The Healthy Zone

I'm not posting this to be political. Since I came of age long before Roe, I have seen the consequences for friends and acquaintances I grew up with.

This is about women's health. The statistics are very interesting. Here it is being driven from the political point of view, but in other countries and at other times, the action is the same.

Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives Abortion bans haven’t stopped abortions, but pregnant people are dying. Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

This is such old news. Revealed in the 1990's in NC, Iowa and elsewhere, revealed in the report on file in the Virginia legislature in 2001. Revealed is not the story. Cleaning up animal factories sometime would be a story. See the Darden School teaching mediation live panel in 2001. Someone working for Smithfield has not been heard of since that agreement was reached.

Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years

We've known this for years, suspected much of this, especially the big 3 and anxiety, but here it is. Oh, this is from the British version of The Guardian. The first article. Not even on the front page of the US version.

Ultra-processed food linked to 32 harmful effects to health, review finds World’s largest review finds direct associations with higher risks of cancer, heart disease and early death

This is a very interesting way to look at food. Of course, organic, but also fair trade.

It is also a way to start to change the way the economy is measured. GNP is unsustainable.

Eating to save nature? Embrace potatoes, ditch meat and track your beans The impact of meat on the environment is well known, but what about staples such as rice and legumes?

Do it for yourself as well.

The FDA has no one who is qualified to evaluate homeopathics, but big pharma wants them gone. This is their action, and yet big pharma's eyedrops just had a major recall because they were contaminated. Go figure.

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Recall, eye drops.

Contaminated Eye Drops That May Blind Users Recalled; Sold At CVS, Target, Rite Aid, More More than two dozen eye drop products were recalled after officials said they could be contaminated with bacteria — and could blind people.

I'm a digestive health specialist. Almost everything they are talking about here are symptoms. Symptoms are not diseases. They can be reversed in many situations. I deal with sub-clinical symptoms every day with clients.

Digestion issues could be warning sign of Parkinson’s disease, research suggests Study shows higher risk of condition for patients with gut problems

We've known this for years, now it's coming out.

Sucralose: Emerging science reveals health risks Sucralose consumption has been linked to leukemia, weight gain, obesity, diabetes, liver inflammation and other illnesses.

https://anh-usa.org/inhumane-algorithm-driven-hospital-care-could-kill-you/

Inhumane Algorithm-Driven Hospital Care Could Kill You - Alliance for Natural Health USA - Protecting Natural Health How insurance companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to deny care for elderly patients. A devastating report from STAT News details how AI-powered decision-making tools are being used by Medicare Advantage plans to deny life-saving medical care for older patients. Patients who fight these....

Well, it's a start.

What is long covid? For the first time, a new study defines it. The latest findings of the RECOVER study are expected to help standardize the definition of long covid and influence how the condition is diagnosed and studied.

2nd to kast paragraph.

The approach is backwards. Limiting damage after the fact, but that's the approach of medicine today.

Those of us who specialize in prevention work to have the gut function properly. That is why I'm an advanced digestive health specialist.

Toxins from gut damage fat cells and drive weight gain, study suggests Research sheds light on how endotoxins play role in increasing risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes

The only thing surprising here is that this recommendation finally saw the light of day. To anyone in holistic health this has been the case for generations.

The Calorie Control Council is an industry representative. Of course they would not agree.

Don’t use sugar substitutes to lose weight, WHO says The agency said non-sugar sweeteners don’t help people lose weight and have been linked with other health problems.

Things to consider when buying food. What are you supporting?

Busting the Myths on New GMOs As the European Union is preparing to decide on whether and how to deregulate new GMOs, Slow Food look sat the most frequent claims made by the biotechnology and seed industry to promote new GMOs and their deregulation. Spoiler: they’re misleading, if not deceptive. Myth #1: Changes brought by new...

We've known it for years. The food industry is not interested in cleaning up, just appearing to clean up.

How fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health Artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes sweeten foods without extra calories. But studies show the ingredients can affect gut and heart health.

This is a very long story. The information is about the funded groups to give you the idea that GMO's are good and harmless. If you want to know how this campaign unfolded, read it. The script is always the same. The players change whether it is to***co, oil, agribusiness or big pharma.

Meet the Merchants of Poison: The Front Groups, Spin Groups, PR Partners Pesticide Companies Use To Defend Glyphosate The following is an excerpt from the Merchants of Poison report which details what internal corporate documents reveal about how Monsanto (now Bayer) ran it’s science-denial and disinformation campaign to protect sales of glyphosate-based Roundup.

I love it when western medicine "discovers" something. Because they did it is now considered real.

Meditation could have positive impact on gut and overall health Practice may help regulate gut microbiome and lower risk of ill health, study of Buddhist monks finds

Lovely study. Finally research is looking at the difference between eating the food and taking the extract. Too much green tea extract can hurt some people but drinking green tea is beneficial to all. No surprise to us foodies.

Green tea extract may harm liver in people with certain genetic variations A new analysis showed that early signs of liver damage from high-dose green tea extract were somewhat predicted by one variation in a genotype and strongly predicted by another variation.

This is not a new story by date or news, but worth posting. I have said since day one that if they fix the food supply I can retire.

Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet New DNA research by London-based scientists hopes to find cure for rapidly spreading conditions

This is what a food revolution looks like.

‘It made my heart sing’: finding herbs and medicine in the Bronx food forest The Bronx River Foodway, the only legal place to forage in New York, celebrates the end of a season

Just reading a synopsis of a study on Vit D and statins published in JAMA.

The study says Vit D is not shown to be effective in the treatment of muscle pain from taking statins. (Not a surprise to me. If you are interested in why Holistic practitioners like myself will tell you that feel free to get a 20 minute free phone consult.)

That was not what caught my attention however. Approximately 35 million people in the USA are on statins. 10.5% of the population at an average cost of $2400 a year. That makes this one drug an $84 billion, with a B, industry just in this country. What's wrong with this picture? Ah, let me name the ways.

The truth comes out.

Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a record of quid pro quos with a range of food giants, documents show

This is no surprise. FDA guidance is generally written by big pharma.

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Love this documentary. I watched it a while back on Netflix.

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A recent study out of England shows 6.5% of hospitalizations are due to adverse drug reactions.

Ummm. Won't it be nice if we could use preventive measures so as not to get to the point of needing prescription drugs?

Just a random thought from your holistic health practitioner.

You may or may not have noticed that some homeopathic mixes are disappearing as are the available sites in the USA.
There is a rider, last I heard, on the Medicare prescription drug must be in the budget that will allow the FDA to start removing over the counter items and homeopathic immediately. This is an ongoing fight that started back in at least the 80's with Codex and The World Trade Organization.
You might want to get involved. The re is also more info here.

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