Health Blogger Threatened With Jail Time For Advocating Paleo Diet That Cured His Diabetes
April 27, 2012
Natural News
By Mike Adams
“Be careful if you tell people how to cure diabetes naturally – you could wind up in jail.” –KTRN
Internet free speech is under assault in America, and a dangerous new trend has surfaced that threatens to throw nutritional bloggers in jail for advocating healthy diets on their blogs or websites. As you read this, a blogger who wrote about using the Paleo diet to overcome diabetes is being threatened with jail time in North Carolina, where the state Board of Dietetics / Nutrition claims his nutritional advocacy is equivalent to the crime of “practicing nutrition without a license.”
His name is Steve Cooksey, and his website is http://www.diabetes-warrior.net
He’s being targeted by state “dieticians” (which is another word for “nutritional moron” as you’ll see below) who say that Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition.” His website’s advocating of the Paleo diet for individuals who have health challenges is, they claim, a violation of law.
So they’ve threatened him with arrest if he does not take down his website… or at the very least stop advocating the Paleo diet to readers.
Criminalizing health advice
But wait a second. People give nutritional advice on their websites all the time. Millions of websites and blogs, in fact, currently offer advice on fitness, nutrition, disease prevention, natural remedies and more. Are all those people now criminals if they live in North Carolina?
And even worse, could this censorship insanity spread to other states? Might such censorship be pursued at a federal level?
Truth is, such an effort has already taken place. I don’t recall who was behind it, but nearly a decade ago, several U.S. Senators got together and tried to push a bill that would make it a federal crime to offer health advice on the internet. That effort failed, and we never heard anything more about it. But now that the U.S. government has crossed what I call the “threshold of criminality” and has devolved into a police state gang of total thugs (TSA, anyway?), it’s not hard to imagine these people trying to bring back their loony ideas of criminalizing health advice on the web.
The point behind all this, of course, would be to monopolize information while silencing those who freely share the truth about natural cures, vitamin D, cancer prevention and so on. The truth about nutrition quite obviously threatens the power and profits of the pharmaceutical industry — an industry that thrives on nutritional ignorance and highly deceptive marketing of its poisons to the uninformed masses. Merck, in fact, was just fined $321 million for criminal violations in the illegal marketing of Vioxx (http://www.naturalnews.com/035690_Merck_Vioxx_marketing.html).
7 Medicinal Herbs And Spices That Help Lower Blood Pressure
April 27, 2012
Natural News
By Aurora Geib
“You don’t need pharmaceutical drugs to lower blood pressure.” -KTRN
High blood pressure is an epidemic that is currently sweeping across America. The fast lifestyle of fast food, soda and stress is starting to catch up on the average American, so much so that an estimated one in every three Americans has high blood pressure. This puts them at risk of heart disease, stroke and even kidney disease. Moreover, this condition is costing the country 93.5 billion dollars in health care services.
Putting too much faith in the medical establishment to find a cure for your high blood pressure may no longer be advisable in the least. The number of prescription drugs on the market and the cascade of variations suggest that a cure for blood pressure is not in the offing anytime soon.
Despite all the consequences associated with high blood pressure, it is still a condition that is preventable and easily managed. Observing a healthy balanced diet and enjoying an active, healthy lifestyle can help avoid the risk of high blood pressure as well as reduce one that is already elevated.
High blood pressure – A package of woe
There is no one identifiable cause for high blood pressure. A combination of factors like stress, alcohol, smoking, weight and lack of physical activity seem to have to come together to produce this problem, which is further compounded by family history and age.
Although it is a condition that if left unattended could gravitate to something worse, high blood pressure is not a disease. Taking proactive measures in preventing heart diseases, stroke and even kidney disease by managing your blood pressure may be the best decision you can make today.
While the idea of drug-free high blood pressure management through the use of herbs and spices has slowly been gaining ground, it is still treated with skepticism by the medical establishment. The reliance on prescription drugs, however, has not in any way shown that high blood pressure could be cured through this manner. There are still reports by patients who are currently using drugs to manage their high blood pressure that their condition has not shown any improvement, nor their quality of life. Instead, they have to deal with side effects and drugs that are expensive to maintain.
Spice up your life
In a published study featured in the Journal of Medicine, it was revealed that common spices can protect from heart disease and the deterioration brought about by aging. In the said study, researchers discovered a connection between the phenol content of certain herbs and spices and their capacity to prevent glycation and formation of AGE compounds that are responsible for premature aging and heart disease.
As a way to manage your blood pressure, herbs and spices are a fantastic way to increase the medicinal value of your food. Below are some herbs and spices you may have been enjoying with no idea as to their value:
1. Garlic – Garlic contains allicin, a substance which has antibacterial, antioxidant, lipid lowering and anti-hypertension properties. In a pilot study made at Clinical Research Center of New Orleans on whether garlic could lower blood pressure, nine patients with severe hypertension were given a garlic preparation containing 1.3 % allicin. Sitting blood pressure fell with a significant decrease in diastolic blood pressure only five to 14 hours after the dose. Moreover, it was proven in a 2009 study that fresh garlic has more potent cardio-protective properties than processed garlic.
Can We Continue To Justify Injecting Aluminum Into Children?
April 27, 2012
Activist Post
By Sayer Ji
“Why are they putting aluminum in vaccines? There has to be a reason, right?” –KTRN
A new report published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology raises a disturbing possibility: that aluminum hydroxide, the dominant metal-based adjuvant used in vaccines today, is causing aluminum overload at injection sites, and contributing to the pathogenesis of diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome, macrophagic myofasciitis and subcutaneous pseudolymphoma. [i]
Discussed is the case of a 45-year old woman with vaccine-induced subcutaneous pseudolymphoma, a type of skin lesion characterized by collections of lymphocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells in the skin. The researchers performed a skin biopsy at the injection site and found aluminum (AI) deposits in her macrophages. When the skin sample was assayed for AI and quantified, it was found to contain 768.1 micrograms per gram, dry weight, versus 5.61 and 9.13 in two control patients – up to 153-fold higher concentrations.
The report cautioned: “Given the pathology of this patient and the high Al concentration in skin biopsy, the authors wish to draw attention when using the Al salts known to be particularly effective as adjuvants in single or repeated vaccinations. The possible release of Al may induce other pathologies ascribed to the well-known toxicity of this metal.”
As referenced, aluminum-based (and other) vaccine adjuvants are “effective” at increasing antibody titers, but they perform this feat through the hypersensitization and/or dysregulation of the humoral pole of the immune system (Th2), which is the immunological equivalent of kicking a beehive.
Many US Hospitals, Including Children’s Hospitals, Continue to Serve McDonald’s Fast Food in Their Cafeterias
April 27, 2012
Natural News
By Ethan A. Huff
“If this isn’t a sign that something is wrong with health care in America, we don’t know what is.” –KTRN
Many people still think of hospitals as places where the sick become healthy, and where disease is nursed into wellness — but these notions could not be further from the truth. Besides being cesspools of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” and filth in many cases, dozens of U.S. hospitals, including children’s hospitals, continue to serve McDonald’s fast food to guests in their cafeterias and lobbies, a telling indictment of Western medicine’s prevailing lack of discernment and knowledge in the area of proper nutrition.
The group Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a consumer advocacy group, recently sent a formal letter to 21 U.S. hospitals that still serve McDonald’s to guests and visitors, urging them to “stop fostering a food environment that promotes harm, not health.” The group cites numerous statistics that point to junk foods, like those served at McDonald’s, contributing to the very diseases now being treated at U.S. hospitals.
“The rates of children suffering from diet-related disease are staggering,” says the letter. “Today, private practices, pediatric clinics, and emergency rooms are increasingly bearing witness to children suffering from preventable chronic conditions related to the food they eat [...] in the decades to come, one in three children will develop type 2 diabetes as a result of diets high in McDonald’s-style junk food.”
Hospitals that still serve McDonald’s include Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago; the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis; Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego; and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. CAI is urging these hospitals and others to end their contracts with McDonald’s, and begin working towards the implementation of food options that support the role of improving health, rather than counteract it.
“We hear from physicians saying kids come in for their diabetic check-ups and they hear the parents saying, ‘If you are well-behaved, we’ll take you for a treat at the McDonald’s down the hall,” said Sara Deon, director of CAI’s McDonald’s campaign, to USA Today about the hypocrisy of the situation. It is akin to NaturalNews selling pharmaceutical drugs while simultaneously promoting health and wellness through nutrition.
Mad Cow Disease Detected In U.S. Dairy Cow
April 27, 2012
Natural News
By Mike Adams
“Keep eating non-organic beef. It’s good for you.” –KTRN
It’s baaack! Mad cow disease, our favorite prion from planet Bovinopolis, has once again reared its ugly folded protein head in a California dairy cow. It was detected there just a few days ago, but have no fear, courageous American beef eaters: U.S. “authorities” have declared it to be a “random mutation,” meaning that mad cow disease prions spontaneously appeared without cause in that cow, and it most certainly absolutely assuredly and definitely was not due to anything in the cow feed, they say.
That’s a relief, eh? Because if we can explain mad cow disease by simply invoking MAGIC (spontaneous generation, etc.), then who needs to look further into what these dairy cows are being fed?
It used to be that cows in the USA were fed the ground up parts of other cows, including spinal cord and brain material. Yummm… kinda makes your burger just a bit more juicy, doesn’t it? But that practice was stopped — at least they SAY it was stopped — after the last mad cow scare in 2006. But who knows whether or not the occasional cow head gets tossed into the feed grinder, eh?
So now, whenever there’s a mad cow scare, agricultural authorities (who are so deeply in bed with the cow industry that their mattresses actually have hoof prints on them) simply announce the disease happened by magic! “Random mutation” is the scientific version of “it magically appeared,” of course, just to make it sound like it’s based in science.
Water Fluoridation Persists Despite Being Unhealthy for Infants
April 26, 2012
Natural Society
By Patrick Gallagher
“So they are warning parents with infants about the dangers of fluoride – but they say nothing about the dangers it causes adults and young children. Interesting.” –KTRN
Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest state legislature in the US recently passed a bill that requires all water bills to warn parents with infants of the dangers revolving around fluoride and water fluoridation- but only associated with infancy and excluding just about everyone else, to no great surprise.
The warning reads as follows:
“Your public water supply is fluoridated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if your child under the age of 6 months is exclusively consuming infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated water, there may be an increased chance of dental fluorosis. Consult your child’s health care provider for more information.”
The primary cause for this action is because of a heightened risk of dental fluorosis in children – basically a fluoride overdose. What they don’t tell you is that the ‘medication’ also affects the many other organ compositions in your body, not just your teeth, and not just for infants. Generally the CDC will support water fluoridation but this action warning in particular strikes a chord with the agency, forcing it to admit that fluoridated water mixed with baby formula is dangerous for the teeth which are supposed to be developing.
The 5 Biggest Health Myths
April 26, 2012
Natural News
By Dr. David Jockers
“Here is one more myth: Regular pasteurized milk: It Does a Body Good.” –KTRN
There are many pervasive myths that have been misleading people in the natural health field for many years. Some of these myths continue to be the mainstream thought even though science has clearly demonstrated that they are untrue. Understanding these health myths and the real truth sets you free from a lifestyle of sickness and disease.
Myth: Eating fat makes you fat
The truth is that diets high in omega 3 fatty acids and saturated fats are linked to lower rates of obesity and better overall health. Man-made fats (trans-fats) and refined vegetable oils are inflammatory and disrupt metabolism. Good fats help to build healthy cell membranes. These membranes are able to utilize good hormonal communication signals to appropriately manage metabolism.
Diets rich in sugars, grains, hydrogenated oils and omega 6 fats inflame the body and damage the cell membranes. This alters insulin and leptin signaling and leads to insulin & leptin resistance, weight gain, diabetes and chronic inflammation.
Diets rich in good fats (saturated and omega 3), anti-oxidants, electrolytes and trace minerals de-inflame the body and allow for proper insulin/leptin signaling resulting in weight loss, stable energy and disease prevention.
Myth: Saturated fat & cholesterol in the diet are bad for your heart
The truth is that saturated fat & cholesterol are powerful nutrients that the body uses for hormone function, calcium metabolism and cellular structure. They act as stabilizing units that protect the body from inflammatory damage.
The Massai & Rendille Tribes in Africa have some of the lowest rates of heart disease yet they consume a diet consisting of 65% saturated fat and a high amount of of cholesterol through red meat & fermented grass-fed dairy products. The Eskimos/Inuit consume a 75% saturated fat diet (whale blubber) yet have extremely low rates of heart disease.
‘S-Men’ Science Parody Video From The Health Ranger
April 26, 2012
Natural News
By Mike Adams
“Mike Adams from Natural News is at it again. This is pretty funny.” –KTRN
In the spirit of making fun of really bad science — and these days there’s plenty of bad science to go around — I’ve just released a video parody called the “S-Men.” It features a collection of scientific superheroes who help protect the world from the terrible dangers of organic foods, herbal medicine, dietary supplements and raw (fresh) milk.
Click here for the original article.
The Healing Power Of Dogs
April 26, 2012
Huffington Post
By Dr. Andrew Weil
“There is no doubt that animal therapy is real. Nursing homes use animals all the time to help their patients. It’s been proven that being around animals can often lower blood pressure.” –KTRN
Until I was 40 years old, I was a botanical field researcher and constantly on the move, so much so that I seldom bothered to have an actual residence. I was also an only child and did not marry until I was 49 — a fiercely-independent streak is a fundamental part of my makeup. Where would a dog fit into this picture?
Yet something in this untethered lifestyle never really worked for me. I was depressed for much of my early adulthood — not clinically so, as I could still function, but I was miserable more days than not, often for weeks at a time.
In 1982, a longtime friend — one of those rare, priceless people who can see gaps in your emotional life that are invisible to you — gave me a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy as a birthday present. I told her, gently, that it was utterly inappropriate; my life was far too unsettled. She thrust the puppy in my arms, looked me in the eye, and said, “This will help to settle you.”
It did.
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
– Edward Hoagland
Dogs have been my constant companions ever since — for 30 years now. My current pair — Asha, the female, is 2.5 years old, and Ajax, the male, is 3.5 — are my third generation of ridgebacks. I raised all of them from puppies. All have stuck by me through my worst moods and often lifted me out of them.
They also care for me. Once, I was very sick with the flu, essentially immobilized in bed with a very high fever, muscle aches, and overall weakness. The male I had at the time, Jambo, lay next to me the entire time and absolutely would not move except to eat, drink and relieve himself, all of which he did as quickly as he possibly could so he could return to my side. It was healing medicine in the most real and profound sense, and I am absolutely sure it speeded my recovery.
The ways that my dogs can make me — and my visitors — happy constantly amazes me. Now, Ajax has started actually giving hugs. A person sits, Ajax walks up, puts his front paws on the person’s shoulders, and rests his head on a shoulder. If that doesn’t get to you, you are made of much sterner stuff than I am.
Really? Teens Trying to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer
April 26, 2012
Time
By Alexandra Sifferlin and Heba Hasan
“What is wrong with people? Remember the days when you would ask your big brother to buy you and friends a 12-pack of Milwaukee’s Best? Those days are apparently long gone when all you need is hand sanitizer to get wasted.” –KTRN
Here’s a new one. Some Los Angeles teens are going to great lengths to get buzzed by drinking hand sanitizer.
Six teens were admitted for alcohol poisoning in two San Fernando Valley hospitals over the last few months after consuming cheap liquid hand sanitizers. The easily accessible cleansers contain 62% ethyl alcohol and can make a 120-proof liquid.
According to the Los Angeles Times, some of the teens used salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer, relying on instructions from the Internet. The amount of alcohol they ingested was enough to cause slurred speech and burning sensations and land kids in the hospital.
“All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager,” Cyrus Rangan, the director of the toxicology bureau for the county public health department and a medical toxicology consultant for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told the Times. “There is no question that it is dangerous.”
Another health expert advised parents to buy foam hand sanitizers instead of liquid since it’s harder to extract alcohol from foam brands, and suggested that parents monitor the alcohol-based cleansers as they do liquor and medicines, the Times reported. Rangan worried that drinking hand sanitizer would become a phenomenon.
