Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As you read these, keep in mind that these are stories based on a study that actually found significant protective benefits for those women who took the antioxidants:
WebMD
Antioxidants Don't Lower Heart Risk
FOX News
Study: Antioxidants Do Not Protect High-Risk Women from Heart Disease
Xinhua, China
Antioxidants cut no heart disease rate in high-risk women
Scotsman, united kingdom
Nutrients 'do not cut heart risks among vulnerable'
CTV. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The findings fit in well with previous research, and provide definite answers where previously there was uncertainty," explains study coauthor Sarah Darby, a professor of medical statistics at the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit in the united kingdom.
"It is now clear that radiotherapy saves lives in women who have had breast-conserving surgery and in women whose cancer has substantial spread to the armpit, even if they have already had a mastectomy," Darby says. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 If degree of exposure were a factor, then the amount of transgenes in gut bacteria would presumably be much larger for subjects tested from the United States, where GM consumption is considerably more than in the united kingdom.
The researchers also fed 12 healthy volunteers the same soy-based meal. In contrast to rat studies, in which GM DNA was found in feces for up to 79 hours after feeding,34 analysis of the feces from the 12 human subjects showed no intact transgenic DNA. The detection method used in the study, however, was sharply criticized as not sensitive enough. |
| Soy allergies skyrocketed by 50% in the united kingdom, soon after genetically engineered soy was introduced; and one human subject out of the few tested showed a skin prick allergic-type reaction to GM soy, but not to natural soy. In the 1980s, a GM food supplement killed about one hundred Americans and caused sickness and disability in another five to ten thousand people.
How do biotech companies deal with adverse reactions to their products? A cursory look at how Monsanto responded to adverse reactions from its toxic chemical PCBs (polychlorinated bi-phenyls) gives us some insight. |
| Roundup Ready soy had recently entered the united kingdom from US imports. The soy used in the study was also largely GM. John Graham, spokesman for the York laboratory, said, "We believe this raises serious new questions about the safety of GM foods."93
GM soy has unique allergic response
Remarkably, no follow-up tests to the UK allergy study were conducted at the time to see if individuals reacted differently to GM and non-GM soybeans. A study published six years later, however, verified that the immune system of some individuals does react differently to the two soy types. |
| A significant difference between the two populations is that a large number of dairy cows in the United States are treated with rbGH, whereas the drug is banned in the united kingdom and throughout Europe. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) showed that people with type 1 diabetes can reduce their risk of developing diabetic complications by 50 percent or more if they take aggressive measures to control their disease, while the united kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) revealed that people with type 2 diabetes can also enjoy significant reductions in the risk of complications if they are diligent about making changes in their treatment as the disease progresses. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Soy allergies jumped 50% in the united kingdom just after GM soy was introduced6 (section 1.15). If GM soy was the cause, it may be due to several things.
1. The GM protein that makes Roundup Ready soy resistant to herbicide does not have a history of safe use in the human diet and may be an allergen. In fact, sections of its amino acid sequence are identical with known allergens7 (section 3.2).
2. A portion of the transgene from GM soybeans is transferred into human gut bacteria. The transferred genetic material included the promoter, which turns on the transgene. |
| The number of twins grew at twice the rate in the United States compared to the united kingdom, where rbGH is banned.
Milk from rbGH-treated cows likely increases the rate of twin births
Higher levels of blood IGF-1 increase the tendency to have fraternal twins. The hormone increases ovulation and appears to support embryo survival.27 Cows with high twin rates have IGF-1 levels 1.5-2 times higher than normal.28 It is also noteworthy that the gene in cows that produces IGF-1 is located in close proximity to the genes that control the rate of
. 29 twinning. |
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| They cite statistics from the united kingdom, that show a 30% reduction in the number of patients admitted to specialty centers for severe acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure in the four years after OTC sales of acetaminophen were restricted to 16 g. More severe restrictions in France also resulted in improvements.
Education is also needed, the study authors state. "We think it's important to educate the public—and even physicians, when they give a patient a narcotic-acetaminophen combination," Larson says. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 According to Simon Maxwell, senior lecturer at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, united kingdom, black tea may account for more than half of the flavonoid intake of Western diets. Theaflavins, a group of catechins formed during the processing of black tea, are much weaker than EGCG but do show antioxidant activity in laboratory studies. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Alas, the pizza-flavored Pringle rollout never happened in Italy, but in the united kingdom and the United States, the snacks have been a hit. "Mmmm, they're delicious," puckered Lucy Hodgson. Among other such discoveries of local habits to which the company has adapted: the Poles tend to use far less laundry detergent per load than their far more affluent neighbors, the Germans, who tend to overdose their clothes. Thus, a slightly more concentrated Ariel was developed for Poland, a slightly weaker version for the Germans. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Unfortunately, at higher water temperatutes, such as those typically used in American washing machines, the same catalyst that worked so well in the united kingdom and the Netherlands bore right through the clothes being washed. In a plot twist reminiscent of Middlemarch, archrival Proctor and Gamble pounced quickly, seizing on the trouble and creating a public relations fiasco for Lever. This was followed by a fiscally painful recall. The organic manganese bleach catalysts were put aside indefinitely. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In the united kingdom, the dangers of PPCPs were first recognized in the 1970s. In the U.S., however, it was another twenty years before the scientific community began to take notice, largely in response to the efforts of one scientist, Christian Daughton. Chief of the environmental chemistry branch of the EPA's Environmental Sciences Division, Daughton began reporting on the dangers of PPCPs in the water supply during the mid-1990s.
In 1999, Daughton co-wrote, with Thomas A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Modern medicine is a medical racket, a drug monopoly and disease treatment scam that has been foisted upon the people of western nations (America, Canada, united kingdom, etc.) in order to maximize corporate profits.
And the FDA has become the Darth Vader of the empire, using the power of the dark side to inflict pain and destruction upon its enemies in its quest to become the dominate power center of all things related to health. Click here to see our Darth Vader FDA cartoon. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Obviously, it's possible that schizophrenia was a lot more common in the United States than in the united kingdom. But a more probable explanation was that without a diagnostic test to help, doctors in the two countries diagnosed the illness differently. This striking discrepancy was the reason a number of psychiatrists decided to arrive at clinical case definitions for each of the many psychiatric syndromes. That effort at coding psychiatric illnesses was called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). |
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 Habitat: China; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; Mongolia; Russian Federation; Austria; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Finland; France; Greenland, Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Norway; Poland; Romania; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom; Canada; United States.
Other Names: Roseroot, Golden Root actions and pharmacology compounds
Various compounds have isolated from the root of Rhodiola rosea. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 It is little used in the United States but commonly is used in the united kingdom for people with nervous tension, mild anxiety, and stress-induced insomnia.
Nootropics: Complementary Herbs for Adaptogens
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In addition to adaptogens and nervines, there is another category of herbal medicine that is both complementary and especially useful for enhancing emotional and mental well-being and promoting cerebral circulation. These herbs are called nootropics. |
| At that time, much of the skullcap sold in the United States, the united kingdom, and Europe was actually another plant, germander {Teucrium spp.), also erroneously known as pink skullcap (real skullcap has blue flowers). As it turns out, germander has known liver-damaging chemicals and is definitely implicated in many cases of liver damage. |
| CASE REPORTS
The following case reports, clinical anecdotes, and ideas come from David Winston's case files and from the files of many of the top herbalists and naturopathic physicians in the United States, Canada, and the united kingdom.
From David Winston's Case Files—Poor Sleep, Aching Joints
This case involves a woman in her mid-fifties who complained of poor sleep, mild anemia, chronically aching joints, and irritable bowel syndrome.
Ms. E.'s blood work had come back "normal." She ate a very healthy diet, took appropriate supplements, exercised regularly, and was in a happy marriage. |
| Nicholas Larkins, BVSc, MRCVS, is a veterinarian who has practiced on equine, farm, and exotic animals in the united kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe.
Cushing's disease was diagnosed in a pony named Bilbo Baggins in the winter of 1996. The pony was given Perlactin for four months, but this was considered too expensive for long-term use. Bilbo's owner decided to try NAF D-Tox, a product containing eleuthero and schisandra among several other herbs, having heard of other horse owners' success with this product for horses with Cushing's disease. An improvement was seen within a month. |
| From Mary Bove's Case Files—Autoimmune Hyperthyroidism (Graves' Disease)
Mary Bove, ND, MNIMH, is a midwife, naturopathic physician, and herbalist who trained in the united kingdom, and at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She has a very busy practice in Brattleboro, Vermont, and is the author of The Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children and Infants.
Kay, thirty-four years old, a new mother of just seven weeks, had recently been diagnosed with autoimmune hyperthyroidism, known as Graves' disease. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 In September, New York Fed president Timothy Geithner, SEC commissioner Annette Nazareth, and the head of the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority wrote in the Financial Times that" [i] n a more integrated global market, we will increasingly find ourselves compelled to pursue borderless solutions." Unfortunately, although such efforts could prove of value, history suggests otherwise. Just consider the example of the lack of jurisdictional coordination that hampered rescue efforts in the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina disaster. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Sweden is second, and the united kingdom and Norway are tied for third. As you head south, the rate drops lower and lower. It's downright uncommon in people of purely African, Asian, and Hispanic descent.
When a disease that is caused at least partially by genetics is significantly more likely to occur in a specific population, it's time to raise the evolutionary eyebrows and start asking questions— because that almost certainly means that some aspect of the trait that causes the disease today helped the forebears of that population group to survive somewhere back up the evolutionary line. |
Mark Lynas
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 The researchers totted up the carbon balance sheet and discovered - irony of ironies - that the 13 million tonnes of carbon British soils were emitting annually was enough to wipe out all the country's efforts to comply with the Kyoto Protocol, the UN agreement which requires the united kingdom to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2012.
Whilst the Hadley team found that all the world's soils were affected to some extent by global warming, the epicentre of this transformation would be the Amazon. |
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| J Ethnopharmacol, 19:269-77 May, 1987
Geisshiisler S, Brenneisen R The presumed neurotoxic effects of Catha edulis - an exotic plant now available in the united kingdom. Br J Ophthalmol, 19:779-81, Oct 1986
Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Ed) Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis. 5. Aufl., Bde 4-6
(Drogen), Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-1994
Kalix P Catha edulis, a plant that has amphetamine effects. Pharm World Sci, 18:69-73, Apr 1996
Kalix P Hyperthermic response to (-)-cathinone, an alkaloid of Catha edulis (khat). |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In Germany and the united kingdom, psychiatrists, many of whom were aware of the potential risk, were already using sedatives to reduce the anxiety SSRIs could provoke in some patients.) By 2001, drugmakers had submitted to the U.S. FDA a total of fifteen different pediatric studies of various SSRIs. Only one, Prozac, would eventually be approved for pediatric use. (Even now, the others have yet to be shown to be more effective than a placebo, or sugar pill, in patients under the age of twenty-one.* |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The Bristol Stool Scale
Originally developed in 1997 by a small team of gastroenterologists at the University of Bristol in the united kingdom, the Bristol Stool Scale was designed to be a general measurement system for healthcare professionals to evaluate stool consistency and form.31 Simply put, this scale is a medical tool for classifying bowel movements (as they appear in toilet water) into seven distinct categories. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Unlike the citizens of Canada and the united kingdom, we don't have to wait months for elective surgery or an MRI. But when economists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at the fifteen procedures and tests that account for the majority of waiting lists in other countries, they found that those procedures and tests amounted to just 3 percent of costs in the United States, not nearly enough to explain the huge difference in spending.
Many doctors believe malpractice is the culprit, that their worries about lawsuits drive them to practice defensive medicine. |
| We rank twenty-eighth in the world on infant mortality rates, behind Cuba, the Czech Republic, and the united kingdom, countries that ought to be beating us at soccer, not health. We are no less disabled by disease than citizens of most developed nations, and our medical care is, with few exceptions, no better at helping us survive specific diseases. 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. |
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