AN AFFIRMATION FOR PLANET EARTH
Yoko Ono Lennon
December 8, 2009 On the anniversary of the passing of my husband, John Lennon,
I would like you to share an affirmation with me.
Think it, say it, with firm belief,
knowing that we are all one. In the name of truth, peace and love:
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Our planet is healthy and whole,
We, the people of Earth
See clearly, Hear clearly, Think clearly.
Make the right judgement, right decision and the right move
For the benefit of our planet and others. We are now bathing in the light of Dawn,
Standing in the Heaven we have created together,
Sharing the Joy
With all Lives on Earth
And of the Universe,
As we are all one, united with infinite and eternal love. For the highest good of all concerned, So be it. With all my love,
yoko ono lennon December 8, 2009
Tokyo, Japan
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Alternative Healing Helps NFL Player
Alternative Healing Helps NFL Player Out
The story below is to me without question an amazing one to come across, and I'm sure there will only be many more like this in the future, or at least I'm hoping there'll be.
Deepak Chopra the acclaimed author on spirituality and mind-body medicine had recently been quoted as saying; "Your Physical Body is a Fiction" and "Your Real Body is Energy" I certainly concur with this too. It appears that this athlete may possibly be following along here in this way as well.
I have on my own discovered many ways in which to replenish and raise your prana or vital energy in order to actually experience greater or optimum levels of health. As a person who regularly practices meditation, I can also give clear testimony to it's real effectiveness in helping our lives, as well as changing them too, and much for the better, I might add.
john d
Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit
11/21/09
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/1345745.html
Miami Dolphins
• Saturday, 11.21.09
Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is all alone as he scores his third touchdown of the game on a 46-yard run against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
JOE RIMKUS JR. / STAFF PHOTO
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As Ricky Williams was scoring three touchdowns Thursday, his ``pranic healer'' was listening to the game on the radio in California -- in between conducting a meditation session -- just in case Williams needed his help.
So can a man thousands of miles away help treat Williams' nicks and pain through deep thinking?
It doesn't matter if you or I are skeptical. For Williams, it only matters what he thinks. And he's a believer.
Williams, averaging a career-high 5.3 yards a carry, said the way he cares for his body has a lot to do with his terrific season. There's the vegetarian diet. The daily breathing and meditation, sometimes for two hours.
The acupuncture and massages. The twice-weekly yoga. The new water-based energy drink Evolv that's sold online -- he ``swears by it'' after he drank three bottles before the Saints game and then scored three touchdowns.
``He also does things you wouldn't expect,'' Ronnie Brown said.
One is pranic healing, an alternative medical treatment that originated in the Orient 4,000 years ago. Williams, 32, performs pranic healing on himself and uses a pranic healer, Daniel O'Hara.
Here's how it works: ``Ricky will send me a text message saying, for example, to work on his ankle,'' O'Hara said. O'Hara, in Orange County, Calif., will then ``visualize Ricky's ankle as if he's standing in front of me. I visualize him glowing. I make a sweeping motion over my ankle to remove the dirty energy from his ankle that's creating an abnormality and give his body fresh, revitalizing energy.''
``Ricky could be doing anything when I'm doing this -- watching TV, sleeping,'' O'Hara said. ``It's like a voodoo doll. I know it sounds strange.''
O'Hara said Williams then text messages him indicating how the body part feels. ``He says it's a four, and I'll try to get it to a 10. It takes me four minutes with Ricky because he meditates and has positive energy. It could take 25 minutes with somebody else. He's special.''
Williams, in his Charlotte, N.C., hotel, called O'Hara on Wednesday night and O'Hara said they visualized ``Ricky having three touchdowns and 184 rushing yards'' against Carolina. (He had three touchdowns and ran for 119 yards.) He also worked on Williams' slight arm numbness.
Williams, who appears on O'Hara's website, has done pranic healing since 2007 and said last week, ``Usually, I prefer to work on it myself, but for some of the little nicks I've had this season, Daniel has really helped me. I know for a fact it works. It's fascinating.''
O'Hara said when Williams sprained an ankle in the first Jets game, ``The second I saw that on TV, I started working on him, and when he got back to the sideline, he was fine. He figured I was doing something. I can feel what is going on in his body.''
Williams, held out of the last series against Carolina, had pain in a chest muscle, but coach Tony Sparano said he will be fine.
Encouraged by pranic healing and the other ways to heal his body, Williams said he hasn't ruled out playing beyond 2010. ``I'm looking forward to my plans after football,'' he said Tuesday at his new South Beach restaurant, PROOF. ``But if it's the right situation, it would be difficult to turn down.''
CHATTER
• An FSU official said university president T.K. Wetherell leans toward keeping Bobby Bowden for 2010 (with conditions), but it's not definite: ``T.K. makes his mind up and then waffles.''
FSU officials privately have discussed giving Bowden the option to coach one final season (which he wants), while also allowing coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher to hire and fire assistants this offseason and essentially run the program, even with Bowden there. Of the 11 trustees, three strongly want Bowden gone, and several others see merit in a change. But this is Wetherell's call. He will meet with Bowden soon after the UF game Nov. 28.
• Many UM fans hope Miami Northwestern junior quarterback Teddy Bridgewater enrolls in 2011 and succeeds Northwestern alum Jacory Harris when Harris graduates, though Pace High senior/UM oral commitment Stephen Morris will provide competition.
Bridgewater said following Harris at UM is appealing but has no idea if he will go to UM. For now, ``I want to play receiver'' in college, he said. ``Receiver is the first position I played. Miami wants me as a quarterback. Georgia was the front-runner, but I have no front-runner now. Just because [Northwestern alums at UM] want me at Miami doesn't mean I have to. They won't impact my decision.''
• Former FIU center Freddy Asprilla, whom UM coveted, signed with Kansas State instead because he's friends with former UM guard Denis Clemente and has a strong bond with coach Frank Martin, advisor Art Alvarez said. ``He was torn.''
• According to an NBA executive, the Heat said it's open to offers for James Jones -- who has a good chance to be bought out next summer. Because of Quentin Richardson's back injury, Jones started Friday's game.
But Jones played in just three of the Heat's first 10 games because coach Erik Spoelstra likes splitting small forward minutes between Richardson and starting power forward Michael Beasley. And Spoelstra often has used Dorell Wright instead of Jones because Wright is the better ball-handler and defender.
The story below is to me without question an amazing one to come across, and I'm sure there will only be many more like this in the future, or at least I'm hoping there'll be.
Deepak Chopra the acclaimed author on spirituality and mind-body medicine had recently been quoted as saying; "Your Physical Body is a Fiction" and "Your Real Body is Energy" I certainly concur with this too. It appears that this athlete may possibly be following along here in this way as well.
I have on my own discovered many ways in which to replenish and raise your prana or vital energy in order to actually experience greater or optimum levels of health. As a person who regularly practices meditation, I can also give clear testimony to it's real effectiveness in helping our lives, as well as changing them too, and much for the better, I might add.
john d
Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit
11/21/09
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/1345745.html
Miami Dolphins
• Saturday, 11.21.09
Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is all alone as he scores his third touchdown of the game on a 46-yard run against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
JOE RIMKUS JR. / STAFF PHOTO
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As Ricky Williams was scoring three touchdowns Thursday, his ``pranic healer'' was listening to the game on the radio in California -- in between conducting a meditation session -- just in case Williams needed his help.
So can a man thousands of miles away help treat Williams' nicks and pain through deep thinking?
It doesn't matter if you or I are skeptical. For Williams, it only matters what he thinks. And he's a believer.
Williams, averaging a career-high 5.3 yards a carry, said the way he cares for his body has a lot to do with his terrific season. There's the vegetarian diet. The daily breathing and meditation, sometimes for two hours.
The acupuncture and massages. The twice-weekly yoga. The new water-based energy drink Evolv that's sold online -- he ``swears by it'' after he drank three bottles before the Saints game and then scored three touchdowns.
``He also does things you wouldn't expect,'' Ronnie Brown said.
One is pranic healing, an alternative medical treatment that originated in the Orient 4,000 years ago. Williams, 32, performs pranic healing on himself and uses a pranic healer, Daniel O'Hara.
Here's how it works: ``Ricky will send me a text message saying, for example, to work on his ankle,'' O'Hara said. O'Hara, in Orange County, Calif., will then ``visualize Ricky's ankle as if he's standing in front of me. I visualize him glowing. I make a sweeping motion over my ankle to remove the dirty energy from his ankle that's creating an abnormality and give his body fresh, revitalizing energy.''
``Ricky could be doing anything when I'm doing this -- watching TV, sleeping,'' O'Hara said. ``It's like a voodoo doll. I know it sounds strange.''
O'Hara said Williams then text messages him indicating how the body part feels. ``He says it's a four, and I'll try to get it to a 10. It takes me four minutes with Ricky because he meditates and has positive energy. It could take 25 minutes with somebody else. He's special.''
Williams, in his Charlotte, N.C., hotel, called O'Hara on Wednesday night and O'Hara said they visualized ``Ricky having three touchdowns and 184 rushing yards'' against Carolina. (He had three touchdowns and ran for 119 yards.) He also worked on Williams' slight arm numbness.
Williams, who appears on O'Hara's website, has done pranic healing since 2007 and said last week, ``Usually, I prefer to work on it myself, but for some of the little nicks I've had this season, Daniel has really helped me. I know for a fact it works. It's fascinating.''
O'Hara said when Williams sprained an ankle in the first Jets game, ``The second I saw that on TV, I started working on him, and when he got back to the sideline, he was fine. He figured I was doing something. I can feel what is going on in his body.''
Williams, held out of the last series against Carolina, had pain in a chest muscle, but coach Tony Sparano said he will be fine.
Encouraged by pranic healing and the other ways to heal his body, Williams said he hasn't ruled out playing beyond 2010. ``I'm looking forward to my plans after football,'' he said Tuesday at his new South Beach restaurant, PROOF. ``But if it's the right situation, it would be difficult to turn down.''
CHATTER
• An FSU official said university president T.K. Wetherell leans toward keeping Bobby Bowden for 2010 (with conditions), but it's not definite: ``T.K. makes his mind up and then waffles.''
FSU officials privately have discussed giving Bowden the option to coach one final season (which he wants), while also allowing coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher to hire and fire assistants this offseason and essentially run the program, even with Bowden there. Of the 11 trustees, three strongly want Bowden gone, and several others see merit in a change. But this is Wetherell's call. He will meet with Bowden soon after the UF game Nov. 28.
• Many UM fans hope Miami Northwestern junior quarterback Teddy Bridgewater enrolls in 2011 and succeeds Northwestern alum Jacory Harris when Harris graduates, though Pace High senior/UM oral commitment Stephen Morris will provide competition.
Bridgewater said following Harris at UM is appealing but has no idea if he will go to UM. For now, ``I want to play receiver'' in college, he said. ``Receiver is the first position I played. Miami wants me as a quarterback. Georgia was the front-runner, but I have no front-runner now. Just because [Northwestern alums at UM] want me at Miami doesn't mean I have to. They won't impact my decision.''
• Former FIU center Freddy Asprilla, whom UM coveted, signed with Kansas State instead because he's friends with former UM guard Denis Clemente and has a strong bond with coach Frank Martin, advisor Art Alvarez said. ``He was torn.''
• According to an NBA executive, the Heat said it's open to offers for James Jones -- who has a good chance to be bought out next summer. Because of Quentin Richardson's back injury, Jones started Friday's game.
But Jones played in just three of the Heat's first 10 games because coach Erik Spoelstra likes splitting small forward minutes between Richardson and starting power forward Michael Beasley. And Spoelstra often has used Dorell Wright instead of Jones because Wright is the better ball-handler and defender.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Onions,Garlic, Flu, and Folk Medicine
This piece below was from an e-mail a family member sent to me yesterday. I don't know how effective this may be, however, in light of the current flu situation, it certainly may be well worth the knowing of. While there are probably many effective flu remedies in this world, some are more well known than others, and likely too, some may be quite more effective than others. I've learned that it may be important during this present time to keep not only your body, but your entire being balanced and Ultra-healthy, and reducing, managing,or even where possible avoiding stress in all it's different forms (mental,physical,chemical,emotional, and spiritual) to possibly remain that much more immune healthy and disease resistant. Certainly in addition to this would be to employ some levels of protection to help your immune system and your entire being to remain healthy and disease resistant. I like the regular oral intake of Aloe vera juice, however you need to be drinking plenty of water with this and start out gradually as it's a strong detoxifier of the body. I drink at least a few oz's twice a day taken with juice and mostly away from food. The simple drinking of multiple cups of green tea will also effectively help to keep your body fluids and systems clean and well-functioning. Colloidal Silver Water can be another amazingly effective flu & disease fighting remedy that can be made at home very inexpensively. The MMS remedy is still another very effective remedy. It is available mainly through the internet,is very inexpensive, and is possibly one of the most effective disease neutralizers you'll ever come across. At least that is my opinion. You can follow the MMS protocol well before any outbreak takes place to ensure your own optimum health and then likely just use maintenance doses as a prophylaxis to disease.
Always Towards Better Health,
john d
Onions,Garlic, Flu, and Folk Medicine
A friend of mine told me a story about how when he was a kid he was in the hospital & near dying. His Italian grandmother came to the hospital & told a family member to go buy her a large onion & a new pair of white cotton socks. She sliced the onion open then put a slice on the bottom of each of his feet & put the white cotton socks on him. In the morning when he awoke they removed the socks. The slices of onion were black & his fever was gone. The following story that someone sent to me might have some truth in it & we are going to try this winter.
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there
was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could
help them combat the flu.
Many of the farmers and their family had
contracted it and many died.
The doctor came upon this
one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy.
When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different
the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in
the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).
The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one
of the onions and place it under the microscope. She
gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus
in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria,
therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard
this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several
years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so
were many of her customers. The next year she placed several
bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none
of her staff got sick. It must work.. (And no, she
is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is,
buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If
you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your
desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what
happens. We did it last year and we never got the
flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting
sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just
might be a mild case..
Whatever, what have you to
lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Now there is a P. S. to
this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes
material to me on health issues. She replied with this most
interesting experience about onions:
Weldon,thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers
story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia and needless to say I
was very ill...I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an
onion put one end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty
jar....placing the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion
would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened
just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.
Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic
placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They
have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic prope
Always Towards Better Health,
john d
Onions,Garlic, Flu, and Folk Medicine
A friend of mine told me a story about how when he was a kid he was in the hospital & near dying. His Italian grandmother came to the hospital & told a family member to go buy her a large onion & a new pair of white cotton socks. She sliced the onion open then put a slice on the bottom of each of his feet & put the white cotton socks on him. In the morning when he awoke they removed the socks. The slices of onion were black & his fever was gone. The following story that someone sent to me might have some truth in it & we are going to try this winter.
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there
was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could
help them combat the flu.
Many of the farmers and their family had
contracted it and many died.
The doctor came upon this
one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy.
When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different
the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in
the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).
The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one
of the onions and place it under the microscope. She
gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus
in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria,
therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard
this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several
years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so
were many of her customers. The next year she placed several
bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none
of her staff got sick. It must work.. (And no, she
is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is,
buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If
you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your
desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what
happens. We did it last year and we never got the
flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting
sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just
might be a mild case..
Whatever, what have you to
lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Now there is a P. S. to
this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes
material to me on health issues. She replied with this most
interesting experience about onions:
Weldon,thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers
story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia and needless to say I
was very ill...I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an
onion put one end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty
jar....placing the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion
would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened
just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.
Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic
placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They
have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic prope
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Are the Vaccines More Deadly Than The Flu?
http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/08/21/the-vaccines-are-far-more-deadly-than-the-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-1580
The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins
(Global Research) -
* The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu. Mass vaccinations is a recipe for disaster Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins
* This report has been submitted to Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer of the UK, and to the US Food and Drugs Administration
* Why are children the first to get experimental swine flu vaccines?
A swine flu outbreak occurred in Mexico and the United States in April 2009 and spread rapidly around the world by human-to human transmission. The new type A H1N1 influenza virus is unlike any that had been previously isolated [1, 2], judging from the first data released in May. It is a messy combination of sequences from bird, human and swine flu virus lineages from North America and Eurasia. A senior virologist based in Canberra, Australia, told the press he thought that the virus could have been created in a laboratory and released by accident [3]. Some analysts even suggest, without corroborating evidence, that it was made intentionally as a bioweapon [4], while others blame the intensive livestock industry and extensive trafficking of love animals over long distances, which provide plenty of opportunity for generating exotic recombinants [5].
But what worries the public most is the mass vaccination programmes governments are putting in place to combat the emerging pandemic, which could well be worse than the pandemic itself.
Watchdog opposes fast-track vaccine for school children
The US government is intending to vaccinate all children in September when school re-opens, and the country’s vaccine watchdog National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called on the Obama Administration and all state Governors to provide evidence that the move is [6] “necessary and safe”, demanding “strong mechanisms for vaccine safety screening, recording, monitoring, reporting and vaccine injury compensation.”
The US Departments of Health and Homeland Security had declared a national public health emergency in April soon after the swine flu outbreak. As a result, some schools were closed, people quarantined, and drug companies were given contracts worth $7billon to make vaccines that are being fast tracked by the Food and Drugs Administration [7]. That means they will only be tested for a few weeks on several hundred children and adult volunteers before being given to all school children this fall.
Furthermore, under federal legislation passed by Congress since 2001, an Emergency Use Authorization allows drug companies, health officials and anyone administering experimental vaccines to Americans during a declared public health emergency to be protected from liability if people get injured. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has granted vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that may result from any new swine flu vaccine. And some states may make the vaccination mandatory by law.
The NVIC is asking whether the states are prepared to obey vaccine safety provisions in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which include: 1. Giving parents written information about vaccine benefits and risks before children are vaccinated; 2. Keeping a record of which vaccines the children get, including the manufacturer’s name and lot number; 3. Recording which vaccines were given in the child’s medical record; and 4. Recording serious health problems that develop after vaccination in the child’s medical record and immediately making a report to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
NVIC also wants to know if the states are prepared to provide financial compensation to children injured by the swine flu vaccines, whether parents will be given “complete, truthful information about swine flu vaccine risks”, and have the right to say “no” to vaccination.
Co-founder and president of NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher said [6]: “Parents and legislators should be asking themselves right now: Why are children the first to get experimental swine flu vaccines? Are schools equipped to get signed informed consent from parents before vaccination, keep accurate vaccination records and screen out children biologically at high risk for suffering vaccine reactions? Will people giving these vaccines know how to monitor children afterwards and immediately record, report and treat serious health problems that develop? And will states have the financial resources to compensate children who are injured?”
WHO and mass vaccination fever
The mass vaccination order has come from the World Health Organization (WHO) [8]. In early July 2009, a group of vaccination experts concluded that the pandemic is unstoppable, and Marie-Paul Kieny, WHO director on vaccine research said all nations will need access to vaccines, and that a vaccine should be available as early as September.
Critics point out that the ‘vaccination experts’ are dominated by the vaccine makers standing to gain from the enormously lucrative vaccine and antiviral contracts awarded by governments. But the decisive argument against mass vaccinations is that flu shots simply don’t work and are dangerous [9].
Flu shots ineffective and increase risks of asthma
There are widely acknowledged reasons why flu vaccines won’t work, as already pointed out with regard to the much touted vaccines against the ‘pandemic bird flu’ that has yet to materialize [10] (How to Stop Bird Flu Instead, SiS 35). The flu virus changes quickly – even without the help of genetic engineering in the laboratory, and especially with the help of the intensive livestock industry – whereas the vaccines target specific strains. Furthermore, flu vaccination does not give permanent protection, and must be repeated annually; the vaccines are difficult to mass-produce, and some strains won’t grow at all under laboratory conditions.
Numerous studies have documented that flu shots give little or no protection against infection and illness, and there is no reason to believe that swine flu vaccines will be different.
A review of 51 separate studies involving more than 294 000 children found that in children aged from two years, nasal spray vaccines made from weakened influenza viruses and injected vaccines made from the killed virus prevented 82 and 59 percent of illnesses. The prevention of ‘flu-like illness’ caused by other types of viruses was only 33 and 36 percent respectively. In children under the age of two, the efficacy of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo. It was not possible to analyse the safety of vaccines from the studies due to the lack of information, and lack of standardization on the little information available [11]. A report published in 2008 found flu vaccines in young children made no difference in the number of flu-related doctor and hospital visits [12].
On the other hand, a study of 800 children with asthma found that those receiving a flu vaccine had a significantly increased risk of asthma-related doctor and emergency room visits [13]; the odds ratios were 3.4 and 1.9 respectively. This was confirmed in a report published in 2009, which showed children with asthma who received FluMist had a 3-fold increased risk of hospitalization [14]
Flu vaccines are equally useless for adults, including the elderly, giving little or no protection against infection or illnesses including pneumonia (see [9]).
Toxic adjuvants in flu vaccines
Vaccines themselves can be dangerous, especially live, attenuated viral vaccines or the new recombinant nucleic acid vaccines [10], they have the potential to generate virulent viruses by recombination and the recombinant nucleic acids could cause autoimmune diseases.
A further major source of toxicity in the case of the flu vaccines are the adjuvants, substances added in order to boost the immunogenicity of the vaccines. There is a large literature on the toxicities of adjuvants. Most flu vaccines contain dangerous levels of mercury in the form of thimerosal, a deadly preservative 50 times more toxic than mercury itself [9]. At high enough doses, it can cause long-term immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioural dysfunctions. Also associated with mercury poisoning are autism, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, and speech and language deficiencies. The Institute of Medicine has warned that infants, children, and pregnant women should not be injected with thimerosal, yet the majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of it.
Another common adjuvant is alum or aluminium hydroxide, which can cause vaccine allergy, anaphylaxis, and macrophage myofascitis, a chronic inflammation syndrome, In cats, alum also gives rise to fibrosarcomas at the site of injection [15]. Numerous new adjuvants are no better, and could be worse. According to a recent review in a science and business pharmaceutical publication [15], most newer adjuvants including MF59, ISCOMS, QS21, AS02, and AS04 have “substantially higher local reactogenicity and systemic toxicity than alum.”
Current status of swine flu vaccines
Five different companies have been contracted to produce vaccines worldwide: Baxter International, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis and AstroZeneca [16]. Already stretched beyond capacity, there is every intention to make smaller vaccine doses go further with a range of new adjuvants [17], with the blessing of the WHO (see later).
Flu vaccines are traditionally produced from non-virulent (attenuated or weakened) influenza viruses (see Box for a description of the viruses). To be effective, the genes of the non- virulent virus used must match those of the viral strain spreading in the population. Activation of the immune system by exposure to the non pathogenic form of the circulating pathogenic strain leads to the production of antibodies that will confer protection against the pathogenic strain. Producing the non-virulent virus involves first identifying and then recreating the subtypes of two of the virus’s surface proteins, haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), which determine the strain’s virulence and ability to spread, and are also the target proteins for vaccine production.
Influenza viruses
There are 3 types of influenza viruses, A, B and C. The influenza A type virus is the main one that cause diseases in birds and mammals. Its genome consists of 8 segments of RNA coding for 11 proteins, and the viruses are further classified by subtype on the basis of the two main surface glycoproteins (proteins with complex carbohydrate side chains): haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) [18]. The segmented genome enables the virus to’ reassort’ (shuffle) segments as well as recombine within segments, thereby greatly increasing the rate of evolution and generation of new strains. Reassortment is also widely exploited in the laboratory in the process of creating vaccine strains. To-date, 16 H and 9 N subtypes have been detected in numerous combinations circulating in wild birds [19].
Seed viruses are first made to provide the starting material for large scale production of live non-virulent flu viruses. The seed viruses are approved by the WHO or the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). The usual method of seed virus production is reassortment (see Box). Fertilized chicken eggs are injected with both a standard non-pathogenic influenza strain known to grow well in eggs and the strain that carries the genes expressing the desired vaccine H and N protein subtypes. The two viruses multiply, and their eight genome segments reassort with 256 possible combinations. The resulting recombinant viruses are then screened for the desired virus with the six genome segments that allow the standard strain to grow so well in eggs and the H and N genes from the circulating strain. The seed virus is then injected into millions of eggs for mass production of vaccine. This conventional method of seed stock production takes about one to two months to complete [20].
Cell culture systems may eventually replace chicken eggs. Baxter International applied for a patent on a process using cell culture to produce quantities of infecting virus, which are harvested, inactivated with formaldehyde and ultraviolet light, and then detergent [21]. Baxter has produced H5N1 whole virus vaccines in a Vero cell line derived from the kidney of an African green monkey, and conducted phase 1 and 2 clinical trials with and without aluminium hydroxide as adjuvant [22, 23]. The main finding was that the toxic adjuvant did not increase neutralising antibodies against the vaccine strain. Baxter has agreed to ship H1N1 vaccine by the end of July or early August 2009 but details of the production of that vaccine have not yet been released to the public [16].
In December, a Baxter facility in Austria sent a human flu vaccine contaminated with the deadly H5N1 live avian flu virus to 18 countries, including the Czech Republic, where testing showed it killed the ferrets inoculated [24]. Czech newspapers questioned whether Baxter was involved in a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic.
Norvatis, another big pharma, announced on 13 June that it, too, has produced a swine flu vaccine using cell-based technology and the proprietary adjuvant MF59®. The MF59® adjuvant is oil based and contains Tween80, Span85, and squalene [25]. In studies of oil-based adjuvants in rats, the animals were rendered crippled and paralyzed. Squalene brought on severe arthritis symptoms in rats, and studies in humans given from 10 to 20 ppb (parts per billion) of squalene showed severe immune system impact and development of autoimmune disorders [26].
Novartis was in the news in 2008 for a clinical trial of a H5N1 vaccine in Poland. The trial was administered by local nurses and doctors who gave the vaccine to 350 homeless people, leaving 21 died; and were prosecuted by the Polish police [27, 28]. Novartis claimed the deaths were unrelated to the H5N1 vaccine [29], which had been “tested on 3500 other people without any deaths.”
GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine will be made up of antigens of the recently isolated influenza strain, and also contains its own proprietary adjuvant system AS03 that has been approved in the EU along with its H5N1 bird flu vaccine in 2008. According to the European Public Assessment Report [30], AS03 adjuvant is composed of squalene (10.68 milligrams), DL-α-tocopherol (11.86 milligrams) and polysorbate 80 (4.85 milligrams). The H5N1 vaccine also contains 5 micrograms thiomersal, as well as Polysorbate 80, Octoxynol 10, and various inorganic salts. The company is aggressively promoting various adjuvant systems as its ‘adjuvant advantage’ that reduces the dose of vaccines [31].
A recent WHO survey of primary vaccine producers concluded that the potential output of 4.9 Billion doses of H1N1 vaccine per year is a best-case scenario, assuming among other factors that the most dose-sparing formulation (that will include toxic adjuvants) be selected by each manufacturer and that production will take place at full capacity. WHO Director-General, Dr .Margaret Chan, and the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, met with senior officials of vaccine manufacturers on 19 May and asked them to reserve part of their production capacity for poor countries that would otherwise have no or little access to vaccine in the case of a pandemic [32].
The last mass-vaccination in the US was a disaster. In 1976, cases of swine flu were found in soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and one of them died, most likely of physical overexertion rather than from the infection [7]. This led to the launch of a mass vaccination of 40 million against a pandemic that never materialized. Thousands filed claims for injury. At least 25 died and 500 developed paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome [33, 34].
Swine flu syndromes mostly mild
As of 22 July 2009, the CDC listed a total of 40 617 cases in the US, with 319 fatalities, giving a fatalites/case ratio of 0.8 percent [35]; though the real death rate – among all cases of infection including the mild ones that go unreported – is probably much lower. Experts estimate that only 1 out of 20 cases are reported [36].
The UK is the worst affected European country, and the pandemic is in the headlines everyday in July. A new telephone helpline was set up on 23 July to let people get advice and tamiflu without seeing a doctor. In that week, there has been a record rise in cases to 100 000 and a total of 30 deaths so far [37], giving a fatalities/case ratio of 0.03 percent, a more accurate reflection of the actual death rate.
UK’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has ordered the NHS to plan for as many as 65 000 deaths, with 350 a day at the peak [38]. There has been no plan as yet for mass vaccination; but the UK government has advance orders for 195 million doses of vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
The vaccine that GSK is developing will be tested on a limited number of people as the UK drug company reportedly [39] “weighs the pandemic danger against the risks of an unsafe shot.” This was criticized as “risky” by Prof. Hugh Pennington, a retired microbiologist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. “By limiting clinical trials, Glaxo raises the danger that the vaccine dose isn’t properly calibrated, and could lead to shots that don’t protect people from the virus or at worse are unsafe,” Pennington said.
Pennington added that the shot’s ability to trigger the body’s defences is crucial and requires tests to determine the best dose and whether an adjuvant is needed to bolster the immunity. (As we know, GSK is definitely promoting its new range of toxic adjuvants.) He also referred to the Fort Dix incident in 1976 (see earlier).
France has ordered vaccines from Sanofi, GSK and Novartis, but sees no reason to ask vaccine makers to shorten or skip clinical trials [16]. Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug maker developing its own swine flu vaccine will begin testing the product in early August, and estimates it will need as much as two and a half months of tests before having a shot that’s “both safe and protective”, according to Albert Garcia, speaking for the company’s vaccine unit, “the vaccine will be ready in November or December, he said.
Baxter, however, will produce a vaccine by early August for clinical tests.
Glaxo also said it is developing a face mask coated with antivirals to prevent infection and boosting production of its Relenza drug for patients already suffering from swine flu.
There are obviously safer and more effective ways to combat the pandemic than mass vaccinations: washing hands often, sneezing into a tissue that can be safely disposed of, avoiding unnecessary gatherings, and delay opening schools – all advised by governments – and we would add, eating healthily, exercise, and getting enough vitamin D to boost your natural immunity [10].
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http://www.infowars.com/the-vaccines-are-far-more-deadly-than-the-swine-flu/
The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins
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* The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu. Mass vaccinations is a recipe for disaster Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins
* This report has been submitted to Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer of the UK, and to the US Food and Drugs Administration
* Why are children the first to get experimental swine flu vaccines?
A swine flu outbreak occurred in Mexico and the United States in April 2009 and spread rapidly around the world by human-to human transmission. The new type A H1N1 influenza virus is unlike any that had been previously isolated [1, 2], judging from the first data released in May. It is a messy combination of sequences from bird, human and swine flu virus lineages from North America and Eurasia. A senior virologist based in Canberra, Australia, told the press he thought that the virus could have been created in a laboratory and released by accident [3]. Some analysts even suggest, without corroborating evidence, that it was made intentionally as a bioweapon [4], while others blame the intensive livestock industry and extensive trafficking of love animals over long distances, which provide plenty of opportunity for generating exotic recombinants [5].
But what worries the public most is the mass vaccination programmes governments are putting in place to combat the emerging pandemic, which could well be worse than the pandemic itself.
Watchdog opposes fast-track vaccine for school children
The US government is intending to vaccinate all children in September when school re-opens, and the country’s vaccine watchdog National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called on the Obama Administration and all state Governors to provide evidence that the move is [6] “necessary and safe”, demanding “strong mechanisms for vaccine safety screening, recording, monitoring, reporting and vaccine injury compensation.”
The US Departments of Health and Homeland Security had declared a national public health emergency in April soon after the swine flu outbreak. As a result, some schools were closed, people quarantined, and drug companies were given contracts worth $7billon to make vaccines that are being fast tracked by the Food and Drugs Administration [7]. That means they will only be tested for a few weeks on several hundred children and adult volunteers before being given to all school children this fall.
Furthermore, under federal legislation passed by Congress since 2001, an Emergency Use Authorization allows drug companies, health officials and anyone administering experimental vaccines to Americans during a declared public health emergency to be protected from liability if people get injured. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has granted vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that may result from any new swine flu vaccine. And some states may make the vaccination mandatory by law.
The NVIC is asking whether the states are prepared to obey vaccine safety provisions in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which include: 1. Giving parents written information about vaccine benefits and risks before children are vaccinated; 2. Keeping a record of which vaccines the children get, including the manufacturer’s name and lot number; 3. Recording which vaccines were given in the child’s medical record; and 4. Recording serious health problems that develop after vaccination in the child’s medical record and immediately making a report to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
NVIC also wants to know if the states are prepared to provide financial compensation to children injured by the swine flu vaccines, whether parents will be given “complete, truthful information about swine flu vaccine risks”, and have the right to say “no” to vaccination.
Co-founder and president of NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher said [6]: “Parents and legislators should be asking themselves right now: Why are children the first to get experimental swine flu vaccines? Are schools equipped to get signed informed consent from parents before vaccination, keep accurate vaccination records and screen out children biologically at high risk for suffering vaccine reactions? Will people giving these vaccines know how to monitor children afterwards and immediately record, report and treat serious health problems that develop? And will states have the financial resources to compensate children who are injured?”
WHO and mass vaccination fever
The mass vaccination order has come from the World Health Organization (WHO) [8]. In early July 2009, a group of vaccination experts concluded that the pandemic is unstoppable, and Marie-Paul Kieny, WHO director on vaccine research said all nations will need access to vaccines, and that a vaccine should be available as early as September.
Critics point out that the ‘vaccination experts’ are dominated by the vaccine makers standing to gain from the enormously lucrative vaccine and antiviral contracts awarded by governments. But the decisive argument against mass vaccinations is that flu shots simply don’t work and are dangerous [9].
Flu shots ineffective and increase risks of asthma
There are widely acknowledged reasons why flu vaccines won’t work, as already pointed out with regard to the much touted vaccines against the ‘pandemic bird flu’ that has yet to materialize [10] (How to Stop Bird Flu Instead, SiS 35). The flu virus changes quickly – even without the help of genetic engineering in the laboratory, and especially with the help of the intensive livestock industry – whereas the vaccines target specific strains. Furthermore, flu vaccination does not give permanent protection, and must be repeated annually; the vaccines are difficult to mass-produce, and some strains won’t grow at all under laboratory conditions.
Numerous studies have documented that flu shots give little or no protection against infection and illness, and there is no reason to believe that swine flu vaccines will be different.
A review of 51 separate studies involving more than 294 000 children found that in children aged from two years, nasal spray vaccines made from weakened influenza viruses and injected vaccines made from the killed virus prevented 82 and 59 percent of illnesses. The prevention of ‘flu-like illness’ caused by other types of viruses was only 33 and 36 percent respectively. In children under the age of two, the efficacy of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo. It was not possible to analyse the safety of vaccines from the studies due to the lack of information, and lack of standardization on the little information available [11]. A report published in 2008 found flu vaccines in young children made no difference in the number of flu-related doctor and hospital visits [12].
On the other hand, a study of 800 children with asthma found that those receiving a flu vaccine had a significantly increased risk of asthma-related doctor and emergency room visits [13]; the odds ratios were 3.4 and 1.9 respectively. This was confirmed in a report published in 2009, which showed children with asthma who received FluMist had a 3-fold increased risk of hospitalization [14]
Flu vaccines are equally useless for adults, including the elderly, giving little or no protection against infection or illnesses including pneumonia (see [9]).
Toxic adjuvants in flu vaccines
Vaccines themselves can be dangerous, especially live, attenuated viral vaccines or the new recombinant nucleic acid vaccines [10], they have the potential to generate virulent viruses by recombination and the recombinant nucleic acids could cause autoimmune diseases.
A further major source of toxicity in the case of the flu vaccines are the adjuvants, substances added in order to boost the immunogenicity of the vaccines. There is a large literature on the toxicities of adjuvants. Most flu vaccines contain dangerous levels of mercury in the form of thimerosal, a deadly preservative 50 times more toxic than mercury itself [9]. At high enough doses, it can cause long-term immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioural dysfunctions. Also associated with mercury poisoning are autism, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, and speech and language deficiencies. The Institute of Medicine has warned that infants, children, and pregnant women should not be injected with thimerosal, yet the majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of it.
Another common adjuvant is alum or aluminium hydroxide, which can cause vaccine allergy, anaphylaxis, and macrophage myofascitis, a chronic inflammation syndrome, In cats, alum also gives rise to fibrosarcomas at the site of injection [15]. Numerous new adjuvants are no better, and could be worse. According to a recent review in a science and business pharmaceutical publication [15], most newer adjuvants including MF59, ISCOMS, QS21, AS02, and AS04 have “substantially higher local reactogenicity and systemic toxicity than alum.”
Current status of swine flu vaccines
Five different companies have been contracted to produce vaccines worldwide: Baxter International, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis and AstroZeneca [16]. Already stretched beyond capacity, there is every intention to make smaller vaccine doses go further with a range of new adjuvants [17], with the blessing of the WHO (see later).
Flu vaccines are traditionally produced from non-virulent (attenuated or weakened) influenza viruses (see Box for a description of the viruses). To be effective, the genes of the non- virulent virus used must match those of the viral strain spreading in the population. Activation of the immune system by exposure to the non pathogenic form of the circulating pathogenic strain leads to the production of antibodies that will confer protection against the pathogenic strain. Producing the non-virulent virus involves first identifying and then recreating the subtypes of two of the virus’s surface proteins, haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), which determine the strain’s virulence and ability to spread, and are also the target proteins for vaccine production.
Influenza viruses
There are 3 types of influenza viruses, A, B and C. The influenza A type virus is the main one that cause diseases in birds and mammals. Its genome consists of 8 segments of RNA coding for 11 proteins, and the viruses are further classified by subtype on the basis of the two main surface glycoproteins (proteins with complex carbohydrate side chains): haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) [18]. The segmented genome enables the virus to’ reassort’ (shuffle) segments as well as recombine within segments, thereby greatly increasing the rate of evolution and generation of new strains. Reassortment is also widely exploited in the laboratory in the process of creating vaccine strains. To-date, 16 H and 9 N subtypes have been detected in numerous combinations circulating in wild birds [19].
Seed viruses are first made to provide the starting material for large scale production of live non-virulent flu viruses. The seed viruses are approved by the WHO or the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). The usual method of seed virus production is reassortment (see Box). Fertilized chicken eggs are injected with both a standard non-pathogenic influenza strain known to grow well in eggs and the strain that carries the genes expressing the desired vaccine H and N protein subtypes. The two viruses multiply, and their eight genome segments reassort with 256 possible combinations. The resulting recombinant viruses are then screened for the desired virus with the six genome segments that allow the standard strain to grow so well in eggs and the H and N genes from the circulating strain. The seed virus is then injected into millions of eggs for mass production of vaccine. This conventional method of seed stock production takes about one to two months to complete [20].
Cell culture systems may eventually replace chicken eggs. Baxter International applied for a patent on a process using cell culture to produce quantities of infecting virus, which are harvested, inactivated with formaldehyde and ultraviolet light, and then detergent [21]. Baxter has produced H5N1 whole virus vaccines in a Vero cell line derived from the kidney of an African green monkey, and conducted phase 1 and 2 clinical trials with and without aluminium hydroxide as adjuvant [22, 23]. The main finding was that the toxic adjuvant did not increase neutralising antibodies against the vaccine strain. Baxter has agreed to ship H1N1 vaccine by the end of July or early August 2009 but details of the production of that vaccine have not yet been released to the public [16].
In December, a Baxter facility in Austria sent a human flu vaccine contaminated with the deadly H5N1 live avian flu virus to 18 countries, including the Czech Republic, where testing showed it killed the ferrets inoculated [24]. Czech newspapers questioned whether Baxter was involved in a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic.
Norvatis, another big pharma, announced on 13 June that it, too, has produced a swine flu vaccine using cell-based technology and the proprietary adjuvant MF59®. The MF59® adjuvant is oil based and contains Tween80, Span85, and squalene [25]. In studies of oil-based adjuvants in rats, the animals were rendered crippled and paralyzed. Squalene brought on severe arthritis symptoms in rats, and studies in humans given from 10 to 20 ppb (parts per billion) of squalene showed severe immune system impact and development of autoimmune disorders [26].
Novartis was in the news in 2008 for a clinical trial of a H5N1 vaccine in Poland. The trial was administered by local nurses and doctors who gave the vaccine to 350 homeless people, leaving 21 died; and were prosecuted by the Polish police [27, 28]. Novartis claimed the deaths were unrelated to the H5N1 vaccine [29], which had been “tested on 3500 other people without any deaths.”
GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine will be made up of antigens of the recently isolated influenza strain, and also contains its own proprietary adjuvant system AS03 that has been approved in the EU along with its H5N1 bird flu vaccine in 2008. According to the European Public Assessment Report [30], AS03 adjuvant is composed of squalene (10.68 milligrams), DL-α-tocopherol (11.86 milligrams) and polysorbate 80 (4.85 milligrams). The H5N1 vaccine also contains 5 micrograms thiomersal, as well as Polysorbate 80, Octoxynol 10, and various inorganic salts. The company is aggressively promoting various adjuvant systems as its ‘adjuvant advantage’ that reduces the dose of vaccines [31].
A recent WHO survey of primary vaccine producers concluded that the potential output of 4.9 Billion doses of H1N1 vaccine per year is a best-case scenario, assuming among other factors that the most dose-sparing formulation (that will include toxic adjuvants) be selected by each manufacturer and that production will take place at full capacity. WHO Director-General, Dr .Margaret Chan, and the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, met with senior officials of vaccine manufacturers on 19 May and asked them to reserve part of their production capacity for poor countries that would otherwise have no or little access to vaccine in the case of a pandemic [32].
The last mass-vaccination in the US was a disaster. In 1976, cases of swine flu were found in soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and one of them died, most likely of physical overexertion rather than from the infection [7]. This led to the launch of a mass vaccination of 40 million against a pandemic that never materialized. Thousands filed claims for injury. At least 25 died and 500 developed paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome [33, 34].
Swine flu syndromes mostly mild
As of 22 July 2009, the CDC listed a total of 40 617 cases in the US, with 319 fatalities, giving a fatalites/case ratio of 0.8 percent [35]; though the real death rate – among all cases of infection including the mild ones that go unreported – is probably much lower. Experts estimate that only 1 out of 20 cases are reported [36].
The UK is the worst affected European country, and the pandemic is in the headlines everyday in July. A new telephone helpline was set up on 23 July to let people get advice and tamiflu without seeing a doctor. In that week, there has been a record rise in cases to 100 000 and a total of 30 deaths so far [37], giving a fatalities/case ratio of 0.03 percent, a more accurate reflection of the actual death rate.
UK’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has ordered the NHS to plan for as many as 65 000 deaths, with 350 a day at the peak [38]. There has been no plan as yet for mass vaccination; but the UK government has advance orders for 195 million doses of vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
The vaccine that GSK is developing will be tested on a limited number of people as the UK drug company reportedly [39] “weighs the pandemic danger against the risks of an unsafe shot.” This was criticized as “risky” by Prof. Hugh Pennington, a retired microbiologist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. “By limiting clinical trials, Glaxo raises the danger that the vaccine dose isn’t properly calibrated, and could lead to shots that don’t protect people from the virus or at worse are unsafe,” Pennington said.
Pennington added that the shot’s ability to trigger the body’s defences is crucial and requires tests to determine the best dose and whether an adjuvant is needed to bolster the immunity. (As we know, GSK is definitely promoting its new range of toxic adjuvants.) He also referred to the Fort Dix incident in 1976 (see earlier).
France has ordered vaccines from Sanofi, GSK and Novartis, but sees no reason to ask vaccine makers to shorten or skip clinical trials [16]. Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug maker developing its own swine flu vaccine will begin testing the product in early August, and estimates it will need as much as two and a half months of tests before having a shot that’s “both safe and protective”, according to Albert Garcia, speaking for the company’s vaccine unit, “the vaccine will be ready in November or December, he said.
Baxter, however, will produce a vaccine by early August for clinical tests.
Glaxo also said it is developing a face mask coated with antivirals to prevent infection and boosting production of its Relenza drug for patients already suffering from swine flu.
There are obviously safer and more effective ways to combat the pandemic than mass vaccinations: washing hands often, sneezing into a tissue that can be safely disposed of, avoiding unnecessary gatherings, and delay opening schools – all advised by governments – and we would add, eating healthily, exercise, and getting enough vitamin D to boost your natural immunity [10].
References
1. New details on virus’s promiscuous past”, Jon Cohen, Science 2009, 324, 1127.
2. Garten RJ, Davis CT,Tussell CA et al. Antigenic and genetic charaatcteristics of swine-origin 2009 A (H1N1) influenza viruses circulating in humans. Science 2009, 325, 197-201.
3. Virologist to make his case for lab origin of swine flu”, Peter Duveen, Opednews.com, 4 July 2009, http://www.opednews.com/articles/Virologist-to-make-his-cas-by-Peter-Duveen-090630-103.html
4. Is swine flu a biological weapon?”, Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com 27 April 2009, http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-swine-flu-a-biological-weapon.htm
5. CDC confirms ties to virus first discovered in U.S. pig factories” Michael Greger, 3 May 2009, http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/swine_flu_virus_origin_1998_042909.html
6. “Swine flu vaccine should not be given to children in schools”, Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center, 22 July 2009, http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/July-2009/Swine-Flu-Vaccine-Should-Not-Be-Given-to-Children.aspx
7. “Now legal immunity for swine flu vaccine makers” F, William Engdahl, Global Research 20 July 2009, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14453
8. Swine flu pandemic now ‘unstoppable’: WHO official”, Agence France-Presse 13 July 2009, Calgary Herald, http://www.calgaryherald.com/Swine+pandemic+unstoppable+official/1788693/story.html
9. What are the dangers of mandatory swine flu vaccination? Dr. Mercola, June 2009, http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/07/15/What-are-the-Dangers-of-MandatoryMandatory-Swine-Flu-Vaccination.aspx
10. Ho MW. How to stop bir flu instead of the vaccine-antiviral model. Science in Society 35. 40-42, 2007.
11. Jefferson T, Rivett A, Harnden A, DiPietrantoni C, and Demicheli V. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children (Review). Cochrane Database Systematic Review 23 April 2009, http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD004879/pdf_fs.html
12. Szilagyi PG, Fairbrother G, Griffin MR et al. Influenza vaccine effectiveness among children 6 to 59 months of age during 2 influenza seasons: a case-cohort study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008, 162, 943-51. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18838647
13. Christy C, Aligne C, Auinger P, Pulcino T and Weitzman M. Effectiveness of influenza vaccine for the prevention of asthma exacerbations. Arch. Dis Child 2004, 89, 734-5, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15269071
14. Flu vaccination may triple risk for flu-related hospitalization in children with asthma, 25 May 2009, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703235
15. Petrovsky N, Heinzel S, Honda Y, Lyons AB. New-age vaccine adjuvants, friend or foe? BioPharm International 2 August 2007, http://biopharminternational.findpharma.com/biopharm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=444996&sk=&date=&pageID=5
16. “Update: 1-Baxter can take no more H1N1 flu vaccine orders”, Bill Berkerto, 16 July 2009, Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsnews/idINN1644290820090716?rpc=33
17. H1N1 ‘swine flu’ vaccine, postnote, May 2009, number 331, http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn331.pdf
18. Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) CDC, 18 November 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/flu-viruses.htm
19. Olsen B, Munster VJ, Wallensten A, Waldenstrom J, Osterhaus ADME and Fouchier RAM. Global patterns of influenza A virus in wild birds. Science 2006, 312, 384-8.
20. Hood E. Environews Innovations 2006 Environmental Health Perpectives 114,A108-111.
21. Kistner,O,Tauer,C, Barrett,N. Mundt,W. Method for Producing Viral Vaccines 2009 Patent application US2009/0060950A1
22. Ehrlich HJ, Müller M, Oh HM, Tambyah PA, Joukhadar C, Montomoli E, Fisher D, Berezuk G, Fritsch S, Löw-Baselli A, Vartian N, Bobrovsky R, Pavlova BG, Pöllabauer EM, Kistner O, Barrett PN; Baxter H5N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Clinical Study Team. A clinical trial of a whole-virus H5N1 vaccine derived from cell culture. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jun 12;358(24):2573-84.
23. Ketel.W,Dekker,C,Mink,C,Campbell,J,Edwards,K,Patel,S,Ho,D,Talbot,H,Guo,K,Noah,D,Hill,H.Safety and immunogenicity of inactivated, Vero cell culture-derived whole virus influenza A/H5N1 vaccine given alone or with aluminum hydroxide adjuvant in healthy adults Vaccine 2009 in press doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.03.015
24. “Bird flu mix-up could have spelled disaster”, NewScientist 6 March 2009, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126983.400
25. Kenney RT and Edelman R. Survey of human-use adjuvants. Expert Review of Vaccines April 2003; 2(2):167-88, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12899569?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
26. “Vaccines may be linked to Gulf War Syndrome”, Chiroweb.com, June 12, 2000, http://www.chiroweb.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=31730
27. “Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland”, Mathew Day, Telegraph, 2 July 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html
28. “Homeless people die after trials of bird-flu vaccine”, 10 July 2008, Pharmaceutical Portal for Poland, http://www.pharmapoland.com/next.php?id=62409
29. “Polish industry not dented by deaths”, Emma Dorey, Entrepreneur, 21 July 2008, http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/181991358.html
30. Pandermrix = European Public Assessment Report [EMEA] 27 September 2009, http://www.emea.europa.eu/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/pandemrix/pandemrix.htm
31. Vaccine adjuvant system technology background information. GlaxoSmithKline, accessed 25 July 2009, http://www.gsk.com/media/flu/flu-adjuvant.pdf
32. Collin N, de Radiguès X, Kieny MP; the World Health Organization H1N1 Vaccine Task Force.New influenza A(H1N1) vaccine: How ready are we for large-scale production? Vaccine. 2009 Jun 26 in press doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.06.034
33. 1976 swine flu outbreak, Wikipedia, 22 July 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
34. Haber P, Sejvar J, Mikaeloff Y and DeStefano F. Vaccine and Guilaain-Barre syndrome. Drug Saf 2009, 32, 309-23.
35. 2009 flu pandemic in the United States”, Wikipdeia, 22 July 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States
36. 2009 flu pandemic, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
37. “Swine flu website overwhelmed by demand as new cases double in a week”, Owen Bowcott and Severin Carrell, The Guardian, 23 July 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/23/swine-flu-website-overwhelmed
38. “Swine flu: medical chief orders NHS to prepare for 65 000 deaths – with a toll of as many as 350 a day”, Daniel Martin, The Daily Mail, 17 July 2009, T, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200012/Swine-flu-Every-child-16-vaccinated–when.html
39. “Glaxo to limit tests of flu vaccine, citing urgency”, Jason Gale and Trista Kelley, Bloomberg Press, 22 July 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=apkg_4J.PCEw
http://www.infowars.com/the-vaccines-are-far-more-deadly-than-the-swine-flu/
Monday, August 24, 2009
Dr Mehmet Oz about health and his new TV Show
Dr. Mehmet Oz's comments in his reply here on tonight's (08/24/09) edition of ABC Nightline and interviewing reporter Diane Sawyer"s question to him about what he'll be thinking of during the first minute before the opening minute of his new upcoming television show which is scheduled to first air on September 14th.
"I'll say I have a chance to play...I have a chance to play in an arena that I never thought I'd be blessed enough to perform in...and I'm hoping it's just a play...and have a good time...because at the end of the day Health is not some onerous, sour and dour message where I chastise you for not doing the right thing. Health is this joyful, blissful experience when you know your living your best life, and your living life - right..now.
http://www.doctoroz.com/
"I'll say I have a chance to play...I have a chance to play in an arena that I never thought I'd be blessed enough to perform in...and I'm hoping it's just a play...and have a good time...because at the end of the day Health is not some onerous, sour and dour message where I chastise you for not doing the right thing. Health is this joyful, blissful experience when you know your living your best life, and your living life - right..now.
http://www.doctoroz.com/
5 Cups of Green Tea and Cancer
Here's a story about how multiple cups of green tea were found to be a great defensive measure against Cancer. Tea is probably one of the cheapest, oldest, most often used, and probably most effective remedies on earth, yet still I would wager to say that it's likely to be the most unrecognized and undervalued of substances on earth by the majority of folks at least in modern western society who are instead only looking at it's value as a simple beverage and not for the real healing and health promoting substance to which it truly is and remains available to us all this day to use as such.
Discover it for the real betterment of your own health and those closest to you, and then pass on the word of its real value to those who may remain unknowing of it.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026862_cancer_green_tea_health.html
Discover it for the real betterment of your own health and those closest to you, and then pass on the word of its real value to those who may remain unknowing of it.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026862_cancer_green_tea_health.html
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Going Green!
I bought some fine Japanese green tea yesterday at my local health food store here along the Connecticut shoreline. It's called "Sencha" and I purchased it bulk and it's not at all cheap either, but the health benefits of drinking it more than justify the cost, or at least in my humble opinion they do.
It probably doesn't matter, however, about the type of green or herbal tea that you drink so much as that you do drink it. It's obviously good for your health and often tastes good as well. I've found that over the many years of drinking herbal tea I've learned at least a few things about tea and health. Probably the first and very important reason for consuming tea, and especially green tea is "cleansing". Simply drinking 4-6 cups of potent green tea will help you to lose weight, detoxify, and strengthen your immune system giving a tremendous boost to your overall health. It's cheap, available, and simple, and it's probably one of the most overlooked beneficial things which people can do to improve their health. Folks that are looking to lose some weight will be amazed at how quickly they can shed the pounds by simply drinking lots of the tea.
It probably doesn't matter, however, about the type of green or herbal tea that you drink so much as that you do drink it. It's obviously good for your health and often tastes good as well. I've found that over the many years of drinking herbal tea I've learned at least a few things about tea and health. Probably the first and very important reason for consuming tea, and especially green tea is "cleansing". Simply drinking 4-6 cups of potent green tea will help you to lose weight, detoxify, and strengthen your immune system giving a tremendous boost to your overall health. It's cheap, available, and simple, and it's probably one of the most overlooked beneficial things which people can do to improve their health. Folks that are looking to lose some weight will be amazed at how quickly they can shed the pounds by simply drinking lots of the tea.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Alfalfa, Super Blue Green Algae, and Whole Food Organic Vitamin Food Supplements
Alfalfa, Super Blue Green Algae, and Whole Food Organic Vitamin Food Supplements
After taking alfalfa tablets(about 7-9) and super blue green algae (3-4)
capsules along with a few "Mega Food" brand vitamin tablets at every meal I feel
incredibly healthy and am convinced beyond any shadow of doubt that a super good
nutritional foundation is at the core of really good health. Simply nothing is
probably better for you than Alfalfa to cleanse, nourish, and enrich your body
system with superb health. Sure there are plenty of good supplements available
besides Alfalfa, however, It's real simple to produce and maintain great health
with something quite as simple and commonly available like Alfalfa, not to
mention really inexpensive here as well. There probably aren't enough words in
the english language to simply justify the existence of good wholesome
health-sustaining organic food, and for sure simple Alfalfa is a prize among the
many. Just ask any horse!
Super Blue/Green Algae is of course a super food and it works in super ways to
produce substantially better health for you. Being a super food for sure may as
well put it into other galaxy as far as most average people are concerned, as
most may likely not be familiar with it's seemingly magical abilities to produce
absolutely optimum health in an individual. The "Simplexity" brand is possibly
the finest produced product, however, I've found that probably the least
expensive Super Blue Green/ Spirulina supplement available at Wal mart worked
just fine for me too.
The point of my writing about all this here is to show that really all the best
from nature is available to us to produce good health. When we don't have that
in our life, then quite likely we are to become ill and and suffer unnecessarily
so.
The message simply is to glean all you can from nature to not only produce great
health, but to maintain it for a rich and productive whole lifetime filled with
the most happiness
that life can afford you.
Health and Happiness Always,
john d
After taking alfalfa tablets(about 7-9) and super blue green algae (3-4)
capsules along with a few "Mega Food" brand vitamin tablets at every meal I feel
incredibly healthy and am convinced beyond any shadow of doubt that a super good
nutritional foundation is at the core of really good health. Simply nothing is
probably better for you than Alfalfa to cleanse, nourish, and enrich your body
system with superb health. Sure there are plenty of good supplements available
besides Alfalfa, however, It's real simple to produce and maintain great health
with something quite as simple and commonly available like Alfalfa, not to
mention really inexpensive here as well. There probably aren't enough words in
the english language to simply justify the existence of good wholesome
health-sustaining organic food, and for sure simple Alfalfa is a prize among the
many. Just ask any horse!
Super Blue/Green Algae is of course a super food and it works in super ways to
produce substantially better health for you. Being a super food for sure may as
well put it into other galaxy as far as most average people are concerned, as
most may likely not be familiar with it's seemingly magical abilities to produce
absolutely optimum health in an individual. The "Simplexity" brand is possibly
the finest produced product, however, I've found that probably the least
expensive Super Blue Green/ Spirulina supplement available at Wal mart worked
just fine for me too.
The point of my writing about all this here is to show that really all the best
from nature is available to us to produce good health. When we don't have that
in our life, then quite likely we are to become ill and and suffer unnecessarily
so.
The message simply is to glean all you can from nature to not only produce great
health, but to maintain it for a rich and productive whole lifetime filled with
the most happiness
that life can afford you.
Health and Happiness Always,
john d
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Trouble with Green Tea By RealAge
Did you know that most of the free-radical fighters in green tea never make
it to your bloodstream? But there's a solution.
To get a better grasp on the healthy catechins in your green tea, flavor
your cup with a squeeze of citrus juice.
Green Tea Booster
Catechins -- the antioxidants in green tea famous for lowering your risk of
chronic disease -- quickly lose their power in your intestine. In fact, as
much as 80% of the catechins in green tea are never absorbed. The solution
to boosting absorption, researchers recently found, is as simple as
flavoring your tea with freshly squeezed and strained lemon, orange, lime,
or grapefruit juice.
Taking Tea with C
The vitamin C in citrus may help with absorption by increasing the acidity
in your small intestine. Other unidentified substances in the juice probably
lend a hand, too. Researchers found a 50-50 mix had the greatest
catechin-preserving effect, and lemon did it best, closely followed by
orange, lime, and, in last place, grapefruit.
It's Not All Bad News
If you do take steps to boost the power of your green tea, you may even get
a few added benefits.
It may help you lose weight. At least one study shows green tea can
stimulate moderate weight loss.
It may help keep your knees young and strong -- catechins fight inflammation
and arthritis.
It can help your skin look great if used in conjunction with an antioxidant
cream. Dab it on.
It can help you stay sharp -- try 2 cups a day to see benefits.
RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or
supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.
________________________
Did you know that most of the free-radical fighters in green tea never make
it to your bloodstream? But there's a solution.
To get a better grasp on the healthy catechins in your green tea, flavor
your cup with a squeeze of citrus juice.
Green Tea Booster
Catechins -- the antioxidants in green tea famous for lowering your risk of
chronic disease -- quickly lose their power in your intestine. In fact, as
much as 80% of the catechins in green tea are never absorbed. The solution
to boosting absorption, researchers recently found, is as simple as
flavoring your tea with freshly squeezed and strained lemon, orange, lime,
or grapefruit juice.
Taking Tea with C
The vitamin C in citrus may help with absorption by increasing the acidity
in your small intestine. Other unidentified substances in the juice probably
lend a hand, too. Researchers found a 50-50 mix had the greatest
catechin-preserving effect, and lemon did it best, closely followed by
orange, lime, and, in last place, grapefruit.
It's Not All Bad News
If you do take steps to boost the power of your green tea, you may even get
a few added benefits.
It may help you lose weight. At least one study shows green tea can
stimulate moderate weight loss.
It may help keep your knees young and strong -- catechins fight inflammation
and arthritis.
It can help your skin look great if used in conjunction with an antioxidant
cream. Dab it on.
It can help you stay sharp -- try 2 cups a day to see benefits.
RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or
supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.
________________________
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Germany Bans GMO Corn
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/germany-bans-genet\
ically-modified-corn.aspx
Germany Bans GMO Corn - source- Spiegel Online April 14, 2009
Germany has banned the cultivation of GM corn, arguing that the corn breed MON
810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in
court, and Germany could face fines totaling millions of euros if Monsanto
decides to challenge the prohibition. Under the new regulations,
the cultivation of MON 810, a GM corn produced by Monsanto, will be prohibited
in Germany. A clause in EU law allows individual countries to impose such bans.
Environmental groups welcomed the ban, pointing out that numerous scientific
studies demonstrated GM corn was a danger to the
environment. However, it may be hard to prove conclusively that MON
810 damages the environment, which could enable Monsanto to win a court case
opposing the ban. Monsanto has said that it would look as quickly as possible
into whether it would begin legal proceedings. MON 810 had been the
only GM crop that could be grown in Germany. The plant produces a toxin to fight
off a certain pest, the larvae of the corn borer moth. MON 810 is already banned
in five other EU member states: Austria, Hungary, Greece, France and Luxembourg.
Dr. Mercola Comments
Germany has now become the sixth country in the European Union to take a stand
against GM corn -- a wise move that unfortunately the United States has yet to
do. Whereas close to 9,000 acres slated to be planted with MON 810
corn in Germany will now be GM-free (assuming the ban stands up in court if
necessary), the acres to be planted with GM corn in the U.S. is in the tens of
millions. German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced she was
banning not only the cultivation of GM corn but also the sale of its seeds,
saying she had "legitimate reasons to believe that MON 810 posed a danger to the
environment."
Source: Dr. Mercola (Mercola.com)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/germany-bans-genet\
ically-modified-corn.aspx
Germany Bans GMO Corn - source- Spiegel Online April 14, 2009
Germany has banned the cultivation of GM corn, arguing that the corn breed MON
810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in
court, and Germany could face fines totaling millions of euros if Monsanto
decides to challenge the prohibition. Under the new regulations,
the cultivation of MON 810, a GM corn produced by Monsanto, will be prohibited
in Germany. A clause in EU law allows individual countries to impose such bans.
Environmental groups welcomed the ban, pointing out that numerous scientific
studies demonstrated GM corn was a danger to the
environment. However, it may be hard to prove conclusively that MON
810 damages the environment, which could enable Monsanto to win a court case
opposing the ban. Monsanto has said that it would look as quickly as possible
into whether it would begin legal proceedings. MON 810 had been the
only GM crop that could be grown in Germany. The plant produces a toxin to fight
off a certain pest, the larvae of the corn borer moth. MON 810 is already banned
in five other EU member states: Austria, Hungary, Greece, France and Luxembourg.
Dr. Mercola Comments
Germany has now become the sixth country in the European Union to take a stand
against GM corn -- a wise move that unfortunately the United States has yet to
do. Whereas close to 9,000 acres slated to be planted with MON 810
corn in Germany will now be GM-free (assuming the ban stands up in court if
necessary), the acres to be planted with GM corn in the U.S. is in the tens of
millions. German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced she was
banning not only the cultivation of GM corn but also the sale of its seeds,
saying she had "legitimate reasons to believe that MON 810 posed a danger to the
environment."
Source: Dr. Mercola (Mercola.com)
Monday, July 20, 2009
Very informative movie On Vaccines 6000 Hour of research behind it by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Very informative movie On Vaccines 6000 Hour of research behind it by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Vaccines.AVI
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7018835240451107552
Vaccines.AVI
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7018835240451107552
Simple Tea Creates Nano Gold Particles for Fighting Cancer
Simple Tea Creates Nano Gold Particles for Fighting Cancer
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published July 16 2009
Simple Tea Creates Nano Gold Particles for Fighting Cancer
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Scientists have discovered a way to create cancer-fighting
nanoparticles using nothing but gold salts and a cup of Darjeeling tea,
according to a paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
Nanoparticles are particles much smaller than those commonly used in
chemical or industrial applications, small enough that they can pass through
cell membranes designed to keep foreign particles out. Because even widely
studied elements and compounds act drastically different on the nano scale,
nanotechnology is a burgeoning area of scientific research.
Most nanoparticles are manufactured during intensive industrial processes
involving toxic chemicals and byproducts. Recently, however, researchers at
the University of Missouri-Columbia discovered a process for producing
nanoparticles by adding gold salts to a soybean-water mixture. Naturally
occurring soy phytochemicals interact with the salts to produce stable gold
nanoparticles, with no toxic byproducts.
"Our new process only takes what nature has made available to us and uses
that to produce a technology that has already proven to have far-reaching
impacts in technology and medicine," researcher Kattesh Katti said.
Researchers then repeated the same procedure with Darjeeling tea instead of
soy, and found that once again, phytochemicals naturally found in the tea
transformed the salts into pure, nano-scale particles of gold. Furthermore,
the phytochemicals bind to the outside of the gold particles. This means
that the microscopic particles could be injected into tumor cells, carrying
cancer-fighting tea compounds directly to where they could provide the most
benefit.
"Throughout history, tea drinking has been directly attributed to a plethora
of health benefits," Katti said. "Our discovery has provided a practical way
to deliver cancer-fighting phytochemicals directly to tumor cells through
gold nanoparticles."
The researchers selected gold for their research because it is very stable,
chemically, and therefore is less likely to lead to side effects in the body
They said that the production process they have pioneered could easily be
replicated on a larger scale.
Sources for this story include: www.dailymail.co.uk; www.devicelink.com.
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NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published July 16 2009
Simple Tea Creates Nano Gold Particles for Fighting Cancer
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Scientists have discovered a way to create cancer-fighting
nanoparticles using nothing but gold salts and a cup of Darjeeling tea,
according to a paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
Nanoparticles are particles much smaller than those commonly used in
chemical or industrial applications, small enough that they can pass through
cell membranes designed to keep foreign particles out. Because even widely
studied elements and compounds act drastically different on the nano scale,
nanotechnology is a burgeoning area of scientific research.
Most nanoparticles are manufactured during intensive industrial processes
involving toxic chemicals and byproducts. Recently, however, researchers at
the University of Missouri-Columbia discovered a process for producing
nanoparticles by adding gold salts to a soybean-water mixture. Naturally
occurring soy phytochemicals interact with the salts to produce stable gold
nanoparticles, with no toxic byproducts.
"Our new process only takes what nature has made available to us and uses
that to produce a technology that has already proven to have far-reaching
impacts in technology and medicine," researcher Kattesh Katti said.
Researchers then repeated the same procedure with Darjeeling tea instead of
soy, and found that once again, phytochemicals naturally found in the tea
transformed the salts into pure, nano-scale particles of gold. Furthermore,
the phytochemicals bind to the outside of the gold particles. This means
that the microscopic particles could be injected into tumor cells, carrying
cancer-fighting tea compounds directly to where they could provide the most
benefit.
"Throughout history, tea drinking has been directly attributed to a plethora
of health benefits," Katti said. "Our discovery has provided a practical way
to deliver cancer-fighting phytochemicals directly to tumor cells through
gold nanoparticles."
The researchers selected gold for their research because it is very stable,
chemically, and therefore is less likely to lead to side effects in the body
They said that the production process they have pioneered could easily be
replicated on a larger scale.
Sources for this story include: www.dailymail.co.uk; www.devicelink.com.
All content posted on this site is commentary or opinion and is protected under
Free Speech. Truth Publishing LLC takes sole responsibility for all content.
Truth Publishing sells no hard products and earns no money from the
recommendation of products. NaturalNews.com is presented for educational and
commentary purposes only and should not be construed as professional advice from
any licensed practitioner. Truth Publishing assumes no responsibility for the
use or misuse of this material. For the full terms of usage of this material,
visit www.NaturalNews.com/terms.shtml
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Moratorium on GMO Foods Called by AAEM
This article below calls out the importance of having naturally healthier certified
organic foods rather than tampered with genetically engineered kinds that
may not only be less healthier to eat, but may even do us harm as well.
john d
Press Advisory May 19, 2009
Dr. Amy L. Dean, D.O. Public Relations Chair Member, Board of Directors
American Academy of Environmental Medicine 734-213-4901
environmentalmed@
The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Immediate
Moratorium On Genetically Modified Foods
Wichita, KS - The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today
released its position paper on Genetically Modified foods stating that "GM
foods pose a serious health risk" and calling for a moratorium on GM foods.
Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes "there is more than a
casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM
foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and
immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic
health." The AAEM calls for:
* A moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term safety
testing and labeling of GM food.
* Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the
public to avoid GM foods.
* Physicians to consider the role of GM foods in their patients' disease
processes.
* More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data
to investigate the role of GM foods on human health.
"Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various
organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to
have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public
s health," said Dr. Amy Dean, PR chair and Board Member of AAEM. "Physicians
are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to
ask the right questions," said Dr. Jennifer Armstrong, President of AAEM.
The most common foods in North America which are consumed that are GMO are
corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil." The AAEM's position paper on
Genetically Modified foods can be found at http:aaemonline.
AAEM is an international association of physicians and other professionals
dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health. More
information is available at www.aaemonline.
-more- About AAEM The American Academy of Environmental Medicine was founded
in 1965, and is an international association of physicians and other
professionals interested in the clinical aspects of humans and their
environment. The Academy is interested in expanding the knowledge of
interactions between human individuals and their environment, as these may
be demonstrated to be reflected in their total health. The AAEM provides
research and education in the recognition, treatment and prevention of
illnesses induced by exposures to biological and chemical agents encountered
in air, food and water. ###
Press Release:: The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) (24
May 2009)
http://aaemonline.
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