Health Supreme NewsGrabs - 9 October 2006
Health Supreme's News Grabs - alternative health news and other interesting bytes of information ...
In this issue:
Turmeric helps immune system, UK selenium intake declining, US folic acid intake still deficient after fortification, promising new flu treatment, HIV=Aids exposed as false, rice farmers angry over GM contamination, GM field trials halted in India, what's in prescription drugs, Rath International magazine, national depression screening day, Martin Walker's book on hormone replacement, hospitals say no to pharma gifts, report statin adverse effects, project censored - top 25 underreported news stories.
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Study Finds Chemical in Curry May Help Clear Plaques
... curcumin - a chemical found in curry and turmeric - may help the immune system clear the brain of amyloid beta, which form the plaques found in Alzheimer's disease. Published in the Oct. 9 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, the early laboratory findings may lead to a new approach in treating Alzheimer's disease by enhancing the natural function of the immune system using curcumin, known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties.
New trading patterns blamed for selenium intake decline
... average intake of selenium in the UK has fallen from 60 to 34 micrograms per day. The European recommended daily intake (RDI) is 65 micrograms ... geographical studies ... have shown a consistent trend for populations with low selenium intakes to have higher cancer mortality rates. And a study carried out in France ... which followed a group of 1,389 elderly volunteers to for a period of nine years, found that those with low selenium diets were considerably more likely to die from cancer than those with high selenium diets.
Still not enough folate despite fortification
Folate intake in the US has not met the FDA’s targets following the mandated fortification of enriched grain products with the B vitamin that began in 1998, according to a recent study. The study assessed that none of the subgroups met the FDA's goal of bringing 50 percent of women up to the daily-recommended intake levels. Despite significant improvements and widespread fortification, only 39 percent of white women, 26 percent of black women, and 28 percent of Mexican American women attained the 400 microgram per day target for folate consumption.
Treatment 'to neutralise all flu'
Scientists say they are developing an entirely new way of providing instant protection against flu. University of Warwick researchers used a flu virus naturally stripped of some genetic material to compete with other invading flu viruses. This slowed the rate of infection so much the body could fight it off.
HIV = AIDS: Fact or Fraud?
DVD - feature-length expose explains exactly how the 300-Billion-dollar AID$ fraud began, why HIV can not be the cause of AIDS, what the real causes could be, and who manipulates the public's good intentions while poisoning hundreds of thousands with toxic drugs that cause the very disease they are supposed to prevent.
Rice Industry: Keep Genetically Engineered Varieties in the Lab
Amid the lawsuits and rejected shipments, the rice industry must now decide whether to belatedly follow the coffee growers’ example. They can tell the government and five multinational GM crop companies, “No more GM rice trials!” Or they can continue to risk costly episodes of contamination.
India Halts Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Crops
An exciting development has taken place in India, where the Supreme Court has ordered the Genetic Engineering Approvals Council (GEAC) to stop all further approvals of GM field trials until further notice.This follows a challenge by citizens to the proposed field trials of Bt
Brinjal (also known as aubergine or eggplant). Although the court has not yet ruled for the GEAC to stop the Bt Brinjal trials, or the Bt cotton which is already grown commercially, they did order a stay on further applications for GM trials.
Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs!
... a campaign to get one million people to go to their healthcare providers and ask, "What am I really putting into my body? What are the side effects? What are the alternatives?" The effort is called Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs and is driven by increasing evidence that many people are uninformed about the potential side effects of their prescribed medication and are not aware of less-risky alternatives. The advocates are declaring October "Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs Month" and have scheduled a conference in Washington D.C. on October 7th to officially launch the campaign.
The new issues of Rath International and the UK 'Focus on Health' supplement are now available online
Analysis: Stop AIDS and free Africa!
South Africa: Impressions from Khayelitsha
Feature Article: Natural Health Research bursts the Bird Flu Bubble
Reports: Reports from our international correspondents
Background: A Modern Major General Exposed?
Research: Your key to health and a powerful tool to win "Health for All by 2020"
Feature Article: CODEX – Major threat to world health
Research: Micronutrients Help Control AIDS
Science: What is a Vitamin?
People: "Back on track" Portrait of Martin Waldoch
Demise of the Pharma Cartell: The Continuing Story of the Fast-Failing "Business with Disease"...
Science: The Truth about Statins
Drug Makers Sponsor 'National Depression Screening Day'
Eli Lilly, maker of the antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta, is the major sponsor, with Forest Laboratories (antidepressants Lexapro and Celexa), GlaxoSmithKline (antidepressants Wellubtrin and Paxil), Pfizer (antidepressant Zoloft), and Wyeth Pharmceuticals (antidepressant Effexor) providing additional support.
Martin J Walker's "HRT - Licensed to Kill and Maim"
In a society obsessed with security, there is no longer any possibility of a real debate on a subject such as iatrogenic death. When society is on a war footing, internal criticism diminishes to a smoking wick. Lights no longer burn for individual liberty, whether for those accused of terrorism or those damaged by powerful industrial interests. Perhaps even more important than this, in some perverse way, pharmaceutical companies take their marketing battles forward with the soldiers.
Medical 'reps' ban begins
NEW STANFORD PLAN SAYS 'NO' TO INDUSTRY GIFTS, GRATUITIES
"We need to be aboveboard," said Dr. Lawrence Shuer, chief of staff at Stanford Medical Hospital and Clinics. As a teaching hospital, "we have the ability to influence the future physicians of America."It is part of a growing conflict-of-interest crackdown by medical centers to protect patient safety, the integrity of research data and training programs, and the reputations of their doctors. Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania have taken similar steps.
Well well, a step in the right direction...
Patients Can Report Statins' Adverse Effects On New Web Site
A new web site at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine - http://www.statineffects.com - will enable people from around the world to self-report adverse effects of statin drug use, or use of other cholesterol drugs. The site will provide access to a broad group of people, facilitating the opportunity for patients to confidentially share information about their experience.
Sewage threatens marine life, says UN
Also: Marine Scientists Report Massive "Dead Zones"
Rising tides of untreated sewage and plastic debris are seriously threatening marine life and habitat around the globe, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned in a report Wednesday. The number of ocean "dead zones" has grown from 150 in 2004 to about 200 today, said Nick Nuttall, a UNEP spokesperson.
Project Censored: Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007
These are the stories the mainstream media should have reported on but didn't. Project Censored which resides at Sonoma State University lists the 25 most important stories that were censored in the media, every year. Here is the newest bunch. More details on their site.
1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo
6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
15 Chemical Industry is EPA's Primary Research Partner
16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
24 Cheney's Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Monday October 9 2006
updated on Thursday December 16 2010URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/10/09/health_supreme_newsgrabs_9_october_2006.htm