Archive for August, 2010

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Common gut bacteria can induce eukaryotic chromosomal instability in vivo, according to a study published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.Up to 34% of commensal Escherichia coli strains isolated from human faeces in high-income countries contain pks, a genomic island encoding a cluster of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and polyketide synthetases that are involved in the production of the genotoxin colibactin.

Linda’s comments: We in the holistic/alternative world have known this for years….what this article has forgotten to bring to your attention is, YOU MUST EAT ORGANICALLY.  Doesn’t do you any good eating fresh fruits that are laden with pesticides and herbicides and who knows what else. The U.S. Department of Agriculture   wants to pat themselves on the back, but do you see where they WARN you about the GMO, pesticides/herbicides??  Hmmmmm….they can’t be this brainless can they?  On the other hand could it be they don’t care and only care about their bottom-lines? They want to talk about “leading to brain disorders, heart disease and cancer, among other degenerative conditions” FAILING to tell you that you are in more danger eating GMO, pesticides/herbicides.

Yes, I ENCOURAGE all of you to eat healthy and NON-GMO.  AND, YES, I will continue encourage you to eat organically without nasty pesticides And herbicides.

Full article: http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/08/23/eating-berries-may-help-aging-brain-stay-healthy/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk3%7C165533

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Blueberries and strawberries may serve as a detox elixir for the brain and can help your aging mind stay sharp, new research shows.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say they’ve discovered the first solid evidence that the popular fruits, along with acai berries and walnuts, essentially cleanse the brain, activating what’s known as its “housekeeper” function and ridding it of toxic proteins.

Those proteins are the culprits to blame for age-related memory loss and other mental deterioration.

Study author Shibu Poulouse, who works for the USDA’s Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging in Boston, said the body’s ability to ward off inflammation and oxidative damage declines with age, which can lead to brain disorders, heart disease and cancer, among other degenerative conditions.

Dear Catherine,

I’m pasting in a good article on High Fructose Corn Syrup.  You say “can you explain HFCS with regards to aspartame?”  HFCS is not good for you but it won’t instantly kill you.  Actually aspartame can.  As you’ve heard me say its masquerading as an additive but its a chemical poison – literally an addictive,  excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant that damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines…

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Linda’s comment:  Here is MORE proof what we already know….What is it going to take to get people’s attention….We the people MUST stand up and demand that changes be made.  Our children are at RISK…

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August 20, 2010 — Exposure to organophosphate pesticides, especially prenatally, significantly increase susceptibility to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children born to Mexican American women in the Salinas Valley, an area of intensive agriculture and heavy pesticide use. 

 

These latest findings support previous results from a study published in the June issue of Pediatrics and reported by Medscape Medical News at that time that showed US children with higher levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in their urine were more likely to have ADHD compared with their counterparts with lower levels.

In the current study, investigators found prenatal exposures had a greater association than did exposures after birth. A 10-fold increase in levels of urinary dialkyl phosphate (DAP) metabolites in the mother’s urine during pregnancy correlated to a 500% increase in the diagnosis of attention disorders in 5-year-olds, according to the study of over 300 children.

Linda’s comment:  All of this can be avoided if people would discipline themselves and adopt the FIGHT protocol!!    At least the Beyond Chelation IMPROVED will lower the blood viscosity….I don’t know what it is going to take to make folks understand that allopathic medicine will NOT fix thick Carotid walls….All the white coats want to do it poke more toxic drugs into you INSTEAD of cleaning out the arteries and decreasing the CVD risk.  I get so frustrated when I hear about those who are having STROKES and heart attacks, when I know for a fact they CAN BE PREVENTED…
 
ListenUP folks and take charge of your own health care journeys…YOU are the leaders of your healthcare team and the white coats are merely members.  In the alternative world the doctors WELCOME the philosophy of patients, when the patient tells the doctor, they are their own healthcare leader…The alternative docs know that these types of patients can and will reach their wellness goals and work more closely with the holistic/alternative ways of healthcare!!  Makes the job of the alternative doctors much easier…
 
Make sure you review the FIGHT Webinars here on this blog…watch them over and over until you can get your head wrapped around the idea that you don’t have to suffer from strokes and heart attacks…..

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Studying more than 5000 people in Sardinia, Italy, US scientists found that those who scored high for antagonistic traits on a standard personality test had greater thickening of the carotid arteries on ultrasound compared with people who were more agreeable. Intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events, say Dr Angelina R Sutin (National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD) and colleagues in their paper published online August 16, 2010 in Hypertension.

“We found that although men tended to have thicker arterial walls than women, antagonistic women had [thickness of] arterial walls similar to that of antagonistic men,” Sutin told heartwire . “So the association between antagonism and arterial thickness was much stronger for women.” And although arterial thickening is a sign of aging, young people with antagonistic traits already had such thickening, even after controlling for confounding factors such as smoking, she said.

Pray for our nation

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Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered high doses of thiamine – vitamin B1 – can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease.

Kidney disease, or diabetic nephropathy, develops progressively in patients with type 2 diabetes. Early development of kidney disease is assessed by a high excretion rate of the protein albumin from the body in the urine, known as microalbuminuria.

The research is led by Dr Naila Rabbani and Professor Paul J Thornalley at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Punjab and Sheik Zaid Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.

The team has discovered taking high oral doses of thiamine can dramatically decrease the excretion of albumin and reverse early stage kidney disease in type 2 diabetes patients.
In a paper published online in the journal Diabetologia, the team show 300 mg of thiamine taken orally each day for three months reduced the rate of albumin excretion in type 2 diabetes patients. The albumin excretion rate was decreased by 41% from the value at the start of the study. The results also showed 35% of patients with microalbuminuria saw a return to normal urinary albumin excretion after being treated with thiamine.

Now here’s something you wouldn’t expect. Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company’s vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

Does this mean that you’d have to be an unreasonable person to think that a product named “vitaminwater,” a product that has been heavily and aggressively marketed as a healthy beverage, actually had health benefits?

Or does it mean that it’s okay for a corporation to lie about its products, as long as they can then turn around and claim that no one actually believes their lies?

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20540415&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

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Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) is a rare tertiary
manifestation of Lyme borreliosis, manifesting as inflammatory
and atrophic lesions on acral skin. Although ACA rarely has been
reported in the United States, it may be seen in approximately
10% of European cases of Lyme borreliosis, most commonly
associated with the genospecies Borrelia afzelii. We report a
presumptive case of ACA involving an American woman from
Pennsylvania with convincing clinical, histopathologic, and
serologic findings. We also provide an overview of the history,
epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical and histopathologic
presentation, and treatment of ACA.