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A recent study shows that Monsanto's RoundUp - the herbicide at the center of the
GMO discussion because its used almost exclusively on GM crops, causes human breast cancer cells to grow even in the absence of estrogen. This is also the herbicide that made the French Government request additional research be performed to evaluate its ability to cause massive tumor growth in transgenic rats used for cancer research.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp shows an affinity for the estrogen receptor and stimulates human breast cancer cells to grow just like estrogen. This is NOT good news for women. The entire manuscript can be found here.

Taken together with this recent study out of Germany showing that high levels of Glyphosate have been found in the urine of people all over Europe, this is quite scary. Spokesperson for Friends Of The Earth, Adrian Bebb said "Most people will be worried to discover they may have weed killer in their bodies. We tested people living in cities in 18 countries and found traces in every country. These results suggest we are being exposed to glyphosate in our everyday lives, yet we don't know where it is coming from, how widespread it is in the environment, or what it is doing to our health."

One can extrapolate these two studies to indicate that breast cancer rates will continue to rise until we can get RounUp out of the environment.

On another note... where is the Susan G. Komen organization on the eve of all of this news? Nowhere. They would never want to piss off Monsanto, a major sponsor of theirs.

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To add further drama and confusion to the story of Edward Snowden, NSA Spying and Central Intelligence Agency involvement, a passenger on a U.S. bound flight out of Hong Kong Monday claimed that intelligence agents had detained him, were going to kidnap him, take him to a safe house, and that they planned to kill him because of his knowledge about the recently released leaks.
According to witnesses, passenger Daniel M. Perry relayed to other passengers aboard the plane that he was a government worker, a claim that was later confirmed by sources.
According to law enforcement officials the man went on a “bizarre” rant. His actions were described by a CBS news report as an “erratic and disturbing anti-government rant.”
Read the eye witness accounts below and listen to some of the audio and decide for yourself.

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Few children get hepatitis A in frozen berry outbreak

Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY 5:08 p.m. EDT June 9, 2013

As the deadly liver disease spreads to seven states, experts credit vaccinations with keeping children safe.

(Photo: Costco)
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79 people in seven states are now sick with hepatitis A linked to frozen berries
The berry and pomegranate mix was sold at Costco and Harris Teeter stores
Only one child has fallen ill

The nationwide outbreak of hepatitis A linked to frozen berries grew to 79 Friday, but it is sparing children.
Of the people in seven states who have become ill with the deadly liver disease, only one was a child. Health officials initially feared that the youngest would be hit hardest because the contaminated frozen berries are used in smoothies, ice pops and other warm-weather treats popular with children.
They credit routine vaccinations against hepatitis A since 2006 with protecting children.
"The very, very small number of children involved in this outbreak probably reflects the high vaccination coverage as the result of the routine immunization," said John Ward, who directs the viral hepatitis program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The one child who became ill, a 2-year-old, was not vaccinated, Ward said.
Eleven people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported, the CDC said. Officials expect the number of illnesses to grow. People have gotten sick in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
Hepatitis A is a highly contagious liver infection caused by a virus. Some people have no symptoms, but many have fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal and joint pain. In severe cases it can cause liver failure and require a transplant.
The hepatitis A vaccine is given to children twice, first between 6 and 12 months and then six months later, said the CDC's Trudy Murphy, a hepatitis expert. The vaccine became available in 1996. In 2006, the CDC recommended that all children be vaccinated against the virus.
Widespread vaccination is having an impact. In 1995 there were 31,582 hepatitis A cases in the United States. In 2010, the most recent year for which numbers are available, there were 1,670, according to CDC.
"It's a very powerful vaccine," Ward said. "It gives you several decades of protection."
CDC officials have linked the outbreak to Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berry and pomegranate mix sold by Costco and Harris Teeter stores. The Harris Teeter product was labeled "Harris Teeter Organic Antioxidant Berry Blend, 10 oz. bag."
Townsend Farms of Fairview, Ore., voluntarily recalled its frozen Organic Antioxidant Blend on June 3.
Costco has called all 50,000 customers who bought the berry mix between February and May, said Craig Wilson, the company's food safety director. The Issaquah, Wash., company is reimbursing the cost of hepatitis A vaccination for everyone who bought the frozen berry mix at Costco and ate it in the past two weeks. All Costco pharmacies are making the vaccine available to affected customers, Wilson said.
The strain of hepatitis A found in the berry mix is rare in the United States but known to circulate in North Africa and the Middle East. According to the label, the Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend mix associated with this outbreak contained fruit from the United States, Argentina, Chile and Turkey.

The first victims fell ill on April 29. .

The virus is most often transmitted when an infected food handler prepares food with dirty hands. Food contaminated with hepatitis A can transmit the disease to people who eat or handle it.

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Neuropathy, or nerve damage, is the most common cause of injury and death in people with diabetes. Preliminary studies suggest, however, that this debilitating condition may be treatable by boosting your body's levels of a substance that it is already producing: Coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10.

Approximately 50 percent of all type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients - nearly 2 percent of the world's population - experience some form of diabetic neuropathy. There are currently no treatments that are capable of preventing the disorder or halting its progression.

But in a recent study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, researchers from the University of Miami found that supplementation with CoQ10 was able to decrease neuropathy-induced pain in diabetic mice.