Sunday, November 18, 2012
Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People than Illegal Drugs
The availability of prescription medicines in the home, is causing many teens and young adults to raid their own medicine cabinets for drugs, in place of soliciting a dealer on the street. Almost everyone has several partial left over prescriptions of drugs for pain or anxiety, such as Vicodin, Percocet, Demerol, or Xanax. Many grandmas take Oxycontin for relief of the pain of rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia, and dentists are handing it out like candy, for pain relief after dental work. Recently, we had to explain to our 19 year old daughter, that she should use it very sparingly, after her wisdom teeth were removed. (She was under the impression that she needed to finish the whole bottle, like former prescription medicines that she had taken.) No one stops to think that prescription medicines can be just as deadly as street drugs. But it is a fact, that more people lose their lives, as a result of prescription medicine overdoses, than through the use of heroin or cocaine combined. Teenagers and young adults will often find all the drugs that they desire, right in the family medicine cabinet. Few people count their pills, or lock up their prescription medicine bottles, but if you want to spare a teen from drug addiction (or even death) you should consider locking up your potentially dangerous prescription medicines in a family safe. (Some teens also steal drugs, from the medicine cabinet at a friend's house.)
Pepsi now selling ‘fat-blocking' soda
An advertisement for the new Pepsi Special (Pepsi Japan)Pepsi Japan launched a new line of soda on Tuesday that it claims blocks the body's absorption of fat.
Pepsi Special is infused with indigestible dextrin, a synthetic dietary fiber. Even though dextrin has not been proven to have dietary benefits for humans, it has been successfully tested on rats. Which, apparently, is good enough for Pepsi and the Japanese government, which has formally backed the soda manufacturer's claims.
The Japanese Ministry of Health says products carrying its FOSHU label are "intended to be consumed for the maintenance/promotion of health or special health uses by people who wish to control health conditions, including blood pressure or blood cholesterol."
In order to received the FOSHU seal, products must meet the following requirements:
- Effectiveness on the human body is clearly proven
- Absence of any safety issues (animal toxicity tests, confirmation of effects in the cases of excess intake, etc.)
- Use of nutritionally appropriate ingredients (e.g., no excessive use of salt, etc.)
- Guarantee of compatibility with product specifications by the time of consumption
- Established quality control methods, such as specifications of products and ingredients, processes and methods of analysis
The average American drinks 44.7 gallons of soda per year, according to 2010 statistics from the Beverage Marketing Corporation. That's actually down from 51.5 gallons in 2005. So, it's easy to see how consumers could be tempted by the idea of drinking a soda that actually helps them lose weight.
But don't get your hopes up just yet.
"It's true that naturally occurring soluble fiber that's present in oats, barley, cruciferous vegetables and the stuff in seeds and the skin of apples does help block cholesterol absorption," Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist and CCNhealth expert, told Forbes. "But there's no publicly available evidence suggesting that synthetic fibers do this, too."
Pepsi Special is reportedly being marketed primarily at young Japanese men and comes packaged in a black and gold plastic bottle. And as Forbes notes, this isn't the first "fat-blocking soda" to be unveiled in Japan. Beer manufacturer Kirin launched its own fiber-infused soda earlier in 2012.
Suntory, which distributes Pepsi products in Japan, doesn't stop with the weight loss claims. On its website announcing the launch of Pepsi Special, it also claims the soda can "calm the postprandial rise in triglycerides in the blood."
The Vaccine Hoax is Over
1. Known the vaccines don’t work
2. Known they cause the diseases they are supposed to prevent
3. Known they are a hazard to children
4. Colluded to lie to the public
5. Worked to prevent safety studies
Those are the same vaccines that are mandated to children in the US.
Educated parents can either get their children out of harm’s way or continue living inside one of the largest most evil lies in history, that vaccines – full of heavy metals, viral diseases, mycoplasma, fecal material, DNA fragments from other species, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (a sterilizing agent) – are a miracle of modern medicine.
Freedom of Information Act filed in the US with the CDC by a doctor with an autistic son, seeking information on what the CDC knows about the dangers of vaccines, had by law to be responded to in 20 days. Nearly 7 years later, the doctor went to court and the CDC argued it does not have to turn over documents. A judge ordered the CDC to turn over the documents on September 30th, 2011.
On October 26, 2011, a Denver Post editorial expressed shock that the Obama administration, after promising to be especially transparent, was proposing changes to the Freedom of Information Act that would allow it to go beyond declaring some documents secret and to actually allow government agencies (such as the CDC) to declare some document “non-existent.”
Simultaneous to this on-going massive CDC cover up involving its primary “health” not recommendation but MANDATE for American children, the CDC is in deep trouble over its decades of covering up the damaging effects of fluoride and affecting the lives of all Americans, especially children and the immune compromised. Lawsuits are being prepared. Children are ingesting 3-4 times more fluoride by body weight as adults and “[t]he sheer number of potentially harmed citizens — persons with dental fluorosis, kidney patients tipped into needing dialysis, diabetics, thyroid patients, etc — numbers in the millions.”