Mercury can produce brain damage

This video clip shows how mercury produces brain degeneration with minimal particles.

Mercury is found in amalgams (tooth cavities), vaccines and fish.

The video clip was made by the University of Calgary.

How mercury produces brain damage

Phone mast allergy 'in the mind'

Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says, as reported on the BBC.

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering "real symptoms".

What is interesting to note is that this article is funded by the mobile telecommunications industry which is typically slanted towards positive outcomes for them. As we know, they are a multi billion dollar industry with huge interests to protect. They know there is a health problem, but won’t admit it and will do everything possible to communicate to the public that there is no health risk

Why? Well, on the one hand, no insurance company is prepared to cover the risk of possible health related claims due to cell phone usage and on the other hand, they want to avoid the flood of lawsuits against them

See the summary of an article from the Safe Wireless Initiative, an independent non profit scientific research institution that puts into perspective a Danish research study funded by the mobile telecommunications industry and used extensively as a PR campaign.

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'Heart risk posed' by diabetes drugs

Two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes double the risk of heart failure, a study on more than 78,000 patients suggests.

Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone are well known to diabetics, and it’s been stated the manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA knew about the dangers of these drugs prescribed to at least 1.5 million people in Britain last year.

“There doesn't seem to be a group of patients who are safe from these side-effects” reports Dr Yoon Loke University of East Anglia.

An internet search for ‘worst drugs’ reveals:

‘We list these drugs as Do Not Use drugs because they may be less effective than other drugs for diabetes and cause liver damage, weight gain, anemia and heart failure.’

Furthermore, Rosiglitazone was linked earlier this year to heart attacks.
The researchers, led by the University of East Anglia, suggest fluid retention caused by the drugs may be to blame.

Even more astonishing, a spokesman from the manufacturing drug company GlaxoSmithKline, has said: "The risk of heart failure in diabetes patients and with use of these medicines is well recognised and is clearly identified in prescribing information to doctors in the UK."

To repeat – 1.5 million people took the drug in Britain last year.

Something is clearly obvious – every diabetic patient taking this drug is at risk for heart disease. BUT, diabetes is a preventable condition, and even if both your parents and entire family suffered from it is no reason to fall into the trap of believing you have to suffer from it too.

Diabetes is a disease of lifestyle and poor eating habits – change them, with the approval of your doctor and guidance from a nutritionally trained health professional and you will reverse the condition. As long as you are not insulin dependant (Type 1 diabetic), there is plenty of hope for a full reversal of the condition.

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14-year-olds 'use cannabis daily'

Teenagers as young as 14 are using cannabis every day, according to a study by Queen's University Belfast

Dr Patrick McCrystal says cannabis used at a young age can lead to metal illness and other problems.

While 4,000 teenagers from 43 schools in Ireland have annually taken part in this survey since they entered secondary school, they seem to be unmoved to the dangers of the habit:

• Smoking marijuana on a regular basis causes a weakened immune system and soothe users lose the ability to stop allergies, bacteria or viruses from making them sick
• Occasional marijuana smoking leaves it in the body for up to 10 days, but if smoked regularly it will remain in the system for up to 30 days. It is fat soluble and so is stored in the major organs of the body, being the liver, brain and kidneys
• Short-term effects of marijuana smoking include memory and learning problems; distorted perception; fuzzy brain; difficulty in thinking and problem solving and increased heart rate
• Depression, disturbed personalities and anxiety are all linked with the use of marijuana
• Heart disease, lung cancer, bronchitis and emphysema are all exacerbated with increased risk as a result of chronic cannabis smoking
• An analysis of a study published in the Lancet Medical Journal of previous research into the effects of the drug on tens of thousands of people, provides the most persuasive evidence to date that smoking cannabis can cause mental illness years after people have stopped using it.

And now to make matters worse, the drug has been downgraded from 'Class B' to 'Class C', putting it on a par with tranquilizers and steroids. Of course we could look at this step from another angle – tha tranquilizers and steroids are pretty damaging drugs!

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Malnourished patients avoid hospital food

Hospital meals are so unappetising that many patients leave their food, according to a report on The Guardian.

Of the 2240 patients questioned:

o 40% had food brought in by family and friends
o Hospital meals were reported either too hot (dangerous microwaves?) or too cold (left lying around by understaffed orderlies?)
o Of those who needed help with eating, 22% did not get it (more staff shortages, or just plain uncaring staff?)

Whilst this report does bring concern to us all, there’s another aspect to consider.
‘It’s a fact that malnourished patients stay in hospital for longer and are three times as likely to develop complications during surgery’ according to the director general of Age Concern England, Gordon Lishman.

But when you read that sentence again, the patients were malnourished before they got to hospital

Why would more than a third of the surveyed patients leave their meals because of how they looked, smelled or tasted? It’s possible that due to their being malnourished before entering the hospital, it was because of their diet at home, which probably consisted of microwave meals at the very best, but mostly cheap processed meats, hamburgers and fizzy drinks.
No wonder the hospital food looked unappetising to them – it’s completely alien to their diet!
We did a quick Google Images search for hospital food, and if a well nourished person were given this meal he would find nothing to complain about

However, if you’re used to hamburgers, chips and cola, this is going to look, taste and smell disgusting. And even if you ate food like this for two days before your operation, your recovery period will be longer than the well-nourished healthy person who had been eating this way for years.

Health minister Andy Burnham says: ‘Hospital food has improved greatly over the past few years. There are some excellent menus around, but we do recognize more needs to be done’

Finally, there’s the one about children’s hospitals in the US linking up with MacDonald’s, which is enough to terrify any parent into trekking their own food to their child three or more times a day!

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