Make Sun Exposure Work For You
July 20th, 2011
The Huffington Post
By: Dr. Frank Lipman
For decades now, the mainstream medical establishment has been bombarding us with warnings to stay out of the sun! Use an SPF-50 sunscreen! Stay indoors till sunset! Wear a burka at the beach!
But has the case against sun exposure been taken perhaps a bit too far? I certainly think so. With the rise of “sun-o-phobia” what’s gotten lost in the shuffle is the fact that there are actual benefits to sun exposure in limited doses. Recent studies have shown that optimizing your Vitamin D levels may actually help prevent as many as 16 different types of cancers. And the best way to optimize Vitamin D levels? Safe, smart and limited sunscreen-free exposure to the sun! Exposure helps the skin produce the Vitamin D it needs to build bones, quell inflammation, bolster the immune system and protect against cancer (including skin cancer). Now of course this is by no means a license to overdo it, but it consider it permission to step outside and into the sun a bit less fearfully!
So how to use the sun to your advantage? Here’s what I recommend:
Manage your dose. Have a healthy respect for the sun. It is a powerful medicine with potentially dangerous side effects on your skin. Treat it like medication, using the lowest dose necessary — but don’t avoid it completely. And remember, never, ever fall asleep in the sun without protection.
Always avoid sunburn. It is sunburn, not healthy sun exposure, that causes problems. Repeated sunburns, especially in children and very fair-skinned people, have been linked to melanoma. Whereas there is no credible scientific evidence that regular, moderate sun exposure causes melanoma or other skin cancers — so prepare your skin and build up tolerance gradually. Start early in the year (spring), or early in the morning before the sun is strongest, and slowly build up the amount of time you spend in the sun.
Make your own sunscreen. Boost your “internal sunscreen” by consuming antioxidants and beneficial fats. These strengthen skin cells, helping to protect them from sun damage. Eating lots of vegetables and fruits such as blueberries, raspberries, goji berries and pomegranates, and supplementing with green powdered mixes and fish oils helps prep your body for limited, careful sun exposure.
Get frequent, short exposures. Regular short exposures have been found to be much more effective and much safer than intermittent long ones. Note that you cannot generate Vitamin D when sitting behind a glass window, because the UVB rays necessary for Vitamin D production are absorbed by glass. Get 15-30 minutes of unprotected sun exposure 2-4 times a week. Each of us has different needs for unprotected sun exposure to maintain adequate levels of Vitamin D. Depending on your age, what type of skin you have, where you live and what time of the day and year it is, your needs will vary. For more specifics, I recommend the tables in “The Vitamin D Solution” by Dr. Michael Holick.
Know when to stop. After your 15-30 minutes of sun-block free time in the sun, you must protect yourself. If you’re going to be out in the sun for longer periods, wear a hat to protect your face and light-colored clothing that blocks the sun and keeps you cool. When you do apply sunscreen, use one the fewest chemicals possible.
Check out the recipe … of your sunscreen that is. What’s in the tube in high doses can be almost as dangerous as the diseases they are said to prevent — so shop smart when it comes to sunscreens. A typical sunscreen product is a chemical assault on your body, many of which contain cancer causing chemicals. According to the Environmental Working Group, the best, as in least toxic sunscreens on the market are ones without PABA, Parabens, Fragrances, Nanoparticles, Retinyl Palmitate (a form of Vitamin A), Oxybenzone, Benzophenone-3 (B-3) and Amino Benzoic Acid, whose side effects can include a host of health horrors which can effect your heart, hormones and even your DNA!
Buy the good stuff. The best sunscreen is a hat and a shirt. No chemicals to absorb through the skin, no questions about whether they work. But when you are going to be in the sun for long periods, use EWG’s top-rated sunscreens to provide broad-spectrum (UVA and UVB-sunburn) protection with fewer hazardous chemicals that penetrate the skin.
Click here for the full report from The Huffington Post
Hungary Introduces “Fat Tax” On Unhealthy Foods
July 20th, 2011
Gadling.com
By: Kraig Becker
A new bill found it’s way onto the political docket in Hungary earlier this week, that if passed would create the world’s first “fat tax.” The Eastern European country’s parliament will now consider the bill, which would raise the price of foods that are deemed as unhealthy. Proceeds from the new law would then be used to cover the rising costs of state-funded health care.
When the bill was originally drafted a few months back, it was immediately dubbed as “the hamburger tax,” but later the Hungarian government decided that fast food restaurants would not be subject to the new tax. Instead, they’ve chosen to levy the tariff on items found in grocery and convenience stores that are deemed to have too much salt, sugar, or fat. If the law goes into effect, those items would go up in price by 3.7 eurocents or roughly 5¢. There will also be a 10% increase in the price of liquor and soft drinks as well.
The bill will be debated by the Hungarian Parliament later this summer, but is expected to easily pass into law, making the country the first to actually institute higher fees on unhealthy foods. It is estimated that the law would generate as much as 111 million Euros or approximately $157.6 million. Those funds that are sorely needed to help keep Hungary’s cash-strapped health care system afloat.
What are your thoughts on this so-called fat tax? Would you pay a little more for foods you love that might be deemed as unhealthy? Is this any different than the so called “sin tax” on cigarettes or alcohol?
Click here for the full report from Gadling.com
Medicare Will Cover Drugs Even If FDA Bans Them As Dangerous
July 20th, 2011
Natural News
By: J.D. Heyes
Officials with Medicare say the government health care program will continue paying for drugs even if the Food and Drug Administration revoke their safe-and-effective status.
According to Don McLeod, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the health care programs will continue to hand over taxpayer money to doctors and pharmacies that prescribe the breast-cancer drug Avastin, even though the FDA recommended last month that it no longer be used to treat the disease because it’s not proven either safe or effective in large trials.
It’s bad enough that even if the FDA revokes its approval of Avastin that physicians will still be able to prescribe it. What’s worse is that taxpayers will continue to be on the hook for it, despite its drawbacks and ineffectiveness.
“The FDA decision, when it comes, does not affect CMS,” said McCleod. “The drug will still be on the market, doctors will still be prescribing it, and we will continue to pay for it.”
Some private insurers have also said they are likely to continue paying for the drug, regardless of the FDA’s decision, which is not due until later this year. And that’s fine; what a private company wants to do with its resources are at the discretion of its customers and investors. But when taxpayers are footing the bill (about $8,000 a month for most average Avastin users), why should they be forced to pay for ineffective or dangerous medications?
For the company, which is appealing the FDA’s decision, there are definitely financial interests at stake.
Roche’s U.S. unit Genentech, which manufactures Avastin, had $6.2 billion worth of global sales of Avastin in 2010; in the U.S. alone, sales topped $3.1 billion, Reuters reported.
With that in mind, another bid to prove the drug’s effectiveness is now in the offing. Roche – a Swiss company – is planning yet another trial, “to prove it does significantly extend the time women live without their disease getting worse,” the newswire service reported.
Even if the drug remains within the good graces of the FDA, The New York Times reported in January that the drug hasn’t been a barnstormer in terms of its intended use – to stop or delay the duration of breast cancer.
“Avastin was given accelerated approval for breast cancer in 2008 after a study showed that use of Avastin and paclitaxel together delayed the median time before the cancer worsened by 5.5 months compared to use of paclitaxel alone,” the paper said.
“Women who got both drugs also lived slightly longer, though the difference was not statistically significant,” the paper said (my emphasis).
Other studies showed Avastin, when combined with different chemotherapy agents, “showed only a small benefit in delaying disease progression and no prolongation of lives at all.”
Click here for the full report from Natural News
Ten-Year-Old Boy Hangs Himself After Taking Ritalin and Prozac
July 20th, 2011
Natural News
By: Anthony Gucciardi
A ten-year-old boy hung himself with a belt from his bunk bed while taking a psychotropic combination of Ritalin and Prozac. The boy’s father says that the two drugs are entirely to blame for the death of his son, whose boisterous behavior and low spirits led to a psychiatrist’s suggestion to begin taking them. At the time of death, the child had more drugs in his body than the ‘normal’ level for adults suffering from the same psychological issues.
About 661,000 prescriptions are prescribed each year in Britain alone to treat childhood ADHD — twice the figure of five years ago. These medications are also being given to extremely young children, one such child just 15 months of age. The doctors prescribing these pharmaceuticals for such young children are going against the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) official guidelines, which prohibits their use for children under the age of 6. Educational psychologist David Traxson suspects that the number of extremely young children on Ritalin or similar drugs is quite high and that it is steadily climbing.
‘These young children are taking powerful, potentially addictive drugs and no one knows what will happen to their brains in the future,’ he warned.
Ritalin stimulates the nervous system, which leads to a number of admitted side effects including increased blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature and alertness and suppressed appetite. These side effects, however, are very minor compared to research that has linked Ritalin use to cancer and an increased probability of suicidal thoughts and behavior. The very pharmaceutical that is designed to help suicidal patients may very well lead to suicide. In addition, Ritalin is an extremely powerful pill that can be compared to illegal hard drugs. In fact, Ritalin has the same pharmacological profile as cocaine, and it is even more potent. Scientists using brain imaging equipment found that Ritalin in pill form occupies more of the neural transporters responsible for the “high” experienced by addicts than cocaine that is smoked or injected.
Considering the hardcore nature of this drug, one would assume that the diagnosis protocol for ADHD is quite vigorous and thorough. The sad truth is that diagnosing ADHD comes down to a matter of opinion. Due to the loose regulation of ADHD diagnosis and distribution of Ritalin and other drugs, 1 in 10 kids have been diagnosed with ADHD. Studies have found that food dyes may be to blame for the behavior observed in children that are labeled as ADHD by doctors. Such additives include: blue #1 and #2 food coloring, green #3, orange B, red #3 and #40, yellow #5-6, and sodium benzoate.
The sad death of this ten-year-old boy may be directly related to his prescription medication, Ritalin. The child’s healthcare provider should have tried to improve diet by eliminating harmful food additives and preservatives, which have been linked to ADHD, before resulting to harmful pharmaceutical drugs that have been linked to suicidal tendencies.
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Glenn Beck Laughs at Whistleblowers Death
July 20, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
July 20th, 2011
The Huffington Post
Glenn Beck laughed about the death of a whistleblower involved in the phone hacking scandal and asked listeners to “pray” that Fox News was not involved in the crisis.
On his Tuesday show, Beck joked about the death of Sean Hoare, who was the first journalist to go on the record about the phone-hacking crisis at the News of the World in a 2010 New York Times article. Hoare was found dead in his London home on Monday. Beck said he loved the story of the death.
“I’m not saying that foul play was involved, but it is suspicious that he’s dead,” Beck said, laughing. (On Tuesday, police categorically concluded that no third party was involved in Hoare’s death.)
He then joked that Vladimir Putin was involved in the death, before turning to Fox News, which, like the News of the World, is owned by News Corp.
Beck said he was worried that the scandal would be used by opponents of Fox News to try and bring it down, but that, as far as he knew, there had never been a hint of a scandal at the network.
“Pray that that is so and that they are thwarted,” Beck said. “…They will use this and it will shut down.”
Click here for the full report from The Huffington Post
The Facts Behind Subliminal Messaging
July 19, 2011 by KT
Filed under Kevin's Blog
A lot of people ask me for my opinion on subliminal messaging. I’m kind of an expert in this area because I have studied it for about 30 years now.
Years ago a study was conducted at a drive-in movie theater. During the movie, they threw in a couple frames that said ‘buy Coke’ or ‘drink Coke.’ You couldn’t actually see the messages because each film frame goes by so quickly, but they would repeat this process a few times, and ended up finding out that there was an increase in Coke sales. It wasn’t by a small increase either; it was 20, 30, 40, 50 percent or more every time they ran the test.
That shows that this type of advertising really did have an affect on people’s behavior. It became so powerful that it was added into advertising for years, but then the research started showing that it was a little too effective and the government got scared, so it was banned from advertising. You couldn’t use it legally.
Click here to find out how it is still going on today and how you can use it to program yourself for success: http://bit.ly/q6lKoT
Yours in health…
KT
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TV Tells Kids Fame is the Most Important Thing in Life
July 19, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
July 19th, 2011
ParentDish.com
By: Tom Henderson
The most important thing in life is to be a good and kind person, to love yourself and others and take an active and inquisitive interest in the world arou …
Whoa!
Someone is watching reruns of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” on Sunday mornings. Change the channel. That’s not what television is teaching kids, according to researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The most important thing in life is to be famous. And you don’t even have to be famous for being good. You can be famous for being tan.
LiveScience reports researchers looked at the values promoted on television when today’s adults were growing up as opposed to what their kids watched. Their conclusion?
Ron Howard can be very proud of himself.
Before he was a film director, he played Opie Taylor on “The Andy Griffith Show” and Richie Cunningham on “Happy Days.” Researchers used both shows — as well as “The Lucy Show” and “Laverne & Shirley” — to compare with modern shows like “American Idol” and “Hannah Montana.”
They specifically wanted to study the values these shows promoted among 9- to 11-year-olds from 1967 to 2007.
Researchers found the old shows exalted benevolence, self-acceptance, community and tradition, while modern shows stress fame as the No. 1 value.
A sense of community was the No. 1 value back when Fonzie and the gang ruled the airwaves in the 1970s. By 2007, researchers found that value fell to No. 11. The top five values nowadays? Fame, achievement, popularity, image and financial success.
Not cool, as the Fonz would say.
“The rise of fame in preteen television may be one influence in the documented rise of narcissism in our culture,” researcher Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA, tells LiveScience. “Popular television shows are part of the environment that causes the increased narcissism, but they also reflect the culture.”
In 1997, the top five values were community feeling, benevolence (being kind and helping others), image, tradition and self-acceptance. In 2007, benevolence dropped to the 12th spot, while financial success went from 12th place in 1967 and 1997 to fifth in 2007.
The two least emphasized values in 2007 were spiritualism (No. 16) and tradition (No. 15). Tradition had previously ranked No. 4 in 1997.
LiveScience reports researchers analyzed Nielsen demographic data to determine the most popular shows with 9- to 11-year-olds and then conducted a survey of 60 participants, ages 18 to 59, to determine how important each value was in episodes of the various shows.
“The biggest change occurred from 1997 to 2007, when YouTube, Facebook and Twitter exploded in popularity,” lead researcher Yalda Uhls tells LiveScience. “Their growth parallels the rise in narcissism and the drop in empathy among college students in the United States, as other research has shown.”
Click here for the full report from ParentDish.com
Rupert Murdoch Might Step Down As News Corp CEO
July 19, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
July 19th, 2011
Raw Story
By: Eric W. Dolan
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch might be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey as CEO of the company, but still remain chairman, according to Bloomberg.
People with knowledge of the situation said that whether or not the 80-year-old Australian media mogul steps down as CEO depends in part on his performance before U.K.’s parliament.
Murdoch became embroiled in the phone hacking scandal thanks to his U.K. newspaper News of the World.
The tabloid closed down after an investigation revealed it had participated in the phone hacking of celebrities, British politicians, the families of terrorist attack victims, dead soldiers and others.
Rupert, his son James and former CEO of News International Rebekah Brooks are scheduled to give testimony before the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport on Tuesday.
News Corp. executives who watched Murdoch rehearse for his Parliament appearance were reportedly concerned with how he answered questions.
So far, 10 people have been arrested in connection to the News International phone hacking scandals.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have launched their own investigations into whether News Corp. participated in the hacking of 9/11 victims or U.S. officials.
Michael Wolff, author of the Rupert Murdoch biography “The Man Who Owns the News,” has predicted that the phone hacking scandals that have shaken News Corp. in recent weeks will ultimately lead to the resignation of Murdoch and his son.
Afshin Rattansi, a Middle Eastern affairs journalist even suggested that “Fox News is finished” if U.S. authorities can prove that News Corp. employees attempted to hack into the voicemails of terror attack victims killed on Sept. 11, 2001.
Click here for the full report from Raw Story
Prescription Drugs Are Killing America’s Youth
July 19th, 2011
Natural News
By: J.D. Heyes
No parent wants to lose a child, but when one dies from something that should be very preventable, the heartbreak and tragedy is compounded. Such is increasingly the case with prescription drugs – they’re killing our youth.
Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick, of Morehead, Ky., best friends since high school, were both victims of what experts and the White House are describing as an epidemic of prescription drug deaths. Sarah died in 2006 at the tender age of 19; Savannah just three years later, at 22.
Since the medications they were using were prescribed by physicians, some experts believe they carry some sort of legitimacy. But the fact is they are being abused by young people just the same as drugs that are illegal – more so even, in some cases.
“I don’t think the kids have any idea how addicting the substance is,” Karen Shays told the BBC in an interview. “Before they know it, bam! They’re addicted.”
Drugs like Xanax, Oxycodone, Klonopin and Hydrocodone are routinely being abused more and more in Kentucky in particular, but in other parts of the nation too, by teenagers and young adults. So bad is the problem that the state has set up rehabilitation centers, where a huge number of addicts – more all the time – are being treated.
So bad is the addition that some kids have even turned to crime to feed it.
Some of the kids say they could have likely found other drugs to feed their habit, but prescription drugs were not only legal but much easier to get.
All in all, it’s sort of like Armageddon, but with prescription drugs – a sort of “Pharmageddon,” if you will, as evidenced by Kentucky’s overflowing jails, say state officials.
“I believe I can safely say that over 80 percent of the inmates in the Pike County regional detention center are in there for something dealing with their addiction to prescription drugs,” Dan Smoot, director of law enforcement with an organization called Unite – a new and innovative counterdrug that combines police investigations, treatment and education.
According to the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy, in a recent report, the problem stretches beyond the borders of Kentucky – and it’s getting worse.
“A number of national studies and published reports indicate that the intentional abuse of prescription drugs, such as pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives, to get high is a growing concern — particularly among teens — in the United States. In fact, among young people ages 12-17, prescription drugs have become the second most abused illegal drug, behind marijuana,” said the study, called, “Teens and Prescription Drugs.”
“Though overall teen drug use is down nationwide and the percentage of teens abusing prescription drugs is still relatively low compared to marijuana use, there are troubling signs that teens view abusing prescription drugs as safer than illegal drugs and parents are unaware of the problem,” it said.
In particular, the study found:
- Teens are turning more and more away from illegal street drugs and instead are taking (and abusing) more prescription medications – so much so that new users of prescription drugs have caught up with new users of marijuana;
- Next to marijuana, the next most common thing kids use to get high are prescription drugs;
- Teens abuse prescription medications because they mistakenly believe that, since they are prescribed, they provide safe highs;
- Most teens get prescription drugs easily and free, usually from friends or relatives;
- The most commonly abused drugs by kids are OxyContin and Vicodin; and
- Adolescents are more likely to get hooked on prescription medication than are young adults.
The study found that teens most likely to abuse prescription medications live in the west and southeast. The most common abuse occurs in the following states: Arkansas (10.3 percent); Kentucky (9.8 percent); Montana (9.6 percent); Oregon (9.3 percent); Oklahoma (9.1 percent); Tennessee (8.9 percent); and West Virginia (8.9 percent).
“There’s a reason that prescription drugs are intended to be taken under the direction of a doctor: if used improperly they can be dangerous,” said a recent National Institute of Drug Abuse summary.
Abuse of prescription painkillers in general is not new. In fact, such abuse has risen 400 percent between 1998 and 2008.
But now it seems, our kids have made a startling discovery – that using prescription meds to get high – is too easy and too accessible. And it’s costing more of them their lives.
Click here for the full report from Natural News
