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People With Mental Illness 70 Percent More Likely to Smoke

    New data from two federal health agencies revealed that more than one in
three adults (36 percent) with a mental illness smoke cigarettes, compared
with about one in five adults (21 percent) with no mental illness. According
to the CDC, there has been direct tobacco marketing to people with mental
illness, a population that generally has more stressful living conditions
that make it more challenging to quit. Plus, the mood-altering effects of
nicotine may make people with mental illness an easy target for addiction.
Some mental health facilities even use smoking as a reward for progress!

Most Apartment Dwellers Exposed to Secondhand Smoke

    One area where electronic cigarettes have an advantage over conventional
cigarettes is the fact that they lessen exposure to secondhand smoke. By now
most everyone is aware of the risks of secondhand smoke. Children who grow up
with smokers in their homes are more likely to develop lung cancer in their
later years than those children who come from non-smoking homes.

    And children who breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer from
pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung diseases, while those who have asthma
and who breathe secondhand smoke have more asthma attacks. Secondhand smoke
also accounts for as many as one-quarter of cases of lung cancer in non-
smokers. It’s obvious that you’re exposed to secondhand smoke if you live
with a smoker, but even people who live in smoke-free apartments are often
unknowingly exposed.

    A new study by CDC researchers found that up to 46 percent of apartment
dwellers were exposed to secondhand smoke in their apartments during the last
year. The smoke can seep from one apartment to another through insulation,
cracks and power outlets. The problem potentially affects an estimated 44
million Americans who live in multi-unit buildings, including the nearly 29
million with supposedly “smoke-free” units.

What’s the Best Way to Quit Smoking?

    If you’re thinking of quitting smoking, swapping conventional cigarettes
for electronic cigarettes may simply expose you to a new set of health risks.
This is also the case with drugs designed to help you quit. Take the stop-
smoking drug Chantix, for instance. This drug may cause an inordinately high
number of serious side effects, including suicides and psychotic reactions
where people with no history of violent behavior suddenly kill themselves or
others after taking the drug.

    So, what's the trick to quitting smoking?

    I believe the "secret" is to get healthy first, which will make quitting
all that much easier. Exercising is part and parcel of this plan, and as
research shows people who engage in regular strength training double their
success rate at quitting smoking compared to those who don't exercise.

Healthy eating is another crucial aspect that can't be ignored. In short, if
you want to quit, here are the three basic tips to get you started:

        Read through my recently revised and very comprehensive free
nutrition plan to get started eating right.

        Develop a well-rounded exercise regimen. It is your ally to fighting
disease and to quitting smoking. Strength training is an important part, but
also remember to incorporate high-intensity interval exercises like Peak
Fitness, core-strengthening exercises and stretching.

        Find a healthy emotional outlet. Many people use exercise,
meditation, or relaxation techniques for this, and these are all great. I
also recommend incorporating the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), as this
can help clear out emotional blockages from your system (some of which you
might not even realize are there), thus restoring your mind and body's
balance and helping you break the addiction and avoid cravings.

    Once you are regularly doing these three things, then you can begin to
think about quitting smoking. The best method to do so appears to be cold
turkey, as research shows that two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers
stopped unaided. The best choice for your health, and the health of those
around you, is to quit smoking in order to reduce your exposure to toxins.

    However, if you’re a current smoker you should know about astaxanthin,
which has been found to be powerful enough to help prevent oxidative damage
in smokers. Astaxanthin is produced by the microalgae Haematococcus
pluvialis, and is currently thought to be the most powerful antioxidant found
in nature. It’s found in sea creatures that consume the algae, such as
salmon, shellfish, and krill, as well as in higher doses in supplement form.

Thank You Dr. Mercola

 

God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

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Electronic Cigarettes Contain Higher Levels of Toxic Metal Nanoparticles Than Tobacco Smoke!

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Electronic Cigarettes Contain Higher Levels of Toxic Metal 

Nanoparticles  Than Tobacco Smoke

    If you’re a smoker, you’ve probably seen the relatively new electronic
cigarettes on the market. Maybe you’ve even tried them in an attempt to quit
your cigarette habit.

    My mom has been a smoker for over sixty years and I really don't hassle
her about it because she is not taking any medications, has a really great
diet and uses a device to poke holes in her cigarettes that reduces the
amount of smoke she inhales by 95%.

    I have learned that it is best to allow her to have this one vice and
help control the other variables, which are far more damaging to her health,
but she also recently asked me about the electronic cigarettes.

    Electronic cigarettes are touted as a safer, cleaner alternative to
smoking, but new research suggests there’s more to the equation than meets
the eye.

    While they may not expose you to the thousands of toxic compounds in the
average conventional cigarette, they do contain hazardous chemicals -- and in
some ways these entirely manmade ‘tobacco alternatives’ may be even more
dangerous to your health than regular cigarettes.

How do Electronic Cigarettes Work?

    When you take a puff of an electronic cigarette – which one in five
current smokers have tried -- a battery heats up a liquid that contains a
flavoring (such as tobacco, menthol, cherry, vanilla, or java), a humectant
(typically propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin) and, sometimes, nicotine.

    As you inhale, you get a “dose” of flavored nicotine without the
chemicals typically produced from burning tobacco. You also get the oral
satisfaction of bringing a cigarette-like device to your mouth, which other
nicotine replacements, such as the patch or gum, do not offer. While this
sounds safer than traditional smoking, the short- and long-term health
effects of electronic cigarettes are not entirely understood.

    To date, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has detected a
potentially deadly antifreeze chemical called diethylene glycol in an
electronic cigarette cartridge, along with tobacco-specific nitrosamines,
which are linked to cancer. In the latest study, researchers hypothesized
that since electronic cigarettes contain various metal components, so too
might the aerosol that you inhale, and their hypothesis turned out to be
right.

Electronic Cigarettes Contain Toxic Metal Nanoparticles

    After testing the aerosol from a leading manufacturer of electronic
cigarettes, it was found to contain metals including tin, copper, nickel and
silver, silicate beads and nanoparticles. In some cases, such as in the case
of tin particles, the amounts were greater than you might be exposed to from
smoking a conventional cigarette. The researchers concluded:

        “Cartomizer aerosol from a leading manufacturer of EC [electronic
cigarette] contained metals, silicate beads, and nanoparticles. Poor solder
joints appear to have contributed to the presence of tin in the aerosol. In
cytotoxicity tests, cartomizer fluid containing tin particles inhibited
attachment and survival of hPF [human pulmonary fibroblasts].

        Other metals likely came from the wires (copper, nickel, silver) and
other metal components used in the cartomizers, while silicate particles
appeared to come from the fiberglass wicks.

        While the outer fibers filtered out many of the tin particles,
significant amounts of tin, other metals, and silicate beads escaped into the
aerosol and would result in human exposure, in some cases probably greater
than a conventional cigarette user would experience.” [emphasis added]

    The effects of toxic metal exposures can range from subtle symptoms to
serious diseases. Since metals build up in your body over time, symptoms are
often attributed to other causes and people often don't realize that they
have been affected by metals until it's too late. Further, once metals build
up in your body they can cause irreversible damage.

Why Breathing in Metal Nanoparticles May be Dangerous

    Adding to the potential risks are nanoparticles, which, due to their
ultramicroscopic size, can easily enter your bloodstream, blood vessels and
other body tissues, causing unknown consequences. As written by Sayer Ji,
founder of GreenMedInfo.com:

        “One of the unintended, adverse consequences of nanotechnology in
general is that by making a substance substantially smaller in size than
would occur naturally, or though pre-nanotech production processes, the
substance may exhibit significantly higher toxicity when in nanoparticle
form.

        Contrary to older toxicological risk models, less is more: by
reducing a particle's size the technology has now made that substance capable
of evading the body's natural defenses more easily, i.e. passing through
pores in the skin or mucous membranes, evading immune and detoxification
mechanisms that evolved millions of years before the nanotech era.

        For example, when nickel particles are reduced in size to the
nanometer range (one billionth of a meter wide) they may actually become more
toxic to the endocrine system as now they are capable of direct molecular
interaction with estrogen receptors in the body, disrupting their normal
structure and function. Moreover, breathing these particles into the lungs,
along with other metals, ethylene glycol and nicotine produces a chemical
concoction exhibiting synergistic toxicity, i.e. the toxicity of the whole is
higher than the sum of their parts.”

Graphic Warning Labels Won’t be Mandated for Cigarette Packages

    Conventional cigarettes obviously carry significant health risks of their
own, and some of these were intended to be displayed prominently on cigarette
packages. But the FDA’s campaign to put such graphic images of people dying
from smoking-related disease, as well as other gruesome images portraying the
health damages of smoking, on cigarette packages has been abandoned. Instead,
the Agency said it plans to revise package labels with less-shocking
approaches.

    The graphic label images surely would have created a much larger market
for electronic cigarettes as more people became motivated to quit. But
tobacco companies filed lawsuits over the campaign, claiming it was not
simply providing factual information but rather was promoting an anti-smoking
agenda. A US District Court later ruled that the graphic-image mandate would
violate the US Constitutions free speech amendment.

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The Food and Drug Industries Don’t Want You to Know the Facts

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The Food and Drug Industries Don’t Want You to Know the Facts

    As stated by Kessler, we have more than enough evidence that using
antibiotics as growth promoters is threatening human health. Yet the drug and
food industries are doing everything they can to block proposed legislation
that would limit this practice, and both the FDA and the Senate Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions aid and abet them. For example, the
Committee took no action on a proposal from Senators Kirsten E. Gillibrand
(D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), which would require the FDA to report
data on agricultural antibiotics that it already collects but does not
disclose. According to Kessler:

        “'In the House, Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and
Louise M. Slaughter of New York, also Democrats, have introduced a more
comprehensive measure. It would not only authorize the FDA to collect more
detailed data from drug companies, but would also require food producers to
disclose how often they fed antibiotics to animals at low levels to make them
grow faster and to offset poor conditions.

        This information would be particularly valuable to the F.D.A., which
asked drugmakers last April to voluntarily stop selling antibiotics for these
purposes. The agency has said it would mandate such action if those practices
persisted, but it has no data to determine whether the voluntary policy is
working. The House bill would remedy this situation, though there are no
Republican sponsors.' ...Lawmakers must let the public know how the drugs
they need to stay well are being used to produce cheaper meat.”

How to Avoid Hidden Antibiotics in Your Food

    This is one of the many reasons why I always recommend buying your meat,
whether beef or poultry, from a local organic farmer rather than your local
supermarket. The only way to avoid this hidden source of antibiotics is to
make sure you’re only buying organic, grass-fed, free-range meats and organic
pasture-raised chickens, as non-medical use of antibiotics is not permitted
in organic farming.

    If you live in an urban area, there are increasing numbers of community-
supported agriculture programs available that offer access to healthy,
locally grown foods even if you live in the heart of the city. Being able to
find high-quality meat is such an important issue for me personally that I've
made connections with sources I know provide high-quality organic grass-fed
beef and bison, free-range chicken and ostrich, all of which you can find in
my online store. The farms our supplier uses have three USDA inspectors on
hand that regularly inspect the packaging facility. Additionally, all of the
cattle are grass-fed on open pastures, and E. coli 0157 testing is performed
daily. You can eliminate the shipping charges though if you find a trusted
farmer right in your area.

    The Weston Price Foundation has chapters all over the world and many of
them are connected with buying clubs in which you can easily purchase these
types of foods locally. Another resource you can try is Local Harvest, which
you can use to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of
safe, sustainably grown food in your area.

For Optimal Health, Tend to Your Gut

    The micro-organisms living in your digestive tract form a very important
"inner ecosystem" that influences countless aspects of health, including your
weight. More specifically, the type and quantity of organisms in your gut
interact with your body in ways that can either prevent or encourage the
development of many diseases, including heart disease and diabetes, and may
help dictate the ease with which you’re able to shed unwanted pounds.

    Since virtually all of us are exposed to factors that destroy beneficial
bacteria in the gut, such as antibiotics (whether you take them for an
illness or get them from contaminated animal products), chlorinated water,
antibacterial soap, agricultural chemicals and pollution, ensuring your gut
bacteria remain balanced should be considered an ongoing process.

    Cultured foods like raw milk yogurt and kefir, some cheeses, and
fermented vegetables are good sources of natural, healthy bacteria. So my
strong recommendation would be to make cultured or fermented foods a regular
part of your diet; this can be your primary strategy to optimize your body's
good bacteria. If you do not eat fermented foods frequently, taking a high-
quality probiotic supplement is definitely a wise move. In fact, this is one
of the few supplements recommended for everyone. A probiotic supplement can
be incredibly useful to help maintain a well-functioning digestive system
when you stray from your healthy diet and consume excess grains or sugar, or
if you have to take antibiotics.

 Thank You Dr. Mercola

God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

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42 S. Sherwood Dr.
Belton, Tx. 76513
cancercurehere@gmail.com

The Hidden Health Hazards of Antibiotics in Meat

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The Hidden Health Hazards of Antibiotics in Meat

    A related news story highlights one hidden source of antibiotics that can
have a significant and long-term impact on your gut flora and overall health.

Writing for the New York Times,8 David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 1990 to 1997, warns that antibiotic-
resistant pathogens in livestock are on the rise as a result of the fact
that, in the US, antibiotics are routinely fed to livestock not only to fight
infection, but to promote unhealthy (though profitable) weight gain.

        “While the F.D.A. can see what kinds of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
are coming out of livestock facilities, the agency doesn’t know enough about
the antibiotics that are being fed to these animals,” he writes. “This is a
major public health problem, because giving healthy livestock these drugs
breeds superbugs that can infect people. We need to know more about the use
of antibiotics in the production of our meat and poultry. The results could
be a matter of life and death. ... It may sound counterintuitive, but feeding
antibiotics to livestock at low levels may do the most harm.

 When he accepted the Nobel Prize in 1945 

for his discovery ofpenicillin, Alexander Fleming warned that 'there is the
danger that theignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing
his microbes tononlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.' He probably
could nothave imagined that, one day, we would be doing this to billions of animals
infactory-like facilities.”

    The link between antibiotic use in livestock and antibiotic-resistant disease is
so clear that the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animalfeed has been
banned in Europe since 2006.9 In sharp contrast, according tothe first-ever report
by the FDA10 on the topic, confined animal feedingoperations (CAFOs) used a
whopping 29 million pounds of antibiotics in 2009,and according to Kessler,
that number had further risen to nearly 30 millionpounds in 2011, which
represents about 80 percent of all reported antibioticsales that year.

    What’s more, on December 22, 2011, the FDA quietly posted a notice in the
Federal Register11 that it was effectively reneging on its plan to reduce the
use of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed – a plan it has been touting
since 1977.

    Instead, the agency decided it will continue to allow livestock producers
to use the drugs in feed unabated. Only one class of antibiotics,
cephalosporin, has been restricted from use in livestock.12 This class of
antibiotics, which are regularly prescribed to humans, are implicated in the
development and spread of drug-resistant bacteria among humans that work
with, and/or eat, the animals. As of April 5, 2012, the antibiotics are no
longer be allowed for use in preventing diseases in livestock, although they
are still allowed for treatment of illness in livestock.

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cancercurehere@gmail.com

How Gut Bacteria Affects Your Weight, and Why CAFO Meats Promote Antibiotic- Resistant Disease

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    Recent studies 

have repeatedly demonstrated that the makeup of your
intestinal flora can have an impact on your weight, and your propensity
to gain or lose weight.

    Most recently, research1 also suggests that as much as 20 percent of
the substantial weight loss achieved from gastric bypass, a popular
weight loss surgery, is actually due to shifts in the balance of bacteria
in your digestive tract. According to co-author Dr. Lee M. Kaplan:

        “The findings mean that eventually, treatments that adjust the
microbe levels, or 'microbiota,' in the gut may be developed to help people
lose weight without surgery.”

Gut Microbes May Be Behind Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass

    To investigate the potential link between gastric bypass surgery and
alterations in gut flora, fattened-up mice were divided into two groups. The
test group underwent gastric bypass surgery while the control group received
sham surgery. After the sham surgery, the controls were further divided into
two groups: One received a fatty diet; the other a weight-loss diet.

    In the test group, the microbial populations quickly changed following
surgery, and the mice lost weight. In the control group, the gut flora didn’t
change much, regardless of their diet. After the bypass surgery, the test
group was found to have more of certain types of microbes, including:

        Gammaproteobacteria, particularly Escherichia species, which can help
prevent inflammation and maintain intestinal health, although some species of
Escherichia are pathogenic

        Akkermansia bacteria, which can feed on mucus found in your

intestines

    According to the featured article:

        “Next, the researchers transferred intestinal contents from each of
the groups into other mice, which lacked their own intestinal bacteria. The
animals that received material from the bypass mice rapidly lost weight;
stool from mice that had the sham operations had no effect.”

More Research Shows Your Gut Bacteria Impacts Your Weight

    Previous research has also shown that lean people tend to have higher
amounts of various healthy bacteria compared to obese people. For example,
one 2011 study5 found that daily intake of a specific form of lactic acid
bacteria could help prevent obesity and reduce low-level inflammation.

    In this study, rats given the bacterium while in utero through adulthood
put on significantly less weight than the control group, even though both
groups of rats ate a similar high-calorie diet. They also had lower levels of
minor inflammation, which has been associated with obesity.

    Similarly, gut bacteria have also been shown to impact weight in human
babies. One study6 found babies with high numbers of bifidobacteria and low
numbers of Staphylococcus aureus -- which may cause low-grade inflammation in
your body, contributing to obesity -- appeared to be protected from excess
weight gain.

    This may be one reason why breast-fed babies have a lower risk of
obesity, as bifidobacteria flourish in the gut of breast-fed babies.

Probiotics also appear beneficial in helping women lose weight after
childbirth when taken from the first trimester through breastfeeding.

    Two other studies found that obese individuals had about 20 percent more
of a family of bacteria known as firmicutes, and almost 90 percent less of a
bacteria called bacteroidetes than lean people. Firmicutes help your body to
extract calories from complex sugars and deposit those calories in fat. When
these microbes were transplanted into normal-weight mice, those mice started
to gain twice as much fat. This is one explanation for how the microflora in
your gut may affect your weight.

    Yet another study from 20107 showed that obese people were able to reduce
their abdominal fat by nearly five percent, and their subcutaneous fat by
over three percent, just by drinking a probiotic-rich fermented milk beverage
for 12 weeks. Given that the control group experienced no significant fat
reductions at all during the study period, this is one more gold star for
probiotics.

    Probiotics have also been found to benefit metabolic syndrome, which
often goes hand-in-hand with obesity. This makes sense since both are caused
by a diet high in sugars, which leads to insulin resistance, fuels the growth
of unhealthy bacteria, and packs on excess weight.

Diet and Environmental Factors Affect Your Gut Flora

    I have long stated that it's generally a wise choice to "reseed" your
body with good bacteria from time to time by taking a high-quality probiotic
supplement or eating non-pasteurized, traditionally fermented foods such as:

        Fermented vegetables
        Lassi (an Indian yoghurt drink, traditionally enjoyed before dinner)
        Fermented milk, such as kefir
        Natto (fermented soy)

    One of the reasons why fermented foods are so beneficial is because they
contain lactic acid bacteria, which of course has health benefits over and
beyond any weight-loss benefits, as well as a wide variety of other
beneficial bacteria. Ideally, you want to eat a variety of fermented foods to
maximize the variety of bacteria. But eating fermented foods may not be
enough if the rest of your diet is really poor. Your gut bacteria are an
active and integrated part of your body, and as such are vulnerable to your
lifestyle. If you eat a lot of processed foods, for instance, your gutbacteria
are going to be compromised because processed foods in general will
destroy healthy microflora and feed bad bacteria and yeast. Your gut bacteria
are also very sensitive to:

        Antibiotics
        Chlorinated water
        Antibacterial soap
        Agricultural chemicals
        Pollution

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God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

Larry Nelson
42 S. Sherwood Dr.
Belton, Tx. 76513
cancercurehere@gmail.com