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Study: Tylenol, acetaminophen linked to causing blood cancer

Health Blogger — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) A new study out of the University of Washington (UW) provides even more evidence that taking over-the-counter painkillers can kill you. Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology , the study explains that taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, for extended periods of time can increase a person’s risk of developing blood cancer. Dr. Roland Walter, an assistant professor of medicine at UW, and his colleagues examined data on nearly 65,000 men and women between the ages of 50 and 76 who participated in the Vitamins and Lifestyle (VITAL) study, which was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2004. They found that participants who took acetaminophen at least four days a week over the course of four years were twice as likely to develop certain blood cancers compared to people who took less or none of the drug. “We found that high use of acetaminophen, one of the most frequently used medications worldwide, was associated with an almost twofold increased risk of incident hematologic malignancies,” said Walter, referring to non-Hodgkin lymphomas, plasma cell disorders, and myeloid neoplasms. “Acetaminophen use on the majority of the days over many years appears to be associated with this new adverse effect.” The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) already warns that acetaminophen is toxic to the liver, and is linked to liver failure and other serious problems (http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/informationbydrugclass/ucm165107.htm). Acetaminophen is found in many common drugs, including in Excedrin, Nyquil, and Theraflu. Previous studies have also linked acetaminophen to kidney damage, asthma, and death (http://www.naturalnews.com/acetaminophen.html). According to a 2009 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine , acetaminophen is the leading cause of drug overdose-related emergency room (ER) visits among children. More than 7,000 children end up in the ER every year from acetaminophen overdoses (http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/AMEPRE/AMEPRE_2545.pdf). Sources for this story include: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20110511/hl_hsn/chronictylenolusemaybelinkedtobloodcancerstudysuggests

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CDC vaccine scientist who downplayed links to autism indicted by DOJ in alleged fraud scheme

Health Blogger — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) CDC researcher Poul Thorsen, who famously headed up the “Denmark Study” that many claim disproved any link between autism and vaccines, has been indicted in Atlanta by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and defrauding research institutions of grant money. Poul Thorson is a scientist who formerly worked for the CDC, and over the last several years, he oversaw millions of dollars in grant money that was used to conduct research to “prove” that vaccines have no link to autism. Dr. Thorson’s research papers include the famous “Danish Study” entitled Thimerosal and the occurrence of autism: negative ecological evidence from Danish population-based data . (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12949291) This paper concludes that thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative used in vaccines around the world, has no statistically significant link to autism. It is one of the key papers used by vaccination proponents who argue that thimerosal is safe to inject into young children. That Poul Thorson’s credibility is now being called into question by a federal indictment of fraud and money laundering will, of course, have ripple effects throughout both the vaccine industries and autism support groups (more about that below). Be sure to see our “Web of Alleged Fraud” chart which accompanies this article: http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Web-of-Alleged-Fraud.pdf Follow the money According to the official announcement of the indictment, Thorsen was awarded grant money by the CDC as far back as the 1990s. He arranged for the grant money to be awarded to an entity in Denmark, where he provided “input and guidance” for the research projects. From 2000 to 2009, the CDC awarded $11 million in grant money to two Denmark government agencies to study, among other things, the possible link between vaccines and autism. In 2002, Thorsen moved to Denmark and became the “principal investigator” for the grant money, responsible for administering the research money that the CDC awarded. But here’s where things get interesting: According to the Dept. of Justice, Thorsen began allegedly stealing grant money by submitting fraudulent expense documents that were supposedly related to the Danish study. These fraudulent expense documents were given to the Danish government, Aarhus University and Odense University Hospital, the institutions involved in the research. From February 2004 through June 2008, says the DOJ indictment, Thorsen allegedly submitted over a dozen fraudulent invoices requesting reimbursement for expenses that were fabricated. Interestingly, these allegedly fraudulent invoices were signed by a laboratory section chief at the CDC , indicating that someone inside the CDC was either duped by Thorsen or potentially involved in the alleged fraud. What was Thorsen claiming in these allegedly fraudulent invoices requesting reimbursement? He claimed that a CDC laboratory had conducted work in conjunction with the research and was owed funds out of the grant money. These invoices were then handed over to Aarhus University, where Thorsen held a faculty position. Aarhus then transferred “hundreds of thousands of dollars to bank accounts held at the CDC Federal Credit Union in Atlanta,” says the DOJ. But here’s the clever part: Those bank accounts were not official CDC accounts at all. They were allegedly private bank accounts belonging to none other than Dr. Poul Thorsen. Once the money was transferred into Thorsen’s private accounts, Thorsen “allegedly withdrew it for his own personal use, buying a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and Audi and Honda vehicles, and obtaining numerous cashier’s checks, from the fraud proceeds,” says the DOJ. According to government documents, Dr. Poul Thorsen, one of the key researchers in “disproving” any link between vaccines and autism, allegedly defrauded the scientific research community of over one million dollars . See the chart we’ve assembled for this to help show you the web of money and influence at work here: http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Web-of-Alleged-Fraud.pdf Aarhus distances itself from Thorsen More details are revealed through a statement issued in January by Aarhus University, which sought to sever its ties with Thorsen. It says, “Unfortunately, a considerable shortfall in funding at Aarhus University associated with the CDC grant was discovered. In investigating the shortfalls associated with the grant, DASTI and Aarhus University became aware of two alleged CDC funding documents as well as a letter regarding funding commitments allegedly written by Randolph B. Williams of CDC’s Procurement Grants Office which was used to secure advances from Aarhus University. Upon investigation by CDC, a suspicion arose that the documents are forgeries.” (http://www.rescuepost.com/files/thorsen-aarhus-1.pdf) This letter goes on to state that Dr Thorsen was essentially hoodwinking others into thinking he was still a faculty member at Aarhus University: In March 2009, Dr. Thorsen resigned his faculty position at Aarhus University. In the meantime, it has come to the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Thomsen has continued to act in such a manner as to create the impression that he still retains a connection to Aarhus University after the termination of his employment by the university. Furthermore, it has come to the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Poul Thorsen has held full-time positions at both Emory University and Aarhus University simultaneously. Dr Thorsen’s double Full-time employment was unauthorised by Aarhus University, and he engaged in this employment situation despite the express prohibition of Aarhus University. The federal indictment against Thorsen Today, Thorsen is facing 13 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering . NaturalNews spoke with the Department of Justice and confirmed that extradition proceedings are under way to bring Thorsen to the United States from Denmark, although no particular timetable for that extradition has been announced. Thorsen now faces up to 260 years in prison from the wire fraud charges, and up to an additional 90 years in prison for the money laundering charges, plus a total of $22.5 million in possible fines. In addition, the federal indictment also contains a so-called “forfeiture provision” which seeks the forfeiture of the personal property Dr. Thorsen allegedly purchased with money he stole from the CDC’s grant activities: A house in Atlanta, two cars and a Harley Davidson motorcycle. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen H. McClain and Michael J. Brown, both out of the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta). This Atlanta office has a well-known reputation for going after crooks, regardless of the political implications. This is the same office, for example, that indicted Atlanta’s own mayor for corruption and tax charges in 2004 (http://www.justice.gov/tax/usaopress/2004/txdv0408-30-04.html). The prosecuting attorney for that case, Sally Quillian Yates, is the same attorney contributing to this case. She said of Thorsen: “Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases. This defendant is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to steal over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research. We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States.” Understand what is being alleged here: That Thorsen stole taxpayer dollars intended for medical research, then pocketed them in his own private bank accounts and used the money to buy luxury items for his personal use. This is a man with a history of strong ties to the CDC , research universities and medical journals. This is a person whose research has been widely quoted by the vaccine apologists who say vaccines are safe. And now, in the midst of all this, how many mainstream newspapers do you see covering Thorsen’s indictment and his ties to the CDC? Virtually none . This is the great untold story of an alleged criminal ring operating inside the CDC , with the purpose of falsifying research that would “disprove” any links between vaccines and toxic side effects. The upshot of all this What you read above are the facts of the case. What you’re about to read is my own opinion analysis as the editor of NaturalNews. While I spoke with the U.S. Attorney’s Office on these matters, what you’re about to read are my own opinions, not theirs. For starters, given that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the American Journal of Epidemiology and many other medical journals have published Dr. Thorsen’s work, will they retract his scientific papers now that he has been indicted for fraud and money laundering? Or do the medical journals only retract papers only from those whose research suggests that vaccines do, in fact, have a link to intestinal disorders and neurological problems in children? Remember, of course, that the conventional medical industry almost couldn’t wait to denounce Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s research, based on only the flimsiest of allegations which don’t even stand up to basic scrutiny. And yet when one of their own “insider” scientists like Dr. Poul Thorsen is indicted for fraud and money laundering, they don’t question the integrity of his scientific research in the least. In fact, the CDC is now publicly defending his research! His research is still openly cited on the CDC’s own website! (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/articles.html) So don’t hold your breath waiting for the medical journals to denounce Dr. Thorsen’s research. His so-called “scientific findings” are such an important cornerstone in the false “scientific” evidence dispelling any link between vaccines and autism that they would probably let his research stand even if he was convicted of rape, murder and incest. No criminal is too criminal for the medical journals, it seems — especially if his conclusions support the vaccine industry. Secondly, did you notice that the allegedly falsified invoices submitted by Dr. Thosen to Aarhus University were signed off by a CDC lab section chief? Someone inside the CDC, in other words, was enabling Dr. Thorsen to allegedly engage in this fraud. The question is: Was this person a co-conspirator? To answer all this, you have to keep one thing in perspective: During the years of 2006 – 2008 when all this alleged fraud was taking place, the vaccine industry was under increasing attack by scientists who questioned their safety. The evidence linking vaccines with autism and gastrointestinal disorders was becoming increasingly evident and increasingly difficult to cover up. Dr. Julie Gerberding was at the help of the CDC, and she was no doubt trying to impress her future employers at Merck, where she is now the president of Merck’s global vaccine division, having left the CDC the very next year following Dr. Thorsen’s alleged money laundering scheme. Question: Did the CDC actively enable and support Dr. Thorsen’s alleged fraud in order to “pay him off” for falsifying the research that would supposedly disprove any link between vaccines and autism? And was this being masterminded by Dr. Julie Gerberding as part of her effort to prove her loyalty to Merck, where she now runs the global vaccine division? Consider the ties here: Dr. Poul Thorsen used to have a CDC email address (pct9@cdc.gov). He was on the CDC payroll and spoke at CDC events. He had a private bank account at the CDC Credit Union! Dr. Thorsen had enough pull with the CDC to get his pet grant project approved, even to the point of having the money wired overseas to a university in Denmark where — guess what? — he just happened to be a faculty member with “oversight” of where the money went. For Dr. Thorsen to have pulled off his alleged fraud, he would have needed help from inside the CDC — from the “lab section chief” who signed his invoices that were submitted to Aarhus University for “reimbursement.” Those funds, of course, were then allegedly used by Dr. Thorsen to purchase a home, cars and a motorcycle, among other things. Was Thorsen a patsy for a larger scheme? I see two possibilities here: Either the CDC conspired with Dr. Thorsen , or they set him up to take the fall. Every great scam needs a fall guy, you see, and the vaccine industry’s fraudulent scientific cover-up of the truth about vaccine dangers is one of the greatest scams ever pulled off in the history of human civilization. The CDC has its fingerprints all over this case, as a former employer of Thorsen, the source of the money (which is really taxpayer money, of course), and even the source of the “lab section chief” employee who allegedly helped make all this happen. To believe that the CDC may have conspired with Dr. Thorsen is not even a stretch. The CDC, as we’ve already shown, is deeply in bed with the vaccine industry and the drug companies. That’s why the former head of the CDC is now the president of Merck’s vaccine division (http://www.naturalnews.com/027789_Dr_Julie_Gerberding_Merck.html). It’s also why the CDC urges everyone to “get vaccinated” at the first sign of a seasonal flu or an emerging epidemic. The pro-vaccine bias of the CDC has been blatant for years. Other CDC scientists also involved in the fraud? Writers Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill from the AgeOfAutism.com website have done additional research on this point, and they’ve found some solid evidence that should raise questions about the CDC’s involvement in Thorsen’s alleged fraud. As they published recently in an article entitled Poul Thorsen’s Mutating Resume : (http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/poul-thorsens-mutating-resume.html) In addition, several current CDC employees including Drs. Diana Schendel, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp and Catherine Rice were affiliated with Thorsen’s now-defunct research group. Age of Autism has obtained Internet-archived pages from the Web site of the North Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that list the members of the “Atlanta autism team” including Schendel, Yeargin-Allsopp and Rice, all of whom have been in leadership positions in the CDC’s autism epidemiology projects. Schendel is described as NANEA’s “coordinator at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA.” This article goes on to say, by the way, that Thorsen was also working with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to alter the definition of “autism” in the DSM-V (the psychiatric industry’s bible of diagnosis and treatment). The CDC, of course, has downplayed the whole thing. It released a statement that attempted to characterize Poul Thorsen’s alleged fraud as a “fiscal” matter, not something involving his science, as if to imply that a man can be a crook when it comes to his money, but an angel when it comes to his science. They said: “CDC is aware of the allegations by Aarhus University against Poul Thorsen, a Danish doctor who participated in CDC funded research. For the past 10 years, CDC has had a cooperative agreement with the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) and Aarhus University in Denmark to conduct research studies on issues such as cerebral palsy, autism, alcohol use in pregnancy and Down syndrome. Dr. Thorsen was one of many co-authors on these research projects. All of these were subject to extensive peer review and we have no reason to suspect that there are any issues related to the integrity of the science. The allegations that are fiscal in nature against Dr. Thorsen are being looked into by appropriate authorities.” (http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/copenhagen-police-investigating-autism-vaccine-researcher-dr-poul-thorsen-for-fraud.html) But the other possibility in all this is that someone inside the CDC wanted to protect the CDC’s reputation from all the quackery and fraud they saw happening there. Perhaps they were clued in to Dr. Thorsen’s alleged money laundering, and they were sick of it. Maybe they saw Dr. Gerberding collect a multi-million-dollar salary from Merck while the rest of the people were left behind at the CDC collecting government wages. This is conjecture, of course, but it seems reasonable to suppose that someone from within the CDC could be the whistleblower on all this. And if that someone reads this, we want to hear from you. Feel free to leak internal documents to NaturalNews any time you want, through our public feedback form. We protect the identities of all our sources and we are interested in seeing justice served . If there is an element in the CDC that is knowingly engaged in criminal fraud and conspiracy, that elements needs to be exposed and removed from the CDC for the good of the entire institution. Otherwise, more of this kind of news will only come out in the years ahead, and the reputation of the CDC will only continue to plummet. Don’t think the world isn’t noticing already: Just two years ago, the CDC’s reputation was relatively high even among natural health practitioners. But after watching the CDC’s behavior through these last couple of flu scares, more intelligent people now fully realize the CDC has become little more than a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry . It was the CDC, after all, that helped hype up the Swine Flu scare that resulted in billions of taxpayer dollars being needlessly spent on vaccines which were mostly thrown away unused after the scare passed. The DOJ earns street cred The real hero in all this, it turns out, is the Department of Justice (DOJ). Rather than bowing to the profit interests of the vaccine industry, the DOJ is going after Dr. Poul Thorsen based solely on his alleged criminal behavior, not based on politics or science. It’s refreshing to know that some elements of the federal government are actually doing good work. I’ve seen this before from the DOJ in its indictments of various pharmaceutical companies, and I continue to believe that the DOJ may be the last remaining hope for justice at the federal level. I did tell my contact at the DOJ, however, that they should watch out for pressure from the vaccine industry. There will be efforts made, no doubt, to limit the exposure of this case to only Dr. Poul Thorsen and not involve any other CDC employees or officials. Honestly, in talking to the DOJ about this case, I think they vastly underestimate the level of commitment the drug companies have to their vaccine profit machine; meaning they also vastly underestimate the tactics that are traditionally used by these companies to limit their damage. For example, most NaturalNews readers know full well that I’ve had multiple threats placed on my life, I’ve been stalked, I’ve been impersonated, and there have been assassination attempts made on other leaders in the natural health movement who have dared to question vaccines. What the DOJ doesn’t know (but I hope they will soon realize) is that the drug companies will stop at nothing to get their way: They will poison your dog, hack your website, threaten your family, leave nasty notes in your mailbox, plant fake bombs under your car and do whatever else it takes to get you to back off. I know that DOJ prosecutors and attorneys will be reading this, so let me share something with you that you need to know: When you go up against the pharmaceutical industry, you are doing battle with what is essentially organized crime . We’re talking a modern-day mob here, and they will not hesitate to engaged in attempted bribery, corruption or threats of violence to get their way. If the DOJ begins to uncover a deeper connection between Thorsen, the CDC and the drug companies, beware of the backlash headed your way from both the industry and even the top folks in D.C. The depth of the fraud and crimes being committed right now in the pursuit of vaccine profits is nothing short of astonishing. We’ve reported on many here at NaturalNews, and yet we’ve just barely scratched the surface of the real story. Even the vaccine pushers in the online world engage in precisely the same kind of criminal behavior; fixing online polls, creating robots to maliciously attack anti-vax websites, engaging in the widespread posting of false information, and so on. This is, of course, a reflection of the exact same psychopathic criminal-minded behavior found inside the vaccine industry itself — an industry staffed by sick-minded human beings who belong in federal prison, not running research for the CDC. As the editor of NaturalNews, I have publicly, on numerous occasions, called for the Department of Justice to investigate the CEOs of drug companies for fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. While this indictment of Dr. Poul Thorsen isn’t all that, it’s at least a step in the right direction that may help uncover the truth about what really goes on behind the scenes with taxpayer “research money.” How much vaccine research is based on outright fraud? It also raises the question: How many other scientific researchers and grant money administrators are on the take, pocketing taxpayer dollars that were intended for research purposes? How many of these people falsify their research data in order to keep getting grant money injections into their private bank accounts? Just how deep does the collusion between the corrupt scientific community and the fraudulent vaccine industry really go? And, of course, what is the CDC’s role in all this? It has been one of the top cheerleaders for the vaccine industry for at least the past decade. Now, we are learning that a CDC section chief knowingly or unknowingly colluded with a physician and researcher who has now been indicted for fraud and money laundering. How high up the CDC does this alleged fraud really go? I don’t know the answer to that. But it’s not that complicated to figure out, especially when CDC employees become Big Pharma vaccine employees, and vice-versa. It’s all a giant government-corporate-medicine orgy where the scientific trust was abandoned long ago in favor of Big Pharma profits. We’ll do our best here at NaturalNews to find out the rest of this story and bring it to you. That’s what we do. That’s why we’re the 4th largest alternative news website in the world (and growing every day). We bring you the news about the fraud and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry that most mainstream media sources won’t dare touch. Subscribe to my free daily email newsletter to receive a daily email that I send out, containing links to the top stories you need to know about. It’s free, so sign up now at: http://www.naturalnews.com/readerregistration.html By the way, I strongly recommend that you become a regular readers of www.AgeOfAutism.com which provides outstanding reporting on these issues. Make that sight one of your regular sources of information. You’ll be amazed by what they are able to report. Additional sources for this story include: http://kerboblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/news-flash-cdc.html http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/04/13/dane-indicted-for-defrauding-cdc.html http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/04/danish-study-cdc-doctor-who-debunked-autism-vaccines-link-indicted-on-fraud.html http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-crime-research-funds-idUSTRE73C8JJ20110413

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CDC vaccine scientist who downplayed links to autism indicted by DOJ in alleged fraud scheme

New study says plant-based foods help prevent cancer

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Minnesota Hormel Institute now admit that plant-based foods are highly beneficial in helping to prevent cancer, particularly among those who have the highest risk of developing the disease. Published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer , their study says that plant phytochemicals — which include powerful nutrients and antioxidants like selenium, resveratrol, beta-carotene, and lycopene, — are a viable option in cancer prevention. “Although successful for a limited number of cancer types, the efficiency of (conventional) cancer therapies, especially for later stages, remains poor,” said Dr. Zigang Dong, one of the study authors and director of The Hormel Institute. “We would like to use target therapies for prevention of human cancer. We have identified many protein targets that can be used to develop more effective cancer preventive agents.” And while Dong and his team in their study speak specifically of extracting plant phytochemicals and turning them into patented pharmaceutical drugs, these phytochemicals in their natural form are perfectly capable of providing anti-cancer benefits without having to be modified. Myricetin, a phytochemical in green onions that the researchers identified, was also previously identified in a 2007 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology as a powerful anti-cancer nutrient. Three different types of flavanols, including myricetin, together exhibited anti-cancer benefits in the study (http://www.naturalnews.com/022364_pancreatic_cancer_onions.html). Resveratrol, a phytochemical antioxidant compound found in grapes, has also been shown to prevent and fight cancer, as well as protect against heart disease, deter the negative effects of aging, improve vision, and prevent diabetes, among many other things (http://www.naturalnews.com/resveratrol.html). Other anti-cancer plant phytochemicals include allicin in garlic, anthocyanidins in cranberries and blueberries, sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, and anti-aromatase compounds in mushrooms. Sources for this story include: http://www.austindailyherald.com/2011/02/24/hormel-institute-researchers-believe-plants-may-help-prevent-cancer/

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Seasonal flu vaccine fairy tale rapidly collapsing as the truth comes out

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) Like a medical house of cards in an earthquake, the seasonal flu vaccine mythology is collapsing right before our eyes. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health authorities announced last week that “healthy people” were to blame for causing a vaccine shortage that they claim now threatens the lives of sick children (http://www.naturalnews.com/030977_vaccine_shortage.html). As part of this ruse, they even suggested that pharmacies should be banned from selling flu vaccines to healthy people, explaining that healthy people didn’t really need them anyway . So much for the big flu vaccine delusion that “everybody needs a vaccine.” As UK health authorities are now blatantly admitting, that was all just a fairy tale that crumpled the instant they ran out of excess vaccine inventory. Now, what we really know about the vaccine industry is that the marketing motto goes something like this: When vaccines are in short supply, only sell them to people who need them. When vaccines are in abundant supply, sell them to people who don’t need them. Doctors order a halt to flu vaccines for children The seasonal flu vaccine delusion looks even more ridiculous in light of the new marching orders from UK health authorities who, just three days ago, announced that seasonal flu mass vaccination programs for children should be halted . The decision comes from the North West Strategic Health Authority (SHA), which reversed its decision to “vaccinate all children” announced two weeks ago. That original decision to vaccinate all children was derived from vaccine-propaganda “research” published in The Lancet — the same medical journal that pushes an aggressive vaccine agenda while simultaneously pursuing a modern-day witch hunt against Dr Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who demonstrated a correlation between vaccines and autism. Many parents, who have been indoctrinated by the UK press into believing the quack science behind seasonal flu vaccines, are now freaking out and wondering how they’re going to “protect” their children from the flu. The thought of feeding their children good nutrition, vitamin D supplements and organic fresh food never occurred to them, apparently. In an age where medicinal food is outlawed while interventionist vaccines are pushed as “medicine,” a surprisingly large number of adults remain utterly ignorant of how to protect the health of their children without turning to pharmaceuticals. Mass vaccinations don’t work well, even according to vaccine proponents While all this is going on, a new theoretical approach to stopping the spread of seasonal flu has emerged from the field of quantum physics , where three physicists from Michigan State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem devised a new vaccination approach that accelerates the “natural extinction” of the virus through what they call “selective vaccination.” They found that the practice of mass vaccination is scientifically unnecessary (and that’s even if you believe that seasonal flu vaccines work at all). Their work is based on the established scientific fact that every strain of influenza becomes extinct on its own, even if nobody is vaccinated . Their targeted vaccine approach models the timing of vaccines after seasonal variations in infections while also taking into account the relative vulnerability factors among different groups (children, adults, seniors, etc.). Professor Baruch Meerson explains that vaccinating just a few percent of the vulnerable population is all that’s required to significantly shorten the natural “burn out” time of an infectious flu. You can find more details on this paper at: http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge129422769832688760 The upshot of this research is that mathematical modeling shows that mass vaccination programs are wasteful, expensive and ineffective . People who receive vaccines die from the flu anyway Perhaps the most obvious example of the shattered illusions of the flu vaccine fairy tale is the fact that people who get flu vaccines still die from the flu . Case in point: A UK grandmother who received a flu vaccine several months ago died last week from the flu (http://www.naturalnews.com/031010_swine_flu_fatalities.html). She was 68 years old and her doctor said that she would be protected from the flu by the flu shot. But she was lied to because it turns out that flu vaccines don’t offer 100% protection against the flu. In fact, they don’t offer 50% protection… nor even 10% protection. Statistically speaking, for every 100 people who get a flu shot, 99 people demonstrate no benefit whatsoever (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html). In addition, there’s the issue of the re-infection rate of those who are vaccinated: How many people who catch the flu are already vaccinated against it? The flu vaccine industry won’t say. They don’t want people to know the astonishing truth that most people who catch the flu are the very same people who have been vaccinated against the flu! Food supplements work better to prevent flu and cold symptoms Even while the mythology behind seasonal flu vaccines is crumbling, new evidence is emerging that food-based nutritional supplements really work to prevent flu infections. An 8-month, 500-person study carried out by the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics reveals that Juice Plus+ supplements resulted in a 20 percent decrease in moderate and severe cold symptoms in test subjects. This study has now been published in the British Journal of Nutrition and was based on a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Juice Plus+ supplements, by the way, are also loaded with literally thousands of phytonutrients (plant-based medicines) that support human health in a multitude of ways. These nutrients help protect the human body from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, liver disorders and even Alzheimer’s disease. Although I’m not personally involved in the Juice Plus company, I do support their product line and hope to report more about Juice Plus in the future. The collapse of the vaccine delusion is accelerating I wouldn’t have predicted this a year ago, but it’s now clear that the seasonal flu vaccine delusion is collapsing more quickly than ever. This is probably the reason the vaccine industry now appears so frantically desperate to destroy the careers of any doctors or scientists who question conventional vaccine dogma. The recent series of outrageous attacks on Dr Andrew Wakefield — by an industry that is itself steeped in corruption and fraud — is perhaps the most relevant example. Medical journals are actually rewriting history to remove any studies that document the harm caused by vaccines. (This is, of course, classic Orwellian maneuvering via the Ministry of Truth.) The mass media, which of course is funded in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, is going along with the demonization of vaccine opponents, further spreading the quackery and subterfuge that defines the modern-day vaccine industry. But even their most desperate attempts to deny scientific reality will ultimately fail, and I predict the vaccine industry as we know it today will ultimately be revealed as the greatest medical fraud ever perpetrated on the human race . Before long, seasonal flu vaccine pushers will rightly be labeled “quacks” are derided as unintelligent, non-scientific lapdogs of the vaccine industry. How will all this unfold? The most likely scenario involves a deadly, fast-spreading viral pandemic that turns out to be especially deadly only to those who have been vaccinated. (Vaccines actually weaken the immune response to future epidemics.) After tens of millions of people die across the planet, the truth will become clear: Vaccines actually create the perfect storm of long-term vulnerabilities for a global pandemic wipeout of the human population. But perhaps that’s the whole point to begin with. Vaccines are remarkably effective as population control medications. As Bill Gates famously said, “The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html) Don’t believe it? Watch the video yourself right here: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A155D113455FAC882A3290536575C723 Seasonal flu vaccines do serve a purpose, it seems. It’s just not the purpose we’ve all been led to believe. Sources for this story include: Stephanie Roll, Marc Nocon, Stefan N. Willich. Reduction of common cold symptoms by encapsulated juice powder concentrate of fruits and vegetables: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial . British Journal of Nutrition, 2010; 105 (01): 118

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Potato chips, fries linked to cancer

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) When potato products are fried in oil at high temperatures, they produce a chemical called acrylamide that can cause cancer. And a new study in the British Journal of Cancer adds to the mounting evidence against the chemical, showing that acrylamide is associated with a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women. Back in July, a study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment found that women with the highest intake of acrylamide were 31 percent more likely to develop ER+ breast cancer, 47 percent more likely to develop PR+ breast cancer, and 43 percent more likely to develop ER+PR+ breast cancer, compared to women who consumed the least or no acrylamide. In 2009, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that acrylamide intake caused an increase in oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, increased inflammation markers in antioxidants, which would otherwise remove acrylamide, and other neurological damage (http://www.naturalnews.com/025774_acrylamide_food_health.html). And in 2008, a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology found that women who eat roughly one serving of potato chips a day are twice as likely as those who do not to develop ovarian or endometrial cancers. Fried potatoes are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, though. Any starchy foods that are cooked too long or at too high a temperature can form acrylamide, including even grilled meats and vegetables with grill marks on them. Toasted breads and cereals, baked foods, browned meats, and even some dried fruits also contain acrylamide (http://www.naturalnews.com/024942_acrylamides_acrylamide_foods.html). “Consumers can reduce their exposure to acrylamide by limiting their intake of potato chips and French fries…and quitting smoking, which is a major source of acrylamide,” said Mary Ann Johnson, PhD, a spokesperson at the American Society for Nutrition. Sources for this story include: http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Safety/chemical/carcinogen_in_fries_linked_to_breast_cancer_2810100734.html http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Safety/chemical/fries_chips_linked_to_breast_cancer_1910100751.html

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Fish oil helps prevent breast cancer

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) The best way to fight breast cancer is to prevent it from ever occurring in the first place, and you can help do that by supplementing with a high quality fish oil, suggests a new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention . According to researchers from the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., current use of fish oil among the population is associated with a 32 percent decreased risk of developing breast cancer. Theodore Brasky and his team surveyed 35,000 women between the ages of 50 and 76 on their dietary habits, and evaluated the results based on fish oil consumption patterns. Based on a ten-year average of fish oil intake, the team found that women who consume fish oil are at a significantly reduced risk of developing breast cancer than women who do not. Fish oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids like eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) which previous studies have already found work to prevent cancer. These nutrients also help to balance out the negative effects of too much omega-6 intake, which research is showing leads to serious disease. You can learn more about fish oil by visiting the NaturalNews fish oil page: http://www.naturalnews.com/fish_oil.html Preventive medicine is the best medicine, but such medicine comes in the form of quality food and nutritional supplements. While health authorities and cancer groups push women to get mammograms and take preventive breast cancer drugs as a supposed solution, nutrition experts and those aware of the healing power of superfoods advise that women simply eat well and avoid processed food, get plenty of sunshine and vitamin D, and take an omega-3 supplement like high-quality fish oil, among other things. When choosing a fish oil, it is best to find one that has undergone as little processing as possible, and one that has been tested to be free of harmful contaminants. And if you prefer not to consume animal products, some vegetarians alternatives to fish oil include flax and hemp oils. Sources for this story include: http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Food/pink_fish_oil_breast_cancer_0610100713.html

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Drowning in soda: America’s health problems made far worse by massive soda consumption

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) The booming popularity of sugary soft drinks has led to 6,000 more deaths, 14,000 more cases of heart disease and 130,000 new cases of diabetes in the past 10 years, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco and presented at the annual Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention conference of the American Heart Association. “We can demonstrate an association between daily consumption of sugared beverages and diabetes risk,” researcher Litsa Lambrakos said. “We can then translate this information into estimates of the current diabetes and cardiovascular disease that can be attributed to the rise in consumption of these drinks.” The researchers found that sugary soft drinks also contributed to the loss of 21,000 life-years, plus an increase of 50,000 in the life-years spent suffering from heart disease. “We probably underestimated the incidence, because the rise is greatest among the young, and our model focuses on adults 35 and older,” researcher Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo said. The analysis included juices with sugar added but excluded 100 percent juice. “Juice from fruit itself is nutrient-rich, and its nutritional value goes beyond the carbohydrate content,” said Robert H. Eckel of the University of Colorado, a former president of the American Heart Association. The findings may build new support for the growing push for a soda tax. According to policy experts, a tax of just one cent per ounce would reduce soda consumption by 10 percent. “The reason why there is a current debate about a tax is that scientific evidence in populations has consistently shown that more than one drink a day increases your risk,” Bibbins-Domingo said. “The finding suggests that any kind of policy that reduces consumption might have a dramatic health benefit.” A single serving of soda or other sweetened soft drink contains between 120 and 200 calories of sugar, equivalent to a man’s recommended intake for a full day and exceeding the recommended daily intake for a woman. Sources for this story include: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/636642.html ; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7376295/Sugary-soft-drinks-lead-to-diabetes-research-finds.html.

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Fish oil reduces risk of breast cancer by a third

Health Blogger — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) When you look at statistics about breast cancer, it’s no wonder that the very mention of the disease causes dread in many women. After all, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says about 210,000 Americans, almost all females, will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and about 40,000 will die from the disease. However, although it’s rarely reported in depth by the mainstream media, there’s actually a lot of good news accumulating about specific ways to stop breast cancer from ever developing in the first place. For example, a mounting of body of data shows cruciferous vegetables like broccoli fight breast cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/028822_broccoli_brst_cancer.html) and six studies have shown eating an apple a day can reduce the risk of breast cancer, too (http://www.naturalnews.com/025685_cancer_brst_apples.html). Now comes word of yet another natural substance that helps keep breast tumors away — scientists have discovered that fish oil can slash the chance a woman will get breast cancer by approximately a third. How fish oil works to prevent breast cancer The new study, just published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, was conducted by a research team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. They investigated 35,016 postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 76 with no history of breast cancer who were participating in the Vitamins and Lifestyle cohort study (dubbed VITAL, short). The woman was asked to complete a 24 page questionnaire about their use of supplements other than vitamins and/or minerals. After six years of follow-up, 880 of these women had been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, those women who reported regularly taking fish oil supplements, which contain high levels of the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, were found to have a 32 percent reduced risk of invasive ductal breast cancer — the most common type of breast cancer. The use of other specialty supplements, such as the herbs black cohosh and dong quai which are often taken by women to relieve symptoms of menopause, was not associated with raising or lowering breast cancer risk. As NaturalNews has previously reported, fish oil has been found to have a host of remarkable health protective properties. For example, a study published in the European Heart Journal concluded that consuming fatty fish and the marine omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil protects men from heart failure. And fish oil has been shown to be helpful in preventing mental illness, too (http://www.naturalnews.com/026130_heart_failure_fatty_fish_health.html). For more information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20615886

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95 percent of "preventive" mastectomies offer no benefit, study finds

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) A new study shows that the increasingly popular practice of “preventive mastectomy” in non-cancerous breasts provides no benefit to the vast majority of women. “It’s important for women to understand that, except for one subset of breast cancer patients, they don’t need to do this,” said lead author Isabelle Bedrosian of University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. “Hopefully, it’ll reassure patients wondering if they should.” Approximately 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the United States each year, and another 200,000 cases are diagnosed. Because cancer in one breast is known to increase the risk of cancer recurrence in the other breast, doctors are increasingly recommending that cancer survivors opt to have both breasts removed as a “preventive” measure. And women are opting for it in huge numbers, seeking the peace of mind that it is said to offer. The number of preventive mastectomies in the United States increased two-and-a-half-fold between 1998 and 2003. Today, 11 percent of all women undergoing a mastectomy on a cancerous breast choose to have the non-cancerous breast removed as well. Analysts have attributed this increase to more advanced screening techniques that detect cancers smaller and earlier; popularization of genetic screening and the idea that some genes may predispose families to breast cancer; and wider public acceptance of plastic surgery combined with advances in reconstructive technology. Yet while it has been strongly established that elective mastectomy does reduce the risk of breast-cancer recurrence, there has been no research to suggest that it actually lengthens a woman’s life span. “We have not had real data to guide us,” Bedrosian said. “We can’t sit down with a woman and say, ‘If you do this, this is your expected benefit.’ And when we don’t have those data, then biases become the big drivers of decision making.” In the new study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , Bedrosian and colleagues analyzed the records of 107,106 women in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results registry. All the women had undergone a mastectomy to treat breast cancer of Stage III or lower; 8,902 had chosen to have a healthy breast removed, as well. After controlling for other risk factors, the researchers found only a small difference in survival rates between women who had chosen to have two breasts removed and women who had chosen to have only one removed. Upon further analysis, they discovered that this benefit was only present in women under the age of 50 with estrogen receptor-negative, early-stage tumors. In this group, elective mastectomy increased the survival rate by 4.8 percent, amounting to just under five lives saved for every 100 surgeries. Elective mastectomy provided no survival benefit to women outside this demographic. The researchers believe that even when cancers recur, most women will not be killed by them but will instead die of other causes first. Only in women whose cancers lack estrogen receptors and who would otherwise have long lives ahead of them does recurrence appear to pose a serious threat to survival. The most effective breast cancer drugs on the market are those that lower the body’s production of estrogen, which fuels the growth of many cancers. Tumors that lack estrogen receptors do not depend on the hormone for their growth, however, meaning that women with these cancers cannot use the most effective drugs and tend to have higher mortality rates. Breast-cancer specialist Larry Norton of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City expressed skepticism about the study’s methodology and cautioned against doctors and patients giving it too much weight. “This is an observational study, and hence it is impossible to control for confounding variables,” Norton said, “and should not be used for individual clinical decisionmaking.” Norton admitted, however, that ethics make it impossible to perform a true controlled study on the question, since such an experiment might end up increasing cancer mortality in one group of participants. Bedrosian disputed Norton’s criticism, noting that the researchers used rigorous statistical analysis and controlled well for interference from other variables. She believes that the conclusions are, in fact, strong enough to help women make better-informed decisions about elective mastectomy. “We looked at this in multiple different ways, and we got the same answer every time. And the results make good clinical sense. That adds another level of reassurance,” she said. “Our hope is that when women hear the numbers, they will take a second look and decide not to go forward with a preventive mastectomy [in their healthy breast] if it won’t give them a survival benefit.” Victor Vogel, national vice president for research at the American Cancer Society, said the results suggest that women should wait a full year before going through with the removal of a healthy breast. “In a younger woman with [estrogen receptor]-negative disease, an [elective} mastectomy may be considered," he said. "In the vast majority of women older than 50 with ER-positive disease, prudent waiting is probably the most appropriate." Bedrosian said that the point of the study was not to impose "a uniform mandate" that women should never get the procedure, but that their decisions must be well informed. "This is still a decision to be made by the patient after talking with her doctor," Bedrosian said. "We hope this study helps women make better decisions [and] provides some reassurance that perhaps a [preventive] mastectomy is not necessary, perhaps overly aggressive and perhaps a bit too much.” Sources for this story include: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6885581.html http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/180769.php; http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968122,00.html.

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Childhood cancer survivors have 10 times greater risk of heart disease (because radiation damages the heart!)

Health Blogger — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) Survivors of childhood cancers are nearly 10 times more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease as adults than people who did not have cancer as children, according to a study conducted by researchers from Emory University and published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention . Researchers remain unsure of the exact reason for the increased risk, but the effects of radiation therapy appear to play a significant role. “Mechanistically, we are not yet sure why this is, but the association is definitely there,” said researcher Lillian R. Meacham. Using data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, researchers compared data from 8,599 cancer survivors with data from 2,936 of their cancer-free siblings. They found that cancer survivors had a 60 percent higher chance of being on cholesterol medicine, a 70 percent higher chance of suffering from diabetes and nearly a 100 percent higher chance of being on blood pressure drugs. They were no more likely that their siblings to suffer from obesity, however, suggesting that something more than lifestyle factors are at play. “These risk factors are manifesting at about age 32, which is much younger than a non-cancer survivor would exhibit signs of cardiovascular risk factors,” Meacham said. “Some have suggested that when you are a cancer survivor there are parts of you that wear out early, so we need to be vigilant about our follow-up of these patients in order to find these late effects early and intervene.” Physical activity increased a cancer survivor’s risk of suffering more than one symptom by 70 percent compared with cancer free siblings. Being older when the study was conducted increased survivor’s risk by 8.2 times compared with their siblings. Radiation therapy was also strongly associated with cardiovascular risk, with those who had undergone chest and abdomen radiation suffering from 2.2 times the risk of cardiovascular risk factor clustering as those who had not undergone the therapy. Total-body radiation increased the risk by 5.5 times. Sources for this story include: www.businessweek.com; www.sciencedaily.com; www.telegraph.co.uk.

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