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Chocolate more fun than passionate kisses

BRITISH researchers said they were stunned to discover that people get more of a buzz from eating chocolate than passionately kissing their lovers.

article complet:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21570722-2,00.html

Tiens.. il y a une nouvelle pillule qui vient de sortir aux USA qui arrete carrement les regles..... Selon l'article elle utilise le plus bas d'hormones..mais encore c'est risquée pour des femmes fumeuses..

Bon, ca peut etre interessant de lire quand meme commen cela travaille:

US approval for Pill that halts periods
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=805462007

Pill or poison?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/health/s_509098.html

Tiens qqchose d'etonnant que j'ai trouve dans l'article dernier: ils dissent que depuis que les pullules contraceptives existent, les femmes ont environ 450 regles...... Avant c'etait environ 50 !!!! (et oui car on pasait plus de temps "enceinte" et en train d'allaiter etc....
Et il faut voir ce que ce changement a fait aux corps des femmes.... on parle d'anemies et trucs comme ca...

attention avec le sodium benzoate E211

Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health
Expert links additive to cell damage
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Published: 27 May 2007

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.

The problem - more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse - can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

The findings could have serious consequences for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.

Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.

Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks last year found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale.

Now, an expert in ageing at Sheffield University, who has been working on sodium benzoate since publishing a research paper in 1999, has decided to speak out about another danger. Professor Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology, tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the "power station" of cells known as the mitochondria.

He told The Independent on Sunday: "These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it: they knock it out altogether.

"The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number if diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing."

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) backs the use of sodium benzoate in the UK and it has been approved by the European Union but last night, MPs called for it to investigate urgently.

Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat chair of Parliament's all-party environment group said: "Many additives are relatively new and their long-term impact cannot be certain. This preservative clearly needs to be investigated further by the FSA."

A review of sodium benzoate by the World Health Organisation in 2000 concluded that it was safe, but it noted that the available science supporting its safety was "limited".

Professor Piper, whose work has been funded by a government research council, said tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration were out of date.

"The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are complete safe," he said. "By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago."

He advised parents to think carefully about buying drinks with preservatives until the quantities in products were proved safe by new tests. "My concern is for children who are drinking large amounts," he said.

Coca-Cola and Britvic's Pepsi Max and Diet Pepsi all contain sodium benzoate. Their makers and the British Soft Drinks Association said they entrusted the safety of additives to the Government.
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2586652.ece

Oh la la.. la listeria pousse sous vide.. et elle est encore plus mechante dans ces conditions

Citation :

Deadly germ gets mean in vacuum-packed food
Lysteria becomes more invasive when deprived of oxygen, research shows

By Charles Q. Choi

Those sealed glossy packs of cheeses and lunchmeat on your grocer's shelf can provide a particularly friendly home for nasty bugs that cause food poisoning, new research shows.

Vacuum-packed foods are deprived of oxygen to keep them fresh and boost their shelf life, but the same strategy is a boon for Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium responsible for a kind of food poisoning that kills 25 percent of the people it infects.

Unlike many other food-borne germs, Listeria can grow even in the cold temperatures of refrigerators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration notes that the microbe has been linked with foods such as raw milk; ice cream; soft-ripened cheeses such as feta, Brie and Camembert; hot dogs; raw and deli meats; raw vegetables; raw and cooked poultry; and raw and smoked fish.

In experiments with guinea pigs, Technical University of Denmark researchers found oxygen-deprived Listeria gets mean — up to 100 times more invasive than when grown with ample supplies of oxygen, findings which are detailed June 14 in the online journal BMC Microbiology.

The germ normally likes to live inside the oxygen-deprived gut, so it makes sense that it becomes more invasive under similar conditions, Licht said.

"Avoiding vacuum packaging would lead to other problems with bacterial growth, so I'm not advocating that," food microbiologist Tine Licht told LiveScience. "But our work does help devise models predicting risk of food-borne disease."

Future research can determine genes key to the invasiveness of oxygen-deprived Listeria, Licht added. This in turn could help devise new methods to fight the germ.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19253970/

Nouvel etude montre que les telephones mobiles alterent le ADN !!!
mais bien sur, pour le bien du "commerce" on continuera a nous dire que cela ne nuit pas a la sante... pfff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4113989.stm

encore sur le vaccin du hpv:

Citation :

I went back to the MedAlert.org web site and clicked on the link to the “National Vaccine Information Center”. This site provides the public with the resource to research different vaccines.

This time I found 2207 reports of adverse reactions to Gardasil. This is an increase of 2125 new reports in 5 ½ months since my last article on February 6th, 2007, where I reported only 82 reports. Oh, my dear God!

This finding caused a lump to well up in my throat. My heart went out to all the parents of those girls who must be blaming themselves for what happened. I can not imagine the pain that they must feel every time they look at their daughters and remember the suffering. It makes me want to cry.

I was compelled to search those statistics. I wanted to know and I wanted you to know the truth behind the vaccine. Here is what I found.

▪ 31 were considered life threatening. This is 1.4% of the girls reported.

▪ 1385 required the girls to go to the emergency room. That is 62.75% of the girls reported.

▪ 451 females at the time of the report had not recovered. That is 20.43% of the girls reported and more information was requested.

▪ 51 females were disabled when the report was filed. That is 2.31% of the girls reported and more information was requested.

▪ 5 girls died. Their ages were 12, 15, 19 and two the age was unknown at the time of the report. This is a death rate of .23%.

I then decided to go to the Judicial Watch web site to see what they have written about this vaccine. This was further upsetting to me. Here are some excerpts from their article dated, May 23, 2007.

“Three deaths were related to the vaccine. One physician’s assistant reported that a female patient “died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine.” Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.”

“Side effects published by Merck & Co. warn the public about potential pain, fever, nausea, dizziness and itching after receiving the vaccine. Indeed, 77% of the adverse reactions reported are typical side effects to vaccinations. But other more serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures.”

“It looks as if an unproven vaccine with dangerous side effects is being pushed as a miracle drug.”

According to VAERS the 15 year old died of acute respiratory distress syndrome. This young girl was in the hospital for 10 days before she passed. The horror that her family had to endure makes me want to cry.

A female of unknown age died from a blood clot. The blood clot was diagnosed 2 weeks after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. There was one other report of blood clotting in the legs of a North Caroline girl of unknown age. At the time of the report she was seeing her primary physician and more information was requested.

Judicial Watch stated Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Bells Palsy. Anyone considering the vaccination for their daughters needs to know this information.

l'article entier est la:
http://www.therant.us/guest/c_janak/08042007.htm

par mesure d'hygiene... il ne faut pas se raser les jambes!

Wash Your Hands, and Don't Shave
Your Legs: Advice to Avoid Infection
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119309360318867665.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

ca y est Mina! t'as une bonne excuse!

Citation :

Common Cold Mutates, Becomes Stronger

Dec. 19) - A high school varsity athlete, a sturdy guy with a health history blissfully free of blips, 18-year-old Joseph Spencer had little reason to think anything was seriously wrong when he got sick last April.

The vomiting, chills, fever -- "It must be the flu," he thought.

Within hours, Spencer's fever was 104 degrees. Within days, he was in the intensive care unit at Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon with full-blown pneumonia. Spencer's doctor was afraid this sturdy teenage boy was going to die.

"His lungs had filled up with water, it was hard to get oxygen into him," explains Dr. David Gilbert, an infectious disease expert and Spencer's physician at Providence. "Things got so bad, I thought we were at risk of losing him."

But as perplexing as what would make a hardy young man so sick -- so quickly -- was his diagnosis: adenovirus, the virus that usually causes nothing worse than a nasty cold.

"In the past, we considered adenovirus a 98-pound weakling," says Dr. Dean Erdman, leader of the respiratory diagnostic program at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "But adenovirus is causing severe disease and, in some cases, death in normal, healthy people."

At least 1,035 people in Oregon and a handful of other states have been infected by adenovirus so far this year. One of the largest outbreaks was at an Air Force base in Texas. Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta explain the killer cold virus »

But by far the deadliest outbreak is in Oregon, where seven patients have died.

"Fortunately, Joe survived," says Gilbert. "Twenty percent of our patients did not survive this severe infection."

The bug causing the serious disease is called "adenovirus 14," one of the 51-odd strains of adenovirus that typically cause anything from colds to conjunctivitis and gastroenteritis. While adenovirus isn't a new bug on the block -- it was first identified in 1955 -- researchers believe it has mutated into a more virulent form, first identified in 2005.

"We were very surprised when we ran into this much more aggressive form of adenovirus, which took otherwise healthy people and put them into our intensive care unit with life-threatening pneumonia," says Gilbert.

It is important for doctors to think of adenovirus when confronted with an ill patient -- recognizing early symptoms before they become life-threatening. Infectious disease experts say shortness of breath, cough and fever are all symptoms you should not ignore.

But how big a threat is adenovirus 14 really?

Adenoviruses are ubiquitous, scrappy bugs -- they exist on everything from pens to countertops to inside our noses. They are spread through contact with a surface, or through the air we breathe. Most people won't suffer life-threatening illness if exposed to adenovirus 14, and that strain of the virus is still pretty rare, but since few people have antibodies to it, there's opportunity for a new virus to spread rapidly throughout the population.

"Adenoviruses kill people," says Gilbert, adding that when these infectious viruses do spread, they spread fast.

"We are asking physicians is to be alert, not to panic -- but be alert," says the CDC's Erdman, who stresses that influenza remains a much larger public health concern, killing and causing far more serious illness annually than adenovirus.

Experts stress that one of the most important things for doctors to recognize is whether a patient has an acute respiratory illness. It could be adenovirus, something they may not connect to severely ill patients.

As far as treatments for adenovirus 14, there aren't any -- doctors focus on managing symptoms -- but researchers are trying to determine if any antiviral drugs could be effective.

The CDC stresses that while a flu shot is a good idea and you should get one, it won't protect you against adenovirus 14. But common sense will: keeping household surfaces clean with a good virus-buster like bleach, avoiding and covering up coughs and sneezes, and of course, hand washing.

Spencer is taking life a little slower these days. He still has gaps in his memory, probably due to oxygen loss. He's made lifestyle changes, including popping vitamins as religiously as he now washes his hands: He keeps bottles of hand sanitizer in his car and on his nightstand.

Most of all, he wants people to know that adenovirus is out there, and what it can do.

"I never thought this would happen to me. You'd think it only happens to unhealthy people," he says, pausing to find the words to finish his sentence. "I always thought of myself as a healthy guy until this happened.

"People need to be aware there's a killer out there."

http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/common-cold-mutates-becomes-stronger/20071219165909990001

Une video qui faut absolumment regarder!!! c'est au sujet des telephones portables.....
elle est un peu longue mais il faut la regarder!


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj30g_telephonie-mobile_news

Arf! les Francais vont etre deprimés lorsqu'ils sauront que les antidepresseurs ne servent a rien!!

article ici

on a fait sortir les tests secrets et tout ca et on a decouvert qu'ils ne sont pas pus efficaces que les placebos!

j'ai entend parler de ça... mais doit quand meme y avoir un truc qui pète la tête si les drogués s'en enfilent autant

c'est juste une drogue de substitution... pour garder les gens bien calmes

Mina a écrit:

j'ai entend parler de ça... mais doit quand meme y avoir un truc qui pète la tête si les drogués s'en enfilent autant

c'est juste une drogue de substitution... pour garder les gens bien calmes

oui oui.. bien sur, le medicament n'a aucun effet contre la depression mais ... c'est clair qu'il a des effets secondaires qui sont encore incontrolables... tous ces tueurs dans les centres commerciels etc...
C'est des pillules "du bonheur" (qui te font sentir bien) .... qui te font perdre contact avec tes prepres "principes" pour mieux te controler....

Ou juste encore une excuse pour les "pharmas".. poru faire du fric, comme avec le gerdasil (l'injection contre le cancer de l'uterus)

Les moutons font la queue pour prendre leur petite pillule qui sert a rien... et donnent en echange leur fric aux pharmas dont les propietaires deviennent de plus en plus riches...

C'est peut etre un des plus grands problemes de notre societe actuel: on essaie de nous creer des "besoins" que nous n'avons pas et nous sommes trop cons: nous nous lessons implanter tout cela et controler a travers de cela.... C'est pour ca que je n'ai pas ni four a microondes, ni telephone portable Moi je ne me laisse pas implanter des besoins artificiels.. Je reste avec les besoins "essentiels" pour rester "collée a la realité"

Ole a écrit:

Moi je ne me laisse pas implanter des besoins artificiels.. Je reste avec les besoins "essentiels" pour rester "collée a la realité"

j'fais comme toi ma poule - sauf que le taff m'aurait obligée à avoir un téléphone portable

sûr que c'est pas moi qui fais tourner la consommation du pays
ça doit être hallucinant ce que j'économise en manucure, coiffeur, esthéticienne (oui je suis un monstre poilu et griffu ), fitness (l'abo annuel de la piscine est 10x moins cher), sorties en disco...

t'as pas lu 1984 ??
tu devrais... ils parlent notamment du "soma"... petite pilule distribuée à tout le monde, pilule du bonheur...

Mina a écrit:

Ole a écrit:

Moi je ne me laisse pas implanter des besoins artificiels.. Je reste avec les besoins "essentiels" pour rester "collée a la realité"

j'fais comme toi ma poule - sauf que le taff m'aurait obligée à avoir un téléphone portable

sûr que c'est pas moi qui fais tourner la consommation du pays
ça doit être hallucinant ce que j'économise en manucure, coiffeur, esthéticienne (oui je suis un monstre poilu et griffu ), fitness (l'abo annuel de la piscine est 10x moins cher), sorties en disco...

ben ben.. moi c'est pareil.. une vie tres simple mais bon, le bonheur se trouve surtout dans les choses qui coutent rien... un sourire, une couche de soleil... le parfum des fleurs...

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t'as pas lu 1984 ??
tu devrais... ils parlent notamment du "soma"... petite pilule distribuée à tout le monde, pilule du bonheur...

c'est quoi 1984?? une pillule? j'ai pas compris..

si y'a bien un livre à lire (avec "Le meilleur des mondes" de Aldous Huxley), c'est celui là

oh! ca semble interessant ... merci

de rien... il m'a boulversée... écrit y'a trèèès longtemps (1949 !), mais très visionnaire...

la réécriture du passé, les guerres vides de sens pour faire marcher l'industrie, la drogue pour les gens, les "télé-écrans" chez tout le monde qu'on ne peut pas éteindre... ça fait flipper.

tu vas adorer je suis sûre.

Nouveau etude qui montre que la circunsition ne protege pas des maladies sexuelles....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032803153.html

une étude qui prouve exactement le contraire

Mina a écrit:

une étude qui prouve exactement le contraire

genial !

Morgellons Disease

Je ne sais plus où... je t'avais parle de cette nouvelle maladie et voila que je trouve dans les news qu'une femme a fait du terrorisme avec la maladie:

http://www.aliceechonews.com/articles/2008/04/02/local_news/news02.txt

voila la description de la maladie:

"Morgellons is an unexplained and debilitating condition that has emerged as a public health concern…Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain and changes in vision."

le HPV (virus de papillome) coupable aussi de certain cancers de la gorge (sexe oral):

http://www.theage.com.au/news/health/oral-sex-blamed-for-throat-cancer-rise/2008/06/10/1212863620224.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

il y a des cosmetiques (lotions, cremes) qui contienent des sortes d'hormones et ce n'est pas liste dans les ingredients!!!

Citation :

Breast cancer patients who apply moisturizers may be dosing themselves with estrogen without even knowing it, investigators reported at a breast cancer symposium in San Antonio.

Dr. Adrienne Olson, with Breastlink in Hawthorne, California, and colleagues analyzed 16 widely available moisturizers for estrogen-like compounds.

None of the creams analyzed noted any estrogen content in their list of ingredients. Even so, six samples contained estriol or estrone.

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/

je savais pour la crème solaire (et là c'est la merde...)...

moi je me fournis chez Body Shop, en espérant que c'est clean... plus tard je ferai ptet mes pots moi-même !

Mina a écrit:

je savais pour la crème solaire (et là c'est la merde...)...

moi je me fournis chez Body Shop, en espérant que c'est clean... plus tard je ferai ptet mes pots moi-même !

moi j'achette surtout du bio et des produits mmm 'raw materials" plutot que des cremes toutes faites deja.....
mais ton truc body shop selon ce test ne semble pas trop mal:
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/20020226124011.html

Mais bon, je me mefie maintenant meme des resultats des tests et c'est pour ca que j'ai plutot commence a utiliser des produits maison (et bio).

Par exemple.... pour l'epilation des jambes j'utilise maintenant que le miel d'abeilles