Health Supreme NewsGrabs - 16 January 2007
Sepp Hasslberger's News Grabs - a selection of alternative health news and related bits of interesting information ...
In this issue:
Money and banking system promotes warfare -
How will EU deal with foods that heal? -
Higher folate levels reduce Alzheimer's risk -
Clinical trial for IV vitamin C as cancer treatment -
Genocide charge for toxic Aids drug promoters -
Diet soda likely to cause weight gain -
Indonesia and South Africa consider banning aspartame -
Statin drugs linked to increased Parkinson's risk -
Psychiatrists promote 'legal' drug culture -
UK: Mental health drugs overused -
Teen Screen a psychiatric drug sales scheme? -
Coercion As Cure: A Critical History Of Psychiatry -
Uranium 'killing Italian troops' -
Chemtrails: Clouds of Death (video) -
Genetic modification and seed monopolies: The Future of Food (video) -
GM grapes contain synthetic toxins -- - -
Our Money & Banking system causes warfare
But an even bigger question is control over where the money goes – what gets funded and what doesn't - misdirecting humanity into warfare, death and destruction. Who is doing this? We get a clear view from time to time of the secular and religious gangs involved… HOW and WHY does a private money system lead to warfare?
Food or Medicine - How will the EU deal with foods that heal?
This article by Robert Verkerk, Executive Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, describes how European legislation deals with food supplements and healthy foods that prevent illness and asks what place these foods will have in a world where medicine is king:
"It is utterly inappropriate, surely, to promote regulations which set hurdles that cannot be overcome by responsible smaller businesses and unpatented natural products. Let’s not forget the Hippocratic Oath, and the need to develop healthcare solutions which minimise risk to the population. Let’s not either ignore the foods and nutrients that heal."
Higher folate levels linked to reduced risk for Alzheimer's disease
Individuals who take in higher levels of the nutrient folate through both diet and supplements may have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Federal approval of a clinical trial on intravenous vitamin C as a cancer treatment lends credence to alternative cancer care, U.S. researchers said.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America said it won Food and Drug Administration approval to begin the trial, a move the Illinois-based hospital group said adds credibility to its research into alternative methods for cancer medical care, the Chicago Tribune said Thursday. The first phase will be to determine the optimal dose for the patients and to learn whether the treatment is safe and can be tolerated, Lis said.
Achmat, TAC charged with genocide for pushing harmful AIDS drugs
In his 59-page criminal complaint filed at the international human rights court at The Hague, Brink accuses Achmat of promoting the provision and use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to treat HIV, knowing that they are highly toxic and damaging to thousands of South Africans.ARVs including NNRTI (non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors) and NRTI (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors) have been proven to cause severe immune deficiency. Pneumonia, digestive complications, anemia, neutropenia, vulnerability to infections, and cardiac arrest have all been attributed to drugs in this class such as AZT, Combivir, Atanivir, Abacavir, and Retrovir.
Can Diet Soda Make You Gain Weight?
Epidemiologist Sharon Fowler, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, presented research data on soda consumption to the American Diabetes Association. "What we saw was that the more diet sodas a person drinks, the more weight they were likely to gain," she says.
Indonesia and South Africa considering Banning Neurotoxic Sweetener Aspartame
(indymedia - link no longer active)
Aspartame was forced through the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1981 by G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical corporation that owned the patent. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, made FDA Commissioner in exchange for his cooperation, and Samuel Knox Skinner, the attorney hired by the FDA to prosecute Searle for fraud, who then hired on with Searle's public relations firm at $1000 a day: these also assisted in forcing the approval for Aspartame.
New study to test Statin-Parkinson's link
Suggestions of a statin link are not new, but the results of a recent study linking low LDL cholesterol to Parkinson's provide the strongest evidence to date that it could be real, because statins work by reducing LDL cholesterol. The study by researchers at University of North Carolina showed that patients with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more than three and a half times more likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those with higher LDL levels.
Legal Drug Culture: My Adventures in Psychopharmacology
Between the ages of 16 and 21, I was prescribed more than fifteen different stimulants, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. The cure was worse than the disease.
This article gives an excellent idea of the drug culture psychiatrists are stimulating in schools - ostensibly to treat "inattention" or similar quite normal types of behavior in kids and adolescents. AHRP has an article with links to several related videos.
Mental health drugs overused
In research undertaken by the Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health, 36% of people were found to have been prescribed more than the maximum recommended dose of anti-psychotic medicines. Mental health charity Rethink called for an end to the over-prescription of mental health medicines.
Do Legalized Drug Pushers Influence TeenScreen?
TeenScreen, an invention of psychiatrist David Shaffer, is a screening program which uses questionnaires on children as young as nine, asking questions like, "Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in front of people?" and "Are you Hispanic or Latino?" Based on their answers, TeenScreen routes these kids to mental health "professionals", who inevitably decide that these children have symptoms defined as "mental disorders", justifying prescriptions for antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs for many of these children. TeenScreen's staff and advisory board are loaded with ties to Big Pharma.
Coercion As Cure: A Critical History Of Psychiatry
by Thomas Szasz
The history of psychiatry I present thus resembles, say, a critical history of missionary Christianity. The heathen savage does not suffer from lack of insight into the divinity of Jesus, does not lack theological help, and does not seek the services of missionaries. Just so, the psychotic does not suffer from lack of insight into being mentally ill, does not lack psychiatric treatment, and does not seek the services of psychiatrists. This is why the missionary tends to have contempt for the heathen, why the psychiatrist tends to have contempt for the psychotic, and why both conceal their true sentiments behind a facade of caring and compassion.
Uranium 'killing Italian troops'
Troops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions. The US says it fired around 40,000 depleted uranium rounds during the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts.The Italians who served in Bosnia and Kosovo were involved in the clear-up of battlefields and came into close contact with exploded ammunition.
Chemtrails: Clouds of Death
(no longer available on YouTube)
Video putting together some of the evidence for the ongoing daily chemical spraying program that is shrouded in mystery and denial. The video offers an opinion why - but you should make up your own mind and perhaps, if you have not done so, start observing the phenomenon. Go out and look at the clouds for a start.
The video mentions a cloudbuster as a means to punch holes into the chemical soup - something for the more enterprising spirits to try out.
The Future of Food
This is an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. It examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system.
Genetically modified grapevines - synthetic toxins in your wine?
The modification of grapevines has gone beyond the humdrum of Bt and herbicide tolerance of most GM food crops. The new emphasis is on synthetic genes and proteins, and virus resistance using coat protein gene modifications. The introduction of a cyanogenic toxin into grapevine may be a sign that genetic engineers are growing ever more daring in the recognition that regulators are standing with them against the public. Clearly these new developments are crying out for GM labelling at the very least, and a clean sweep of the regulatory regimes would not come amiss.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Tuesday January 16 2007
updated on Thursday December 23 2010URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/01/16/health_supreme_newsgrabs_16_january_2007.htm