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दूब या 'दुर्वा' (वैज्ञानिक नाम- 'साइनोडान डेक्टीलान")

Photo: दूब घास (दुर्वा) -------------- ********************************************** दूब या 'दुर्वा' (वैज्ञानिक नाम- 'साइनोडान डेक्टीलान") वर्ष भर पाई जाने वाली घास है, जो ज़मीन पर पसरते हुए या फैलते हुए बढती है। हिन्दू धर्म में इस घास को बहुत ही महत्त्वपूर्ण स्थान प्राप्त है। हिन्दू संस्कारों एवं कर्मकाण्डों में इसका उपयोग बहुत किया जाता है। इसके नए पौधे बीजों तथा भूमीगत तनों से पैदा होते हैं। वर्षा काल में दूब घास अधिक वृद्धि करती है तथा वर्ष में दो बार सितम्बर-अक्टूबर और फ़रवरी-मार्च में इसमें फूल आते है। दूब सम्पूर्ण भारत में पाई जाती है। यह घास औषधि के रूप में विशेष तौर पर प्रयोग की जाती है। महाकवि तुलसीदास ने दूब को अपनी लेखनी से इस प्रकार सम्मान दिया है- "रामं दुर्वादल श्यामं, पद्माक्षं पीतवाससा।" प्रायः जो वस्तु स्वास्थ्य के लिए हितकर सिद्ध होती थी, उसे हमारे पूर्वजों ने धर्म के साथ जोड़कर उसका महत्व और भी बढ़ा दिया। दूब भी ऐसी ही वस्तु है। यह सारे देश में बहुतायत के साथ हर मौसम में उपलब्ध रहती है। दूब का पौधा एक बार जहाँ जम जाता है, वहाँ से इसे नष्ट करना बड़ा मुश्किल होता है। इसकी जड़ें बहुत ही गहरी पनपती हैं। दूब की जड़ों में हवा तथा भूमि से नमी खींचने की क्षमता बहुत अधिक होती है, यही कारण है कि चाहे जितनी सर्दी पड़ती रहे या जेठ की तपती दुपहरी हो, इन सबका दूब पर असर नहीं होता और यह अक्षुण्ण बनी रहती है। दूब को संस्कृत में 'दूर्वा', 'अमृता', 'अनंता', 'गौरी', 'महौषधि', 'शतपर्वा', 'भार्गवी' इत्यादि नामों से जानते हैं। दूब घास पर उषा काल में जमी हुई ओस की बूँदें मोतियों-सी चमकती प्रतीत होती हैं। ब्रह्म मुहूर्त में हरी-हरी ओस से परिपूर्ण दूब पर भ्रमण करने का अपना निराला ही आनंद होता है। पशुओं के लिए ही नहीं अपितु मनुष्यों के लिए भी पूर्ण पौष्टिक आहार है दूब। महाराणा प्रताप ने वनों में भटकते हुए जिस घास की रोटियाँ खाई थीं, वह भी दूब से ही निर्मित थी|अर्वाचीन विश्लेषकों ने भी परीक्षणों के उपरांत यह सिद्ध किया है कि दूब में प्रोटीन, कार्बोहाइड्रेट पर्याप्त मात्रा में मिलते हैं। दूब के पौधे की जड़ें, तना, पत्तियाँ इन सभी का चिकित्सा क्षेत्र में भी अपना विशिष्ट महत्व है। आयुर्वेद में दूब में उपस्थित अनेक औषधीय गुणों के कारण दूब को 'महौषधि' में कहा गया है। आयुर्वेदाचार्यों के अनुसार दूब का स्वाद कसैला-मीठा होता है। विभिन्न पैत्तिक एवं कफज विकारों के शमन में दूब का निरापद प्रयोग किया जाता है। दूब के कुछ औषधीय गुण निम्नलिखित हैं- 1- संथाल जाति के लोग दूब को पीसकर फटी हुई बिवाइयों पर इसका लेप करके लाभ प्राप्त करते हैं। 2 -इस पर सुबह के समय नंगे पैर चलने से नेत्र ज्योति बढती है और अनेक विकार शांत हो जाते है। 3- दूब घास शीतल और पित्त को शांत करने वाली है। 4- दूब घास के रस को हरा रक्त कहा जाता है, इसे पीने से एनीमिया ठीक हो जाता है। 5- नकसीर में इसका रस नाक में डालने से लाभ होता है। 6- इस घास के काढ़े से कुल्ला करने से मुँह के छाले मिट जाते है। 7- दूब का रस पीने से पित्त जन्य वमन ठीक हो जाता है। 8- इस घास से प्राप्त रस दस्त में लाभकारी है। 9- यह रक्त स्त्राव, गर्भपात को रोकती है और गर्भाशय और गर्भ को शक्ति प्रदान करती है। 10- दूब को पीस कर दही में मिलाकर लेने से बवासीर में लाभ होता है। 11- इसके रस को तेल में पका कर लगाने से दाद, खुजली मिट जाती है। 12- दूब के रस में अतीस के चूर्ण को मिलाकर दिन में दो-तीन बार चटाने से मलेरिया में लाभ होता है। 13- इसके रस में बारीक पिसा नाग केशर और छोटी इलायची मिलाकर सूर्योदय के पहले छोटे बच्चों को नस्य दिलाने से वे तंदुरुस्त होते है। #watchAasthaChannel5amTo8am
दूब या 'दुर्वा' (वैज्ञानिक नाम- 'साइनोडान डेक्टीलान") वर्ष भर पाई जाने वाली घास है, जो ज़मीन पर पसरते हुए या फैलते हुए बढती है। हिन्दू धर्म में इस घास को बहुत ह...ी महत्त्वपूर्ण स्थान प्राप्त है। हिन्दू संस्कारों एवं कर्मकाण्डों में इसका उपयोग बहुत किया जाता है। इसके नए पौधे बीजों तथा भूमीगत तनों से पैदा होते हैं। वर्षा काल में दूब घास अधिक वृद्धि करती है तथा वर्ष में दो बार सितम्बर-अक्टूबर और फ़रवरी-मार्च में इसमें फूल आते है। दूब सम्पूर्ण भारत में पाई जाती है। यह घास औषधि के रूप में विशेष तौर पर प्रयोग की जाती है।

महाकवि तुलसीदास ने दूब को अपनी लेखनी से इस प्रकार सम्मान दिया है-
"रामं दुर्वादल श्यामं, पद्माक्षं पीतवाससा।"

प्रायः जो वस्तु स्वास्थ्य के लिए हितकर सिद्ध होती थी, उसे हमारे पूर्वजों ने धर्म के साथ जोड़कर उसका महत्व और भी बढ़ा दिया। दूब भी ऐसी ही वस्तु है। यह सारे देश में बहुतायत के साथ हर मौसम में उपलब्ध रहती है। दूब का पौधा एक बार जहाँ जम जाता है, वहाँ से इसे नष्ट करना बड़ा मुश्किल होता है। इसकी जड़ें बहुत ही गहरी पनपती हैं। दूब की जड़ों में हवा तथा भूमि से नमी खींचने की क्षमता बहुत अधिक होती है, यही कारण है कि चाहे जितनी सर्दी पड़ती रहे या जेठ की तपती दुपहरी हो, इन सबका दूब पर असर नहीं होता और यह अक्षुण्ण बनी रहती है।
दूब को संस्कृत में 'दूर्वा', 'अमृता', 'अनंता', 'गौरी', 'महौषधि', 'शतपर्वा', 'भार्गवी' इत्यादि नामों से जानते हैं। दूब घास पर उषा काल में जमी हुई ओस की बूँदें मोतियों-सी चमकती प्रतीत होती हैं। ब्रह्म मुहूर्त में हरी-हरी ओस से परिपूर्ण दूब पर भ्रमण करने का अपना निराला ही आनंद होता है। पशुओं के लिए ही नहीं अपितु मनुष्यों के लिए भी पूर्ण पौष्टिक आहार है दूब। महाराणा प्रताप ने वनों में भटकते हुए जिस घास की रोटियाँ खाई थीं, वह भी दूब से ही निर्मित थी|अर्वाचीन विश्लेषकों ने भी परीक्षणों के उपरांत यह सिद्ध किया है कि दूब में प्रोटीन, कार्बोहाइड्रेट पर्याप्त मात्रा में मिलते हैं। दूब के पौधे की जड़ें, तना, पत्तियाँ इन सभी का चिकित्सा क्षेत्र में भी अपना विशिष्ट महत्व है। आयुर्वेद में दूब में उपस्थित अनेक औषधीय गुणों के कारण दूब को 'महौषधि' में कहा गया है। आयुर्वेदाचार्यों के अनुसार दूब का स्वाद कसैला-मीठा होता है। विभिन्न पैत्तिक एवं कफज विकारों के शमन में दूब का निरापद प्रयोग किया जाता है। दूब के कुछ औषधीय गुण निम्नलिखित हैं-

1- संथाल जाति के लोग दूब को पीसकर फटी हुई बिवाइयों पर इसका लेप करके लाभ प्राप्त करते हैं।
2 -इस पर सुबह के समय नंगे पैर चलने से नेत्र ज्योति बढती है और अनेक विकार शांत हो जाते है।
3- दूब घास शीतल और पित्त को शांत करने वाली है।
4- दूब घास के रस को हरा रक्त कहा जाता है, इसे पीने से एनीमिया ठीक हो जाता है।
5- नकसीर में इसका रस नाक में डालने से लाभ होता है।
6- इस घास के काढ़े से कुल्ला करने से मुँह के छाले मिट जाते है।
7- दूब का रस पीने से पित्त जन्य वमन ठीक हो जाता है।
8- इस घास से प्राप्त रस दस्त में लाभकारी है।
9- यह रक्त स्त्राव, गर्भपात को रोकती है और गर्भाशय और गर्भ को शक्ति प्रदान करती है।
10- दूब को पीस कर दही में मिलाकर लेने से बवासीर में लाभ होता है।
11- इसके रस को तेल में पका कर लगाने से दाद, खुजली मिट जाती है।
12- दूब के रस में अतीस के चूर्ण को मिलाकर दिन में दो-तीन बार चटाने से मलेरिया में लाभ होता है।
13- इसके रस में बारीक पिसा नाग केशर और छोटी इलायची मिलाकर सूर्योदय के पहले छोटे बच्चों को नस्य दिलाने से वे तंदुरुस्त होते है।

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आज से 50 साल पहले तो कोई रिफाइंड तेल के बारे में जानता नहीं था, ये पिछले 20 -25 वर्षों से हमारे देश में आया है | कुछ विदेशी कंपनियों और भारतीय कंपनियाँ इस धंधे में लगी हुई हैं | इन्होने चक्कर चलाया और टेलीविजन के माध्यम से जम कर प्रचार किया लेकिन लोगों ने माना नहीं इनकी बात को, तब इन्होने डॉक्टरों के माध्यम से कहलवाना शुरू किया | डॉक्टरो...ं ने अपने प्रेस्क्रिप्शन में रिफाइन तेल लिखना शुरू किया कि तेल खाना तो सफोला का खाना या सनफ्लावर का खाना, ये नहीं कहते कि घानी से निकला हुआ शुद्ध सरसों का तेल खाओ, तिल का खाओ या मूंगफली का खाओ, आप सब समझदार हैं समझ सकते हैं |

ये रिफाइन तेल बनता कैसे हैं? किसी भी तेल को रिफाइन करने में 6 से 7 केमिकल का प्रयोग किया जाता है और डबल रिफाइन करने में ये संख्या 12 -13 हो जाती है | ये सब केमिकल मनुष्य के द्वारा बनाये हुए हैं प्रयोगशाला में, भगवान का बनाया हुआ एक भी केमिकल इस्तेमाल नहीं होता, भगवान का बनाया मतलब प्रकृति का दिया हुआ जिसे हम आर्गेनिक कहते हैं | तेल को साफ़ करने के लिए जितने केमिकल इस्तेमाल किये जाते हैं सब Inorganic हैं और Inorganic केमिकल ही दुनिया में जहर बनाते हैं और उनका combination जहर के तरफ ही ले जाता है | इसलिए रिफाइन तेल, डबल रिफाइन तेल गलती से भी न खाएं | फिर आप कहेंगे कि, क्या खाएं ? तो आप शुद्ध तेल खाइए, तिल का, सरसों का, मूंगफली का, तीसी का, या नारियल का | अब आप कहेंगे कि शुद्ध तेल में बास बहुत आती है और दूसरा कि शुद्ध तेल बहुत चिपचिपा होता है | रिसर्च से पता चला कि तेल का चिपचिपापन उसका सबसे महत्वपूर्ण घटक है | तेल में से जैसे ही चिपचिपापन निकाला जाता है तो पता चला कि ये तो तेल ही नहीं रहा, तेल में जो बास आ रही है वो उसका प्रोटीन कंटेंट है, शुद्ध तेल में प्रोटीन बहुत है, दालों में ईश्वर का दिया हुआ प्रोटीन सबसे ज्यादा है, दालों के बाद जो सबसे ज्यादा प्रोटीन है वो तेलों में ही है, तो तेलों में जो बास आप पाते हैं वो उसका Organic content है प्रोटीन के लिए | 4 -5 तरह के प्रोटीन हैं सभी तेलों में, आप जैसे ही तेल की बास निकालेंगे उसका प्रोटीन वाला घटक गायब हो जाता है और चिपचिपापन निकाल दिया तो उसका Fatty Acid गायब | अब ये दोनों ही चीजें निकल गयी तो वो तेल नहीं पानी है, जहर मिला हुआ पानी | और ऐसे रिफाइन तेल के खाने से कई प्रकार की बीमारियाँ होती हैं, घुटने दुखना, कमर दुखना, हड्डियों में दर्द, ये तो छोटी बीमारियाँ हैं, सबसे खतरनाक बीमारी है, हृदयघात (Heart Attack), पैरालिसिस, ब्रेन का डैमेज हो जाना, आदि, आदि | जिन-जिन घरों में पूरे मनोयोग से रिफाइन तेल खाया जाता है उन्ही घरों में ये समस्या आप पाएंगे, जिनके यहाँ रिफाइन तेल इस्तेमाल हो रहा है उन्ही के यहाँ Heart Blockage और Heart Attack की समस्याएं हो रही है |

जब सफोला का तेल लेबोरेटरी में टेस्ट किया, सूरजमुखी का तेल, अलग-अलग ब्रांड का टेस्ट किया तो AIIMS के भी कई डोक्टरों की रूचि इसमें पैदा हुई तो उन्होंने भी इस पर काम किया और उन डॉक्टरों ने बताया “तेल में से जैसे ही आप चिपचिपापन निकालेंगे, बास को निकालेंगे तो वो तेल ही नहीं रहता, तेल के सारे महत्वपूर्ण घटक निकल जाते हैं और डबल रिफाइन में कुछ भी नहीं रहता, वो छूँछ बच जाता है, और उसी को हम खा रहे हैं तो तेल के माध्यम से जो कुछ पौष्टिकता हमें मिलनी चाहिए वो मिल नहीं रहा है |” आप बोलेंगे कि तेल के माध्यम से हमें क्या मिल रहा ? हमको शुद्ध तेल से मिलता है HDL (High Density Lipoprotein), ये तेलों से ही आता है हमारे शरीर में, वैसे तो ये लीवर में बनता है लेकिन शुद्ध तेल खाएं तब | तो आप शुद्ध तेल खाएं तो आपका HDL अच्छा रहेगा और जीवन भर ह्रदय रोगों की सम्भावना से आप दूर रहेंगे |


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18 Scientifically Validated Reasons to End Public Water Fluoridation

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Many people are coming to realize that far from improving dental health, the fluoridation of municipal water and many store bought foods and drinks is actually detrimental to our overall health. What was once a widely accepted practice is now being scrutinized and condemned by many prominent physicians and free-thinkers, and the scientific evidence to support these condemnations is mounting.
Recently a Harvard medical study claimed that ingesting fluoride leads to a loss of IQ in young children, which is remarkably frightening by itself.
Now, another study has been published, taking a thorough look at the pros and cons of ingesting fluoride. Conducted by Stephen Peckham and Niyi Awofeso, and published in The Scientific World Journal, this new research paper begins with the following important introduction, which calls for an end to public water fluoridation:
Fluorine is the world’s 13th most abundant element and constitutes 0.08% of the Earth crust. It has the highest electronegativity of all elements. Fluoride is widely distributed in the environment, occurring in the air, soils, rocks, and water. Although fluoride is used industrially in a fluorine compound, the manufacture of ceramics, pesticides, aerosol propellants, refrigerants, glassware, and Teflon cookware, it is a generally unwanted byproduct of aluminium, fertilizer, and iron ore manufacture. The medicinal use of fluorides for the prevention of dental caries began in January 1945 when community water supplies in Grand Rapids, United States, were fluoridated to a level of 1 ppm as a dental caries prevention measure. However, water fluoridation remains a controversial public health measure. This paper reviews the human health effects of fluoride. The authors conclude that available evidence suggests that fluoride has a potential to cause major adverse human health problems, while having only a modest dental caries prevention effect. As part of efforts to reduce hazardous fluoride ingestion, the practice of artificial water fluoridation should be reconsidered globally, while industrial safety measures need to be tightened in order to reduce unethical discharge of fluoride compounds into the environment. Public health approaches for global dental caries reduction that do not involve systemic ingestion of fluoride are urgently needed.
Without mincing words, this new study moves right into support these assertions, offering the following indications that fluoride is not only of dubious benefit for dental health, but that it is also terrible for overall human health:
1. Fluoride is not critical for healthy teeth:
“It is widely accepted that fluoride only helps prevent dental decay by topical means—by direct action on the tooth enamel predominantly after eruption and dental plaque [16, 17]. However, it is important to note that while fluoride contributes to the remineralisation process in the enamel of the tooth surface this is not dependent on fluoride, and that fluoride’s anticaries effect is critically dependent on calcium and magnesium content of teeth enamel.”
2. Fluoride may actually make certain people more vulnerable to dental caries:
“Among young individuals with low calcium and magnesium in teeth enamel (usually due to undernutrition), fluoride ingestion and contact with teeth present histologically as hypo-calcification and/or hypoplasia, which may paradoxically make such individuals more vulnerable to dental caries [18, 19].”
3. Because of the complex nature of how dental caries develop, it is too difficult to tell if water fluoridationactually helps prevent dental caries:
“…the multiple pathways to the development of dental caries make it difficult to accurately ascertain the contribution of fluoride ingestion to dental caries prevention. Given that the action of fluoride on dental caries prevention is topical, only topical fluoride products are likely to provide optimal benefits claimed for this chemical.”
4. The history of research into ingesting fluoride as an effective means of preventing dental caries is controversial, at best:
“A survey of 55 reputable oral health specialists on the impacts of artificial water fluoridation and other preventive technologies on the decline in dental caries prevalence over the past four decades in most nations revealed that, apart from fluoridated toothpaste, there were conflicting responses on the impact of artificial water fluoridation and other fluoride-based technologies [32]. Studies focused on dental caries trends following cessation of fluoridation have produced contradictory results, in part due to study technique, availability of other fluoride sources, and consumption patterns of cariogenic foods [33, 34].”
5. Fluoride is classified as a pollutant and there is no such thing as a disease caused by fluoride deficiency.
6. Drinking fluoride in public water makes it impossible to administer a proper dose, causing a rise in toxic dental fluorosis:
“One of the key concerns about water fluoridation is the inability to control an individual’s dose of ingested fluoride which brings into question the concept of the “optimal dose.” Since the 1980s numerous studies have identified that adults and children are exceeding these agreed limits, contributing to a rapid rise in dental fluorosis—the first sign of fluoride toxicity [35–37].”
7. Mass contamination of drinking water with fluoride is toxic for children:
“In 1991, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the USA measured fluoride levels and found that where water is fluoridated between 0.7 and 1.2 ppm overall fluoride, total fluoride intake for adults was between 1.58 and 6.6 mg per day while for children it was between 0.9 and 3.6 mg per day and that there was at least a sixfold variation just from water consumption alone [38].
The inability to control individual dose renders the notion of an “optimum concentration” obsolete. In the USA, a study in Iowa found that 90% of 3-month-olds consumed over their recommended upper limits, with some babies ingesting over 6 mg of fluoride daily, above what the Environmental Protection Agency and the WHO say is safe to avoid crippling skeletal fluorosis [41].
8. Fluoride may increase the risk of dental caries for malnurished children:
“Fluoride exposure has a complex relationship in relation to dental caries and may increase dental caries risk in malnourished children due to calcium depletion and enamel hypoplasia, while offering modest caries prevention in otherwise well-nourished children.”
9. Water fluoridation effects the cognitive development of children:
“In a meta-analysis of 27 mostly China-based studies on fluoride and neurotoxicity, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University in Shenyang found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children [50].”
10. Water fluoridation may cause hypothyroidism in children:
“In a 2005 study, it was found that 47% of children living in a New Delhi neighbourhood with average water fluoride level of 4.37 ppm have evidence of clinical hypothyroidism attributable to fluoride.”
11. Fluoride consumption may actually cause bone disease:
“In some cases—where fluoride levels are very high or where there is prolonged ingestion at 2 ppm or higher, cases of skeletal fluorosis have been reported. Skeletal fluorosis is a chronic metabolic bone disease caused by ingestion or inhalation of large amounts of fluoride.”
12. As an enzyme disruptor, fluoride interferes with the body’s normal functioning in many complex ways:
“Fluoride is a known enzyme disruptor. For example, fluoride’s anticaries effect is derived in part from its ability to derange the enzymes of cariogenic bacteria [20, 21]. Fluoride can interfere by attaching itself to metal ions located at an enzyme’s active site or by forming competing hydrogen bonds at the active site which is not exclusively just on the teeth [64]. There are 66 enzymes which are affected by fluoride ingestion, including P450 oxidases, as well the enzyme which facilitates the formation of flexible enamel [65].”
13. “Chronic fluoride ingestion is commonly associated with hyperkalaemia and consequent ventricular fibrillation [70].”
14. Fluoride ingestion has been linked to cancer, although it has not yet been proven to directly cause cancer:
“There have also been a number of studies that link fluoride and cancer. More than 50 population-based studies which have examined the potential link between water fluoride levels and cancer have been reported in the medical literature. Most of these studies have not found a strong link between chronic fluoride ingestion and cancer.
However, population-based-studies strongly suggest that chronic fluoride ingestion is a possible cause of uterine cancer and bladder cancer; there may be a link with osteosarcoma—highlighted as an area where there is evidence of problems requiring further research [30, 72–74].”
15. Ethically speaking, mass water fluoridation is medication without consent:
“…community water fluoridation provides policy makers with important questions about medication without consent, the removal of individual choice and whether public water supplies are an appropriate delivery mechanism [75, 76]. “
16. The human body does not need fluoride to be healthy:
“One of the early controversies following the completion of the post-1945 Grand Rapids trial of water fluoridation was how fluoride ingested by humans should be classified—a nutrient, medication, or pollutant. Despite numerous studies, the essentiality of fluoride as a trace element or nutrient has not been proven and it is now widely accepted that fluoride is not essential element for human physiology [30, 78].
In an extensive review of fluoride and human health published in 2011, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks concluded that fluoride is not essential for human growth and development [30].”
17. Although promoted as a medicine for tooth decay, fluoride is not regulated or controlled as a medicine:
“Although fluoride, used in artificial water fluoridation, is promoted as a medicine for preventing tooth decay, it is not subject to the strict guidelines of medicines statutes in the nations that implement artificial water fluoridation. The practice of water fluoridation is recommended as a means of preventing dental caries. Despite this very clear definition of purpose, no fluoridating country defines fluoridation of water supplies as a medicine.”
18. There are better alternatives to preventing cavities than fluoridation:
“The polarised debate on the role of ingested fluoride in dental health ignores the basic problem that dental caries is essentially the outcome of bacterial infection of teeth enamel. While it might have been excusable in the 1950s to utilise an enzyme poison such as fluoride to undesirably alter dental architecture and to kill cariogenic bacteria, a better understanding of the pathogenesis of dental caries, coupled with development of antibiotics and probiotics with strong anticariogenic effects, diminishes any major future role for fluoride in caries prevention.”

CONCLUSION

Community water fluoridation is actually not the global norm:
“Currently, only about 5% of the world’s population—350 million people—(including 200 million Americans) consume artificially fluoridated water globally. Only eight countries—Malaysia, Australia, USA, New Zealand, Singapore, and Ireland, more than 50% of the water supply artificially fluoridate. Over the past two decades many communities in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand have stopped fluoridating their water supplies and in Israel the Minister for Health announced in April 2013 the end of mandatory water fluoridation.”
Fluoride has become so controversial in America that many citizen formed groups are actively, and effectively, petitioning local governments to stop the community fluoridation of municipal water. Couple this with the fact that many product manufacturers are giving consumers options for avoiding fluoride in commonly used products, such as toothpaste and mouthwash.
If your city goverment hasn’t yet seen the light and eliminated this poison, do yourself and your family a favor and switch to using filtered water in your home. Berkey makes an excellent filter that when couple with the fluoride units, makes it easy to avoid fluoridated drinking and cooking water. You can also get a shower head filter that prevents you from absorbing fluoridated water through your skin each time you shower.
The science is in, fluoride is dangerous to your health. Please be advised, and share this news with your friends and family.
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- Stephen Peckham and Niyi Awofeso, “Water Fluoridation: A Critical Review of the Physiological Effects of Ingested Fluoride as a Public Health Intervention,” The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2014, Article ID 293019, 10 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/293019  - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/293019/
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 
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Monday, June 9, 2014

IS AMERICA HEADING FOR SELF DISASTER BY MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES-AMERICAN GREED?

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A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything.
Roundup herbicide, Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, was present in 75 percent of air and rainfall test samples, according to the study, which focused on Mississippi’s highly fertile Delta agricultural region. GreenMedInfo reports new research, soon to be published by Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry journal, discovered the traces over a 12-year span from 1995-2007.
In recent years, Roundup was found to be even more toxic than it was when first approved for agricultural use, though that discovery has not led to any changes in regulation of the pesticide. Moreover, Roundup’s overuse has enabled weeds and insects to build an immunity to its harsh toxins.
To deal with the immunity issue, Monsanto’s solution has been to spray more and stronger pesticides to eliminate the problem. The health effects of Roundup are also hard to ignore as research has linked exposure to the pesticide to Parkinson’s disease and various cancers. For instance, children in Argentina, where Roundup is used in high concentrations, struggle with health problems, with 80 percent showing signs of the toxins in their bloodstreams. However, Roundup isn’t the only widespread threat to public health. The U.S. Geological Survey, along with others, have identified additional pesticides in the air and water that become more toxic as they mix and come in contact with people.
Spraying Roundup may have short-term economic benefits for Monsanto, but the potential long-term risks could present significant challenges to people in affected regions of the country. Credits: John Deike, EcoWatch
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Colorado Sells $19 Million in Cannabis in March: $1.9 Million Goes to Schools and Crime Down 10%

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All the naysayers who were against marijuana legalization are eating crow about now. Colorado’s weed sales just keep trending up, and with the sales of legal weed, they are improving their schools and reducing overall crime rates.
Not counting medicinal weed sales, Colorado sold nearly $19 million in their recreational weed market in the month of March, and $1.9 million of that goes straight into government coffers and towards building schools. At this pace, according to PolicyMic, Colorado will make $30 million this year in pot taxes alone.
What’s even more promising is that these numbers are still low estimates, as the recreational and medicinal marijuana markets (coinciding just fine, take note Washington) are likely to keep trending upward. Many say that a figure closer to $60 million in weed tax revenue is a more likely assumption. Medical marijuana is also not as heavily taxes as recreational marijuana, and hopefully it will stay that way.
The cherry on top of this tax-generating cake? Crime rates are also down in Colorado, so while kids are hopefully going to get a better education, the government (idealistically) will spend more money improving infrastructure and other business opportunities for Colorado citizens, and unemployment rates are plummeting. The Colorado police can take a little rest from their duties.
Crime rates in Colorado have dropped by 10.6% while Dunkin Donuts has begun expanding its brand in the state (really). It looks like a really good future for people living in Colorado, or any state that legalizes both medical and recreational marijuana – though it is admittedly too early to tell.
Is it ludicrous to conclude that perhaps happy, smokers of marijuana have no time for violence and expend their energy elsewhere? Probably, but it’s looking more and more like a reality. When you legalize this plant, people have less to be angry about–and less angry people means less crime.
The only draw-back of legalization in Colorado? It’s snowing in May. But only Nancy Grace would attribute that to ganja and not global warming. And whether Nancy and the haters like it or not, more recreational dispensaries are coming to Denver, Boulder, and beyond.
According to Weedmaps, there are currently 97 recreational dispensaries in Colorado, and that number should hit 100 in the next few weeks – likely climbing higher. And higher. And higher.
Credits: Written by Christina Sarich of naturalsociety.com
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DIET COKE AND TRUTH ABOUT ASPARTANE?FDA APPROVED DOES NOT MEAN SAFE.

The Truth About Aspartame
http://themindunleashed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/the-brutallyyy.jpgA study out of Arizona State University that was published in the Journal of Applied Nutrition determined that Aspartame causes brain damage by leaving traces of Methanol in the blood(1). Another study published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine determined that long term consumption of Aspartame leads to an imbalance in the antioxidant/pro-oxidant status in the brain(2). A study published by Washington University Medical School outlines a possible connection between aspartame and brain tumors(3)
The brain isn’t the only thing in question when it comes to aspartame. A recent study linked aspartame to Lymphoma and Leukemia(4)(5). The study was published at the beginning of December in 2012, conducted by the Department of Medicine at Bringham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. The study was a follow up after a 22 year period of data collection including frequent dietary and health check ups of the study group and was published in the The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
A study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology determined that sugar sweetened soda increases the odds for kidney function decline(6). 3,318 women participated in the study for a number of years as they consumed diet soda that contained artificial sweeteners, most notably aspartame. Two or more diet drinks a day led to a double risk in fast-paced kidney decline. The study was conducted by scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Aspartame clearly has the potential to be harmful to human health and after examining multiple studies, it seems safe to say that aspartame is indeed hazardous to human health. Do you ever wonder how aspartame became illegal?
 
There are so many studies we should be turning our attention to when it comes to aspartame. I can turn your attention to http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/aspartame. Here you will find more studies regarding aspartame, and hopefully it inspires you to further your research rather than believing things without questioning them. They call it television programming for a reason.
Mass advertising and propaganda seems to be losing its affect on the human race, lets keep it going! Much Love.
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Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs per science

TURMERIC,CURCUMIN IS ANTICANCEROUS,ENHANCE IMMUNITY,MEMORY      


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Turmeric is one the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Its medicinal properties and components (primarily curcumin) have been the subject of over 5600 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, our five-year long research project on this sacred plant has revealed over 600 potential preventive and therapeutic applications, as well as 175 distinct beneficial physiological effects. This entire database of 1,585 ncbi-hyperlinked turmeric abstracts can be downloaded as a PDF at our Downloadable Turmeric Document page, and acquired either as a retail item or with 200 GMI-tokens, for those of you who are already are members and receive them automatically each month.
Given the sheer density of research performed on this remarkable spice, it is no wonder that a growing number of studies have concluded that it compares favorably to a variety of conventional medications, including:
  • Lipitor/Atorvastatin(cholesterol medication): A 2008 study published in the journal Drugs in R & D found that a standardized preparation of curcuminoids from Turmeric compared favorably to the drug atorvastatin (trade name Lipitor) on endothelial dysfunction, the underlying pathology of the blood vessels that drives atherosclerosis, in association with reductions in inflammation and oxidative stress in type 2 diabetic patients. [i] [For addition curcumin and 'high cholesterol' research – 8 abstracts]
  • Corticosteroids (steroid medications): A 1999 study published in the journal Phytotherapy Research found that the primary polyphenol in turmeric, the saffron colored pigment known as curcumin, compared favorably to steroids in the management of chronic anterior uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease.[ii] A 2008 study published in Critical Care Medicine found that curcumin compared favorably to the corticosteroid drug dexamethasone in the animal model as an alternative therapy for protecting lung transplantation-associated injury by down-regulating inflammatory genes.[iii] An earlier 2003 study published in Cancer Letters found the same drug also compared favorably to dexamethasone in a lung ischaemia-repurfusion injury model.[iv] [for additional curcumin and inflammation research – 52 abstracts]
  • Prozac/Fluoxetine & Imipramine (antidepressants): A 2011 study published in the journalActa Poloniae Pharmaceutica found that curcumin compared favorably to both drugs in reducing depressive behavior in an animal model.[v] [for additional curcumin and depression research – 5 abstracts]
  • Aspirin (blood thinner): A 1986 in vitro and ex vivo study published in the journalArzneimittelforschung found that curcumin has anti-platelet and prostacyclin modulating effects compared to aspirin, indicating it may have value in patients prone to vascular thrombosis and requiring anti-arthritis therapy.[vi] [for additional curcumin and anti-platelet research]
  • Anti-inflammatory Drugs: A 2004 study published in the journal Oncogene found that curcumin (as well as resveratrol) were effective alternatives to the drugs aspirin, ibuprofen, sulindac, phenylbutazone, naproxen, indomethacin, diclofenac, dexamethasone, celecoxib, and tamoxifen in exerting anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative activity against tumor cells.[vii] [for additional curcumin and anti-proliferative research – 15 abstracts]
  • Oxaliplatin (chemotherapy drug): A 2007 study published in the International Journal of Cancer found that curcumin compares favorably with oxaliplatin as an antiproliferative agenet in colorectal cell lines.[viii] [for additional curcumin and colorectal cancer research – 52 abstracts]
  • Metformin (diabetes drug): A 2009 study published in the journal Biochemitry and Biophysical Research Community explored how curcumin might be valuable in treating diabetes, finding that it activates AMPK (which increases glucose uptake) and suppresses gluconeogenic gene expression (which suppresses glucose production in the liver) in hepatoma cells. Interestingly, they found curcumin to be 500 times to 100,000 times (in the form known as tetrahydrocurcuminoids(THC)) more potent than metformin in activating AMPK and its downstream target acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC). [ix]
Another way in which turmeric and its components reveal their remarkable therapeutic properties is in research on drug resistant- and multi-drug resistant cancers. We have two sections on our site dedicated to researching natural and integrative therapies on these topics, and while there are dozens of substances with demonstrable efficacy against these chemotherapy- and radiation-resistant cancers, curcumin tops both lists:
We have found no less than 54 studies indicating that curcumin can induce cell death or sensitize drug-resistant cancer cell lines to conventional treatment.[x]
We have identified 27 studies on curcumin’s ability to either induce cell death or sensitize multi-drug resistant cancer cell lines to conventional treatment.[xi]
Considering how strong a track record turmeric (curcumin) has, having been used as both food and medicine in a wide range of cultures, for thousands of years, a strong argument can be made for using curcumin as a drug alternative or adjuvant in cancer treatment.
Or, better yet, use certified organic (non-irradiated) turmeric in lower culinary doses on a daily basis so that heroic doses won’t be necessary later in life after a serious disease sets in. Nourishing yourself, rather than self-medicating with ‘nutraceuticals,’ should be the goal of a healthy diet. [learn more at Sayer Ji's new collaborative project EATomology]

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Credits: Written by Sayer Ji of www.greenmedinfo.com, where this article was originally featured.





 
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