November 29, 2018

Vaccine Boom, Population Bust: Study Queries the Link Between HPV Vaccine and Soaring Infertility

By Celeste McGovern, for Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute

 

A plague is spreading silently across the globe. The young generation in America, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Australia – in virtually every western country – is afflicted by rapidly increasing rates of infertility.

This spring, the United States reported its lowest birth rate in 30 years, despite an economic boom. Finland’s birth rate plummeted to a low not seen in 150 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently introduced a string of reforms aimed at stemming the country’s “deep demographic declines.”  The government of Denmark introduced an ad campaign to encourage couples to “Do it for Denmark” and conceive on vacations, and Poland produced a campaign urging its citizens to “breed like rabbits.”

Something – or things — are robbing young women and men of their capacity to procreate and public health admits it doesn’t have a clue where to start to fix the emerging priority.

 

The “population bomb” we were all endlessly warned about by environmentalists failed to blow, and instead, demographers have been trying to raise the alarm about the population implosion crisis unfolding across the West — the graying of societies facing an unprecedented aging demographic in which there will be too few young to support the old. Most often, they blame social factors: young women embracing careers instead of motherhood, men shunning marriage and fatherhood, rising consumerism or couples choosing to delay raising a family until the economy settles. But there is another phenomenon that is rarely mentioned – the growing numbers of young people who are not childless by choice but who are incapable of bearing children.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that more than 12 percent of American women – one in eight—have trouble conceiving and bearing a child. Male fertility is plunging, too, and the trend is global. Something – or things — are robbing young women and men of their capacity to procreate and public health admits it doesn’t have a clue where to start to fix the emerging priority. Besides bantering about expanding access to costly and risky artificial reproductive technologies, very little is being done to discern the cause of the rising infertility crisis.

So, earlier this month, when an unprecedented study was released that looked at a database of more than eight million American women and singled out a whopping  25 percent increase in childlessness associated with one ubiquitous drug that young women have been taking for only a decade — in tandem with a marked decline in fecundity — you would have thought there would be significant interest from public health, the medical profession and the media, wouldn’t you?

A Common Denominator Behind Growing Infertility Rates

Instead, all three of these behemoths remain stone silent. The reason? Because the study, published in the current Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, examines the childbearing capacity of women who received the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine – compared to those who didn’t — and the results are chilling. No one in public health, medicine or mainstream media, which are tangled up in the money-making machine of this vaccine, dare to publicly question the “safe and effective” mantra they’ve promulgated about Merck and GSK pharmaceuticals’ “blockbuster” commodity worth billions.

The study is by Gayle DeLong, associate professor of economics and finance, at Baruch College at City University of New York. She observed that the declining birth rate had plunged in America in recent years – from 118 per 1,000 in 2007, to 105 in 2015 for the cohort aged 25 to 29.

The HPV vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the US in 2006 to prevent cervical cancer – an illness women face a 0.6% lifetime risk of being diagnosed with.

Although it is diagnosed most frequently at age 47 in the United States, it was rolled out en masse, initially targeting girls aged 11 to 26 (and has since been marketed to boys as young as nine to prevent rare anal and penile cancers  — a disease that afflicts 0.2 % of men in their lifetime.).

They raised troubling questions about some vaccine ingredients’ documented impact on reproduction, cited serious deficiencies (some would say criminal negligence) in preliminary vaccine trials and concluded that further research was urgently required….for the purposes of population health and public vaccine confidence.

 

DeLong had read a case study in the British Medical Journal by Australian physicians Deirdre Little and Harvey Ward, who described a 16-year-old girl whose regular menstruation ceased after receiving HPV vaccinations and she was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure.

In 2014, the doctors published a case series of more teens who had entered premature menopause — a phenomenon Little and Ward described as ordinarily “so rare as to be also unknown.” They raised troubling questions about some vaccine ingredients’ documented impact on reproduction, cited serious deficiencies (some would say criminal negligence) in preliminary vaccine trials and concluded that further research was “urgently required….for the purposes of population health and public vaccine confidence.”

As well, between 2006 and 2014, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) cited 48 cases of ovarian damage associated with autoimmune reactions in HPV vaccine recipients. Between 2006 and May, 2018, VAERS catalogued other reproductive issues: spontaneous abortion (256 cases), amenorrhea (172 cases), and irregular menstruation (172 cases), all of which are likely under-reported symptoms.

NY State Senator Dies of Sepsis

by TVR Staff

Published November 28, 2018 | Vaccination, Risk & Failure Reports

 

Eight-year-old Amely Baez of LeFrank City, New York died on Feb. 5, 2018 of “flu-related” symptoms, according to local health authorities. Published reports did not indicate whether the child had received the influenza vaccine.¹

New York State Senator José Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said Amely’s death was tragic and that it “reminds us of how dangerous the flu outbreak is” and he urged New Yorkers to “protect themselves, and their children, and get vaccinated.” He added, “We need to ensure we do everything possible to combat the spread of this deadly virus as the number of hospitalizations is increasing. The influenza vaccine can be the difference between life and death.”²

Partly in response to Amely’s death, Sen. Peralta partnered with NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst to sponsor free influenza vaccinations in LeFrank City on Nov. 17, 2018. Some 90 area residents were vaccinated. “The influenza vaccine can be the difference between life and death. I want to thank NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and LeFrank City management for making Saturday’s flu clinic possible and providing potentially lifesaving vaccines to the community,” said Peralta.^{3 4 5}

On Nov. 20, Peralta, 47, developed a fever. The following day, he became “disoriented and had trouble breathing.” He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY where he died that evening. “We really don’t know what happened,” said Peralta’s wife, Evelyn Peralta. “He just took a turn for the worst.”⁶

Peralta had reportedly been ill for at least two weeks. According to the Associated Press, Mrs. Peralta had told reporters that her husband had felt pressure behind his ears and headaches for a week or more and had gone to see a doctor.⁶

An article in The New York Times quoted Sen. Peralta’s director of communications, Chris Sosa, as saying, ““It was like pulling teeth to get him (Peralta) to talk about not feeling well. He just thought he was having symptoms related to getting the flu shot.”⁷

Peralta’s death was attributed to sepsis—an overstimulation of the immune system triggered by an infection and leading to “septic shock.”^{8 9 10}

“His body was poisoning itself,” said Mrs. Peralta.¹⁰

Compelling study confirms the therapeutic effects of curcumin in removing fluoride from our bodies

Monday, November 26, 2018 by: Ethan Huff
Tags: Brain, brain damage, brain health, CDC, clean water, curcumin, Fluoridated Water, Fluoride, hippocampal, IQ, lipid peroxidation, malondialdehyde, MDA, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, natural remedies, neurodegeneration, neuroprotective, prevention, Spices, Study, superfoods, supplements, Toxic, toxic ingredients, turmeric, water

(Natural News) According to the latest statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 66.3 percent of the United States population is currently being subjected to fluoride poisoning via public water supplies. But research published in Pharmacognosy Magazine has identified yet another natural solution.

According to researchers from India’s Mohanlal Sukhadia University, curcumin, one of the primary active constituents in the turmeric spice, offers powerful benefits in terms of protecting the human brain against fluoride poisoning.

In their paper entitled, “Curcumin attenuates neurotoxicity induced by fluoride: An in vivo evidence,” the team compared the brains of mice given non-fluoridated water to the brains of other mice given fluoridated water (120 parts per million), fluoridated water plus curcumin (120 ppm/30 milligrams per kilogram of body weight), or just curcumin (30 mg/kg body weight).

The researchers looked specifically at fluoride-induced toxicity on the mice’s brains, including the chemical’s impact on lipid peroxidation, or rancidity, in brain tissue. They also evaluated markers of malondialdehyde, or MDA, a well-known marker of oxidative stress and oxidative damage, in the brains of mice from each test group.

What they discovered is that fluoride greatly increased MDA levels in the fluoride group of mice, while MDA levels remained low in the non-fluoride control group. Mice given fluoride plus curcumin, however, saw noticeably reduced levels of MDA compared to the fluoride-only group, suggesting that curcumin exhibits pronounced neuroprotective benefits against fluoride and its associated neurotoxicity.

“Fluoride (F) is probably the first inorganic ion which drew attention of the scientific world for its toxic effects and now the F toxicity through drinking water is well-recognized as a global problem,” the study explains.

“Health effect reports on F exposure also include various cancers, adverse reproductive activities, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.”

For more news on the dangers of fluoride chemicals, be sure to check out Fluoride.news.

The time is NOW to remove all fluoride chemicals from public water supplies

Country Roads Christmas Dec 1st and 2nd

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Enjoy a weekend of shopping and dining at 21 local businesses in North Central Massachusetts where you'll find one of a kind gifts, refreshments, cheerful shopkeepers, the chance to win great prizes, great food, and so much more! 

The 21 businesses are Dandelions LLC, Stone Cow Brewery, and Hartman's Herb Farm in Barre; The Country Store in Petersham, Petersham Art Center, and Petersham Leathers in Petersham; Red Apple Farm, Down to Earth Nursery, King Phillip Restaurant, and Whiting Farm Store in Phillipston; The Hub of the Hubb - An Artisan Gift Shop, A Thyme and a Place, and Plain View Farm in Hubbardston; Smith's Country Cheese in Winchendon; and Back In Tyme, Valley Florist, Greenhouses & Gifts, Valley View Farm, Country Bumpkin Antiques, Country Folk Gift Shop, The Kitchen Garden, and Nouveaux Riches Antiques & Collectibles in Templeton. We can't wait to see you!

Ex-Barre tax collector gets year in jail for stealing $250K

 By Gary V. Murray
Telegram & Gazette Staff

Posted Nov 27, 2018 at 12:59 PM  

Updated Nov 28, 2018 at 11:10 AM

 

WORCESTER - Former Barre tax collector Marcia J. Langelier was sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined after pleading guilty Tuesday to stealing about $250,000 in town funds and gambling it away.

Ms. Langelier, 66, pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court to charges of embezzlement by a municipal or county officer and making false entries in corporate books in connection with what Assistant District Attorney Greer Spatz said was the theft of about $250,000 from town coffers between Jan. 1, 2005, and July 31, 2011, while Ms. Langelier was serving as Barre’s elected tax collector. A charge of larceny over $250 by a single scheme was dismissed as duplicative with the embezzlement charge.

Judge Janet Kenton-Walker sentenced Ms. Langelier to one year in the House of Correction on the false entries in corporate books charge and placed her on probation for 3 years on the embezzlement indictment. As a condition of probation, Ms. Langelier was ordered to pay restitution to the town in an amount to be determined at a future hearing.

Her guilty pleas came on the day Ms. Langelier was scheduled to go to trial.

Ms. Spatz had recommended a state prison sentence of 3 years to 3 years and a day with probation to follow. The prosecutor asked that Ms. Langelier be ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined as a condition of probation and that she also be required to attend Gamblers’ Anonymous meetings.

The prosecutor said records obtained from the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos showed that Ms. Langelier accrued gambling losses totaling more than $300,000 from 2006 to 2012.

Ms. Spatz said Ms. Langelier essentially pocketed tax payments made by residents in cash and falsified town records to conceal her wrongdoing.

Citing Ms. Langelier’s lack of a prior criminal record, her lawyers, Adrian Angus and Laurel A. Singer, had asked that she be spared a jail or prison sentence and placed on probation with an order of restitution.

Ms. Spatz said Ms. Langelier was bonded and that the town was expected to recoup $150,000 from the bonding company as a result of her guilty pleas. Mr. Angus said his client had agreed to turn over her pension to the town and that the funds would likely cover the remaining $100,000.

Among those making impact statements during the plea hearing was Nancy Talbot, who took over as the town’s treasurer and tax collector after Ms. Langelier’s 2011 resignation before retiring last month.

Ms. Talbot said Ms. Langelier’s criminal conduct had a devastating financial impact on the town, leading to a significant reduction in public services, an inability to fund capital improvements and low wages for municipal workers. But the “greatest tragedy” resulting from the crimes was the loss of public trust in local government, according to Ms. Talbot.

Watch What Happens When A Baby That Is Addicted To A Cellphone Has It Taken Away

by Tyler Durden

Mon, 11/26/2018 - 17:45

 

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
You have got to watch this video!  I have to admit that I was mesmerized when I first starting watching it.  This baby appears to be less than a year old, and yet it already throws a massive temper tantrum every time a cellphone is taken away.


 

But as you will see in the video, all the mother has to do to stop the tantrum is to give the cellphone back to the baby. 



If you need a good laugh, this video is perfect for you, but I think that it also contains a much deeper message.

You see, the truth is that our society is just like that little baby.  We have become deeply, deeply addicted to the digital world that we have created, and when we are forced to disconnect from that world most of us don’t respond very well.

Many of us are old enough to remember a time when people didn’t carry cellphones around with them everywhere.  Instead of constantly looking down at their phones, people actually tried to interact with one another, and the world was a much different place.

But today it seems like everyone has a cellphone, and one study found that the average American spends 86 hours a month on their phone…

According to comScore’s 2017 Cross Platform Future in Focusreport, the average American adult (18+) spends 2 hours, 51 minutes on their smartphone every day.
That’s about 86 hours a month! This might be a record, but growth has certainly flattened out over the last year-and-a-half.

And when you add in time spent on desktops and laptops, the numbers are even more staggering.
According to a study which was released earlier this year, the average American spends 5.9 hours a day staring at a digital device…

For this edition of The Why Axis, we’re focusing on breaking down one slide in particular: how much time the average internet user spends staring at a screen each day. According to KPCB’s report, which aggregates data from market research company eMarketer, the average adult user in 2017 spent 5.9 hours with digital media. This includes smartphones, desktops and laptops, and other connected devices including over-the-top (OTT) streaming devices and game consoles.

Those numbers are absolutely staggering.

Pediatricians Turn Well Baby Checkups into Vaccine Battlegrounds

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Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC

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by Barbara Loe Fisher

I remember when I took my first-born baby to the pediatrician for his first checkup 40 years ago. Like most young Moms, I looked up to my pediatrician and completely trusted him. I did everything he told me to do, never questioning his expertise or doubting him, believing that he would never recommend or do anything that would put my baby in harm’s way.

Much has changed since 1978. Back then infants and children were getting half as many vaccines as they do today.¹ Parents had no information at all about vaccine risks and failures. We just followed the doctor’s orders.

Today, the subject of vaccination is the most often discussed health topic in America. Not a day goes by without mothers and fathers being reminded that the health of the nation depends upon making sure their children get every one of the 69 doses of 16 CDC recommended vaccines exactly on schedule. ^2 3 4

CDC Vaccine Schedule: A Commandment

These days, that CDC vaccine schedule is no longer being viewed simply as a recommendation, it is being treated as a commandment. We are told it is our patriotic civic duty to get our children vaccinated and ourselves, too. The implication is that we are committing treason if we don’t.⁵

These days, a well baby checkup can be a frightening and gut-wrenching experience for a new Mom bringing her baby to the pediatrician’s office. That is because, with the approval of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), many pediatricians have taken the hard-line position that they do not have to discuss vaccination with parents or, if they do, they can threaten them with dismissal from the practice for not obeying a direct order.^6 7 8

Almost No Medical Contraindications to Vaccination

The National Vaccine Information Center is regularly contacted by mothers reporting that pediatricians are refusing to provide medical care to their babies if they decline or ask to delay even one of the two dozen doses of nine vaccines that CDC officials order pediatricians to give infants in the first year of life.^9 10 This schedule includes a hepatitis B vaccination on the day of birth and eight more doses of vaccines given at the two-month well baby checkup.^11 12 It is an early childhood vaccine schedule that, in 2013, the Institute of Medicine concluded has not been adequately studied for safety.^13 14

Because public health officials have eliminated almost all medical contraindications to vaccination, pediatricians are insisting on re-vaccinating children who have had serious vaccine reactions, including convulsions.^15 16 They are writing off vaccine reactions as unimportant, even after children regress further and further into chronic poor health following each series of vaccinations.^17 18

Meetings the Week of November 26, 2018

Meetings the Week of November 26, 2018

Monday   11/26/18

 

ALL Board Meeting                 

Kamalhot                    

6:30 pm

 

 

Wednesday 11/28/18 

BOS                               PCS Town Hall*                    6:30 pm

 

 

Agenda packet 

 

Hmmm.

5. New Business:
a. Action RE: Appointments & Introductions
b. Discussion RE: Backbrief Sewer Superintendent 
c. Annual License Renewals~Liquor, CommonVit, Amusement,Class 2&3 Auto
d. Action RE: Revenue Projections
e. Action RE: Catch Basin Cleaner
f. Action RE: Payroll Service 

Discussing a town employee at a public meeting? Hmmm.
Outsourcing Payroll Service? But our crackerjack, highly compensated, financial team should be able to handle a routine matter like payroll? Right?

 

 

 

Thursday 11/29/18 

 

Berkshire Wind               Shrewsbury                                10:00 am

Adv. Com.                       PCS Town Hall*                         6:30 pm       

         
  

* Pauly Cosentino Sr. Town Hall 

 

 

CONSUMER ALERT: Splenda Releases Toxic Dioxin When Heated 

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Monday, November 19th 2018 at 4:15 am

Written By:

Sayer Ji, Founder

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A review on the synthetic sweetener sucralose (marketed as Splenda), published in the journal Toxicology and Environmental Health, overturns widely held misconceptions about the purported safety of this ubiquitous artificial sweetener.

Found in tens of thousands of products and used by millions of consumers around the world, sucralose's unique ability to dissolve in alcohol and methanol as well as water, makes it the most versatile and therefore most widely used artificial sweetener in production today. And yet, its popularity is no indication nor guarantee of its safety, as is evidenced by the widespread use of other artificial sweeteners like aspartame, which while being safety approved in 90 nations around the world, has been linked to a wide range of serious health conditions including possible neurotoxicity.

But tide is turning...

Back in 2013 year, the Center for the Public Interest in Science downgraded Splenda from "safe" to "caution," citing their need to evaluate a forthcoming Italian study linking the artificial sweetener to leukemia in mice as a basis for their decision.

Another human study published around that time linked Splenda to diabetes-associated changes, calling into question its value as a non-calorie sweetener for those suffering with, or wishing to prevent, blood sugar disorders.

The 2013 review, however, may be the most concerning yet to surface in the peer-reviewed literature. Titled, "Sucralose, a synthetic organochlorine sweetener: overview of biological issues," it reveals an extensive array of hitherto underreported safety concerns, not the least of which is the formation of highly toxic chlorinated compounds, including dioxins, when Splenda is used in baking, an application which its manufacturer, McNeil Nutritionals (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson), actively encourages it to be used for, including targeting children as ideal consumers. [see: Cooking and Baking: SPLENDA®]

A Dizzying Array of Splenda (Sucralose) Safety Concerns That Have Never Been Adequately Tested

The study argues that, despite its widespread approval and use, further scientific safety research is warranted due the following significant findings:

• "Sucralose alters metabolic parameters and its chronic effects on body weight are unknown": both animal and human research indicates sucralose may raise blood sugar and insulin levels, indicating it may have diabetogenic properties.
• "Sucralose alters P-gp and CYP expression": While classified as a food additive, sucralose's organochlorine structure indicates it interferes with a wide range of organochlorine class drugs, and activates detoxification pathways and enzymes, in a manner similar to these xenobiotic chemicals.
• "The metabolic fate and health profile of sucralose metabolites are currently unknown": Contrary to statements in the research literature that sucralose passes through the body in the feces 'unchanged,' metabolites have been detected in the urine and feces of both animals and humans, the nature and health consequence of which have never been studied
• "Sucralose alters indigenous bacterial balancein the GIT": Sucralose (delivered as Splenda) has been found to reduce the number of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointesintal tract (e.g., lactobacilli, bifidobacteria), while  increasing the more detrimental bacteria (e.g., enterobacteria). One study found the adverse effects on flora did not return to normal (baseline) after a 3-month recovery period. Sucralose also altered the pH of the gastrointestinal tract.

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Sources of Fluoride

"Estimation of the amount of fluoride ingested from all environmental and dietary sources is important so that rational and scientifically sound decisions can be made when guidelines for the use of fluorides are reviewed periodically and modified." (Journal of Dental Research 1992)

Dental Products

Dental products are a major source of fluoride exposure, particularly for children. Fluoridated dental products include toothpastes, mouth rinses, fluoride gels, fluoride varnishes, and fluoride supplements.

How Much Fluoride Are in these Products?

Fluoride Toothpastes (1,000 to 1,500 ppm)

• Over 95% of toothpastes now contain fluoride.
• A single strip of toothpaste covering the length of a child’s brush contains between 0.75 to 1.5 mg of fluoride. This exceeds the amount of fluoride in most prescription fluoride supplements (0.25 to 1.0 mg).
• Many young children swallow over 50% of the paste added to their brush, particularly if they use candy-flavored varieties and if they are not supervised during brushing to ensure they spit and fully rinse. Research has shown that some children swallow more fluoride from toothpaste alone than is recommended from all sources combined.
• Although dentists now recommend that children only use “a pea-sized amount” of toothpaste, many children use more than this, particularly when the toothpaste has bubble gum and watermelon flavors.
• Ingesting toothpaste during childhood is a major risk factor for dental fluorosis, and can also cause symptoms of acute fluoride toxicity (e.g., stomach pain, etc).
• The FDA now requires a poison warning on all fluoride toothpastes sold in the U.S.

Fluoride Mouthrinses (230 ppm)

• Some mouth rinses now contain fluoride.
• A single mL of fluoride mouthrinse contains roughly 0.25 mg of fluoride.
• Between 5 to 15 mL are generally used per rinse, which equates to 1.25 to 3.75 mg of fluoride.
• Little data is available to show how much of the rinse is ingested.

Fluoride Gels (Self-Applied) (5,000 ppm)

• Dentists prescribe self-applied gels to those at high-risk of tooth decay.
• Each mL of gel contains 5 mg of fluoride.
• Without taking extraordinary precaution to limit the amount of gel that is applied and reduce the amount of gel that is ingested, self-application can result in dangerously high fluoride exposures.

Fluoride Gels (Professionally Applied) (12,300 ppm)

• A single mL of gel contains 12.3 mg of fluoride.
• Dentists are now recommended to apply no more than 4 mL when treating children (=49 mg of fluoride), and no more than 8 mL when treating adults (=98 mg of fluoride).
• The highly acidic nature of the gel greatly increases saliva flow, which makes it largely impossible to avoid swallowing large amounts of it. While few measures were used in the past to limit the amount of fluoride ingested, dentists are now advised to use suction devices and to encourage the child to fully rinse and spit at the end of the treatment.
• Even when precautionary measures are taken, children swallow an average of 7.7 mg per treatment
• Adults swallow an average of 10.3 mg per treatment.
• Symptoms of acute fluoride toxicity (e.g., nausea and vomiting) are common in children receiving fluoride gels.
• Although dental researchers only recommend topical fluoride gels for patients with high risk for cavities, surveys have shown that dentists routinely apply gels to most of their patients.

Fluoride Varnishes (22,600 ppm)

• A single mL contains 22.6 mg of fluoride. Dentists apply 0.5 to 1 mL per treatment.
• Since the varnish eventually wears off the teeth, all of the fluoride that is applied (=11.3 to 22.6 mg) is ingested.
• Dentists apply varnishes up to 4 times a year in children with high risk for cavities.

Fluoride Supplements 

• Supplements contain between 0.25 to 1 mg of fluoride per drop, tablet, or lozenge. The amount depends on the age of the child.
• Supplements are available by prescription only. Unlike dietary supplements, fluoride supplements cannot be purchased over the counter.
• Despite being prescribed for over 50 years, the FDA has never approved fluoride supplements as safe or effective.
• The ADA no longer recommends for infants under 6 months of age.
• Supplements were designed to only be used in non-fluoridated areas as a substitute for fluoridated water. Surveys have repeatedly found, however, that some dentists prescribe supplements to children living in fluoridated areas as well.
• Current supplement use greatly increases a child’s risk of developing dental fluorosis, while doing little to prevent tooth decay.

Chocolate: The Greatest Health News of All

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Linda Woolven & Ted Snider

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You know chocolate tastes great. But now science has delivered the best news yet: Dark chocolate may just be nature’s perfect superfood

The discovery that chocolate is a healthy food is relatively new for our modern culture that has always treated it as a sinful indulgence. But the civilizations of Mesoamerica were using chocolate medicinally as early as the 7^th century BCE. Evidence of its use in the diet go back as far as 1800 BCE.

The etymology of the word “chocolate” goes back to the ancient Mayans and Aztecs who drank a bitter brew made from cacao beans that was called xocoatl, which means bitter water. They called it that because, although we think of chocolate as a sweet, it is not sweet until you add sugar. Pure chocolate is bitter. And that’s good, because the bitterness comes from the flavonoids, and it’s the flavonoids that make chocolate a superfood.

That chocolate is a health food and not a junk food seemed inconceivable until as recently as less than two decades ago when the first studies began to trickle in. This is really new stuff. But now the studies are pouring in, and the medical journals are full of research on dark chocolate.

The first hint came in a Journal of Nutrition article that described chocolate for the first time as a food that may increase antioxidant activity and may actually be good for your heart. The cautious hint was exciting enough for the New York Times to write a story on it in October of 2000, and the preliminary idea of chocolate as a health food entered our cultural consciousness.

At the time of the New York Times article, not a single double-blind, placebo-controlled study had ever been done on chocolate. All that has changed. The double-blind research overwhelmingly supports the early suggestion that dark chocolate is good for your heart. But that’s not all it supports. The science clearly shows that dark chocolate is an important health food for diabetes too. And the news just keeps getting better and better.

Chocolate is Good for Your Heart
The serious science of dark chocolate as a health food began with the 2003 publication of the finding that flavanol-rich chocolate increases nitric oxide with the desirable effect that the blood vessels dilate. Since then, studies have shown that dark chocolate can prevent cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and protect you from dying from a heart attack.

Chocolate benefits heart health in many ways. Dark chocolate significantly lowers blood pressure in people who have high blood pressure and even in people who struggle with obesity as well as high blood pressure. Dark chocolate also improves arterial elasticity, blood vessel dilation and blood flow even in people with congestive heart failure who have been unresponsive to drugs. Eating dark chocolate also benefits atherosclerosis and has impressive effects on cholesterol.

Chocolate Benefits Diabetics

$4 BILLION and Growing

The Health Resources & Services Administration just released new dollar figures reflecting payouts from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The payouts for vaccine injuries just went past the whopping $4 billion mark. Using the government’s own conclusion that only 1% of all vaccine injuries are reported, the $4 billion is just the tip of the iceberg. Despite assurances from CDC and our Federal agencies that all vaccines are safe, the payouts say otherwise. Vaccine injuries can and do happen—to previously healthy children and adults. Consumers deserve to know the facts about the full range of vaccine risks.

By the Children’s Health Defense Team In most public health communications about vaccination, officials gloss over vaccine risks, dismissing any possible “side effects” as mild. However, vaccination programs have always resulted in more serious vaccine injuries for some. In the 1970s and early 1980s, for example, the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine and its whole-cell pertussis component had chalked up so much vaccine damage that a television documentary likened receiving a DPT shot to playing “vaccine roulette.”

After the DPT debacle began attracting widespread attention, vaccine manufacturers started pressuring Congress for protection from vaccine injury lawsuits. Congress obliged. In 1986, President Reagan signed into existence a radical piece of legislation—the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA)—which launched what the Act described as an “alternative remedy to judicial action for specified vaccine-related injuries.” A key component of the legislation involved creating the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which was given responsibility for deciding (through the workings of a special “vaccine court”) whether specific injuries and individuals would be eligible for financial compensation.

While government-funded Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers vigorously represent and defend the interests of HHS and vaccine manufacturers, the consumer-unfriendly system forces the vaccine-injured to meet an exceptionally high burden of proof. 

 

Over the vaccine court’s 30-year history, individuals and families have filed over 20,000 petitions for vaccine injury compensation. This month, even as 12% of filed petitions remained unadjudicated, the payouts crossed over the $4 billion threshold. This amount was awarded in response to barely a third (31% or 6,276) of the filed petitions. There is no telling how much more money the taxpayer-funded program might have shelled out if the court had not chosen to dismiss the remaining petitions (56%)—possibly doing so fraudulently in at least some cases.

Running the Gauntlet

Over the three decades, despite the stated intent to furnish an “accessible and efficient forum for individuals found to be injured by certain vaccines,” the NVICP has devolved into a protracted and litigious David-versus-Goliath battleground. The vaccine court, in actuality, is “not a court at all but…a consumer-funded government claims program that uses…employees of Health and Human Services (HHS), rather than judges to make decisions on compensation.” While government-funded Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers vigorously represent and defend the interests of HHS and vaccine manufacturers, the consumer-unfriendly system forces the vaccine-injured to meet an exceptionally high burden of proof. For dismissed claims, there is no assurance that the program will even cover attorneys’ fees and costs.

Children’s Health Defense recently called attention to a glaring example of the NVICP’s pro-industry and anti-vaccine-injured bias. In 2007 and 2008, DOJ attorneys exhibited “highly unethical and appallingly consequential official misconduct” during an Omnibus Autism Proceeding (OAP) orchestrated to determine the fate of 5,400 families who had filed claims for vaccine-induced autism. The potential value of the claims exceeded $100 billion—an amount that “would have bankrupted the [compensation] program many times over.” HHS’s Department of Justice lawyers, “under pressure” to deprive petitioners of their rightful relief, successfully achieved that aim through allegedly fraudulent means. In September 2018, Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Rolf Hazlehurst (parent of one of the vaccine-injured children involved in the OAP) requested that the DOJ Inspector General and Congress investigate this fraud and obstruction of justice by HHS and DOJ officials.

Whatever happened to cleaning up the mess you make?

Selectman Fortes to step down

 By Chance Viles
Reporter

Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 9:43 PM 

 Updated Nov 13, 2018 at 9:43 PM

TEMPLETON — Selectman Cameron Fortes announced his resignation from the board, as of Dec. 1, as he is pursuing a career opportunity in finance out in Boston.

With Fortes’ absence starting next month, the Board of Selectmen will need to find a new member, as well as re-structure since Fortes is the vice chairman.

“On my part as a young guy at 25 and being in finance, there is a lucrative opportunity for me and it only made sense to move to Boston to be closer to that opportunity,” Fortes said. “Though I won’t be acting (in a) selectmen’s capacity I still will be there for the community to help these things I was a part of.”

Fortes’ term is supposed to run until 2020. Although Fortes is leaving prematurely, Board of Selectmen Chairman John Caplis does not see the need for a special election, as the town will be able to elect someone to the spot come May during the normal election.

“No special election, we are trying to save costs as much as we need to, and based on the election coming up in May, it makes no sense to have the special election within 30 or 60 days, with another a couple months later,” Caplis said. “It’s still a loss for the board, Cam was a great asset, he had some good visions and great ideas, and he will be missed by most of us.”

Though Fortes is leaving his position, he intends to be a figure in Templeton.

“Serving Templeton, a place I grew up for 25 years, I own property there, I purchased a house in August, I will still be in Templeton and I will still be a part of the community,” Fortes said. “It’s been an incredible experience for me, maybe someday down the road I can act in a different capacity to serve the community.”

The Board of Selectmen will see a few changes come May, as Caplis has also decided he will not be running again, and Selectman Doug Morrison is up for re-election.

Former pharma executive who joined HHS to help lower drug prices found bludgeoned to death in D.C. … ruled “suicide”

Sunday, November 18, 2018 by: Mike Adams
Tags: Big Pharma, Daniel Best, drug industry, drug monopoly, drug prices, FDA, HHS, murder, Pfizer, suicide, violence

(Natural News) A former executive for Pfizer, recently tasked with joining HHS to help reduce the prices of Big Pharma’s monopoly prescription medications, was found bludgeoned to death outside his Washington D.C. apartment. Local police ruled the death of Daniel Best a suicide, raising immediate questions about how an individual can bludgeon himself to death with multiple blows.

“The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday said Best died from “multiple blunt force injuries” and it ruled his death a suicide. It would not release further information,” reports Cleveland.com. The news website also reports:

In announcing his death, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the 49-year-old former CVSHealth and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals executive agreed to work at HHS “out of a desire to serve the American people by making health care more affordable.”

Obviously a murder… and a cover-up

Not everybody is buying the official explanation. “The Chief Medical Examiner’s verdict raised questions among the health community, with many people refusing to believe Best killed himself by repeatedly hitting himself with a blunt object until he died,” reports NeoNettle.com.

NeoNettle also reports:

According to Washington, D.C. Police, Best was found “unresponsive” near the garage door exit of an apartment building in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood at 5:25 a.m. on November 1, and was pronounced dead by medical personnel who responded to the scene.

To believe that Daniel Best murdered himself strains any shred of credibility. If a man wanted to kill himself, why would he attempt to do it with a blunt object requiring multiple strikes? And why would he choose to do it just outside the garage exit door of an apartment complex rather than inside his own living room?

We must also consider who stands to benefit from interfering with a process that might end Big Pharma’s drug price monopoly. The corrupt pharmaceutical industry, which routinely bribes doctors, pushes fake science and uses human beings as guinea pigs for medical experiments, also murders children with toxic vaccines. (Over 100,000 U.S. children are maimed or killed by vaccines each year.) Why would they hesitate to kill one man who might stand in their way of continued ridiculous profits?

This is another big reason why all those who criticize Big Pharma should carry one or more concealed firearms (and be prepared to fire at multiple attackers as needed). Yes, the drug cartels literally have people murdered. I’ve been death-threated so many times, I’ve lost count…

Why Big Pharma is willing to murder people to protect its scandalous profit model

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A day of 'fun' and 'education:' Cultivate in Leicester prepares to open for retail sales in Massachusetts on Tuesday

Updated Nov 19, 5:15 PM; Posted Nov 19, 5:15 PM

 

 

By Melissa Hanson

mhanson@masslive.com

Hundreds of plants were growing, weed-infused gummies were being made, and medical patients were lining up to purchase products.

But tomorrow will be different, a historic day for Cultivate Holdings LLC and for Massachusetts.
In the final hours before Cultivate in Leicester opens up for retail sales of marijuana, company President Sam Barber gave a tour of the facility to members of the Cannabis Control Commission.
At 8 a.m. Tuesday, Cultivate will be one of two marijuana shops opening up for the first retail sales.
Commissioners Britte McBride and Jennifer Flanagan walked with Barber through Cultivate on Monday afternoon, asking questions about how traffic will be handled along Route 9 and how IDs will be checked as customers enter the facility.

Medical marijuana users will have separate service when Cultivate opens for recreational sales

Cultivate President Sam Barber asked buyers to not show up too early before the sales begin and said there are no guarantees on how long the supply will last.

"Tomorrow's going to be a very fun day but it's also going to be full of education," Barber said to the commissioners and media members who joined the tour of Cultivate.

McBride asked Barber if Cultivate employees would be asking customers whether or not this was the first time they had used marijuana.

"We're assuming everybody has never tried and trying to take that approach," Barber said. "I think even people that have used cannabis in the past may not be using it in the form that we're selling it."

Cultivate was Worcester County's first medical marijuana dispensary and opened on Dec. 1, 2017. Tuesday morning, it will make history along with New England Treatment Access (NETA) LLC in Northampton with the first retail sales of weed.

Cultivate says there will be a 1 once flower and/or 5-gram concentrate limit per transaction.

Flanagan said the commission has spent a lot of time thinking about education, especially for parents, teachers and school nurses.

"Things are going to look very different tomorrow," she said. "There are going products on the street that they may not even be aware of."