EWNZ comment: I recall a friend’s hubby having a heart attack back in the late 80s, at 43. It was noticeably rare & met with great shock and unbelief at the time. Look around now however and you will hear and read of many very young folk having heart attacks. Especially since around 2020. I wonder why that was? If you sub to Prof Mark Crispin Miller at Substack you will scroll page upon page of heart attacks in the very young. This info below is IMO important for the heart compromised in terms of surviving. I too would have thought they would have greater resilience but it appears that that is not necessarily so ….
When a 45-year-old survives a heart attack, doctors and family members typically assume recovery will be swift. Youth equals resilience, right? A new study published in the European Heart Journal has shattered that dangerous assumption, revealing that nearly 1 in 10 heart attack patients under 55 are severely frail, and their mortality risk is dramatically higher than anyone expected.
What makes this discovery particularly alarming is that these young patients face a nearly fourfold higher risk of premature death compared to older heart attack survivors with the same frailty level. Yet conventional cardiology continues screening older patients while younger ones slip through the cracks, unidentified, untreated, and dying an average of six years earlier than expected.
Massive study exposes hidden vulnerability in young heart attack survivors
Researchers analyzed 931,133 heart attack cases across England and Wales, dividing patients into three age groups: under 55, ages 55-74, and 75 and older. Among patients under 55, researchers classified 3,710 – roughly 2.4% – as severely frail.
Young severely frail patients showed an adjusted hazard ratio of 6.69 for all-cause mortality within one year. Compare that to 4.33 for middle-aged patients and just 2.31 for older patients. Young frail patients faced 3.51 times higher mortality risk than older frail patients, a complete reversal of what doctors expect based on age alone.
Years of life lost painted an even grimmer picture. Young severely frail heart attack patients died an average of 6.1 years earlier than expected.
Young frailty looks nothing like what doctors learned in medical school
Western medicine defines frailty through geriatric symptoms: slow walking speed, weakness, falls, and cognitive decline. This outdated framework blinds doctors to what’s actually happening in younger populations – rapid accumulation of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, not physical deterioration.
Young, frail heart attack patients showed dramatically higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, and early-onset heart failure. They had higher body mass index, were more likely to smoke, and had a family history of coronary artery disease.
The study also exposed troubling care disparities. Severely frail patients across all age groups demonstrated lower adherence to quality care standards: delayed procedures, fewer cardiology admissions, lower medication prescription rates, and minimal cardiac rehabilitation referrals.
Natural solutions address the root causes of premature cardiovascular aging
Pharmaceutical cardiology treats symptoms while ignoring the metabolic dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and mitochondrial damage, creating premature frailty in young bodies.
Focus on metabolic optimization: Make wild-caught fatty fish a regular part of your diet for anti-inflammatory omega-3s that reduce cardiovascular inflammation. Incorporate organic pasture-raised eggs to provide choline for methylation pathways crucial to homocysteine metabolism. Include 100% grass-fed beef and lamb to supply L-carnitine and CoQ10 for mitochondrial energy production in stressed heart muscle. Eliminate processed seed oils, refined carbohydrates, and sugar that drive insulin resistance, the metabolic foundation of premature cardiovascular aging.
Consider strategic supplementation: Ensure adequate magnesium glycinate to support over 300 enzymatic reactions essential to cardiovascular function. Make CoQ10 a priority if you have heart disease or take statins, which deplete this vital nutrient. Add taurine to support electrical stability in the heart muscle and protect against oxidative stress. Include vitamin K2 (MK-7) to direct calcium away from arteries and into bones where it belongs.
Address lifestyle fundamentals: Recognize that chronic stress elevates cortisol and inflammatory markers, accelerating biological aging. Make restorative sleep a non-negotiable priority – poor sleep quality independently doubles the risk of a heart attack. Work with a qualified holistic practitioner to address hidden infections and gut dysbiosis driving systemic inflammation throughout your body.
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Bottom line: Young heart attack survivors face a hidden frailty crisis that Western medicine fails to recognize. Nearly 1 in 10 patients under 55 show severe vulnerability, and their mortality risk vastly exceeds older patients with identical frailty levels. Optimal cardiovascular health requires addressing root causes – metabolic dysfunction, mitochondrial damage, chronic inflammation, and nutrient deficiencies – through targeted nutrition, strategic supplementation, and lifestyle interventions, rather than age-based assumptions and pharmaceutical protocols that ignore biological reality.
For several decades, saturated fat was wrongly blamed for heart disease, while vegetable oils quietly caused a surge in obesity, inflammation, and chronic metabolic disorders
Newly appointed FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary is now leading efforts to revise outdated dietary guidelines that were built on cherry-picked data from Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study
A 2016 BMJ-published reanalysis found replacing saturated fat with linoleic acid-rich vegetable oils increased cardiovascular deaths, despite lowering cholesterol
Investigative journalist Dr. Maryanne Demasi faced vicious backlash after exposing the flawed science behind saturated fat demonization in her documentary “Heart of the Matter”
Industrial seed oils like canola and soybean are now linked to mitochondrial damage, inflammation, and chronic illness — while saturated fat is finally being recognized as metabolically supportive
For decades, the dominant narrative insisted that saturated fat was deadly — even though the actual data never proved it. As a result, the health advice shifted toward seed oils and processed margarine, which quietly ushered in new health problems, from metabolic disease to obesity and inflammatory disorders — all while the original hypothesis remained unchallenged by mainstream medicine.
Now, for the first time, high-ranking officials are openly criticizing these outdated guidelines. So, if you still believe that butter, beef, and full-fat cheese clog your arteries and are damaging your health, it’s time to relearn everything you know about these fat sources.
New FDA Commissioner Aims to End the 70-Year War on Saturated Fat
On July 14, 2025, Dr. Marty Makary, the newly appointed U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, along with Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of the Department of Health and Human Services and Sec. Brooke Rollins of the Department of Agriculture, held a press conference addressing their plans to significantly overhaul the U.S. dietary guidelines.1
•One of the primary areas that they will work on is revising the guidelines on saturated fat — During the press conference, Makary highlighted how the changes to the food guidelines will be made based on scientific findings. He mentions that the demonization of saturated fat began with a flawed study — the Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keys.
•Why the Seven Countries Study was significantly flawed — The study, which started in 1958 and continued until 1983, explored the heart health of different populations in several prominent Western countries. According to Keys’ hypothesis, there is a significant link between saturated fat and heart disease. When he published his data, it showed perfect correlations between cardiovascular disease and the dietary consumption of fat.2
However, there was just one problem with the research — Keys cherry-picked the data. He selectively chose the countries that fit his hypothesis while ignoring data from 16 other countries that went against his recommendations.3 Had he chosen a different set of countries, the data would have been the opposite — that increasing the percent of calories from fat actually reduces the number of deaths from coronary heart disease.
•Despite the methodological flaws in his data, the medical community accepted Keys’ study — This led to the promulgation of “low-fat, low-cholesterol” foods as healthy. Butter, coconut oil, red meat, dairy, and eggs were all shunned, while polyunsaturated fats (PUFs) like margarine, vegetable oils, and shortening were popularized.
•The medical establishment “locked arms and walked off a cliff together” — This was how Makary described the shift from saturated fat to polyunsaturated fat — basically, the health community back then took a look and decided that Keys’s study was gospel truth — despite many experts contesting his hypothesis and many studies4,5 showing the opposite.
“The medical establishment started with a robust debate in the New England Journal of Medicine among academics of the National Academy. But that debate ended in the 1970s because there was groupthink,” Makary said.
“Well, that dogma still lives large and you see remnants of it in the food guidelines that we are now revising. So, we’re going to ensure that the new guidelines are based on science and not medical dogma.”6
To see the tide finally turning and the government health agencies taking the lead on these monumental changes is something I applaud. Over the past couple of decades, I’ve published countless articles about the flaws in Keys’ study — and why saturated fats are not to be feared, as they are actually integral to your health.
Documentary Exposed the Flaws and Received Fierce Backlash
Just like me, Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., has been speaking out about the erroneous demonization of saturated fat for a long time. Several years ago, I wrote about a two-part documentary she produced called “Heart of the Matter,” which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s show (ABC) Catalyst in 2014. I was extremely impressed by the film, as it did an excellent job of exposing the cholesterol/saturated fat myths and its financially links to cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.
In her recent Substack post, Demasi detailed the severe backlash she received after she released the documentary, and her thoughts on these recent developments from the U.S. government agencies. “It was a stunning moment — not because the criticism was new, but because it was coming from someone in an official position to do something,” she said.7
•“Heart of the Matter” focused on two primary points — The first part examined the demonization of saturated fat, while the second part dwelled on the widespread use of statins.
“The medical dogma was firmly entrenched: saturated fat raised cholesterol, and cholesterol caused heart disease. But the science behind it was shaky — built on cherry-picked data and upheld more by consensus than by critical evaluation,” she said.
•The findings were supported by some of the top experts in the field of cardiovascular health — Among the interviewees featured were Dr. Michael Eades, an early advocate for low-carb, high-fat diets, cardiologists Dr. Stephen Sinatra and Dr. Ernest Curtis, nutritionist Dr. Jonny Bowden, and science journalist Gary Taubes. All of these experts voiced their concerns regarding the warnings against saturated fat. Demasi said:
“Eades, for instance, highlighted the absurdity of the prevailing narrative: ‘You very seldom see the words ‘saturated fat’ in the public press when they’re not associated with artery clogging. So it’s like it’s all one term — ‘artery clogging saturated fats.’’
And Taubes, author of Good Calories Bad Calories, known for his meticulous dismantling of diet dogma, cut to the core: ‘There’s no compelling evidence that saturated fat is involved in heart disease.’”
To present both sides equally, the documentary also featured experts who vigorously defended the warnings against saturated fat. Robert Grenfell, the director of the National Heart Foundation, and Professor David Sullivan, a cardiologist, shared their thoughts in the film.
•Still, the backlash was overwhelming — Demasi describes it as “immediate, vicious, and unrelenting.” The media not only turned against her, but they also went against the experts who challenged the saturated fat dogma. And even though no factual inaccuracies were found, ABC still pulled both episodes from its website.
Numerous Experts Have Sounded the Alarm on Keys’ Flawed Research
The fact that Ancel Keys’ hypothesis was purely observational and could not establish causation has long been raised by many health experts — even during the first years when the Seven Countries study came out. According to Demasi, John Yudkin, a British physiologist and nutritionist warned that sugar, not fat, was the real cause of heart disease. However, he was mocked and marginalized by Keys, who considered Yudkin his fiercest opponent.8
Yudkin was the first, but he wasn’t the only one — numerous researchers like Uffe Ravnskov and Malcolm Kendrick, also publicly challenged Keys’ hypothesis, co-authoring publications that exposed the flaws of this study. Many others soon followed, which Demasi outlined in her blog post.
•“Saturated fat is not the major issue” — In 2013, cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra published a commentary on the BMJ, saying that the flawed advice from Keys caused people to aggressively lower cholesterol — which may have led to higher rates of heart disease.
“The mantra that saturated fat must be removed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease has dominated dietary advice and guidelines for almost four decades. Yet scientific evidence shows that this advice has, paradoxically, increased our cardiovascular risks,” Malhotra wrote.9
•”The Big Fat Surprise” — Nina Teicholz wrote her best-selling exposè in 2014,10 which helped bring the issue to public attention. Her deeply researched book challenged the conventional wisdom on dietary fats, especially saturated fat. “Teicholz documented how weak science, political pressure, and food industry lobbying created a false consensus that demonised fat and distorted public health policy,” Demasi remarked.11
•“Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis” — In 2016, a group of researchers published a landmark re-analysis of the Minnesota Coronary Experiment in the BMJ, to evaluate the accuracy of Keys hypothesis. They found that when saturated fat was replaced with linoleic acid (LA) from vegetable oils, cholesterol levels were lowered — but paradoxically led to an increase in deaths, particularly from cardiovascular disease.
“Findings from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment add to growing evidence that incomplete publication has contributed to overestimation of the benefits of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid,” the researchers concluded.12
The Cholesterol Hypothesis Is a ‘Professional Litmus Test’
The plans to overhaul the U.S. dietary guidelines give hope to many researchers like Demasi, who have long raised their concerns about this flawed science — but were ostracized as a result.
“For the first time, real change may be coming — not from the margins, but from the very top of the U.S. health establishment…
It’s taken decades. The cholesterol hypothesis wasn’t just a scientific claim — it became a professional litmus test. To challenge it was to risk your funding, your career, your credibility. Many of us paid that price. Even now, entrenched interests remain,” she wrote.
•But why was the myth allowed to persist in the first place? Apparently, it’s all because of the food and drug industry. In a video podcast, Dr. Paul Saladino and Teicholz discussed how the low-fat, low-cholesterol myth rapidly led to dramatic changes in the food and drug industries — changes that have proven to be highly lucrative, financially speaking.13
•Acknowledging that saturated fat is healthy means to relinquish big industry profits — The Big Food industry is raking in millions of dollars from the low-fat and low-cholesterol (yet highly processed) foods, including industrial vegetable oils. To admit that these “healthier options” are actually decimating public health would lead to great financial losses. The healthy alternative is real food — however, there’s no big industry profits to be made from that.
•Moreover, statin sales and other Big Pharma profit areas would suffer — The whole point of prescribing statins was to lower cholesterol, but if the notion that cholesterol is bad would be overturned, then what would be the point of taking these drugs?
Personally, I believe that statins are among the most overprescribed — and unnecessary — medications on the market today. Not only do the harms far outweigh the benefits, but they’re also ineffective. In fact, in “Heart of the Matter,” the experts repeatedly say that statins only lengthen a life by a few days and, despite their hype and popularity, are shockingly ineffective for all but a few people. Learn more about these drugs in my article, “Statins Do More Harm Than Good.”
Vegetable Oils Undermine Your Health
Perhaps the worst effect of the demonization of saturated fats — including butter, tallow, lard, and coconut oil — is that it paved the way for vegetable oils like soybean, canola, and corn oil, which are loaded with linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat (PUF), to become a standard part of the modern diet.
Today, Americans consume LA at levels that would have been unimaginable a century ago. In the 1860s, we only consumed 2 grams of LA per day; that number has now increased to close to 30 grams per day for most people. It now makes up 15% to 25% of a typical American’s caloric intake. And the cost of this overload? Your cells become more vulnerable to oxidative stress.
•Excessive LA causes your mitochondria to break down — The mitochondria, which are the powerhouse of your cells, responsible for creating energy, are significantly damaged because of this fat. LA transforms into oxidized linoleic acid metabolites (OXLAMs), dangerous byproducts that damage DNA, disrupt energy production, and drive chronic inflammation throughout your body.
OXLAMs have been linked to not just heart disease, but nearly every chronic disease now plaguing the developed world, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and even neurodegeneration.
•LA stays in your body for years — You don’t simply eliminate it; instead, it LA embeds in your body fat, where it continues to inflict damage even after you clean up your diet. I recommend reading my paper published in Nutrients to understand how this happens — and how you can reverse it. My paper also expounds on the long-term biological effects of this metabolic disruptor.
•Unfortunately, LA is rampant in the food supply — Even if you stop using seed oils, or don’t eat fried foods and fast food, you could still end up eating large amounts of LA mainly because it’s cleverly hidden in so many packaged products where you’d least expect it.
Lowering your intake of industrial seed oils starts with knowing where they hide. I recommend downloading my Health Coach app, which will be out soon. It has a unique feature called Seed Oil Sleuth™, which will help identify every hidden source of seed oils in your meals. It also calculates your daily LA intake to the nearest tenth of a gram.
Saturated Fat Is Not the Enemy — Misinformation Is
So how do you undo the damage of 70 years of misguided health policy? The good news is there are ways to help revert the damage, and it starts by focusing on the root cause — removing industrial seed oils loaded with linoleic acid (LA). Carefully read labels, even in so-called “healthy” snacks; remember, these harmful fats are lurking everywhere.
Once you’ve cleaned up all the unhealthy fats in your diet, start rebuilding your health with saturated fats from clean animal sources, which are stable and nourishing. Choose healthy options like grass fed butter, ghee, beef tallow, and coconut oil, which support your mitochondria, don’t oxidize easily, and provide steady energy. For more healthy lifestyle strategies to eliminate LA from your diet, I recommend reading “Linoleic Acid, Mitochondria, Gut Microbiome, and Metabolic Health — A Mechanistic Review.”
These new developments in the U.S. food supply are certainly a breath of fresh air, and if Makary and others who are part of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) campaign follow through, we may finally get dietary guidelines that reflect biological truth, not industry agendas. As Demasi concludes:
“[W]e may finally be seeing the collapse of one of the most destructive public health myths in modern history … For those of us who’ve waited decades, it’s not vindication we want (although that would be nice) — it’s change.”14
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the War on Saturated Fat
Q: Why is the war on saturated fat finally ending?
A: For decades, saturated fat was wrongly blamed for heart disease due to flawed research like Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study. Now, top U.S. health officials, including FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, are acknowledging these mistakes and working to revise the dietary guidelines based on current science, not outdated dogma.
Q: What was wrong with the original research that demonized saturated fat?
A: Keys’ study selectively included countries that supported his hypothesis and ignored those that didn’t. This cherry-picking created a false link between fat and heart disease, leading to widespread promotion of low-fat, high-seed oil diets that have been harmful to public health.
Q: How have vegetable oils impacted health since replacing saturated fats?
A: Vegetable oils like soybean, corn, and canola are loaded with linoleic acid (LA), which damages mitochondria, promotes inflammation, and contributes to chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and neurodegeneration. These oils now make up 15% to 25% of caloric intake in the average American diet.
Q: What role did media and government play in spreading misinformation?
A: Mainstream media and government agencies endorsed and enforced the cholesterol hypothesis without fully examining the evidence. Whistleblowers like Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., were attacked for speaking out, and even accurate documentaries were censored to protect the status quo.
Q: What changes are being proposed for the U.S. dietary guidelines?
A: Upcoming revisions may eliminate the cap on saturated fat and elevate full-fat foods like butter and dairy. Officials aim to base the guidelines on actual science, not outdated industry-driven dogma.
(NaturalHealth365) Carrots have a well-deserved reputation as a healthy food that can benefit eyesight. These sweet, crunchy root vegetables are extraordinarily high in beta-carotene, the plant pigment responsible for their brilliant orange color. The body converts beta-carotene to vitamin A, which is essential for vision. And lutein – another plant pigment in carrots – actually reduces the risk of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older Americans.
While carrots’ most obvious health benefits center on protecting and enhancing vision, they do confer additional gifts – some of which may surprise you!
The government of the United Kingdom has been collecting critical safety data on the Pfizer/ BioNTech and Oxford/ AstraZeneca “vaccines,” and the latest report doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
Image source: REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
The first dose of the experimental Pfizer/ BioNTech “vaccine” has been introduced into the arms of 5.4 million citizens, with 500,000 of these people receiving a second dose.
Up until January 24, there have been nearly 50,000 reports of vaccine injury for this specific vaccine, including the sudden death of seven UK citizens:
A Minimum Of 1 In 333 People Suffer From Serious Vaccine Adverse Events In The UK
Another 1.5 million doses of the Oxford University/ AstraZeneca “vaccine” have been received in the arms of UK citizens, yielding another 21,032 adverse events. These adverse events were recorded up until January 24, 2021, in the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency‘s Yellow Card Scheme, and does not include all relevant, up-to-date injuries.
The current rate of vaccine injury (being reported) is 1 in 333 people. This rate of vaccine injury is likely much greater because people are often hesitant and/or ashamed to report vaccine injury; many people see vaccination as 100 percent safe and effective solution and don’t dare to question it. Many doctors refuse to accept that vaccine injury is real.
The adverse events are not minor issues that resolve in a day, either. These adverse events can be life-altering, causing stroke, inflammation of the heart, muscle paralysis, blindness, and anaphylaxis shock.
The Pfizer/ BioNTech has caused sixty-nine incidents of Bell’s Palsy, a condition that paralyzes muscles on one side of the face.
Government Continues To Downplay Rampant Vaccine Injury And Death, Perpetrating Genocide
The experimental vaccines have a tendency to incite autoimmune attacks in the cardiovascular system, too. Twenty-one people experienced cerebrovascular accidents (strokes) after taking the vaccine.
There were other serious cardiovascular events, including brain stem infarction, cerebellar infarction, cerebellar stroke, cerebral artery occlusion, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
According to regulators, pregnant woman are not supposed to be vaccinated with these experimental jabs. According to the manufacturers, there is limited amount of data on the use of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 on pregnant women.
Animal reproductive toxicity studies have not been completed and therefore the vaccine is not recommended during pregnancy.
However, the Yellow Card reporting system reveals that some pregnant women bypassed this screening process and four pregnant women suffered from spontaneous abortion after the Pfizer vaccination and two suffered the same fate after the AstraZeneca vaccination.
Instead of halting this mass vaccine experiment, regulators continue to downplay these injuries and blame them on a patient’s “older age” or “underlying conditions.” The UK government, defending the vaccine companies:
“A high proportion of people vaccinated in the vaccination campaign so far are very elderly, many of whom will also have pre-existing medical conditions. Older age and chronic underlying illnesses make it more likely that coincidental adverse events will occur, especially given the millions of people vaccinated. It is therefore important that we carefully review these reports to distinguish possible side effects from illness that would have occurred irrespective of vaccination.”
Ironically, months ago, when older people with underlying conditions passed away in hospitals, their cause of death was automatically coded as “COVID-19.” This sociopathic medical fraud has never been more appalling, ghastly, and genocidal.
Soon 5G will significantly increase our wireless RF radiation (radio frequency microwave) exposure 24/7/365. Senior telecom executives admit they have not done any safety testing on 5G, (nor do they plan to do any), but related research does show is cause for alarm. Thousands of independent studies indicate adverse health impacts from wireless radiation, ranging from cancer and sterility to DNA damage
5G is the next generation of cell phone infrastructure, yet it is categorically different than its predecessors (4G/LTE, 3G, 2G, etc.). It is not a simple upgrade. It is a major increase – and change – in the type of wireless radiation to which we will all be exposed, without consent, whether we use this service or not.
In a February 2019 U.S. Senate hearing, senior telecom executives admitted they have not done any safety testing on 5G, nor do they plan to do any. Currently, there are over two dozen cities in the U.S. and countless cities abroad that have 5G, yet there is no scientific evidence to support any claim of safety for it.
What related research does show is cause for alarm. Thousands of independent studies indicate adverse health impacts from wireless radiation. These range from cancer and sterility to DNA damage. The government’s human exposure guidelines haven’t been updated in more than 20 years, while radiation from cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi and wireless baby monitors has increased exponentially in that time.
Planet Earth Blanketed in Radiation
The 5G agenda is vast. It includes 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, that will be part of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, with one trillion transmitting objects a few years later. 5G is meant to usher in more robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, including 5G antennas installed inside cars – behind our heads and irradiating our brains – so we can talk to people in other vehicles and instruct our driverless cars on where to take us.
5G base stations and 5G devices will have multiple antennas in phased arrays that work together to emit focused, steerable, laser-like beams that track each other. Each 5G phone will function like a mini cell tower, containing dozens of tiny antennas working together to track and aim a narrowly focused beam to search and connect with the nearest cell antenna. The FCC has adopted rules that permit those beams to be as much as 20 watts, ten times more powerful than levels allowed on current phones.
More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies conducted by independent researchers from around the world demonstrate the harmful biological effects of wireless radiation. Because of their developmental stages, children are much more susceptible. You can also view the GreenMedInfo.com database of over 150 documented adverse effects of non-native EMF as signaled in the following 1,000 studies: Electromagnetic Fields. Some of the more well-established adverse effects of wireless radiation include:
Detrimental effects on fetal and newborn development
Detrimental effects on young children
Brain tumors and other cancers
DNA damage and altered gene expression
Neurological effects and cognitive impairment
Impaired sperm function and quality
Learning and memory deficits
Cardiovascular disease
Altered metabolism
And more
The mechanisms of biological harm from wireless radiation were not well understood until Martin Pall, PhD, demonstrated how voltage-gated calcium channels are disrupted, resulting in excessive intracellular calcium ions affecting our cells. Numerous independent studies on millimeter-wave radiation already show a range of biological effects, indicating that an increase in frequencies may worsen harmful effects.
Government Corruption
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, section 704, gives the telecom industry free reign and prohibits opposition to wireless infrastructure based on environmental effects, which includes health effects. Thankfully, this prohibition is being challenged in court right now.
The telecom industry is supposed to be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); however, the Harvard Center for Ethics describes the FCC as a “captured agency” that is dominated by the industry it is purported to regulate. The multi-trillion dollar telecom industry wields massive lobbying power and formidable public influence through pervasive, propagandistic advertising and media presence promoting 5G.
In the Information Age, data drives the economy. 5G is being touted as the next industrial revolution, when, in fact, it amounts to surveillance capitalism, in which intimate details of our lives are tracked, recorded and sold to the highest bidder, irradiating us all the while.
You may have heard of 5G, it stands for fifth-generation cellular wireless. In a February 2019 US Senate hearing, the wireless industry was forced to admit they have no safety studies on 5G, and don’t plan to do any. Meanwhile, there are thousands of independent studies concluding that wireless radiation causes biological harm. Despite this, the wireless industry is in league with government to deploy 5G — it’s a global, for-profit, human experiment… without our consent. Don’t miss The 5G Summit 2020: Worldwide Call to Actionfrom June 1-7th, 2020, free and online!
The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree
Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression
A study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.[i]
Mice with a genetic susceptibility towards spontaneous coronary artery blockages were given pomegranate extract via their drinking water for two weeks, beginning at three weeks of age. Despite the fact that pomegranate treatment actually increased cholesterol levels associated with very low density lipoprotein-sized particles, the treatment both reduced the size of the atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic sinus (the dilated opening above the aortic valve) and reduced the proportion of coronary arteries with occlusive atherosclerotic plaques.
Remarkably, the researchers also found that pomegranate extract treatment resulted in the following 7 beneficial effects:
Reduced levels of oxidative stress
Reduced monocytie chemotactic protein-1, a chemical messenger (chemokine) associated with inflammatory processes within the arteries.
Reduced lipid accumulation in the heart muscle
Reduced macrophage infiltration in the heart muscle
Reduced levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and fibrosis in the myocardium
Reduced cardiac enlargement
Reduced ECG abnormalities
How can something as benign and commonplace as a fruit extract reverse so many aspects of coronary artery disease, simultaneously, as evidenced by the study above? The answer may lie in the fact that our ancestors co-evolved with certain foods (fruits in particular) for so long that a lack of adequate quantities of these foods may directly result in deteriorating organ function. Indeed, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling argued that vitamin C deficiency is a fundamental cause of cardiovascular disease, owing to the fact that our hominid primate ancestors once had year-round access to fruits, and as a result lost the ability to synthesize it.
There’s another obvious clue as to how pomegranate may work its artery opening magic. Anyone who has ever tasted pomegranate, or consumed the juice, knows it has a remarkable astringency, giving your mouth and gums that dry, puckering mouth feel. This cleansing sensation is technically caused, as with all astringents, by shrinking and disinfecting your mucous membranes.
Anyone who drinks pomegranate juice, or is lucky enough to eat one fresh, can understand why it is so effective at cleansing the circulatory system. Nature certainly planted enough poetic visual clues there for us: its juice looks like blood, and it does resemble a multi-chambered heart, at least when you consider its appearance in comparison to most other fruits.
Indeed, your mouth and your arteries are lined with the same cell type: epithelial cells. Together, they make up the epithelium, one of four basic tissue types within animals, along with connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue, and which comprises the interior walls of the entire circulatory system. So, when you feel that amazing cleansing effect in your mouth, this is in fact akin to what your circulatory system — and the epithelium/endothelium lining the inside of your veins and arteries — “feels” as well.
The study consisted of nineteen patients, 5 women and 14 men, aged 65-75, non-smokers. They were randomized to receive either pomegranate juice or placebo. Ten patients were in the pomegranate juice treatment group and 9 patients that did not consume pomegranate juice were in the control group. Both groups were matched with similar blood lipid and glucose concentrations, blood pressure, and with similar medication regimens which consisted of blood-pressure lowering (e.g. ACE inhibitors, β-blockers, or calcium channel blockers) and lipid lowering drugs (e.g. statins).
The ten patients in the treatment group group received 8.11 ounces (240 ml) of pomegranate juice per day, for a period of 1 year, and five out of them agreed to continue for up to 3 years.
The remarkable results were reported as follows:
The mean intima media thickness the left and right common carotid arteries in severe carotid artery stenosis patients that consumed pomegranate juice for up to 1 year was reduced after 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of pomegranate juice consumption by 13%, 22%, 26% and 35%, respectively, in comparison to baseline values.”
You can only imagine what would happen if a pharmaceutical drug was shown to reverse plaque build up in the carotid arteries by 13% in just 3 months! This drug would be lauded the life-saving miracle drug, and not only would be promoted and sold successfully as a multi-billion dollar blockbuster, but discussion would inevitably follow as to why it should be mandated.
While these results are impressive, if not altogether groundbreaking for the field of cardiology, they may be even better than revealed in the stated therapeutic outcomes above. When one factors in that the carotid artery stenosis increased 9% within 1 year in the control group, the pomegranate intervention group may have seen even better results than indicated by the measured regression in intima media thickness alone. That is, if we assume that the pomegranate group had received no treatment, the thickening of their carotid arteries would have continued to progress like the control group at a rate of 9% a year, i.e. 18% within 2 years, 27% within 3 years. This could be interpreted to mean that after 3 years of pomegranate treatment, for instance, the thickening of the arteries would have been reduced over 60% beyond what would have occurred had the natural progression of the disease been allowed to continue unabated.
3 Ways How Pomegranate Heals The Cardiovascular System
The researchers identified three likely mechanisms of action behind pomegranate’s observed anti-atherosclerotic activity:
Antioxidant properties: Subjects receiving pomegranate saw significant reductions in oxidative stress, including decreases in autoantibodies formed against ox-LDL, a form of oxidized low density lipoprotein associated with the pathological process of atherosclerosis. Decreases in oxidative stress were measurable by an increase in the blood serum enzyme paraoxonase 1 (PON1) of up to 91% after 3 years; PON1 is an enzyme whose heightened activity is associated with lower oxidative stress. All of this is highly relevant to the question of pomegranate’s anti-atherosclerotic activity because of something called the lipid peroxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis, which assumes that it is the quality of the blood lipids (i.e. whether they are oxidized/damaged or not), and not their quantity alone that determine their cardiotoxicity/atherogenicity. Essentially, pomegranate prevents the heart disease promoting effects of oxidative stress.
Blood Pressure Lowering Properties: The intervention resulted in significant improvement in blood pressure: the patient’s systolic blood pressure was reduced 7%, 11% ,10%, 10% and 12% after 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of pomegranate consumption, respectively, compared to values obtained before treatment. Pomegranate’s ability to reduce systolic blood pressure indicates it has a healing effect on the endothelium, or the inner lining of the artery which fails to relax fully in heart disease; a condition known as endothelial dysfunction.
Plaque Lesion Stabilization: Because two of the ten patients on PJ (after 3 and 12 months) experienced clinical deterioration, carotid surgery was performed and the lesions were analyzed to determine the difference in their composition to those who did not receive pomegranate. The researchers noticed four distinct positive differences in the composition of the pomegranate-treated lesions: 1. Reduced Cholesterol Content: “The cholesterol content in carotid lesions from the two patients that consumed PJ was lower by 58% and 20%, respectively, in comparison to lesions obtained from CAS patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3A).” 2. Reduced Lipid Peroxides: “[T]he lipid peroxides content in lesions obtained from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months was significantly reduced by 61% or 44%, respectively, as compared to lesions from patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3B). 3. Increased Reduced Glutathione Content: “A substantial increase in the lesion reduced glutathione (GSH) content, (GSH is a major cellular antioxidant) by 2.5-fold, was observed after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months, (Fig. 3C). 4. Reduced LDL Oxidation: “LDL oxidation by lesions derived from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months, was significantly (Po0.01) decreased by 43% or 32%, respectively, in comparison to LDL oxidation rates obtained by lesions from CAS patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3D).”
Essentially these results reveal that not only does pomegranate reduce the lesion size in the carotid arteries, but “the lesion itself may be considered less atherogenic after PJ consumption, as its cholesterol and oxidized lipid content decreased, and since its ability to oxidize LDL was significantly reduced.”
This finding is quite revolutionary, as presently, the dangers of carotid artery stenosis are understood primarily through the lesion size and not by assessing for the quality of that lesion. This dovetails with the concept that the sheer quantity of lipoproteins (i.e. “cholesterol”) in the blood can not accurately reveal whether those lipoproteins are actually harmful (atherogenic); rather, if lipoproteins are oxidized (e.g. ox-LDL) they can be harmful (or representative of a more systemic bodily imbalance), whereas non-oxidized low density lipoprotein may be considered entirely benign, if not indispensable for cardiovascular and body wide health. Indeed, in this study the researchers found the pomegranate group had increased levels of triglycerides and very low density lipoprotein, again, underscoring that the anti-atherosclerotic properties likely have more to do with the improved quality of the physiological milieu within which all our lipoproteins operate than the number of them, in and of itself.
Finally, it should be pointed out that all the patients in this study were undergoing conventional, drug-based care for cardiovascular disease, e.g. cholesterol- and blood pressure-lowering agents. Not only did the pomegranate treatment not appear to interfere with their drugs, making it a suitable complementary/adjunct therapy for those on pharmaceuticals, but it should be pointed out that the control group’s condition got progressively worse (e.g. the mean IMT increased 9% within 1 year), speaking to just how ineffective drugs are, or how they may even contribute to the acceleration of the disease process itself.
Further Validation of Pomegranate’s Artery-Clearing Properties
Pomegranate’s value in cardiovascular health may be quiet broad, as evidenced by the following experimentally confirmed properties:
Anti-inflammatory: Like many chronic degenerative diseases, inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis. There are five studies on GreenMedInfo.com indicating pomegranate’s anti-inflammatory properties.[iii]
Blood-Pressure Lowering: Pomegranate juice has natural angiotensin converting enzyme inhibiting properties, [iv] and is a nitric oxide enhancer, two well-known pathways for reducing blood pressure. [v] Finally, pomegranate extract rich in punicalagin has been found reduce the adverse effects of perturbed stress on arterial segments exposed to disturbed flow.[vi]
Anti-Infective: Plaque buildup in the arteries often involves secondary viral and bacterial infection, including hepatitis C and Chlamydia pneumoniae.[vii] Pomegranate has a broad range of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.
Antioxidant: One of the ways in which blood lipids become heart disease-promoting (atherogenic) is through oxidation. LDL, for instance, may be technically ‘elevated’ but harmless as long as it does not readily oxidize. Pomegranate has been found to reduce the oxidative stress in the blood, as measured by serum paraoxonase levels. One study in mice found this decrease in oxidative stress was associated with 44% reduction in the size of atherosclerotic lesions. [viii]
Ant-Infective: While it is commonly overlooked, cardiovascular disease, and more particularly atherosclerosis, is connected to infection. Dentists know this, which is why they often prescribe antibiotics following dental work which releases bacteria into systemic circulation. Plaque in the arteries can also harbor viral pathogens. Pomegranate happens to have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties relevant to cardiovascular disease initiation and progression. It has been studied to combat the following infectious organisms:
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.
After 4 weeks, only the pomegranate group showed significant improvement in verbal memory scores and plasma antioxidant levels. Furthermore, compared to placebo, the pomegranate group showed increased fMRI activity during verbal and memory tasks, indicating pomegranate juice consumption results in increased blood flow to critical task-related brain regions.
This is not the first study to identify a brain-beneficial effect to pomegranate juice, as a sizable body of animal research already exists demonstrating it has neuroprotective properties against aluminum-,[1] stroke-,[2][3] and glucose deprivation-associated neurotoxicity,[4] and may also inhibit the formation of pathological plaques and the over-excitation of microglial cells associated with Alzheimer’s disease.[5][6][7]
There is also its well-known age-defying ability to prevent adverse changes associated with the exhaustion of ovarian function. In a previous article, “Amazing Fact: Pomegranate Can Function as a Back-up Ovary,” we looked at animal research explaining how this legendary food, traditionally linked with regeneration and immortality, may provide an alternative to bioidenticial and synthetic hormone replacement therapies.
As the research community continues to explore the potential role of so-called ‘medicinal foods’ in improving quality of life and preventing and/or treating diseases that are largely refractory to conventional drug-based interventions, we can rest assured that pomegranate will continue to play a central role in the rediscovery of food as medicine.
While much of the research is preliminary, an increasingly robust body of human clinical research indicates that pomegranate has a wide range of potential health benefits, including:
Improve Pregnancy/Birth Outcomes: Pomegranate juice has been found to potentially protect the unborn fetus by reducing oxidative stress in the placenta.[8]
Improve Rheumatoid Arthritis: Pomegranate juice reduces disease activity and oxidative stress in rheumatoid patients.[9]
Improve Heart Disease: Pomegranate juice has been found to have anti-atherogenic properties by reducing oxidative stress, including LDL cholesterol oxidation.[10]
Fights Prostate Cancer: Pomegranate juice has been found to prolong prostate doubling, as well as inhibit the proliferation and increase programmed cell death in the prostates of men with prostate cancer.[11]
Contributes to Weight Loss: Pomegranate juice was found to contribute to a reduction in weight, without decreasing insulin sensitivity like other commonly used sources of ‘sugar.’[12]
“BACKGROUND: Statins are the most widely prescribed drug available. Due to this reason, it is important to understand the risks involved with the drug class and individual statins.”
Aspartame has in fact been linked to seizures and a host of other major health issues including fatal cardiovascular events in women. Recent studies (we’ve found them!) have shown that not only does artificial sweetener intake have an association with diabetes[1], it also increases the risk for heart, kidney, and brain damage. [2]
But these are not the only negative studies: In 1967, Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, conducted aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys on behalf of the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were being fed aspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal seizures. [3]
A toxin by any other name… the dangers of Aspartame have been known for quite some time now. It is an artificial sweetener with a spectacularly bad track record but is still found in many of the foods we consume daily including “diet” beverages, chewing gum, breakfast cereals, and even preserves.
Women with the highest cardiovascular fitness had an 88 percent lower risk of dementia than those with moderate fitness
Women with the lowest fitness had a 41 percent greater risk of dementia than those of average fitness
Cardiovascular fitness can be used as a measure of how well blood is circulating to your heart and brain
Cardiovascular fitness may slash dementia risk because exercise (which helps improve cardiovascular fitness) increases levels of the protein PGC-1alpha, which is responsible for improving mitochondrial biogenesis
By Dr. Mercola
Staying fit is key to warding off many chronic diseases in later life, including those that may affect your brain. Worldwide, 47 million people are living with dementia. This is expected to increase to 75 million by 2030 and more than triple by 2050, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).1 Yet, you may be able to significantly slash your risk by taking steps to improve and maintain your cardiovascular fitness.
In fact, researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden revealed that women with the highest cardiovascular fitness had an 88 percent lower risk of dementia than those with moderate fitness.2 Further, even maintaining average fitness is worthwhile, as women with the lowest fitness had a 41 percent greater risk of dementia than those of average fitness. Fitness, in this case, is not the same as exercise, and the study did not measure how often the women exercised.
Instead, it focused on cardiovascular fitness, as measured by a stepwise-increased maximal ergometer cycling test. Cardiovascular fitness can be a measure of how well blood is circulating to your heart and brain. Study author and physiotherapist Helena Horder told Time, “If the small blood vessels and circulation in the heart are OK, then the brain is also affected in a positive way by good small vessel circulation.”3
So we’ve all been hammered endlessly about this risk! For at least three decades … or more. Another clue to why we must do our own research into what independent studies are saying … and NOT industry funded studies. If you have not yet woken up to the fact that corporations are about profits not people, and the medical industry was heisted for profit around one century ago, then you’re on a slippery slope. Sound extreme? I once would have thought so but after many thousands of hours of reading and examining the conclusions made by independent health professionals who stand to gain little if anything from their findings … I’ve concluded they are providing us with truth.
Listen to this Doctor speak of his findings … he’s interviewed by Dr Mercola.
Is saturated fat really the health hazard it’s been made out to be? Dr. Aseem Malhotra is an interventional cardiologist consultant in London, U.K., who gained quite a bit of publicity after the publication of his peer-reviewed editorial1 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2013.
In it, he seriously challenges the conventional view on saturated fats, and reviews how recent studies have failed to find any significant association between saturated fat and cardiovascular risk.
In fact, Malhotra reports that two-thirds of people admitted to hospitals with acute myocardial infarction have completely normal cholesterol levels. Malhotra, founder of Action on Sugar, also works as an adviser to the U.K.’s National Obesity Forum.
“My focus has been, ‘what can we do as individuals collectively (the medical profession) to help curb demand on the health system?’” he says. “A lot of that is being driven by diet-related diseases.
According to the Lancet Global Burden of Disease Reports, poor diets now contribute to more disease and death than physical activities — smoking and alcohol combined …
As an interventional cardiologist, we can do life-saving procedures with people who have heart attacks through heart surgery. But to be honest, rather than saving them from drowning, I’d rather they wouldn’t be thrown into the river in the first place. This is really where my focus has shifted.
I think for many of us, as clinicians moving more towards intervention, I think the realization that what we can do in medicine is really quite limited at the treatment end and actually the whole ‘prevention is better than cure’ phrase is very true.”
Hospitals and Medical Personnel Are Far From Paragons of Health
Malhotra’s epiphany that something was wrong with the system came rather early. While working as a resident in cardiology, he performed an emergency stenting procedure on a man in his 50s who’d recently suffered a heart attack.
The following morning, Malhotra spoke to the man, giving him the usual advice about quitting smoking and improving his diet.
“Just when I was telling about healthy diet, how important that was, he was actually served burger and fries by the hospital. He said to me, ‘Doctor, how do you expect me to change my lifestyle when you’re serving me the same crap that brought me in here in the first place?’”
Looking around, he realized that a lot of healthcare professionals are overweight or obese, and hospitals serve sick patients junk food. He believes one of the first things that really needs to happen is to set a good example in hospitals.
“The hospital environment should be one that promotes good health, not exacerbates bad health,” he says. His journey began with an email to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who did a lot of work campaigning for improved food in school canteens. Malhotra asked Oliver for ideas on how to improve hospital food.
“A couple of years later, I ended up going to the British Medical Association Annual Conference. I put a motion forward saying there should be a policy from the BMA to ban the selling of junk food in hospitals. It got an overwhelming majority vote.”
Diet and lifestyle changes are particularly important in light of the fact that medical errors and properly prescribed medications are the third most common cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Overmedication is a particularly serious problem among the elderly, who tend to suffer more side effects.
“Part of that is because there are very powerful vested interests that push drugs,” Malhotra says. “They even coax academic institutions and guideline bodies. People aren’t getting all the information to make decisions, whether or not they should take medications …
This is a major problem, especially [since] we’ve neglected or detracted from lifestyle changes, which are going to be much more impactful on your health and without side effects.”
(NaturalHealth365) It is no secret that sugary drinks, sweets, and other processed foods containing high fructose corn syrup are detrimental to your health. The pervasiveness of high fructose corn syrup in the Americans diet has even been blamed for the epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetesand related diseases. But now, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have started to uncover the exact reasons why fructose is linked to so many ills.
The U.S. food manufacturing industry has found high fructose corn syrup to be one of the cheapest sweeteners available. Because of this, it is found in a vast array of foods, including not only soda and candy bars, but also baby food, breakfast cereal, yogurt, salad dressing, baked goods and even so-called nutrition bars.
Researchers there have discovered that fructose actually alters hundreds of genes in the brain. Those changes are linked to development of many diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression, bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, among others. But the scientists also discovered a nutrition-based, natural solution: the omega-3 fatty acid known as DHA can reverse these harmful effects.
RANGITIKEI ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH We recently featured a video with an ex Pharmaceutical executive blowing the whistle on the corruption within the ranks of the pharmaceutical industry. Told never to discuss side effects, he said the industry was now turning their attention to children. They literally create a market because sold out medical professionals will write reports suggesting what is the current problem and then come up with the drug to fix it. Stay informed and definitely check the side effects by requesting the info or by checking online. Better still, find an holistic medical practitioner who will focus on your health and well being rather than treat symptoms. Here is more confirmation from Dr Mercola about the corruption that exists within the medical and pharmaceutical industry. EnvirowatchRangitikei
If your doctor receives money or gifts from a drug company, be it payment for a lecture or a free meal, does it influence the medications he or she in turn prescribes? This represents the burning question in an industry saturated with pharmaceutical company involvement.
A ProPublica analysis revealed nearly nine in 10 cardiologists, and seven in 10 internists and family practitioners, included in their study received payments from drug or device companies in 2014.[1] But the analysis didn’t stop there.
It also looked into whether or not such payments were associated with prescribing practices, and here’s where things got interesting.
Doctors Who Received Drug-Company Money Prescribed More Brand-Name Drugs
ProPublica analyzed the prescribing habits of doctors who wrote at least 1,000 prescriptions in the Medicare Part D drug program. The doctors belonged to five common specialties: psychiatry, cardiovascular disease, family medicine, internal medicine and ophthalmology.
My first inkling of corruption within the medical ranks regarding cancer and its causes was in seeing a book online by Dr Samuel Epstein called ‘The Politics of Cancer’. He wrote it back in the 1970s and yet still, forty odd years later, the medical fraternity gaze heavenward, beg for more research money and make like they know neither the causes nor the cures. Dr Epstein is active in disseminating knowledge on cancer prevention. As the article points out cancer is the result of a poor western diet & pollution. The cancer industry makes a lot of money as well from your not knowing that. Do the research and you will see this is truth. Start on our Cancer pages for links to further info and search categories. EnvirowatchRangitikei
(NaturalNews) It may be hard to believe, but a recent study shows that cancer is 100 percent a man-made disease, and that it is caused by modern-day phenomena like pollution and dietary intake.
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology in England, reached that conclusion in 2010, after reviewing remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as earlier periods, a study that also included the first historical diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy.
Investigating hundreds of Egyptian mummies turned up only one case of cancer
The study, published at the time in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, noted that researchers found only one occurrence of cancer while investigating hundreds of Egyptian mummies. In addition, they found very few references to the disease in period literature, which indicates that cancer cases were extremely rare during the period.
However, after the Industrial Revolution, cancer rates exploded, and in particular among children, which proves that the rise in cases is not exclusively tied to longer life.
“In industrialized societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare,” said Prof. Rosalie David, of the Faculty of Life Sciences. “There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.
Ottawa (April 9, 2015) – A new expert panel report, Understanding the Evidence: Wind TurbineNoise, released today by the Council of Canadian Academies provides an in-depth examination of 32 potential adverse health effects linked to wind turbine noise….
The Panel’s report stresses that, given the nature of the sound produced by wind turbines and the limited quality of available evidence, the health impacts of wind turbine noise cannot be comprehensively assessed and further information and study are required.
The Panel outlined 11 main findings discussed in the full report. Some findings include:
1. The evidence is sufficient to establish a causal relationship between exposure to wind turbine noise and annoyance.
2. There is limited evidence to establish a causal relationship between exposure to wind turbine noise and sleep disturbance.
3. The evidence suggests a lack of causality between exposure to wind turbine noise and hearing loss.
4. For all other health effects considered (fatigue, tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, dizziness, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, etc.), the evidence was inadequate to come to any conclusion about the presence or absence of a causal relationship with exposure to wind turbine noise.
5. Technological development is unlikely to resolve, in the short term, the current issues related to perceived adverse health effects of wind turbine noise.
6. Impact assessments and community engagement provide communities with greater knowledge and control over wind energy projects and therefore help limit annoyance.
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