Quick Tip: Fruit Juices From Concentrate
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
- Category: Reports Reports
- Published: January 14, 2010 January 14, 2010
An "All Natural" fruit juice plant making "fresh" orange juice with tap water.
Whenever a juice is made "from concentrate", there is reason to beware of it. Such juices are first concentrated by high heat over a relatively long period, which is prone to destroying all nutritional value; but this is hardly the worst aspect. The worst part is that the juices are then recombined with tap water. This tap water composes about 90% (or more) of the fluid of reconstituted juices. Therefore, you may be drinking more impurities by drinking juices that are made from concentrate than if you drank your local tap water, due to it having been shipped to multiple locations and the excessive processing. The quality of the resultant juice is a product of the tap water quality at the bottling plant, which could be worse than your local tap water. The final product may still taste like delicious juice, but it is often little more than flavored tap water by the time it reaches your local retailer, and it is likely to be less pure.
The most popular brands of orange juice in the U.S. are owned by PepsiCo Inc., and The Coca-Cola Company.
Why Hand Lotion Is Usually The Worst Thing To Use For Dry Hands and How Hand Lotions Destroy Overall Health
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
- Category: Reports Reports
- Published: January 13, 2010 January 13, 2010
Many people use commercial hand lotions to make their skin softer and moister. This is especially true throughout the winter months, when less moisture is present in the air. Commercial lotions seem to provide some short-term relief for skin dryness, but they actually make the problems worse in the long term. This phenomenon is similar to what we have seen with pharmaceuticals and dieting aids, which ultimately exaggerate the root problems.
People rarely use hand lotions in moderation. Lotion becomes an essential accessory, which is applied generously several times daily, for years at a time. This necessity seems to be by design from the industry. The great majority of hand lotions contain chemicals which accumulate in the liver and fatty tissues, causing long-term problems. The chemicals accumulate in ever greater amounts in the body over time in a snowballing reaction. Many of the common chemicals used in hand lotions are known to cause skin dryness and skin irritation with extended use, which coincidentally happens to be great for business. When people start experiencing long-term dryness after using hand lotions, they eventually become dependent on these lotions for their quick-fix. None of this is accidental.
The Amish Don't Get Autism but They Do Get Bio-Terrorism
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
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- Published: January 07, 2010 January 07, 2010
The uninitiated are often confused by the lack of autism in the Amish people. The Amish do not experience autism, or most of the other learning disabilities that plague our technological society. They live in a society that consists of outdated technologies and ideals, at least by contemporary standards. Their diet consists of eating organic, fresh, locally-grown produce, and of course, they do not follow the established vaccination routines. To the dismay of the medical establishment, this has resulted in a healthier people, who are devoid of all of our chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are virtually non-existent in Amish villages. Equally non-existent are our modern, chemically-engineered medicines, enhanced (chemically engineered) foods, G.M.O. (genetically engineered) foods, and of course, vaccines. How is it that those who are without the so-called "miracles" of orthodox medicine are healthier? The truth about health, medicine, and how they both relate to the Amish has become an embarrassment to some rather powerful people.
There have been 3 (yes three) verified cases of autism in the Amish, and two of those children were vaccinated. No information is available for the third child, who was likely vaccinated himself. The strong correlation between vaccinations and autism is becoming undeniable, unless you work for the medical establishment, the government, or mainstream media.
Doctor Andrew Weil: Whose Side Is He Really On?
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- Written by Sarah C. Corriher Sarah C. Corriher
- Category: Reports Reports
- Published: January 06, 2010 January 06, 2010
Andrew Weil (pronounced "while"), M.D., is a professor at the University of Arizona specializing in integrative medicine, which combines allopathic medicine with nutritional therapies. Dr. Weil is also a supplement spokesperson, and a prolific author. The doctor is an icon for organic products and herbal supplements, a media darling, and a self-appointed leader of the alternative health movement. As if all that were not enough, Weil also has his own private medical practice, and is a proud graduate of Harvard University. Nowadays, one cannot stroll the aisles of most health-related retailers without seeing his face. These may be tough times for the rest of us, but business is great for Dr. Weil. At the beginning of his career, Weil lived on a South Dakota Indian reservation, where he studied herbal medicine and ritualistic healing with a Lakota medicine man named Leonard Crow Dog. In his 1972 book, The Natural Mind, Weil demonstrated his shaman influence by criticizing American drug policy, and revealing his fondness for states of altered consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs, hypnosis, and meditation.
Quick Tip: Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
- Category: Reports Reports
- Published: January 06, 2010 January 06, 2010
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition which occurs with repetitive motions of the wrist, usually arising from excessive computer use. It is caused by pressure on the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand. This nerve controls all sensations on the palm side of the thumb and fingers, along with controlling the movements of them. The carpal tunnel is a passage at the base of the hand, made from bone and ligament, which houses the median nerve and associated tendons. When the tendons become enlarged by inflammation, the tunnel diameter is no longer adequate. This causes the median nerve to become pinched. This results in pain, weakness and numbness in the fingers, wrist, hand, and occasionally the forearm. In particularly bad cases, the sufferer may have trouble making a fist and picking up small objects.
The medical establishment often uses steroids, splints, and even surgery to eliminate the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. However, there are problems with all of these strategies. Steroids cause endless problems, especially when taken perpetually. They cause type 2 diabetes. While a splint is a good solution for a broken bone, using it for muscle and nerve problems results in weakened muscles, which thereby increases the chance of a relapse. Surgery is always a dangerous option, because human error by the surgeon can result in a complete crippling of the hand, which is surprisingly common.
Special Investigative Report: Curing Diabetes Naturally and Holistically
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- Written by Sarah C. Corriher Sarah C. Corriher
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- Published: November 30, 2013 November 30, 2013
Chronic diseases such as diabetes are becoming more prevalent. Diabetes diagnoses are increasing at a steady rate of 5% annually in the U.S., and there is no sign of either a cure or a preventative from the medical establishment. The total cost of treating diabetes was approximately $245,000,000,000.00 ($245 billion) in the United States alone for the year 2012, according to the American Diabetes Association. Until very recently, type 2 diabetes did not occur in children, so it was formerly known as "adult onset" diabetes. Now, type 2 diabetes occurs in children as young as two years old. Meanwhile, the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge that diseases could be caused by artificial foods that are manufactured by the chemical industry, its own drugs, and by overall toxicity. Therefore, the victims will continue to get younger.
The F.D.A.'s Push For Radioactive ("Irradiated") Foods
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
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- Published: December 31, 2009 December 31, 2009
Radiation is being used to enhance some of the foods that are being shipped to retail locations throughout the United States as you read this. This report explains the situation, politics, history, and what is being presented by profiteers as the 'science' of food irradiation. As expected, quite a bit of deception is being used to trick the public into consuming these foods without its consent, for everyone knows that public consent will never happen.
Why Americans Ought To Reevaluate What They Were (Falsely) Taught about Child Birth
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- Written by Sarah C. Corriher Sarah C. Corriher
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- Published: December 28, 2009 December 28, 2009
Doctors used posters such as this one to demonize midwives, and spread messages of terror about competing alternatives. Some things never change.
In the early part of the twentieth century, a campaign against midwifery began, which was led by the allopathic establishment. At that time, 95% of deliveries happened in the home with midwives present. The young medical industry was campaigning that midwives were unclean, and that midwives were the last option, reserved for those who could not afford real medicine. The industry jealously spied birthing as a potentially profitable option, so it began a massive marketing blitz. Hospitals were presented as the cleaner and safer option, with supposedly better-trained professionals. Every one of these statements was untrue. What made these assertions most disturbing is the fact that doctors in those days received no hands-on training in birthing at all. The attacks against midwives continued for 30 years, despite the statistical proof that midwife-assisted births were categorically safer than those conducted in hospitals. Home birthing is still safer, over a century later.
The slander against midwives was successful. By 1955, only 1% of U.S. births took place in the home. Only 8% of the births in the United States are now attended by midwives, while 70% of the European and Japanese births are attended by midwives. As a result, the United States has the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world. Only Latvia, with six deaths per 1,000 births, has a higher infant mortality rate than the United States. The U.S. also has the highest maternal mortality rates. The safest country to give birth in is Sweden, which has a midwife (or two) at almost every birth, and these same birthing professionals actively involve themselves in prenatal care too. The Swedish do not treat pregnancy as a disease that needs pharmaceuticals, intensive hospital care, and intervention by doctors. Their babies are the better for it.
How Some Gyms Are Very Dangerous To Health and How They Might Even Eventually Kill You
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- Written by Sarah C. Corriher Sarah C. Corriher
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- Published: December 28, 2009 December 28, 2009
Nothing sickens us more than when a company willfully poisons those who are working to improve their health. It is for this reason that we feel compelled to warn others about our personal experiences with a gym in our local area. While it is fortunately a small chain, reporting our problems with it may help other members, or prospective members. In addition, some of its practices are undoubtedly mirrored in other Gyms throughout the country, and all of these gyms should be avoided.
What We Didn't Know Did Hurt Us -- Lots
A couple of months into our membership, we began experiencing trouble breathing whilst working out. Allow me to explain that being breathless and 'winded' are not things that any of us are accustomed to. While it is true that there is always room for our improvement; overall, we are in terrific shape. Our quick exhaustion and breathlessness when visiting the gym seemed to make no sense. In addition, I experienced trouble with asthma, a disease which had not manifested itself since my switch to a natural diet. On a particularly bad night, several of us experienced pronounced chest pains, like those from a heart attack, at exactly the same time. The odds of one of us experiencing angina are minuscule, so for two of us to experience it at exactly the same time is a statistical impossibility. Something in that gym was obviously afoul. The whole near heart attack thing really motivated us into researching the problem.
Your Healthy Fish Might Just Be Killing You
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- Written by Thomas Corriher Thomas Corriher
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- Published: December 19, 2009 December 19, 2009
One of our strong suspicions about farmed fish was confirmed by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center. They proved that farm-raised fish are unhealthy, and dangerous with long-term consumption. We have to applaud Wake Forest for this. Through a press release, the university summarized its findings of:
"Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids...