Month: July 2012

Boy was George Carlin ever right when he said, “I have certain rules I live buy. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. Nope.”
Details of this sad episode in our history were contained in a 2009 class action suit. Filed by the Vietnam Veterans of America and individual soldiers, the suit charges the U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency, with the help of former Nazi scientists, of using at least 7,800 vets as guinea pigs to test the effects of as many as 400 different types of drugs and chemicals. They included mescaline (psychedelic alkaloid), LSD (psychedelic drug), amphetamines, barbiturates, nerve agents and mustard gas.
The suit also says the government worked to cover up the testing and the nature of its experiments, which began in the 1950s under such exotic code names as “Bluebird,” “Artichoke” and MKUltra.”
The government launched “Project Paperclip,” the suit alleges, an all-out effort by the Army and CIA to allegedly recruit former Nazi scientists to help test various psycho-chemicals, as well as develop a new truth serum using the nation’s own vets as test subjects, Courthouse News Service reported.
“Over half of these Nazi recruits had been members of the SS or Nazi Party,” said the class-action suit. “The ‘Paperclip’ name was chosen because so many of the employment applications were clipped to immigration papers.”
Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036598_chemical_experiments_MKUltra_military_veterans.html#ixzz21iAFrEyH

Increasing dietary intake of the antioxidant vitamins C, E, and selenium could help cut the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by up to two thirds, suggests research published online in the journal Gut.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120723193203.htm
What I found particularly interesting was the data in these two paragraphs:
“Antioxidants may neutralize the harmful by-products of metabolism and normal cell activity — free radicals — and curb genetically programmed influences, as well as stimulating the immune system response, explain the authors.”
“Other trials using antioxidant supplements have not produced such encouraging results, but this may be because food sources of these nutrients may behave differently from those found in supplements, they say.”
Hort Research is the preeminent antioxidant research facility in the world. The scientists there explain that not only are the ORAC scores of individual foods important, what is even more valuable is how well the antioxidants present in the foods are absorbed into the blood stream. Their experiments reveal that consuming multiple foods with high antioxidant values (cacao, acai, camu camu and goji berries were the ones they tested) results in a synergistic effect that may triple the absorption of the antioxidants (found in both foods) into the blood.
Sort of reinforces the wisdom of putting 138 antioxidant ingredients together into one food bar doesn’t it?