Polish minister says: Ban GM across Europe - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 1 October 2011
Polish minister calls for Europe-wide ban on GM crops
“We are now proposing to completely prohibit not only the cultivation of GM plants, but also imports of feed and food that is genetically modified,” Minister Marek Sawicki told TVP public television.
“And not just in Poland,” he added.
Minister Sawicki says that the EU should ban GM across the 27-nation bloc.
“Here indeed is a task for the Minister of the Environment, to introduce such an initiative under the umbrella of the Polish Presidency [of the EU Council], and we will support him.”
Study: Organic Farming Outperformed Conventional Farming in Every MeasureThe results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania's Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every measure.
I drank raw milk and lived. Is Raw Milk Safe? Healthy?Pasteurizing milk destroys beneficial bacteria along with the bad ones and destroys enzymes essential for nutrient absorption. Pasteurizing milk destroys all its phosphatase; this is essential for the absorption of calcium, and calcium works with Vitamin D, not only available through sunshine but is an essential nutrient in raw cream. Nature packaged a superb design for human sustenance in milk as it comes from the cow with all original essential nutrients — so long as it is not pasteurized. Heating any raw food destroys the active enzymes, so lipase (an enzyme unique to milk and needed to complete digestion of fats) is blasted along with many other essential nutrients that pasteurization destroys.
More 11 million acres of U.S. farmland is infested with 'super weeds' resistant to popular herbicide Roundup.
The weeds, some of which grow by three inches a day and can damage farm equipment, have become immune to the Monsanto produced killer.
Scientists are warning that if the rate of 'infection' continues, food prices will rise as farmland becomes swamped with the weeds.
Take That, Monsanto: GMOs Not SustainableThe UNEP report, prepared in partnership with the International Water Management Institute, identifies three things that must change: how we view our ecosystem assets, how we manage water resources in river basins and how we approach food production. They list the steps to take to shift intensive-farming practices to an integrated approach that can ensure both food security and a sustainable ecosystem.
An Ecosystems Services Approach to Water and Food Security
Video: Taking Root - The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy...This is a trailer for the whole video, which can be found at http://takingrootfilm.com/
"It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change. And we cannot be intimidated. So we must stand up for what we believe in."
Wangari MaathaiAlong came this woman who said -- you need firewood? Grow trees! She 'conquered' -- or rather she "sustained" -- and passed away yesterday leaving behind a legacy of over 35 million trees.. "It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
Amino acid supplement may improve recovery from spinal cord injuriesUK scientists have discovered that in experimental models, severe spinal cord injury can be treated effectively by administering the supplement acetyl-L-carnitine or ALC, a derivative of an essential amino acid that can generate metabolic energy, soon after injury.
The researchers previously reported that following spinal cord injury, the mitochondria, or energy-generation components of cells, are overwhelmed by chemical stresses and lose the ability to produce energy in the form of the compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This leads to cell death at the injury site and, ultimately, paralysis of the body below the injury level.
Rabchevsky, Sullivan and Patel have recently demonstrated that ALC can preserve the vitality of mitochondria by acting as an alternative biofuel providing energy to cells, thus bypassing damaged mitochondrial enzymes and promoting neuroprotection.
Red wine ingredient resveratrol stops breast cancer growthA new research report appearing in the October 2011 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that resveratrol, the "healthy" ingredient in red wine, stops breast cancer cells from growing by blocking the growth effects of estrogen. This discovery, made by a team of American and Italian scientists, suggests for the first time that resveratrol is able to counteract the malignant progression since it inhibits the proliferation of hormone resistant breast cancer cells. This has important implications for the treatment of women with breast cancer whose tumors eventually develop resistance to hormonal therapy.
Steroids linked to severe vitamin D deficiencyPeople taking oral steroids are twice as likely as the general population to have severe vitamin D deficiency, according to a study of more than 31,000 children and adults by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings, in the September 28 online edition of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggest that physicians should more diligently monitor vitamin D levels in patients being treated with oral steroids.
Video: Natural Cure for Depression, Bipolar, ADHD, Schizophrenia..
Interview with Abram Hoffer, M.D.
This alternative therapy employs vitamins, minerals, and amino acids to create optimum nutritional content for the body, as well as the right environment and equilibrium. Like most alternative medicine techniques, orthomolecular medicine targets a wide range of conditions. [depression, bipolar, adhd, schizophrenia, add, addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction...]
Book: Victory Over Cancer - Making the Unthinkable PossibleFor almost a century, this disease has been the target of an investment business – the pharmaceutical industry – that has turned this epidemic into a multi-billion dollar business.
The outcome was predictable: Today, at the beginning of the 21st Century, cancer is spreading globally; for most types of cancer the annual death rate still increases, and the skyrocketing costs are financially ruining millions of cancer patients and strangulating the economies of entire nations.
With the publication of this book the ‘Age of intoxication’ by chemotherapy and radiation is being replaced by the ‘Age of cellular regulation’...
Texas: City of 100,000 puts an end to water fluoridationA city of roughly 100,000 people and home of Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex., is definitely no backwoods town. And now that city officials have decided to axe fluoride from the water supply, people everywhere are taking notice.
College Station joins a host of other towns and cities across the US that are ending the practice as well, including Spring Hill, Tenn., Pottstown, Penn., and potentially even New York City.
With momentum building, now is the time for concerned citizens everywhere who live in fluoridated communities to bombard their city officials with information about the dangers of fluoride, and about why removing it is in the best interests of public health...
Fluoride: Americans reject fluoridated drinking waterThis is a petition on the US government's White House website to ... prohibit all federal agencies from promoting, endorsing, or funding fluoridation of the public drinking water.
If you agree this is a good thing and are American, go and sign it, and perhaps tell your friends.
Diclofenac Deaths May Dwarf Vioxx Disaster: Health Agencies Helped It HappenThe world was shocked by the number of deaths caused Vioxx, but that number may be dwarfed by another NSAID, diclofenac. Vioxx was sold only by prescription. Diclofenac is sold both by prescription and over the counter.
The increased risk of heart attack from taking Vioxx is 45%, and the increased risk from diclofenac is 40%. Though the risk from diclofenac is slightly lower, over the counter sales have driven the number of doses taken enormously.
Diclofenac is sold under many (more than ninety) different Trade Names. Voltaren is, I believe, the local name here in Italy. Another drug to get rid of if you find it in your medicine cabinet ... unless, of course, you don't care about having a heart attack.Asbestos kills over 100,000 people every year and is practically banned in Canada, but Quebec Premier Charest continues to finance its extraction and export to countries like India -- poisoning the world's most vulnerable citizens. The cancer corporations who own these mines have run out of funds and banks wont lend to them without the backing of Quebec's government. Charest is on the verge of agreeing to help out, but our public money shouldn't be on the hook for a poisonous mine. By shining a light on this dirty deal, we can force Charest to back off the loan guarantee and close the asbestos mine for good.
Let's make sure cancer-causing asbestos is not a national export. Join in the call to end public finance of this poisonous mine. When we reach 50,000 signers we will deliver the petition directly to Charest. Sign below...
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday October 2 2011
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