Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's happening to the chicken industry in france, which is now severely infected with bird flu. france is a first world nation, too. france is about to experience a major collapse of its chicken industry. There is already a 30 percent drop in chicken consumption in france as of this writing, and now bird flu has been found in the U.K. as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Members of the team are drawn from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA; the European Commission (DGAL – Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales, france); European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Network; Health Protection Agency, UK; Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, France; Institut Pasteur Network, France; Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Sweden; National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan; RIVM, the Netherlands, and the Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| France is a first world nation, too. france is about to experience a major collapse of its chicken industry. There is already a 30 percent drop in chicken consumption in france as of this writing, and now bird flu has been found in the U.K. as well.
It can happen here and, as this poll is telling us, if it does happen here, the public is going to react in a way that will inevitably cause the interruption, or possibly even the temporary collapse of, essential public services such as law enforcement, electricity, fuel, energy, food, emergency services and so on. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Benveniste's latest studies were replicated eighteen times in an independent lab in Lyon, france, and in three other independent centres.
Several years after the memory of water Nature episode, scientific teams still tried to prove Benveniste wrong. Professor Madelene Ennis of Queen's University in Belfast joined a large pan-European research team, with hopes of showing, once and for all, that homeopathy and water memory were utter nonsense. A consortium of four independent laboratories in Italy, france, Belgium and Holland, led by Professor M. |
Melody Petersen
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 The cyclist beat back advanced testicular cancer at the age of twenty-five and went on to win the Tour de france, cyclings most prestigious race, seven times. Bristol-Myers paid money to Armstrong's cancer charity for a campaign in which he credited the company with saving his life. After one of Armstrong's Tour de france victories, the company paid for advertisements proclaiming, "This miracle is brought to you by Bristol-Myers Squibb. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 As early as 1933, researchers noticed that people living in the wine-producing regions of france lived longer than the average French citizen. Later, in 1979, the British medical journal The Lancet published an article that built on this research, suggesting that when various countries were compared for health status, wine-drinking countries, such as france, were found to have much lower rates of heart disease. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 However, researchers have observed the "French paradox": in france, saturated fat intake and mean cholesterol levels are high, but heart disease mortality is low. Wide publicity about this paradox has asserted that red wine consumption in france is high and is responsible for the unexpected results. As a consequence, a general perception exists that red wine is especially beneficial. Nonalcoholic ingredients in the red wine may in fact be responsible for this benefit, including antioxidants and flavo-noids, namely the antioxidants in red grapes that prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| THE FRENCH PARADOX AND THE GREEN TEA CONNECTION
The story of green tea and a healthy heart actually begins, not in Asia, but in france, with the French Paradox, the medical oddity that we discussed in Chapter 3. The French Paradox results from the fact that the French outlive Americans and suffer significantly fewer heart attacks, despite the fact that smoking is a national pastime in france and the typical French diet is swimming in saturated fat. It just didn't seem to make sense that the French would have healthy hearts despite the double whammy of smoking and saturated fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Members of the team are drawn from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA; the European Commission (DGAL – Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales, france); European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Network; Health Protection Agency, UK; Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, France; Institut Pasteur Network, France; Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Sweden; National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan; RIVM, the Netherlands, and the Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
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Dawson Church
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 Germany and france, and more than twice as much as Japan.4 These are all comparable post-industrial societies and economies; some, like france, have inefficient, fossilized, or costly systems. If American costs were 20% higher than the average among rich industrialized countries, its citizens would have cause for concern. Costs that are more than double the average are a national disgrace. And that's for a system that does not cover everyone. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In February 1991 france saw its first case of BSE. As of December 2001, france has reported a total of 258 BSE cases and the disease is on the rise. Another country using meat and bone meal exported from the United Kingdom from 1989 through 1996 was the Netherlands. As of January 2002 the Netherlands reported thirty cases of BSE.
In addition, the United Kingdom exported twenty tons of suspect meal and bone meal to the United States in 1989 but no cases of mad cow disease have been reported or detected in the United States. Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Members of the team are drawn from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA; the European Commission (DGAL – Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales, france); European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Network; Health Protection Agency, UK; Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, France; Institut Pasteur Network, France; Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Sweden; National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan; RIVM, the Netherlands, and the Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
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Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Once again, Britain reaped the harvest from the seeds of innovation planted by france. The Leblanc process was simple to replicate. It merely required common salt to be broken down by sulfuric acid, yielding sodium sulfate as one of the key products of the reaction. When the sodium sulfate was mixed with chalk and charcoal and then heated, copious amounts of soda ash could be cheaply produced.
There was a catch, nonetheless. For every atom of sodium retrieved from common salt, an atom of chlorine is also liberated. The soda ash manufacturers, led by Mr. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Anne of Austria allegedly married Louis XIII of france in 1615 only if she could bring her own stash of chocolate with her. And in 1774, when Louis XVI ascended to the throne, Marie-Antoinette appointed her own personal chocolatier, who created tasty culinary concoctions, including chocolate with powdered orchid bulbs. the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Such foods, the article states, end up "blurring the once distinct line between foods and drugs."
"Chocolate isn't a drug. It's the whole drugstore," quips Dr. Barnard, author of Breaking the Food Seduction. By "drugstore," Dr. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Spain and southern france in the west and the Balkans to northern Greece and Asia minor in the east. It is otherwise extensively cultivated.
Production: Boxwood leaves are the leaves of Buxus sempervirens.
Other Names: Dudgeon, Bush Tree
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Steroid alkaloids
EFFECTS
No information available.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Formerly used as a blood purifier and in the treatment of rheumatic conditions.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| In fact, researchers in france, Sweden, and Great Britain have found that high-carb snackers got hungry as quickly as subjects who had no snacks at all, but those who snacked on chicken (protein) stayed full almost 40 minutes longer.
In addition to being satisfying and keeping you full, however, protein also improves your insulin and glucose levels over the long haul. In fact, metabolic researchers have found that protein-rich diets can improve long-term insulin sensitivity whereas low-fat, high-carb diets can influence the progression of insulin resistance, according to Loren Cordain, Ph.D. |
| The Ecology of Eating: Smaller Portion Sizes in france than in the United States Helps
Explain the French Paradox." Psychological Science 14, no. 5 (2003). Ruskin, Gary. "Commercial Alert Criticizes National PTA over Coke Sponsorship." Wednesday, June 4,
2003. http://www.commercialalert.Org/index.php/category_id/5/subcategory_id/72/article_id/187. -. "The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children." October 31, 2003. http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/education/junk-food/the-fast-food-trap-how-commercialismcreates-overweight-children. Ruskin, Gary, and Juliet Schor. |
| Marketing to children in schools is illegal in Belgium, france, Portugal, Luxembourg, and Vietnam.
But back here in America, that continual ad exposure influences people's food preferences and choices. And marketing to our nation's young is big business.
Marketing to Kids Is Highly Lucrative for Food and Beverage Companies
Despite claims to the contrary, marketing to children pays off handsomely.
" Children aged 4 to 12 themselves made $30 billion in purchases in 2002. That's a phenomenal increase over 1989's spending figure of $6.1 billion. |
| Sugar's Depression Reaction around the World
The potential link between our sugar intake and plummeting mood is so beguiling that one group of researchers has tracked both depression and sugar consumption rates in six countries around the world: New Zealand, Canada, Germany, france, the United States, and Korea. Interestingly, the study found that those countries with the highest rates of depression also had the highest rates of refined sugar consumption.
Reporting in Depression and Anxiety, the researchers concluded that there was a "highly significant correlation between sugar consumption . |
Mark Schapiro
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 Monsanto had hired a local farmer to grow the Le Broc test plot in hopes of gaining approval for commercial cultivation in france, the first step toward gaining the big-ticket goal of approval for all of Europe. For Monsanto, it has been a tumultuous road.
Three years earlier, in meetings across the French countryside, a grassroots farmers' movement had taken form, expressing alarm at what farmers felt was the potential for genetically modified crops, to alter the landscape that they and their predecessors had nurtured over centuries. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Still more research examined carbohydrate's link to other types of cancer:
* Researchers from Italy, france, and Canada who studied 1,000 women in Italy and Switzerland for 10 years found that the more high-glycemic foods participants ate, the higher their risks of endometrial cancer (cancer of the uterus). |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The main exporters are Holland, Poland, france, Hungary and former Yugoslavia.
Production: Blackcurrant leaves are the leaves of Ribes nigrum. The leaves are harvested during or shortly after flowering, air-dried in the shade or at maximum temperature of 60°C. Blackcurrant fruits are the ripe fruits of Ribes nigrum. The fruit is harvested when in bloom and used immediately or deep-frozen.
Other Names: Quinsy Berries, Squinancy Berries
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS: RIBES NIGRI FOLIUM
Flavonoids (0. |
| Habitat: The plant is indigenous to northern Spain, through western france, eastwards via central and southern Europe as far as the Caucasus, and has been naturalized in many regions.
Production: Periwinkle herb consists of the above-ground parts of Vinca minor.
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY compounds
Indole alkaloids (0.15-1.4%): chief alkaloid vincamine (eburnamine-type, 25-65%), further, including among others, vincin, apovincamine, vincadifformin
Flavonoids effects
No information is available. |
| DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: In france, the infusion is available in various restaurants under the name "Vervaine oderante". Used in various medicinal preparations and tea mixtures.
Preparation: To prepare an infusion, use 5 to 29 g of the leaf per 1 liter of water.
Daily Dosage: Drink 2 to 5 cups of the infusion during the course of the day.
Storage: The drug must be stored in sealed containers, protected from light and dampness.
LITERATURE
Breitweiser K, (1943) Pharmaz Ind 10:76.
Killacky J et al., (1976) Planta Med 30:310.
Rimpler H, Sauerbier H, Biochem Syst Ecol 14:307-310. 1986. |
| In france, it is traditionally used in the symptomatic treatment of nervous disorders in adults and children, especially for mild sleep disorders and for the symptomatic treatment of coughs. Furthermore, Horehound enemas are used against ascaridae and suppositions, on the basis of the thickened fresh plant juice, which acts against oxyurene. Externally, Horehound is used for gout.
The drug's efficacy has not been adequately proven.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
David R. Montgomery
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 In i860 the marquis de Mirabeau estimated that half of France's forest had been cleared in the previous century. Inspector of Forests Jonsse de Fontaniere echoed Smell's stark assessment of the prospects of the High Alps. "The cultivators of the land . . . will be compelled ... to abandon the places which were inhabited by their forefathers; and this solely in consequence of the destruction of the soil, which, after having supported so many generations, is giving place little by little, to sterile rocks. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The Liquor de Javelle business did not flourish in france, so its proprietors moved to Liverpool. Then they even went so far as to apply for a twenty-eight-year British patent. This would have had the effect of securing under their business control any and all rights to all chlorine-based bleaching, even by other methods not employing Liquor de Javelle.
A meeting of manufacturers and merchants in Manchester was hastily called to address this looming economic threat. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Taylor produced a large piece of cloth bleached with Liquor de Javelle. Mr. |
| Six of the victims whose cases were documented in the French series had been exposed while using benzene-contaminated rubber cement in raincoat manufacturing, an industry that in all of france employed only one thousand workers. Six cases of leukemia among one thousand persons over fifteen years is many times the expected rate in the general population.
The IARC committee did not find these cases compelling. They gave heavier weighting to a Japanese study they felt was more rigorous in its epidemiological methods. |
| Photo credit: Reunion des musees nationaux/Art Resource, NY, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, france.
The operatives during the Hawthorne experiment. Photographic illustration reproduced from L. J. Henderson and Elton Mayo, "Effects of the Social Environment," in The Environment and Its Effect upon Man; Symposium Held at Harvard School of Public Health, August 24-August 29,1936, as Part of Harvard University Tercentenary Celebration, 1636-1936 (Boston: Harvard School of Public Health, 1937); the image
Will Morrill, Wylie Mill; Chester, S.C. Been in the mill j years. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1908. |
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