharmaceutical antibiotics should be shunned as much as possible, especially for minor ailments.
Sources:
[1] http://earthweareone.com
[2] http://www.naturalnews.com
[3] http://www.realfarmacy.com
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(NaturalNews) Everyone knows that being overweight can increase our risk of serious health problems. However, most people don't realize that not all fat distribution is equal. Accumulating fat under our arms and thighs, for instance, is more of a cosmetic concern than a cause for significant medical alarm. Yes, we are better off without it and should endeavor to remove it, but fat in these areas is more likely to make us feel bloated rather than send us to the emergency room in the immediate future.
In reality, the most serious problems associated with being overweight, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, are overwhelmingly caused by a build-up of abdominal fat. Abdominal fat, which is also called belly fat or visceral fat, is the fat that lodges itself against our major organs and compromises their ability to function properly -- a state of affairs which, if left unchecked, can lead to an early death. Fortunately, the following lifestyle changes are known to help remove abdominal fat in a natural manner.
Reduce carbohydrate intake
Studies have shown that cutting carbs is an extremely effective way to lose abdominal fat. For example, a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that participants who restricted their carbohydrate intake over a 2-week period experienced significantly decreased liver triglycerides when compared to the control group.(1) Another study, published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, discovered that there was a "clear benefit of a [very low carbohydrate ketogenic] over [low fat] diet for short-term body weight and fat loss, especially in men." Significantly, the low carb diet demonstrated a "preferential loss of fat in the trunk region."(2)
Though there are numerous reasons why a reduction in carbs contribute to fat loss, perhaps the biggest one is that most carbs (especially whole grains) have an extremely high glycemic load. According to cardiologist Dr. William Davis, modern wheat is especially notorious in this regard, and eating too much of it can result in significant abdominal fat accumulation -- the dreaded "wheat belly."(3)
Avoid refined sugar
Refined sugar is one of the most destructive ingredients in the Standard American Diet, and countless studies link sugar consumption to overall weight gain. However, a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation has also shown that a consumption of sugar (specifically, fructose-sweetened beverages) is responsible for increasing abdominal fat in overweight and obese adults(4) -- a result that shouldn't really be surprising, since our livers are forced to turn fructose into fat when it is flooded with refined sugar. Therefore, losing those last few pounds of belly fat might be as simple as avoiding high-sugar processed foods in favor of whole foods.
Engage in more aerobic exercise
While all exercise can potentially remove belly fat in the long-term, aerobic exercise (such as running and swimming) seems to be especially effective in this regard. Research published in the International Journal of Obesity, for instance, showed a clear link between aerobic exercise and visceral fat reduction.(5) A review featured in Obesity Reviews reached a similar conclusion, noting that "aerobic exercise is central for exercise programmes aimed at reducing [visceral adipose tissue]"(6)
Sources:
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21367948
(2) http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/13
(3) http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2011/10/why-wheat-makes-you-fat/
(4) http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37385
(5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17637702
(6) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951360
About the author:
Michael Ravensthorpe is an independent writer whose research interests include nutrition, alternative medicine, and bushcraft. He is the creator of the website, Spiritfoods, through which he promotes the world's healthiest foods.
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