Month: December 2012

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New (to me) Data on Vitamin D

Dr. Reinhold Vieth is Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto. He is an internationally recognized expert on the clinical effectiveness of vitamin D as well as its pharmacology and safety. There is a great video of him giving a talk at the vitamin D Association Experts Forum in 2011 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDWA9-cGdY#!
If you do not have 45 minutes to look at it, here are the main points I took away from his presentation:
1. Blood levels of 25(OH)D are 75-225 nmo/g are normal. These levels are safe and optimal because we were “designed” for this by the process of evolution.
2. There were NO reported incidents of toxicity until intake was more than 40,000 IU per day.
3. The upper level of recommended vitamin dosage are those that any member of the public can take without doctor’s supervision and be guaranteed that they are not going to generate a negative reaction.
4. Once a year doses of vitamin D are destructive. Large fluctuations in Vitamin D levels are associated with increased risk of falls and fractures. In fact, the greater the fluctuation of your vitamin D level, the greater the risk for some cancers. So if you do not supplement all year, at least do so in winter.
5. The simple guideline to remember is that your body will make vitamin D from sunshine when your shadow is shorter than your height.
6. Vitamin D has a half life in the body of 60 days.
7. Dr. Vieth spoke on the unworkably low levels of Vitamin D being recommended by the IOM (Institute Of Medicine) as a reaction to a simplistic assessment of potential risks and an unwillingness to look at sophisticated models to identify causes of those risks.
“I am on a group from the American Geriatric Society which has a similar problem. You go to all the trouble reviewing the medicine and evidence, come up with advice, you put it out for review, out comes the IOM which something different, then doctors being driven by things that are set for a different purpose than patient care.”

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9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public

As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent an entire month filming: “What I saw at certain moments and in certain places … is very disturbing!” He never handed his 29 tapes over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote “El Perseguido” (Persecuted). His recently-published book tells the story of his unending nightmare and drives another nail into the coffin of the government’s account of the 9/11 events. Below is an exclusive interview by Voltaire Network.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html

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Do you know what is in your food?

Do you know what is in your food? What about your friends and family, do they have any idea what they are eating? Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs, are everywhere.
“Currently commercialized GM crops in the U.S. include: soy (91 percent), cotton (71 percent), canola (88 percent), corn (85 percent), Hawaiian papaya (more than 50 percent), zucchini and yellow squash (small amount) and sugar beets (90 percent).”
These crops are in almost every processed food in America, and you have almost no way of knowing that they are there. The fact is, unless you are buying Organic, you are probably consuming GMOs. The FDA says they are safe; but there has never been long term independent safety tests to make sure.
“The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) reported that, ‘Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food,’ including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty insulin regulation and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system.”
Yet most people don’t even know they are consuming GMOs. Please tell your friends, talk to your family, and discuss these things with your neighbors. It is up to us to spread the message.
You can learn more here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_24011.cfm