Cutting Through the Hell of the Medical-Industrial Complex
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Is Carrageenan Safe?
What can you tell me about carrageenan? I know that it is widely added to foods like ice cream and yogurt, but I've heard that it isn't good for you and should be avoided. True? If so, why?
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Answer (Published 10/1/2012)
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Carrageenan is a common food additive that is extracted from a red seaweed,Chondrus crispus, which is popularly known as Irish moss. Carrageenan, which has no nutritional value, has been used as a thickener and emulsifier to improve the texture of ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, soy milk and other processed foods.
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When I first wrote about carrageenan on this site 10 years ago, I reported that some animal studies had linked degraded forms of carrageenan (the type not used in food) to ulcerations and cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. But around that time, a prominent researcher in the field, Joanne K. Tobacman, M.D., now associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, conducted studies linking undegraded carrageenan - the type that is widely used in foods - with malignancies and other stomach problems. (Degraded and undegraded carrageenan differ by molecular weight with undegraded carrageenan having the higher weight.)
Over the years Dr. Tobacman has published 18 peer-reviewed studies that address the biological effects of carrageenan including carrageenan dangers and is convinced that it is harmful to human health. In April 2012, she addressed the National Organic Standards Board on this issue and urged reconsideration of the use of carrageenan in organic foods.
In her presentation, Dr. Tobacman said that her research has shown that exposure to carrageenan causes inflammation and that when we consume processed foods containing it, we ingest enough to cause inflammation in our bodies. She explained that all forms of carrageenan are capable of causing inflammation. This is bad news. We know that chronic inflammation is a root cause of many serious diseases including heart disease, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and cancer.
Dr. Tobacman also told the board that in the past, drug investigators actually used carrageenan to cause inflammation in tissues in order to test the anti-inflammatory properties of new drugs. And she reported further that when laboratory mice are exposed to low concentrations of carrageenan for 18 days, they develop "profound" glucose intolerance and impaired insulin action, both of which can lead to diabetes.
She maintains that both types of carrageenan are harmful and notes that "degraded carrageenan inevitably arises from higher molecular weight (food grade) carrageenan." Research suggests that acid digestion, heating, bacterial action and mechanical processing can all accelerate degradation of food-grade carrageenan.
All told, as far as carrageenan safety goes, I recommend avoiding regular consumption of foods containing carrageenan. This is especially important advice for persons withinflammatory bowel disease.
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Symbolic Radionics--"wishing" machine
Joshua Warren was on Coast to Coast last night. Although he talked about radionics and symbolic radionics, he used different phrasing, calling it "wishing machine" and "virtual" wishing machine. The above is the virtual wishing machinge available at his website.
His challenge was for everyone to print it, write a wish out and put in the middle of the diagram, and put it away and see what happens. He emphasizes that the wish should be reasonable, and it should also be something you are working on from some other direction. He also cautions that what we put out there has consequences, so be aware. I would say use "in the whole best interest of_____" in whatever you try.
His website is semi crashed after this. But it is this
http://www.joshuapwarren.com /
We are to share any successes we have with this (email him).http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x110071
http://www.luckinlove.com/wishmachine.htmhttp://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Wishes-Come-True has terrific info on how to ADD POWER to your wish coming true. 1. Make a wishlist of what you want in life. Prioritize the items on your wish list. Begin with what is most important to you.
Determine what you need to do to have that wish come true. For example:
* Wish: To play the guitar well/To do well in tests and exams.
* Need to do: Take classes/Study.
* Sit with a friend who knows how to play and write songs to give to ROCK stars.
* Get some books from the library
* Search the internet for information. Downloads.
Make it a point to do what you need to do in order to make your wish come true. Be sure to keep updating your wishlist as you reach certain parts of your goals.
Start slowly. But make it a habit to keep referring back to your wishlist at least once a week. Eventually your wishes will begin to turn into realities.
Meditate regularly about what you want to happen. This will clear your mind and help you find out if your wish is actually needed.
* Know exactly what you want because what you might have wanted when you were ten years old is not as important when you are fifteen years old.
"The only thing worse than not getting your wish is getting it. " Oscar Wilde
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in a class by itself
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This is a strange and fun little book that challenges one's understanding of the world as we are told it exists. The ideas and devices discussed herein are "impossible" or "frauds" by the standards of some. The trouble is, they work! Maybe not always and for everyone, but they work often enough for some pretty level-headed engineer types like John Campbell and G. Harry Stine to be convinced. Campbell was the famous (some would say infamous) editor of Analog magazine during its heyday, and Stine worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. I have personally used dowsing rods and they worked for me even though I didn't believe they would work at all. (It was a very strange feeling when they moved, too.)
The book covers such things as pyramids, dowsing rods, energy wheels, and a couple of "strange machines" called the Hieronymus machine (after its inventor) and the Wishing Machine. It even delves into the realm of "symbolic machines," variations of these devices which work even if only the schematic is used. Stine discusses his introduction to these devices, his experiments with them, people's reactions to them, and directions/methods for further research. Although not mentioned in this book, other countries, such as the former USSR, researched such things heavily, and are rumored to have made some very strange and possibly dangerous strides in this field which they call "energetics."
If you think that there is no scientific basis for any of this, you are not current in cutting-edge physics (which is in turn billions of years behind the Universe itself). The work of Myron Evans in O(3) Electrodynamics, Sach's Unified Field Theory, and Michael Leyton's work in higher dimensional symmetry, among others, give plenty of theoretical basis for these beasties to function...
Those who think such things are frauds should not waste their time here. This book is for people who are rational, open-minded, and believe in the empirical part of scientific method. Try them and decide for yourself, unless you prefer to let others do all your thinking for you. Remember, all great scientific breakthroughs were fought tooth and nail by the "keepers of the status quo" of their time.
This book is for people who want to push the envelope, not hide in it.http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Machines-You-Can-Build
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