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NYT: CDC Makes Horrible Ebola Lab Error#iBelieve#retweet#vaccines
by sattkisson
The New York Times reports that Centers for Disease Control (CDC) experts have made a crucial error resulting in possibly exposing a technician to the deadly Ebola virus. The mistake highlights the point of the article (printed below) first published several months ago that disputed the notion of some experts who claimed there was “zero risk” to people in the U.S. from Ebola virus since top, highly-trained health experts in the U.S. were on the job. There is a history of occasional but serious mishaps by CDC experts who handle deadly infectious diseases.
According to the New York Times:
A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on Wednesday. The technician will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days, the incubation period of the disease. A small number of other employees, fewer than a dozen, who entered a lab where the mistake occurred will also be assessed for exposure.
The Times reports the mistake happened earlier this week when a high-security lab at CDC in Atlanta, working with Ebola from West Africa, sent samples to a CDC lab down the hall. The samples were supposed to be inactivated. But the lab sent out the wrong samples: ones that may have contained live virus. A technician worked with the samples wearing only gloves and a gown but no mask…
10 Reasons to Never Ever Drink Soy Milk#iBelieve#ASD#Pregnancy
There’s never an excuse soy milk
Some lactose-intolerant folks drink it because they want a milk substitute. Some health-conscious people drink it because they think it is the “heart-healthy low fat option.” And some vegans drink it because they don’t want to drink cow milk.
But no matter what reason you have for drinking soy milk, it is not a valid excuse. Soy milk is not a food and has no place in anyone’s diet.
Soymilk Ingredients
Ironically, almost every ingredient in soymilk is cause for serious concern. Here are the ingredients in Silk Soymilk…
You know there is something about a product that professes to be healthy, and then when broken down is anything, but healthy. I can have respect for some good chips or a chocolate dessert, there’s no facade there, but don’t present as healthy, especially with a steep price tag attached.
I was reintroduced to raw milk, and am loving it. I am lactose-intolerant, and the natural enzymes that are still present, being the milk has not been pasteurized, make for easy digestion. The real cream that surfaces to the top is quite nice, when making homemade ice cream.
Gut bacteria may play a role in eating disorders#iBelieve#Health#Eatingdisorder
Eating disorders affect an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the population and are generally thought to be a psychological disorder. However, new research from France shows gut bacteria can also play a role in causing eating disorders. The study showed eating disorders developed in mice who had an immune reaction to a protein made by gut bacteria. Basically they reacted to these proteins as if they had an allergy or sensitivity to them. The protein made by the gut bacteria is very similar in structure to a satiety hormone called alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (a-MSH). When the immune system reacts to the protein it reacts to the a-MSH too because they are so similar. This reaction causes the immune system to attack a-MSH, which regulates feeding, energy usage, and anxiety.
Mistaken identity and friendly fire by the immune system
When a pathogen, such as infectious bacteria, is similar to a tissue or hormone in the body and the immune system can’t distinguish between the two and attacks both, this is called cross-reactivity. It is a very common cause of autoimmune reactions. For instance, gluten, the protein in wheat, cross-reacts with tissue in the brain. Many people with gluten sensitivity develop neurological disorders because when the immune system attacks ingested gluten it attacks the brain too, confusing it with gluten. The same holds true for dairy and some cases of type 1 diabetes, and other foods and autoimmune diseases. This study opens the door to the possibility that eating disorders may have an immune component at their root driving the psychological disorder.
Ways to address an unhealthy relationship with eating nutritionally
Although serious eating disorders are complex and require intensive therapy, certain nutritional strategies can help you obtain a more balanced approach to eating and food. The key is to follow a diet that fosters healthy brain chemistry.
Eliminate processed carbohydrates from your diet as they are addictive and skew brain chemistry in the way other addictive substances do. This can foster an unhealthy relationship with food.
Eating to keep blood sugar stable is a vital component to curbing cravings, obsessions with food, and a constant feeling of hunger. Avoid sweet, starchy foods, coffee drinks and energy drinks, going too long without eating, and relying on coffee for breakfast. Many people need to eat small, protein-dense meals frequently in the beginning to stabilize blood sugar.
It’s also important to base your diet on plenty of vegetables — research shows a plant-based diet affects the composition of gut bacteria and affects energy usage and fat storage in a way that promotes being slender naturally — without having to obsess over it.
Supporting your neurotransmitters, brain chemicals that affect mood and brain function, can also help you stabilize your approach to eating. Your brain may need serotonin or dopamine support. Serotonin is important to feel joy and ward off depression, while dopamine support may be helpful to feel motivation and ward off cravings. Both have been shown to play a role in eating disorders.
Ask my office for more advice on how to support a healthier approach to balanced, obsession-free eating.
Post in it’s entirety, is compliments of www.drflannery.com/
African Women Injected With Vaccines Laced with Anti-fertility Hormones#retweet#Vaccines#Pregnancy
by Christina England
Recently, there has been a flurry of reports in the media claiming that women of childbearing age in Kenya have been vaccinated with tetanus vaccinations containing the anti-fertility hormone hCG, rendering them infertile.
The reports came in after doctors from the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association found an antigen causing miscarriage in the tetanus vaccinations that were administered to 2.3 million girls and women by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. [1]
In October 2014, Dr. Wahome Ngare, a member of the Catholic Doctors Association, told Points of View at KTN Weekend Prime that the women of Kenya had been vaccinated with a new tetanus vaccine that had not come through the usual channels and stated that the Catholic Church administers 65 percent of all vaccines…
One Brave Doctor Speaks Out
Professor Reveals Shocking Report On Flu Vaccinations#Vaccines#Android#Family
by Arjun Walia
It’s great to see more “academics” that openly push and encourage the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies to open their records to outsiders in an effort to better understand the potential harmful consequences of the drugs that billions of people across the world take everyday.
Should the transparency of drugs and vaccines that millions of people take every year not be a given? Unfortunately it’s not. This can be a scary thought, the fact that modern day health care is not transparent at all, often leaving patients and medical professionals completely in the dark and unaware when it comes to the truth about these things.
Pharma Hiding Information
It’s be revealed many times that pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufactures purposely withhold critical information and data from the public domain when it comes to their products. One great example (I’ve used many times) comes from documents obtained by Lucija Tomljenovic, a PhD from the Neural Dynamics Research Group in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The documents reveal that vaccine manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, as well as (some) health authorities have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines, but chose to withhold them from the public for decades. (1)…
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So, Should You Eat Gluten Or Not?#iBelieve#family#A.S.D.
By Dana James
The gluten debate continues, often with more venom than opposition parties at election time. Why does this molecule ignite so much antagonism? After all, it’s just a food…Or is it?
Let’s start with what gluten is. It’s a protein molecule principally found in wheat. But gluten is not what it used to be. In the late 1960’s, gluten (and wheat) were cross-bred, hybridized and re-engineered to increase the yield of cereal grains. This produced over 40,000 varieties of wheat. It also increased the elasticity of wheat so that the bread would rise and be more chewy and delectable. Who doesn’t like fluffy bread? But as we’ve now learnt, once we start interfering with our food source, things can go a little hay-wire. This is what happened…