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Health News Roundup

Staying informed when it comes to natural health care, food, farming, and even traditional health care will help you make informed decisions for you and your family. There's a lot of good information in these articles, so grab a cup of tea of coffee and soak it in.

• Is Commercially Prepared Food Responsible for Childhood Weight Gain?: In the first study to examine the relationship between where food is prepared and increased calorie consumption, researchers report that eating commercially-made food can lead children to take in more calories than if they had eaten similar meals at home. And with most Americans taking in about a third of their daily calories from restaurants or other vendors, such trends can only contribute to climbing childhood obesity rates.

• Big Pharma looks to capitalize on success of vitamin D by turning it into a 'drug' for kidney disease: With an incredible success rate for vitamin D in treating a myriad of health conditions, it is no wonder that some drug companies are looking for new ways to capitalize on this natural, inexpensive nutrient.

• Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply: Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbing facts about money that are almost never acknowledge in the old media.

• The Case Against Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Water a Day: Dr. Margaret McCartney, a general practitioner from Scotland, says that the common health advice that you should drink six to eight cups of water each day is “thoroughly debunked nonsense”.  She argues that it is propagated by bottled water companies out to make a profit.

• What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients: Ever wonder what's really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, "What ingredients should I avoid?" So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances causing cancer, diabetes, heart disease and leading to tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs across America (and around the world).

• MSG hidden in variety of foods and contributing to illness: Despite common perception, the toxic food additive MSG is everywhere  - not just in Chinese food! This taste enhancer is actually hidden  under dozens of ingredient names in all sorts of processed foods, restaurant foods, beverages, chewing gums, vitamins and supplements. It is added to foods in higher dosages than ever before, and more and more people are experiencing symptoms.

• Top 30 Worst Foods in America (Beware): Today’s food marketers have loaded many of their offerings with so much fat, sugar, and sodium that eating any of the foods in this article on a daily basis could destroy all your hard work and best intentions of eating healthy. Beware! This list is brought to you by Eat This Not That and Men's Health.

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• With your help - Free speech in health science may become a reality: The Free Speech about Science (FSAS) Act, HR 1364, would change FDA regulations so that legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific studies can be referenced without changing the food's regulatory category to an unapproved drug. This will protect access to scientific information, and will protect your right to know about the healthy benefits of food and food supplements. The bill amends the appropriate sections of current law to allow the flow of legitimate scientific and educational information while still giving FDA and FTC the right to take action against misleading information and against false and unsubstantiated claims.

• Obesity Surgery Even Worse than Previously Thought: "Researchers concluded that the adjustable gastric band surgery, which is growing in popularity in the United States, 'appears to result in relatively poor long-term outcomes.' The results 'are worse than we expected,' said Dr. Jacques Himpens ... lead author of the new study."

• Oakland officials threaten to shut down urban gardener growing food on her own land: The city of Oakland, Calif., which is marked largely by blight and crime, has decided to go after a backyard gardener for growing and occasionally selling the fruits of her labor. According to a recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle (SFC), Oakland city officials are summoning Novella Carpenter to either pay a costly permit fee and penalties for providing locals with backyard produce items like Swiss chard without government approval, or face city sanctions.

• Want to Burn Away Those Excess Pounds? Heed This Lesson From the Afghans... : The organs of the Canadians, Americans, and Europeans he treated were encased in fat.  Afghan civilians and soldiers had little or no fat or adipose tissue underneath the skin. Patterson has become convinced that the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker.

•  The Surprising Benefits of Drinking This 'Unhealthy' Everyday Beverage...:


• Are New 'Healthier' Potato Chips Really Any Better For You?: "Making snacks with natural ingredients doesn't necessarily make them healthy, nutritionists and industry critics caution, even if they are potentially less bad. That includes potato chips."

• Do You Practice These 4 Habits of Some of the World's Healthiest People?:  Eating a "Mediterranean diet" could prevent or even reverse metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. Scientists believe that a Mediterranean-style diet has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on your body.

• Last-minute budget deal narrowly avoids the Big Government shutdown America desperately needs to balance its budget: The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats want to spend us into oblivion while the Republicans only want to spend us into purgatory. The idea of actually running a balanced budget has never seriously occurred to either party. Government, after all, increases its popularity by confiscating money from some people and redistributing it to other people while keeping at least half of all that money for itself.

• What's Lurking in Your Meat and Poultry? Probably Staph: Researchers were surprised to find that nearly half of samples of beef, pork and poultry tested from popular grocery stores were contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) doesn't even monitor in the food source, because it's not known as a common food-borne pathogen.

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.

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A new year is upon us and for many, weight loss and getting healthy is a primary goal. But, do you know that about 50% of people give up their goal within 6 weeks of the new year and the rest by April. It's not a shocking statistic, but it begs the question of why people don't stick with their goals.

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