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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Regulators at Health Canada announced in 2002 that they would monitor canadians for health problems from eating GM foods. A spokesperson said, "I think it's just prudent and what the public expects, that we will keep a careful eye on the health of canadians." But according to CBC TV news, Health Canada "abandoned that research less than a year later saying it was 'too difficult to put an effective surveillance system in place.'" The news anchor added, "So at this point, there is little research into the health effects of genetically modified food. So will we ever know for sure if it's safe?

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Our climate change group tried to educate canadians on global warming and irs basis, and we got very little traction, and then we found that Health Canada showed that 16,000 canadians [and tenfold more U.S. citizens, according to government estimates] die every year from air pollution.10 We recruired doctors from across the country to speak out.

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy Mark Sircus See book keywords and concepts

Health Canada estimates that non-food allergies are "the most common chronic condition in canadians 12 years of age and older." The Allergy, Genes and Environment Network, or AllerGen, is Canada's response to the crisis. Part of the country's Networks of Centres of Excellence, Hamilton-based AllerGen is comprised of more than 100 scientists at 20 universities and research facilities across the country. Dr. Judah Denburg is AllerGen's scientific director. The Allergy Epidemic; June, 2006; See: www.macleans.ca/topstories/ health/article.jsp?content=20060605_l 28132_128132 19 Gilliland, F.D.

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Europeans, canadians and practically everyone else in the world is way ahead of the game on this. In Europe, genetically engineered foods must be clearly labeled, and many countries have actually banned GM exports from the United States (about which the U.S. screams like a carjacking victim, citing international trade sanctions and promising economic retribution towards any country that doesn't swallow genetically engineered U.S. crops). American consumers have remained in the dark on this issue for so long that it's frankly a little embarrassing to me, as an American, to admit.

The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Almost two million canadians and three and a half million British are alcohol abusers. Some four to thirteen million people in the United States are believed to be drug abusers. In Canada, the best estimates are that about half a million people regularly abuse drugs, and in Britain, the number is about one million. 237 How Alcohol and Drugs Affect Mood and Behavior Nearly everyone is familiar with how alcohol can affect moods and behavior. A small amount, such as a glass of wine or beer, can produce an enjoyable, relaxing effect and can take the edge off a stressful day.

Interview with Dr. Hank Liers Part 5: Superior nutrition for pet health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You cannot send a vitamin into Canada that has chromium picolinate in it. The canadians understand. I use those polynicotinate and arginate forms of chromium at a couple of hundred micrograms per capsule. A typical diabetic would need to take, in the human case, three a day, and they would get 600 micrograms of chromium, which is a good amount and is therapeutic chromium for people with diabetes. Diabetes Defense for pets is a scaled down form -- the animal version -- of our Diabetes Support Formula for humans, but you get that same typical response with the chromium unlocking the cell.

Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD See book keywords and concepts

About 24,000 to 39,000 canadians have Parkinson's disease. In the United States about 1 in 200 of the population suffer from this disease, although it is most common in Afro-Americans. There was no effective treatment for Parkinson's disease until it was discovered that L-dopa ameliorated its symptoms. Initially, a double-blind clinical study indicated that L-dopa was not effective, but the dose range used was inadequate and, subsequently, more appropriate levels exhibited its efficacy.1

In total, 43,162 canadians died from addiction-associated causes in 2002, with tobacco use being responsible for 37,209 of those deaths. 82 Alcoholism Role of Vitamin B-3 In the 1950s, Dr Hoffer and his colleagues in Saskatchewan began to treat large numbers of schizophrenic patients with high doses of vitamin B-3. A few of these patients were both alcoholic and schizophrenic. From this group, it was learned that, coincidentally, niacin was a particularly good treatment for alcohol addiction.

28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Americans currently pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. canadians, Europeans, and even citizens of Mexico pay only about one-half to as little as one-tenth the price paid by Americans for the very same chemicals. Drug companies actually import many of the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals from other countries, meaning that some U.S. medicines are already sourced from countries like the U.K. and Germany. Drug companies mark up their prescription drugs as much as 569,000% over the price of the raw materials. (A typical markup is more in the 30,000% - 50,000% range.

Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts

THE FIRST STUDY The first study, conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, looked at data on nearly 35,000 canadians whose colonoscopies found no polyps. During the next 10 years, the incidence of colon cancer in these individuals was 72% lower than in the general population, the researchers report. In addition, the decreased risk of colon cancer continued for more than 10 years.

Raw, "empowered" chocolate products launched by Empowered Foods; full review of sensational product line Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Canadians have no problems whatsoever. Overall, I enjoy the Empowered Foods products so much that I'm not letting hot weather stop me from ordering. Even if these products are inadvertently heated for a few hours during shipping, they're still far healthier (and less processed) than the typical chocolate bars you see on the market. By the way, Empowered Foods is working with somebody in the U.K. who may be replicating some of these products and making them available soon throughout Western Europe. I don't have details on that plan, but I know it's in the works.

You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts

American Journal Public Health 96:252-6, 20061 Vitamin D3 Level Achieved Among canadians in Summertime Source: American Journal Clinical Nutrition 73: 288-94, 2001 The geographic cancer belt There is a cancer belt in the world. Ever hear of it? Probably not. It's where the sun doesn't shine, in northern climates. The rates of colon, breast, uterine and prostate cancer are much higher in sun-deprived areas of the world.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

A recent study of heart attack patients found that canadians did just as well as American patients—though many Americans consider Canadian health care, which provides fewer expensive, invasive procedures, to be an inferior system. Why, then, is our health care so astronomically expensive? Conventional wisdom says our system is expensive precisely because we don't ration care. Unlike the citizens of Canada and the United Kingdom, we don't have to wait months for elective surgery or an MRI.

The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Although canadians and Western Europeans are, as a whole, healthier than Americans, they increasingly suffer the same fate of modern malnutrition. The cause, in large part, is related to the worldwide distribution and consumption of American junk foods, from soft drinks to burgers and fries. Such convenience foods displace more nutritious foods. In the United States, three-fourths of Americans do not consume the extremely minute yet required daily amount of folic acid, a key B vitamin that is involved in maintaining good moods.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

A spokesperson said, "I think it's just prudent and what the public expects, that we will keep a careful eye on the health of canadians." But according to CBC TV news, Health Canada "abandoned that research less than a year later saying it was 'too difficult to put an effective surveillance system in place.'" The news anchor added, "So at this point, there is little research into the health effects of genetically modified food. So will we ever know for sure if it's safe?"8 Not with the biotech companies in charge.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts

Nutritional factors and prostate cancer: A case-control study of French canadians in Montreal, Canada. Cancer Causes Control 7, 428^436. 114. Kristal, A. R., Cohen, J. H., Qu, P., and Stanford, J. L. (2002). Associations of energy, fat, calcium, and vitamin D with prostate cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 11, 719-725. 115. Schuurman, A. G., van den Brandt, P. A., Dorant, E., Brants, H. A., and Goldbohm, R. A. (1999). Association of energy and fat intake with prostate carcinoma risk: Results from The Netherlands Cohort Study. Cancer 86, 1019-1027. 116. Ramon, J. M., Bou, R.

Canadians. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vase. Biol. 17, 1060-1066. 179. Wanby,P.,Palmquist,P.,Brudin,L.,andCarlsson,M.(2005). 193. Genetic variation of the intestinal fatty acid-binding protein 2 gene in carotid atherosclerosis. Vase. Med. 10, 103-108. 180. Hegele, R. A., Wolever, T. M., Story, J. A., Connelly, P. W., and Jenkins, D. J. (1997). Intestinal fatty acid-binding protein variation associated with variation in the response of plasma lipoproteins to dietary fibre. Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 27, 194. 857-862. 181. Agren, J. J., Valve, R., Vidgren, H., Laakso, M., and Uusitupa, M. (1998).

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

But after an analysis they described as "vexing" and "bewildering," the canadians concluded there was far less scientific evidence about Risperdal than the articles implied. When they finally untangled the data, they found only seven small trials and two large trials of the drug, including one study that had been reported in six scientific publications with different authors for each. The repeated publications gave "an artificial impression," the researchers said, that there was wide scientific support for Risperdal's use. "It brings into question the integrity of medical research," they wrote.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

That, clearly, was not what canadians wanted for their country or what we wanted for ours. Canada's overexploitation is a problem for the United States, too. Canada is running out of natural gas. Canada is America's biggest supplier of this vital resource. Canada cur-rendy exports about 55 percent of its natural gas production to the United States; yet, the nation's major gas producing province of Alberta has "only has about nine more years of conventional reserves," according to Moneycanoe.ca, a publication of Quebecor Media.

In 2004, Suzuki was nominated as one of the top ten "Great Canadians" by viewers of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A third-generation Japanese-Canadian ("Canadian Sansei"), Suzuki and his family suffered internment in British Columbia during the Second World War from when he was six (1942) until after the war ended. In June 1942, the government sold the Suzuki family's dry-cleaning business, then interned Suzuki, his mother, and two sisters in a camp in the Sloan Valley in the BC Interior. His father had been sent to a labor camp in Solsqua, two months earlier.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

The EU is offering discount wind generators. canadians are offering energy-efficiency technology to China. The Swedes have a joint renewable-energy program to increase energy efficiency. . . . Other than removing the restrictions on trade in nuclear technology, there is very little that the U.S. government has brought to the table.

Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Ewen Cameron, later of MKULTRA infamy due to his 1957 to1964 experiments on canadians, publishes an article in the British Journal of Physical Medicine, in which he describes experiments that entail forcing schizophrenic patients at Manitoba's Brandon Mental Hospital to lie naked under 15- to 200-watt red lamps for up to eight hours per day. His other experiments include placing mental patients in an electric cage that overheats their internal body temperatures to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and inducing comas by giving patients large injections of insulin (Goliszek). (1951) The U.S.

Ewen Cameron $69,000 to perform LSD studies and potentially lethal experiments on canadians being treated for minor disorders like post-partum depression and anxiety at the Allan Memorial Institute, which houses the Psychiatry Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The CIA encourages Dr. Cameron to fully explore his "psychic driving" concept of correcting madness through completely erasing one's memory and rewriting the psyche.

Depression, Osteoporosis Correlation Misreported by Junk Science Media, Ill-Informed Health Researchers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The vast majority of Americans (and canadians and Brits, for that matter) are chronically deficient in vitamin D. Estimates range anywhere from 60 percent to 75 percent of the population, depending on whom you ask and which geographic region you're talking about. People who live closer to the equator (in Southern U.S. states, for example, or parts of Australia) get more sunlight and therefore have lower rates of vitamin D deficiency. People who live in rainy climates where clouds block the sun most of the year have much higher rates of vitamin D deficiency.

Health roundup: Organ harvesting, kidney profits and Haitian headhunters (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This gives rise to a great new medical product idea I have for canadians. It's a medical safety band you wear on your wrist. If you're ever in an accident, paramedics will read that it says, "Take me to TORONTO!" Even if the long ambulance drive kills you, at least you'll rest in peace. If you happen to be unconscious from a car crash, though, you'd better hope your heart doesn't skip a beat, or the medical crazies in the organ transplant industry might just lunge right in and start harvesting even before you're actually dead.

Hey, medheads! Here's the new language of the medication population (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Don't trust canadians (or their pharmacists)! Deadly, dangerous Chinese herbs may have possibly killed someone somewhere! Drug companies need billions of dollars in drug profits to find the cure for cancer! Evidence-based medicine is credible! These are the type of headlines constructed by news repeaters. Fictitious disease - A fabricated disease invented for the sole purpose of creating a new market for patented drugs.

Ten Lies About Health Your Doctor Taught You Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Most Americans (and canadians and Europeans, for that matter) are deficient in vitamin D. As a result, tumor cell growth in the breast and prostate is unregulated. Sensible exposure to natural sunlight generates cancer-preventing vitamin D... at no charge! Sunburns are actually caused by nutritional deficiencies (lack of antioxidants in the skin), not by sensible exposure to sunlight. See http://www.newstarget.com/Vitamin_D.html Lie #6: CT scans (CAT scans) are perfectly safe. Truth #6: CT scans expose patients to 1000 times the radiation of chest X-rays.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Although the FDA has tried hard to scare the American public into thinking that Canada is a dangerous place to purchase pharmaceuticals, the truth is that canadians have a far safer system for distributing drugs than we do in the United States. In Canada there are relatively few wholesalers. These are the middlemen who buy drugs from the drug manufacturers and distribute them to retail pharmacies. Canadian regulators do not allow widespread repackaging. When you get your bottle of pills from a pharmacist in Canada, it usually comes in the original sealed container from the drug company.

The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

HIGH ISOFLAVONE INTAKE IN OKINAWAN JAPANESE VERSUS JAPANESE CANADIANS H Okinawans Z\ Japanese canadians p< 0.01 (highly statistically significant) Note: Isoflavones come mainly from soy foods, such as tofu and miso, and may play a role in the markedly low risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer in Okinawans.1^18 and Hawaii Cancer Institute show that dietary westernization, including reduced soy food intake, plays a role in the increased risk of heart disease. Soy is, in fact, one of the few foods allowed an official USDA health claim for lowering heart disease risk.

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