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This week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed that the current recommendation be set at 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water, lowered from the previously recommended range of 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams. This is because they have admitted that too much fluoride can cause fluorisis, a hypermineralization of tooth enamel that can result in the staining or pitting of teeth.

Of course they won’t come straight out and say they have been 100% wrong. They’ll spend the next 50 years slowly altering their stance so that each new position is only a small variant from the previous. Basically, they’ll hope nobody notices.

More at ABC News.

These statins are not for me. A good number of them have been taken off the market for doing more harm than good. Those that remain, while lowering cholesterol, don’t actually reduce the incidence of heart fatalities. So I feel more vindicated when I read an article like this:

“Almost 75 percent of heart attack patients fell within recommended targets for LDL cholesterol, demonstrating that the current guidelines may not be low enough to cut heart attack risk in most who could benefit,” said Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the study’s principal investigator.

Or, duh, cholesterol might not be the key cause/indicator that doctors tell us it is. With doctors (and governments), it is important to maintain the impression that they have a solution for everything. Like chemotherapy, which causes a lot of memory and saves few cancer patients. Cholesterol is promoted because it can be fixed. Inflammation is rarely mentioned by doctors, but it seems to be the killer factor/symptom. And when they work out how to assess it, and how to fix it, statins will quietly disappear.

If you have ever wondered about all the waves being beamed about these days – invisible to the eye, but you know they are there – look at the results of this study:

Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by a group of institutions, including the TU Delft University and Wageningen University.

The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a “lead-like shine” on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.

Scientists writing in the research journal Environmental Health asked more than 1500 women about their cleaning product usage, and found a higher breast cancer rate among women who reported using more air fresheners and products for mold and mildew control.

Women who report greater use of cleaning products may be at higher breast cancer risk than those who say they use them sparingly, a small study suggests.

The researchers at the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Mass., and the Boston University School of Public Health conducted phone interviews with 787 female breast cancer patients and 721 comparison women.

“Women who reported the highest combined cleaning product use had a doubled risk of breast cancer compared to those with the lowest reported use,” said re searcher Julia Brody of the institute.

The article explains why these numbers might be due to factors other than cleaning products themselves, but it could still be the chemicals causing cancer. In my own experience, the children of clean freaks (i.e. get through a lot of anti-bacterial products) have the kids who get sick the most. As my Dad always tells me – if it isn’t natural, be careful.