Health Supreme Daily NewsGrabs - 31 July 2006
Daily NewsGrabs, the alternative health news, continue on schedule. Here is the fourth installment of the links I find interesting and want to share with you, the readers of my site...
Almost didn't make it today, as I was exploring an enchanted lake on the wonderful island of Terceira - called "a lagoinha" and then came back to intermittent trouble with the internet connection...
Cuba: The Accidental Revolution are two one-hour documentaries celebrating the country's success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how it's latest revolutions, an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine are having repercussions around the world.
Part 1 examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. Without fertilizer and pesticides, Cubans turned to organic methods. Without fuel and machinery parts, Cubans turned to oxen. Without fuel to transport food, Cubans started to grow food in the cities where it is consumed. Urban gardens were established in vacant lots, school playgrounds, patios and back yards. As a result Cuba created the largest program in sustainable agriculture ever undertaken. By 1999 Cuba's agricultural production had recovered and in some cases reached historic levels.In Part 2 we learn that the country has been blockaded since 1961, but today Cuba has the highest quality of life in the region, the highest life expectancy, and one of the highest literacy rates in all of Latin America. With the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba lost the foreign exchange needed to pay for expensive drugs and medicines. As a result, much of Cuba's medicine today is based on medicinal plants. These are grown on farms, processed in small labs and made available to patients through an extensive network of medical clinics. Today Cuba's advances in alternative medicine could have important consequences for other countries around the world.
Are Microwaves a/the major Causal Factor in CFS/ME?
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), as it is called in England, has been condescendingly called an imaginary illness (as in: "it's all in your head") requiring psychiatric medication and psychological counseling. It has been linked to chemical pollution and mitochondrial malfunction and, according to this list of indications compiled by an activist known as Art Kab, may be triggered by microwaves - the waves carrying communications bits in mobile phones.Cardiovascular, Psychiatric Warnings Strengthened on Adderall
The FDA is "strengthening warnings" on Adderall, the drug the Canadians already suspended. More foot-dragging from the world's most eminent protector of our health.
FDA Betrays Consumers RE: Toxic Aspartame, Splenda
Betty Martini says the FDA's recent announcement that Aspartame, the controversial artificial sweetener is safe, is a betrayal of public trust. Indeed, before the override of FDA's scientific rejection engineered by Donald Rumsfeld, the FDA's own scientists sang a different tune. They said the sweetener can't be approved because it causes cancer and other illness.China blasts Security Council silence over UN deaths in Lebanon
Security Council deadlocked over the Israeli attack that led to the deaths of four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. The United States blocked any attempt to condemn the attack or criticise Israel, diplomats said. Clearly the veto powers of a few nations can block vital UN action when it is most needed.Israel’s Criminal Accomplice
There never was any doubt of the Bush Regime’s complicity in Israel’s naked aggression against the Lebanese civilian population. Bush has protected Israel from world condemnation. Bush has blocked those who attempted to bring a stop to Israel’s bombing of residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure, and now Bush rushes more bombs for Israel to drop on Lebanon.The military phase of World War III has started!
Dr Rath says that the long-term goal of the Bush administration is to establish a global dictatorship on behalf of the drug and oil cartel...- - -
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Monday July 31 2006
updated on Saturday February 22 2014URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/07/31/health_supreme_daily_newsgrabs_31_july_2006.htm
