GERMIER THAN TOILET SEATS, BUT YOU TOUCH THEM EVERY DAY

By Dr. Mercola

What do restaurant menus, hands-free faucets, ATM machines and your physician's scrubs have in common? They are all among the "germiest" objects on Earth.

Yes, really.

As much as you might like to give the gold medal to toilet seats when it comes to squeamishly germ-ridden locations, science suggests there are much "germier" places that you're probably frequenting daily.

For example, one study found that each key on an ATM keypad harbors 1,200 germs, including E. coli and cold and flu viruses. The worst button is the "Enter" button, because everyone has to touch it. Flu viruses can survive on hard surfaces such as restaurant menus for as long as 18 hours, according to an article in Mental Flossⁱ. Some of the other dirtiest places and objects might surprise you:

Hospitals Lemon Slices in Restaurant Drinks Hotel RoomGlasses Kitchen Cloths and Sponges Faucets and Sink Drains Toothbrushes Food Court Tables Fitting Rooms

Restaurant Condiment Toy Stores Hotel Bedspreads and Pillows Light Switches Drinking Fountains Wet laundry—after it's been washed Escalator Handrails Gym Equipment

Handbag Bottoms Gadget Shops Remote Controlsand Computer Keyboards Door Knobs and Handles Cutting Boards Playground Equipment (Swings, Slides and Monkey Bars) Shopping Cart Handles Makeup Samples

Hospitals are Some of the Germiest Places on Earth

When you see hospital staff in bright, cheerfully colored scrubs and crisp white lab coats, do you think bacteria? That's exactly what you should think, considering the findings of several recent studies that show hospitals are not the safe, clean environments we'd like them to be.

1. A study published in 2011 in the American Journal of Infection Controlⁱⁱ found that more than 60 percent of healthcare workers' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, including germs that cause pneumonia, bloodstream infections and drug-resistant infections such as MRSA. The samples were obtained from the sleeves, waists, and pockets of 75 registered nurses and 60 physicians at a busy university-based hospital. Eleven percent of the bugs were resistant to multiple front-line antibiotics. This study suggests healthcare workers' attire may be one surprising route by which pathogenic bacteria are transmitted from staff to patients.
2. Another 2011 studyⁱⁱⁱ found pathogenic bacteria—including MRSA—on the privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics.
3. A 2009 study^iv showed that pathogenic microorganisms can even survive on the paper commonly used in clinical settings—so the penicillin script your physician hands you may come with its own colony of dangerous bacteria
4. A 2009 study^v of U.K. nursing homes found 24 percent of residents and seven percent of staff were colonized with MRSA, which means they were carrying the bacteria on their skin (and lab coats) but not  showing signs of infection.

Rates of MRSA in health care settings have been climbing steadily. Statistically, six out of seven people infected with MRSA contract it at a healthcare facility, where the infection shows up in surgical wounds or around feeding tubes, catheters or other invasive devices^vi. However, these "super bugs" are no longer originating only in healthcare facilities. The bacteria are constantly adapting, and now they are being found in livestock that ends up on your dinner plate.

The "Farming" of Super Bugs

Today, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotic use in the United States takes place at concentrated animal feedlot operations (CAFOs), and these factory-scale farms are now brewing a novel strain of MRSA. CAFO animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses to prevent disease and promote growth.

MRSA, short for "Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus," is a very dangerous strain of staph bacteria that has developed resistance to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it (methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, amoxicillin, etc.). Initially, these "super bugs" were coming exclusively from hospital environments, but they've now adapted and spread to other public settings, such as schools, gyms, and locker rooms. And now a new strain has appeared in livestock animals as a direct result of antibiotic overuse.

Experts are concerned this new MRSA strain in livestock could begin to infect humans all over the globe.

Realizing that antibiotics abuse threatens public health, the U.S. FDA plans to issue new regulations for the use of antibiotics in the livestock industry by requiring a veterinarian's prescription before antibiotics can be given.^vii

Other countries have also realized the inherent hazards of antibiotic overuse and have opted for a healthier approach to the raising of livestock. For example, Denmark stopped the widespread use of antibiotics in their pork industry 12 years ago. After they implemented the antibiotic ban, a Danish study later confirmed that Denmark had drastically reduced antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their animals and food. This is one reason why I feel it's so important to support smaller, local farms that raise livestock and poultrywithout antibiotics, on pastures where the animals graze on natural grasses, as opposed to confined to buildings and fed grains.

Bad Bugs, Bad Bugs… Whatchya Gonna Do?

As hard as you might try, you simply can't outrun or outsmart the microbes. They're literally everywhere, including all over you as you read this right now. We are their reproductive vectors--they ride around on us and hop from person to person, using us like an interpersonal railway system. Knowing this, how do you live your life without fearing an attack from every mustard bottle or stationary bike handle you come across?

Relax. You don't have to worry, as long as your immune system is in good shape.

We have shared our lives with the microbial world for many thousands of years, and we will probably do so for millions more. If your defenses are strong, your body will be pretty successful in fighting off invaders. It's only when your immune system is compromised that you're more likely to become ill.

And many of these microorganisms are beneficial—even the pathological ones. Some microbial exposure actually makes youstronger by "training" your immune system to react appropriately, especially when the exposure occurs in childhood. This concept is known as the "hygiene hypothesis."

There is evidence that our modern germophobic culture, with hand sanitizers on every shelf, is counterproductive to good health. Science has found that overly sterile environments are linked with higher rates of depression, increased inflammation, heart disease, asthma, allergies, and eczema. That said, some of today's pathogens are quite a bit more dangerous than those present a century ago, so taking some reasonable precautions is advisable. One of the simplest and most effective preventative measures is proper hand washing.

Your Number ONE Defense Against Germs: Proper Hand Washing

Getting back to basics is often the best advice, and that definitely applies here. Good old-fashioned hand washing with plain soap and water is one of the oldest and most powerful antibacterial treatments there is; no harsh disinfectants or antimicrobial soaps required. To make sure you're actually removing the germs when you wash your hands, follow these guidelines:

1.  Use warm water

2.  Use a mild non-antibacterial soap

3.  Work up a good lather, all the way up to your wrists, for at least 10 or 15 seconds

4.  Make sure you cover all surfaces, including the backs of your hands, wrists, between your fingers, and around and below your fingernails

5.  Rinse thoroughly under running water

6.  In public places, use a paper towel to open the door as a protection from germs that the handles may harbor

Also remember that your skin is your primary defense against bacteria—not the soap. So resist the urge to become obsessive about washing your hands. Washing too vigorously or too frequently can extract many of the protective oils in your skin, causing it to crack and potentially even bleed, providing germs a point of entry into your body where they can do harm. So mild to moderate washing is really all you need.

AVOID Anti-Bacterial Soaps

You should especially avoid the use of antibacterial soaps and wipes, especially those containing triclosan and triclocarban, chemicals that can worsen the problem of bacterial resistance. There is also recent evidence that triclosan may disrupt your hormone balance. If you wish to use a hand sanitizer, make sure it's made with safe plant-based ingredients such as rice bran extract, aloe vera, chamomile and tea tree oil, rather than the chemical agents you typically find. Now that you've taken care of your outer defenses, you should pay some attention to your inner defenses—your immune system.

My Basic Recipe for Building a Strong Immune System

Maintaining a strong immune system requires following the basic tenets of good health. There is no magic bullet. Staying healthy, or regaining your health, requires some diligence in making good choices about nutrition, exercise, sleep and the rest, over the long term. Good health habits will minimize your risk of getting sick from ANY cause.

Manage your stress; science has proven that stress and unresolved emotional issues have lingering adverse effects on your health

Optimize your vitamin D level with exposure to sunlight or a safe tanning bed; if this isn't possible, take an oral vitamin D supplement

Drink plenty of clean water

Eat foods that are best for your body, according to my Nutrition Plan

Optimize your insulin and leptin levels

Avoid excess sugar (especially fructose) and grain consumption

Avoid processed foods, chemical additives, artificial sweeteners, MSG, and all genetically modified ingredients

Consider taking a high-quality probiotic supplement, as your gastrointestinal system is an important part of your immune system

Exercise three to five times a week

Get plenty of restorative sleep every night

References:

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• ⁱ Mental Floss January 11, 2012
• ⁱⁱ Am J Infection Control September 2011
• ⁱⁱⁱ Am J Infection Control April 2011
• ^iv AJN December 2011
• ^v Journal of the American Geriatrics Society April 2009
• ^vi Seattle Times
• ^vii MNN April 12, 2012
• http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/27/mrsa-on-common-places.aspx

THE BREAST CANCER HOAX REVEALED

by Jonathan Landsman 

(NaturalNews) It's alarming how a growing number of young women are getting diagnosed with breast cancer - every year - throughout the world! But, there's more to this story than meets the eye - no thanks to the "controlled reality" of conventional media outlets.

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Did you know there is a tremendous amount of little known (suppressed) scientific research proving that woman can significantly reduce their risk of breast cancer and many other chronic diseases through natural therapies? In fact, there are literally thousands of medically documented and scientifically proven (natural) ways to cut your risk for disease.

Eating the right foods; participating in immune-enhancing activities; sleeping better and using herbs, supplements, meditation, detoxification techniques can produce powerful results. It's easier than you think!

The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents "Natural Solutions for Breast Cancer" with our special guest Christine Horner, M.D., nationally known surgeon, author, and professional speaker.

"Thank you all for these programs. Bless your heart! - Love and Peace, Marisa"

Former American Cancer Society doctor admits to being brainwashed

For over 10 years, Dr. Christine Horner worked with the American Cancer Society. In fact, she was taught to tell patients "we don't know what causes breast cancer, we don't have any known cure for it, so the best thing women can do is get mammograms and breast exams in an effort to catch it early and save lives". Does this previous statement trouble you - as much as it troubles me?

Since 1972, there's been a war on drugs with over $200 billion collected and the best thing conventional western medicine can say is "we don't know what causes breast cancer". I say it's time to fire every cancer researcher (sponsored by big pharma) and recruit more capable healthcare professionals. Stop wasting our money!

Sadly, Dr. Horner lost her mother to breast cancer while following conventional medical wisdom including mammograms. Needless to say, her world was rocked and became highly-motivated to find a better way of treating disease.

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What is wrong with the American diet and lifestyle

Epidemiological studies show that breast cancer rates are much higher in American women versus Asian women. Even when Asian women move to the United States - their risk goes up. In fact, according to scientific research, women that consume the most red meat create a 400 percent greater risk for getting breast cancer!

We need to dramatically improve the quality of our food choices and promote healthy living before it's too late!

This week's guest: Christine Horner, M.D., nationally known surgeon, author, and professional speaker.

Natural Solutions for Breast Cancer - Thu. Feb. 16

Christine Horner, M.D. is a board certified and nationally recognized surgeon, author, professional speaker and a relentless champion for women's health. She spearheaded legislation in the 1990s that made it mandatory that insurance companies pay for breast reconstruction following mastectomy.

She is the author of Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer winner of the Independent Book Publishers Award 2006 for "Best Book in Health, Medicine, and Nutrition". Her book describes all the research-proven natural approaches - foods, herbs, spices, supplements, and activities - that dramatically lower the risk of breast cancer and help women who have this disease improve their chances of living a long healthy life.

The breast cancer hoax exposed! Join us - as we make history. It's time to get the word out about the effectiveness of natural remedies for cancer and other chronic diseases. Share this news with your family and friends and help us improve the lives of millions of people.

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U.S. SCHOOLCHILDREN NOW SUBJECTED TO SACK LUNCH SEARCHES BY GOVERNMENT AGENTS WHO ENFORCE NUTRITIONAL INSANITY

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor 

(NaturalNews) First it was the TSA searching your underpants at the airport, claiming to be protecting you from "terrorists." Now a local elementary school in North Carolina issearching the homemade lunches of schoolchildren with the goal of forcing children to ditch their nutritious, home-made meals and learn to consume pasteurized, homogenized USDA-approved cow's milk and chemically-laced processed meats that promote cancer.

This is what happened, as reported in the Carolina Journal yesterday:

"A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious."(http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-wit...)

The paper goes on to report:

"The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day."

Hold on a sec there, partner. There are AGENTS inspecting lunch boxes of schoolchildren?

You thought the TSA was bad? Get ready for school lunch pat-downs!

That's the first highly disturbing part of this entire story. See, the corrupt state is trying to take over everything, including the American family. Telling little Johnny that his mom packed an "inferior" lunch is one way of teaching children that they should worship the state instead of their parents. It's entirely consistent with the actions of pathetic child health sellouts such as California Governor Jerry Brown who recently signed a law giving 12-year-old children the right to "consent" to being injected with Gardasil vaccines as long as they don't tell their parents. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033831_Jerry_Brown_Gardasil.html)

Parents are useless. The state is God. Write that down, boys and girls, as you'll be tested on it later. And please don't tell all the TSA perverts that new jobs are opening up involvingsearching the sacks of elementary schoolchildren, or they'll quit the TSA in droves and line up to be part of anything that might involve touching little children (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=979D7B9F44BA6EAE0DF65B3DE6E4EE33).

In North Carolina, the homemade school lunches that don't meet USDA guidelines are then "enhanced" with what the state calls the "missing items" (the processed meat laced with chemicals, or the dead, pasteurized milk, produced with Bovine Growth Hormones). Parents are then billed (fined) for the additional cost of these "missing" items.

In other words, the state is forcing parents to buy cancer-causing processed foods and feed them to their children!

"What got me so mad," said the girl's mother, as reported in CarolinaJournal.com, "...is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly. I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really care for vegetables." (http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-wit...)

But the other truly disturbing part about all this is that the "official" USDA-approved nutritional requirements for children are nothing more than a total sellout to the corrupt dairy industry! Here, drink pasteurized, homogenized, hormone-produced milk which will probably make the girls hit puberty at age 9 while causing the little boys to grow armpit hair before they're old enough to tie their own shoelaces.

Ditch your healthy food and eat this homogenized crap!

So the girl brought to school a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, some potato chips and some apple juice. Admittedly, it's not the lunch of champions or anything, but guess what the school forced her to eat instead? Chicken nuggets.

Yeah, those are the deep-fried "parts is parts" chicken-like objects made from mechanically-separated chicken (yuck). They probably contain MSG or some other taste-enhancing chemical, too, and they're no doubt fried in genetically-modified soy oil or corn oil. That must be very conducive to a learning environment, huh?

And this elementary school's current home page features a giant photo of children holding up signs that read, "HELP FIGHT HEART DISEASE." (http://whes.hcs.k12.nc.us/) Seriously? Do they honestly think feeding chicken nuggets to preschoolers is an intelligent way to fight heart disease? (Dear God, what has public education come to in America?)

Since when was the state any kind of authority on nutrition anyway?

All this takes a lot of gall for a government that routinely formulates the most nutritionally-depleted school lunch programs and prison food imaginable. If the government was in charge of our nutrition, we'd all be eating genetically modified poison laced with pharmaceuticals and birth control. It's almost like Bill Gates' heavenly recipe for "feeding the world," huh?

Eat this and die. That's what the government's pushing these days. After all, the sooner you all die, the more money the government will save on social security, Medicare and other entitlements it can't afford to pay for much longer. I bet that's one social science lesson these kids aren't taught in school. You're more valuable to the state dead than alive.

The government likes to act like it's all "official" or something, and that it's somehow looking out for the welfare of these children. It was the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services which enforced these loony requirements. According to all those "officials" (i.e. government nutritional morons who eat junk food all day while sitting at their desks and injecting themselves with insulin all day), a "healthy" meal for a child should consist of:

• One serving of meat, such as sausages laced with cancer-causing sodium nitrite, which is linked to a 300% increase in brain tumors in children and a 67% increase in pancreatic cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/007133.html).

• One serving of pasteurized, homogenized, heart-disease inducing cow's milk which also causes allergies, autoimmune disorders and digestive problems.

• One serving of grain, which could be met by serving some nutritionally-depleted white bread.

• Two servings of fruit or vegetables, including those gross canned peaches floating in corn syrup.

Yep! That's the USDA's pathetic definition of nutrition, folks. A bunch of disease-inducing processed dead food that's sanctioned by the very same state that wants a dead population. So it all makes sense, you see.

God forbid the mom that packs a lunch for her child that looks something like this:

• A fresh sprout salad (state officials have never seen living sprouts and would probably condemn them as being too "alive" to be safely consumed. Irradiate it!).

• A fresh avocado sprinkled with paprika and nutritional yeast (huh? Is that a fruit? A vegetable? What does it count for? This would confuse school officials for weeks who would have to convene a committee to study the issue...)

• An egg sandwich made from free-range chicken eggs, served up on gluten-free whole grain English muffins (what? No meat! You are murdering your child, you careless parents! Call Child Protective Services!)

• A bottle of fresh juice made that morning from oranges, carrots, lemons and a hint of ginger. (LIVING food? That's the food of terrorists! Nothing alive is allowed in the schools! Forbidden!)

You see, school officials wouldn't recognize a nutritious lunch of it slapped them across the face. There's nothing quite like being cold-cocked with an egg-and-tomato sprout sandwich.

Instead, these pathetic state "health department" enforcers apparently ended their own nutritional education with health class in high school, which gives you even less education than the innate knowledge of a typical mule, because at least the mule knows to eat the living grass and flowers growing right out of the soil. Yep, I said it: These state officials know less than an ass about nutrition.

Coming next: Government agents inspecting children's meals IN YOUR HOME

But where is this school lunch inspection behavior really heading? Well, since the state loves your children so much, and since it is now the full responsibility of the state to care for your children, vaccinate them, feed them and program their brains with false U.S. history, the next step is government food agents conducting door-to-door surprise inspections at your house!

There's a knock on the door. You foolishly answer it, only to find three trendy government agents with fake smiles plastered on their faces, flashing their badges. "We're from the health department, and we're here to inspect your refrigerator. You have children here, correct?"

The next thing you know, they discovered a sprouting machine on your countertop and your stash of raw milk hidden away in the back of the fridge. "Looks like we got ourselves a food terrorist here!" one of the agents mutters to the other. "Call in CPS! And the SWAT team!"

A few minutes later, you're face down in the dirt in your own front yard, where the local city council fined you for trying to grow tomatoes, by the way (http://www.naturalnews.com/032960_Julie_Bass_home_gardening.html). Health department thugs are grinding a knee into your lower back, and one of them leans in to whisper into your ear: "You think those are YOUR children? WE are their parents now, get it? And we control what they eat and what medicine they get from now on."

One of them cracks the back of your head with the butt of his government-issue rifle, slapping your nose into the soil as a sharp reminder. "And don't make us come back, or we'll have to take your little Johnny away and make him disappear into our world, where there are at least a dozen sexually frustrated agents who are looking for fresh meat, so to speak. Because meat is a USDA requirement, get it?"

That's what could soon be coming your way in America -- a nation that's beginning to resemble North Korea in its total abandonment of human rights and human decency.

When schools denounce the role of parents in feeding their own children -- and when doctors denounce the role of parents in making health care decisions for their own children -- we aren't too far away from the total state-run takeover of parenting.

Worship the state; surrender your children to total sterilization

You think it's a coincidence that the health department wants your children to eat GMO food that's chemically contaminated with brain-damaging excitotoxins? Of course not: The state wants to, at minimum, make your children sterile. If all the toxic GMOs and food chemicals happen to give them cancer or some other chronic disease in the mean time, that's just a bonus dividend paid out by the pharmaceutical industry for all its profiteering on human suffering.

And hey, if your kid actually dies from all the poisonous food, the deadly vaccines, or the radiation fallout from all the deteriorating nuclear power plants across the country, that's just a bonus for Bill Gates who factors it into his depopulation equation: P = P - 1 , where P = Population. Your kid is the "minus one" part of that calculation.

Of course, that's good for the planet, right? So you should be happy to sacrifice your children to the state, as long as their early death brings down CO2 emissions. Just how much carbon dioxide does a pair of tiny lungs generate with its last dying breath, anyway? It gives a whole new meaning to the "depart" segment of the phrase "Health DEPARTment."

That's the point of the Health Department, you see: To make you depart from this world by destroying your health first.

The point is that as long as you follow the USDA, follow the Health Department, and submit to the new "food police" agents conducting random sack searches (and no, I don't mean the TSA again) then you'll get along just fine with the status quo. The government worshippers. The trendy statists who think it takes a village of government agents to raise a child.

It's not enough to raise Amish raw milk farmers at gunpoint, you see, or for the government to destroy $50,000 worth of raw wholesome milk that was about to fed to hungry infants and babies (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html). In order to completely crush all remaining shards of liberty and drive the stake of total tyranny through the American family, the government has to punish nutritional non-conformity. Any parent who attempts to pack a school lunch that does not contain processed cancer-causing meat and pasteurized dead cow's milk shall be punished, blamed and publicly humiliated.

Down with nutrition! Conformity is safety! Obedience is freedom! Chant that mantra of oppression fifty times until you start believe it, and then stop homeschooling your children and send them off to be de-educated in public schools, where both their minds and their bodies are poisoned on a daily basis so that they can grow up to become reporters for CNN.

Bow down before your new God, the all-powerful, all-seeing, all-spying Government. We are your parents now, little children. Worship us and you will be rewarded with coupons and trinkets. We may even give you an iPhone if you take enough vaccines without telling your parents. Shhhh!

Let your voice be heard

The school that allowed this "food police" activity to take place is the West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford, North Carolina. Its web page is:
http://whes.hcs.k12.nc.us/

The school's slogan is: West Hoke Elementary School commits to promoting education by providing an environment conducive to learning.

Really? I guess nutrition doesn't play any role in that learning "environment." Forcing little children to eat processed chicken nuggets and pasteurized, homogenized, dead cow's milk that's filled with pus (yes, that's true) isn't much of a commitment to learning, is it now?

The principal of this school is Jackie Samuels. He is not the bad guy here and may not have even been aware this was going on. It was the state officials who conducted this food police activity at the school, not the school administrators.

The phone number of the school is: 910-875-2584

If you do contact this school or its principal Jackie Samuels, please be polite. Don't go all crazy on 'em. Remember: Teaching is a very tough job, and most teachers are dedicated professionals who genuinely want to help. My beef is with the state officials who conducted these sack lunch searches, not the elementary school staff. Just let principal Samuels know that you don't approve of them allowing government food police use their school as a "food police checkpoint" that only indoctrinates little children into learning obedience to the growing police state.

After all, elementary school is a place of learning. But WHAT are the kids learning if the school teaches them it's okay for government agents to deny them their own lunches and force them to eat processed toxic food instead? The message is clear: Your parents are bad! Government is God! Worship the state, or you will be punished.

CALIFORNIA FAMILY AMBUSHED BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS, TV NEWS CREW AFTER THEY REFUSED TO VACCINATE THEIR DAUGHTER

by Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) A Sacramento, Cal., family was recently bombarded by a news crew from KXTV News 10 and several officials from the Natomas Unified School District (NUSD) in Sacramento County for not vaccinating their daughter. Cayleh Morrison was one of several students in her neighborhood who legally refused the Tdap vaccination for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough), which prompted a surprise ambush at her home that is now the subject of a new lawsuit. Courthouse News Service reports that on September 23, 2011, Heyman Matlock, the student service director of NUSD where Cayleh is a student; a school nurse; and a camera crew from KXTV came unannounced to Cayleh's home in an attempt to forcefully administer the Tdap vaccine to her. The crew not only trespassed private property, but KXTV cameras filmed the house, the family, and a list containing detailed personal and medical information about Cayleh and the other "truant" students, all of which was broadcast on television. "Plaintiff Leisa Wells (Cayleh's mother) answered the door and found Mr. Matlock and the nurse on her doorstep, and was shocked to find that she was being filmed head-on by a KXTV television news crew as the crew was standing on her lawn," says the complaint. "Mr. Matlock stated that he was there with the nurse to administer a Tdap vaccination to Cayleh Morrison. Shocked at being filmed in this interaction and with the presumptuousness of Mr. Matlock's approach, she told him forcefully to leave, and closed the door." While canvassing the neighborhood in pursuit of the other unvaccinated children, Matlock apparently also implied to KXTV that Cayleh and the other children were "under an obligation to be vaccinated," which is entirely false. California law provisions that individuals can opt out of getting vaccinated for both medical and philosophical reasons (http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx). But Matlock made no mention of this fact during his apparent vaccination crusade, which the lawsuit identifies as "intentionally disseminat[ing] negative information" that resulted in numerous "unwelcome contacts to the family from numerous places around the country." The family's contact information, of course, was visually displayed on screen during the KXTV report, as part of the charade. Cayleh's family is currently seeking damages for trespass, invasion of privacy, conspiracy, and unlawful dissemination of private information and school and medical records. However, vaccine "non-compliance" stunts like this one could soon be replaced by forced vaccination of students in private, as drug company-backed legislation in California is currently pushing to allow secret vaccinations of young students without parental consent (http://www.naturalnews.com/033629_vaccinations_parental_consent.html). Sources for this article include: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/10/43779.htm

WHILE GOVERNMENT DISCREDITS RAW MILK, IT KEEPS NAMES OF SALMONELLA OUTBREAK RESTAURANTS SECRET TO PROTECT CORPORATE PROFITS

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer 

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is getting increasingly bold these days with openly admitting that it works directly for big industry interests rather than public health interests. In a recent report on why the agency did not disclose Taco Bell as being the "Mexican-style" restaurant chain involved in a recent salmonella outbreak, the FDA essentially admitted that it is more concerned with upholding a close-knit relationship with big industry players like Taco Bell than it is with being transparent and telling the truth for the public interest.

Last fall, at least 68 people in ten states were infected with salmonella poisoning from food sold at an undisclosed Mexican-style restaurant chain, according to an FDA announcement. At least 20 of these people became so ill that they had to be admitted to the hospital for treatment, and yet, the entire time, the FDA refused to disclose the name of the chain, which was later uncovered to be Taco Bell.

Any rational person can see that disclosing such information is not only pertinent and beneficial to public health efforts, but also a necessity if the information itself is to have any benefit or reason for being announced in the first place. But the FDA disagrees, having told ABC News in a recent interview that the agency often does not disclose this crucial information for fear that "it could have the effect of discouraging ... cooperation between our agencies and the food industry."

What this really means, of course, is that the FDA places a higher priority on catering to its special interests, which in this case includes fast food restaurant chains like Taco Bell, than it does to protecting public health. Obviously the public has a right to know if a major food producer is even potentially selling food that is tainted with harmful bacteria, despite what the FDA claims about the situation.

And yet if this same salmonella outbreak had been in any way linked to raw milk, you can be sure the name of the company involved would have been prematurely published far and wide, even if said outbreak later turned out not to have anything to do with raw milk. This is exactly what happened to Organic Pastures Dairy in California back in December when regulators illegitimately framed the company and shut down its business indefinitely (http://www.naturalnews.com).

Regulators know that naming companies can be used as a weapon to destroy their businesses

When responding to why it did not name Taco Bell as the salmonella offender in the outbreak last fall, the FDA declared that the situation was no longer a hazard, and that disclosing it was not necessary. And one of the FDA's allies expressed a key opinion in the matter that has huge implications for why the agency so heavily attacks small farmers and raw milk dairies.

"In any restaurant after the outbreak is over ... the only thing to gain from giving out the name of the restaurant is that it would lose business," said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University about the FDA's policy of withholding company names during outbreaks.

This admission illustrates very clearly that the FDA, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others know that naming companies severely hurts the businesses involved. This is why these agencies so often name companies allegedly linked to raw milk outbreaks, even before actually showing any evidence that there might be a connection.

Sources for this article include:

http://abcnews.go.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/029178_raw_milk_food_freedom.html

FDA’S NEW CLAIM: “YOUR BODY IS A DRUG—AND WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REGULATE IT!”

FDA’S NEW CLAIM: “YOUR BODY IS A DRUG"

In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!

We wish this were a joke, but it’s the US Food and Drug Administration’s latest claim in its battle with a Colorado clinic over its Regenexx-SD™ procedure, a non-surgical treatment for people suffering from moderate to severe joint or bone pain using adult stem cells.

The FDA asserts in a court document that it has the right to regulate the Centeno-Schultz Clinic for two reasons:

1. Stem cells are drugs and therefore fall within their jurisdiction. (The clinic argues that stem cell therapy is the practice of medicine and is therefore not within the FDA’s jurisdiction!)
2. The clinic is engaging in interstate commerce and is therefore subject to FDA regulation because any part of the machine or procedure that originates outside Colorado becomes interstate commerce once it enters the state. Moreover, interstate commerce is substantially affected because individuals traveling to Colorado to have the Regenexx procedure would “depress the market for out-of-state drugs that are approved by FDA.”

We discussed the very ambiguous issue of interstate commerce last September—it’s an argument the FDA frequently uses when the basis for their claim is otherwise lacking. As we noted then, the FDA holds that an “interstate commerce” test must be applied to all steps in a product’s manufacture, packaging, and distribution. This means that if any ingredient or tool used in the procedure in question was purchased out of state, the FDA would in its view have jurisdiction, just as they would if the final product had traveled across state lines.

This time the FDA just nakedly says in court documents that the agency wants to protect the market for FDA-approved drugs. No more beating around the bush—their agenda is right out in the open! This appears to be a novel interpretation of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), as evidenced by the government’s failure to cite any judicial precedent for their argument.

The implication of the FDA’s interpretation of the law, if upheld by the court, would mean that all food, drugs, devices, and biologic or cosmetic products would be subject to FDA jurisdiction. The FDA is expanding its reach even to commerce within the state, which we argue is far beyond its jurisdiction, in order to protect drug company profits.

Last year we ran a two-part series on the current status of federal and state law—and FDA jurisdiction—and how it affects integrative treatments (part one and part two).

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic takes your blood, puts it into a centrifuge machine that separates the stem cells, and a doctor puts them back in your body where there is damaged tissue. The clinic has argued numerous times that stem cells aren’t drugs because they are components of the patient’s blood from his or her own body.

The FDA says otherwise: “Stem cells, like other medical products that are intended to treat, cure, or prevent disease, generally require FDA approval before they can be marketed. At this time, there are no licensed stem cell treatments.” There they go again, saying that components of your body are drugs and they have the authority to regulate them! It’s the only way the agency can claim that adult stem cell therapy is within FDA’s purview.

However, the agency seems to be of two minds. When ESPN magazine was doing a story on stem cell treatments, the FDA stated that US policy is to allow the injection of stem cells that are treated with “minimal manipulation,” which federal regulations define as “processing that does not alter the relevant biological characteristics of cells or tissues”—which is certainly the case with the Regenexx clinic.

Despite this policy, FDA has been attacking the clinic for the past four years. They have tried injunctions and demanded inspections in their attempts to make the company bend; this court battle is merely the latest salvo.

The primary role of adult stem cells in a living organism is to maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found. The hard part has been to get enough of them. But new technology is giving doctors the ability to obtain more stem cells from a patient than previously thought possible, which is why we’re now seeing new treatments. Blood, fat, or tissue is withdrawn from the patient, stem cells are obtained using one of these new processes, and the cells are injected back into the patient where they can repair the patient’s tissue.

Gov. Rick Perry received this kind of stem cell therapy. We and others noted that the governor’s defense of freedom of healthcare choice when it came to his own treatment was starkly at odds with his directive to administer HPV vaccines to young girls against their own (and their parents’) wishes. It’s also at odds with his support for some of the most egregious witch-hunters on the Texas State Medical Board, which he appoints.



Behind Perry’s blatant inconsistency and the latest FDA attempted power grab lies the same problem: a medical system run by special interests under the leadership of the US government, the same government that is supposed to represent “we the people.”
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