Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the FDA-approved toxic food supply

The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that's a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsuit claims Taco Bell's meat cannot be honestly advertised as "beef" because it claims tests showed the meat was only 35% beef, not the 70% beef required by federal standards.

"It's mainly soy and oats, and there's lots of other stuff in there that I don't even know how to pronounce," said attorney Dee Miles.

Taco Bell responded quickly, saying their meat was "88% beef" and that they buy the same brand of beef sold in supermarkets -- Tyson Foods.

Oh well, that clears it all up, then. Tyson Foods.

And what's the other 12%? According to Taco Bell, it's water, spices, oats, starch and "other ingredients" that the restaurant says contribute to the "quality" of its beef. Apparently, Taco Bell believes the way to enhance the quality of beef is to throw in things that are not beef.

So what else might be found in that "other ingredients" category? A quick look at Taco Bell's own website reveals the restaurant uses all the following ingredients in its various menu offerings:

• Autolyzed Yeast Extract (which contains MSG, an excitotoxin)
• Red #40, Blue #1, Yellow #6 artificial colors
• Corn syrup solids
• Partially Hydrogenated Corn Oil
• Soy Protein
• Propylene Glycol Alginate
• Dimethylpolysiloxane (an anti-foaming chemical)

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Health Headlines...

• Birds use quantum entanglement in their eyes to visualize Earth's magnetic field
• Sustainable cocoa could run out by 2014
• Cops as crooks: Dallas police caught cashing in on their own crime tip rewards
• Malaysia releases mutant GE mosquitos into the wild in new experiment
• Genetically engineered plants can "sniff out" explosives in the air
• Thousands of Bolivians chew coca in protest against prohibition laws
• Unplug your teens and watch them get a REAL life
• Natural farming increases yields over conventional
• 12 year old girl suffering from painful rickets because mom smothered her in sunscreen
• Botched abortion doctor facing 8 counts of murder
• Rickets is back as a new "affluence disease"
• Floating Big Brother blimp to spy on your entire city

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Anesthesiologists spread dangerous infections during surgery because they don't wash their hands

With all the amazing and advanced medical technology available in the 21st century, operating rooms must be extremely safe when it comes to being sterile and clean for surgery. At least, that is what most of us assume. But now a new study just reported in Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), shows that's a dangerous assumption. In fact, bacteria -- including some very dangerous varieties -- are commonly found on the hands of anesthesia providers, resulting in high rates of transmission of these germs to the surgical field during operations.

The reason behind this hand contamination is nothing less than astounding. It turns out, anesthesiologists simply aren't washing their hands or washing them well enough. The study points out that while other factors contribute to bacteria being spread in operating rooms, the problem is mostly from a lack of compliance with plain, old-fashioned hand-washing.

Health Headlines...

• Unplug your teens and watch them get a REAL life
• Natural farming increases yields over conventional
• 12 year old girl suffering from painful rickets because mom smothered her in sunscreen
• Botched abortion doctor facing 8 counts of murder
• Rickets is back as a new "affluence disease"
• Floating Big Brother blimp to spy on your entire city
• Eating blueberries prevents high blood pressure
• Guidant to be criminally charged for medical device fraud that led to patient deaths?
• Huge pharmaceutical scandal in France as deadly drug left on market due to political connections
• Swiss banking account details turned over to Wikileaks; many U.S. Congressmen implicated
• Toyota working on way to reduce use of rare earth metals in hybrid vehicle motors
• Glaxo pays $3.5 billion fine for illegal marketing of Avandia, but profited tens of billions anyway

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Group Health Insurance Offers A Wide Range Of Employee Benefits

Author: Walker Wild

Any one can get sick at any time. This is the reason why it will be good to have group health insurance that will cater for the costs that will be incurred. As long as the person will pay the premiums as is required, then they will be able to enjoy the full benefits of the cover, especially now that health care has become so expensive.
Sometimes, one can get ill and they do not have the money at the moment to cater for all the costs, which at times may be too expensive. As long as one will have a cover that they pay for and has not expired, then the company will pay for all the money that will be needed. This will relieve a person from so many headaches that come about as a result of worrying about where to get the money to pay the bills.

Michael Douglas cancer cure announcement is a cruel medical hoax

Today the mainstream media is gleefully announcing that Michael Douglas has been "cured" of throat cancer. Yes, they use the "cure" word, as if to imply the cancer is gone and will never recur. Michael Douglas himself announced he has "beat cancer," and various cancer survivor groups are celebrating Douglas as a "cancer survivor."

Sadly, tragically, it's all a cruel medical hoax. Michael Douglas is not a cancer survivor but rather a chemotherapy survivor. His doctors have poisoned his body's vital organs -- brain, liver, kidneys and heart -- with extremely toxic chemicals that cause permanent, long-term damage. Yes, along the way a cancer tumor shrank in size, and yet even that observation is no cure either. Why? Because cancer tumors grow right back, usually within five years in the case of those with a history of smoking and drinking.

Mainstream media promotes chemotherapy

Yet, by parading Michael Douglas as an example of a cancer "cure," the mainstream media is cruelly and unjustifiably functioning as the marketing branch of the conventional cancer industry, publicizing a blatantly false message that "chemotherapy cures cancer." This will have the effect of causing yet more cancer patients to sign up for toxic chemotherapy treatments which will, sadly, kill many of them.

Today's health headlines from across the 'net

Today's Health Headlines (Source: naturalnews.com)

• News anchor Brian Williams groped by TSA molestors
• USA approaches debt blowout - now $14 trillion and multiplying
• More airports consider ditching the TSA goons
• Mobile guard towers appearing in Wal-Mart parking lots
• Young girl needed amputations after 5-hour wait in hospital emergency room
• World governments working hard to take over control of the internet
• New police powers on the streets: Mandatory blood tests on the spot for suspected drunk drivers
• U.S. hospital makes multiple errors during spinal surgeries, operating on the wrong vertebrae!
• Woman trying to break world obesity record slams down a 30,000-calorie Christmas dinner
• Flu epidemic striking Britain
• Experimental rooftop reactor generates liquid fuel from sunlight
• Ohio farmers resist GMOs because non-GMO seeds work better!

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Doctors should be forced to tell patients they are seriously impaired from lack of sleep before they operate

(NaturalNews) Here's another one of those stories about mainstream medical practices that sounds like it couldn't be true -- but it is. According to an editorial just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, there are currently regulations in place to restrict the work hours of doctors in training -- but no such rules for fully trained physicians. That means doctors who are severely sleep deprived are currently performing operations on unsuspecting patients who have no idea their surgeons are as impaired as if they were drunk out of their minds. "Studies have shown that sleep deprivation impairs psychomotor performance as severely as alcohol intoxication," the authors of the study pointed out in a media statement.

The editorial presents a compelling case that these sleep-deprived physicians should not be allowed to perform elective surgery unless their patients give informed, written consent agreeing to be operated on by an impaired doctor. "This approach would represent a fundamental shift in the responsibility patients are asked to assume in making decisions about their own care and might prove burdensome to patients and physicians and damaging to the patient-physician relationship," the authors wrote. "This shift may be necessary until institutions take the responsibility for ensuring that patients rarely face such dilemmas."

So just how dangerous is it to be operated on by a doctor who is sleep-deprived? A 2009 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a significant increase in the risk of complications in patients who underwent elective daytime surgical procedures performed by surgeons who hadless than a six-hour opportunity for sleep during a previous on-call night. What's more, doctors who are sleep-deprived are often not able to accurately recognize how severely they are impaired.

"Sleep deprivation affects clinical performance. It increases the risks of complications. And it is clear from survey data that patients would want to be informed if their physician was sleep deprived and that most patients would request a different provider," Michael Nurok, M.D., Ph.D., an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Hospital for Special Surgery who is first author of the editorial, said in a press statement. "We think that institutions have a responsibility to minimize the chances that patients are going to be cared for by sleep-deprived clinicians."

The editorial concludes that sleep-deprived physicians should be required to inform patients of their condition; it also argues that patients have the right to be told of the potential hazards that can come from surgery performed by sleep-impaired surgeons. And patients should be given the opportunity to go ahead with the procedure, proceed with a different doctor, or reschedule for another time.

If patients decide they want to go ahead with a planned operation performed by a sleep deprived doctor, Dr. Nurok and his co-authors believe they should be required to sign a consent form on the day of the procedure in front of a witness to show they understand the potential risks. Although it would seem like a no-brainer that patients have a right to know a surgeon they are trusting their bodies and lives to is not impaired, the editorial authors say there are many barriers to the idea of this informed consent.

Not surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is based on the fear that when patients learn doctors are impaired from lack of sleep, there will be financial consequences for hospitals and physicians. Some doctors will lose cases and have a drop in income and medical centers will lose money if patients reschedule and go elsewhere for their surgery. However, Dr. Nurok and his colleagues counter that by giving patients the facts and true informed consent, any income lost by docs and hospitals will be offset by improved surgical outcomes and reduced complications.

"There has been widespread discomfort with the idea that patients are having procedures performed by physicians who are fatigued," Dr. Nurok concluded. "New policies are needed."

For more information:
http://www.hss.edu/newsroom.asp

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Do People Prefer Coke Over Pepsi?

by Ruben Gorado


The Coke vs. Pepsi debate has gone on for decades, and there are millions of people on both sides of the debate, swearing by their preferred soda brand.

In order to try to figure this out for ourselves, we had a glance at some recent surveys and blind taste tests between some of the more popular Coke and Pepsi products. Let's see what these revealed.

How Exercise Helps High Blood Pressure Patients?

By: Aaron R Daniel

Physical workouts have additionally proven their potency in eliminating the basis reason behind blood pressure abnormality in certain cases. For instance cholesterol propelled hypertension might be cured by taming down cholesterol level by rigorous workouts. That is why diabetics who possess nice propensity to develop high cholesterol are place on exercise practices.