'Health care professional' doesn't know what's in vaccine she's giving

Healthcare professional: "No," when asked if there is mercury in the flu vaccine.

She continues to read the label, and then, says, "Uh, actually there IS mercury."

Health care "professional," indeed!



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Washington State Secretary of Health suspends health protection law

This very disturbing article appeared on YourSpine.com Friday, Sept. 25, 2009.

Washington State Secretary of Health Suspends Health Protection Law

Law limiting the amount of mercury that can be injected into pregnant woman and children suspended.

by Herb Newborg

The Washington State Department of Health will allow more mercury than usual in some of the swine flu vaccine to “make sure shots are available to pregnant women and children under three years old.”

Secretary of Health Mary Selecky is temporarily suspending Washington’s limit on the amount of mercury (thimerosal) allowed in H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine given to pregnant women and children under three.

The six-month suspension is effective through March 23, 2010 and applies only to H1N1 (swine flu) vaccines now being developed. Washington state law limits the amount of mercury that can be in vaccines for pregnant women and children under three. The secretary of health can suspend the law when there is a shortage of vaccine or during a disease outbreak. Both criteria apply to the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine. Supplies of mercury-free vaccine will be limited, which the department says may stop people in these groups who want the vaccine from getting it.

Pregnant women and children under three are at the top of the list to get the vaccine because they’re at high risk for serious complications from swine flu.

“We believe suspending the law allows health care providers to offer their patients as many choices as possible to protect themselves against H1N1,” said Cindy Markus, MD, President of the Washington State Medical Association.

The mercury in vaccines is in a preservative called thimerosal. Except for some types of flu vaccines, all vaccines routinely recommended for children under six years of age are required by law to be thimerosal-free, or contain only trace amounts.

When the limits are suspended, the law requires that pregnant or lactating women and parents or guardians of children under 18 be told they’re getting a vaccine containing more mercury than is usually permitted. However, there is no specific notification method required; most patients will get a handout to read, according to the press release.

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Don't Infect Me (The Swine Flu Vaccine Song)

Don't Infect Me (The Swine Flu Vaccine Song), written and performed by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, of NaturalNews.com.



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Fear: It's what's for breakfast

Back in the 1940's, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself.

In the 1950's and 1960's, we had to hide under our desks, fearing communism and Russian rockets raining down upon us. We knew where every "fallout shelter" in town was. And if the commies didn't do us in, then those damn hippies with their long hair and drugs and rock 'n' roll were going to be the ruin of us all.

In the 1970's, Watergate and Richard Nixon showed us how much we should fear our government. Sadly, we seem to have forgotten that lesson in fear until recently.

In the 1980's, AIDS taught us to fear sex.

In the 1990's, we feared the world as we knew it would collapse at midnight, December 31, 1999.

On September 11, 2001, we learned to be afraid of our own shadows. Terrorists were lurking on every playground, we were told. Color-coded fear charts were all the rage for a while, and now you can't even carry toiletries or nail clippers on an airplane. Every time an elementary school student spilled baking soda from his volcano science experiment, HAZMAT and SWAT teams came out in force.

The parade of nightmarish scenarios we were told to fear began in earnest as the new century dawned.

West Nile virus, Ebola, anthrax, dirty bombs, flesh-eating bacteria, bird flu, SARS, mad cow disease.... Each of these was going to kill us all, we were told.

Our "news" channels and talk radio are constant fear-mongers. Pick your paranoia — there's a network and a pundit for you. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC... whatever your political view, there is a ready-made fear to keep you tense 24/7. Race riots. Socialism. Death panels. Economic collapse.

And now, it's swine flu. Millions of Americans will soon eagerly line up to have a chemical cocktail of untested pus and viral egg-goo and mercury and god knows what else jabbed into their arms and bloodstreams, because they are afraid.

Do your own research. Question authority. Think for yourself.

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." — Marie Curie

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Four foods to avoid at the mall's food court

In this ABC video with Men's Health magazine writer Matt Bean you'll find out why you should eat before you go to the mall. The food court at your local mall is dangerous to your health!

For example, did you know a single Cinnabon cinnamon roll contains 56 grams of fat and over 1,100 calories? Or that a large Smoothie King smoothie has more than 250 grams of sugar? That's more sugar than is in a baker's dozen of chocolate frosted Dunkin' Donuts.

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Monika Ponton-Arrington joins Wellness Center staff

Monika Ponton-Arrington, a Native American healer, has joined the staff at the Natural Wellness Center of Ellijay.

Monika is an enrolled member of the Taino Nation and has lived in the north Georgia mountains since 1973. The first-born of a family of long ceremonial standing, she knew from an early age that her lifepath would be one of health and counseling. The teaching and guidance of the family's elder women, as well as being a caregiver to younger siblings provided her with a solid foundation for this path.

Married to a Cherokee, Monika studied the "mountain medicine" as well as the traditional ways of her husband's people for many years before returning to the Caribbean isles to study more closely the ways of her own people, under the guidance of the Taino Abuellas, or "grandmothers."

Armed with the understanding that all wellness is holistic in nature, Monika has sought formal knowledge as well. A graduate of the Native Wellness Institute, she is blessed with "book learning" as well as the intuition of a native healer.

Monika has worked and continues to work with physicians, therapists and counselors since the late 1990's.

She is the mother of four grown children, and lives near Fort Mountain and the Cohutta Wilderness near Ellijay, Georgia.

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MRSA outbreak: Elephant infects 20 zoo employees

No sooner than I had posted an entry on AltHealthNews.com about the high levels of bacteria found on hospital workers' cell phones, including the deadly Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bug, MSNBC hit the wire with this story about how a baby elephant infected 20 employees at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.

As Professor Randy Pausch said in The Last Lecture, you should always acknowledge an elephant in the room.

This is the first known instance where MRSA has crossed over from an animal to humans.

Not only should you wash your cellphones... now you have to wash your elephants, too!

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Trouble in the Trainyard

You'd think that once you've heard something several hundred times, you'd get used to it, but that's not always the case.

One question I always ask of clients is "How regular are you?" Even though more than a few women think I am inquiring into their menstrual cycles, I still prefer asking the question this way instead of a more direct question like "How often do you poop?"

To provide health advice knowing the answer to the second question is important, but knowing the answer to the first question is even more important, as it provides a window into the mindset of the person with health issues.

It seems many people have no idea what "regular" should be, so they think that whatever is currently normal to them is "regular." I haven't had many people, even those who knew they were chronically constipated, say there weren't "regular." They would answer the question with, "Oh, I go every other day," or "Once a week."

Usually I pry just a little bit further, and discover that their infrequent eliminations were indeed "regular" for not only them, but their entire household. Each time I talk to someone who thinks having a bowel movement every three to five days is "normal," I'm amazed, no matter how many times I hear it.

I know... modern medical authorities play down the need for regular, consistent bowel movements, and instead offer the "warm fuzzy" advice that "Whatever is regular with you is okay -- if you feel you need help, try [insert name of over-the-counter laxative] for a few days."

But that's just not right. One early mentor of mine put it this way: "Three trains in... three trains out." If you eat a meal, you need to eliminate the remains of a previous one. Otherwise, eventually, you're going to have a back-up in the "train yard." When those trains get backed up, the toxic load that they're packing spills over, back into the bloodstream. Those food remnants that your body needs to eliminate end up poisoning you, over and over again. It's no wonder cancer is rampant, and colorectal cancer is the third-leading cancer-killer of women in the U.S.

Just think of all the chemicals, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, colors, etc., that most people consume each day. Soft drinks, doughnuts, coffee, hormone-saturated meats and milk... each item carries not only a "food value" (if it has any nutritional value at all), but also a toxic factor that your body was never meant to have to deal with.

Simply put, if you don't move that toxic sludge out of your system quickly, it is reintroduced through the colon wall back into your bloodstream, where the toxins are then carried throughout your body to lay siege against your organs and tissues, before finding their way back to the colon via the liver, your body's now-overworked poison-processor.

As you can imagine, it doesn't take long for constipation to cause your body to go into toxic overload.

Diets high in fiber and increased water consumption are the keys to avoiding constipation and toxic overload. If you're already constipated, you can begin to reverse the damage by using herbs for detoxification and by increasing your fiber and water intake. Avoid toxic foods, which, for starters, you should consider anything you can buy through a drive-through window.

Changing your lifestyle will change your bowel habits, which in turn will change your life for the better.

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Men resist food temptations better than women

Men can resist food temptations better than women, a recent study shows.

Brain scans on 13 women and 10 men, who had fasted overnight, showed the differences in how the brains of men and women responded to the sight of their favorite foods.

"There is something going on in the female," Gene-Jack Wang, lead researcher in the study, said. "The signal is so much different.... Even though the women said they were less hungry when trying to inhibit their response to the food, their brains were still firing away in the regions that control the drive to eat."

While American men and women are approximately equally classified overweight (65.1 million men vs. 64.5 million women), far more women than men are considered obese (34.7 million women vs. 26.6 million men).

These stats are from 2001 — more recent statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 72 million American adults are obese. That number is up more than 10 million in the past five years!

Amazing. From 2001 to 2005, more than 10 million American adults went from "merely" overweight to OBESE!

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Obese Americans now outnumber those who are 'merely' overweight

The number of obese Americans now outweighs the number of merely overweight Americans, according to recent government figures.

Over 34 percent of Americans, or over 72 million, are obese, while 32.7% of us are classified as overweight.

Obesity and overweight are calculated using a formula called body mass index (BMI). BMI is equal to weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Someone with a BMI of 25 to 29 is classified as overweight. A person with a BMI of 30 to 40 is obese, and people with BMIs of 40 or more are morbidly obese.

You can discover your BMI status by inputting your height and weight into this calculator provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

To discover what Men's Health called the 20 worst foods in America, check out these pages on MSNBC. You'll be surprised at the whopping number of calories and grams of fat in what may be some of your favorite restaurant and grocery store foods.

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