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The Joy of Dry Warmth: Saunas May Help Cut CVD Risk
Post Date: 2015-02-26 04:47:46 by Tatarewicz
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Heartwire Medscape... KUOPIO, FINLAND — Although past research has shown a link between sauna use and fewer cardiovascular events, a large prospective study from Finland suggests its use could also help decrease all-cause mortality—and that the associations may be "dose-dependent"[1]. The welcome take-home message: the more an individual relaxes in the warmth, the better. A study including more than 2000 men in Finland, where sauna is more a way of life than in many countries, showed that the rate of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and fatal CHD, fatal CVD, and all-cause mortality 18 years later were all significantly lower for those who used saunas two to three times per ...
New Study: Soda Ingredient Poses Cancer Risk
Post Date: 2015-02-25 03:05:08 by Tatarewicz
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BlackListedNews... A new study carried out by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has found that millions Americans who consume soda every day are putting themselves at risk of developing cancer as a result of an ingredient contained in many soft drinks. 4-Methylimidazole, commonly known as 4-MEI, is a coloring used by soft drink makers to give their beverages that distinctive dark hue. It can be found in many popular soft drinks, including Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Diet Cola. There was clear evidence of carcinogenic activity of 4-methylimidazole in male and female B6C3F1mice based on increased incidences of alveolar/bronchiolar neoplasms. Exposure to ...
Cautionary Tale in Long-Term Surveillance of Prostate Cancer
Post Date: 2015-02-25 02:44:36 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... The hopeful idea that active surveillance can be used to manage intermediate-risk prostate cancer got deflated a bit yesterday during a presscast that precedes the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GUCS) 2015 being held later this week in Orlando, Florida. In a single-center cohort study, 213 intermediate-risk patients had a 3.75 times higher chance of dying of prostate cancer compared with 708 low-risk patients (11.5% vs 3.7% at 15 years; P = .01), according to D. Andrew Loblaw, MD, a radiation oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Median follow-up was 6.4 years for the low-risk group and 6.9 years for the intermediate-risk group. The ...
Forget Cholesterol, but Cut Sugar: New Dietary Recommendations Make Some Changes
Post Date: 2015-02-25 02:30:16 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... WASHINGTON, DC — An expert panel has released its new recommendations to the US government for healthy eating in a 570-page report that provides some new advice and supports a pattern that promotes health and prevents disease[1]. Published this week, the recommendations include advice staples such as focusing on the consumption of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, low- or nonfat dairy, seafood, legumes, and nuts and limiting the consumption of red and processed meat, added sugars, and refined grains. But the recommendations also include some twists, such as giving a green light to a moderate amount of caffeine consumption and no longer trying to control the amount of ...
Lawsuit claims Purina Beneful dry 'kibble' dog food is killing dogs
Post Date: 2015-02-24 16:23:13 by Dakmar
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CINCINNATI – A recent lawsuit claims Purina’s popular Beneful brand is hurting and killing pets. More than 3,000 online complaints have been filed by dog-owners claiming Purina Petcare Beneful’s dry “kibble” variety is killing and hurting dogs, according to the class action lawsuit filed Feb. 5 in federal court. The brand is still on store shelves in the Tri-State and has not been recalled. This class action suit concerns "kibble" dry food, which includes "Purina Beneful Health Weight"; "Purina Beneful Original"; "Purina Beneful Incredibites," and "Purina Beneful Healthy Growth for Puppies", "Purina Beneful ...
Cancer Care: Current Directions
Post Date: 2015-02-24 03:35:40 by Tatarewicz
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PART TWO OF DOC GUMSHOE'S LOOK AT CANCER Posted on February 20, 2015 by Michael Jorrin, "Doc Gumshoe" WP Greet Box icon Welcome! If you are new to Stock Gumshoe, grab a free membership here and join us to get our free newsletter alerts with new teaser answers and debunkings. Thanks! Not new? Please log in at top right of this page [ed note: Michael Jorrin, who I like to call "Doc Gumshoe", is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who shares his thoughts with us from time to time, generally on non-financial topics in health and medicine (as today, though, he mentions a couple publicly traded companies). His words and opinions are his own.] The needle in Doc ...
Documentary Reveals Shocking Extent of Government-Big Business Collusion to Eradicate Freedom of Choice
Post Date: 2015-02-23 23:09:29 by Katniss
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Documentary Reveals Shocking Extent of Government-Big Business Collusion to Eradicate Freedom of Choice By Dr. Mercola "America would be far, far healthier if the government had never told us what to eat." - Joel Salatin in "Freedom From Choice" Life is about choice. Every day we make choices that determine how we want to live—what we eat, what we read, whom we elect, and so on. But what if these choices are just an illusion? In an era when regulations and red tape rule every industry, with lobby groups and big business wielding more influence than ever before, your daily choices have become increasingly limited. And when your options are so deliberately ...
Obamacare Fleecing the Middle Class
Post Date: 2015-02-21 22:06:18 by Katniss
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Obamacare Fleecing the Middle Class It is becoming increasingly difficult for Virginians to find doctors and secure appointments in a timely manner, thanks to Obamacare. After a fierce battle, the bills meant to create state exchanges and to expand Medicaid have died in the House and in the Senate. However, Democrat Governor McAuliffe added Medicaid expansion to his budget amendment. The House removed that language from the budget. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1386367046357-0"); }); As millions of Americans, who previously had insurance and doctors they were satisfied with and wanted to keep, are suddenly left without insurance, millions ...
Is This 'Superbug' the Next Ebola?
Post Date: 2015-02-21 12:02:23 by BTP Holdings
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Is This 'Superbug' the Next Ebola? by Brad Hoppmann, Publisher, Uncommon Wisdom Daily The University of California, Los Angeles reported this past Wednesday that nearly 180 patients were exposed to a harmful “superbug.” The bug lay undetected on medical instruments and may have contributed to two deaths. This “superbug” is actually a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria known Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae. UCLA Medical Center isn't the only place where CRE is making an appearance. How do you know if you or a loved one is at risk? NPR.org recently reported that … "The bacteria can cause infections of the bladder or lungs, leading ...
Government Food Fraud Exposed
Post Date: 2015-02-21 11:47:02 by BTP Holdings
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Government Food Fraud Exposed: Obsessed Health Researcher Uncovers Government-Devised Diet LIE That Ignites Your Unstoppable Sugar Cravings and Perpetual Hunger Pangs, and Fattens Your Body like a Cow Getting Prepped for Slaughter Dear Friend, Almost 38 years ago, the federal government did something sickening to your food, which has helped KILL your ability to burn fat. It began in January 1977, when Senator George McGovern set out to "...lay the cornerstone for the building of better health for all Americans through better nutrition." …but in reality, he pried open the door for the government to influence what you eat, fatten the wallets of Big Food insiders, and keep ...
Safety, life-saving efficacy of statins have been exaggerated, says scientist
Post Date: 2015-02-21 06:35:17 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Hailed as miracle drugs when they hit the market two decades ago, statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs prescribed to prevent heart attacks, are not as effective nor as safe as we have been led to believe, say Dr. David M. Diamond, a professor of psychology, molecular pharmacology and physiology at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, an independent health researcher and an expert in cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. According to Diamond and Ravnskov, statins produce a dramatic reduction in cholesterol levels, but they have "failed to substantially improve cardiovascular outcomes." They further state that the many studies touting the ...
5 Vegetarian Eating Mistakes Hurting Your Health and Waistline
Post Date: 2015-02-21 05:39:04 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News Cut out (or down on) meat, lose weight. And, while you're at it, protect your heart, sidestep cancer and live longer. It's a promising premise. "By reducing meat consumption, we can see improvements in our blood sugar levels [and] blood cholesterol levels, as well as decrease our risk for heart disease and some types of cancer," says registered dietitian nutritionist and vegetarian Vandana Sheth, spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. According to research published by the Academy, vegetarians tend to have lower body mass indexes than meat-eaters, and, in one study presented at the Obesity Society's 2013 meeting, overweight and obese ...
Love to Eat Eggs? U.S. Panel Now Says They're Not a Health Risk
Post Date: 2015-02-21 00:28:00 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Egg and red meat lovers may find reason to rejoice in a decision by a U.S. advisory health panel to remove warnings about dietary cholesterol, saying that there is no link to dangerous levels of blood cholesterol that cause disease. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee until now had recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to 300 milligrams per day, about the amount in two eggs. After reviewing scores of studies that showed no correlation between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, the committee determined that cholesterol was not "a nutrient of concern for overconsumption," it wrote in its report. For decades, health and ...
Beverly Hills Millionaire's Amazing Health Secret...
Post Date: 2015-02-19 17:07:59 by BTP Holdings
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Can You Really Build a Brand New Body —and Create a Dramatically Improved and Healthier Version of You... in Less than 365 Days? Little-known secret supercharges your health and wellbeing... Supports Graceful Aging... Nourishes prevention and healing of chronic diseases... and even enables you to live longer! What if you could trade your present body for a much healthier one... just like trading in your old car for a newer and better model? Imagine how much better your life would be! Imagine how many health problems you'd avoid... how fast your supercharged immunity would allow diseases to disappear from your body... how much more energy you'd have... how vibrant and alive ...
Most honey contains glyphosates, the main ingredient in Roundup
Post Date: 2015-02-19 06:09:43 by Tatarewicz
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Blacklisted... A recent study by researchers from Boston University and Abraxis LLC found significant amounts of glyphosates in a food that you wouldn't necessarily expect: honey. Five categories of food items were tested from Philadelphia grocery stores: honey, corn and pancake syrup, soy milk, tofu, and soy sauce. Sixty-two percent of the conventional honeys and 45% of the organic honeys sampled had levels of glyphosates above the minimum established limits. It's hard to ignore the presence of glyphosate in a large portion of our food supply. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Monsanto's star herbicide, Roundup. It is interesting to note that the level of glyphosates was ...
Medtronic Plans New Study of Blood Pressure-Lowering Device
Post Date: 2015-02-19 05:43:25 by Tatarewicz
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medical device maker Medtronic Plc said on Tuesday it planned to seek approval from U.S. regulators to begin a new study of its version of a hypertension treatment in which nerve connections between the heart and kidney are disrupted. Called renal denervation, the treatment involves creating tiny scars along the nerves and is intended for patients whose high blood pressure cannot be controlled with drugs. Medtronic had a jump start in developing the catheter-based renal denervation treatment for the U.S. market but discontinued an initial study last year when its device failed to demonstrate effectiveness. On Tuesday, company officials said they were discussing a ...
Premature optimism on Ebola cases
Post Date: 2015-02-18 13:52:02 by Jethro Tull
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Premature optimism on Ebola cases Upsurge confirms WHO reforms long overdue Following a steady decline in new cases in recent weeks, the United Nations (UN) predicted the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could be over by June. Its optimism, however, may have been premature, as evidenced by an uptick in weekly incidence in all of the three main infected countries in the latest published figures. Since it first commenced over a year ago, the haemorrhagic virus has infected more than 22,500 people and caused over 9,000 deaths. Some 500 of more than 800 health workers infected have died. It has devastated economies and health systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health ...
More Than 6,000 Studies Prove Curcumin's Potential Health Benefits
Post Date: 2015-02-18 07:13:58 by Tatarewicz
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Advanced Natural Medicine Curcumin, a phytochemical extract of the turmeric root, used to be one of the best-kept health secrets in the world. Then—almost overnight—it has become the most widely studied nutritional herb. The National Institutes of Health alone lists 24 clinical studies that prove why curcumin is one of the most sought-after, low-cost, natural supplements that countless people take every day—and why you should, too. Today, curcumin supplements are "One of the Top 10 Best-Selling Supplements in the U.S.," according to Nutrition Business Journal. Many medical practitioners consider it to be the most effective ... affordable ... all-natural immune ...
Single Diet Modification May Improve Metabolic Syndrome
Post Date: 2015-02-18 05:27:02 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape A diet that focuses solely on increasing fiber intake works about as well as a more complex American Heart Association (AHA)-compliant diet for promoting weight loss and improving risk profile among patients with metabolic syndrome, suggests a randomized trial reported in the February 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. "Although the primary goal of our study (for the high-fiber diet group to achieve superior weight loss) was not met, we found that a single component dietary intervention can achieve clinically meaningful weight loss similar to that of the multicomponent AHA diet," the investigators write. "We were also encouraged by the improvements in ...
The Controversy Surrounding Vaccines, GMOs and Big Pharma
Post Date: 2015-02-17 16:41:17 by BTP Holdings
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BOUGHT...Is Your Family's Health Being Traded For Profit? New BOUGHT Documentary Exposes Ugly Truth Behind Vaccines, GMO's and Big Pharma... Poster Comment:CLICK ON THE SOURCE LINK TO VIEW VIDEO.
New therapy dramatically benefits stroke patients
Post Date: 2015-02-16 04:05:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Canadian researchers have completed an international randomized controlled trial showing that a clot retrieval procedure, known as endovascular treatment (ET), can dramatically improve patient outcomes after an acute ischemic stroke. The study, led by researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), shows a dramatic improvement in outcomes and a reduction in deaths from stroke. The results of this study were published in the Feb. 11 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Overall, positive outcomes for patients increased from 30 per cent to 55 per cent. In many cases, instead of suffering major neurological disability, ...
Measles fear mongering by mainstream media reaches absurd level
Post Date: 2015-02-15 13:44:06 by James Deffenbach
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(NaturalNews) The corporate media machine is really showing its true (malevolent) colors with this latest measles outbreak delirium, openly announcing to the world that it hates personal freedom and individual choice, and would like for nothing more than federal and state governments to start rounding up and punishing those who choose not to vaccinate as if they're terrorists. Headlines and op-ed rants are replete with calls for "anti-vaxxers" to be prosecuted, thrown in prison, have their children taken away, and other such draconian tripe meant to rile up anger and hatred towards dissenters of the official vaccine narrative. The following quotes pulled from mainstream ...
What do telomeres have to do with blood flow?
Post Date: 2015-02-15 06:57:36 by Tatarewicz
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The first thing that probably pops into your head when you think of poor red blood cell production is anemia. And, yes, it's true. People with anemia have a low red blood cell count, or RBC. Many of these folks are low on iron, so it's pretty easy to fix the problem. But there's another cause of low RBC you likely haven't heard about. And it can create a pretty vicious cycle that could cause you to age prematurely. At the same time, it also increases your chances of heart attack, stroke, dementia and more. Now, I've talked about telomeres before. These are the protective DNA caps on the end of your chromosomes that shorten each time your cells divide. The shorter ...
Over-the-counter drug may work well for arthritis
Post Date: 2015-02-15 05:07:54 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... (Reuters Health) – Three daily doses of glucosamine and chondroitin may provide the same relief as a smaller dose of prescription celecoxib for people with severe pain from osteoarthritis, according to a randomized trial in four European countries. In the U.S., glucosamine and chondroitin are available as over-the-counter supplements so their formulations are not regulated like the prescription European version. “The Europeans have an advantage on us in this regard as glucosamine, chondroitin and the combination are all available as medications,” said Dr. Allen Sawitzke of the Rheumatology Division at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, a coauthor of the new ...
How reading a little each week is a form of life support
Post Date: 2015-02-15 03:51:04 by Tatarewicz
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One in three adults in the UK – or 16 million people – rarely or never read for pleasure. A new survey of 4,164 adults, including both those who read and those who don’t, found that adults who read for just 20 minutes a week are 20 percent more likely to feel satisfied with their lives. Our research was not focused on people who are unable to read as a result of literacy difficulties or other impairments. We looked instead at people who can read – and often have been regular readers in the past – but who have lost the reading habit, often through a significant life-event, such as having children or falling ill. Two fifths of respondents for the survey, which I ...
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