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Kissing in France is Banned…

Posted on September 13, 2009 by | 4 Comments

French companies and schools are bringing in kissing bans to try to stop the spread of swine flu.Skip related content

The peck on the cheek known as “la bise” – a traditional greeting in France – has been outlawed by large firms like insurance giant Axa, which has told employees to salute each other with a wave of the hand rather than a kiss or handshake.

Schools in the town of Guilvinec, in Brittany, western France, were the first to introduce a bise ban for teachers and students.

Mayor Helene Tanguy said: “I asked the children not to kiss anymore. I felt that the protections sought to wash hands regularly, not throw used handkerchiefs around, and not cough any old way had no meaning if we let the kids keep kissing.”…read more here

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Colon Cancer More Common In Younger People

Posted on June 8, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Learn how Vitamin D can reduce colon cancer by 50% or more..

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Rise Seen in Colorectal Cancer in Under-50 Adults (Update2)

By Marilyn Chase

June 8 (Bloomberg) — Colorectal cancer rates are rising in adults younger than 50 with the biggest jump, more than 5 percent, recorded in those ages 20 to 29, a study found.

People older than age 50 began getting tested routinely for the disease in the mid-1980s, leading to a 2.8 percent yearly decline from 1998 to 2005 in adult men overall, according to the American Cancer Society report. Younger Americans, who make up 9 percent of the 146,970 cases expected by the society this year, aren’t usually tested for the disease, the second most common cause of cancer death in U.S. adults.

The study was published today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. The research didn’t identify a cause for the increase. Elizabeth Ward, vice president of surveillance and health policy research at the society, said rising obesity and diabetes rates and diets heavy in red and processed meats are likely culprits.

“The fact that cancer is affecting younger people is worrisome,” said Ward, a study author, in a telephone interview. “We want to educate health-care practitioners and the public that this increase is happening, and it may be related to obesity and unfavorable dietary patterns.”…read more here..

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Child Cry and Haiti Endowment Fund Help Feed Children of Haiti

Posted on May 19, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Watch the video below and  support the cause.  Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with the average family living off less than $450 per year.   Support organizations like ChildCry from NYC and Haiti Endowment Fund from Southern California. These grassroot  organizations  help feed over 3,000 Haitian kids each and every day  while providing  education  to  their  beautiful young minds.  I recently spent a week in Haiti with Child Cry and Haiti Endowment fund  and saw first hand how  they  impact and help those in need.

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100,000 Americans Have Swine Flu?

Posted on May 17, 2009 by | Leave a comment

NEW BOOK: Vitamin D Prescription- The Healing Power of the Sun. Learn how vitamin D can protect you and your family from the Swine Flu.

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(NaturalNews) H1N1 influenza (swine flu) has spread beyond the ability of the CDC to track it, leading one of its health authorities (Daniel Jernigan) to admit that 100,000 Americans are likely already infected by the swine flu.

The CDC has only “confirmed” 4,714 cases of the flu so far, but by its own admission, the CDC’s testing lab is so hopelessly overloaded that it has all but abandoned trying to identify every case of swine flu. All it can do now is estimate the likely number of infections through statistical modeling.

That modeling essentially says that swine flu is already at a pandemic stage, and it will eventually infect anywhere from one-third to one-half of the world population, depending on whose figures you believe.

So if swine flu is infecting so many people, why aren’t more people dying?

Some people are dying from it, of course. The latest is an assistant principal of a NYC school, who just passed away yesterday (http://www.nypost.com/seven/0516200…).

Beware of the Flu Influenza  During Winter of 2009

But the lack of deaths from the swine flu at the moment doesn’t mean the danger is over. In fact, the western world is right now experiencing the health benefits of Spring, which brings sunlight and vitamin D (a natural anti-viral vitamin) to the people.

Historically, influenza strikes in the Fall and Winter months when vitamin D levels are low. Winter, of course, means December – February in the Northern hemisphere, and June – July in the Southern hemisphere. So even if a pandemic strikes North America during the winter of 2009, it is unlikely to be as dangerous in Australia at the same time (because that’s Australia’s summer)…read more here….

NEW BOOK: Vitamin D Prescription- The Healing Power of the Sun. Learn how vitamin D can protect you and your family from the Swine Flu.

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H1N1 Flu Cases Rise- 72 Now Dead

Posted on May 17, 2009 by | Leave a comment

H1N1 is on the move.   The 1918 Flu epidemic was a Swine Flu which is known to have killed between 20 million  to 100 million people worldwide.  The 1918 flu started in the spring, was fairly calm during the summer and then took off with a vengeance during the fall and winter.  Until recently, few understood the seasonal variation of the flu.  However, recent evidence by Dr. John Cannell suggests that vitamin D deficiency plays a role.  Let me explain.  Vitamin D blood levels start trending downwards during the fall and winter.  Studies show that vitamin D increases immunity by making White Blood Cells more effective. Since  vitamin D blood levels tend to be higher during the summer, when people spend more time in the sun, they are less likely to become susceptible to the virus when exposed.  To read more about vitamin D and influenza, check out the new book, Vitamin D Presciption- The Healing Power of the Sun by Eric Madrid MD.

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ZURICH (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of the new Influenza A (H1N1) flu has climbed to 8,480 and the death toll has remained static at 72, the World Health Organization said in its latest update on Sunday.

The confirmation of cases in India, Malaysia and Turkey brought the number of countries with confirmed cases of H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, to 39, the WHO said.

The vast majority of cases have been in Mexico and the United States. The spread of the disease has led the WHO to declare a pandemic is imminent. On April 29 it raised its pandemic alert to 5 on a 6-level scale.

The virus is behaving much like a seasonal influenza strain, which kills 500,000 annually, by spreading rapidly and causing mainly mild disease, but severe illness in some people.…read more here…

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