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Q&A: If I want to lose weight is “fat burn” heart rate better than “cardio”?

Question by scrmomkt: If I want to lose weight is “fat burn” heart rate better than “cardio”? If I am doing cardio, am I getting the same benefits as “fat burn” plus more? I tend to be a run/walker, trying to build up my running- though I also “fat burn” on an incline at a [...]

Another one bites the dust: Alabama’s most highly populated county hires bankruptcy lawyers in advance of financial meltdown

(NaturalNews) In what is shaping up to become the nation’s largest-ever municipal insolvency, Jefferson County, Ala., officials recently hired a major law firm to tackle the county’s approaching Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing. A federally-mandated sewer upgrade project plunged the county into severe debt back in the 1990s from which it has since been unable to recover. And since none of their alternative efforts have been successful, county officials say bankruptcy may become the final, and only, option. “Everything we’ve been trying to do to avoid bankruptcy has failed,” said County Commissioner Sandra Little Brown to FOX Business in a recent interview. “So now, we have to get an agreement or we go bankrupt.” Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff and Stern, LLP, the same law firm that handled the massive 1994 bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif. — which, to this day, remains the most expensive municipal bankruptcy in history — has been tasked with overseeing Jefferson County’s bankruptcy filing. If county officials decide there is no choice but to go through with the filing, then Jefferson County will assume Orange County’s spot as top bankruptcy. Jefferson County is continuing talks with creditors to try to negotiate a settlement, but so far none have offered an “acceptable” solution, according to County Commissioner Jimmie Stephens. Jefferson county’s general fund remains at a major shortfall, and its bond debts represent tens of millions of dollars. According to FOX Business, the county’s overall debt clocks in at more than $3 billion. “We’re ready for a negotiated settlement. Or we’re ready to file bankruptcy,” added Commissioner Brown. “One or the other.” The filing will indeed be major, but it will likely not be the last. A 2010 report on cities nearing default and bankruptcy indicates that in addition to Jefferson County, both Harrisburg, Penn. and Detroit, Mich. are assuming the same financial fate (http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/28/news/economy/american_cities_broke.fortune/index.htm). Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/us-usa-alabama-jeffersoncounty-idUSTRE76P5DK20110726 http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/07/29/can-alabama-county-avoid-being-countrys-largest-bankruptcy-deal-possibly-within/

Big Pharma looks to capitalize on success of vitamin D by turning it into a ‘drug’ for kidney disease

(NaturalNews) With an incredible success rate for vitamin D in treating a myriad of health conditions, it is no wonder that some drug companies are looking for new ways to capitalize on this natural, inexpensive nutrient. Biopharmaceutical giant Rockwell Medical recently announced that it has acquired a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic, injectable form of vitamin D called Calcitriol, that it openly refers to as a “drug.” Marketed under several brand names including Rocaltrol (Roche), Calcijex (Abbott), and Decostriol (Mibe, Jesalis), Calcitriol is really nothing more than vitamin D3, or 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, that has been placed in a syringe with sterile fluids and other additives. And yet Rockwell Medical, as well as various medical information sources, refer to Calicitriol as a “drug,” which is why Rockwell Medical obtained an ANDA in the first place. Calcitriol is marketed as a treatment for secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and is said to be a highly active, if not the most active, form of vitamin D in the body. Its high potency makes it very beneficial not only in the treatment of kidney disease, but also in the treatment and prevention of numerous other conditions including bone disease and cancer (http://naturalnews.com/vitamin_d.html). And while it is great that vitamin D is being promoted as useful in the treatment of disease, the terms under which it is being promoted within the drug industry are disconcerting. Vitamin D is not a drug, and yet drug companies are treating it as such, and putting it through the same drug application process that they would any of their other synthetic drug offerings. Based on current trends, it will likely not be long before Big Pharma attempts to patent and control numerous other forms of vitamin D as well as Calcitriol, which is why it is important to use and support only the supplement varieties of vitamin D, rather than “drug” varieties. Sources for this story include: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rockwell-medical-announces-acquisition-of-generic-drug-vitamin-d-to-treat-secondary-hyperparathyroidism-in-esrd-patients-2011-07-26?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Health Ranger interviews Julie Bass – all charges dropped against Michigan gardener

(NaturalNews) Thanks to the help of NaturalNews readers and the alternative media, Julie Bass has achieved victory against the Oak Park, Michigan city planner’s office that threatened to throw her in jail for 93 days for the “crime” of growing cucumbers and tomatoes in her front yard. All charges have been dismissed, but it turns out the city council may now be plotting to put even more draconian rules in place in the fall of this year. I spoke by phone with Julie and asked her to share how the charges were dismissed, what allowed her to prevail in the case, and what she plans to do from here forward. My full interview with Julie is available right now at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener Some of the highlights of the interview: “The city council recently suggested they should make a rule that everyone in Oak Park now has to run every single landscaping decision by the city council before they can do it. They’ve just reacted time and time again by digging in their heels and getting more draconian and trying to make even more absurd statements.” – Julie Bass Alternative media helps Julie Bass achieve victory In this interview, I asked Julie what role the alternative media (like NaturalNews and InfoWars) played in helping her achieve the dismissal of her charges. She said our public support for her case was essentially the primary reason why the charges were dropped: “I think that if they didn’t know there were so many eyes on them to do the right thing, I think it would have been really tempting to just have it be another citizen that they squashed down and put in her place. If no one was paying attention, it would have been so easy for them to just ride roughshod over us and give us all kinds of consequences and make up all kinds of other rules. I think it’s 100 percent responsible that there was so much public scrutiny on this one, so we appreciated that… more than we can even say,” said Julie. Listen to the full interview at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener Julie learns how even local Big Government can be tyrannical I also asked Julie what she learned about standing up against local tyranny “I never really realized how involved in your life the city government could get. I never realized it would turn into this beast that could persecute you and be very shameless in their desire to basically squash you like a bug,” she said. “This was just a really eye-opening experience about how many things the government does that fly under the radar, that no one pays attention, no one thinks it will ever affect me … so I think this is a good wakeup call for us to just pay attention, and be more aware, and don’t fall asleep at the switch or they’ll run stuff by you that you’ll just wake up with your jar hanging open, like oh my God what happened?” “I hope it really does have a positive effect on government, to remind them that they are accountable to the people they work for. And to remind people that you can stand up. You can stand your ground. I’m glad that I didn’t back down. I’m glad that I can show other people that you can just be a regular stay-at-home mom, but yet I was able to make my feelings carry some weight,” she added. Highlights of the backlash Julie told me she also really enjoyed the comedy video skit I created that poked fun at the Oak Park city planner’s office. You can watch that hilarious Monty Python-style animation satire at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3A4B88066D390F0EA7C2664E371269D3 “It took a lot of stress off during a really hard time,” Julie told me. Laughter is the best medicine, after all. Some other details that emerged from my conversation with Julie: • For an entire week after Kevin Rulkowski said on TV (twice) that the definition of “suitable” is “common,” the website Websters.com reported that the most frequently searched word definition on their dictionary website was “suitable.” • There was a campaign organized to mail dictionaries to the city of Oak Park, Michigan so that the word-challenged bureaucrats there could see for themselves the definition of the word “suitable.” • The Judge of her case in Oak Park was very fair and took a considerable amount of time to understand the charges and determine the real story of what had happened. Once again, listen to the full interview with Julie Bass at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener … and watch the hilarious satire video at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3A4B88066D390F0EA7C2664E371269D3 Yes, I did the character voice for the Kevin character. I do quite a few comedy character voices, including the voices in this hilarious skit called “General Mills Mind Games” at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=851519FA1AC72A56F7205D2285CC66CF

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Creatine: Does it Really Contribute to Male Pattern Baldness?

Your body manufactures a substance called Creatine, and you probably aren’t even aware it’s there. This natural organic acid helps increase muscle mass and provide extra energy. The only people who realize the role creatine can play in the body are those who are interested in developing all of their possible muscle mass. Since beef [...]

What Causes Heartburn?

Heartburn despite its title does not affect the heart at all. It’s an uncomfortable burning sensation in the lower chest accompanied by sour taste in the actual throat and mouth. Heartburn happens usually after eating a delicious meal or when you lay down. The burning feeling generally last for few minutes, depending on exactly what [...]

“Journey to Freedom: Journey to Healthy Living”

“Journey to Freedom: Journey to Healthy Living” “Stop being controlled by food and physical appearance. Based on the Journey to Freedom Manual, this study guide is about learning to deal with life-controlling food issues, no matter what they are-weight loss, eating disorders, food addictions, or body image issues. Like the other study guides in the [...]

Playing chicken with the nation: The U.S. debt ceiling fiasco and the total abandonment of leadership in Washington

(NaturalNews) For the last few decades, it all seemed so simple for the USA: We’ll spend other people’s money, and when we run out, we’ll just borrow from yet more people. It worked for a while… until all those “other people” (foreign central banks) got sick of buying U.S. debt. So lately, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and other arsonists at the Federal Reserve have simply been counterfeiting new money instead: A whopping $16 trillion of it in just the last couple of years. How much money is $16 trillion? Here’s a great visualization of a similar mount ($15 trillion) that really drives the point home: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Now, every time the U.S. government needs more money to prevent itself from going into a total financial collapse, it turns to the Federal Reserve which simply print more money and hands it over to the government in exchange for IOUs (debt), meaning that the Fed creates money for FREE, and then the taxpayers owe it the same amount of money it just created. Huh? Yeah, it’s like that. But that’s not even the real theft issue here. By printing all this money and injecting it into the circulating money supply, the Fed devalues all the current dollars in circulation while eroding the value of the dollar-denominated paycheck you’re receiving, too. So all the money you worked for and saved is being stolen by the Fed through dollar devaluation coupled with the fact that you the taxpayer now OWE the Fed trillions more! (A double theft scam. They steal your money twice!) Why Washington loves to steal your money In Washington, our so-called “leaders” are not even negotiating a way to end this system. They love the fiat currency / Federal Reserve / counterfeit money machine system! It’s what keeps all politicians popular: Simply print more money, then spend it on their favorite pork projects while claiming to be bringing “jobs” to their local states and districts. Every corrupt government needs an unlimited stream of money (created out of nothing) in order to stay in power through perpetual spending . This is why corrupt governments always — ALWAYS — abandon the gold standard (which limits the creation of new money). That’s why Boehner, Reid, Obama and others aren’t even talking about the commonsense idea of, “Hey, how do we STOP being financially burdened by this whole system?” The answer, of course, is actually quite simple. Ron Paul already suggested it when he said, “We simply write off all the debt to the Fed.” Cancel those IOUs and let the Fed eat the loss for a change. The Fed created all that money out of nothing anyway… why should we “pay it back?” Doesn’t even make sense. Better yet, as Ron Paul has suggested, what we really need to do is end the Fed and put control of the money supply back into the hands of Congress as it was before 1913 (the year the Fed was created, which started a century of looting of the U.S. economy by global banksters). The Federal Reserve, you see, is a criminal gang of international money thieves who are now engineering a total economic collapse of the USA. This has been their plan from the very start, of course. Read “The Creature From Jeckyll Island” by Ed Griffin (http://www.realityzone.com) to learn some rather shocking details about the origins of the Fed and why it always intended to suck the money out of this nation. Or watch this amazing animation film, The American Dream at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU The parasites who are destroying our financial future Globalist bankers are parasites on society, and if you give them control over your money supply, they will always find a way to loot your economy and drain the value of your currency. They’ve done it dozens of times throughout world history, and now their plot to destroy America’s currency is nearly complete. As Ron Paul has accurately stated, we are already in default . The only question now is HOW we’re going to experience the total financial blowout of the nation. There are essentially two options: Option #1) Stop sending government checks. The government goes into total default and simply collapses because it stops paying all government salaries, too. This option is not likely because option #2 is so much more devious and satisfying for control freak bureaucrats. Option #2) Keep sending out all the checks, but devalue them by printing more money under the table. This option will keep the government in business for a while longer, thereby protecting the cushy jobs of all the corrupt bureaucrats running the system. The ultimate effect of this option, however, is unavoidable: Total hyperinflation of the currency . We are almost certainly going to be dealing with option #2. The crooks in Washington will find a way to keep raising the debt ceiling, keep printing more money, and keep eroding the savings and benefits of all the taxpayers while they oversee the greatest financial collapse in the history of human civilization . What will happen when the collapse comes? This outcome is now all but certain. It is only a matter of timing: For how long can they keep printing fiat currency? For how long can they keep eroding the value of the dollar without the people rioting in anger? To extend this time and try to keep things under control, the U.S. government will put troops on the streets , increase the police state surveillance, and do everything in its power to try to stop riots from breaking out. As I stated on the Alex Jones Show last night (www.PrisonPlanet.TV), if the American people fully realized what was really happening with the Federal Reserve and the money supply, they would be rioting right now! It is only ignorance of the truth that keeps the nation’s wage slaves working away in their dimly-lit offices, oblivious to the reality of what is unfolding around them (and how they’re being royally ripped off). From an historical perspective, by the way, we are watching the financial collapse of a great empire . It is happening before our very eyes, in slow motion. We are learning, yet again, what happens when you put a bunch of corrupt socialists in charge of a nation and allow them to confiscate the wages of the workers (social security) and tax the businesses out of existence. The corporate elite, of course, pay virtually no tax (GE, Google, etc.) while the real tax burden is thrust upon all the medium and small businesses where business owners are just barely scraping. The whole point of this engineered financial collapse (and yes, it is engineered) is to confiscate all the wealth of the working class and concentrate it in the hands of the ultra wealthy elite. It is to leave the working class people destitute, starving, jobless and totally enslaved while the global elite have all the money, all the power and all the control — even control over the food supply. Five years ago, such talk would have been considered loony conspiracy fear mongering, but today, virtually everyone can now see it unfolding just as we warned. In Washington right now, the crooks are trying to figure out how to avoid an imminent financial collapse of the government , which could be just a handful of days away. They will resolve this short-term crisis, by the way. The government won’t collapse on August 2nd. But the eventual financial collapse will only be made worse by a higher debt ceiling and the continued out-of-control spending by a government that has long abandoned any real sense of serving the People. This government will not stop its debt addiction until it is forced to stop either through a popular revolt or a total financial collapse (or a military coup, for that matter). I can only hope that NaturalNews readers have the wisdom and the foresight to recognize what’s coming and plan accordingly. If you don’t yet have my audio course, Be Prepared, Not Scared – Financial Preparedness , then you may want to consider it now more than ever before. For less than the price of a full tank of gas, you can learn some extremely valuable insider knowledge of what’s coming and how to insulate yourself against the collapse of the dollar (which will leave most Americans penniless). I don’t give out that course for free because twenty years of business experience has taught me that most people don’t value something they get for free . So we charge a nominal fee, and we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee so that you know it’s worth every penny. In the coming collapse, the information you learn in this course can save your assets and keep you financially alive. Get details at: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/Be_Prepared_Not_Scared_Financial_Preparedness__NN.htm Once you get the course, you can download the MP3 files, listen to them, and (YES!) share them with family members so they’re informed, too. A financial crisis is upon us. Most people are asleep at the wheel and don’t realize what’s coming. The August 2nd deadline is just a warning sign, but not the big collapse. While the USA may still be able to run on financial fumes for several more years, there is now absolutely no question that those fumes will eventually fade out, and the total financial implosion of the American empire will soon follow.

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