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Researchers say that an extract made from broccoli sprouts may prevent skin cancer when applied directly to the skin. VOA's Jessica Berman reports scientists say broccoli contains a chemical that stimulates the body's natural anti-cancer ability.


http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-23-voa73.cfm



The researchers spread broccoli sprout extract on the skin of six people, then exposed them to high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The areas of skin covered by the extract had 37 percent less redness and sunburn than skin not covered -- both indications of skin damage that could lead to cancer.

Sunscreen, meanwhile, did not offer any protection against the UV rays, the researchers said.

Whereas sunscreen works by deflecting UV rays, and therefore must be reapplied often to work, broccoli sprout extract works by penetrating skin cells and stimulating their natural cancer-fighting mechanism.

Since sulphoraphane extract from broccoli sprouts appears to fight cancer in your skin, the researchers believe it may be effective against cancer in other organs as well.

 

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Government: Vaccines threaten up to 44,000 soldiers
'This really is like Russian roulette. Spin the chamber and take your shot'

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A U.S. soldier in Iraq is being punished for refusing an anthrax vaccine that has a questionable safety record and apparently will be drummed out of the service.




http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58419

 

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Japanese Consumers Will Not Accept GM Food


http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_8039.cfm

 

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Researchers say that an extract made from broccoli sprouts may prevent skin cancer when applied directly to the skin. VOA's Jessica Berman reports scientists say broccoli contains a chemical that stimulates the body's natural anti-cancer ability.


http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-23-voa73.cfm



The researchers spread broccoli sprout extract on the skin of six people, then exposed them to high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The areas of skin covered by the extract had 37 percent less redness and sunburn than skin not covered -- both indications of skin damage that could lead to cancer.

Sunscreen, meanwhile, did not offer any protection against the UV rays, the researchers said.

Whereas sunscreen works by deflecting UV rays, and therefore must be reapplied often to work, broccoli sprout extract works by penetrating skin cells and stimulating their natural cancer-fighting mechanism.

Since sulphoraphane extract from broccoli sprouts appears to fight cancer in your skin, the researchers believe it may be effective against cancer in other organs as well.

Hi, there are few companies usingplant extracts. If you are interested, check out Peplin, PEP. They use a garden weed and have a partnership with one of the universities. May be a good investment in the furure.

 

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Wireless Radiation in the Etiology and
Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations
and Mechanisms


http://www.avaate.org/IMG/pdf/EMR-Autism-ACNEM-final.pdf

 

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Too much sugar finishes off your Sex Life


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Too-Much-Sugar-Finishes-Off-Your-Sex-Life-70524.shtml

 

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Food industry defends carbon monoxide use in meat

By Christopher Doering

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. meat processors on Tuesday defended a packaging technique designed to keep meat looking fresh at grocery stores even as U.S. lawmakers criticized it as unsafe and misleading.



http://www.reuters.com/article/heal...1114?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&sp=true

 

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Re: Not Soy Good

Confused About Soy?--Soy Dangers Summarized

High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.

Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.

Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.

Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

Vitamin B12 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B12.

Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.

Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.

Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.

Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.

Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.


http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/index.html

 

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Japanese Consumers Will Not Accept GM Food

interesting mm
Dawkins I notice is "pro GM" - because he is anti-poison / insecticide etc - and he knows that diseases are capable of adapting and/or becoming immune to said poisons.

I'd love to know more on the topic.

 

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Re: The case against GM foods

Hi 20/20

Some more...



GM in Australia

South Australia recently extended a moritorium on GM crops!

Other states not so smart.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23183526-5006788,00.html



Consumers in SA

A supermarket chain says it will not allow genetically-modified (GM) food in its home brand range in South Australia, because an overwhelming number of customers are opposed to GM foods.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/24/2146074.htm



Genetic Pollution

GMOs should not be released into the environment as there is not adequate scientific understanding of their impact on the environment and human health.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering



Frankenstein Foods

The debate has gone on for several years but it heated up in February when the London Guardian reported on the sacking of a British scientist whose tests showed up the dangers of a GM food.

Dr Arpad Pusztai had found that rats fed on GM potatoes after 10 days suffered a weakened immune system and severe impairment in the development of internal organs such as heart, liver, kidney and the brain.

These findings were suppressed by his employers, the Rowett Research Institute and he was ousted in August 1998.

More recent research by Dr Stanley Ewen at Aberdeen University Medical School (showing rats fed on GM potatoes suffered an enlarged stomach wall) seemed to confirm Pusztai's findings.

An international group of 20 scientists also supported the findings after analysing his data and results.

Last August, Dr Pusztai said in a TV interview he would not eat GM food and found it "very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs." Two days later he was suspended and later forced to retire by his institute.



http://www.newstatesman.com/200802250003



New form of rat poison?

As study demonstrated that rats who were fed for 90 days on Monsanto's MON863 maize showed "signs of toxicity" in the liver and kidneys.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/02648wu132m07804/?p=a4782763081842a38c67449a8b48e6d3&pi=6



The Future of Food video

"If you eat food, you need to see The Future of Food..."
--- Newstarget.com

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/AboutFOF.htm



Some of the most heartbreaking yet inspiring moments in the film involve the story of Percy and Louise Schmeiser of Saskatchewan, Canada, who were targeted by Monsanto. Monsanto won a suit against Schmeiser in Canada's Supreme Court, which ruled that it didn't matter how Monsanto's Roundup Ready Canola got into Schmeiser's field--and all parties agreed that it had blown into his fields off a passing truck--simply by virtue of it growing there Schmeiser had infringed on Monsanto's patent. The age-old farm etiquette that it is your job to fence your cattle in, not your neighbor's job to fence your cattle out, is thus turned on its ear. Monsanto has prosecuted hundreds of farmers, most of whom settled and agreed never to discuss their settlements. The Schmeisers had to destroy all their canola seeds, developed over decades, because they are now contaminated with Roundup Ready Canola. They spent their retirement funds fighting this injustice, and they lost.

http://www.westonaprice.org/bookreviews/future-of-food-review.html




Making the World GM-Free and Sustainable

Think Again

For those who believe that "GM food is safe" because "people have been eating GM food since its first release in 1994 and no one has fallen ill or died from it," think again. First, there has been no labelling in countries like the US where GM food and feed are most available. Second, many GM products are "de-regulated" and hence not known or traceable as such. Third, there has been no post-release monitoring, so it is impossible to tell how many people and animals have become ill or have died from eating GM food and feed, even though in 1999, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control published a paper suggesting that food-related illnesses increased two- to ten-fold compared with results of a survey carried out just before GM food was commercially released in 1994.12,13

Fourth, GM food and feed may be linked to chronic illnesses such as autoimmune disease, slow viruses or cancer,14 which may be difficult to detect. Finally, animal feed accounts for up to half the world's harvest,15 so most of the GM produce so far has probably ended up in animal feed after being processed for seed oil, corn starch, corn syrup and, increasingly, ethanol and biodiesel.16,17 That means GM produce is seldom eaten directly by either animals or human beings so far. But that is soon to change, if proponents have their way.

http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/gm-free-sustainable.html

 

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mm
yep, I heard those Canadian farmers talking on local ABC radio when they visted recently - totally against GM and Monsanto - sounded most convincing. But Dawkins (as I mentioned) sees a bigger threat from "antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria".

The evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria is something that a Darwinian might have foreseen from the day antibiotics were discovered.

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=259494&highlight=royal#post259494

Next, Sir, I think you may have an exaggerated idea of the natural ness of 'traditional' or 'organic' agriculture. Agriculture has always been unnatural. Our species began to depart from our natural hunter-gatherer lifestyle as recently as 10,000 years ago - too short to measure on the evolutionary timescale.

Wheat, be it ever so wholemeal and stoneground, is not a natural food for Homo sapiens. Nor is milk, except for children. Almost every morsel of our food is genetically modified - admittedly by artificial selection not artificial mutation, but the end result is the same. A wheat grain is a genetically modified grass seed, just as a pekinese is a genetically modified wolf. Playing God? We've been playing God for centuries!

The large, anonymous crowds in which we now teem began with the agricultural revolution, and without agriculture we could survive in only a tiny fraction of our current numbers. Our high population is an agricultural (and technological and medical) artifact. It is far more unnatural than the population-limiting methods condemned as unnatural by the Pope. Like it or not, we are stuck with agriculture, and agriculture - all agriculture - is unnatural. We sold that pass 10,000 years ago.

Does that mean there's nothing to choose between different kinds of agriculture when it comes to sustainable planetary welfare? Certainly not. Some are much more damaging than others, but it's no use appealing to 'nature', or to 'instinct' in order to decide which ones. You have to study the evidence, soberly and reasonably - scientifically. Slashing and burning (incidentally, no agricultural system is closer to being 'traditional') destroys our ancient forests. Overgrazing (again, widely practised by 'traditional' cultures) causes soil erosion and turns fertile pasture into desert. Moving to our own modern tribe, monoculture, fed by powdered fertilisers and poisons, is bad for the future; indiscriminate use of antibiotics to promote livestock growth is worse.

Incidentally, one worrying aspect of the hysterical opposition to the possible risks from GM crops is that it diverts attention from definite dangers which are already well understood but largely ignored. The evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria is something that a Darwinian might have foreseen from the day antibiotics were discovered. Unfortunately the warning voices have been rather quiet, and now they are drowned by the baying cacophony: 'GM GM GM GM GM GM!'

Moreover if, as I expect, the dire prophecies of GM doom fail to materialise, the feeling of let-down may spill over into complacency about real risks. Has it occurred to you that our present GM brouhaha may be a terrible case of crying wolf?

 

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I'm not necessarily advocating GM - just trying to learn more
Bit of a confusing article this one ..

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/19/2193579.htm?section=justin

GM foods 'probably safer' than others: scientist
Posted Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:40am AEDT

A CSIRO scientist has told a Tasmanian parliamentary inquiry that genetically-modified (GM) foods are probably safer than conventionally-grown foods.

Tasmania has a ban on GM foodstuffs.

The CSIRO's Tom Higgins has told the joint select committee investigating gene technology that genetically-modified material is rigorously tested.

"I think it probably is true to say that that, that they are probably safer than conventional foods, just because they undergo so much more regulatory scrutiny," he said.

But Dr Higgins also told the inquiry he abandoned an experiment using genetically modified material after mice were adversely affected.

Dr Higgins said he had tried to make peas resistant to weevils by transferring genetic material into them from beans, but when tested on mice the peas provoked an allergic response.

He says the response was only mild, and was not why he abandoned his research.

"Well, just because of the sensitivities, of people to, to this technology, it seemed to me that it would not be wise to carry on with the project, that had that associated with it.

"I think it was very important to be able to publish those results and say, well, this can happen."

At least - I guess - they are doing (thorough) experiments on mice before they do em on people (unlike the pharmaceutical companies on some occasions) .

 

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Yoga in two simple steps
a) how to breath
b) how you and your friends can become instant gymnasts - starting with some simple "multiple concertina pushups"

The Art of Breathing with Miyuki Fox

Acrobatic Yoga

 

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/22/2196698.htm?section=justin

New strain of TB surfaces in UK
Posted 10 hours 7 minutes ago

The first case has been discovered in Britain of a rare type of tuberculosis that is extremely resistant to drugs.

A strain of the disease, known as XDRTB, has been diagnosed in a Somali man in the Scottish city of Glasgow where he is now being treated in an isolation ward.

Since XDRTB was first identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) two years ago there have been cases in Russia, South-East Asia and Africa.
....

the fatality rate is probably of the order of 50 per cent. .."

yet another disease "extremely resistant to drugs"
gotta feeling that this is the sort of thing Dawkins was referring to.
actually I'm on antibiotics at the moment - whacked my thumb with some steel at work - no bludy choice but tablets - but my conscience is giving me hell.

- so tempting to stop the course of capsules now that the infection is almost sorted out - even if there's half a course left over - but apparently that's the very wrong thing to do ( not that I fully understand these things)

 

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20/20

Candida and the Antibiotic Syndrome

Walter Last


You can take a course of antibiotics, provided you take a fungicide, such as fresh garlic, at the same time and have some probiotics after the antibiotics and before you ingest any carbohydrates.


More at:
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/candida.html

 

[Julia]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/22/2196698.htm?section=justin



yet another disease "extremely resistant to drugs"
gotta feeling that this is the sort of thing Dawkins was referring to.
actually I'm on antibiotics at the moment - whacked my thumb with some steel at work - no bludy choice but tablets - but my conscience is giving me hell.

- so tempting to stop the course of capsules now that the infection is almost sorted out - even if there's half a course left over - but apparently that's the very wrong thing to do ( not that I fully understand these things)

Why are you opposed to taking antibiotics and what is it to do with your conscience?

Re not taking the full course, have you asked your doctor?

Re Candida: it's not inevitable following a course of antibiotics. Depends on the individual's sensitivity at a given time.

 

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1. Why are you opposed to taking antibiotics and what is it to do with your conscience?

2. Re not taking the full course, have you asked your doctor?

julia
1. Plenty of evidence that overuse of antibiotics is dangerous.
(You disagree ?)
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/sick/antibiotic_overuse.html

Frequent and inappropriate use of antibiotics selects for strains of bacteria that can resist treatment. This is called bacterial resistance. These resistant bacteria require higher doses of medicine or stronger antibiotics to treat. Doctors have even found bacteria that are resistant to some of the most powerful antibiotics available today.

Antibiotic resistance is a widespread problem, and one that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls "one of the world's most pressing public health problems." Bacteria that were once highly responsive to antibiotics have become increasingly resistant. Among those that are becoming harder to treat are pneumococcal infections (which cause pneumonia, ear infections, sinus infections, and meningitis), skin infections, and tuberculosis.

My wife and I differ on the amount of medicine that should be given to kids. They have been fed a heap of antibiotics over the years (compared to what I had anyway) - and their general resistance (antibodies whatever) is a fraction of mine.

Ask your child's doctor about ways to treat the symptoms that are making your child uncomfortable, such as a stuffy nose or scratchy throat, without the use of antibiotics. The key to building a good relationship with your child's doctor is open communication, so work together toward that goal.

2. As for completing a course - suspect there's no need to ask the doctor. It's apparently the only way to go.

Use the medication properly. Antibiotics are only effective if taken for the full amount of time prescribed by the doctor

http://www.aafp.org/fpr/20000300/01.html

Deadly risks of antibiotic overuse warrant widespread education
BY SHARON DENT

Drugs that once guaranteed eradication of bacterial diseases are suddenly up against strains that don't respond as predictably. These bacteria have developed resistance in part because of overuse and misuse of the drugs, often in ambulatory settings. As a result, patients are getting sicker, and death rates for some communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, are on the rise in regions where such diseases had been under control.

"Some doctors think of antibiotics as harmless placebos," said William Hueston, M.D., family medicine department chair at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "You risk not only harming the patient when you prescribe unnecessary antibiotics, but also harming the community."

Plenty more - including ridiculous and dangerous quantities of antibiotics (and hormones) used in the poultry industry.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20611977-23290,00.html

Antibiotics in poultry links to drug resistance.
CHICKENS destined for the dinner table are often given antibiotics - not to keep them well, but to make them bigger. Now new research in the Journal of Infectious Diseases shows that this practice increases the risk of potentially life-threatening antibiotic resistance in humans

http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticl...+of+antibiotics+as+growth-promotors+(archived)

 

[Julia]

2020, you said you were taking antibiotics because of an injury.
Presumably the non-sterile object causing the injury caused an infection.
This requires systemic (oral or injected) antibiotics to fight the infection.

This is an entirely appropriate use of antibiotics for a specific bacterial infection.

Completely different from the indiscriminate and unfortunately widespread use of antibiotics when no obvious (or laboratory tested) infection is present.
i.e. people get a bit of a sniffle from a virus and say "Oh, I've got the flu, I need antibiotics". Bulls**t!. Viruses are completely unresponsive to antibiotics. Usually they will simply run their natural course and recovery occurs with no intervention.
The overuse occurs when busy GP's succumb to patients' desire for a prescription at the end of a consultation. Easier to click the computer and churn out a bit of penicillin than spend a further 15 minutes trying to explain to the customer just what I'm trying to explain to you here.

Thus, people take more antibiotics than they need, purely out of ignorance.

You are clearly taking the antibiotics for a bacterial infection apparently caused by a foreign body. Thus completely appropriate use of said antibiotics.
If you ignored it the infection could spread and from being localised could become systemic and you could become pretty sick.

Hope this clarifies somewhat how antibiotics should be used.

 

[2020hindsight]

julia
sure, but (ref the flue) the grey areas start when the phlegm becomes green or red or purple or whatever. How green is green ? etc.

and you thought Marion Jones was a junkie! how about the doped up chickens we are all addicted to -
and young boys who eat a lot of chicken growing breasts - getting nightly visits (like their sisters) from the (Bill Cosby) "pump fairy" not long after the "tooth fairy".
bludy marvellous

PS People used to get over infections before the days of penicillin btw - and arguably emerged the stronger for it. Cowpox, smallpox, all that sorta stuff.

There are drug resistant strains evolving - fact.
Should we do something about it ?

As for the interface with GM, as Dawkins would say ...

The evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria is something that a Darwinian might have foreseen from the day antibiotics were discovered. Unfortunately the warning voices have been rather quiet, and now they are drowned by the baying cacophony: 'GM GM GM GM GM GM!'

PS Not that I think much of Monsanto's business ethics. - but that's sorta another matter.

 

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Re: Antibiotics

The End of Antibiotics

(NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls. Antibiotics have fulfilled their anti–biotic anti-life role leaving a long trail of death and suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio. All were in decline for several decades before the introduction of antibiotics or vaccines -Dr. Lawrence Wilson.

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking antibiotics, they get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal bacterial balance has been lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and yeast infections thus will eventually be seen as a major cause of cancer since more and more oncologists are seeing yeast and fungal infections as an integral part of cancer and its cause. With upwards of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused by infections, the subject of antibiotics and the need for something safer, more effective and life serving is imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted "post antibiotic era" in which common infections are frequently untreatable - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al. (Harvard School of Public Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi that kills other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature, these substances help some microbes survive by limiting the multiplication of other microbes that share the same environment. Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes without severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs but there does not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that do not do damage. Dr. Lisa Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her book Poisonous Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and Diabetes?' We are now beginning to question the role of antibiotics as a cause of cancer since they do lead to pathogen overgrowth especially in the area of yeast and fungi. Chris Woollams writes, "It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics."

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the use of antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

etc


http://www.naturalnews.com/022892.html