For the past several years, we have been under the impression that soy is great for you. I am here to tell you that soy isn’t all that. It has been our enemy from the beginning; soy causes breast cancer.
A study conducted by researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College found that for many women, adding a small amount of soy to their diets, can cause cancer to grow.
While soy products might be very tasty to many, they contain a very high concentration of isoflavones, which are weak estrogen-like compounds that can boost the growth and development of breast cancers.
The study found changes in the expressions of certain genes largely known to promote cancerous cell growth among the women consuming the soy supplement.
A comprehensive study using cutting-edge molecular profiling proved that Roundup and glyphosate herbicides inhibit a pathway in gut bacteria, when given at permitted doses.
Specifically, glyphosate kills plants by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, part of a biochemical pathway—the shikimate pathway—that produces proteins. Imbalances in gut bacteria have been linked to cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression.
The rat study was led by Dr. Michael Antoniou of King’s College London, and scientists from London, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Rats were fed different herbicide doses; results showed a dramatic increase in two acids in the gut, indicating the EPSPS enzyme was severely inhibited. Adverse effects—shifts in bacterial populations—were noted at all dosage levels.
“Through this comprehensive multi-omics analysis, we obtained definitive results demonstrating glyphosate and Roundup impact on both the bacterial population and biochemistry of the gut microbiome,” Dr. Antoniou said. He recommends surveys be done immediately to verify correlation between levels of glyphosate and shikimate.
The alterations themselves are cause for concern, he added. Liver and kidney damage in the rats emerged, livers showing an increase in lesions, fatty liver disease, and tissue death. Dr. Antoniou added that either lower doses of Roundup over time or a higher dose over a shorter time produced the same outcome.
The study offers possible explanation of the Roundup/cancer link: shikimic acid is a potential cancer promoter. These findings can contribute to environmental epidemiological studies on glyphosate’s impact on humans.
Six farmers are preparing to take legal action against the state government, arguing a massive bushfire in northern NSW could have been prevented if more hazard reduction had been allowed.
In what could be the first class action after this summer’s horror bushfire season, graziers hit by the August blaze in the Guy Fawkes National Park, west of Coffs Harbour, say it was “a disaster waiting to happen”.
Beef farmer Tony Brazier, who lives just outside Guyra, said fuel loads in the park had been allowed to reach dangerous levels because “everyone is too scared to burn anything”.
“I could see that the trouble was building for a number of years, it was just too dangerous and so this was always going to happen,” Mr Brazier, who runs about 600 head of Angus beef cattle, said.
Mr Brazier said since cattle had been prohibited from grazing in national parks, the fire threat had increased significantly resulting in a firestorm that tore through the park.
“But the big problem is that there was just no burning, everyone is too scared to burn anything because they think they will end up in jail,” he said.
The Bees Nest fire started on August 30 and turned into the first mega fire of the season, eventually burning all the way to Coffs Harbour.
“We have to have more say in the future management of the park, we need manageable fire breaks and there needs to be more talk with local landholders,” Mr Brazier said.
He said his business would take years to recover, after losing kilometres of fencing as well as land that was critical for grazing.
“In annual ocean cleanups in 2016, cigarette butts remained the top collected item of litter in California, in the United States, and internationally.”
Indian mining giant Adani donated $200,000 to the Liberal and National parties in the month after it secured federal approval for its controversial Carmichael coal mine.
Back in 1991, scientists were amazed when they made the discovery…
In the eerie environment inside the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, researchers remotely piloting robots spotted pitch black fungi growing on the walls of the decimated No. 4 nuclear reactor and even apparently breaking down radioactive graphite from the core itself. What’s more, the fungi seemed to be growing towards sources of radiation, as if the microbes were attracted to them!
More than a decade later, University of Saskatchewan Professor Ekaterina Dadachova (then at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York) and her colleagues acquired some of the fungi and found that they grew faster in the presence of radiation compared to other fungi.
Two artificial bunkers were recently discovered in Barabar and Nagarjuna, both located in the Bihar area. According to the researchers, these bunkers were made 2600 years ago.