More than 7,000 children under the age of twelve end up in the emergency room each year after taking over-the-counter cough and cold drugs. Most are there for overdoses.
In two-thirds of the cases, children took the drugs without supervision, but around 26 percent were children who experienced side effects after a parent gave them the recommended dose.
Cough suppressants, antihistamines and decongestants have never been shown to benefit young children.
Regular exposure to safe, low level infrared light can improve learning performance and jump-start the cognitive functions of the brain.
These results are being called a scientific breakthrough, since previous medical treatments for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease only offered the possibility of slowing down brain deterioration. This one, if it works in human trials scheduled to start this summer, could potentially provide a cure.
The levels of infrared light used are completely safe and occur naturally in sunlight. They are currently being used to treat cold sores.
Experts claim that early stage dementia patients could see an improvement in their cognitive function within only four weeks, if they wear a special lightweight helmet in their home for just ten minutes a day. The process uses infrared light to boost the self-repair capability of brain cells.
A Hawaiian state senate bill will soon be introduced that will propose to ban aspartame from the State of Hawaii.
A previous bill introduced into the New Mexico senate failed. That attempt was notable for the response of the state senators who opposed the bill; they sipped Diet Coke as they listened to the arguments.
Stephen Fox, the Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and a backer of the New Mexico effort, said of the Hawaiian bills: “This is wonderful news coming from Hawaii ... [the] bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever encountered, representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest aspartame and MSG manufacturer, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen ... like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate services, and others. The same lobbyists will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake ...
“These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal injury suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the hundreds of millions ...”
47 Members of the UK Parliament have also asked for an aspartame ban, and efforts in New Zealand continue with a circulating petition for ban.
Drug companies have been understating the risks and overstating the benefits of prescribing bone-strengthening drugs for women who do not yet have osteoporosis.
Drug makers have argued that similar treatments should be used for both osteoporosis and pre-osteoporosis (osteopenia). However, drugs such as raloxifene, alendronate and risedronate provide almost no benefit for women with pre-osteoporosis.
Four drug company studies that examined the effects of osteoporosis drugs on women with osteopenia exaggerated the benefits and downplayed the potentially harmful side effects; for example, studies on raloxifene made no mention of the increased risk for blood clots.
This article in the New York Times reflects the rapid disintegration of the medical orthodoxy that states cholesterol is a key cause of heart disease. In the wake of drug trials that show the drug Vytorin lowers cholesterol levels but not heart risks, an increasing number of doctors are examining the evidence and finding it lacking.
The very language used to discuss heart disease confuses the cholesterol carried in the bloodstream with the particles, known as lipoproteins, that actually carry it. Some of these lipoproteins may pose dangers, but whether or not the cholesterol itself does is much more questionable.
In fact, studies have shown that total cholesterol levels are not a risk factor for coronary heart disease at all, and the cholesterol in low-density lipoproteins is a “marginal risk factor”. A large percentage of people who suffer heart attacks have low levels of low-density lipoproteins.
The main reason cholesterol is assumed to be bad actually comes from circular logic: saturated fat was assumed to be bad because it raises LDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol was assumed to be bad because it is the thing that saturated fat raises. But researchers have been unable to generate compelling evidence that saturated fat in the diet causes heart disease.
New research shows that a high dietary intake of acrylamide can increase the risk of breast cancer. The study was the first epidemiological study using biological markers for measuring acrylamide exposure, and also the first to report an acrylamide/breast cancer link.
Pizza Hut’s cheese supplier, Leprino Foods, uses the silicone-industrial chemical Polymethylsiloxane in their “Pizza Cheese”. It is not approved by the FDA as a food ingredient; it is intended for use as an anti-foaming agent for boiler water.
In its patented manufacturing process, Leprino Foods sprays “cheese granules” with Polymethylsiloxane, resulting in a concentration of the chemical 90 times higher even than is permitted in boiler water.
The Polymethylsiloxane is used to avoid a normal seven-day aging process for cheese, and allows for a higher food starch content. Without the aging process, cheese can form bubbles during cooking, which blacken and burst. A high starch content also normally causes bubbles. Since Polymethylsiloxane is an anti-foaming agent, it prevents the bubbles from forming.
