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Was the swine flu a hoax?

My goodness! The mere thought of this is sickening. While on one hand i hope this is true as it would obviously be good from a health perspective, if this is true it represents a new low for our corporate-led society.

Amplify’d from www.foxnews.com

A leading health expert said the swine flu scare was a “false pandemic” led by drug companies that stood to make billions from vaccines, The Sun reported Monday.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.

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Eating healthy to fight depression

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

A study of over 10,000 Spaniards followed for almost four and half years on average found that those who reported eating a healthy Mediterranean diet at the beginning of the study were about half as likely to develop depression than those who said they did not stick to the diet.

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The connection between physical and mental health seems absolute, so i suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that eating well is not only good for your body, but for your emotional well being too.

I don’t mean to sound naive or overly simplistic, but if everyone made a commitment to healthier eating and drinking i think it would solve a whole lot of our problems - including bringing down the overall costs of health care.

I say this mostly sarcastically, but in some way i feel that people who eat and drink like crap should have to pay higher taxes - there is no doubt their eating habits cause a greater economic burden on society.

Next time you order a diet coke, you may want to leave out the ‘diet’ part (via @jyenne)

Amplify’d from trueslant.com
These results suggest that consumption of products containing artificial sweeteners may lead to increased body weight and obesity by interfering with fundamental homeostatic, physiological processes.
Diet Coke
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I have no scientific knowledge to back this up, but something about Diet Coke has always made me suspicious…just seems like there is no way it won’t some day be proven to be horrible for you.  If there is one simple thing that people could do to improve the collective health of the human race it would be to replace soda intake with water.

If you’re interested in learning more about how/why diet soad can make you fat, click the source.  Thanks to @jyenne for finding this article!   His clip is here http://amplify.com/u/hjv.

Study “sort of” concludes that organic food has no health benefits

Amplify’d from www.timesonline.co.uk

“Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally-produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority.”

He made clear, however, that he had not looked at pesticide and herbicide residues in food produced by organic and conventional farming methods.Read more at www.timesonline.co.uk
 

While this may be true, my biggest question is why the heck didn’t they also look at the affect of pesticides and herbicides!?!?  isn’t that like saying that cigarettes are not found to be addictive - though we have not yet looked at the affects of nicotine?

Vitamins Don’t Work - Or Worse

This was originally posted to Amplify by Ken.

Next thing you know we’ll find out cigarettes are good for us.

Amplify’d from well.blogs.nytimes.com

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.

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a large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade. The study showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.

Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease.

And recently, doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York warned that vitamin C seems to protect not just healthy cells but cancer cells, too.

A Johns Hopkins School of Medicine review of 19 vitamin E clinical trials of more than 135,000 people showed high doses of vitamin E
increased a person’s risk for dying during the study period by 4 percent. Taking vitamin E with other vitamins and minerals resulted in a 6 percent higher risk of dying. Another study of daily vitamin E showed vitamin E takers had a 13 percent higher risk for heart failure.
20 milligrams a day of beta carotene showed an 18 percent higher incidence of lung cancerRead more at well.blogs.nytimes.com