Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The analysis found that 84 percent of 785 sunscreen products with an SPF rating of 15 or higher offer inadequate protection from the sun's harmful rays, or contain ingredients with safety concerns. Ironically, some popular sunscreen chemicals break down when exposed to sunlight and must be formulated with stabilizing chemicals. Others penetrate the skin and present significant health concerns.
This ground-breaking research is based on nearly 400 peer-reviewed studies of the 17 sunscreen chemicals approved for use in the U.S. |
| That's nearly three decades of keeping the public in the dark about the extremely harmful, cancer-causing chemicals found in sunscreen products. Any idea why the Food and Drug Administration has taken so long to set safety standards for a product used by over 100 million Americans? If you guessed, "Because the greedy corporations selling the toxic sunscreen products don't want the FDA to study the safety of their products," give yourself golden star sticker. You got it! |
| As the EWG's research reveals, an incredible 84% of sunscreen products are harmful to consumers. You read that right: More than four out of five sunscreen products actually harm the people who use them.
That's no surprise to NewsTarget readers, of course. We've been sounding the alarm on the toxicity of sunscreen products for years. We've also hammered at the sick conspiracy between the cancer industry and the sunscreen industry to keep people diseased so that both industries make more money. Read my article The Sunscreen Myth to learn more. |
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 They are merely seductive, harmful synthetic substances that will inevitably produce harmful side effects.
If you think your periods are painful today, just imagine the emotional pain of being diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing chemotherapy that nearly kills you and having a mastectomy. Once you start down the path of chemical suppression of symptoms of pain, you begin a journey into the world of harmful medicine that will only leave you diseased and bankrupt, addicted to a dozen pharmaceuticals and suffering from liver failure, kidney disease, brain fog and chronic pain. |
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 Modern medicine is actually harmful to patients!
Medical science is slow to change, and slow to give up its closely-guarded (false) beliefs. In time, however, virtually everything now supported by the medical industry (the FDA, AMA, ACS, etc.) will be regarded as insanely harmful to human health. One day, future scientists will look back on medicine today and wonder just how such an industry of evil and greed could have gained so much power and authority. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In the absence of such evidence, diagnosis only leads to increased medical costs, harmful to the economy, to unnecessary and perhaps risky procedures, and to increased stress, which, in itself, is harmful to the patient.
Screening for Cardiovascular Disease
There are two screening procedures that seem to be worthwhile: serum cholesterol and blood pressure. Most medical scientists agree that elevated serum cholesterol (particularly "low density lipoprotein"—LDL) is an important risk factor for coronary disease. |
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 Knowingly approved harmful food additives for widespread use in the food supply (such as aspartame, which has a rather dubious history and has been proven toxic in several studies), even when its own safety experts recommended denying approval.
Allowed the continued legal use of harmful, cancer-causing food additives in the national food supply such as sodium nitrite (which causes cancer and yet is intentionally added to nearly all processed meats). |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| In the absence of such evidence, diagnosis only leads to increased medical costs, harmful to the economy, to unnecessary and perhaps risky procedures, and to increased stress, which, in itself, is harmful to the patient.
Screening for Cardiovascular Disease
There are two screening procedures that seem to be worthwhile: serum cholesterol and blood pressure. Most medical scientists agree that elevated serum cholesterol (particularly "low density lipoprotein"—LDL) is an important risk factor for coronary disease. |
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 Even though the research showed that both smoking and secondhand smoke are harmful to human health, Philip Morris reportedly concealed the evidence and took significant steps to make sure it would never become public.
Phillip Morris continues to deny that secondhand smoke is dangerous to human health, but if the Lancet report is to be believed, its own research contradicts that conclusion. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Its current regulations detail that the designation danger, along with the warning harmful or fatal if swallowed, must be present when solvents such as toluene make up 10 percent or more of a product by weight.
Benzene is a special case for the CPSC. For example, on a bottle of glue composed of 5 percent ot more of benzene (granted, half the level for toluene warnings, hut fifty times the level of the ban that was never instituted), the label must state danger and include the words Vapor harmful and poison, along with a skull and crossbones. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Caffeinated Beverages
A small amount of caffeine will probably not be harmful for most women and their infants. However, there are some studies of concern. Caffeine has been shown to contribute to growth-retarded or low—birth weight infants.128 Researchers have suggested that women limit their intake of caffeine to approximately 300 mg per day during pregnancy, and since caffeine is known to enter breast milk, that level might be appropriate for nursing mothers as well.129 One cup of regular coffee contains about 120 mg of caffeine. |
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| As with all medications, atorvastatin and other cholesterol-lowering statins can cause side effects, such as muscle aches and potentially harmful increases in liver enzymes. Because there was a higher incidence of these side effects in the people who were taking the maximum dose, more research is needed before high doses are routinely prescribed.
PACEMAKER FOR HEART FAILURE
Every year, 550,000 Americans are diagnosed with congestive heart failure, meaning that the heart is not pumping effectively due to coronary artery disease, damage from a heart attack, high blood pressure or other factors. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Such spin tactics are typical; the corn industry has borrowed from the disinformation playbook of the tobacco industry, who claimed for over 70 years their products were not harmful."
Insiders believe what all this ultimately boils down to is money. "Nestle, Coke, Pepsi, Cadbury Schweppes, Hershey, Kraft, ConAgra, ADM, Cargill, M&M/Mars, Tyson, Campbell's, etc.—there isn't a mainstream food company that isn't using high-fructose corn syrup," one source points out. "They're making a profit at the health expense of the consumer. |
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| Also potentially harmful to the fetus are the mother's exposure to x-rays during pregnancy or the father's preconception exposure to x-rays.132 One study showed that high amounts of lead and barium in drinking water caused an increased risk of miscarriages.133 Elevated lead in the body has also been linked to preeclampsia134 and lower birth weight.
Mercury has received perhaps the most attention of any of the pesticides and heavy metals. Methylmercury crosses the placenta and can impair the development of the central nervous system in the fetus. |
| The liver not only has to process the foods that we eat every day but also detoxifies harmful substances, both those we produce from normal metabolism and those we are exposed to in our environment. In addition, it metabolizes and deactivates hormones. The liver metabolizes estrogen so it can be eliminated from the body by converting it to estrone and finally to estriol, a weaker form of estrogen that has very little ability to stimulate the uterus. If the liver cannot effectively metabolize estradiol, the uterus may become overestrogenized and respond with fibroid growths. |
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| Your feelings may not be as pronounced as Kelly's or Devo's, but perhaps you, too, are caught in a harmful cycle, where you unsuccessfully bury your blues beneath a mound of chocolate ice cream. Although you may feel better briefly, inevitably you'll need another sugar boost hours later.
Do Sweets Smash Our Spirits?
At one time or another, many of us turn to sugary snacks or much-like-sugar carbs for solace and comfort. We unthinkingly use such sweets to fend off our melancholy, ease our edginess, and lessen our angst. |
| In this smartly sarcastic "Sweets and Sour Marge" episode, the crusading Marge takes on the "Motherloving Sugar Corporation" for "ruining the whole town's health" by making "harmful foods." She then goes door to door to recruit neighbors for her class action lawsuit against "Big Sugar."
For instance, Marge brings on spaced-out Disco Stu, who admits, "I've been hooked on the white stuff since the seventies." Then, in an uproarious, laugh-out-loud TV moment, Stu greedily inhales sucrose through a rolled dollar bill as if it were a line of cocaine. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Understanding the harmful effects of some fats and the beneficial effects of others can be confusing. A little explanation of terms and concepts may go a long way in clarifying the issue. Fats are the most concentrated source of food energy. Each gram of fat provides 9 calories, compared with only 4 calories per gram for carbohydrates or protein. All fats are made from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. These elements are arranged in molecules called fatty acids. The three major classes of dietary lipids are triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols (such as cholesterol). |
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| We regulate marketing to kids less than any industrialized democracy," adds Linn, a Harvard Medical School psychiatry instructor, who, in 2000, co-founded the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), whose long-term goal is to put an end to targeting kids with potentially harmful advertising messages.
"The food industry is clearly under a lot of pressure," she says. "They're acting a lot like the tobacco industry did in the 1990s. There's a possibility that [down the line], we'll have regulation of junk food marketing to kids. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Glycotoxins are especially harmful to people with diabetes, as these toxic molecules are associated with retinopathy (glycotoxins accumulate in the retinal blood vessels), neuropathy (they accumulate in peripheral nerves, resulting in nerve damage), kidney failure (they are found in kidney tissue), heart disease, and blood vessel disease. The use of antiglycotoxin agents or inhibitors, such as aminoguanidine, has been studied in the hope of preventing or reversing diabetic complications triggered by high levels of glycation/glycotoxins. We discuss these and other measures in chapter 8. |
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| Now, however, research reveals that over-consuming fructose and high-fructose corn syrup could actually be more harmful than sucrose for the very reason that it was originally considered safe. |
Ray D. Strand
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 If that didn't convince them, I would share a study or two that showed a vitamin to be harmful. I remember that the negative studies were really the only ones on vitamins of which I was really aware. After all, when negative studies were publicized in the lay media or medical journals, I would tell myself, "See, you were right all along about those vitamins. It's a shame that these charlatans have played such scams on my patients."
Part of the reason I have changed my mind about vitamins is the quality of our diet. |
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 Other animal research indicates that EGCG blocks about 50 percent of the harmful effects of NNK and may accomplish the blockage by interacting with the P450 enzyme system.11
The data gathered from studies of human smoking populations falls in line with the results from animal studies. Blood markers of tobacco-related carcinogens were measured in fifty-two healthy men aged twenty to fifty-two, as were their rates of consumption of green tea. |
| These potentially harmful HCAs are formed during the cooking, especially frying, of meats and fish and enter the digestive tract when the food is eaten. They are believed to be a major contributor to cancer. Dr. John H. Weisburger from the American Health Foundation noted in a report of his research that "use of polyphenols may be a practical means of blocking the formation of HCAs during cooking," but the green tea must be added to the meat or fish dish during cooking.6 How green tea affects the taste of a steak has not been reported. |
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| FOODS HIGH IN TRANS FATS
Approximately 40% of the food in supermarkets contains trans fats. This harmful substance is found in 95% of cookies, 80% of frozen breakfast foods, 75% of snacks and chips, 70% of cake mixes and almost 50% of all cereals. And these foods contain plenty of it.
Examples: Products that have the most trans fats include vegetable shortening, doughnuts, stick margarine, french fries (trans fats account for approximately 40% of the total fat content).. .and many cookies and crackers (35% to 50% of fat content is from trans fats). |
| With our national pharmacy bill now topping $200 billion each year, and recent disclosures about harmful and ineffective drugs, more people are asking, Are all those pills really necessary?
To learn more, we talked with John Abramson, MD, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School who is widely recognized for his in-depth research of the drug industry...
•Are most Americans overmedicated? They sure are. Americans take many drugs unnecessarily, and when drugs are needed, people often take the wrong ones. |
| Rather, he suggests that, "the future goal is to try to dissect the good and the bad uses of estradiol," in an effort to develop medicines that could prevent beta-cell deaths and diabetes without causing harmful side effects.
Dr. Robert Rizza, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and president of the American Diabetes Association, calls the findings of the study "intriguing."
"There have been various studies that have shown that estrogen may lower the risk for developing diabetes, and this study shows why this might be the case," he says. |
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 Although vanilla was common in the islands, it was never used in chocolate (it was then believed to be harmful to the health throughout Europe).
On the evidence of Buc'hoz's treatise, the French were far more conservative than the Italians in their culinary use of chocolate: there is nothing here comparable to black polenta or chocolate papardelle. Rather, the great elaboration in France lies in desserts and sweets. |
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| A study reported in the January 2, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that vitamin A can be harmful for normal bone function, leading to an increase in hip fractures.
Women must avoid vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy. Dosages as low as 5,000-10,000 IU are believed to have caused birth defects.10
I never recommend taking straight vitamin A in supplements. We can meet the need for vitamin A within the body by simply taking beta-carotene and the mixed carotenoids. |
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