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- Global Cooling? - NewsGrabs 9 March 2008
Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (PDF) There has been a one-year trend of cooling temperatures globally, as verified by the major temperature tracking stations, in 2007. It is too early to say if this is a reversal of the warming observed for the last decades, but it certainly is dramatic and it's unexpected. Global warming is not as clear-cut a thing as we are expected to believe, nor is the theory that says the warming we observe is...
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:44:37 GMT - MMR Vaccine Damage: Dr Wakefield Defends Research
Dr Andrew Wakefield, a vaccine researcher who found that the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine appears to lead to serious side effects, including post-vaccine autism in a number of the children receiving it, is being ostracized from the medical community and his carreer is being targeted to shut up unwanted criticism that could go to the heart of the multi billion dollar vaccine business. A friend in the UK alternative health scene sent the following information, which I would like to make available here: At a hearing that is being drawn out by the British General Medical Council (GMC) to last over 18 months, Dr Andrew Wakefield begins presenting his defence on March 27th 2008. Dr Wakefield and...
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:23:46 GMT - The Importance of Iodine for Good Health
"Iodine, taken in doses substantially greater than the recommended dietary allowance, has been shown to reverse fibrocystic disease of the breast and prevent breast cancer." Reading this blurb in a recent issue of Nexus Magazine peeked my interest and I soon found myself devouring the corresponding article with great interest. Iodine is really one of those substances - it is a mineral - that, like vitamin C, we use to prevent an acute deficiency, without however realizing that beyond that limited use there is a whole world of benefits to be found at higher intakes than those recommended by the 'experts'. In the case of vitamin C, it was a paper by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts...
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:34:34 GMT - FDA Medwatch Reports For Lipitor (1998 To 2007)
"FDA has a first rate monitoring system but a grossly deficient one for reporting findings back to the medical community. The average primary care physician in our country today would be startled to see these figures, especially the ones for...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:20:52 GMT - The Hemp Cure - NewsGrabs 2 March 2008
Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what trends you may have missed - watch out for the weekly NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection for you: Video: The Hemp Cure In a series of seven short videos, Rick Simpson tells the story of a cure that is based on the hemp plant. Since hemp got in the way of DuPont's Nylon in the early part of the 20th century, the plant has been demonized, classified as dangerous, called a drug, and growers have been punished for seeding it. Apart from obvious uses of hemp as a source of fiber and seeds as a nutritious food,...
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:54:23 GMT - Will Europe Restrict Herbs, Vegetable Extracts?
The European Union does not believe in its citizens' ability to choose nutrients wisely. This very paternalistic view finds expression in a series of restrictive laws that aim at regulating what can be sold as a healthy food to supplement our daily menu with vitamins, minerals, herbs or vegetable concentrates. The European Food Supplements Directive, which was approved in 2002, provides a "framework" for regulating the nutrients we may add to our meals. The details on coming restrictions for vitamins and minerals that the directive envisions have been delayed for years. Neither the lists of "nutrient sources" nor the dosages to be allowed in pills and capsules have been agreed, six years after the directive was first...
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:59:41 GMT - From Free Software to the Free Drugs Movement - NewsGrabs 24 February 2008
Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and (mostly) related sectors. Find what you may have missed - watch out for my NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection: Book: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists - all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:18:45 GMT - Expert Patients - A New Healthcare Paradigm
Healthcare is a business - one of the major productive enterprises in the industrialized world. How much of this business is really 'taking in our own laundry' is hard to tell at a glance. Some say that the business with disease is largely responsible for keeping us sick, as there is no financial reward in having a healthy population. On the other hand, much money is to be made from selling remedies that do not cure but merely alleviate our symptoms. Doctor yourself - take responsibility for your own health - is the motto of Andrew W. Saul, one of the major proponents of orthomolecular medicine, a system of health care based on supplying the nutritional elements...
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:24:56 GMT - Statins and Parkinson's
Yet another one to add to the Management Of Statin Damage list. Is it any wonder given the impact of drugs on so many already depleted essential nutrients? See also: Six weeks to Parkinson's improvement with a single vitamin -...
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:39:43 GMT - Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Cause Degenerative Disease - NewsGrabs 17 February 2008
Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and related sectors. Find what you may have missed - watch out for NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection: New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death. "The capsid of a virus is something like the shell of a turtle," said physicist Otto Sankey of Arizona State University. "If the shell can be compromised [by mechanical vibrations], the virus can be inactivated." Recent experimental evidence has shown...
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:22:07 GMT - Creating Reality - From Consciousness and Free Will to Three Dimensional Networking
How often have we been told that we create our own reality. That all we need to do is envision, with positive thought, what we want and it will surely come about. Actually, a whole industry has sprung up around that meme, from life coaches to do-it-yourself success books. Perhaps the most recent and arguably one of the most widely known examples of this is The Secret, an inspirational film and a book that promote what is called the law of attraction. The object seems to be to obtain what you most wish for. In our society, that turns out mostly to be financial success, but it is not necessarily limited to that. But how does this...
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:26:40 GMT - La responsabilità personale? Un pensiero sovversivo.
Gramellini, La Stampa, 8/2/2008 Se qualche politico italiano decidesse all’improvviso di ispirarsi a Barack Obama, potrebbe trovare utile la lettura delle tre righe con cui il senatore dell’Illinois si rivolge su internet agli americani per ottenere finanziamenti: «Io non...
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:07:59 GMT - Cooperation Is Our Future: Let's Start Understanding And Creating More Of It Now
"Biology is war, in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating and destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your side winning at all costs."
But there is a new narrative that is spreading across and that tells a new story, about how humans and other creatures have and could cooperate together in more efficient and effective ways.
"Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons."
Here the video: Nineteen minutes of great learning. Recommended (to schools and university teachers above all).
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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:55:50 GMT - The Muddled World of Medicine - NewsGrabs 10 February 2008
Health Supreme's NewsGrabs - a selection of contrary and underprivileged news in health and related sectors. Find what you may have missed - watch out for NewsGrabs. Here is this week's selection: Supplements 'reduce malaria toll' Many people living in malaria endemic areas suffer from malnutrition so researchers in Burkina Faso experimented with adding vitamin A and zinc supplements to the diets of children aged from six months to six years. Half of the children were given a placebo. After six months the scientists observed a 34% decrease in incidence of malaria in those children taking the supplements. Among those children who did catch the illness, those taking supplements were more resistant to the disease and...
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:45:08 GMT - Giving It Away, Making Money
The burgeoning "Internet Economy" is redefining operational assumptions and models for all organizations within the public and private sectors. This is particularly evident as free access to information increases and the clash between open source and proprietary development of software...
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:21:43 GMT
