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Pictures A truck is submerged in flood waters after a Hurricane Isaac levee breach in Braithwaite, Louisiana August 31, 2012. The breach occurred as Hurricane Isaac came on land Tuesday night. The remnants of Hurricane Isaac trudged north on Thursday and U.S. Gulf Coast residents started to mop up and assess damage, even as much of Louisiana was still flooded and without power. REUTERS/Sean Gardner (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER) Isaac's destruction from above Aerial views of storm damage caused by Isaac after it hit the Gulf Coast. Slideshow Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Recommended Video U.S. West Coast expecting major quake following Japan… Play Video U.S. West Coast expecting major quake following Japan… LIGHTNING ROUND: Isaac creating a hurricane in energy… Play Video LIGHTNING ROUND: Isaac creating a hurricane in energy… 230-million years-old insects found in Italy (0:40) Play Video 230-million years-old insects found in Italy (0:40) Surfing Girls | Photostory Surfing Girls | Photostory (Red Bull) Introducing Tradeo 2.0: Disruptive features and a… Introducing Tradeo 2.0: Disruptive features and a… (Tradeo.com Blog) U.S. West Coast expecting major quake following Japan… Play Video LIGHTNING ROUND: Isaac creating a hurricane in energy… Play Video 230-million years-old insects found in Italy (0:40) Play Video Surfing Girls | Photostory Introducing Tradeo 2.0: Disruptive features and a… [?] Read U.S. ends criminal probe of controversial Arizona sheriff 12:57am EDT 1 CDC says 10,000 at risk of hantavirus in Yosemite outbreak 31 Aug 2012 2 Apple targets more Samsung products in patent suit 31 Aug 2012 3 Facebook cracks down on fake "Likes" 31 Aug 2012 4 Major quake off Philippines causes panic but minor damage 31 Aug 2012 5 Discussed 59 Romney tells voters to move on from Obama disappointment 47 Exclusive: Pentagon threatens legal action over bin Laden book 19 Several dead in shootout in New Jersey shopping plaza: report Sponsored Links Image Ad Free Trading Guide Learn how to trade the trend while still managing risk! GFT Image Ad 8% Income Canadian REIT Invest in Real Estate for as little as $1K. RSP Eligible. Learn More. Ads by Marchex Pictures Firemen walk past a fire in a forest at Barranco Blanco (White Ravine) in Coin, near Malaga, southern Spain, late August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Jon Nazca Reuters Photojournalism Our day's top images, in-depth photo essays and offbeat slices of life. See the best of Reuters photography. See more | Photo caption Head of Samsung's Visual Display Business Yoon Boo-keun delivers a presentation during a press preview day before the official start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz Tech toys make noise The IFA consumer electronics fair kicks off in Berlin, showcasing the world's latest tech gadgets. Slideshow Participants watch the flames from El Pulpo Mecanico during the Burning Man 2012 "Fertility 2.0" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada August 29, 2012. More than 60,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 26th year, to spend a week in the remote desert cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. FOR USE WITH BURNING MAN RELATED REPORTING ONLY Burning Man Strange sights at the Burning Man 2012 arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Slideshow Sex education found to help teenagers delay sex
Sex education found to help teenagers delay sex 
(Reuters) -
Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put
off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of
such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
They found teenage boys who had
sex education in school were 71 percent less likely to have intercourse
before age 15, and teen girls who had sex education were 59 percent
less likely to have sex before age 15.
Sex
education also increased the likelihood that teen boys would use
contraceptives the first time they had sex, according to the study by
researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
"Sex
education seems to be working," Trisha Mueller, an epidemiologist with
the CDC who led the study, said in a statement. "It seems to be
especially effective for populations that are usually at high risk."
Mueller's team looked at a 2002 national survey of 2,019 teens aged 15 to 19.
They
found teen boys who had sex education in school were nearly three times
more likely to use birth control the first time they had intercourse.
But sex education appeared to have no effect on whether teen girls used
birth control, the researchers found.
Black teenage girls who had sex education in school were 91 percent less likely to have sex before age 15.
The
researchers did not evaluate the content of sex education programs,
including whether students were taught about contraception or about
abstinence only.
Earlier studies,
which relied on data from the 1970s through the 1990s, suggested sex
education did little to persuade teens to delay sex.
The
researchers said they think the difference may be that sex education in
the United States is now more widespread and is being taught at earlier
ages.
"Unlike many previous
studies, our results suggest that sex education before first sex
protects youth from engaging in sexual intercourse at an early age,"
they wrote.
(Editing by Maggie Fox and Xavier Briand)
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia
SYDNEY: A mineral brought back to Earth by the first
men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has
been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old,
scientists said Thursday.
Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth.
Australian scientist Birger Rasmussen said tranquillityite had "long been considered as the Moon's own mineral" until geologists discovered it, by chance, in rock from resources-rich Western Australia.
"In over 40 years it hadn't been found in any terrestrial samples," Rasmussen, from Curtin University, told.
When the Moon samples first came back Rasmussen said they were considered to be "extremely precious" and had been subjected to intense, detailed study when -- ironically -- their contents were "right here all the time."
"They were always part of Earth, they haven't come from the Moon," he said of his work on the discovery, published in the journal Geology. "It tells you that broadly overall you have similar chemistries and similar processes operating on the Moon as on Earth."
As well as being "quirky and surprising" Rasmussen said the discovery also had important practical applications, with the mineral proving to be an excellent dating tool which had allowed scientists to pin down the rocks' age.
"We used this mineral ... to date the dolerite which has previously been undated, so that helped us understand the geological history," he said.
They were 1.07 billion years old, more ancient than rocks in the area had previously been thought to be, and Rasmussen said tranquillityite would be useful in dating similar rocks in the future.
"I think it will be a lot more widespread than just the six locations we've found it so far," he added of the rare mineral. (AFP)
Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth.
Australian scientist Birger Rasmussen said tranquillityite had "long been considered as the Moon's own mineral" until geologists discovered it, by chance, in rock from resources-rich Western Australia.
"In over 40 years it hadn't been found in any terrestrial samples," Rasmussen, from Curtin University, told.
When the Moon samples first came back Rasmussen said they were considered to be "extremely precious" and had been subjected to intense, detailed study when -- ironically -- their contents were "right here all the time."
"They were always part of Earth, they haven't come from the Moon," he said of his work on the discovery, published in the journal Geology. "It tells you that broadly overall you have similar chemistries and similar processes operating on the Moon as on Earth."
As well as being "quirky and surprising" Rasmussen said the discovery also had important practical applications, with the mineral proving to be an excellent dating tool which had allowed scientists to pin down the rocks' age.
"We used this mineral ... to date the dolerite which has previously been undated, so that helped us understand the geological history," he said.
They were 1.07 billion years old, more ancient than rocks in the area had previously been thought to be, and Rasmussen said tranquillityite would be useful in dating similar rocks in the future.
"I think it will be a lot more widespread than just the six locations we've found it so far," he added of the rare mineral. (AFP)
Mozilla goes after Android, Apple with cheaper phone
Mozilla goes after Android, Apple with cheaper phone pledgeBARCELONA: Mozilla, which brought the free web browser Firefox to the
masses, now wants to do the same for mobile users, with a new open
source operating system that could drastically slash smartphone prices.
The
non-profit group's so-called Boot to Gecko project will go after
Google's Android or Apple's iOS, to create an alternative which could
generate smartphones that are "10 times cheaper" than an iPhone while
offering similar experiences to those running on other platforms.
"We
want to pioneer a category," Brendan Eich, who is Mozilla's chief
technology officer, told AFP at the world's biggest mobile fair in
Barcelona.
"We see the mobile world recreating the wall of
gardens in the 1990s that AOL had," lamented Eich, referring to
restrictions imposed by the Internet provider two decades ago.
Mozilla therefore wants to "disrupt" the closed system, and open it up to competition for greater innovation.
The
idea is for a platform that is completely reliant on the web, meaning
that all of the phones capabilities, including calls, messaging, and
browsing functions, would be web-based.
Being on the web removes
the need for much of the intermediary software that requires large
memory or speedy processors - both of which are expensive.
As a result, it is able to cut costs dramatically.
The
group has partnered with Telefonica on the project, with the Spanish
giant aiming to ship phones running on the new OS this year. (AFP)
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Natural breakthrough for blood sugar control: Glucotor supplement clinically proven to reduce blood sugar as well as diabetes drugs, without the side effect.
Natural breakthrough for blood sugar control: Glucotor supplement clinically proven to reduce blood sugar as well as diabetes drugs, without the side effect
When I first heard the news about the clinical results of Jon Barron's
Glucotor formula, I was ecstatic. Having interviewed Jon Barron several
times and recommended many of his products, I know that Barron is a
genuine pioneer in the field of nutritional medicine. He's always ahead
of the curve, formulating products that are often years ahead of many in
the nutritional supplements industry.
Now, Jon Barron's Glucotor formula for blood sugar control has gone
through clinical testing and emerged as a proven product for lowering
blood sugar (with obvious implications for diabetics). Clinical trial
participants showed a remarkable 54.5 point drop in blood sugar levels
in six weeks of taking the supplement. It also showed an impressive 52
percent increase in blood sugar utilization, meaning that the body's
biochemistry is improving its handling of dietary carbohydrates.
These results are equal to or better than diabetes prescription drugs, yet without the sky-high cost and the risk of extreme side effects that go along with such drugs. Many diabetes drugs severely harm the liver. Look up the history of Rezulin if you want to see how dangerous these drugs can be. That one drug, which was reluctantly pulled off the market years ago after being prescribed to millions, probably killed 10,000 or more Americans and permanently damaged the livers of one hundred thousand people. Diabetes drugs are extremely risky, so diabetics have long sought safer, more natural solutions.
This Glucotor product appears to be one such solution. Made with ingredients backed by a large number of scientific studies (as well as literally thousands of years of medicinal use), Glucotor contains the extracts of herbs like nopal cactus (prickly pear cactus), gymnema sylvestre, fenugreek, cinnamon, banaba and bitter melon. It's like an all-star roundup of blood sugar medicines from nature.
Knowing the integrity and intelligence of Jon Barron, I have no hesitation whatsoever in giving Glucotor my recommendation for anyone suffering from blood sugar disorders, including type 2 diabetics. As always, I have absolutely no financial stake in this recommendation, and I earn nothing from the sales of this product. This is not an advertisement; it's simply great news from cutting edge natural medicine. I share it because that's my mission: To educate and empower consumers with information that can enhance their lives. And if you suffer from blood sugar disorders, Glucotor should be at the top of your list of things to investigate for enhancing your own life.
Keep in mind that you should always work with your health practitioner before taking any supplements, including this one. Ideally, you see a naturopath instead of an M.D. Also, you'll hopefully be making positive changes to your diet (eliminating processed foods, refined grains and all dietary sugars) and exercise habits. Those positive changes will further accelerate your progress on Glucotor, but it's worth noting that the remarkable blood sugar improvements experienced by trial participants here did not alter their diet in any way.
Type 2 diabetes can be utterly cured in just a few weeks, by the way. The diabetes industry doesn't want you to know that, but a study conducted at UCLA by Christian K. Roberts and published in the Dec. 15, 2005 edition of the Journal of Applied Physiology showed that making simple changes in the diet, combined with moderate exercise, actually cures type 2 diabetes in more than 50 percent of patients. These changes also significantly improved cholesterol and blood lipid profiles in study participants.
A supplement like Glucotor, when combined with healthy dietary and lifestyle changes, can significantly accelerate your reversal of type 2 diabetes in my opinion. For most people, I believe, you can ultimately eliminate any need for insulin whatsoever, and return to a relatively normal lifestyle, free of blood sugar testing strips and insulin needles. (Much to the horror of diabetic supply companies and insulin drug producers who depend on continued disease in order to sell their products.)
You can order Glucotor at the Baseline Nutritionals website.
By the way, I also strongly recommend these following Jon Barron products:
Metal Magic for removing heavy metals from your body (works on mercury, lead, cadmium, etc). Great for consuming after eating fish or seafood that may be contaminated with heavy metals.
Super ViraGon is the ultimate anti-viral formula that people are stocking up in preparation for bird flu or other infectious disease outbreaks. It's probably the most potent garlic tincture on the market. I've purchased quite a bit of this myself.
Accelerator is a superfood blend containing rice bran and other high-density nutrition ingredients. It's great for blending into smoothies. I use it daily for sustained energy.
Private Reserve Superfood is a flax-based superfood meal replacement powder that's loaded with phytonutrients and healthy oils. At first, I found the taste a bit strong on the flax, but I got used to it in a couple of weeks and now I frankly enjoy it. Definitely not cheap stuff, but worth every penny. Only for those who want the very best for their bodies.
Additional reading
Read an interview with Jon Barron about the new Glucotor formula. Also, I'm including Jon Barron's description of the clinical trial below. The following is written by Barron and used with permission.Glucotor v.2 -- Clinically Proven
by Jon Barron Although not everyone who used it [during the trial] benefited, we found the overall numbers to be extraordinarily high and wanted to verify exactly how high they were. And the results are now in, and we were not disappointed. Fenestra Research Labs has just completed Phase I human clinical trials (sponsored by Baseline Nutritionals) on Glucotor v.2. Researchers documented that significant changes to blood sugar balance, carbohydrate metabolism, and overall well-being were seen in all subjects in this six week study without any changes in diet.- Glucometer blood draws showed an average 54.48 point improvement.
- Blood Sugar balance measured an average 52% improvement for blood sugar utilization and optimization as indicated by urine analysis using the Optimal Wellness Test.
- Carb metabolism showed an average 39% improvement as indicated by the Optimal Wellness Test.
Study subject 1 decreased from 235 to 184 with a net reduction of 51
Study subject 2 decreased from 301 to 251 with a net reduction of 50
Study subject 3 decreased from 190 to 143 with a net reduction of 47
Study subject 4 decreased from 208 to 160 with a net reduction of 48
Study subject 5 decreased from 199 to 152 with a net reduction of 47
Study subject 6 decreased from 220 to 168 with a net reduction of 52
Study subject 7 decreased from 210 to 163 with a net reduction of 47
Study subject 8 decreased from 265 to 159 with a net reduction of 106
Study subject 9 decreased from 275 to 194 with a net reduction of 81
Study subject 10 decreased from 250 to 202 with a net reduction of 48
Study subject 11 decreased from 310 to 246 with a net reduction of 64
Study subject 12 decreased from 285 to 233 with a net reduction of 52
Study subject 13 decreased from 290 to 235 with a net reduction of 55
Study subject 14 decreased from 210 to 164 with a net reduction of 46
Study subject 15 decreased from 198 to 152 with a net reduction of 46
Study subject 16 decreased from 270 to 211 with a net reduction of 59
Study subject 17 decreased from 260 to 211 with a net reduction of 49
Study subject 18 decreased from 275 to 222 with a net reduction of 53
Study subject 19 decreased from 245 to 190 with a net reduction of 55
Study subject 20 decreased from 230 to 183 with a net reduction of 47
Study subject 21 decreased from 290 to 224 with a net reduction of 66
Study subject 22 decreased from 245 to 194 with a net reduction of 51
Study subject 23 decreased from 280 to 233 with a net reduction of 47
Study subject 24 decreased from 195 to 153 with a net reduction of 42
Study subject 25 decreased from 230 to 177 with a net reduction of 53
Study subject 26 decreased from 255 to 213 with a net reduction of 42
Study subject 27 decreased from 285 to 230 with a net reduction of 55
Study subject 28 decreased from 290 to 230 with a net reduction of 60
Study subject 29 decreased from 205 to 160 with a net reduction of 45
Study subject 30 decreased from 199 to 147 with a net reduction of 52
Study subject 31 decreased from 235 to 185 with a net reduction of 50
Study subject 32 decreased from 275 to 221 with a net reduction of 54
Study subject 33 decreased from 280 to 213 with a net reduction of 67
Study subject 34 decreased from 305 to 242 with a net reduction of 63
Study subject 35 decreased from 310 to 256 with a net reduction of 54
Study subject 36 decreased from 295 to 237 with a net reduction of 58
Study subject 37 decreased from 255 to 204 with a net reduction of 51
Study subject 38 decreased from 235 to 189 with a net reduction of 46
Study subject 39 decreased from 260 to 206 with a net reduction of 54
Study subject 40 decreased from 285 to 236 with a net reduction of 49
Study subject 41 decreased from 260 to 199 with a net reduction of 61
Study subject 42 decreased from 295 to 230 with a net reduction of 65
Study subject 43 decreased from 255 to 196 with a net reduction of 59
Study subject 44 decreased from 285 to 237 with a net reduction of 48
Study subject 45 decreased from 300 to 241 with a net reduction of 59
Study subject 46 decreased from 305 to 233 with a net reduction of 72
Study subject 47 decreased from 290 to 235 with a net reduction of 55
Study subject 48 decreased from 255 to 207 with a net reduction of 48
Study subject 49 decreased from 260 to 209 with a net reduction of 51
Study subject 50 decreased from 195 to 151 with a net reduction of 44
To give you a reference for the significance of these changes, let's take a look at non-fasting, random blood sugar levels -- measured without considering the last time you ate a meal, snack or beverage containing calories -- as defined on MayoClinic.com's blood sugar tests webpage:
- Less than 100mg/dL (5.55 mmol/L) Normal
- 101 -- 199 suggests prediabetes
- 200 + suggests either type 1 or type 2 diabetes
Blood Sugar, Carbs, and Natural Energy Production
In a perfect world, all food choices would be healthy, convenient, nature-based ways of fueling your body. That being said, the world isn't perfect, and even the best intentions and efforts to live a health conscious lifestyle are hindered because mass distribution food markets have traded nature-based foods for convenience and quick cash. And the world is suffering -- long time consumption of high sugar foods and foods that quickly turn into sugars is affecting just about everyone. Consider that in the United States, per capita sugar consumption now averages a mind-blowing 152 pounds per person per year. This is hardly surprising, though, when you consider that virtually every packaged food contains several kinds of sugar disguised in ingredient lists as sucrose, corn syrup, fructose, and even caramel color.As you may, or may not, know, all foods must be converted into glucose before they can be used as fuel. You have a safety mechanism to ensure that your glucose level remains relatively balanced. It works like this.
- If your levels fall too low, then your brain triggers you to feel hungry, so you eat food that is turned into glucose.
- If your levels rise too high, then your brain tells your pancreas to release insulin, which enters your bloodstream to clean up excess glucose.
- Either, you exhaust your pancreas and you develop type 2 diabetes (previously called adult onset diabetes, obesity related diabetes, or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus), which is characterized by body tissue resistance to insulin action, though decreased secretion of insulin can also occur. Type 2 is by far the most common form, especially in developed countries.
- Or you don't develop diabetes but, instead, develop hyperinsulinism (abnormally high levels of insulin in the blood). This can cause health problems including hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and chronic obesity, as well as high blood pressure, high levels of triglycerides, low HDL (good) cholesterol, heart disease, and possibly some cancers.
Study Subjects
Fifty subjects 18 and over with various beginning wellness levels, exercise levels, and health levels were first tested with clean bodies (they consumed no prescription drugs, no supplements, and no special diets for 1 week prior to this first intake). For each subject: Beginning Glucometer blood sugar readings were at least 45 points away from the average recommended range for normal healthy adults.Beginning blood sugar balance level was in the red zone meaning that it was at least 35% out of balance according to the Optimal Wellness Test.
The Optimal Wellness Analyzer is an analytical system that uses cutting edge science to evaluate health at the cellular level. Objective testing procedures are the basis for this analysis, so there is no subjective input from the tester. A computer-based software program provides printouts with cellular imbalances brought to light. The Optimal Wellness Test runs a combination of 45+ tests run on non-fasting urine and non-fasting saliva.
Beginning carbohydrate metabolism indicators were in the red zone meaning that they were at least 45% out of balance for standard wellness. (More on this later.)
Methods
This study was a randomized, actively controlled clinical trial involving six weeks of supplementation. The product used exclusively was Glucotor v.2 at the recommended dosage of 2 capsules, 10 minutes before each meal. Evaluation of blood sugar levels was performed at baseline, at the end of two weeks, at the end of four weeks, and at the end of six weeks.Week 2 -- A Change in Protocol
One of the purposes of the study was to identify any changes in usage protocol that would enhance the efficacy of the Glucotor. After one week, 42% of the test subjects demonstrated less than expected results; so researchers backed up and looked for a significant difference -- and they found one. It turned out that the subjects who were not responding to the Glucotor had a long history of insulin compromising their systems. The biochemistry of these subjects revealed potential deficits in organ functioning (i.e. a pancreas only operating at 10-15% or weak stomach acid) that reduced the subject's ability to effectively break down the capsules and utilize the Glucotor. This information provided a key to better understanding how to use Glucotor.Thinking Outside of the Capsule
As I have mentioned in previous newsletters, for Glucotor, the timing of the capsule breakdown is very important. The capsule has to break down before it enters your intestines, or the special fibers in the Glucotor will not block the receptor sites before the carbohydrates reach those sites in order to slow down their absorption. In other words, if the capsules don't break down in time, you will lose much of the benefit. It was agreed that the delivery method needed to be modified for those not responding. Two optional delivery methods were implemented in order to see if it was possible to offset slow capsule breakdown in those subjects not getting optimum results.One group removed the Glucotor from its capsules and drank it down mixed in a little water so that no capsule breakdown was required.
Another group took Hydrochloric acid (HCL) capsules along with their Glucotor capsules to aid in breaking down the capsule. (Hydrochloric acid, the component of gastric acid.) For those already responding well, the standard protocol of 2 capsules 5-10 minutes before eating was continued.
100% Respond
After implementing these changes in delivery methods, a 100% response rate was achieved. Researchers pointed out that, "after we got a handle on what was slowing many of the participants down, the changes came quickly," further stating that they saw significant changes to blood sugar balance in all subjects in this six-week study. Again: Overall blood sugar levels as measured by the Glucometer dropped an average 53.3 points.Optimal Wellness Test Blood Sugar improvement averaged 52%.
It was also noted that no subjects had side effects or allergic reactions.
Beyond Blood Sugar Balance
You have no doubt heard a lot about carbs in the news, but most people actually know very little about them. Of all the foods you eat, carbohydrates are the most easily converted into glucose -- your body's preferred source of energy, and your brain's essential source of energy. The controlling mechanisms for this energy exchange are insulin and a critical molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Your cells have insulin receptors strategically located so that insulin can easily bind to them, enabling glucose to enter and be used by your cells. Once inside your cells, glucose is burned to produce heat and ATP. ATP intelligently stores and releases energy as required by your cells.The carb metabolism numbers from the study that we looked at earlier represent a look at the ability of the ATP cycle to produce energy from the above carbohydrate mechanisms. Again, the Optimal Wellness Testing indicators for utilization and assimilation of carbohydrate metabolism indicated an overall positive Wellness improvement of 39%.
The bottom line is that this study showed that Glucotor optimizes carbohydrate metabolism so you burn fuel more efficiently and offset stored fat.
In fact: remember when I mentioned that the color zone indicators for carbohydrate metabolism at the start of the study were all in the red zone, meaning they were at least 33% out of Wellness range. At the end of the sixth week testing period all subjects had moved into the yellow and some even into the green zone of Wellness numbers. Researchers point out that these are very powerful indicators for measuring and evaluating the body's ability to burn more carbohydrates for energy instead of storing them, providing the person with more energy and less fat storage.
With this in mind, consider that at week 6 of this study there was a surprising, but not entirely unexpected result -- weight loss. 21 subjects reported at least 10 pounds of weight loss during this study. Researchers also had several reports of chocolate craving being significantly reduced and the effects of chocolate being reduced.
Life extension
Managing blood sugar levels goes a long way toward preventing the exhaustion your entire system experiences when on the roller coaster of high and low glycemic swings. The extreme stress of repeated sugar spikes exhausts and ages your body at a much faster than normal rate. Being able to balance glucose levels helps stop this damaging cycle. Interestingly enough, lowering plasma insulin levels also tends to lower body temperature and increase DHEA levels (both anti-aging markers), indicating that lowering the insulin response (which Glucotor is now proven to do) may be a prime factor in slowing down the aging process. Optimizing carbohydrate metabolism helps to offset aging in a way similar to a low calorie diet. Caloric Restriction is the only known dietary measure capable of extending maximum lifespan, as opposed to average lifespan. Put simply, when you can eliminate stress and damage related to food intake, you live longer.Taking Control
While Glucotor can benefit virtually everyone, achieving blood sugar control can be a life-altering phenomenon for the millions and millions of diabetics around the world -- and let's not forget the millions more who are hypoglycemic and/or borderline diabetic. According to the Center for Disease Control's 2005 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, studies in the United States and abroad have found that improved glycemic control benefits people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. In general, every percentage point drop in A1c blood levels reduces the risk of microvascular complications (eye, kidney, and nerve diseases) by 40%. According to the CDC's 2005 National Diabetes Fact Sheet:- Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20 to 74 years.
- Diabetic retinopathy causes 12,000 to 24,000 new cases of blindness each year.
- Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44% of new cases in 2002.
- About 60% to 70% of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of nervous system damage. The results of such damage include impaired sensation or pain in the feet or hands, slowed digestion of food in the stomach, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other nerve problems.
- Almost 30% of people with diabetes aged 40 years or older have impaired sensation in the feet (i.e., at least one area that lacks feeling).
- Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations, in fact more than 60% of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.
- Heart disease and stroke account for about 65% of deaths in people with diabetes.
- Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about 2 to 4 times higher than adults without diabetes.
- The risk for stroke is 2 to 4 times higher among people with diabetes.
The Formula at a Glance
For those of you that are not familiar with the Glucotor v.2, here are the ingredients: Nopal cactusKonjac mannan
Gymnema sylvestre
High galactomannan fenugreek extract (galactomannan content of 60-80%)
1% Corisolic Acid from Banaba Leaf
Bitter Melon (Momordica Charantia)
Cinnulin
For even more information on how the formula was developed and what role the individual ingredients play, see www.jonbarron.org/documents/brdiabetes.htm.
Conclusion
This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of Glucotor in enhancing sugar metabolism without making any changes in diet or lifestyle or incorporating any other elements of the Baseline of Health program. With that said, the results were nevertheless highly encouraging and potentially life changing. The 52% average drop in blood sugar numbers is comparable to that experienced when using the prescription drug, metformin -- approximately double that seen with other "all natural" alternatives. According to Fenestra Research Labs, this study on Glucotor v.2 has provided solid proof that using this all natural formula can help individuals gain control over any blood sugar problems they may be experiencing, or prevent them from happening in the first place.The bottom line is that when used as directed (either in the capsule, mixed in a small glass of water, or taken with an HCL tablet) the formula may very well:
- Drop dangerous blood sugar levels closer to the normal range.
- Help eliminate excessive glycemic swings in those who are hypoglycemic.
- Support your body's ability to burn more carbohydrates for energy instead of storing them -- providing you with more energy and less fat storage.
- Prevent wear and tear on your body and potentially maximize life span in those who are healthy.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/019405_diabetes_Jon_Barron.html#ixzz259nIPArJ
Where's the health in health care reform?
Where's the health in health care reform?
In the months and years ahead, you're going to hear a whole lot of talk about health care reform, but most of what you're going to hear is about reform, not health. You see, there's this great lie out there, this huge misconception, this big shell game, where all these politicians and power-hungry people think they can convince the public that health care reform is just about shifting paper around and deciding who pays.
But I say that you cannot talk about health care reform with any degree of honesty or credibility until you talk about health. None of the discussion I have seen from anybody out there – not the press, not the health care authorities, not the American Medical Association, not the politicians who are going to ride this issue all the way into public office – covers substantial ideas about actually making people healthier. So I ask: Where's the health in health care reform?You can't reform your way out of chronic disease by changing who pays for it. You can't take away a nation of degenerative brain disorder sufferers and a whole generation of children who have been born with malfunctioning nervous systems because of the malnutrition the mothers have been experiencing. You can't take that away by changing who's writing the check. You can't solve obesity and diabetes by insuring all the uninsured. This is not a paperwork problem, yet that's the solution we hear out there. It's all about paperwork.
It's all trending towards a national system – a government-sponsored health care system, just like they have in Canada. Now, personally, I'm not necessarily for or against the government-sponsored system. I've seen countries do it very well; I've seen countries do it poorly, too. It's not the system that's good or bad; it's the idea that you can wiggle your way out of the health care crisis just by shuffling paperwork around and changing who's writing the checks to cover the costs.
Health care reform: Money vs. people
Now, let's get serious about this: If you want to reform health care, what are you really talking about here? You're talking about two things: Cost and people. And that's the order that most people think of them in, by the way. It's the money first. Why? As a nation, we're going bankrupt. We're already bankrupt, actually, but we're just making it even worse with these sky-high health care costs. Our employers are going bankrupt trying to fund the health insurance of their employees. It makes U.S. workers unable to compete in the global marketplace. This is one of the reasons jobs are increasingly shifting overseas. It's because U.S. workers are just too expensive to insure due to our health care system (if you can call it that). I say you can't solve this problem by subsidizing insurance or by forcing employers to cover everybody. You can only solve the problem by making people healthier. You've got to address the health.Now, secondly, it comes down to the people because now we have a whole nation of unprecedented illness and chronic disease. Anywhere from 25 to 46 percent of our nation is suffering from mental illness, depending on whom you ask. We have 40 percent of our people on prescription drugs – drugs that take away mental clarity and quality of life. These drugs are killing people at a rate that's approaching the Holocaust.
At the same time, we've got a nation with a public school system that continues to feed our children junk food, soft drinks and candy bars. The school lunch programs are a nutritional disaster. We've got hospitals serving hamburgers and fries. We've got hospitals where we can buy a pizza. "Come out of heart surgery and get yourself some extra cheese!"
Health reform starts with food reform
You see, all this talk about covering the uninsured and saving people money and all these ridiculous distractions like the Medicare drug discount card are all a shell game. It's all a show; it's just theater designed to keep people occupied so that nobody has to talk about the real issues. The real issues start with the foods – that's right, the foods. These products are manufactured by big businesses that have a whole lot of influence in Washington, and they don't want anybody talking about them because their foods are causing these diseases. It's all that added sugar and white flour, and all those refined carbohydrates. You've got hydrogenated oils that function as brain poison and heart poison in the human body. You've got sodium nitrate that causes cancer. That's why people who consume processed meats have a risk of pancreatic cancer that is 67% percent higher than everybody else. You've got added salts, artificial colors, all kinds of preservatives and monosodium glutamate (MSG) hidden in foods. It all starts with the foods, so all this talk about who's going to pay for the disease is all just a distraction so no one has to talk about the foods and the beverages that are causing these diseases in the first place.The food and beverage companies, of course, would love to keep it that way. They would love for everybody to just keep arguing over who's paying these sky-high prescription drug prices while ignoring the simple fact that prevention programs and junk food advertising bans could make prescription drugs practically irrelevant. Of course, all these drug companies say they need the money to "find a cure for cancer." What a brilliant con!
You don't need to find a cure for cancer if you stop poisoning the public with the national food supply. You don't need a cure for cancer if nobody has cancer. The way you have a population that's cancer-free is to teach people about the healing power of sunlight – about getting some sunlight and some vitamin D. You teach people to avoid these dangerous ingredients and you ban them from the food supply: You outlaw hydrogenated oils. You outlaw refined sugar. You outlaw sodium nitrate. That's what you do if you want to reform health care.
It's the only approach that makes any sense. It's the only sane approach. That's exactly why no one's talking about it. No, we can't have anything that actually works in this country because the pharmaceutical industry would lose money. What would all those people who work for the hospitals do and what would the drug companies and all those drug reps and doctors do? Gee, what would people do for jobs if so many people weren't so sick?
Big Business makes big bucks off a nation of diseased people
Health care and all the discussion about health care reform is really a discussion about managing a nation of diseased people. It's not about ending disease. It's not about curing cancer. It's not about preventing heart disease. It's about managing these illnesses. The question essentially becomes: "How are we going to keep people on just enough prescription drugs so we make a lot of money from them, but not so many that it kills them?" That's basically the strategy of Big Pharma. "How are we going to extract a whole lot of profits out of the general public and call it science-based medicine?" There are all sorts of people – most of them in Washington D.C. – who are scheming about how to make this happen. And sitting to the right of them is, of course, the food industry – the Big Sugar people, the oil processors and the grain processors – the big food companies. They're all saying, "Hey, don't mention the foods. Don't talk about us. Make sure you frame this whole discussion of health care reform in terms of who pays for it and who gets coverage." That's because if they can keep you in that little box of thought, then you won't talk about the causes of these diseases, which are largely found in foods.Then over on the left side of these decision makers, you've got reps from the pharmaceutical industry, and they're saying, "Make sure our drugs are covered because we want to keep selling drugs and have the government pay for them. That way we'll shift money from the pockets of taxpayers to ourselves and our investors and we'll call it public health."
Wow, what a great scheme, and if the FDA is protecting the U.S. drug market, they can set any price they want because the FDA will say the drugs from overseas are dangerous. The drugs you buy in the United States are perfectly safe, but if you buy the exact same chemical compound from Canada, "No, no, those are dangerous. You're unpatriotic. How dare you buy them from overseas? You must buy them here in America where we set the prices." It's called a monopoly. It's called protectionism. It's called screwing the U.S. consumer and it's what's going on right now, every single day in America.
Everyone's out to make a buck
Unless we see a radical shift towards disease prevention rather than disease treatment in this country, what we're really going to end up with is a health care system that is ultimately designed to do two things. Number one: Extract as much money as possible from the taxpayers and shift it into the pockets of drug companies. Number two: Distract people from the real causes of disease so that everyone continues to believe that disease is just a matter of bad luck or bad genes, and that only drugs can treat or cure any disease. It seems that everybody out there is greedy and wants to make more money. And most don't really care who suffers in order to make that money. The politicians, they want to get in power. How do you get in power? You keep big, rich companies happy. That's how you get in power, and that's how you stay in power. And once you're in power, you thank them by passing new legislation that makes sure there is a windfall of public money headed in their direction.And how do you do that? You announce the Medicare drug discount card and make it illegal for the government to negotiate volume discounts with drug companies. You mandate mental health screening for the entire population. You make sure that health insurance has to cover Viagra even if it's being prescribed to sex offenders, which is exactly what's going on in this country. That's a good example of how insane our health insurance industry and health care coverage really is. We're using taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for people who have been convicted of sex crimes.
Health care reform goes far beyond crunching numbers
Now, I repeat my first statement here, which is that you can't have an honest debate about health care reform unless you address the issue of health. Yet in the months and years ahead, you're going to see a whole lot of people out there with all kinds of credentials, degrees and positions of authority, who are going to try to convince you, the consumer, that health care reform has nothing to do with heath. It only has to do with promoting a financial shell game by pushing nonsensical ideas like "the government here to rescue you." We're going to mandate coverage for all drugs and it's going to be paid for by the government. They don't talk about who funds the government: The taxpayers. It's your money. It's just a matter of how you wish to redistribute it. And frankly, if our nation continues to be so diseased (cancer, obesity and diabetes are all at record heights), then we're going to basically drive ourselves into extreme poverty because you cannot afford to keep funding chronic disease and the treatment of symptoms through prescription drugs and expensive medical procedures. You can't keep doing that over and over, with the same patients, generation after generation, if you want your nation to be financially solvent. You just can't keep doing that. You can't spend 25 percent of the GDP on health care and be the world economic leader. Do the math.You've got other nations spending a fraction of that on health care. They manage to cover everybody. Most nations will spend at least one or ten percent of their health care budget on prevention. But here in the U.S., we don't spend anything on prevention. Nothing. In this country, we think prevention should almost be outlawed. "How dare you teach people about nutrition? It's unproven," say these doctors, medical researchers, medical journals and corrupt health authorities. "How dare you teach people to heal themselves with foods?" They want to outlaw healing. They want to outlaw nutrition. They want to make sure people only choose drugs. Choose drugs: that's what makes money for the people in power.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
The bottom line is that if you have a nation of people who are healthy, your health care costs plummet. Do you know what my own personal health care expenses are? Zero. I spend nothing on over-the-counter or prescription drugs and nothing on doctors; nothing whatsoever. I do spend some of my money on prevention, of course. How do I do that? I visit natural health care practitioners and naturopaths to keep me healthy – not because something hurts or is falling off, not because I'm having a heart attack, or I'm going blind or I'm having seizures and my leg went numb because I'm diabetic and I'm still drinking soft drinks by the gallon. I'm going to my health practitioners because I want to stay healthy. It's all about prevention, people. Prevention is dirt cheap. So is good nutrition.A drugged nation can't think clearly about health
Now, here's the ironic thing about all of this: No matter what health care reforms they come up with and try to pitch to the public, no matter how ludicrous and insane they may seem, most people will buy into them because half the nation is drugged. I'm not making this up. Half the nation is literally drugged up. They've lost mental clarity. They can't think straight. They can't make good decisions anymore. They've got brain fog side effects from their prescription drugs (like anti-inflammatory drugs). So, when a politician comes along and says, "We're going to provide universal health care and cover everybody," people are going to say, "I'm voting for you!" But they don't realize what it means. What it means is financial bankruptcy because, again, if you don't address the health, there is no real solution. We are at a crossroads here in terms of the history of human civilization on this planet. What's going to happen to this particular nation, the United States of America?I think that if we had some courage, some honesty and some people who were willing to stand up and tell the truth, we could turn this around. We could ban junk food advertising to children. We could ban dangerous ingredients. We could arrest the criminals at the drug companies and decision makers at the FDA who have deliberately put us in this mess. We could reform the USDA and break the ties between food companies and regulators. There are people in government who have been colluding with the very industries they are supposed to be regulating.
With some major changes in place, in one generation we could have a nation of really healthy and happy children who have the ability to learn well, who are emotionally balanced and who are not predisposed to diseases like schizophrenia, type 2 diabetes, heart disease or obesity. We could have a nation that could get back to doing some good things, some creative things, and a nation that could take a leadership role in the world.
But we've got to make that decision now because, if we don't make that decision, if we go the other way – that is, the way of protecting special interest groups, protecting the corrupt profits of drug companies and keeping the FDA in power so it can continue to exploit public health in order to send more profits to the drug companies – if we make this decision, we keep protecting the politicians that act on the interests of private business instead of protecting the public. If we allow junk food companies to keep marketing to children, if we allow our schools to be infiltrated by all these foods that promote disease and learning disabilities and aggressive behavior in young children, then we are doomed as a nation. We really are. We're heading down the path of self destruction and we won't be the first nation to go down in history as one that imploded.
America could fall, simply from bad health
You might recall that the Roman Empire did sort of the same thing. It's amazing what a bit of heavy metal in the plumbing will do for a city. In the case of ancient Rome, the lead poisoning drove the citizens (and their leaders) mad. But today, instead of poisoning ourselves with lead, we are poisoning ourselves with food additives. We are doing it consciously. We know it's happening. It isn't a mystery, but we are allowing it to happen because the special interest groups are running the country; they are arm-twisting these politicians who don't have the courage to stand up and do what's right for the people. If we don't make some changes fast, we're going to get past the point of sanity. We may be past that point already. We're going to get to a point where maybe 60 or 70 percent of the people in this country are diseased and beyond the ability to think. How do you run a democracy when 60 or 70 percent of the people don't have the presence of mind to even vote rationally? How do you run a democracy like that? Well, you don't. It's gone. It's basically run by the special interest groups, just a few people in power who are acting like it's a democracy. I think that's actually where we are today.Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we can turn this around, but I don't see any indication of it. I don't see any honest discussion of health care reform, do you? Look around out there! We don't see people talking about health care reform and saying, "We need to address the health: We need to ban dangerous food ingredients. We need to teach people about sunlight and water. We need to educate mothers on how to have good nutrition for their children." Have you seen any of that going on out there? I haven't and I've been paying attention. I review hundreds of news articles every single week and I haven't seen a word about this. It's all about who pays for the drugs.
A nation invested in disease must change from the top down
We are a nation invested in disease. There are so many vested interests in chronic disease that it's almost impossible to change the system incrementally. You have to really reform this system from the top down. You have to overhaul it; you have to unleash a health care revolution. All the top Fortune 500 companies out there (and a lot of people's egos, careers and positions of power) are all invested in disease. Did you know the top ten drug companies in America make more money than the other 490 companies on the Fortune 500 list?On top of that, you've got the American Cancer Society, which is based on cancer. You've got the American Diabetes Association, which is based on diabetes. You've got drug companies that are counting on the next wave of Alzheimer's patients and counting on another generation of obese children growing up and consuming these foods so that they're obese just like their parents are today. They are counting on all of this. They've mapped this out and they're rolling out new, patented drugs to cash in!
So, what happens if you try to challenge this system? Oh boy, you're in for a ride! You're going to be discredited. You're going to be censored. You're going to be attacked because there's simply too much money at stake here. Politicians and power brokers are counting on this disease to pay some salaries, make some profit, pocket some cash and to keep them in office because when there's a health care crisis going on, somebody can always get elected by promising a solution, regardless of whether or not that solution makes any sense.
Any real solution to health care must involve addressing health; any solution that addresses health must challenge the status quo; any solution that challenges the status quo will be viciously attacked by the interests that already hold positions of power and profit in our nation. So, you see how this system is very difficult to change. In fact, if I was a betting man – and I'm not – I would bet that this system's going to implode. I don't think we're going to turn this around.
I think only a few individuals are going to emerge from this with any degree of sanity or health, and those will be the individuals who take charge of their own health, who work outside the system, who find a naturopath, who say no to prescription drugs and who start feeding themselves healing foods and outstanding nutrition. They'll be parents who take charge of the health of their children and don't feed them soft drinks and candy bars and who don't allow them to eat those nutritionally depleted school lunches. These are the people who are going to emerge from this system as being sane, healthy and emotionally balanced.
But the masses will probably never come around to the power of nutrition. If you have a nation of people who are mad (who don't have fully functioning nervous systems), I don't think you can last very long in the competitive global marketplace. You've got people in India who make top U.S. students seem retarded. You've got people in China who work for a fraction of what we work for. You've got schools with real quality standards all around the world; meanwhile, in America, we have daycare that we call public education. We're stuffing our children full of these toxic foods, just to make sure they don't "misbehave." You can't compete like that anymore.
No health discussion = No health care solution
Unless we make some changes and really start talking about the health in health care reform, nothing's going to change. It will just be the status quo applied to another generation of sorry, suckered Americans who are now chronically diseased just like their parents. To drive this point home, America used to be number one in a lot of things: We used to be number one in information technology and computer programming. We used to be number one in science and math. You know what we're number one in today? Mental illness. We are the best in the world at driving our population mad. That's right, mental illness – number one in the world; no one comes close to us. We're also number one in obesity. Here in the U.S., we poisoned an entire generation with fast food, sugars and hydrogenated oils. We made sure they never got good nutrition. We drove them mad with violent television programming, violent video games and insane public school systems. We did a good number on those kids, didn't we? What are we going to do when those kids grow up and they have diseases? What are we going to do then? There's an estimate out there that says that 100 percent of the population will be diabetic if the current trends continue – just in the next decade or so, 100 percent. Think about that and then think about the real conversation out there about health care reform. Remember, if you don't address health, any discussion is essentially pointless.It's like the captain of a sinking ship arguing about the color of the deck paint.
Now frankly, if the mentally unstable people who run this country were crazy enough to put me in charge of the national health system, oh my, we would have this thing licked in a couple of years. Every pharmaceutical company out there would hate me and the food companies would hate me because I'd make them use nutritious ingredients. I would outlaw those toxic substances that are now added to the food supply (like MSG, aspartame, yeast extract, etc.).
I would make school lunch programs actually serve nutritious food to children. I would ban junk food vending machines. I would have the taxpayers pay for nutritional supplements for all pregnant women because we would save billions of dollars in long-term health care costs by spending PENNIES on nutrition for each expectant mother. I would have some pretty radical ideas that would definitely disturb the status quo. Not surprisingly, we'd end up with a generation of people who are actually healthy.
Wow, imagine that for a change. Drug companies would go out of business. And that's why they can't let it happen. That's why they would never let a guy like me, or even someone with a lot of public health credentials who shared my beliefs, call the shots. It's just too good. It solves so many problems. It eliminates all these jobs in the health care and disease management industries. It would shrink the pharmaceutical industry. It would shrink the sick care system out there. Hospital beds would go empty.
People would live longer and start collecting more social security because now they'd be living longer. The government would have to pay more money because these people wouldn't be dying off as they are today. It would cost the government and the pharmaceutical companies money. Gee, the only people that would be better off would be... well... real people! The public would experience happier people, longer lives, greater cognitive function, greater clarity of mind and healthier, happier children. There would be far less disease, more stable mental states and enhanced learning abilities. These are the benefits that would occur.
So, call me a pessimist if you like, but I think I'm actually a realist and an optimist on a personal level. I'm an optimist in my own health and the health of everybody who wants to take responsibility for their own health. And there are many, many people like that. Just don't expect to hear anything sane or useful from our public health officials or politicians who claim to be solving this health crisis with their ridiculous proposals for health care reform. This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, for Truth Publishing.
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