Lead in the water distribution pipes of ancient Rome has been found to be a major contributor to the downfall of that civilizations health.
Today, aluminum is thought to play a major role in most of the neurodegenerative diseases and has been a suspect in Alzheimer’s for many years as well as in the development of dementia, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and other degenerative diseases.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) exist all around us, emanating from power lines and transformers, antennas, televisions and microwaves. Wi-Fi is a type of radio wave, operating at either 2.4 or 5 gigahertz which is higher than the radio waves on which appliances like cellular phones or televisions operate. This allows for the transmission of large amounts of data, e.g. for laptop computers, but as a result Wi-Fi radio waves emit greater electromagnetic fields than appliances like televisions and microwaves.
Experts argue back and forth on whether these waves are harmful or not. Studies on cell phone use over time have not far proved a connection between electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and cancer or brain tumors for instance, but it is suggested that it often takes much longer, as much as twenty years for results to show up in clinical studies.
EMF and EMR have been pointed to in connection with Alzheimers, autism, the disappearance of bees, brain tumors, and disrupting bird migrations, among many other things. We have yet to understand our own human electromagnetic condition and energy fields, so an awareness of potential disruptions to our health from a variety of EMF and EMR sources is something to be aware of, and not just have our collective heads in the sand.
The number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, a total penetration rate of 49 percent. That’s half the world’s population !
Africa showed the greatest increase, and more than two-thirds of all cell phone subscribers now come from developing countries. Cell phones account for nearly 90 percent of all telephone use in Africa. India and China added 154 million and 143 million new subscribers respectively.
The global annual average growth rate for cell phone subscribers currently stands at 22 percent. However, subscriptions to mobile phone plans increased at a rate of 39 percent annually in Africa between 2005 and 2007, and the rate of increase in Asia over the same period was 28 percent.
For a real eye opener, go to http://antennasearch.com for locations of antennas and towers in your neighborhood. This poster found 119 antennas and 53 towers within a four mile radius of my home in Jacksonville, Florida, a community that is surburban bordering on rural.
Imagine this nightmare: your skin covered with sores that mysteriously sprout strange red, black, and blue fibers threads. This is accompanied by the unnerving sensation that your body is awash in ever-crawling insects. Now the bad news: you don’t have to imagine it. It’s real. It’s a disease called Morgellons, and incidences of it are growing so rapidly that the Centers for Disease Control has commissioned a study to try and find out what it is and where it’s coming from.
I don’t need a study to tell you where it’s coming from.
Sometimes, the best advice a doctor can give you is this: relax. It’s no secret that stress isn’t just unpleasant, but more and more studies are proving that it’s actually downright dangerous to your health. In fact, when you say, “man, this stress is killing me,” you could be more right than you know.
This is nothing new, but it bears repeating. I’ve had a particularly crazy week, and so this topic occurred to me as I tried to juggle a nearly impossible schedule. I’m sure you know exactly what I mean.
When I say “stress,” it’s important that I don’t just mean stress with a capital “s” (i.e., losing your job, divorce, major illness, etc.). The little, gnat-like stresses that gnaw at us nearly every day and at every turn of modern life—long lines, minor workplace politics, noisy neighbors, and bad traffic—can be just as brutally devastating to your health. Like lots of bad things, it’s not the ones and twos … it’s that the ones and the twos that add up to fours, fives, sixes, and tens. Stress is cumulative.
It’s a darn good thing your body doesn’t need those eight glasses of water a day— because it’s becoming harder and harder to drink the stuff without filling up on some other cancer-causing, heart-stopping toxin. Tap water is bad enough, and I know you’ve already heard about the negative effects of soft plastic bottles.
So many of us think that as bad as things get here in the States, we’re so much better off than those in the Third World. At least we’re not afflicted with the same kind of maladies and health issues, right?
Wrong.
THE FDA HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
In November, the FDA pressured the Bayer Pharmaceutical Company to halt the sale of the anti-bleeding drug Traysol after a Canadian clinical study determined that it could be linked to a higher risk of death than other drugs. But don’t for a minute believe that the FDA is as pure as the proverbial driven snow in this situation. They’re not.
It turns out that while our quest for a clean-burning gasoline substitute may be “saving the planet,” it could also be doing some damage to our food supply. Researchers at Kansas State University have discovered that cattle fed on distiller’s grain – a byproduct of the ethanol distillation process – have a greater prevalence of E. coli 0157 in their system.
The good news is, this type of E. coli doesn’t threaten the cattle. The bad news? This is exactly the kind of E. coli that’s a health risk to humans. (Of course, this whole problem could be completely avoided if cattle were fed grass like nature intended, but that’s another story…)
Would you give up your fingerprints so you could get in and out of a gas station more quickly? Shell Oil thinks that you will. And so once again, it seems that Americans are ready to cash in their privacy for a little convenience. And once again, our society inches just a little closer to the world that George Orwell imagined in his novel 1984 – a world utterly without any privacy.
Forced flu vaccinations ? A shot in the arm for Big Pharma profits !
Behind the push to vaccinate the entire population [for Flu H1N1] are the pharmaceutical makers of the vaccines, who are working in conjunction with the government to make the vaccine mandatory.
Homeland security and FEMA are pushing for forced vaccinations and the medical experts, virologists and epidemiologists are calling for calm and resorting to voluntary vaccination only. The former have links with the vaccine manufacturers via political contacts.
A great deal of money will be made by the manufacturers, should forced vaccinations be mandated.
Read more at mercola.com
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