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Codex Alimentarius, Health Freedom

2006-03-14T09:00:00.000-06:00

Stop Codex Alimentarius and Protect Health Freedom!

Codex Alimentarius is a looming threat to your health and health freedom. If you care about natural health care, you need to know about Codex Alimentarius.

According the official documentation, "The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme." Allegedly, "the main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations."
Unfortunately, the stated purposes of the organization actually work against the natural health industry. They intend to all but eliminate vitamin & mineral supplements, destroy organic farming principles and promote the use of pharmaceutical prescription drugs. Natural medicine will become a thing of the past, as will our health as a country.

Codex Alimentarius is a looming threat to your health and health freedom. If you care about natural health care, visit healthfreedomusa.org to
stop Codex Alimentarius and protect health freedom!

Deciphering The Mystery Of Bee Flight

2006-01-23T09:42:00.000-06:00

Deciphering The Mystery Of Bee Flight: One of the most elusive questions in science has finally been answered: How do bees fly?

Findings may help explain why antibiotic resistance develops so quickly

2006-01-20T08:53:00.000-06:00

Bacteria in dirt may be ‘born’ resistant to drugs

Findings may help explain why antibiotic resistance develops so quickly

Updated: 3:25 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2006

WASHINGTON - Bacteria in dirt may be “born” with a resistance to antibiotics, which could help shed light on the problem of drug-defying “superbugs,” Canadian researchers said Thursday.

They tested 480 different bacteria found in soil and discovered that every single one had some resistance to antibiotics — meaning they had evolved a mechanism for evading the effects of the drugs.

The findings, published in the journal Science, could help explain why bacteria so quickly develop resistance to antibiotics, and why drug companies must constantly develop new ones.

“It explains where these things come from in the first place,” Gerry Wright, chair of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at Ontario’s McMaster University, said in a telephone interview. “This work could prove to be extremely valuable to the drug development process.”

Wright’s team dug up 480 strains of Streptomyces bacteria and tested them for resistance to various antibiotics.

“Without exception, every strain ... was found to be multi-drug resistant to seven or eight antibiotics on average, with two strains being resistant to 15 of 21 drugs,” they wrote in their report.

‘A logical place to start’
These particular bacteria do not infect people, but Wright believes the findings almost certainly apply to other species of microbes.

“It turns out that Streptomyces make lots of antibiotics,” Wright said. “Anything that ends in ’mycin’ comes from streptomycin -- vancomycin, streptomycin.”

That was why they chose this group of bacteria.

“We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was a logical place to start. I expect lots of these (drug-resistant) genes are peppered all over the microbial community,” Wright said.

They exposed the bacteria to known antibiotics and then searched for genes that were activated when the microbes survived.

“We found old mechanisms and new mechanisms,” Wright said.

“We found a brand-new resistance mechanism to an antibiotic called telithromycin,” he said, referring to Aventis’ drug Ketek, only approved in 2004.

Ketek was designed to overcome resistance to antibiotics, but one of the bacteria Wright tested evolved a way to prevent it from working.

Almost as soon as penicillin was introduced in the 1940s, bacteria began to develop resistance to its effects, prompting researchers to develop many new generations of antibiotics.

But their overuse and misuse have helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 70 percent of infections that people get while in the hospital are resistant to at least one antibiotic.

Wright said his findings do not get doctors off the hook. He said they still must prescribe antibiotics only when they are needed, and stress to patients the need to use them properly.

Soil bacteria live in a constant kind of arms race, making antibiotics to protect themselves against other bacteria, and then evolving antibiotic resistance to evade the antibiotics made by other bacteria.

“Their coping tactics may be able to give us a glimpse into the future of clinical resistance to antibiotics,” Wright said.

Bird Flu / Avian Flu Update

2006-01-06T15:29:00.000-06:00

With the news of the Turkish family of 6 acquiring the Avian Flu, there was a greater concern growing in our microbiology class. Surpringsly (or not) there was still no mention about the power of a healthy immune system (see previous post).

Check out this article for a breath of fresh air... Avian Flu Hoax

Maybe we don't need to worry so much after all. What do you think?

Avian Flu / Bird Flu

2006-01-04T14:12:00.000-06:00

I was in a Microbiology class this morning at the University of Manitoba, the largest University in both the city of Winnipeg and the province of Manitoba.

The Instructor works only part-time at the University and is a full-time researcher at Health Canada. His research is focused on viruses.

After the introduction to the class he spent a fair portion of time on the much-publicized Bird Flu/Avian Flu. He spoke of how deadly the flu would be and related it to the 1918 Influenza epidemic which "killed 2/3 of the earth's population within 4 weeks". He informed us that the Bird Flu is of equal danger and would result in a casualty of over 240,000 people in Winnipeg alone. (Winnipeg is a city of around 650,000)

Needless to say, a large number of the students were more a bit worried.

After the lecture was over, I approached the instructor and asked him about the power of the virus against a strong immune system. His response? "A strong immune system is the only thing that can kill this virus". (I knew that ahead of time, that's why I asked)

A strong immune system? If a strong immune system is the "only thing" that can kill it, WHY IN THE WORLD IS THERE SUCH A PANIC TO GET A VACCINE??? WHY NOT SHUFFLE SOME OF THAT MONEY SPENT ON CONTINGENCY PLANS INTO EDUCATING PEOPLE ON HOW TO BUILD A STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM???

The answer, of course, is that the drug companies can't patent and sell healthy immune function. Sad, isn't it?