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Health News Roundup

• Fast Food, Fat Profits: How Can We Stop Obesity?
 

• Study: Internet Use, but Not TV Watching, Linked to Sleeplessness in Teens: Many studies (along with casual observation in any home with a teenager) have associated nighttime media use — video gaming, Internet surfing and TV time — with sleep deficits in teens. But the latest research fine tunes those findings, suggesting that while some types of media may indeed keep teens up too late, others may have no effect.

• Does Inflammation Play a Role in Autism?: The inflammatory response is your body's defense against invasion, but in autism, it seems to be turned against itself. It seems there is an inflammatory war going on in the brains of autistic children and adults.

• Top 7 Supermarket Foods to Avoid: In a recent article, seven experts in the fields of both food and the environment (scientists, doctors and farmers) were asked just one simple question: “What foods do you avoid?” Their responses had nothing to do with calories or nutrient-density, but all to do with their insider knowledge on how certain seemingly “healthy” foods that they closely work with are produced and packaged. The findings are scary.

• Is cabbage the ultimate anti-cancer food?: Men with early signs of developing prostate cancer were able to prevent tumor growth by eating broccoli four times a week, according to a British study covered on MSN. But broccoli is not the only cruciferous vegetable with anti-cancer properties.

• The 7 Tricks Restaurants Play to Separate You From Your Money: Menu engineering is used by restaurants to steer you to order high-profit items. Yahoo finance has collected a list of some common menu ploys.

• Lazy Cakes: A Sleepytime Snack Elicits Public-Health Outrage: Public health officials and politicians are debating the safety of a new snack on the market — sold as Lazy Cakes, Kush Cakes and Lulla Pies. They're brownies laced with the sleep aid melatonin.

• The Most Important Food for Healthy Eyes (No, it's Not Carrots): Do you have any idea what causes wild Pacific salmon to have its color?  It is one of the hottest new nutrient discoveries from a marine algae called astaxanthin, which is a far more powerful cousin of beta-carotene.

• The Breast Cancer Breakthrough that's Making Experts Angry: The use of mammograms has dropped following recommendations by a medical task force that women in their 40s may not need to get breast cancer screenings every year. Studies suggest that fewer physicians are recommending annual mammograms for women in their 40s, and that fewer patients in that age group are getting screened.

3 things I've learned through Nutrition Response Testing

Both my husband and I have been seeing Dr. Blanchard for over and year and a half and there are three really important lessons I've learned on our journey:

1. Every day people choose to eat foods loaded with pesticides, processed sugars and preservatives, clean with harsh chemicals, bathe themselves in toxins found in shampoos and soap, and coat their skin with toxic creams, lotions, and makeup, they choose to slowly poison themselves.

2. Slow poisoning of the body is not, in most cases, immediately noticeable. It may take months or years, maybe decades for everything to accumulate enough to cause major health issues. But note, that there are subtle signs of health issues accumulating through the appearance of skin, hair, and the body not working properly (for example: no menstrual cycle, severe acne or other skin problems, headaches, acid reflux, bloating, weight gain, rapid heart beat, etc ...). When the body is not working like it was created to, it lets you know.

3. Undoing 30 (or even 10, 20, 40, ...) years of what I mentioned in point number one is not easy and it takes a long time. If I would've known the long-term effects of all that stuff, I would have taken better care of myself. I am really grateful, though, for Nutrition Response Testing because it gives me the chance to undo what I've done and have a fresh, clean start. And I'm hoping the next 50 years, with all that I know about nutrition and health, that they will be healthy and full of life.

It's the reason I blog—to educate people and give people an opportunity to take back their health.  If we, CNHC, can help you add some life and good health to your years through Nutrition Response Testing, and you're in the Tri-State area (Indiana, Cincinnati, Kentucky), call and schedule a consultation today. We would love to help you get started on your journey to good health!

Health News Roundup

Reading these articles is a great way to inform yourself with what's going on in both natural and traditional healthcare. The more educated you are about these topics, the better you'll be able to make informed decisions regarding your health and the health of your family.

• Market Lighting Affects Nutrients in Salad Greens, Researchers Find: Many people reach toward the back of the fresh-produce shelf to find the freshest salad greens with the latest expiration dates. But a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may prompt consumers to instead look for packages that receive the greatest exposure to light--usually those found closest to the front.

• Is This Common Activity Poisoning You?: Widely used fragranced products, including those that claim to be "green", can give off chemicals not listed on the label. Some of these chemicals have been classified as toxic.

• South Korean Study Suggests Rate of Autism May Be Underestimated: In the first large-scale study of its kind, U.S. and South Korean researchers report that the rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be significantly higher than previously thought, affecting as many as 1 in 38 children. The findings suggest that many youngsters may be going undiagnosed and untreated for the developmental disorder.

• Conventional farmers won't eat their own food: In this interview with organic vegetable farmed "Brad," he explains why conventional farmers won't eat their own products. Why? Because "they know what's in them!"
 

• Many types of organic compost are really packaged human sewage: Do you want everything that goes down your drain winding up on your backyard produce? Well that's what happens to those who use organic compost made with municipal sewage.

• New study: Nations requiring the most vaccines tend to have the worst infant mortality rates: For example, the United States requires infants to receive 26 vaccines -- the most in the world -- yet more than six U.S. infants die per every 1000 live births. In contrast, Sweden and Japan administer 12 vaccines to infants, the least amount, and report less than three deaths per 1000 live births.

• Plastics chemical in packaged foods linked to asthma in babies: BPA, also known as bisphenol-A, is a chemical compound often used in the production of a large variety of plastics. The widespread use of BPA has come under public scrutiny due to known connection to a host of health problems, including heart complications, cancer, neurological issues, diabetes and fertility and sexual issues.

• My New Warning: Avoid THESE Medical Treatments Whenever Possible: Americans' overall (declining) health and their access to state-of-the-art medical facilities factor into these exorbitant yearly health care expenditures. But a majority of these costs, when put under the microscope, clearly have more to do with promoting ever increasing corporate profits than with making Americans healthier. From government agencies like the FDA to the insurance empire, to health care providers and big pharma, the new primary goal of health care industry in the US has transformed into making money off of sick people.

• If You Can Never Seem to Get Truly Well, This Could Be Why...: This environmental medicine expert uncovers a frequent underlying cause of many persistent AND serious health issues - not only allergies, but cancer, diabetes, and thyroid disease, too. Know what symptoms to watch out for in you or a family member, how to detect the presence of this insidious culprit in your home, and what you must do to save your health - and possibly your life.
 

Read last weeks Health News Roundup here.

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

• 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.