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Health News Roundup

• Destroy Urinary Tract Infections Without Antibiotics or Cranberry Juice: But there is a great discovery that has come from the cranberry juice-urinary tract connection. The active ingredient in cranberry juice responsible for its benefit to your urinary system has been identified and isolated—and that is D-mannose.

• Crafty Food Labeling Tricks the Industry Hopes You NEVER Learn...: "When it comes to processed foods, if it says it's natural, ignore the claim," says Organic Lifestyle Magazine. "It means nothing. If it says it's organic, it doesn't have to be 100 percent organic unless it says it is. Remember processed foods can be labeled organic if only 80 percent of the ingredients are organic. And organic junk food is still junk food."

• Drug injection delays puberty: Children with supposed "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID), a rare condition involving sexual confusion, that are having a hard time deciding whether they want to be male or female can now choose to artificially delay puberty while they figure it out. A recent report in The Telegraph explains that a monthly drug injection will prevent sexual development in children to give them more time to make up their minds about having a sex change -- and kids as young as 12 are eligible to receive it.

• The Cancer Treatment So Successful - Traditional Doctors SHUT it Down: Alternative cancer treatments are a kind of "forbidden area" in medicine, but Dr. Gonzalez chose to go that route anyway, and has some remarkable success stories to show for his pioneering work.

• Pediatricians seek better regulation of toxins: The U.S. needs to do a better job protecting children and pregnant women from toxic chemicals, says a policy statement out today from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

• Important Information on the Biological Effects of Cell Phones and Wireless Technologies: You may not be hearing about the health risks of EMFs on the morning news, or if you do you may hear stories spreading confusion and doubt about the risks in support of commercial interests, but there is no shortage of research showing that they deserve some very real attention.

• FDA Warns - Do NOT Use This Pain Reliever... You Cod Turn Blue and Die: Benzocaine is a local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever. You can also find it in cough drops, throat sprays, and gels or liquids used for teething and canker sores (cold sores).

Health News Roundup

This weeks Health News Roundup is full of great information that I hope you will take time to read:

• Calorie counting has become unhelpful.: Kirchoff and Weight Watchers have eliminated the company's popular "Points" system, which encouraged dieters to lose weight by eating any foods as long as they kept the portions small. The new system tries to encourage dieters to consume more natural, less processed food.

• U.S. dietary guidelines: toss calorie counter: After more than a half century of counting calories, experts are advising dieters to ditch the numbers game and take a more holistic approach to losing weight.

• Cereal box health warning after recycled cardboard study: Breakfast cereal manufacturers are to stop using recycled cardboard in packaging after a study indicated that current boxes could pose a cancer risk.

• Japanese officials admit partial nuclear meltdown now underway at nuke power plants: Contradicting earlier reports that claimed the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered no reactor core damage, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano today admitted that a "partial core meltdown" is now underway.

• Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul: The federal government Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state's market for individual health insurance.

• What NOT to Do Before Your Next Dental Appointment…: many dentists still widely prescribe antibiotics for routine dental procedures, and are simply not following the updated AHA and ADA recommendations.

• Study: Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Stillbirth, Birth Defects: A new review paper by University of Nottingham researchers found that secondhand-smoke exposure increased the risk of stillbirth by 23% in nonsmoking pregnant women, compared with women who were not exposed to smoke at work or at home. Passive smoking also increased the risk of congenital birth defects by 13%.

• Multiple studies link autism to mercury, which is still present in most flu vaccines: Despite recommendations made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1999 that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, be removed from vaccines, the toxic chemical is still added to the majority of flu vaccines administered to women, children, and the elderly, according to the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD), a Maryland-based non-profit organization. And according to three recent studies, the symptoms of mercury poisoning are nearly identical to those of autism symptoms, which strongly suggests that mercury in vaccines is responsible for causing autism.

• Exercise-induced cell regrowth critical to reducing stress, improving health: For many years, the medical community denied the possibility that adult brain cells could regrow. But researchers now know that neurogenesis, the process of brain cell regeneration, does occur, and it plays a very important role in mitigating stress and improving sexual and reproductive function -- but it all hinges on getting plenty of regular exercise.

• FDA Requires Federal Oversight of J&J Plants After String of Drug Recalls: Federal regulators have put an injunction in place against Johnson &  Johnson’s over-the-counter (OTC) drug division following a seemingly endless string of quality control problems and drug recalls. 

• Watch out for toxic ingredients in sunscreen: The majority of sunscreens are toxic, environmental groups have warned.

• Radiation Exposure: Fast Facts About Thyroid Cancer and Other Health Risks: There's growing alarm worldwide about radiation poisoning, with an explosion Monday morning at the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. A similar blast at the No. 1 reactor in the same complex released radiation into the environment on Saturday, and while officials in Japan and the World Health Organization have since described the public health risk as "quite low," concern about the potential of serious health problems abound.

Recommended Reading: Books on Nutrition

One of my favorite things to do in the winter is catch up on some reading. Snuggling up with a blanket and a good book is such a good stress reliever! I've got a list of books I'd like to read on nutrition, recommended by Dr. Blanchard of course. 

For many, winter can be the hardest time to eat healthy as we seek out comfort foods to replace sunshine and active summer days. So reading up on healthy foods and how to maintain good eating habits may help you stay on top of things this winter. On the flip side, maybe you're looking to make healthy changes in the upcoming year. If so, these are all great resources that will encourage you to take back your health!

1. Going Back to the Basics of Human Health — Mary Frost

2. Lick the Sugar Habit — Nancy Appleton

3. The Real Truth About Vitamins and Antioxidants — Judith DeCava

4. Birth without Violence—Frederick Leboyer M.D.
This is the best book I've read all year! Beautifully written chapters on the differences between natural and unnatural birth. I highly recommend this book to any expecting mother or any woman who wishes to have children. I bought the book to have on hand, being that I'm in child-bearing years, but you can also read most of it online for free here.

5. The Great Health Heist — Paul Rosen (thegreathealthheist.com)

6. Protein Power—Dr. Michael Eades
I have a friend who is reading this book right now and he highly recommends it.

Health News Roundup

I'm amazed every week by the news articles I read, but this week, some of these videos and articles left my jaw on the floor. There is a lot of great information in this post. Take a few minutes to soak it all up and share this information with friends and family.

NZ Farmer Beats Swine Flu With Vitamin C: ... his family refused to give up. They demanded the doctors try high doses of Vitamin C, an apparently radical treatment well outside mainstream medicine. The hospital told them it wouldn’t work but the family insisted. It turned into a fight, the family even hired a top lawyer. But in the end, as Melanie Reid will show you, the farmer is now very much alive.
 


"Sooner or Later, Most American Men Will Need Extra Support for this Very Sensitive Area of their Bodies": Prostate health is widely-realized to be important for men 50 and over, but in recent years, the importance of prostate health to men in their 30s and 40s has become more widely known.  Some factors known to affect prostate health include diet and environmental factors.
 


Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials: But an investigation has uncovered hundreds of doctors on company payrolls who have been accused of professional misconduct or lacked credentials as researchers or specialists.

High fructose beverages tied to gout: New research derived from the larger Nurses' Health Study has found a new connection between drinking fructose-rich beverages like soda and developing joint arthritis. According to Dr. Hyon Choi and colleagues from Boston University, drinking high fructose beverages increases uric acid levels in the blood, which eventually deposits into the joints where it causes gout.

Scientists develop GMO plant that produces pharmaceutical drugs: Splicing and dicing natural plant compounds and patenting them for profit may be a thing of the past for drug companies, at least in terms of them having to do it manually in a laboratory. It might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has actually developed a way to genetically engineer plants that are programmed to create pharmaceutical drugs instead of their natural healing compounds.

Birth Interventions Impair the Ability of a Baby to Breastfeed: Breastmilk is the best form of nutrition for a baby but many women struggle to breastfeed and have problems in the early days after birth: including difficulties with latch, problems with milk supply or baby being sleepy. Many of these problems can be caused by birth interventions which can decrease babies' ability to coordinate their suck/swallow reflex.

The fast-food industry’s $4.2 billion marketing blitz: But there's a particular type of fast food that goes back just a half-century, dating to the post-war rise of car-centered cities and suburbs. It relies on regimentation, weird additives, flavor "engineering," super-cheap (but highly subsidized) ingredients, and super-expensive marketing. I won't bore you with why I think this type of fast food sucks; wouldn't want to be labeled a food snob!

Obama White House Hands Out 111 Obamacare Waivers- Hides It on Website:
 


S 510 is hissing in the grass: “If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

Safe alternatives to toxic fragrances in your home

It wasn't long ago that I would constantly keep a candle lit in the house, spray a little air freshner throughout the house, or keep a little fragrance plugin plugged into an outlet. When my husband started the natural, alternative treatment, Nutrition Response Testing, fragrances and a few other chemicals were showing up in his testing as being toxic to his body. When I got tested I found out that I was chemical sensitive too, which explained the recurring headaches and sinus drainage while in places that were heavily scented.

So we stopped burning candles, using perfumes and colognes, and using air freshners with chemicals and synthetic fragrances. We found alternative and natural ways to add fragrance to our home, started using natural laundry detergent, and beauty products without chemicals. I didn't really understand why all this could potentially be harmful to our health until I started to do some research. I gathered some articles that may be helpful to you in deciding the saftey of these products in your home:

• Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical

• One Out of Five Cosmetics May be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity

• Women Warned to Avoid Using Perfumes or Fragrance Products During Pregnancy

• Warning: many dryer sheets contain cancer causing chemicals

• Aromatherapy Candles Can Be Dangerous to Your Health

For those of you, like me, who enjoy burning candles, scented laundry and home, here are some safe and natural alternatives:

• Women's Natural Scent More Seductive Than Perfume

• Tips for choosing the right, non-toxic candle for your home

• Homemade Essential Oil and Aromatherapy Fragrances Make Great Gifts

• Making your own household cleaners is simple and easy on the budget

• Skip the dryer sheets and make your own

You can very easily make your home smell like you've been baking all day. Buy some cinnamon sticks and add 1 or 2 to boiling water, turn down the heat to a low heat and let simmer for as long as you desire. Keep an eye on the water level so that it doesn't run dry. I get compliments on how good my house smells every time. It's perfect for a low-cost solution!