Clinical tests provide strong evidence that spirulina, siberian ginseng and skullcap relieve allergic rhinitis

Clinical tests provide strong evidence that spirulina, siberian ginseng and skullcap relieve allergic rhinitis

(NaturalNews) Allergic rhinitis is inflammation of the nasal airways due to an allergic immune system response. The sinuses become inflamed because of increased histamine production, as the sensitive immune system responds to a foreign allergen such as pollen, dust or animal dander. The response to the allergens triggers the production of antibodies called immunoglobulin E. These antibodies bind to mast cells and basophils, both of which contain histamine. Histamine is the inflammatory substance that causes the inflammation in the sinus cavities, the increased mucus production, the sneezing and the itchy, watery eyes.

Antihistamine pills may be used to block the histamine and relieve the symptoms in the face, but the pills do nothing to aid the immune system in the long run. Building the immune system with the right nutrients and herbs has been shown to have a more powerful, lasting effect.

Neglecting the hypersensitive immune system response and continuing the consumption of antihistamine pills causes a cycle of frustration, as seasonal allergies are developed.

The truth is - seasonal allergies don't have to come around every year. There's now strong evidence that a natural cyanobacteria called spirulina can relieve nasal inflammation. Another new study shows how eleutherococcus root (Siberian Ginseng) and skullcap herb work together to help relieve allergy symptoms.

Spirulina relieves nasal inflammation

A study from Turkey shows positive results for spirulina successfully treating allergic rhinitis. Spirulina, known for being a powerful immune-modulating superfood, brought back outstanding results. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, researchers treated various patients suffering from allergic rhinitis.

All patients who were fed spirulina supplements saw drastic improvement in histamine-reactive symptoms including sneezing, nasal congestion, itching and nasal discharge. When compared with placebo, spirulina was clinically effective for treating inflammation of the sinus passageway. The researchers are now calling for more studies identifying the mechanism of spirulina's effect on sinus inflammation.

Another study shows spirulina's ability to reduce allergic rhinitis

As reported in the Journal of Medicinal Food in 2005, patients suffering from allergic rhinitis saw drastic improvements in sinus function after ingesting spirulina. After measuring immune system signals in the bloodstream of patients, including interferon and cytokines levels, researchers found positive healing links to spirulina. The randomized, double-blind clinical study separated patients into three groups. One group received placebo, while the others received 1000 mg of spirulina or 2000 mg.

In the end, the placebo group saw no beneficial effect, while the 1000 mg spirulina eaters saw only slight, unnoticeable differences. But as for the ones who consumed 2000 mg of spirulina - they saw drastic improvement in their nasal allergic rhinitis.

Eleutherococcus root and skullcap combine to block allergic rhinitis

Eleutherococcus root, often termed Siberian Ginseng, possesses a unique composition, different from all other ginsengs, like American ginseng or Panax ginseng. This Siberian root is highly regarded as a strong adaptogen - great for helping the body, mind and spirit recover from periods of mental and physical stress. The root strengthens one's mental clarity, communication and social functioning. Its ability to stimulate the immune system and bring energy to the spirit is unwavering.

In a study from Belgium, researchers combined eleuthero root with skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis) and alternatively with vitamin C to study their individual and combined effects on treating sinus inflammation.

12 patients' nasal mucosal tissue was rigorously inspected after early and late phase allergic responses were initiated through stimulation of T cells and anti-IgE.

The researchers found that the eleuthero root and skullcap combination had a potent suppressive effect on histamine and two other inflammatory cursors. The combination also blocked induction of cytokines.

The vitamin C didn't have the same anti-inflammatory effect as the herbs, but it did increase ciliary beat frequency. The researchers concluded that a combination of eleuthero root and skullcap herb blocks allergic early and late phase mediators, suppressing cytokine production and histamine reaction.

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This Video Of Chinese Street Food Made From 'Gutter Oil' Is The Most Disgusting Thing You Will See All Day

The next time you consider eating Chinese street food you might think twice.
The use of gutter oil it turns out is pretty common. This refers to a process of pulling waste oil from sewers, grease traps, waste from slaughterhouses, reprocessing it and then selling it as cooking oil.
These screenshots from a Radio Free Asia (RFA) video via Max Fisher at The Washington Post show a woman in Shenzhen pulling "slop" from a gutter.

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The "slop" then ends up in "processing" plants where it is processed with other animal fat through filtration or boiling.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-street-vendors-use-gutter-oil-2013-10#ixzz2jFyeJBmY

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Natural News Blogs How to Choose Cooking Oils for Health - Natural News Blogs

By Jonathan Cho
Posted Friday, October 25, 2013 at 10:33am EDT
Keywords: coconut oil, Cooking, Cooking oil, fat, Frying, Monounsaturated Fat, Oils, omega 6, omega-3, Polyunsaturated Fat, saturated fat, Vegetable Fat

The oil you cook with can have a significant impact on your health over time, due to the way heat affects various oil structures.  The most commonly used oils, vegetables oils, are the most dangerous to use, not only because frying them creates trans-fats, but because high heat oxidizes the oils, destroying any antioxidant content and creating free radicals that prematurely age you and promote disease.  The oxidation results in “cross-linking, cyclization, double-bond shifts, fragmentation, and polymerization of oils that cause far more damage than trans-fat,” according to Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Oils vary in their ability to withstand the damages of heat, so it’s important to have an understanding of which oils are the safest and the most hazardous so you can choose the ones most appropriate for general use and different occasions.
The most stable cooking oils are saturated fats—animal fats and certain non-animal fats, so they should always be used when cooking with high heat.  The most stable cooking oil is coconut oil by far—it has the highest saturated fat content (91.6%) of any animal fat or vegetable oil, and it won’t oxidize at even deep frying temperatures.  If you’re not partial to the taste of coconut, there’s no need to worry—coconut oil tends to lose much of its flavor in cooking.
Coconut oil is followed by palm oil (51.6 % saturated fat) and animal fat (50%) as the safest to use, though the saturated fat in animals can cause other health concerns.
After saturated fat, monounsaturated fat is the second most stable oil under heat, but much less so.  It can oxidize at high temperatures, and so it should only be used on medium-low heat settings or less, especially as the monounsaturated fat content goes down.  The oils with the highest percentage of monounsaturated fat are macadamia nut oil (84%), followed by olive oil (76%), avocado oil (73.8%), almond oil (65%), canola oil (61.6%), and peanut oil (48%).  As an aside though, canola oil is actually one of the worst oils to cook with, because the majority of the crops (called rapeseed) are genetically modified, the oil has a very short shelf-life, and it has a greater tendency to create trans-fats than most any other oil.
The last major category of fat, and the worst to cook with, are polyunsaturated fats.  They’re most sensitive to heat, and are unstable when removed from their source foods, so they create the highest amount of free radicals when heated, even on low setting temperatures.  In order of percentage of polyunsaturated fat, they are the following: safflower oil (78.4%), hemp oil (77.5%), grape seed oil (73.2%), flaxseed (69.1%), sunflower oil (68.7%), soybean oil (62%; majority is GMO), corn oil (57.4%; majority is GMO), and cottonseed oil (54.3%; majority is GMO).
Some of the oils in the polyunsaturated category are healthier when unheated, like flaxseed oil and hemp oil, due to their omega-3 content, but they should be avoided for cooking purposes.




Sources:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/10/15/cooking-oil.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/09/13/coconut-oil-part-three.aspx
http://drbenkim.com/articles-oils.html
http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/fat/unsaturatedfat.html
http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/culinaryreference/a/fattable.htm

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Massive Barge On San Francisco Bay Likely Secret Google Facility

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The U.S. Navy had its share of secrets on Treasure Island, but few were better kept than what’s taking place on a mysterious barge just off the island.

The barge, with a four-story stack of shipping containers, is out in the open for all to see. But the project’s purpose has been kept under wraps, and virtually no one wants to talk about it for the record, from the harbor office at Clipper Cove to the Treasure Island Development Authority to the U.S. Coast Guard.




“I don’t know anything about it, honestly I don’t,” a voice on the intercom at the Clipper Cove told KPIX 5. “It’s a complete mystery to me.”
There has, of course, been speculation about the barge’s purpose, much of it centering on the belief that it’s a water-based data center for Google.
KPIX 5 has learned that Google is actually building a floating marketing center, a kind of giant Apple store, if you will — but for Google Glass, the cutting-edge wearable computer the company has under development.
Although Google wouldn’t respond to requests for comment for this story, sources close to the project told KPIX 5 that Google hopes to tow the completed structure from Treasure Island across the Bay to San Francisco’s Fort Mason, where it would be anchored and open to the public.
But as mysteriously as the barge-and-container structure began appearing several months ago, work on the project suddenly stopped a few weeks ago.

MORE HERE:  http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/10/25/secret-google-facility-found-floating-on-san-francisco-bay/

“NSA Surveillance Network #1492″ Appears on Wireless Networks During California Internet Outage

Betsy
Planet Infowars
October 22, 2013
Saturday night, around 8:30 Pacific Standard Time, Time/Warner Cable was knocked out in 3/4 of the state of California according to Cox Cable in San Diego. Before I called Cox Cable to confirm there was an outage, I checked my Macintosh’s laptop’s wireless network to see who else in the area was affected. To my surprise almost everyone (except for a few possible satellite dish Network routers and a few cell phones) had no signal, but amongst the names of devices was to my shock, “NSA Surveillance Network #1492.”
My first thought was that it was annoying that the NSA were beaming a signal from somewhere treating everyone like they were a criminal and violating our 4th Amendment right to not be searched without a warrant, but then I asked myself where is the NSA broadcasting their signal? Was it coming from a satellite, a van, a broadcast tower, or maybe even a drone?

Next, I had to wonder, “Was this something besides a normal outage or equipment failure or was it a test of the Internet Kill Switch?” Under the Department of Homeland Security’s “Emergency Wireless Protocols,” (Standard Operating Procedure 303 or “SOP 303), the federal agency claims the power to shut down all communications, including the Internet, in the event of a national crisis.
Was there a crisis then or was this a dry run of some sort? Not only was California affected, but East Coast Internet outages happened as well from New York to Philadelphia. According to a “report at the Wall Street Journal” the East Coast downtime was due to equipment failure at a hub. However, according to Time/Warner’s outage map outages occurred in almost every major city in the U.S. except the Northwest and most central states.
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Warning to all Sprint mobile users: mysterious phone calls from 865-6696 may install NSA surveillance code on your iPhone

Warning to all Sprint mobile users: mysterious phone calls from 865-6696 may install NSA surveillance code on your iPhone

(NaturalNews) All across America, people who have Sprint service on their iPhones and other mobile devices are receiving repeated calls from the number "865-6696" without any area code. Sprint message boards are full of thousands of complaints of people experiencing this issue, but no one seems to understand the true reason why these calls are being made.

When the call is answered, no one is there. Attempting to call the number back does not work. Spelled out on the phone keypad, the number "865-6696" spells out "UNKNOWN," adding to the mystery of where these calls are originating or what their purpose might be.

Comments on message boards such as 800notes.com say things like this:

I receive 3 or 4 calls per day from this number... with no area code. just 865-6696. i've not answered it for fear of who might be on the other end. i'm not sure how to report this and get this number to stop calling me. VERY aggravating!

Investigation turns up frightening possibility of surveillance code payload

After hearing about this issue from several people I know personally, I decided to investigate.

First, a scan of the message boards indicates this issue is limited almost exclusively to iPhone owners using Sprint. Some people on the message boards have incorrectly assumed these calls must be from telemarketers, but if that were the case, it wouldn't be limited to just iPhone users, as telemarketers have no way to know what hardware device exists at their target phone numbers. Furthermore, even after blocking this number, people continue to receive calls from it, confirming that these calls are exempted from call blocking.

Here's another fascinating point: I've been able to confirm over and over again that these calls are being placed with foreknowledge of the exact hardware of the target phone number. The originator of these calls, in other words, knows in advance that the user has an iPhone and not an Android or other mobile device.

As user "JMillz" describes in his comment post:

I have an iPhone 4 with Sprint and I just started receiving these calls a couple days ago. I have been reading you guys' posts on here and we pretty much ALL have the same things in common: All with Sprint AND ALL have either iPhones 4 or 4s'... I've been getting calls from this number non-STOP! When I do pick it up they just either hang up or its dead air and then hangs up. VERY annoying! I opened up a case with Sprint tech support and they had NO solutions for this issue other than to do a master reset (which would just erase all media in my phone not backed up to icloud) or change my number! Not cool at all.

This all but proves these are not random telemarketing calls. The calls are clearly being placed by an organization that knows who owns iPhones and wishes to get them to answer their phones.

But why?

NSA surveillance Trojan Horse installed if you answer?

To find out, I called a contact I've known for a few years who is an expert in cyber security. He's been one of the people closely watching the Edward Snowden disclosures and the NSA surveillance issue. He obviously asked me not to reveal his identity, so I won't.

He told me that this has been going on for over a year and that he believes the phone calls are a vector by which the NSA can install surveillance code onto iPhone devices but only if you answer the phone. Once you answer, a so-called "digital payload" is quickly downloaded to your phone while you are saying "Hello? Hello?"

"The digital payload requires several seconds for a complete download," my contact told me. "If you hang up before the download completes, your device won't be infected [because the code cannot be executed]." The code is carried with the call, I was told, as a parallel digital stream encoded into the call data itself, in much the same way that secret messages can be encoded into JPEG images. Apple deliberately built in this "back door" payload receiving system, a fact which has been confirmed by releases of information from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that show how Apple, Google, Microsoft and other corporations deliberately built in back doors for NSA surveillance.

The purpose of this digital payload, I was told, is not known, but it may be Trojan Horse code that attaches "bread crumbs" to your phone calls that allow the NSA to more easily locate, track and archive your phone calls, text messages and mobile web surfing activity.

CNET and others confirm iPhones can be easily hacked

It is not unusual for iPhones to be hacked in ways that allow other users to access all your private details and even bypass your iPhone passwords. CNET, for example, independently confirmed that an iOS 6.1 hack "lets users see your phone app, place calls."

"CNET can confirm it works," says the article. It goes on to explain the hack allows others to "access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls."

iPhoneHacks.com also reports on a hack in iOS 7 that "allows anyone to make a phone call from the lockscreen."

ZDnet also reports that iPhones can be "hacked in 60 seconds," and the article even explains how it's done.

None of these hacks are digital payload hacks installed using phone calls, of course, but they clearly demonstrate the vulnerabilities or back doors built into the iPhone operating system (iOS).

So why are people receiving repeated calls?

If all this is true, it begs the question of why people would be receiving repeated calls from the 865-6696 phone number. When I asked my contact why this would be happening, he answered that, in his belief, this program was a test rollout on the Sprint network only, and that testing was being done to establish human behavior patterns such as answer rates, hold times after answers, and payload install time requirements. This information could then be used to determine whether a more expanded rollout across other phone networks would make sense.

Skeptical of all this, I asked why the NSA couldn't just install these surveillance programs in the phones when they are manufactured. Why bother with the complication of digital payloads? He answered that surveillance programs ARE installed at the factory, and that "all iPhones already ship with surveillance code installed," but that older phones such as the iPhone 4 did not have the most up-to-date surveillance code installed and so needed to be remotely updated with the new code via the "digital payload" described in this article.

Personally, I'm not sure if I buy all that, but in an age where the NSA has now had to admit it routinely spies on nearly ALL phone calls of Americans, this scenario is no longer far-fetched. It may, in fact, be routine.

Bottom line? If you receive a call from 865-6696, don't answer it. Far better to call 867-5309 and ask for Jenny. (Nod to an 80's rock song, if you're curious...)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042598_Sprint_iPhone_4_865-6696.html##ixzz2iVMn28rj

Families suspect SEAL Team 6 crash was inside job .......... (IT WAS)

Rowan Scarborough
The Washington Times
October 21, 2013

Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in Afghanistan that suffered the most U.S. military deaths in a single day in the war on terrorism.

Every day, Charlie Strange, the father of one of the 30 Americans who died Aug. 6, 2011, in the flash of a rocket-propelled grenade, asks himself whether his son, Michael, was set up by someone inside the Afghan government wanting revenge on Osama bin Laden’s killers — SEAL Team 6.

“Somebody was leaking to the Taliban,” said Mr. Strange, whose son intercepted communications as a Navy cryptologist. “They knew. Somebody tipped them off. There were guys in a tower. Guys on the bush line. They were sitting there, waiting. And they sent our guys right into the middle.”
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‘Police gunman told me to ignore paedophiles’, says ex-child protection officer

James Fielding
Express.co.uk
October 21, 2013

Chris Fay said he was pinned to a wall and throttled before being given a chilling warning to “back away” from allegations surrounding the notorious Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.

Young boys in care were allegedly taken there in the Eighties to be abused by high-profile MPs and other powerful establishment figures.
Mr Fay, who worked for the now-defunct National Association of Young People In Care, accused the Metropolitan Police of acting like “gangsters” when news of the scandal broke in 1990. He revealed how some Special Branch members routinely threatened him and his colleagues and even victims over a three-month period of intimidation.
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This article was posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 1:20 pm

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Ted Cruz’s Wife is a Goldman Sachs VP !

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 22, 2013

Senator Ted Cruz sidles up to Campaign for Liberty. Photo: Gage Skidmore

The establishment specializes in the old fashion bait-and-switch. It knows the people are sick and tired of government as usual and they want change. Obama was billed as Mr. Hope and Change. But once installed in the White House, he immediately continued and expanded the Bush agenda, that is to say the agenda of the political establishment. Barry, like his predecessor, is little more than a frontispiece, a teleprompter reader for the elite.

Now that we’re fed up with Obama, it is time for the next round of phony change. That change will likely be represented by reformulated Tea Party Republicans Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.

“The Republican establishment despises Ted Cruz. And that’s great news for the senator from Texas: It’s the most prominent sign that he’s the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination,” the National Journal opined last week.

The faux government shutdown with its intense partisan squabbling and meticulously orchestrated theatrics provided Cruz and the reformulated Tea Party Republicans with a stage to present themselves as the answer to politics as usual. According to the script, a staid GOP dominated by the likes of old guard John McCain and John Boehner is afraid of Cruz and the supposedly renegade faction of Tea Party activists in the House. But it’s all show business.

For all his allure as an outsider, Canada-born Ted Cruz is in fact an insider playing a role similar to the one Barack Obama played back in 2008 when his handlers portrayed him as the hope and change candidate out of nowhere.

Cruz’s insider connection is a family affair. His wife, Heidi, is a Goldman Sachs vice president in Houston, Texas, according to her LinkedIn profile. She also served as an economic advisor for the Bush administration. In 2011, a Cruz campaign spokesman portrayed Heidi as “an expert on North American trade,” in other words she is savvy when it comes to globalist transnational trade deals like NAFTA, the single most destructive government move against the American worker in history.

She was also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (see her bio at Claremont McKenna College), a position that expired prior to her husband’s attack on the globalist organization. In October, 2011, Ted Cruz reportedly characterized the CFR as “a pernicious nest of snakes” that is “working to undermine our sovereignty.” He previously called the CFR “a pit of vipers” during a speech delivered on October 13, 2011, to a Republican women’s group in Sugarland, Texas. Ben Smith, writing for Politico, attempted to associate Cruz with Texas residents Ron Paul and Alex Jones in order to pass him off as a rightwing conspiracy theorist on the same page as fringe libertarians and starry-eyed constitutionalists. He is, of course, nothing of the sort.

Like the domestication of the Tea Party and the expulsion of its more purist liberty-minded activists, the Cruz the warrior pitted against the establishment motif is another slick subversion directed at the political elite’s most puissant opposition – the real Tea Party and a threatening number of patriot activists gnawing at the edges of the political establishment.

This article was posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 11:57 am

Tags: domestic news

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Interpol Chief: Arm Citizens Globally to Prevent Terror Attacks

Powerful public relations blow to gun control lobby
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 22, 2013

Image: Ronald Noble (Wikimedia Commons).

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble told ABC News that one of the only ways to prevent terrorists from hitting soft targets was to arm citizens globally, noting that the Westgate mall siege would have been averted far quicker if it had taken place in gun-friendly areas like Denver or Texas.

Noble’s statements are a powerful rebuttal to the anti-gun lobby, especially given his background. The Interpol chief was formerly the head of all law enforcement for the U.S. Treasury Department.

Stressing that an “armed citizenry” was the only option besides turning soft targets like shopping malls into enclaves surrounded by “extraordinary security” perimeters, Noble suggested that the siege in Kenya, which dragged on for days and ended in the slaughter of 60 civilians, represented a huge public relations blow for gun control advocates.

“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. “What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.”

“For me it’s a profound question,” he continued. “People are quick to say ‘gun control, people shouldn’t be armed,’ etc., etc. I think they have to ask themselves: ‘Where would you have wanted to be? In a city where there was gun control and no citizens armed if you’re in a Westgate mall, or in a place like Denver or Texas?’”

As we reported last month, an off-duty SAS soldier armed with a handgun helped save at least 100 lives during the Westgate siege, returning to the building a dozen times to rescue hostages.

Noble’s argument that guns in the hands of responsible citizens can prevent bloodshed is backed by hard statistics.

According to a 1993 National Self- Defense Survey conducted by Gary Kleck, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Americans use guns to defend themselves against a confrontation with a criminal up to 2.5 million times a year. This means that every day in America some 6,800 people use guns to protect themselves.

Scholars Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett have documented how “a great number of tragedies — murders, rapes, assaults, robberies — have been thwarted by self-defense gun uses.”

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This article was posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 12:30 pm

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Obamacare: Hidden Spreadsheet Shows Premium Rates For Every Health Plan In Your Area

The document Obama doesn’t want you to see is available here Kit Daniels Infowars.com October 22, 2013 Healthcare.gov, the official Obamacare insurance exchange website, removed references to a nationwide premium rate spreadsheet, which allows Americans to determine the most inexpensive health plans in their area, but it is still available here. Click on the image to download the spreadsheet to see the premium rates in your area. Click on the image to download the spreadsheet showing the premium rates in your area. The seven megabyte Excel spreadsheet, which can now only be found by a file name search on Healthcare.gov, is current as of September 27, 2013 and displays premium rates for medical plans across America. By using the filters on the spreadsheet, one can find the cheapest health insurance plans available in his area. For example, the cheapest “Bronze” option for a 27-year-old individual in Travis County, Texas appears to be Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue Advantage Bronze HMO 006, with a monthly premium rate of $144.34. The spreadsheet reveals some interesting observations. Multiple counties in Virginia have the most expensive family plan in America, which has a staggering premium rate of $6,494.54 per month and is a “Gold” level plan offered by Optima Health. The “Bronze” version of this plan is also available to a 27-year-old individual for $1,835.81 per month. Single 27-year-olds in Comanche Count, Okla. are lucky. They can get the cheapest “Bronze” plan in the country at $100.36 per month. According to the spreadsheet, here is a breakdown of the average premium rates for families and individuals in America: 102213obamacareaverages2 It is not known why the references to this incredibly useful spreadsheet were deleted, especially as healthcare.gov is still broken. Was it because the federal government, working with the insurance companies that wrote Obamacare, does not want Americans to save money on their insurance rates? That is certainly plausible considering that Obamacare is anything but affordable.

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BMJ Case Reports journal: Gardasil vaccine suspected in early menopause of 16-year-old girl

BMJ Case Reports journal: Gardasil vaccine suspected in early menopause of 16-year-old girl

(NaturalNews) Continued controversy over Gardasil has emerged with a report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) linking the vaccine with premature ovarian failure in a teenaged girl. The connection was discovered when the young Australian went into menopause after receiving the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.

When Dr. Little first met her new patient, the 16-year-old had ceased to menstruate. In her report, Dr. Little states that the girl's menstrual cycles were normal before the Gardasil vaccination and her personal medical history did not indicate a cause for early menopause.

In the fall of 2008, the girl was injected with Gardasil; by January 2009, her menstrual cycle had become irregular. Over the next two years, her menses became extremely erratic until she stopped menstruating altogether in 2011. After several tests, which included measuring hormone levels and organ functioning, the diagnosis was "premature ovarian failure."

"Although the cause is unknown in 90% of cases, the remaining chief identifiable causes of this condition were excluded. Premature ovarian failure was then notified as a possible adverse event following this vaccination," said Dr. Little.

When the physician contacted the Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia to learn more about Gardasil testing and safety, she found there were no records regarding the effect of the vaccine on female reproductive systems. Apparently, Gardasil had only been tested on male rat reproductive organs.

Further evidence of harm

Research published in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology supports Dr. Little's diagnosis. The research was conducted in Israel and Italy and involved three young women who experienced ovarian failure after HPV vaccination. According to the study:

"All three patients developed secondary amenorrhea following HPV vaccinations, which did not resolve upon treatment with hormone replacement therapies. In all three cases sexual development was normal and genetic screen revealed no pertinent abnormalities. . . . Serological evaluations showed low levels of estradiol and increased FSH and LH and in two cases, specific auto-antibodies were detected (antiovarian and anti thyroid), suggesting that the HPV vaccine triggered an autoimmune response. . . . All three patients experienced a range of common non-specific post-vaccine symptoms including nausea, headache, sleep disturbances, arthralgia and a range of cognitive and psychiatric disturbances."

The researchers conclude that there is strong evidence of an HPV vaccine-induced autoimmune condition and stress that this is "a matter of public health that warrants further rigorous inquiry."

In light of the devastating consequences of Gardasil, Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute asserts:

"Tens of millions of young girls have received the Gardasil vaccine since its approval by the FDA six years ago. If even a tiny fraction of them have experienced infertility as a result, then these girl children have been denied a very fundamental right, that is, the right to decide how many children they want to have. . . . In the case of the Australian girl the effect is irreversible. She has lost an integral part of her womanhood, while still but a child."

"Women deserve better," he said.

Sources:

http://www.lifesitenews.com

http://casereports.bmj.com

http://healthimpactnews.com

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://science.naturalnews.com

About the author:
Carolanne enthusiastically believes if we want to see change in the world, we need to be the change. As a nutritionist, natural foods chef and wellness coach, Carolanne has encouraged others to embrace a healthy lifestyle of organic living, gratefulness and joyful orientation for over 13 years. Through her website www.Thrive-Living.net she looks forward to connecting with other like-minded people who share a similar vision.

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Mistletoe extract doubles survival time of pancreatic cancer patients in clinical trial

Mistletoe extract doubles survival time of pancreatic cancer patients in clinical trial

(NaturalNews) Patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer doubled their survival time when treated with mistletoe extract in a new European clinical trial - and with very few side effects. In comparison, the standard chemo drugs for treating pancreatic cancer carry such serious side effects that patients and their doctors often forgo chemotherapy and opt for best supportive care instead.

Pancreatic cancer strikes 44,000 Americans every year and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the USA. Despite conventional medicine's best efforts, the mortality rate of pancreatic cancer remains tragically high at 80 percent in the first years after diagnosis. Because of this, natural treatments may be a real option for improving patients' prognosis.

Survival time doubles for pancreatic cancer patients using mistletoe

This new Phase III clinical trial was randomized, open-label and carried out in Serbia on 220 patients. All patients received best supportive care. Patients in the treatment group also received subcutaneous injections of mistletoe extract three times weekly with dosages escalating from 0.01 mg up to a constant 10 mg after the 22nd dose. Patients who started the study with a 'good prognosis' saw their survival times more than double from 3.2 months (if untreated) to 6.6 months if treated with mistletoe. Likewise, patients with a 'poor prognosis' averaged 2.0 months survival if untreated but 3.4 months if treated with mistletoe. Remarkably, the group treated with mistletoe experienced only 16 adverse events compared to 53 adverse events in the untreated group. Rather than carrying negative side effects as chemo drugs do, the mistletoe treatment actually decreased the likelihood of painful or undesirable effects (adverse events) by 75 percent. And none of the adverse events in the mistletoe group were caused by the mistletoe itself.

This clinical trial achieved such impressive results that it was terminated early so that all the patients could receive the mistletoe extract, based on recommendations of the Independent Data Monitoring Committee.

Mistletoe is already successful in treating multiple cancers

This is not the first time that mistletoe has had success in treating cancer. Many observational and clinical trials carried out in Europe have already shown impressive results for treating cancer of the breast, uterus, cervix, ovaries, stomach, lung and colon, as well as melanoma. One large review carried out in Germany found that cancer patients extended their survival times by roughly 40 percent when mistletoe was added to their therapy (4.23 versus 3.05 years survival). A more recent meta-study (covering 49 trials) confirmed a survival benefit as well as a near universal improvement in quality-of-life.

Mistletoe still banned in the US: Is good science being ignored?

With all of this accumulating evidence in favor of mistletoe and decades of use in Europe, it is strange that it remains banned in the US by the FDA. Past trials have indeed shown inconsistent results, but we now know this is due to the varying quality of the different extracts used. The most favorable and consistent results (including the large studies quoted above and the new trial on pancreatic cancer) have been achieved with an extract made in Switzerland using mistletoe grown on oak trees. This particular extract appears to contain the best combination of active phytochemicals (lectins, viscotoxins, flavonoids, triterpene acids, etc.) and is now being used in two large European trials (400 patients with pancreatic cancer and 800 patients with colorectal cancer). Until American authorities accept mistletoe's safety and efficacy, it appears that the benefits of mistletoe will only be enjoyed by patients in European countries which are more advanced in the science of natural medicine.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://science.naturalnews.com

About the author:
Ethan Evers is author of the award-winning medical thriller "The Eden Prescription," in which cutting-edge researchers perfect an effective, all-natural treatment for cancer, only to be hunted down by pharmaceutical interests which will stop at nothing to protect their $80 billion cancer drug cash machine. The Eden Prescription is based on the latest science and draws on real historical events stretching back to the beginning of the "War on Cancer." Ethan has a PhD in Applied Science.

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Research suggests chlorella may have apoptotic anticancer effects

Research suggests chlorella may have apoptotic anticancer effects

(NaturalNews) First let's be clear with the term apoptotic: It refers to apoptosis, the programmed activity of a cell's self destruction or suicide that is common with normal cells to make way for new replacement cells.

The problem with cancer cells is that they refuse to commit suicide; they're not programmed that way. So they either have to be killed by chemotoxic agents (synthetic or natural) or induced into programmed apoptosis.

The research summarized here examined chlorella's ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. The type of chlorella used for this study was Chlorella vulgaris extract, or CVE, extracted using hot water. [1]

Chlorella vulgaris extracts are available online; most, if not all, are extracted with hot water.

Summarizing a 2010 study of CVE's anticancer effects

This study was conducted at the Department of Biochemistry at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and published in 2010 by the Sao Paulo, Brazil, journal Clinic.

This study was established to confirm the known reports of chlorella's anticancer properties and further analyze the mechanics of how it stops cancer from proliferating.

In order to achieve a specific analysis of the biochemical activities involved between Chlorella vulgaris and cancer cells, they used in vitro methods for the testing. "In vitro" is Latin for "in glass." So this trial was strictly a test tube and Petri dish matter.

They doused both cancerous liver cells and normal liver cells with CVE to examine the process of inducing apoptosis, which involves creating DNA damage as a precursor.

This was to determine whether or not the damaging effects on cancer cells would affect normal cells, which are already programmed normally for apoptosis. In other words, is the DNA damage cancer cell specific or does it affect normal cells too?

In layman's language, the results showed a 70% increased apoptotic rate in liver cancer cells compared to normal cells. Anti-apoptotic proteins in cancer cells were inhibited, while normal cells' apoptotic programming was left intact.

This demonstrates how chlorella can help stop cancer proliferation in the liver. But chlorella tends to generally help detox the liver and support liver regeneration. What about other cancers? Well, some say cancer is cancer, and others claim that some agents work on some cancers, while others don't.

But when it comes to food, which single-cell micro-algae chlorella is, most dietary approaches appear to work on several cancers.

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD, of the Klinghardt Academy explains that chlorella is a great preventative, but CVE should be used with plain chlorella for medicinal therapeutic purposes, especially regarding cancer. He even includes dosage recommendations in one of his newsletters. [2]

So high doses of chlorella with chlorella extract looks like a good approach as an adjunct with other natural cancer remedies that include what the Cancer Tutor calls the "cancer diet." [3]

Chlorella as a daily supplement

Most prefer the tiny tablets, but the powder is the most cost effective if you can handle the taste, which is not as bad as spirulina for most. Mixing the powder with green smoothies or mixed well and with strong lemon water and gulped down, not sipped, worked for me. A tablespoon yields a little over five grams.

Chlorella's immune boosting and detoxification properties are well known. In our toxic, polluted environment, which includes what we eat and drink, we all need to be constantly detoxing and boosting our immune systems. [4]

Chlorella offers much in those areas at 3 to 5 grams daily (http://www.naturalnews.com).

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has personally had a lab test chlorella products for contaminants before including them in the Natural News store, as he explains here (http://www.naturalnews.com). [5]

Sources for this article include:

[1] http://science.naturalnews.com

[2] http://www.klinghardtacademy.com

[3] http://www.cancertutor.com

[4] http://www.naturalnews.com

[5] http://www.naturalnews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042610_chlorella_extract_apoptosis_anticancer_effects.html#ixzz2iVF5dEoN

VIDEO: Stenographer escorted off House floor after open-mic rant

Published on Oct 17, 2013

A stenographer named Dianne Reidy walked up to the dais and suddenly began yelling, startling other staffers and members of congress standing nearby.

The outburst reportedly included the woman mentioning God, the Free Masons, and the Constitution.

It took place just as the vote was nearing an end.

After a few seconds, visibly shaken house aides forced the woman away from the dais and off the house floor.

A capitol police spokesman said the stenographer was being interviewed but didn't indicate whether they'd be bringing charges.

No immediate information was available about her condition or the reason for her remarks.

This is video shot by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, after Reidy was led out of the chamber.

The cell phone video shows Reidy being escorted by security into an elevator.

America : Ex-Navy SEAL says Government is creating conditions to impose ...

A brand-new type of botox has been discovered that’s being called “the deadliest substance known to man,” but scientists are keeping secret its DNA sequence because an antidote is not yet known.The botulinum toxin, known as Clostridium Botulinum, is so poisonous that injecting just 2 billionths of a gram, or inhaling 13 billionths of a gram, will kill an adult.New Scientist reports: “The toxin blocks the release of acetylcholine, the chemical secreted by nerves that makes muscles work. People who accidentally ingest it, as can happen when the bacteria grow in food, develop botulism and often die of paralysis.”

A brand-new type of botox has been discovered that’s being called “the deadliest substance known to man,” but scientists are keeping secret its DNA sequence because an antidote is not yet known.The botulinum toxin, known as Clostridium Botulinum, is so poisonous that injecting just 2 billionths of a gram, or inhaling 13 billionths of a gram, will kill an adult.New Scientist reports: “The toxin blocks the release of acetylcholine, the chemical secreted by nerves that makes muscles work. People who accidentally ingest it, as can happen when the bacteria grow in food, develop botulism and often die of paralysis.”

This reportedly included the U.S. Army’s infectious diseases laboratory, the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other government health agencies.
“This toxin has unusual risks and consequences for human health,” says David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, noting that if the new strain were intentionally misused, there would be no defense.”
He said releasing the DNA sequence would have posed “an immediate and unusually serious risk to society.”
“I want to applaud the authors for acting in a way that I think was responsible and prudent,” he added.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/deadliest-substance-known-to-man-kept-secret/#rck56CvT3rL76Peb.99

Five year update on the guy who cured his stage IV prostate cancer with baking soda

Five year update on the guy who cured his stage IV prostate cancer with baking soda

(NaturalNews) The guy is Vernon Johnston, and his story was first reported as a Natural News citizen journalism article in 2009.

That was around one year after being informed he was cancer-free from stage IV prostate cancer that had metastasized into the bone matter of his pelvic area in June of 2008.

Now here it is, over five years later, and apparently Vernon's still going strong, according to his website reports, videos and announcements. The last known blog posting from Vernon was in August of 2013.

That's five years and two months after being pronounced cancer-free at a Veterans Administration hospital.

The mainstream medical standard for considering cancer cured is five years in remission or cancer-free. That self-imposed standard is rarely met with surgeries, radiation treatments and chemotherapy sessions. Many die from those treatments within five years!

But after less than two weeks of intense bicarbonate of soda or baking soda (not baking powder) and blackstrap molasses consumption, he escaped not only cancer but toxic orthodox treatments.

Chemotherapy's dismal record

An interesting study based out of the Australian Oncology Radiology Department, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, conducted a very thorough epidemiological meta-analysis, completed in 2003 and published in 2004.

It was an effort to determine if the contribution of chemotherapy, both as curative and adjunctive cancer therapies, with its high expense warranted the Australian medical system's financial support.

Their abstract reported: "The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA."

From their conclusion: "To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required."

Granted, this activity was the radiation boys attacking the chemo camp to discourage Australia's socialized medical system's funding of chemotherapy drug availability. So what. They got the numbers right, and the study was peer reviewed and published.

Thanks to cancertutor.com, that Australian abstract with full study details is available here (http://www.burtongoldberg.com).

According to the vast database cancer cure guide Cancer Tutor, 90% of cancer patients who don't undergo conventional therapies survive beyond the five year mark, while 50% who have undergone extensive conventional treatments and are sometimes left to die survive. Still much better results than chemo!

Back to Vernon and his baking soda

Vernon also incorporated a good basic diet, lots of sunshine exposure and breathing exercises along with strong emotional support by family members for him and his attempt at curing his cancer alone with an unusual approach that was available to him.

The baking soda/molasses combination caused a drastic pH alkaline spike that oxygenated his cancer cells to their demise. Since cancer cells thrive by fermenting sugar, the molasses was the bait that allowed baking soda's alkaline influence to enter and oxygenate them (http://drsircus.com).

He continued maintenance sessions every few months with two weeks of alkaline boosting using the same protocol of baking soda and molasses that he used to cure himself a few years ago, as explained here (http://www.phkillscancer.com).

Although this author and most others wouldn't go it alone with only the baking soda-molasses protocol, it worked for him. Just like super-intense carrot juicing worked for Ralph Cole and Ann Cameron, as reported here (http://www.naturalnews.com).

The statement that there are hundreds of cures for cancer that aren't toxic and expensive is not an exaggeration. Let the Cancer Tutor help you find them.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.cancertutor.com

http://www.burtongoldberg.com

http://www.phkillscancer.com

http://www.naturalnews.com

About the author:
Paul Fassa is dedicated to warning others about the current corruption of food and medicine and guiding others toward a direction for better health with no restrictions on health freedom. You can visit his blog at http://healthmaven.blogspot.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042525_stage_IV_prostate_cancer_baking_soda_treatment_five_year_update.html#ixzz2hwHxMtyE

States across the country are being told to stop the Food Stamp program for the month of November, pending further notice

States across the country are being told to stop the supplemental nutrition assistance program for the month of November, pending further notice.

That’s according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Fox 13 obtained a copy from the Crossroads Urban Center in downtown Salt Lake City. Crossroads says if Utah families don’t get food stamps, they’ll turn to the local food pantries, which are already strapped due to the government shutdown. Homeless people Fox 13 talked to, some who use SNAP, say losing food stamps would mean going hungry.

“This is going to create a huge hardship for the people we serve here in our food pantry,” says Bill Tibbits who is the Associate Director at Crossroads Urban Center.

They posted a letter from the USDA on its Facebook page. It says in part, “in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are directing states to hold their November issuance files and delay transmission to state electronic benefit transfer vendors until further notice.”

“What this means if there’s not a deal, if Congress doesn’t reach a deal to get federal government back up and running, in Utah about 100,000 families won’t get food stamp benefit,” says Tibbits.

In other words, tens of thousands of Utah families may not be able to feed their children come November.

People out on the streets like Richard Phillips says, “It could impact us and it’s going to cause problems because you’re going to come to find out that people are going to steal and do what they have to do to survive.”

“People out here are going to go without food,” says Loralee Smith whose been homeless since August and says the uncertainty is making her uneasy about where her next meal will come from. “I’m on food stamps, I don’t know if I’m going to get them, a lot of people are on food stamps and they don’t know if they’re going to get them.”

Others say if SNAP shuts down, they’ll find a way to feed themselves.

MORE HERE _ http://fox13now.com/2013/10/14/utah-families-on-food-stamps-could-be-cut-off-soon/

Mangosteen's phytochemical components

Mangosteen's phytochemical components

 (NaturalNews) Indonesia's "Queen of Fruits," Garcinia mangostana L., or purple mangosteen, is a popular superfood both in its natural form and as a botanical dietary supplement. The fruit of a tropical evergreen tree, mangosteen is about the size of a tangerine with white flesh that is sweet, tangy, and slightly fibrous like a peach, and highly perishable. The dark reddish-purple rind is hard, so it is usually not eaten but it does have several healthful constituents, which are extracted and included in juice and supplement products.

Part of both the diet and folk medicine of Southeast Asia for thousands of years, mangosteen fruit is a highly nutritious food with many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It has traditionally been used to treat wounds, inflammatory skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, fever, diarrhea, cystitis, and dysentery. Mangosteen is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Researchers have been studying its chemical constituents and nutrients, and their application in human health, for more than half a century.

Phytochemical components of the nutrient-rich mangosteen

Mangosteen has been found to contain many vitamins and minerals, including vitamin C, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (B12), and niacin (B3). It has also been found to contain substances that have antihistamine and chemoprotective effects, and a class of naturally occurring polyphenolic compounds called xanthones. Polyphenolic compounds are found in edible and inedible plants, and have been found to have multiple biological effects including antioxidant activity thought to be approximately five times stronger than vitamins C and E. They are of interest to the food industry as they improve the quality and nutritional value of food because of how they slow the oxidative degradation of lipids (http://tilia.zf.mendelu.cz/ustavy/553/dzi/www/data/13_anti.pdf).
Mangosteen contains 50 of the 200 known xanthones, the source of its antioxidant properties. Antioxidants have been shown to neutralize destructive free radicals in the body which cause oxidative stress at the cellular level, a root cause of degenerative and chronic disease. Xanthones are antiviral, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiplasmodial, cytotoxic, and antihepatoxic (prevent liver disease). Ongoing studies are researching their beneficial effects on a variety of diseases, including: arthritis, asthma, Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, Parkinson's, stroke, ulcers, and urinary tract infections. (http://www.naturalnews.com/011703.html)

The xanthones of the 'mangostin' family demonstrate an anti-inflammatory effect in studies. Specifically, the xanthone 'gamma-mangostin,' was found to inhibit the release of prostaglandin E-2, a known cause of inflammation. It also inhibits COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes in animal cells. Researchers also found that mangosteen juice reduces inflammation markers in obese patients.

Health benefits of mangosteen phytochemicals

Scientists began conducting studies on the extracts and phytochemicals in mangosteen decades ago, centering mainly around their applications to infectious diseases, cancer prevention and treatments, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Xanthones have been shown to have beneficial effects on cardiovascular diseases including heart disease, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and thrombosis - one of which is the ability to restore the elasticity of blood vessels. This is likely due to the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and other activities of the xanthones. Mangosteen's xanthones have been found to influence certain enzyme activity and modulate specific receptor-binding sites. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090081/)

Infectious disease-related targets were studied, finding mangosteen to have antibacterial properties, and have been shown to inhibit tuberculosis and staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic resistant "superbug" known to cause pneumonia as well as bone, skin, and bloodstream infections (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22494050). Mangosteen has 13 naturally occurring xanthones that inhibit the superbug, responsible for a growing number of high morbidity and mortality rates across world-wide human populations.

Mangosteen's xanthones were also shown to inhibit malaria, prevent vision impairment, and maintain digestion. Mangosteen extracts have even proven useful in fighting insect pests resistant to synthetic insecticides due to its detoxification enzyme activity (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399471). Multiple studies have further validated these findings and the traditional use of mangosteen for skin infections by finding that mangosteen extracts strongly inhibit acne causing bacteria with its antimicrobial properties (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16009519) as well as by scavenging free radicals and reducing cytokine to reduce inflammation. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17644272)

Several studies show that mangosteen xanthones and xanthone derivatives inhibit the growth of various cancer cells, including: leukemia, liver, breast, colon, stomach, and lung, having anti-tumor activity by blocking tumor initiation (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22622784). Additionally, over 20 different xanthones from mangosteen have been tested regarding their cytotoxicity for cancer cells and cell-cycle arrest assays. Scientists conclude, "xanthones with potential cancer chemopreventive activity have been found from mangosteen."

With so much research ongoing coupled with the centuries of field tests already completed, there is little doubt that mangosteen fruit's phytochemical components offer a variety of biological health benefits. Most Americans drink the juice of the mangosteen fruit, which typically includes extracts from the pericarp and exocarp. Most of the scientific research being conducted on mangosteen is being done on phytochemicals found in these parts of the fruit. Scientists are isolating singular constituents, and using them to direct research for new pharmaceutical drugs. Natural and traditional folk medicine believes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Synthesized versions won't have the potent enzymatic activity, for example. As they continue to explore applications for the uses of mangosteen, one thing they all agree on is that there are no known side-effects or contraindications for adding mangosteen to your diet.

Additional sources for this article include:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090081/

http://tilia.zf.mendelu.cz/ustavy/553/dzi/www/data/13_anti.pdf

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042500_mangosteen_phytochemicals_nutrients.html#ixzz2hqOjKqpa

After years of suppression, scientists finally admit copper destroys norovirus (and so does silver)

After years of suppression, scientists finally admit copper destroys norovirus (and so does silver)

 (NaturalNews) The highly infectious norovirus, or stomach flu bug, causes a very common illness, affecting hundreds of millions of people who come into contact with it through contaminated food, water, surfaces or other people every year. Now, scientists have discovered that copper and its more than 300 different alloys don't just fight norovirus - copper destroys it.

Simulating contamination via touch, researchers found that norovirus could not survive on any dry surface containing more than 60% copper. The findings do not apply solely to norovirus either but to a range of various fungi and bacteria. Armed with this knowledge, lead study author Sarah Warnes noted that copper-rich antimicrobial surfacing in high-traffic public areas, especially care facilities, could reduce norovirus exposure and significantly cut down how many people get sick.

This research reaffirms a previous study out of the University of Nebraska that was the first to demonstrate that when microbes were exposed to dry, copper-infused surfaces, hundreds of millions of bacterial cells died within minutes.

Copper's antimicrobial properties have been known for thousands of years, dating back to an ancient Egyptian text that discussed using the mineral as a sterilization agent for wounds and drinking water. The Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates, even mentioned copper as a treatment for leg ulcers circa 400 B.C. Further ancient copper cures span the gamut of treatments, including for infected ears, purging the stomach of intestinal parasites and lung diseases.

Likewise, silver has been used for centuries to fight germs as well. Silver was used in the creation of cups, plates and eating utensils (that's why they call it 'silverware') to keep pathogens at bay. In more recent times, American pioneers would place silver or copper coins in their drinking water casks to keep it germ-free.

Conventional medicine has not respected ancient health traditions.

Although various forms of colloidal silver solutions have been used for hundreds of years as a natural antibiotic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ran a scaremongering campaign against it, claiming it would turn people silver. No, really. In reality, the amount of silver in these solutions is in the hundred parts per million range, way below the amount it would take to actually turn anyone's skin silver. With humans ingesting silver for thousands of years, if it were really so dangerous, we'd see a lot more silver people walking around by now.

We have witnessed an overuse of antibiotic pharmaceutical drugs in modern times that has led to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as MRSA - or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - an infectious, flesh-eating bacteria found primarily in hospitals (where, consequently, it has been shown to spread the fastest and can do the most damage to people who are the most vulnerable).

While mainstream medical science has thus far been clueless as to how to curb this growing epidemic, the norovirus researchers found that dry copper surfaces also kill MRSA within minutes of contact. Interestingly, most hospitals use stainless steel surfaces. These researchers were able to demonstrate in a side-by-side microscopic comparison how copper beats out stainless steel in wiping out MRSA (see video here). Stainless steel had little to no effect on the superbug.

Perhaps most important, unlike antibiotics, microbes do not build up a resistance to copper or silver.

Currently, data shows that one in every 20 hospital patients contracts an infection while hospitalized; this results in 1.7 million sick people and approximately 100,000 U.S. deaths each year at a cost of $10 billion annually. With the staggering amount of research showing copper and silver's potential to reduce the adverse health effects from out-of-control bacteria, specifically in a hospital setting, it's astonishing that these solutions are being ignored or even suppressed.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.sciencedaily.com

http://www.purestcolloids.com

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://www.antimicrobialtouchsurface.com

http://www.sciencedaily.com

http://www.reuters.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042507_copper_norovirus_silver.html#ixzz2hqHgEqt8

Amaranth is a gluten-free and super healthy source of protein

Amaranth is a gluten-free and super healthy source of protein

(NaturalNews) Amaranth is grown as a gluten-free grain that unfortunately goes far too often under the radar in North America. Although its production began in the 70s in the US, it is best known as being forcefully destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors who forbade its use and growth a few centuries ago. Amaranth is part of the Chenopodiaceae family of plants and is therefore related to beets, Swiss chard, spinach and quinoa, the latter of which was also forbidden by the Spanish upon their arrival.

It is quite rich in amino acids, particularly lysine, which is around two times more abundant in amaranth than it is in wheat, for instance. It also offers decent amounts of vitamins and minerals and most importantly provides generous quantities of high-quality protein, seemingly more than most other grains. Since more and more people are looking for non-GMO, gluten-free foods, it would definitely be wise to keep quinoa and amaranth on the list of important items to have.

Amaranth oil features a high content of squalene, which is partly responsible for the production of vitamin D and vitamin E's tocotrienols, amongst other things. Based on a study published in the Lipids in Health and Disease journal, researchers noted that amaranth oil greatly helps blood vessels by keeping them more flexible, which, in turn, permits them to keep blood pressure under control.

Does amaranth have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system and the liver?

It is no surprise to say that heart disease is the number one killer for people of all races and ethnic backgrounds, with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, obesity and high overall levels of cholesterol as being the main culprits to these problems. Fortunately, all information available up to this point seems to indicate that amaranth oil can be quite beneficial to the cardiovascular system. The study reported earlier showed that, when chickens were regularly fed with amaranth oil, their cholesterol levels also decreased. With cases of hypertension, the cell membrane is generally defective, but, thankfully, amaranth oil balances and stabilizes the cell membrane fluidity.

Based on an animal study published in the June 2011 issue of Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, amaranth seems to protect the liver from accumulated toxins and other detrimental waste products. During tests covering a period of approximately 28 days, animals were given moderate levels of alcohol in addition to an amaranth-filled diet. The end results showed that fewer lipids became damaged by various toxins. This also accounted for a smaller number of enzymes that, when strongly present in the immediate environment, contribute to weakening of the liver. On the other hand, there was a substantial increase in the number of antioxidants present in the livers.

Please note that amaranth has a small amount of oxalic acid; therefore, it would be best to consult with a health practitioner if you happen to have gout, kidney problems or possibly rheumatoid arthritis.

Sources for this article include:

http://whfoods.org

http://science.naturalnews.com

http://woman.thenest.com

About the author:
After spending several years working in property management and being a web consultant for PS Communications, P. Simard is now on his way to becoming a naturopath in the province of Quebec. Always searching for the truth with an open mind, his innate passion for knowledge and overall health matters has finally led him to Natural News.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042430_amaranth_gluten-free_food_protein_source.html#ixzz2hju8Y5KZ

Natural News Blogs Heal your body from multiple sclerosis & lose weight with a raw food diet » Natural News Blogs

Natural News Blogs Heal your body from multiple sclerosis & lose weight with a raw food diet » Natural News Blogs

Thanks to adopting a raw food diet, Rosemary Fletcher went from a 305-pound woman with Multiple Sclerosis who was confined to a wheelchair for 11 years to a svelte 120-pound woman fully capable of walking on her own. Despite doctors who told her she would never walk or talk again, Fletcher followed the spiritually-based “8 Laws of Natural Heath” (which includes plant-based nutrition) and ever since, she’s been thankful for its healing words. Fletcher eventually wrote her own ebook, “Change your Mind, Change Your Body” based on how these laws healed her.

The healing power of raw foods

One of the laws focused on choosing healthier foods, especially raw, to help the body. Fletcher believes this was a crucial in healing her debilitating situation. Not only did her weight fall off, but she no longer relied on her wheelchair. She gradually began feeling better and these days, enjoys walking a mile daily.
While she has been 100% raw for several years and friends embrace her healthier food choices, her doctors were quick to suggest returning to her medications. However, Fletcher stuck by her decision to maintain her raw food lifestyle (another topic she learned was trusting oneself and the power of intuition) and hasn’t looked back.

Eating right, at the right time

She also read and began lecturing on the “Daylight Diet” by Paul Nison (RawLife.com), noting that all along, that book’s philosophies were what she’d been following while following her raw food regimen. The book stresses that when we eat is equally important as what we eat, and Fletcher is proof that incorporation of healthful, raw foods like nuts and vegetables, coupled with eating at the right times of day (commonly avoiding nighttime eating), can heal the body.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXXg49vzMU
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