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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Swiss Government Warning Its Citizens Concerning Cordless Devices
Check out the video below that demonstrates how WiFi connects your laptop, iPhone and iPad to the internet via microwave radiation. You will also learn how WiFi base stations, portable phones and baby monitors constantly radiate microwave radiation.
The Swiss Government feels that all of these devices have the potential to do great harm if used incorrectly and warn their citizens.
Check out the details here =>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAnrmJ3un1g
The Swiss Government feels that all of these devices have the potential to do great harm if used incorrectly and warn their citizens.
Check out the details here =>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAnrmJ3un1g
Friday, October 21, 2011
TAKE CARE OF YOUR EYES - A MUST READ!!!
During a recent visit to an optician, one of my friends was told of an exercise for the eyes by a specialist doctor that he termed as 20-20-20.' It is applicable to all of us, who spend long hours at our desks, looking at the computer screen.
I Thought I'd share it with you. 20-20-20
Step I :-
After every 20 minutes of looking into the computer screen, turn your head and try to look at any object placed at least 20 feet away. This changes the focal length of your eyes, a must-do for the tired eyes.
Step II :-
Try and blink your eyes for 20 times in success ion, to moisten them.
Step III :-
Time permitting of course, one should walk 20 paces after every 20 minutes of sitting in one particular posture. Helps blood circulation for the entire body.
Step I :-
After every 20 minutes of looking into the computer screen, turn your head and try to look at any object placed at least 20 feet away. This changes the focal length of your eyes, a must-do for the tired eyes.
Step II :-
Try and blink your eyes for 20 times in success ion, to moisten them.
Step III :-
Time permitting of course, one should walk 20 paces after every 20 minutes of sitting in one particular posture. Helps blood circulation for the entire body.
Circulate among your friends if you care for them and their eyes. They say that your eyes are mirror of your soul, so do take care of them, they are priceless.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
How Do You Know If you Are Under Pressure?
This is a test whether you are under pressure. The image on the left is a still picture and children will see the same.
If you see it rotates, you are under pressure and the faster it goes, the more pressure you have.
If you see it rotates, you are under pressure and the faster it goes, the more pressure you have.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
醫學常識 Chinese Health Treatment Websites
1. 洋蔥浸紅酒 Red wine & onion 2. 自己CPR的方法 The beat goes on 3. 心臟病發﹑中風前兆 Heart attack, stroke warning signs 4. 中風辨認常識 Stroke identification 5. 聖心減肥良方 S.H.M. Diet program 6. 十大 I養食品 Top 10 Nutritious Food 7. 治口臭食療方 Bad Breath Remedy 8. 豬腳薑醋製法 Pig's feet with ginger, vinegar 9. 清心養血之良食 Healthy Food for Heart & Blood 10. 珩記祖傳祕方鹹檸檬 Salted Lemon Tea 11. 鼻敏感效湯 Hay fever remedial soup 12. 果菜療能一覽表 What's Good For You 13. 療能食物對照表 Cross-reference List 14. 肉桂之天然食療 Cinnamon's Health Benefits 15. 小紅苺防尿道膀胱炎 Cranberry's Health Benefits | 16. 欥風筒的妙用 The Amazing Blow Dryer 17. 蜂蜜加肉桂粉的神奇 Honey plus Cinnamon 18. 沒事多喝檸檬水 Ice Lemonade 19. 人過中年不悲哀 Life after Middle Age 20. 醫生之食療介紹 Food values from doctors 21. 心肌梗塞急救法 Myocardial infarction first aid 22. 枸杞消除疲勞 Chinese wolfberries for relaxation 23. 紅棗保肝補氣 Jujubes-Chinese red dates 24. 遠離糖尿病不難 Diabetes Mellitus Discussion 25. 健康身心之最佳時間 Right Timing 26. 世衛評選的最佳食品 The Healthy Food 27. 十大垃圾食物 The Top 10 Junk Food 28. 蒜頭蒸飯, 老薑蜜糖 Garlic, ginger, honey on rice 29. 沒有阿茲海默的世界 Alzheimer Prevention 30. 練太極可抗疫 Tai Chi stops shingles | 31. 飯後熱飲 Drink warm after meals 32. 食物防春季過敏 Ready for the allergy season 33. 香蕉的神奇(a) 熟香蕉抗癌 The Amazing Bananas 34. 慢性腸炎克隆氏病New What is Crohn's Disease? 35. 十大助排毒之食品 Excellent Toxin Removal Food 36. 腸道照顧好, 百病不來找 Intestines Health 37. 腸道簡易運動 The Exercise for Intestines 38. 延年益壽十則 (The Recipes for Living Longer) 39. 排汗和排尿的差別Updated Sweat, no sweat 40. 補健清湯(排毒,通血) Soup to lower cholesterol 41. 謄固醇的常識(Cholesterol) a) American Heart Association b) Harvard School of Public Health c) 降謄固醇療方二例 42. 林燕妮治老花妙方 The Eyesight Enhanclng Juice 43. 治失眠良方 How To Sleep Fast 44. 五大防癌水果 Fruits Prevent/Fight Cancers | 45. 慎食非季節性水果 Beware of off season fruits 46. 清洗蔬果勿用鹽 Don't Wash Fruits With Salt 47. 少林十巧手[手部運動] (Hand Exercise for Health) 48. 食療歌 (Healthy Food Poem) 49. 羅漢果的食療功效 (Grosvener Momordica Fruit) 50. 游離基是什麼﹖ What are Free Radicals Updated 51. 金雞獨立養生法 Stand on one leg [English]New 52. 氣功按摩十八法 (Body Massaging Qigong) 53. 多吃疏果能防癌嗎﹖ (Fruits/veggies Effect Cancers?) 54. 中風急救.黃金一小時 (東華三院MaBelle 合辦節目) 55. 簡易膝蓋保健Updated The simple knee maintenance 56. 十四個徵兆預示長壽 Signs that predict longivity 57. 心血管淤塞救命良方 Black fungus dredges blood vessels 58. 肝炎養生保健之道 Hepatitis - what to watch out for 59. 抗新流感漢方蔬果? (Herbalist's Juices for Influenza) |
60. 馬鈴薯鮮?療法
(The Amazing Potato Juice) 61. 打嗝放屁去濁氣Burping/Farting Is Healthy 62. 每天大笑不會老 Laugh to keep healthy - New
63. 生活常識小秘密
Little secrets in daily life - New 64. 靈芝治「未病」 (Lingzhi's [Ganoderma] effects) 65. 素食不正確更糟
(Vegetarian's Mistakes)
66. 增強記憶力食物 Top 10 Memory Boosters 67. 栗子是[腎之果]Chestnuts good for elders
68. 糖尿病飲食和食療(Diabetes helpful diets) 69. 熱門健康食物排行Healthy Food Ranking New
70. 過量糖份危害健康Sugar can ruin your health 71. 睡眠的正確姿勢Proper Sleeping Position
72. 減壓運動最好Exercise to relieve stress 73. 改觀的不良食物(Junk Food Re-assesment)
74. 快餐店膳食選擇Choosing Fast Food 75. 20 種抑癌的蔬菜Best anti-cancer vegetables
76. 珍珠奶茶健康隱患Health risks of bubble tea 77. 如何維護腸道健康Intestines Health Care
78. 五?熱水完全排毒Drink hot water to detoxify79. 心肌梗塞小提要Myocardial infarction tips
80. 被忽略的癌症 ?Ignored cancer symptoms 81. 藥補不如食補Food as medicine
82. 醋豬腳護顏補身Trotters rich in collagen 83. 保青春﹑防蒼老Keep young or keep aging
84. 暴殮 I養之天物Wasted Treasures of Food 85. 避免洗腎的秘方A dialysis patient's story -
86. 日用品治療用途Useful Household Items 87. 烤蕃薯具強藥效(Baked sweet potatoes)
88. 平穩降血脂食物8 Lipid-lowering foods 89. 專家推薦長壽食品Top 10 food for longivity
90. 夏天運動提防中暑Beware of Heat Stroke 91. 食物之糖份含量Food sugar content
92. 白蘿蔔食療功效Radish's Health Benefit 93. 3低1高的健康飲The 3L1H healthy diet
94. 使癌細胞多休眠Make cancer cells sleep 95. 人生哲學50The 50 Life Lessons
96. 老中醫點評水果New Herbalists' view on fruits 97. 有助減肥的良食New Foods help cutting fats
98. 睡覺的訣竅New The Knowledge of Sleeping 99. 有損大腦的陋習New Brain Damaging Habbits
100. 損肝的主要?因New Liver damage causes 101. 五大致癌的食物New Top 5 cancer-causing foods
102. 薑的好處多得很New The Benefits of Ginger
Breathing Therapy.......No More Headaches
The nose has a left and a right side;
we use both to inhale and exhale.
Actually they are different;
you would be able to feel the difference.
The right side represents the sun,
left side represents the moon.
During a headache, try to close your right nose and use your left nose to breathe.
In about 5 Mins, your headache will go?
If you feel tired, just reverse, close your left nose and breathe through your right nose.
After a while, you will feel your mind is refreshed.
Right side belongs to 'hot', so it gets heated up easily, left side belongs to 'cold'.
Most females breathe with their left noses,
After a while, you will feel your mind is refreshed.
Right side belongs to 'hot', so it gets heated up easily, left side belongs to 'cold'.
Most females breathe with their left noses,
so they get "cooled off" faster.
Most of the guys breathe with their right noses,
they get worked up. Most of the guys breathe with their right noses,
Do you notice the moment we wake up,
which side breathes faster?
Left or right? ?
If left is faster, you will feel tired.
So, close your left nose and use your right nose for breathing,
If left is faster, you will feel tired.
So, close your left nose and use your right nose for breathing,
you will get refreshed quickly.
This can be taught to kids,
This can be taught to kids,
but it is more effective when practiced by adults.
My friend used to have bad headaches
My friend used to have bad headaches
and was always visiting the doctor.
There was this period when he suffered headache literally every night, unable to study.
There was this period when he suffered headache literally every night, unable to study.
He took painkillers, did not work.
He decided to try out the breathing therapy here: closed his right nose and
He decided to try out the breathing therapy here: closed his right nose and
breathed through his left nose.
In less than a week, his headaches were gone!
In less than a week, his headaches were gone!
He continued the exercise for one month.
This alternative natural therapy without medication
This alternative natural therapy without medication
is something that he has experienced.
So, why not give it a try?
So, why not give it a try?
Media hoax exposed: Recent attack on vitamins a fabricated scare campaign
By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
TIME, USA Today, MSNBC, NPR, CTV, the LA Times and numerous other mainstream media outlets have all been running a juvenile hoax over the last week. Through various misleading headlines, they're all claiming that vitamins might kill you. Here are some of the headlines:
Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women - CTV
Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women - USA Today
We've Been Wasting a Ton of Money on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements - TIME
Some common vitamin supplements could increase death risk - MSNBC
Dietary supplements risky for older women, study finds - LA Times
Supplements Look Risky In Study Of Older Women - NPR
Vitamins do more harm than good, new suggest says - News.com.au
Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk - Huffington Post
There are literally hundreds of headlines from mainstream news sources that essentially say the same thing.
There's only one problem with all this: The whole thing is a HOAX! And NaturalNews is stepping forward to expose this hoax using data from the published study itself.
Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women - CTV
Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women - USA Today
We've Been Wasting a Ton of Money on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements - TIME
Some common vitamin supplements could increase death risk - MSNBC
Dietary supplements risky for older women, study finds - LA Times
Supplements Look Risky In Study Of Older Women - NPR
Vitamins do more harm than good, new suggest says - News.com.au
Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk - Huffington Post
There are literally hundreds of headlines from mainstream news sources that essentially say the same thing.
There's only one problem with all this: The whole thing is a HOAX! And NaturalNews is stepping forward to expose this hoax using data from the published study itself.
Exposed: A total mainstream media hoax
Caught yet again, the mainstream media has been exposed pulling off a juvenile, simplistic hoax that attempts to scare people away from good nutrition. To accomplish this hoax, they took a poorly-constructed "scientific" study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine which was itself based on erroneous conclusions (see below) and then blatantly misreported what the study data actually showed.
This journal is owned, not surprisingly, by the American Medical Association, which has a long and sordid history of openly attacking vitamins and nutrition, even to the point of committing crimes that violate federal law. Remember, the AMA has been found guilty of conspiracy in federal courts: http://www.naturalnews.com/008845.html
All this is yet another case of quack journalism on the part of the mainstream media, which is largely funded by pharmaceutical interests, of course. They never miss an opportunity to try to attack vitamins and dietary supplements, even if it means revealing they are total Big Pharma "presstitutes" who pretend to be real journalists.
But don't take my word for it: Let's do something the mainstream media presstitutes never do and actually look at the study data for a change!
The study claims to have reviewed the vitamin and mineral supplement use in 38,772 older women by mailing them 3 surveys over 18 years, asking them to recall what vitamins and minerals they were taking.
So hold the presses. This is a "survey study" -- or what's commonly called an "observational study" -- which are notoriously inaccurate to begin with. As Dr. David Brownstein told me in a groundbreaking InfoWars Nightly News interview, "This study says absolutely nothing about vitamins," Dr. Brownstein said. "If this study was done in reverse, where vitamins were shown to be effective, no journal would have printed this study because it was so poorly done."
Watch the interview yourself at:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=ED23B...
(The part with Dr. Brownstein begins at roughly 6:00.)
With these numbers, a 1.0 means "neutral" or "no increase in mortality." A number below 1.0 -- such as 0.92 -- means a reduction in mortality. For example, 0.92 would mean an 8% reduction in mortality associated with that particular vitamin.
A number higher than 1.0 means an "increase" in mortality. So something like 1.15 would mean a 15% increase in total mortality.
So what do these numbers really say?
• Vitamin B complex was associated with a 7% reduction in mortality
• Vitamin C was associated with a 4% reduction in mortality
• Vitamin D was associated with an 8% reduction in mortality
• Magnesium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
• Selenium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
• Zinc was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
I bet you didn't read that in the mainstream media, huh? That's because they never reported these numbers! Once again, they just cherry picked whatever scary data they wanted to show you while ignoring the rest.
On the negative side of the findings:
• Folic acid was associated with a 9% increase in mortality
• Copper was associated with a 31% increase in mortality
"Multivitamins," which the mainstream media viciously attacked with their lying whore headlines, were associated with -- guess what? -- only a two percent increase in mortality.
By their own admission, they first adjusted all the numbers for "age, educational level, place of residence, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), waist to hip ratio, hormone replacement therapy, physical activity, smoking status, and intake of energy."
But hold on a second: They're saying that a person with diabetes has a higher risk of death, so if that person died, they wouldn't "count it" as much as a healthy person dying, right? But they utterly failed to take into account the fact that nutrients can reverse diabetes and make diabetes symptoms completely disappear. Those would be nutrients like vitamin D, magnesium and vitamin C, all of which were covered in the study. So if a woman in the study started out as diabetic, and then she took nutrients that helped her reverse diabetes, and then she later died as a non-diabetic but still earlier than a person who had been healthy her whole life, then this would count as a more strongly weighted "penalty" against vitamins in the data!
The same is true with high blood pressure. You see, the statistical voodoo that took place in this study was based on the completely false belief by western research quacks that vitamins do not prevent, cure or reverse disease. So they failed to account for that action in their own data.
Thus, just on that point alone, this study is a complete, juvenile joke! It wouldn't even earn a "C" on a high school science project, and yet it seems like it was good enough for the Archives of Internal Medicine, which receives millions of dollars in advertising from drug companies.
But wait... there's more!
"...adjusted for age; educational level; place of residence; diabetes mellitus; high blood pressure; body mass index; waist to hip ratio; hormone replacement therapy; physical activity; smoking status; and intake of energy, alcohol, saturated fatty acids, whole grain products, fruits, and vegetables."
Okay, wow, so they adjusted for intake of fruits and vegetables, too? This means a person who ate more fruits and vegetables was assumed to be more healthy, and therefore whatever age they died at was weighed toward (blamed on) other factors such as the vitamins they were taking!
The fact is, the weight factors in all these voodoo adjustments were totally made up by the study authors. I have no doubt they sat there with a large Excel spreadsheet and just ran thousands of different combinations of assumptions and weighs -- fudging their data -- until they managed to produce the results they wanted.
And what results were that? Oh my goodness, can you believe it? Vitamins might kill you!
Yep, by massaging the data, factoring in their own made-up assumptions, fudging the weights and ignoring correlations between nutrition and disease prevention, these researchers managed to eliminate all the reduction of mortality risk that was demonstrated by nutrients like vitamin D, while simultaneously making nutrients like copper look like they were the next worst thing to poison (a 45% increased risk in mortality).
All this really amounts to little more than mental masturbation by a circle jerk of scientists who set out to "prove" vitamins were bad from the get-go. They actually had to alter the data TWICE to get the results they wanted.
And then, just to throw some icing on the cake, they wrap all this scientific fraud in their language of statistical significance, "multivariable adjusted models" and other technical jargon that they hope will sufficiently shroud the reality that this study is complete scientific fraud.
If Dr. Andrew Wakefield had used this massaging of the data to show that vaccines caused autism, he would have been laughed off the stage, stripped of his medical license, persecuted by the media and declared a quack by the rest of the medical community. But of course, when a bunch of doctors writing for the AMA use this obvious scientific fraud to conclude that "vitamins might kill you," suddenly it's perfectly okay with the entire scientific community, the whore media, the corrupt medical journals and of course all the idiotic doctors who still ridiculously believe that supplemental nutrition has no role to play in human health.
The second huge point in all this that nobody bothered to mention is that the Archives of Internal Medicine is funded by drug company advertising, creating an immediate and obvious conflict of interest which was never disclosed in the publication of the study. Gee, do ya think a drug company rag that makes its money from pharmaceutical advertisements might have a financial incentive to destroy the reputation of the vitamins that often compete with pharmaceuticals? Really? Ya think so?
TIME didn't bother to mention this to their readers. Neither did USA Today, or MSNBC, or anyone in the mainstream who reported on this. Of course, if a study touting the benefits of vitamins had appeared in a journal funded by vitamin companies, they would have attacked the whole thing as an outrageous conflict of interest! (You gotta love the selective logic of these presstitutes who only cherry pick the selected tidbits they want you to read...)
By avoiding any distinction between synthetic versus natural vitamins, the study authors knew that any negative results would immediately be used to discredit ALL vitamins. This, of course, was done by design. Virtually all the conventional medical studies that look at vitamins use this same tactic, refusing to make any distinction between natural nutrition versus synthetic vitamins, which are really just DRUGS given vitamin "names."
In other words, if you believe this study found something negative about vitamins, the reality of the situation is that most of these women were probably taking drugs given the names of vitamins and then packaged into "one-a-day" multivitamin formats that, are toxic to the human body in the first place.
You see, in western quack science, there is no distinction between a nutrient created in the lab versus a nutrient that comes from nature. But in nature, nutrients are different! Vitamin C, for example, doesn't exist in isolation in nature; it's always found with other supporting antioxidants and phytonutrients. So taking vitamin C from a plant-based source (camu camu, for example) is qualitatively different from taking vitamin C created in a lab (ascorbic acid). Today's conventional quack scientists and doctors are too ignorant about nutrition to know the difference (that's a fact), so they make no distinction in their research studies, either.
Heck, today's quack medical researchers and doctors don't even recognize any difference between living foods and dead foods! To them, it's all the same: A dead food has the same minerals and calories and vitamins as a living food, they claim. They're dead wrong about that, of course -- which is why so many doctors are just plain DEAD in the first place -- as living foods have a quality that goes beyond the detection of their crude laboratory tests.
This journal is owned, not surprisingly, by the American Medical Association, which has a long and sordid history of openly attacking vitamins and nutrition, even to the point of committing crimes that violate federal law. Remember, the AMA has been found guilty of conspiracy in federal courts: http://www.naturalnews.com/008845.html
All this is yet another case of quack journalism on the part of the mainstream media, which is largely funded by pharmaceutical interests, of course. They never miss an opportunity to try to attack vitamins and dietary supplements, even if it means revealing they are total Big Pharma "presstitutes" who pretend to be real journalists.
But don't take my word for it: Let's do something the mainstream media presstitutes never do and actually look at the study data for a change!
What the study actually reveals
The study is entitled "Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women" - Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(18):1625-1633The study claims to have reviewed the vitamin and mineral supplement use in 38,772 older women by mailing them 3 surveys over 18 years, asking them to recall what vitamins and minerals they were taking.
So hold the presses. This is a "survey study" -- or what's commonly called an "observational study" -- which are notoriously inaccurate to begin with. As Dr. David Brownstein told me in a groundbreaking InfoWars Nightly News interview, "This study says absolutely nothing about vitamins," Dr. Brownstein said. "If this study was done in reverse, where vitamins were shown to be effective, no journal would have printed this study because it was so poorly done."
Watch the interview yourself at:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=ED23B...
(The part with Dr. Brownstein begins at roughly 6:00.)
Study data were ALTERED!
One of the most glaring total fabrications in this particular study is the alteration of the raw data using statistical voodoo. If you go to table 2 of the study (page 4 of the study PDF, which we can't post here because it's not a public document), it shows a "Hazard Ratio" number associated with each of the nutrients covered in the study, such as vitamin D, vitamin D, calcium, copper, iron, and so on. There's also a number associated with "multivitamin."With these numbers, a 1.0 means "neutral" or "no increase in mortality." A number below 1.0 -- such as 0.92 -- means a reduction in mortality. For example, 0.92 would mean an 8% reduction in mortality associated with that particular vitamin.
A number higher than 1.0 means an "increase" in mortality. So something like 1.15 would mean a 15% increase in total mortality.
So what do these numbers really say?
• Vitamin B complex was associated with a 7% reduction in mortality
• Vitamin C was associated with a 4% reduction in mortality
• Vitamin D was associated with an 8% reduction in mortality
• Magnesium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
• Selenium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
• Zinc was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
I bet you didn't read that in the mainstream media, huh? That's because they never reported these numbers! Once again, they just cherry picked whatever scary data they wanted to show you while ignoring the rest.
On the negative side of the findings:
• Folic acid was associated with a 9% increase in mortality
• Copper was associated with a 31% increase in mortality
"Multivitamins," which the mainstream media viciously attacked with their lying whore headlines, were associated with -- guess what? -- only a two percent increase in mortality.
Voodoo statistics used to alter the outcome
But wait! In this study, they didn't use the actual survey results as their concluding data. Nope, they began to massage the data using a voodoo formula that they came up with after the fact in an effort to make the data "fit the curve" they wanted.By their own admission, they first adjusted all the numbers for "age, educational level, place of residence, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), waist to hip ratio, hormone replacement therapy, physical activity, smoking status, and intake of energy."
But hold on a second: They're saying that a person with diabetes has a higher risk of death, so if that person died, they wouldn't "count it" as much as a healthy person dying, right? But they utterly failed to take into account the fact that nutrients can reverse diabetes and make diabetes symptoms completely disappear. Those would be nutrients like vitamin D, magnesium and vitamin C, all of which were covered in the study. So if a woman in the study started out as diabetic, and then she took nutrients that helped her reverse diabetes, and then she later died as a non-diabetic but still earlier than a person who had been healthy her whole life, then this would count as a more strongly weighted "penalty" against vitamins in the data!
The same is true with high blood pressure. You see, the statistical voodoo that took place in this study was based on the completely false belief by western research quacks that vitamins do not prevent, cure or reverse disease. So they failed to account for that action in their own data.
Thus, just on that point alone, this study is a complete, juvenile joke! It wouldn't even earn a "C" on a high school science project, and yet it seems like it was good enough for the Archives of Internal Medicine, which receives millions of dollars in advertising from drug companies.
But wait... there's more!
The data were altered a second time!
Not content to massage the data just once, these study authors went even further and actually changed all the results a second time! This was done through yet another "multivariable adjustment" in which the authors:"...adjusted for age; educational level; place of residence; diabetes mellitus; high blood pressure; body mass index; waist to hip ratio; hormone replacement therapy; physical activity; smoking status; and intake of energy, alcohol, saturated fatty acids, whole grain products, fruits, and vegetables."
Okay, wow, so they adjusted for intake of fruits and vegetables, too? This means a person who ate more fruits and vegetables was assumed to be more healthy, and therefore whatever age they died at was weighed toward (blamed on) other factors such as the vitamins they were taking!
The fact is, the weight factors in all these voodoo adjustments were totally made up by the study authors. I have no doubt they sat there with a large Excel spreadsheet and just ran thousands of different combinations of assumptions and weighs -- fudging their data -- until they managed to produce the results they wanted.
And what results were that? Oh my goodness, can you believe it? Vitamins might kill you!
Yep, by massaging the data, factoring in their own made-up assumptions, fudging the weights and ignoring correlations between nutrition and disease prevention, these researchers managed to eliminate all the reduction of mortality risk that was demonstrated by nutrients like vitamin D, while simultaneously making nutrients like copper look like they were the next worst thing to poison (a 45% increased risk in mortality).
All this really amounts to little more than mental masturbation by a circle jerk of scientists who set out to "prove" vitamins were bad from the get-go. They actually had to alter the data TWICE to get the results they wanted.
And then, just to throw some icing on the cake, they wrap all this scientific fraud in their language of statistical significance, "multivariable adjusted models" and other technical jargon that they hope will sufficiently shroud the reality that this study is complete scientific fraud.
If Dr. Andrew Wakefield had used this massaging of the data to show that vaccines caused autism, he would have been laughed off the stage, stripped of his medical license, persecuted by the media and declared a quack by the rest of the medical community. But of course, when a bunch of doctors writing for the AMA use this obvious scientific fraud to conclude that "vitamins might kill you," suddenly it's perfectly okay with the entire scientific community, the whore media, the corrupt medical journals and of course all the idiotic doctors who still ridiculously believe that supplemental nutrition has no role to play in human health.
Massive conflicts of interest - but they're never disclosed or reported
As Dr. Brownstein explained earlier, if this study had shown vitamins to be effective at reducing mortality, doctors and critics would have bashed it as being total "quack science." But because they could use the study to try to discredit vitamins, mainstream media presstitutes have decided it's good enough to quote in their newspapers, magazines and news programs.The second huge point in all this that nobody bothered to mention is that the Archives of Internal Medicine is funded by drug company advertising, creating an immediate and obvious conflict of interest which was never disclosed in the publication of the study. Gee, do ya think a drug company rag that makes its money from pharmaceutical advertisements might have a financial incentive to destroy the reputation of the vitamins that often compete with pharmaceuticals? Really? Ya think so?
TIME didn't bother to mention this to their readers. Neither did USA Today, or MSNBC, or anyone in the mainstream who reported on this. Of course, if a study touting the benefits of vitamins had appeared in a journal funded by vitamin companies, they would have attacked the whole thing as an outrageous conflict of interest! (You gotta love the selective logic of these presstitutes who only cherry pick the selected tidbits they want you to read...)
No differentiation between synthetic versus natural vitamins
Further discrediting the conclusions of this study, it did not differentiate between synthetic vitamins and natural vitamins. So for all we know, these older women in the study could be taking bottom-of-the-barrel vitamins found at common retailers like Wal-Mart and grocery stores. These are cheap multivitamin brands made with synthetic chemicals that claim to be vitamins but really aren't. Most of those vitamins are made by pharmaceutical companies! And I would have to agree that taking synthetic vitamin E is very, very bad for your health, just like taking synthetic medications is bad, too.By avoiding any distinction between synthetic versus natural vitamins, the study authors knew that any negative results would immediately be used to discredit ALL vitamins. This, of course, was done by design. Virtually all the conventional medical studies that look at vitamins use this same tactic, refusing to make any distinction between natural nutrition versus synthetic vitamins, which are really just DRUGS given vitamin "names."
In other words, if you believe this study found something negative about vitamins, the reality of the situation is that most of these women were probably taking drugs given the names of vitamins and then packaged into "one-a-day" multivitamin formats that, are toxic to the human body in the first place.
You see, in western quack science, there is no distinction between a nutrient created in the lab versus a nutrient that comes from nature. But in nature, nutrients are different! Vitamin C, for example, doesn't exist in isolation in nature; it's always found with other supporting antioxidants and phytonutrients. So taking vitamin C from a plant-based source (camu camu, for example) is qualitatively different from taking vitamin C created in a lab (ascorbic acid). Today's conventional quack scientists and doctors are too ignorant about nutrition to know the difference (that's a fact), so they make no distinction in their research studies, either.
Heck, today's quack medical researchers and doctors don't even recognize any difference between living foods and dead foods! To them, it's all the same: A dead food has the same minerals and calories and vitamins as a living food, they claim. They're dead wrong about that, of course -- which is why so many doctors are just plain DEAD in the first place -- as living foods have a quality that goes beyond the detection of their crude laboratory tests.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Obesity is Infectious Intestinal Disease?
"I put on weight even if I look at a piece of cake," some people may often say. They are right. Many obese people find it extremely hard to lose weight. At the same time, a human being with a normal weight may not eat just for one day to lose up to a kilo of his or her weight. Why does it happen like that? Scientists say that the reason for obesity lies in intestines. Does it mean that obesity can be contagious?
Recipes of new magical diets and weight loss pills appear on a regular basis. However, the number of obese people in the world continues to grow. The share of overweight people among the adult population of the planet increased during the recent 12 years from 8.5 in 1997 to 14.5 percent in 2009 - by 6.5 million people. It goes without saying that some reasons that make people gain excessive weight are obvious (redundant nutrition or sedentary lifestyle, etc). However, there are many other important, albeit unknown, theories.
The phenomenon of infectious obesity became known as "infectobesity." The term was coined in 2001 by Indian professor Nikhil V. Dhurandhar.
There are as many as 100 quintillion bacteria living on a human being. Five hundred pairs of various bacteria species live inside the human body. The quantity of bacteria is the largest in the human intestines. One of the main functions of intestinal bacteria is to help the body digest food. The bacteria also protect the body from the intervention of pathogenic microorganisms. The bacteria also help us receive the maximum from the food that we eat. For example, they turn lipids into the nutrients that humans are capable of digesting.
Most of the bacteria can be divided into two groups: Bacteroidetes and Firmikutes. The Firmikutes participate in the decomposition of carb-rich food, whereas the Bacteroidetes decompose the food rich with proteins, as well as vegetable food. The intestinal flora of obese individuals is richer with the Firmikutes, whereas the people with normal weight have more Bacteroidetes in their intestines.
US scientists confirmed the theory of the Indian professor. Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, the chief of the Center for Genome Sciences in Washington published the results of the research in the November issue of Science Translational Medicine (2009). The scientists conducted the experiments on mice.
All mice are born with sterile intestines. The intestines get filled with bacteria during the first food intake. Obesity-prone mice - the ones born from obese mothers - have a larger percentage of the Firmikutes in their intestines as opposed to the mice with a normal build. The more carbs a mouse consumes, the faster the Firmikutes grow.
The entire system of obesity is like a snowball. The more you eat, the more Firmikutes appear in the intestines. The better the carbs digest, the more you want to eat, and so on and so forth.
The most interesting aspect that was revealed during the experiments was the following. Intestinal bacteria would change their structure against the background of a changing diet. When researchers transplanted the intestinal flora from fat to slender mice, the latter started putting on weight as well, even if they had a non-fat diet. However, the mice would put on weight only during a certain period of time. The researchers discovered that their intestinal flora would gradually change too. To put it in a nutshell, when the mice began to eat less, the Firmikutes would die and then be replaced with the Bacteroidetes. As a result, the mouse would lose weight.
The human intestinal bacteria work the same way. When a group of obese individuals was transferred to the diet with no sweet and no fat products, they lost 25 percent of their weight during a year. The people also lost a great deal of their Firmikutes. The latter were replaced with Bacteroidetes.
US scientists currently conduct a new experiment. They take the intestinal flora of the children who live in impoverished regions of the world and transplant the flora to the intestines of mice. There are many factors - genetic, cultural and ecological - that stand behind the human obesity. The scientists need to learn to control them, Gordon said.
Another theory proposed by Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar says that obesity can be caused by one of over 50 adenoviruses known as Ad-36. The viruses accumulate fat in the body and trigger the development of flu-like symptoms such as the running nose.
Dr. Dhurandhar conducted tests among 500 people. Three hundred and sixty of them were obese. The experiment revealed that 30% of obese patients had Ad-36 adenovirus. As for the normally built people, the virus was found with only eleven percent of them. The scientists also discovered that the level of cholesterol with the obese people was below the norm.
How does the virus develop obesity? One of the theories says that the Ad-36 shows direct influence on fat cells. The virus makes them grow and save fat. Another theory says that the adenovirus disrupts the ability of the body to regulate the consumption of fat. As a result, the body accumulates fat uncontrollably.
Recipes of new magical diets and weight loss pills appear on a regular basis. However, the number of obese people in the world continues to grow. The share of overweight people among the adult population of the planet increased during the recent 12 years from 8.5 in 1997 to 14.5 percent in 2009 - by 6.5 million people. It goes without saying that some reasons that make people gain excessive weight are obvious (redundant nutrition or sedentary lifestyle, etc). However, there are many other important, albeit unknown, theories.
The phenomenon of infectious obesity became known as "infectobesity." The term was coined in 2001 by Indian professor Nikhil V. Dhurandhar.
There are as many as 100 quintillion bacteria living on a human being. Five hundred pairs of various bacteria species live inside the human body. The quantity of bacteria is the largest in the human intestines. One of the main functions of intestinal bacteria is to help the body digest food. The bacteria also protect the body from the intervention of pathogenic microorganisms. The bacteria also help us receive the maximum from the food that we eat. For example, they turn lipids into the nutrients that humans are capable of digesting.
Most of the bacteria can be divided into two groups: Bacteroidetes and Firmikutes. The Firmikutes participate in the decomposition of carb-rich food, whereas the Bacteroidetes decompose the food rich with proteins, as well as vegetable food. The intestinal flora of obese individuals is richer with the Firmikutes, whereas the people with normal weight have more Bacteroidetes in their intestines.
US scientists confirmed the theory of the Indian professor. Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, the chief of the Center for Genome Sciences in Washington published the results of the research in the November issue of Science Translational Medicine (2009). The scientists conducted the experiments on mice.
All mice are born with sterile intestines. The intestines get filled with bacteria during the first food intake. Obesity-prone mice - the ones born from obese mothers - have a larger percentage of the Firmikutes in their intestines as opposed to the mice with a normal build. The more carbs a mouse consumes, the faster the Firmikutes grow.
The entire system of obesity is like a snowball. The more you eat, the more Firmikutes appear in the intestines. The better the carbs digest, the more you want to eat, and so on and so forth.
The most interesting aspect that was revealed during the experiments was the following. Intestinal bacteria would change their structure against the background of a changing diet. When researchers transplanted the intestinal flora from fat to slender mice, the latter started putting on weight as well, even if they had a non-fat diet. However, the mice would put on weight only during a certain period of time. The researchers discovered that their intestinal flora would gradually change too. To put it in a nutshell, when the mice began to eat less, the Firmikutes would die and then be replaced with the Bacteroidetes. As a result, the mouse would lose weight.
The human intestinal bacteria work the same way. When a group of obese individuals was transferred to the diet with no sweet and no fat products, they lost 25 percent of their weight during a year. The people also lost a great deal of their Firmikutes. The latter were replaced with Bacteroidetes.
US scientists currently conduct a new experiment. They take the intestinal flora of the children who live in impoverished regions of the world and transplant the flora to the intestines of mice. There are many factors - genetic, cultural and ecological - that stand behind the human obesity. The scientists need to learn to control them, Gordon said.
Another theory proposed by Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar says that obesity can be caused by one of over 50 adenoviruses known as Ad-36. The viruses accumulate fat in the body and trigger the development of flu-like symptoms such as the running nose.
Dr. Dhurandhar conducted tests among 500 people. Three hundred and sixty of them were obese. The experiment revealed that 30% of obese patients had Ad-36 adenovirus. As for the normally built people, the virus was found with only eleven percent of them. The scientists also discovered that the level of cholesterol with the obese people was below the norm.
How does the virus develop obesity? One of the theories says that the Ad-36 shows direct influence on fat cells. The virus makes them grow and save fat. Another theory says that the adenovirus disrupts the ability of the body to regulate the consumption of fat. As a result, the body accumulates fat uncontrollably.
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