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Health

Study: Polio vaccine campaign in India has caused 12-fold increase in deadly paralysis condition

By Ethan A. Huff, April 17 2012
(NaturalNews) The mainstream media has been busy hailing the supposed success of India’s polio vaccine campaign over the past few years, with many news outlets now claiming that the disease has been fully eradicated throughout the country. But what these misinformation puppets are failing to disclose is the fact that cases of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP), a much more serious condition than that caused by polio, have skyrocketed as a result of the vaccine’s widespread administration. A…

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Holistic Health

Top 5 herbs and spices that help lower blood sugar

By Aurora Geib, April 17 2012
(NaturalNews) Fruit, bread, cereals and pasta are popular sources of glucose. Also known as blood sugar, glucose is a vital source of energy for the body. It is constantly required by our muscles and brain. For optimum performance, our brain must have a regular supply on hand because it is incapable of keeping a store for future use. Our muscles, on the other hand, need it for energy when we engage in physical activity. Carbohydrates are the main source of glucose but the body can also source…

Pump up your body with the Popeye vegetable – spinach

By Dr. David Jockers, April 17 2012
(NaturalNews) Spinach is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. Popeye got it right with this powerhouse but it is too bad he ate it out of a can. Fresh, organic spinach is much more nutrient dense and contains far fewer environmental toxins than the canned stuff. Most children and adults like the flavor and texture of fresh spinach over the canned alternative. Be sure to pump up your body with spinach on a regular basis. Spinach is native to ancient Persia (Iranian regions). Arab..

Detox your dwelling and purify your indoor air with plants

By Paul Fassa, 
(NaturalNews) The air quality in an airtight home or office is usually worse than outdoor air. Since a good deal of time is spent inside one’s home and/or office space, then measures to improve that air quality are in order. Dwelling detoxIt’s important to be aware of mold, what it looks like, and the hazards it presents to your health. If black mold is spotted, get rid of it right away. Homes in moist or high humidity areas are prone to mold issues. Leaky roofs, windows, plumbing, and cellars…

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Pet Health

Bird Feed Recalled Due to Vitamin D Level

Kaytee, a Central Garden & Pet brand, is recalling two products, Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Birds and Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Macaw, due to high levels of vitamin D.

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The recalled products are used primarily by bird breeders for feeding baby birds. Baby birds being fed the formula may run the risk of kidney failure when ingesting the product.
According to the recall news release, an elevated amount of vitamin D was unintentionally added in an isolated mixing batch during manufacturing. Products manufactured before and after the recalled batch have been tested and are safe for feeding to baby birds.

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Articles of Interest

FDA Raids Herbal Distributor Over Cancer Remedies

Patrick Gallagher
Natural Society

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It’s no secret that the FDA is responsible for some of the most vastly detrimental products on the consumer market, but did you know that they are capable of raiding and confiscating ‘potentially harmful’ substances that only they arbitrate as such for you and me?

Indeed, the FDA, known benefactors of big pharma, have been succeeding in their rampage across natural health remedy stores, and they could be coming to your town next. After an alleged complaint against the ‘Notion-n-things’ store in Missouri, the State department of Health and Senior Services managed to embargo the company’s herbal products. Only as recently as three weeks ago did the district judge sign the order for seizure of those products.

Remember, this is the same organization that has declared walnuts to be illegal drugs

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Can cooling explain ‘miracle’ baby found alive after 10 hours in morgue refrigerator

Madison Park
CNN
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A premature baby – who was declared dead shortly after birth – was later discovered to be alive after spending 10 hours in a morgue refrigerator. How did this happen?

Doctors at the Perrando Hospital in northeast Argentina can’t explain how several doctors pronounced the child dead or how the premature infant born three months early survived for so many hours inside a chilly coffin. The baby, Luz Milagros Veron, was reported Friday in “very serious” condition after doctors detected an infection.

A similar case occurred in Israel in 2008. A baby was found alive in a morgue refrigerator after having been declared dead for five hours, according to the Jerusalem Post. An Israeli doctor suggested the premature infant’s irregular heartbeat could’ve eluded doctors and that placing the child in the cooler kept her in “suspended animation.” The baby later died.

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Red Cross calls for humanitarian drug policies that include decriminalization

By Ethan A. Huff, 
(NaturalNews) Recognizing the utter failure of the perpetual war on drugs to accomplish anything beneficial whatsoever in the world, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world’s largest humanitarian network, has officially come out in open opposition to it, calling also for massive drug policy reform. Speaking on behalf of the organization, Dr. Lasha Goguadze, Senior Health Officer at IFRC, told United Nations (UN) policymakers at the recent 55th Session…

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Food Safety

4 Things Grosser Than Pink Slime

—By Tom Philpott

| Wed Apr. 18, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
One way that nasty bacterial strains from factory farms make it to “the community”–i.e., you. Jez Page/Flickr

The specter of “pink slime”—pureed, defatted, and ammonia-laced slaughterhouse scraps—has caused quite the uproar over the past six weeks. (The latest: Propublica has a great explainer on pink slime and other filler products.) The current fixation on pink slime may well lead to the demise of the product; already, supermarket and fast-food chains and school cafeterias are opting to stop adding the stuff into their burger mixes. The company’s maker, Beef Products International, has had to temporarily shut down three of its four plants in response to collapsing demand, which doesn’t augur well for the company’s long-term health.

But I’m wondering if focusing on the ew-gross aspects of “lean, finely textured beef” (as the industry calls it) doesn’t miss the bigger picture, which is that the meat industry’s very business model is deeply gross. Even if pink slime is purged from the face of the earth, the system that produces our meat and related products (eggs, milk) won’t be fundamentally changed. A while back, I identified something about meat production that’s “even grosser than pink slime”—proposed new rules that would privatize inspection at poultry slaughterhouses while dramatically speeding up kill lines. Here are four more.

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What’s the Deal With Tuna Scrape?

A closer look at the likely source of the sushi-linked Salmonella outbreak

by Gretchen Goetz | Apr 18, 2012
Last Friday, a week after announcing they were investigating an ongoing multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to sushi, federal public health officials were able to pinpoint the likely source of the bacteria that has now sickened at least 141 people. The suspect?  Something called Nakaochi Scrape distributed by Moon Marine Corporation USA.
Nakaochi Scrape, as described by the Food and Drug Administration, is “tuna backmeat, which is specifically scraped off the bones, and looks like a ground product.”

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This description has prompted several media outlets to compare scraped tuna with the controversial lean finely textured beef (LFTB) – also known as “pink slime” – that has captured headlines recently.
So what is Nakaochi Scrape? Is it indeed the fish version of LFTB (a.k.a., “Pink Slime”), which is produced by taking leftover scraps from a beef carcass, separating the meat from the fat, sinews and gristle in a heated centrifuge, grinding the meat and then treating it with ammonia? While both products are separated from bones, the similarities seem to end there.

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Sushi-Linked Salmonella Outbreak Reaches 141 Cases

by Mary Rothschild | Apr 18, 2012
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly infection has sickened at least 141 people, up from the 116 confirmed cases reported last week, while the related recall has expanded to include all frozen raw yellowfin tuna product – called Nakaochi Scrape – distributed by Moon Marine USA Corp.

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Nakaochi Scrape is the backmeat of tuna that, when scraped off the bones, looks like ground tuna, and is used to make sushi and similar dishes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says Moon Marine’s frozen raw Nakaochi Scrape tuna, imported from a single processing plant in India, is the likely cause of the outbreak.
In an update Tuesday, the CDC said the illnesses extend across 20 states and the District of Columbia.

13 E. Coli Cases in Missouri, Raw Milk Dairy a Possible Source

by James Andrews | Apr 18, 2012

At least 13 people are sick from an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in central Missouri, with a farm suspected as a possible source. Investigators at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) have not yet identified a definite source of the outbreak, though 6 of the 13 ill consumed raw milk products from the same farm in Howard County.

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According to DHSS spokeswoman Gena Terlizzi, the remaining seven individuals said they were not associated with that farm. Still, the farm is under investigation and has halted sales of its raw dairy products.
The Missouri State Public Health Laboratory has analyzed eight food samples from the farm, all of which tested negative for E. coli O157:H7.

How the NY Times Got It Wrong on the FDA’s New Antibiotics Rules

—By Tom Philpott

Will the FDA’s new rules change this scenario? Not likely. Farm Sanctuary/Flickr

A casual reader taking in my account and the New York Times’ account of yesterday’s big FDA antibiotics announcement might have thought we were reacting to different events. Here’s the Times lead:

Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the tens of thousands of human deaths that result each year from the drugs’ overuse.

In the Times’ reading, the FDA placed significant restrictions on antibiotics use. My take was more critical: “The plan contains a bull-size loophole—and is purely voluntary, to boot.”

What gives? In short, the Times delivered a skim-level, FDA-friendly account of the new plan. Let’s start with the loophole. Here’s the Times:

Michael Taylor, the F.D.A.’s deputy commissioner for food, predicted that the new restrictions would save lives because farmers would have to convince a veterinarian that their animals were either sick or at risk of getting a specific illness. [Emphasis added.]

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Recalls

Bird Feed Recalled Due to Vitamin D Level

by Julia Thomas | Apr 18, 2012
Kaytee, a Central Garden & Pet brand, is recalling two products, Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Birds and Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Macaw, due to high levels of vitamin D.

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The recalled products are used primarily by bird breeders for feeding baby birds. Baby birds being fed the formula may run the risk of kidney failure when ingesting the product.
According to the recall news release, an elevated amount of vitamin D was unintentionally added in an isolated mixing batch during manufacturing. Products manufactured before and after the recalled batch have been tested and are safe for feeding to baby birds.

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Allergen Alert

Allergen Alert: Peppers in Lasagna Packages

by News Desk | Apr 18, 2012
Nestlé Prepared Foods Company is recalling approximately 16,890 pounds of Stouffer’s lasagna frozen entrées that may instead contain stuffed peppers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Tuesday.

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The stuffed peppers contain Worcestershire sauce made with anchovies, an allergen not listed on the package labels.
The error was brought to the company’s attention by two consumer complaints, but FSIS and the company say they have received no reports of adverse reactions.
According to the recall news release, the problem may have occurred when the lasagna packaging materials remained in the packaging machinery as the company began packaging stuffed pepper entrées.

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Articles of Interest

California Fights Citrus-Killing Bacteria

by Dan Flynn | Apr 18, 2012
There’s no threat to human health in a growing quarantine in Southern California, but an annual $2 billion worth of citrus fruits are at risk in a war with a tiny insect and the bacteria its spreads.
Earlier this month, the state of California added 93-square miles in the Hacienda Heights area of Los Angeles County to the quarantine after the citrus greening disease known as huanglongbing was discovered in the state for the first time.

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Until then, California had been combatting the insect that precedes the disease, which does not harm humans or animals, but causes citrus trees to decline and eventually die.
Now covering most of Southern California, the quarantine means no nursery stock can be moved out of the area and only commercially cleaned and cleared citrus fruit may be shipped from there. Residential citrus can’t be removed from the property on which it’s grown, although it can be processed and consumed on the premises.
“The success of any quarantine depends on cooperation from those affected,” says Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), in a news release.  ”The stakes could not be higher for California citrus.”

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