The purpose of psychosis - NewsGrabs Wednesday, 16 September 2009
I have just returned to Rome from Bologna, which is further to the north of Italy. A health foods and healthy living fair - SANA - was held there for four days, finishing Sunday. It was amazing to see how many people are realizing that their health is really in their own hands and that they had better inform themselves or lose out. The looming swine flu vaccine campaign was a major issue on many people's mind, and the general sentiment seems to be that the health authorities cannot be trusted to do the right thing. It appears ever more clear that, when vaccinations will be offered or worse imposed, people are ready to stay away in droves.There is more information on the swine flu, including an interesting video by the former chief Medical Officer of Finland, further down towards the end of these newsgrabs.
The purpose of psychosis
The way in which our society treats people who experience the symptoms of schizophrenia is sickening, horrible. We immediately pump them full of powerful antipsychotic drugs. The drugs get in the way of the healing process in which the psyche is engaged and turn people into zombies and chronic mental patients.What we should do is provide such people with a safe place in which they can live without any pressure to “get better”, “stop saying those things” or “straighten up”. A place in which the staff will just be with them as they go through the healing process in which they are engaged. A staff that will help them go through the experience, make some sense out of it, ultimately learn from it and come out the other side healthier, more balanced and more whole than when it started.
France approves Stevia sweeteners
The French government has approved the use of Stevia sweeteners with 97 per cent purity rebaudioside A (Reb A), officially opening up the first EU market for products containing the much-anticipated ingredient. While full EU approval for Stevia sweeteners is still dependent on a scientific opinion from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), France has taken advantage of a window that allows individual member states to approve ingredients for a limited two year period.Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) is widely grown in tropical South America and Central America for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener and sugar substitute, Stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, and the leaves are 250-300 times sweeter than sucrose. It is a natural, healthier alternative to sugar and is favoured by many over artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.
New techniques slow progress of age-related vision loss
...studies have shown that supplements and a healthy diet can slow the progression of dry macular degeneration. A recent National Eye Institute study found that certain nutrients such as beta carotene (vitamin A) and vitamins C and E may reduce the risk of progression of early-stage AMD by 25 percent.Other research has shown that B6, B12 and folic acid may help prevent age-related macular degeneration. In a study of more than 5,000 women, researchers noted those who took a combination of B6 and B12 vitamins along with a folic acid supplement had a 34 percent lower risk of developing AMD then those taking a placebo.
Frankenfoods - A plate full of toxins
(link from stephentvedten.blogspot.com - blog censored by Blogger. Check out his other site at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ )
The false claim of higher food production has been dislodged by a recent study by Dr Doug Gurian Sherman, a former biotech specialist for the US Environmental Protection Agency and former adviser on GM to the US Food and Drug Administration, titled "Failure to Yield". Sherman states, "Let us be clear. There are no commercialised GM crops that inherently increase yield. Similarly, there are no GM crops in the market that were engineered to resist drought, reduce fertiliser pollution or save soil. Not one".
European Court Ruling spells an end to water fluoridation
Fluoridated water must be treated as a medicine, and cannot be used to prepare foods. That is the decision of the European Court of Justice, in a landmark case dealing with the classification and regulation of 'functional drinks' in member states of the European Community.The Court ruled that, where two different sets of rules appear to apply to a product, medicinal legislation must take precedence, and the product must be regulated as a medicine. It emphasised that medicines regulators in member states do not have the power to exercise discretion on the classification of such dual-function products.
UK government's 'National Fluoride Information Centre' is a sham
The 'National Fluoride Information Centre' was set up by the British Government in 2004. It was enthusiastically promoted as a reputable 'academically independent centre', and every effort was made to raise its public profile as a new and reliable Centre of Excellence, to persuade the public and the Health Sector that it would become an authoritative official source of information on fluoride.Five years on, we have the evidence of what we have long suspected - that this 'National Centre' is a sham. It has no full-time staff, and no office. There is no manned Help Line. Instead, it's a tiny locked room in an almost empty building, abandoned as unfit for modern science two years ago.
'Silver' Fillings Still Prompt Dental Debate
There is no question that mercury, a heavy metal, is toxic in large doses. It can cause memory impairment; itching; burning; pain; tissue swelling; loss of hair, teeth and nails; kidney dysfunction; and psychiatric problems.Silver fillings are known to dentists as amalgam, and are made up of a mixture of elemental mercury, which is liquid at room temperature, and a powdered alloy of silver, tin and copper.
Will Nutrasweet Be Banned For Causing Cancer?
The Huffington Post is reporting that new FDA chief Dr. Margaret Hamburg is expected to ban the use of aspartame, the substance in Nutrasweet...
Mutant Protein in Milk?
The protein, called A1 beta-casein, is well known in the scientific community. While most dairy companies, trade groups and government agencies consider it harmless, a growing body of research implicates A1 beta-casein in diabetes, heart disease, autism and schizophrenia.
Money-Driven Medicine: "Medical-Industrial Complex"
The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, fully one-sixth of our GDP - yet our outcomes, especially for chronic diseases, are very often worse. What makes us different? The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that has chosen to turn medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit business.The U.S. example shows the extreme end of the scale, but pretty much every industrialized country is infected with the type of thought that makes medicine into a business instead of a compassionate endeavor to help people overcome illness and above all - to stay healthy.And ... there is resistance to reform - any change has the potential to endanger the billion-dollar business that is the current health care, or rather disease care, system.
Ghostwriting: The Dirty Little Secret of Medical Publishing
While readers expect and assume that the named academic authors on a paper carried out the piece of work and then wrote up their article or review informed by their professional qualifications and expertise, instead we see a prime example of “ghostwriting”: a writing company was commissioned to produce a manuscript on a piece of research to fit the drug company's needs and then a person was identified to be the “author”:
Casting out devils: How salmonella kills tumors
Salmonella are regarded as bad guys. Hardly a summer passes without severe salmonella infections via raw egg dishes or chicken that find their way into the media. But salmonella not only harm us -- in the future they may even help to defend us against cancer. The bacteria migrates into solid tumors, and makes it easier to destroy them.
Why Current Thinking About Autism Is Completely Wrong
Dramatic scientific discoveries have taken place during the last 10 to 20 years that reveal the true causes of autism -- and turn conventional thinking on its head. For example, Martha Herbert, MD, a pediatric neurologist from Harvard Medical School has painted a picture of autism that shows how core abnormalities in body systems like immunity, gut function, and detoxification play a central role in causing the behavioral and mood symptoms of autism.
AIDS: House of Numbers is quietly explosive
Remarkable movie shows how AIDS story falls apart under questioningAs the scientists quarrel on camera about which combination of tests might be definitive, it emerges that all tests, even PCR tests, have package disclaimers saying that in themselves they confirm nothing about the HIV status of the individual. Meanwhile, test interpretation varies by country, and by the information you have given the tester (are you gay? are you poor?). Rapid tests, used widely now in South Africa, are unreliable and prove nothing, it turns out, though Brent takes one on camera. Many Africans are still judged to be AIDS victims without any testing at all (the Bangui definition is still widely used, he discovers, for symptoms as simple as diarrhea and fever, no testing required).
'Tamiflu turned my children into hallucinating, sobbing wrecks'
So what happened when we defied government advice and eschewed Tamiflu in favour of Calpol and cuddles? Within 24hours both of our children were completely recovered, save for those runny noses.Yet the sobering fact is that today alone, the NHS will hand out Tamiflu to thousands of vulnerable little children who will go through needless suffering as a result of scaremongering about an illness which is no more dangerous than seasonal flu.
Of course, there is always the chance that your child will not suffer side effects, and the drug could reduce the length of the illness by a day - though even the Government now admits Tamiflu does virtually nothing to relieve symptoms.
Video: The Swine Flu Scandal
(video removed from YouTube)
Dr Rauni Kilde, retired chief medical officer of Finland on the Swine Flu Conspiracy
Bird-Swine Flu Vaccine: Voluntary or Mandatory?
We decided to look into the issue and we found that while many of the scare stories circulating seem to have little in the way of foundation, it is indeed the case that on paper this novel, fast-tracked and virtually untested vaccine is mandatory in the UK and the rest of the European Union, the United states, Canada, Australia and many other countries...
Swine Flu: There are natural remedies - The US Government ignores them
Multiple studies have shown a possible link between vitamin D deficiency and influenza. During the winter cold and flu season, the sun is weaker and we get less or no vitamin D from exposure to solar rays. Having more Vitamin D has also been shown to reduce the incidence of upper respiratory infections.
Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu
(link from stephentvedten.blogspot.com - blog censored by Blogger. Check out his other site at http://www.stephentvedten.com/ )
This virus continues to be an enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of Nature, a virologist was quoted as saying, “Where the hell it got all these genes from we don’t know.” Extensive analysis of the virus found that it contained the original 1918 H1N1 flu virus, the avian flu virus (bird flu), and two new H3N2 virus genes from Eurasia. Debate continues over the possibility that swine flu is a genetically engineered virus.
Next Marketing Frontier: Gardasil for Boys
Almost immediately after the Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously endorsed the HPV vaccine for girls aged 11 and older. The result: Over 23 million doses of the $300-a-shot HPV vaccine (a course of three is required for the best immunity) were administered in its first three years on the market. Worldwide sales for Merck soared to more than $1.4 billion in both 2007 and 2008, more than half outside the U.S.However, Merck's sales have slowed sharply this year as penetration of the most lucrative market -- well-insured and well-off young girls in the advanced industrial countries -- reached saturation. Over 25 percent of 13-to-17-year-old girls in the U.S. have now been vaccinated. So from Merck's perspective, it makes sense to move on to the next marketing frontier: teenage boys.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday September 16 2009
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2009/09/16/the_purpose_of_psychosis_newsgrabs_wednesday_16_september_2009.htm