tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345097859010159772024-03-05T22:09:13.122-05:00Ktani's Hair SenseInnovative Approaches to Hair and Skin Care ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-44307049857980606742016-01-17T17:01:00.002-05:002019-03-07T06:55:00.085-05:00Prebiotics, Probiotics and Health Scams<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post.</span></span><br />
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Human Microbiome and Media Confusion</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me,
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SITNHarvard"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SITNHarvard</span></span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-human-microbiome-and-media-confusion/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1551956354313_4369" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-human-microbiome-and-media-confusion/</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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impression of microbiotic research differs from the present-day reality ... <b>serious risk that </b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">pre/probiotics will be
marketed as miracle cures </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">for a
laundry list of physical and psychological ailments<span style="color: #292f33;">
under a </span><span style="color: red;">pseudo-academic purview</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">."</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> </span></span></span></div>
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above statement - they already <b>ARE</b> by quacks - while research continues, and is</span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"> still</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> in the
<b>PRELIMINARY</b> stages=<b>UNPROVEN! </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on advancing the science and regulation of live microbiome-based products used to prevent, treat, or cure diseases in humans ... August 16, 2018"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm617168.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1551956354313_2545" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm617168.htm</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"there are FDA-regulated foods, including dietary supplements, containing probiotics that are legally available … these products cannot lawfully be marketed to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent any diseases."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"<b>Probiotic Health Claims</b>" </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"Last reviewed: 27/6/2018"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.fsai.ie/faq/probiotic_health_claims.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1514473933071_2578" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.fsai.ie/faq/probiotic_health_claims.html</span></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"There are no approved health claims for probiotics. … Applications for health claims … have been submitted for evaluation to EFSA ... no application has received a positive opinion. ... no claims on probiotics are listed on the<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/nuhclaims/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition: color 0.05s ease-in; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank" title="EU register"><span style="color: blue;">EU register</span></a></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"> </span>as authorised for use." </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ProtectYourself/HealthFraud/default.htm#.VZ0WCcFJ13s.twitter" id="LPlnk337905"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ProtectYourself/HealthFraud/default.htm#.VZ0WCcFJ13s.twitter</span></a></div>
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short video regarding </span><b><span style="color: #292f33;">FRAUD </span><span style="color: red;">red</span></b></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> flags and the recruiting of "testimonials"
from friends and or family!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"<b>With
health claims unproven and scientists divided on the benefits: Are probiotics
just a waste of your money?</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">MailOnline</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2856661/Probiotics-just-waste-money-Health-claims-unproven-scientists-divided-benefits.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1551956354313_4490" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2856661/Probiotics-just-waste-money-Health-claims-unproven-scientists-divided-benefits.html</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"Food
Safety Authority (EFSA), </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">so far the evidence just
isn’t there yet</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> ... <b>rejected
all the health claims for probiotics since 2009.</b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">W<span style="color: #292f33;">hen the
</span><b style="color: #292f33;">EFSA</b> <b style="color: #292f33;">DOES</b><span style="color: #292f33;"> approve health claims, they are </span><b style="color: #292f33;">VERY</b><span style="color: #292f33;">
specific.</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Scientific
Opinion on the substantiation of a health claim related to “native chicory
inulin” and maintenance of normal defecation by increasing stool frequency
pursuant to Article 13.5 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/20061</b>", 2015, bolding added by me</span><b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/elwzrHsqB1" target="_blank" title="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3951.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">/doc/3951.pdf </span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"The Panel concludes that a cause and
effect relationship has been established between the consumption of “native
chicory inulin”, a <b>non-fractionated
mixture of monosaccharides (< 10%), disaccharides, inulin-type fructans and
inulin extracted from chicory with a mean DP ≥ 9</b>, and maintenance of normal
defecation by increasing stool frequency."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Scientific
Opinion on the substantiation of a health claim related to non-digestible
carbohydrates and a reduction of post-prandial glycaemic responses pursuant to
Article 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/20061</b>", 2014,<b> </b>bolding added by me</span><b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/E6s8g4hmHD" target="_blank" title="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/3513.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">/doc/3513.pdf</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"The Panel concludes ... A cause and
effect relationship has been established between the consumption of
foods/beverages containing non-digestible carbohydrates instead of sugars and a
reduction of post-prandial glycaemic responses as compared to sugar-containing
foods/beverages. <b>... In order to bear
the claim, sugars should be replaced in foods or drinks by non-digestible
carbohydrates so that foods or drinks contain reduced amounts of sugars as per
Annex of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 and in accordance with the Guidance on
the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006</b> of the Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health for comparative nutrition claims
made on foods"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The <b>EFSA</b> is <b>EQUALLY</b> specific on the<b> rejection</b> of health claims.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Scientific
Opinion on the substantiation of a health claim related to Bifidobacterium
bifidum CNCM I-3426 and defence against pathogens in the upper respiratory
tract pursuant to Article 13(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/20061</b>", 2015,<b> </b>bolding added by me</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/scientific_output/files/main_documents/4094.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/scientific_output/files/main_documents/4094.pdf</span></span></a>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Following an application from Lallemand
Health Solutions ... the Panel on
Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) was asked to deliver an
opinion on the scientific substantiation of a health claim related to
Bifidobacterium bifidum CNCM I-3426 and <b>defence
against pathogens in the upper respiratory tract.</b> The food constituent that
is the subject of the claim is B. bifidum CNCM I-3426. ... The Panel considers
that <b>no conclusions can be drawn from
either of the human studies for the scientific substantiation of the claim. In
the absence of evidence of an effect of B. bifidum CNCM I3426 on defence
against pathogens in the upper respiratory tract in humans, the results of the
in vitro study submitted cannot be used as a source of data for the scientific
substantiation of the claim.</b> The Panel concludes that a cause and effect
relationship has <b>not</b> been
established between the consumption of B. bifidum CNCM I-3426 and defence
against pathogens in the upper respiratory tract."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>In the meantime, research is ongoing!</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Bifidobacterium breve BBG-001 in very
preterm infants: a randomised controlled phase 3 trial</b>",
2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span></div>
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<u><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/sxCias4iBq" target="_blank" title="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)01027-2/fulltext"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">thelancet.com/journals/lance</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">t/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)01027-2/fulltext</span></span></span></span></a></span></u></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"><b><span style="color: red;">result</span></b> <b>does</b> <b><span style="color: red;">not
support</span> </b>... use of B breve BBG-001 ... prevention ... necrotising
enterocolitis ... late-onset sepis in very preterm infants ... </span><b>evidence
from <span style="color: red;">clinical trials</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"><b>does <span style="color: red;">not</span></b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="color: red;"> <b>support</b></span> ...<b> routine use of probiotics to
prevent necrotising enterocolitis </b>...<b> in the preterm infant</b>" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The propre-save study: effects of probiotics and prebiotics alone or combined on necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants.</b>"</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015, bolding added by me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; visibility: hidden; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25596096" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1551956354313_5213" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25596096</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"probiotic
(Bifidobacterium lactis) and synbiotic (Bifidobacterium lactis plus inulin)<b> but not prebiotic (inulin) alone decrease
NEC.</b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">2015 NEC
"necrotizing enterocolitis ... common and serious intestinal disease among
preemies." </span><a href="http://t.co/mW26Br624v" target="_blank" title="http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/digestive/nec.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">kidshealth.org/parent/medical</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">/digestive/nec.html</span></span></span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Diverse
gut bacteria lowers asthma risk in babies: study</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">", 2015, color and </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/japantimes" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">japantimes</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/01/world/science-health-world/diverse-gut-bacteria-lowers-asthma-risk-babies-study/#.VpvVevkrLIU"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/01/world/science-health-world/diverse-gut-bacteria-lowers-asthma-risk-babies-study/#.VpvVevkrLIU</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"><b>it remains <span style="color: red;">unclear</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span><b>exactly how</b> infants <b>acquire these
particular bacteria </b>— they are named Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella
and Rothia — and researchers said <b>more study is needed </b>to find out why some
babies naturally acquired them from their environments and others did not.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> ... </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">co-author
Stuart Turvey, a doctor at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><b><span style="color: red;">cautioned</span> <span style="color: red;">against</span> seeking the answer in <span style="color: red;">store-bought
products</span></b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;">The study</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Early infancy microbial and metabolic
alterations affect risk of childhood asthma</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/7j5PCE4uHJ" target="_blank" title="http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/307/307ra152"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/307/</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">307ra152</span></span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">"These
results </span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">enhance
the potential</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> for future microbe-based diagnostics and
therapies, <b>potentially</b> in the form
of probiotics, to prevent the development of asthma and other related allergic
diseases in children.</span>"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Fermented Fruits and Vegetables
of Asia: A Potential Source of Probiotics</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2014, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058509/" id="LPlnk615008"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058509/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;">"In Asian continent,
fermented fruits and vegetables are </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">associated </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;">with several social and cultural
aspects of different races. Studies showed that fruits and vegetables </span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">may</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b>serve as a suitable carrier for probiotics.</b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;"> Fermented fruits and vegetables
contain a diverse group of prebiotic compounds which attract and stimulate the
growth of probiotics. ... The amount of food ingredients and additives in
fermented foods, such as sugar, salt, and monosodium glutamate, should conform
to the accepted standards established by the regulations of target markets.
Mixed fermentation with high variability should be replaced by pure cultivation
to achieve large-scale production. ...</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b> <span style="color: red;">challenges remain</span></b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;">, it
is </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"><b><span style="color: red;">possible</span></b> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;">that fermented foods, handed down for many
generations, will play a major role in the global food industry. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"><b><span style="color: red;">Detailed studies</span></b> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">on the microbial composition and characteristics
of fermented fruits and vegetables lead to the further application.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"<b>Can probiotics shorten the duration of the
common cold?</b>", 2014, color bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pharmacists"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">pharmacists</span></span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> <u></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><u><a href="http://t.co/kSImmMyIzl" target="_blank" title="http://www.pharmacist.com/can-probiotics-shorten-duration-common-cold#.VZ3OHKbvVE0.twitter"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">pharmacist.com/can-probiotics</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">-shorten-duration-common-cold#.VZ3OHKbvVE0.twitter</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"a specific recommendation and product </span><b><span style="color: red; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">are <span style="color: red;">not
</span>yet</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> available."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Probiotics (live micro-organisms) to
prevent upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) (for example,the common
cold)</b>"<b>, </b>2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.cochrane.org/CD006895/ARI_probiotics-live-micro-organisms-to-prevent-upper-respiratory-tract-infections-urtis-for-example-the-common-cold" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478648835041_2776" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;">http://www.cochrane.org/CD006895/ARI_probiotics-live-micro-organisms-to-prevent-upper-respiratory-tract-infections-urtis-for-example-the-common-cold</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"probiotics </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">may</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> be more beneficial than placebo for preventing acute URTIs.
However ... <b>quality of the evidence was
low or very low.</b>"</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Summary </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #292f33;">The evidence for both the safety and efficacy (effectiveness) of pre/probiotics is </b><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;">NOT</span></b><b style="color: #292f33;"> there yet!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The Basics of Probiotics</b>", 2016, color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter16/articles/winter16pg22.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter16/articles/winter16pg22.html</span></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Although<span style="color: red;"><b> some</b></span> probiotic formulations have shown<span style="color: red;"><b> promise</b></span> in research, <b>strong scientific evidence to support the use of probiotics for most conditions is lacking.</b> ... Studies <span style="color: red;"><b>suggest</b></span> that probiotics usually have few side effects. However,<b> the data on </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">safety,</span><b> particularly </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">long-term safety</span>, <b>are </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">limited</span>, and the <b>risk of serious side effects</b> may be <b><span style="color: red;">greater</span></b> in people who have underlying health conditions." </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Health Claims</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Probiotic Claims</b>", Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
<a href="http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/labelling/food-labelling-for-industry/health-claims/eng/1392834838383/1392834887794?chap=9" id="LPlnk396246"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/labelling/food-labelling-for-industry/health-claims/eng/1392834838383/1392834887794?chap=9</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Probiotic claims that are therapeutic in nature or that are considered <span style="color: red;">"drug" claims</span></b> are required to undergo a <b>pre-market assessment by the Food Directorate of Health Canada and a regulatory amendment to the Food and Drug Regulations to allow their use</b>. ... When making any probiotic claim, the manufacturer or importer of the product should have <b>documentation supporting the identification, <span style="color: red;">safety, viability, concentration and stability</span> of the probiotic strain added to the food product.</b> ... The manufacturer or importer must follow all requirements applicable to the sale of food, including those related to the use and labelling of ingredients used in novel technology in the delivery of a viable microorganism for food application."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333;">"<b>Probiotics: In Depth</b>", </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">National
Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">2016, color
and bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/NIH_NCCIH"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">NIH_NCCIH</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm#hed1"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">https://nccih.nih.gov/health/probiotics/introduction.htm#hed1</span></span></a>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #333333;">"There’s </span><b><span style="color: red;">preliminary evidence</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> that </span><span style="color: red;"><b>some</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"> probiotics are helpful
in preventing diarrhea caused by infections and antibiotics and in improving
symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, but</span><b><span style="color: red;"> more needs to be learned.</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> <b>We still
don’t know which probiotics are helpful and which are not.</b></span></span> ... <span style="color: #333333;">In people who are
generally healthy, probiotics have a good safety record. Side effects, if they
occur at all, usually consist only of mild digestive symptoms such as gas.
... </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"><b>On the other hand, there have been reports
linking probiotics to <span style="color: red;">severe side effects</span>, such as <span style="color: red;">dangerous infections</span>, in
people with serious underlying medical problems.</b></span> ... Even for healthy
people, <span style="color: red;"><b>there are uncertainties </b></span>about the <b><span style="color: red;">safety of probiotics.</span></b> <b>Because many
research studies on probiotics haven’t looked closely at safety, there isn’t
enough information right now to answer some safety questions</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>... <span style="color: red;"><b>Don’t replace
scientifically proven treatments with unproven products and practices.</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"> Don’t
use a complementary health product, such as probiotics, as a reason to postpone
seeing your health care provider about any health problem. ... </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>If you’re
considering a probiotic dietary supplement, consult your health care provider
first.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> <b><span style="color: #333333;">This is especially</span><span style="color: red;"> important</span><span style="color: #333333;"> if you have health problems.</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Anyone with a
serious underlying health condition should be monitored closely while
taking probiotics." </span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Objection </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333;">"<b>Agency Response Letter - Objection; Lyophilized Probiotic Cultures
FALN No. 006 (Docket No. 2006FL-0287)</b>", 2015, bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">US_FDA</span></span></span></a></span><b><span style="color: #333333;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/allergens/ucm076693.htm"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/allergens/ucm076693.htm</span></span></a>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">"</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">Based on its review, <b>FDA
has concluded that FALN 006 does not contain scientific </b>evidence
(including the analytical method used)<b>
that demonstrates that Nutraceutix's products </b>(as derived by the method
specified in the notification)<b> do not
contain allergenic milk protein, as required by section 403(w)(7).</b>
FALN 006 <b>neither provides
scientific evidence to determine that the products do not contain milk
allergenic protein, nor does FALN 006 otherwise meet the requirements of
section 403(w)(7). FDA therefore objects to FALN 006.</b></span>"</span><b><span style="color: #333333;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;">Safety Risks
</span>and the price paid - a baby died.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Notes
from the field</b>",<b> </b>2015, color and bolding added by me, <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">CDCgov</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a6.htm"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a6.htm</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"In
October 2014, a hospital in Connecticut notified CDC and the Connecticut
Department of Public Health of a <b><span style="color: red;">fatal case</span></b><b> of gastrointestinal mucormycosis in a
preterm infant. </b>... Local investigation revealed that <b>the infant had received a dietary supplement, ABC Dophilus Powder, for
7 days, beginning on day 1 of life.</b> <b>Unopened
bottles of ABC Dophilus Powder from the lot received by the infant were
cultured by the hospital microbiology laboratory; the samples yielded<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Rhizopus</i>species<i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>a mold capable of causing
mucormycosis<i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>CDC <span style="color: red;">later
confirmed </span>these isolates as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Rhizopus
oryzae.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Immunohistochemical
staining of the cecum tissue block locally and at CDC was positive for
mucormycetes.</b> Sequencing of fungal DNA recovered from the tissue block by
CDC identified the fungus as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Rhizopus
oryzae</i>, the same species of fungus recovered from the unopened dietary
supplement. ... <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dietary supplements <b><span style="color: red;">thought to have probiotic</span></b> effects have
been reported to reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis and
all-cause mortality in preterm infants ... although there <b><span style="color: red;">are concerns</span> that the <span style="color: red;">safety of the products</span> <span style="color: red;">has not</span> been adequately
documented</b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Dietary Supplements</b>",</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">2016, color and bolding added by me, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">US_FDA</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/X8EE8eOUwO" target="_blank" title="http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">fda.gov/Food/DietarySu</span></span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">pplements</span></span><span style="color: #0084b4; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">/</span></span></a> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are <span style="color: red;">prohibited </span>from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded.</b> That means that<b> these firms are <span style="color: red;">responsible </span>for evaluating<span style="color: red;"> the safety and labeling </span>of their products<span style="color: red;"> before marketing</span> </b>to <span style="color: red;"><b>ensure</b></span> that they meet all the requirements of DSHEA and FDA regulations. ... FDA is <b><span style="color: red;">responsible</span></b> for <b>taking action</b> against any adulterated or misbranded dietary supplement product <span style="color: red;"><b>after it reaches the market.</b></span>"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">For <b>probiotics and gluten</b>, please also see this blog post</span></div>
<a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/gluten-free.html" id="LPlnk114485"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/gluten-free.html</b></span></a>ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-24727873394759440252016-01-07T22:05:00.002-05:002017-07-03T14:27:04.486-04:00Onion, Garlic, Ginger as Health Remedies - UNPROVEN<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A number of anecdotal natural </span>remedies<span style="font-family: inherit;"> abound on the Internet. Here is what the most current research and information <b>actually</b> says!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">human "<b>liver injury..garlic supplementation</b>" 2017</span><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" /><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2591" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: #f6f6f6; color: blue;"><a class="" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jcpt.12558/abstract" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2594" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jcpt.12558/abstract</span></a></u><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" /><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Limited data ... metabolism and safety of garlic supplements ... first description ... liver injury ... garlic supplementation" </span><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" />Related<br style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" /><b>rat study</b> 2006<br style="background-color: #f6f6f6;" /><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2703" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16910057" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2707" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16910057</a></u><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Information ... effect of garlic on the liver and optimal dose of garlic to avoid liver damage is not known"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">"Effects
of Onion Juice on the Normal Flora of Eyelids and Conjunctiva in an Animal
Model", </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://jjmicrobiol.com/9678.fulltext"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://jjmicrobiol.com/9678.fulltext</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">it <b><span style="color: red;">appears</span></b>
that onion juice in the form of eye drops can serve as a new antimicrobial
therapy for ophthalmic diseases in future studies and our study <span style="color: red;"><b>may</b></span> be a <b><span style="color: red;">starting point</span></b> for further
investigations on this herb." = <b>UNPROVEN</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Comparative in vitro anti H2O2 activity and
antibacterial efficacy of garlic and immature onion bulbs against selected
human gammaproteobacterial pathogens</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://jocpr.com/vol7-iss3-2015/JCPR-2015-7-3-1734-1742.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://jocpr.com/vol7-iss3-2015/JCPR-2015-7-3-1734-1742.pdf</span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"It is concluded
that Garlic and Onion act as an antagonist to the gammaproteobacterial
pathogens studied here and <b>if experimented</b> <b>on</b> the synergistic action of both
these bulbs active compounds, it <b><span style="color: red;">might</span>
provide good results</b> in future. The <b>methanolic
extracts showed better results because polyphenols groups are extracted with
polar solvent like methanol and purity of extract is also maintained.</b> <b><span style="color: red;">Further investigation</span> of individual
phenolic compounds and <span style="color: red;">in vivo</span> antioxidant mechanisms <span style="color: red;">are required.</span></b> "
= <b>UNPROVEN<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Garlic: a review of potential therapeutic effects</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me<br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103721/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457031190525_3105" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103721/</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"In comparison with the antibacterial action of garlic, <b><span style="color: red;">very little work has been done to investigate its antiviral properties.</span></b> The <b>few studies</b> have reported that garlic extract showed <b><span style="color: red;">in vitro</span></b> activity <b>against influenza</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">There are insufficient clinical trials regarding the effects of garlic in preventing or treating the common cold.</span></b> ... <b>Although garlic is believed to be a safe substance,</b> long-term trials of reasonable duration would provide insights into the <b>possible side-effects of different garlic extracts.</b> <b>The safety of garlic should be tested especially in pregnant or breastfeeding women as well as in young children </b>... <b><span style="color: red;">Long-term and large trials are also needed to evaluate the differences in mortality, serious adverse events, and morbidity of cancer and cardiovascular diseases after garlic therapy.</span></b>" = <b>UNPROVEN and Note: in vitro - NOT in people! </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Garlic Revisited: Antimicrobial Activity of Allicin-Containing Garlic Extracts against Burkholderia cepacia Complex</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112726" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457023840821_2562" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112726</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />"Our investigation<span style="color: red;"> <b>suggests</b></span> that <b><span style="color: red;">further work is required to comprehensively describe the antimicrobial mechanisms of allicin and to assess allicin-containing formulations as </span><span style="color: red;">adjuncts</span><span style="color: red;"> to conventional antimicrobial agents</span></b> presently used against this challenging group of bacterial pathogens." = <b>UNPROVEN</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Antimicrobial Activity of Onion and Ginger
against two Food Borne Pathogens Escherichia Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">".
2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://medcraveonline.com/MOJFPT/MOJFPT-01-00021.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://medcraveonline.com/MOJFPT/MOJFPT-01-00021.pdf</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Recent research
conducted on the antimicrobial effect of ginger and onion showed weak to medium
antibacterial properties ... <b>Onion
showed good antimicrobial properties against S.aureus ... but was not all that
effective against E.coli. Ginger showed very poor antimicrobial properties
against either of the organisms</b>. <b>... </b> important to note that the experiment was
affected by various factors which include concentration of spice extracts,
volume of agar, and concentration of culture and incubation times. <b><span style="color: red;">Future
studies should be conducted in a more controlled environment were these factors
are constant.</span> </b>Also future research should observe if the phytochemicals present
in spices showed synergetic or antagonistic properties against each other." = <b>UNPROVEN<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Phytochemical Screening and <span style="color: red;">Invitro</span>
Antibacterial Activity of Allium Cepa Extracts Against Methicillin Resistant
Staphylococcus Species</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.worldwidejournals.com/ijar/file.php?val=February_2015_1424258266__186.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.worldwidejournals.com/ijar/file.php?val=February_2015_1424258266__186.pdf</span></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"traditional use
of onion for infectious diseases and for controlling MRS species infection <span style="color: red;"><b>appears</b> </span>to be justified" = <b>UNPROVEN</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-42119454415918694712016-01-02T05:28:00.001-05:002016-05-04T09:09:17.126-04:00Oral Allergy Syndrome<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IMPORTANT information to know! DON'T be </span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fooled by false/misleading marketing claims!</span></span><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); color: #292f33; font-size: 13.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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the buzz all about?</b>"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, 2016, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/46DXv4URXO" target="_blank" title="http://lpcp.org/organic-permanent-make-up-pigment/"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">lpcp.org/organic-perman</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">ent-make-up-pigment/</span></span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"Whether or not a pigment is organic or inorganic </span><span style="color: red;"><b>will not</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">guarantee ... results ... or </span><b><span style="color: red;">how well</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> the procedure will turn out."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/wR5ODzOYEm" target="_blank" title="http://lpcp.org/about-us/"><span class="invisible"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">lpcp.org/about-us/</span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"We are
a non-profit association"</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">TRUE! It's best to do reputable research <i>ahead</i> of a planned </span>tattoo, and ask questions <i>before</i> you wind up with a problem!<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Allergy Syndrome</b>" - Food - Canadian Food Inspection Agency </span>",
2012 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Oral allergy syndrome is an allergic reaction to certain proteins in fruit, vegetables and nuts. This condition is called "oral allergy syndrome" because it usually affects the mouth and throat." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That also means you need to be careful about dyes that could set off life threatening allergies, know if you are at risk, whether it involves tattoos, or any other cosmetics colorants! Who best to consult with about your risk factors? Your allergist/immunologist because ...! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>New risks from ancient food dyes: cochineal red allergy</b>", 2014, full text, color and bolding added by me<br /><a href="http://www.eurannallergyimm.com/cont/journals-articles/341/volume-risks-from-ancient-food-dyes-907allasp1.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.eurannallergyimm.com/cont/journals-articles/341/volume-risks-from-ancient-food-dyes-907allasp1.pdf</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Although the risk of anaphylactic reactions <span style="color: red;">is well
known</span>,</b> since the nineties the<b> use of this additive seems to be nowadays on the rise</b></i><b>.</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">This case </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">confirms the actual risk of allergic reactions induced
by Carmine red</b> <b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">present</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> not only </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">in food</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, but also in </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">dietary
supplements</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> and </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">OTC drugs.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> Its increased use may expose the
population to a relevant risk of IgE sensitization. The possible
occurrence of symptoms some hours after the ingestion of the
dye is reported in the literature, and </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">may result in undiagnosed
cases labelled as “idiopathic anaphylaxis”.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">
The </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">natural Cochineal red, classified in Europe as E120, must
be distinguished from the synthetic form, the Cochineal Red A
also named Ponceau 4R (E124), belonging to the azo-dyes. </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">It is
known as histamine-liberator, but not as IgE sensitizing agent.
We believe that accurate, more specific and strict regulation on
labelling (both at an international and national level) is crucial
in safeguarding health. ... </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">recently the FDA ruled that food, drugs <span style="color: red;">and cosmetic
products</span> containing coloured additives like cochineal extracts
and carminic acid must be clearly labelled.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> In Europe, the regulation
on food labelling includes additives and dyes ... </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The system appears to be efficient at level of industrial products, while <b>handmade foods</b> are more at risk of undeclared manipulation."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Regarding the last sentence above - I have no doubt that would also apply to handmade, and crafted natural cosmetics regarding other natural dyes! It is about whether the manufacturers/marketers of these types of foods and cosmetics, who <b>are liable</b> are safety protocols, and otherwise - government regulations - compliant!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">""</span><b>Organic" Cosmetics</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">", 2015, color and bolding added by me </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>An ingredient’s source does <span style="color: red;">not</span> determine its safety.</b> ... many plants, <b>whether or not they are organically grown,</b> contain substances that <b>may be <span style="color: red;">toxic</span> or <span style="color: red;">allergenic</span></b>."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Tattoos & Permanent Makeup: Fact Sheet</b>" FDA, 2015, color and bolding added by me,<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productsingredients/products/ucm108530.htm" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productsingredients/products/ucm108530.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"FDA traditionally has not exercised regulatory authority for color additives on the pigments used in tattoo inks. <span style="color: red;"><b>The actual practice of tattooing is regulated by local jurisdictions</b>.</span> During 2003 and 2004, FDA became aware of more than <b>150</b> reports of adverse reactions in consumers to certain permanent makeup ink shades ... The inks associated with this outbreak were <b>voluntarily recalled by the company that marketed them in 2004.</b> ... 2012, we received reports of <b>infections</b> from contaminated inks,<span style="color: red;"><b> resulting in their recall and market withdrawal</b></span>. In addition, concerns raised by the scientific community regarding the pigments used in tattoo inks have prompted FDA to investigate their safe use. <b>FDA continues to evaluate the extent and severity of adverse events associated with tattooing and<span style="color: red;"> is conducting research on tattoo inks</span>.</b> As new information is assessed, we will consider whether additional actions are necessary to protect public health."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Color Additives and Cosmetics</b>", FDA, 2016, color and some bolding added by me,<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Colors exempt from certification. </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">These color additives are </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">obtained primarily from mineral, plant, or animal sources. </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">not</span> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">subject to batch certification requirements. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">However, they still are <span style="color: red;">considered artificial colors</span>, and when used in cosmetics or other FDA-regulated products</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">, they </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">must</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> comply with the </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">identity, specifications, uses, restrictions, and labeling requirements stated in the regulations</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>FDA Authority Over
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"<b><span style="color: red;">Companies and individuals</span> who <span style="color: red;">manufacture or market</span> cosmetics have a <span style="color: red;">legal responsibility </span>to <span style="color: red;">ensure the safety</span> of their products.</b> ... FDA is <b>not</b> authorized <b>to order recalls</b> of cosmetics, but we <b>do monitor</b> companies that <b>conduct a product recall</b> and <span style="color: red;"><b>may request a product recall</b></span> if the firm is <b>not willing to remove dangerous products from the market </b>without FDA's written request. FDA <b>may take regulatory action</b> <b>if we have reliable information</b> indicating that a cosmetic is <b>adulterated or misbranded.</b> ... FDA<b> can pursue action</b> through the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/"><span style="color: blue;">Department of Justice</span></a> in the federal court system<b> to remove adulterated and misbranded cosmetics</b> from the market. To prevent further shipment of an adulterated or misbranded product, FDA <span style="color: red;"><b>may request a federal district court to issue a restraining order</b></span> against the <b>manufacturer or distributor of the violative cosmetic.</b> Cosmetics that are <b>not in compliance with the law may be subject <span style="color: red;">to seizure</span></b>. ... FDA can and does<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ComplianceEnforcement/ucm136455.htm"><span style="color: blue;">inspect cosmetic manufacturing facilities</span></a></span> to assure cosmetic product safety and determine whether cosmetics are adulterated or misbranded"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm297894.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>U.S. Marshals seize unapproved and misbranded drug products at Missouri distributor</b></span></a>", 2012, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> "FDA requested the seizure ... because the products claim to treat or cure diseases but have not received FDA approval, and are not exempt from such approval requirements. Moreover ... the seized products contain ingredients that could cause toxic or allergic reactions in consumers sensitive to these ingredients. ... Chickweed Healing Salve contains comfrey, which may increase the risk of systemic toxicity"</span>ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-23640483047993101072015-12-21T16:19:00.001-05:002016-04-15T05:53:45.303-04:00More Quackery (FRAUD) to AVOID!<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Health Fraud products are articles of unproven effectiveness</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> <u><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/07/fraud-and-health.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/07/fraud-and-health.html</span></a></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks use fake: stats, comments, reviews, subscribers, views and more - ALL bs!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If a remedy is <b>UNPROVEN</b> but sold/marketed as being effective - that's <b>FRAUD </b>- and that's quackery (health terrorism) every day - in every way!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Oil of Oregano</b>", 2011, color and bolding added by me,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">ScienceBasedMed</span></span></a></span><br />
<a href="https://t.co/rhM8Eswbxr"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/oil-of-oregano/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">There is <span style="color: red;">no</span> published evidence to demonstrate</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... oil of oregano</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> is effective for any medical condition or illness.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">" There are other articles since then - all using research predating 2011 - bottom line - </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNPROVEN</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> as a remedy for <b>ANYTHING!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Oregano: Health Benefits, Side Effects</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me, <a href="https://twitter.com/mnt"><span style="color: blue;">@mnt</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b><span style="color: red;">important to note</span></b> that <span style="color: red;"><b>further</b></span> high quality study results <b><span style="color: red;">are necessary</span> to <span style="color: red;">confirm</span> these claims</b>" = <b>UNPROVEN </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the MNT link above</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Anti-Metastatic and Anti-Tumor Growth Effects of Origanummajorana on Highly Metastatic Human Breast Cancer Cells: Inhibition of NFκB Signaling and Reduction of Nitric Oxide Production</b>", 2013, bolding added by me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/RsaKs2eZOV"><span style="color: blue;">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0068808</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"our current study along with our previous findings, identify Origanum majorana as a <b>promising</b> chemopreventive and therapeutic <b>candidate</b> ... inhibits breast cancer growth and metastasis" <b>Promising </b>is still - <b>UNPROVEN!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Oil Pulling? UNPROVEN with a SERIOUS and dangerous RISK!</b></span><br />
<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/08/oil-pulling_16.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0084b4; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/08/oil-pulling_16.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"To date, scientific studies have<b><span style="color: red;"> not provided</span></b> the necessary clinical evidence to demonstrate ... oil pulling<b> reduces the incidence of dental caries, whitens teeth or improves oral health and well-being</b> ... articles in the media recommending oil pulling ... have not described potential adverse health effects ... <b><span style="color: red;">case reports of lipoid pneumonia ... diarrhea or upset stomach have been reported.</span></b>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> colloidal silver? </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>My dad takes colloidal silver for his health, but is it safe?</b>", <b><span style="color: red;">2014</span></b>, color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a><br /><a href="https://t.co/etQdo3vUHJ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/colloidal-silver/faq-20058061</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Colloidal silver <b><span style="color: red;">isn't</span></b> ... safe <span style="color: red;"><b>or</b> <b>effective</b></span> for <span style="color: red;"><b>any</b> </span>... <b>health claims</b> manufacturers make ... Rarely ... colloidal silver ... can cause possibly<b> irreversible serious health problems</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">kidney damage</span></b> ... neurological problems such as <b><span style="color: red;">seizures</span></b>" That is on top of medication interactions! <b>AVOID!</b> The only ones I know of recommending colloidal silver are - who else - quacks!</span><br />
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<b>Email Reply: </b>quack immune system </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">LOL!! TRUE! If quacks had the "immunity" they shill from products/diet they'd never get sick - cold/flu/other!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Colloidal Silver: What You Need To Know</b>", <span style="color: red;"><b>2016</b></span>, color and bolding added by me, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/NIH_NCCIH"><span style="color: blue;">@NIH_NCCIH</span></a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://nccih.nih.gov/health/silver" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://nccih.nih.gov/health/silver</span></a><span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Colloidal silver</b> can cause <b>serious side effects</b> ...<b><span style="color: red;"> isn’t safe</span> <span style="color: red;">or effective</span> for treating <span style="color: red;">any</span> <span style="color: red;">disease or condition.</span> </b>... Topical silver (used on the skin) has some appropriate medical uses, such as<b><span style="color: red;"> in bandages</span></b> and dressings to treat burns, skin wounds, or skin infections. ... also in medicines to prevent <b>conjunctivitis</b> (an eye condition) in newborns. ... <b><span style="color: red;">there are no</span> <span style="color: red;">legally marketed prescription or over-the-counter drugs containing colloidal silver</span> <span style="color: red;">that are taken by mouth.</span></b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) in Newborns" </b>, <span style="color: red;"><b>2015</b></span>, bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">CDCgov</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/3Un9ggV5Fg"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.cdc.gov/conjunctivitis/newborns.html</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"In the <b><span style="color: red;">past</span></b>, silver nitrate was used; <span style="color: red;"><b>it has been mostly replaced </b></span>with antibiotic eye drops, such as erythromycin."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Neonatal Conjunctivitis</b>", <b><span style="color: red;">2015</span></b>, color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/Medscape" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">Medscape</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/9pmIHBgOql"><span style="color: blue;">http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1192190-overview</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Aseptic neonatal conjunctivitis most often is a <b><span style="color: red;">chemical conjunctivitis</span> <span style="color: red;">that</span> is <span style="color: red;">induced </span><span style="color: red;">by silver nitrate solution</span> </b>... used for ... infectious conjunctivitis. Chemical conjunctivitis is becoming <b>less common</b> owing to the use of erythromycin ointment or povidone iodide<span style="color: red;"><b> in place of silver nitrate </b></span><b><span style="color: red;">solution</span> </b>for the prophylaxis of infectious conjunctivitis." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>May 5, <span style="color: red;">2015</span>: Skin Care Business Convicted of Selling Misbranded, Unauthorized Medical Products</b>", color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.fda.gov/iceci/criminalinvestigations/ucm446600.htm" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/iceci/criminalinvestigations/ucm446600.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"The FDA has<b> <span style="color: red;">not approved</span> <span style="color: red;">drugs containing colloidal silver</span></b> due to <b><span style="color: red;">concerns over lack of effectiveness and side effects</span></b> ... discoloration of the skin resulting from an accumulation of silver or silver sulfide ... corporation faces a fine of up to $250,000.00 ...sentence imposed will be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Consumer Advisory: Dietary Supplements Containing Silver May Cause Permanent Discoloration of Skin and Mucous Membranes (Argyria)</b>", updated <b><span style="color: red;">2014</span></b>, color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/SafetyAlertsAdvisories/ucm184087.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460227044402_3262" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/SafetyAlertsAdvisories/ucm184087.htm</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Silver ingredients may be identified on the label of a dietary supplement</b> as<b> "colloidal silver" (a liquid suspension of tiny silver particles)</b>, "<b>colloidal silver protein,</b>" "<b>ionic silver</b>," "<b>native silver,</b>" "<b>silver,</b>" "<b>silver alginate,</b>" "<b>silver protein,</b>" "<b>mild silver protein,</b>" and "<b>true colloidal silver.</b>" ... <b>silver is a nonessential mineral <span style="color: red;">that has no known physiological functions or benefits </span>when taken orally.</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">It is unlawful for a manufacturer to represent a dietary supplement containing silver as able to prevent, diagnose, mitigate, treat, or cure any disease.</span></b>"</span> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Myoclonic
status epilepticus following repeated oral ingestion of colloidal silver</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">", </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">2003</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">, color and bolding added by me </span></span><br />
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man ... developed myoclonic status epilepticus <b>and coma</b> after </span><b><span style="color: red;">daily ingestion of colloidal
silver for 4 months</span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>... </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">he remained in a persistent vegetative state until his </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b>death</b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;"> 5.5 months later. </span><b><span style="color: red;">Silver products can cause
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><b>Silver Products for Medical Indications:
Risk-Benefit Assessment</b>", <span style="color: red;"><b>1996</b></span>, with photos, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<a href="http://mathsci.free.fr/toxic.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452532946457_2581" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://mathsci.free.fr/toxic.pdf</span></a><br />
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has </span><b style="color: #292f33;"><span style="color: red;">no known</span> physiologic function</b><span style="color: #292f33;"> and </span><b><span style="color: red;">should</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><b>not</b></span><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><b>be </b></span><b><span style="color: red;">promoted</span></b><b style="color: #292f33;"> </b><b><span style="color: red;">as an essential mineral supplement.</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;">
Recent promotional assertions made about the
effectiveness of these products in numerous diseases
</span><b style="color: #292f33;">remain unsubstantiated</b><span style="color: #292f33;">. ... indiscriminate use of silver </span><b style="color: #292f33;">can lead to<span style="color: red;">
irreversible toxicity</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> ... </span><b style="color: #292f33;"><span style="color: red;">risk exceeds</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> the
</span><span style="color: red;"><b>unsubstantiated benefit</b></span><span style="color: #292f33;"> for OTC silver-containing
products. Consequently, there are no FDA approved
CSP products available OTC." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Colloidal silver for conjunctivitis? <b>NO!</b> <b>Silver nitrate</b> was used in the <b><span style="color: red;">PAST</span></b> - replaced with better medications because of the <b><span style="color: red;">problem</span></b> it caused! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks <b>ONLY </b>research what other quacks say - and that is <b>ALL</b> bs! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I'm completely <b>unimpressed</b></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">by any quack presenting themselves in mostly heavily edited bs PR (public relations) as "warm"/"silly"/friendly. Some of the "remedies" quacks shill are not <b>only</b> unproven to have <b>any</b> health benefits but are also <b>well</b> <b>known</b> to be <b>toxic </b>and<b> avoided</b>. <b>All</b> of them are dangerous! Taking/using any of even the seemingly benign ones - unproven and fraudulent - can delay needed <b>real</b> medication(s), medical intervention for serious illnesses, and the result can be, and has been - harm/death.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quackery remains firmly rooted in the past - in denial of failures, unproven</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> effectiveness, rebranding old quackery, lying, misinforming - all to make money from </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">FRAUD</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">!</span></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-65993403490471874482015-11-29T10:57:00.002-05:002018-10-21T12:15:55.648-04:00DIY Alternative cold/flu remedies? NONE PROVEN to decongest you, shorten duration/cure - ALL bogus marketing!<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post.</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Quack "remedies" - 0
reputable evidence they work plus 0 cautions about them. The result can and has been harm/death - that's health terrorism!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Cold remedies: What works,
what doesn't, what can't hurt</b>", 2018, color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Combat stuffiness. <b>Over-the-counter
saline nasal drops and sprays can help relieve stuffiness</b> and congestion ... </span></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Antibiotics. These attack bacteria, but they're no help against cold viruses</b></span>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">human "<b>liver injury..garlic supplementation</b>" 2017</span></span></span><br />
<u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2591" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: blue;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jcpt.12558/abstract" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2594" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jcpt.12558/abstract</span></a></u><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #14171a; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Limited data ... metabolism and safety of garlic supplements ... first description ... liver injury ... garlic supplementation"
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rat study</b> 2006</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2703" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16910057" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499105122319_2707" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16910057</span></a></u></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">
"Information ... effect of garlic on the liver and optimal dose of garlic to avoid liver damage is not known"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 105%;">0 natural DIY (do-it-yourself) remedies proven to cure a cold/flu/shorten duration. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Staying hydrated makes sense - overdoing any additives can cause
side </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">effects, drug interactions!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Garlic</b>", 2016, bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/medlineplus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">medlineplus</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://nccih.nih.gov/health/garlic/ataglance.htm#cautions" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464816076428_3295" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://nccih.nih.gov/health/garlic/ataglance.htm#cautions</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Garlic used to medicate can be a
serious problem! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">garlic <b>may increase the risk of bleeding</b>. If you take an anticoagulant (blood thinner) such as <b>warfarin (Coumadin)</b> or if you need surgery, tell your health care provider if you’re taking or planning to take garlic dietary supplements. ... Garlic ... found to <b>interfere with ...effectiveness of some drugs, including saquinavir ...used to treat HIV infection</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks and natural cold/flu
"remedies" they've "read" online? Quacks read and use other quacks
as sources <b>NOT</b> reputable information! <b>AVOID health terrorists!</b></span></span></span></div>
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ingestion! Quacks have turned the <b>STILL PRELIMINARY</b> research into shilling recipes, ingredients for drinking bogus remedies (e.g. "tomato tea") with hot sauce, or hot
peppers added - <b>p</b></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.266667px;"><b>ure bs, and FRAUD</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">side effects of using capsaicin in the nose include <b>irritation, burning, sneezing and coughing</b> ... <b>studies did <span style="color: red;">not</span> have sufficient information to allow us to draw a conclusion about side effects</b> ... capsaicin ... option to try under <b><span style="color: red;">physician</span> </b>supervision ... </span></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Well-conducted randomised controlled trials are required </b></span>to further advance our understanding of the <b><span style="color: red;">effectiveness</span></b> of capsaicin " =<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">UNPROVEN</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><b>Flu and Colds: In Depth</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">", 2016, color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/NIH_NCCIH" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">NIH_NCCIH</span></span></a> </span></span><br />
<a href="https://nccih.nih.gov/health/flu/indepth" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539036655190_2618" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://nccih.nih.gov/health/flu/indepth</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: red;"><b>N</b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>o </b><b>complementary health approach</b> <b>has been shown to be helpful for the flu</b></span>. ... </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Examples of approaches that have been studied for the flu include: <b>Chinese herbal medicines</b> ... <b>Echinacea</b> <b>Elderberry </b>... <b>Vitamin C</b> <b>Vitamin D</b>"</span> - <b>All UNPROVEN </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following complementary health approaches have been studied for colds: ... <b>American Ginseng </b> <b>Echinacea</b> <b><span style="color: red;">Garlic</span></b> <b><span style="color: red;">Honey </span></b>... <b><span style="color: red;">Probiotics</span></b> ... <b>Vitamin C</b> <b>Zinc</b> ... In addition to the complementary approaches described ... several other approaches have been studied for colds. <b><span style="color: red;">In all instances, there is insufficient evidence to show whether these approaches help to prevent colds or relieve cold symptoms.</span></b> ... <b>Chinese herbal medicines</b> <b>Green tea</b> ... <b>Vitamin D</b> <b>Vitamin E</b>" - <b>UNPROVEN</b></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: red;">2018-2019 </span>Flu Season"</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">CDCgov</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>What should I do if I get sick with the flu</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">?</span></span></span></div>
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drugs are prescription drugs that can be used to treat flu illness. People at
<b>high risk </b>of <b>serious flu complications </b>(such as <b>children younger than 2 years</b>,
<b>adults 65 and older</b>, <b>pregnant women</b>, and people with <b>certain medical
conditions</b>) and people who are very sick with flu (such as those <b>hospitalized
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health care professional’s discretion. <b>Treating high risk people or people who
are very sick with flu with antiviral drugs is very important. ... Prompt treatment can mean the difference between having a milder
illness versus very serious illness that could result in a hospital stay.</b> <b>...</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Treatment with antivirals works best when begun within 48 hours of getting sick, but can still be beneficial when given later in the course of illness. Antiviral dru gs are effective across all age-and risk groups.</b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> <b>Studies show that antiviral drugs are </b><span style="color: red;"><b>under-prescribed for people who are at high risk of complications who get flu. </b></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Three FDA-approved antiviral medications are recommended for use during the 2018-2019 flu season: oseltamivir (available in generic versions and under the trade name Tamiflu®), zanamivir (Relenza®), and peramivir (Rapivab®)." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Flu complications some <b>VERY</b> serious, require <b>PROMPT MEDICAL</b> attention!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"When you get a bacterial infection with the flu, your symptoms may get better at first. Then they get worse ... <b>Call your doctor if you have a cough that won’t stop, a bad fever, or if you get shortness of breath or chest pains. </b>The doctor can do tests to find out if you have pneumonia. <b><span style="color: red;">Antibiotics can treat bacterial pneumonia, but these meds can't treat viral pneumonia.</span></b>" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Norovirus is a very contagious virus </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">that causes vomiting and diarrhea. People of all ages can get infected and sick with norovirus. ..</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">.You can get norovirus from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b>and<b> </b>then<b> </b>putting<b> </b>your unwashed hands in your mouth</span>. … <b>There is no specific medicine to treat people with norovirus illness. ... </b><b><span style="color: red;">Oral rehydration fluids that you can get over the counter are</span> <span style="color: red;">most helpful for mild dehydration</span>.</b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Gastroenteritis: First aid</b>", 2018, color and some bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">MayoClinic</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>"If you suspect gastroenteritis in yourself: Stop eating for a few hours</b> to let your stomach settle. <b>Drink plenty of liquids</b> ... a sports drink or water, to prevent dehydration. ... <b>Ease back into eating.</b> Gradually begin to eat <span style="color: red;"><b>bland</b></span>, easy-to-digest foods ... soda crackers, toast, gelatin, bananas, rice ... chicken. Stop eating if your nausea returns.<b> <span style="color: red;">Avoid</span> milk and dairy products, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and fatty ... <span style="color: red;">highly seasoned foods </span>for a few days.</b> ... <b>If you suspect gastroenteritis in your child:</b> ... When your child's vomiting stops, begin to offer small amounts of an <b><span style="color: red;">oral rehydration solution</span> </b>(CeraLyte, Enfalyte, Pedialyte). <b>Don't use</b> only water or only apple juice."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Oral Rehydration Solutions</b>", Government of Canada, 2016, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Oral rehydration solutions (ORS) are used to treat dehydration ... <b>Unlike other fluids, the ratio of the ingredients in an ORS matches what the body needs to recover</b> ... An ORS contains three ingredients: 1. </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Clean water that has been boiled or disinfected or from a commercially sealed bottle. 2. Electrolytes (also called “salts”), which are chemicals that your body needs to function properly. 3. Carbohydrates, usually in the form of sugar. ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Use commercially-available oral rehydration salts.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Homemade versions of ORS are <span style="color: red;">not </span>recommended to treat dehydration. These should <span style="color: red;">only</span> be used to help prevent or delay the onset of dehydration <span style="color: red;">on the way to seeking medical attention when commercial oral rehydration salts are not available</span>. ...</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> Packets of oral rehydration salts are <b>available in pharmacies in most countries</b>" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Hydration and chemical ingredients in
sport drinks: food safety in the European context</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">", 2015, color an bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Currently in the European context, <b>the legal
framework for the development of products, substances and health claims
concerning to sport products <span style="color: red;">is incomplete and scarce.</span></b> <b>Under these conditions,
there are many products with different ingredients out of European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) control <span style="color: red;">where claims are wrong due to no robust scientific
evidence and it can be dangerous for the health.</span></b> Further scientific evidence
should be constructed by new clinical trials in order to assist to the Experts
Commitees at EFSA for obtaining robust scientific opinions concerning to the
functional foods and the individual ingredients for sport population."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Some coconut waters on the market boast low sodium and sugar, and "misrepresented" (in link) health benefits yielded a class action law suit - settled for - millions of dollars! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Vita Coco coconut water settles class action lawsuit</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">", 2012 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>The <span style="color: red;">potassium content of coconut water</span> can be a<span style="color: red;"> very serious risk </span></b>if the drink is overused for hydration! Quacks, manufacturers, marketers, most media leave out the most serious cautions. Reputable doctors however, present well documented information that could save lives, as they did here!<br />"<b>Images and Case Reports in Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology<br />Death by Coconut</b>", 2013, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: red;"><b>consumed in excess, coconut water has been shown in case reports to cause severe hyperkalemia.</b>"</span> (<b>higher than normal potassium</b>) "He was playing tennis outdoors all day in temperatures in excess of 90° Fahrenheit. He reported drinking a total of eight 11-ounce bottles of coconut water throughout the day. ... <b><span style="color: red;">acute kidney injury and rhabdomyolysis,</span> his <span style="color: red;">potassium level </span>was <span style="color: red;">life-threatening.</span></b> ... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">O</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">ur case demonstrates the potential dangers associated with excessive consumption of potassium-rich coconut water."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Food borne illness can result from eating soft cheese, <b><span style="color: red;">even when it's pasteurized</span></b> ... because there's a possibility that soft cheese has been <b>contaminated by Listeria after pasteurization.</b> ... soft cheese's high moisture content makes it a good breeding ground for Listeria to multiply. </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Listeria is a bacterium that can lead to serious illness (listeriosis). When you're pregnant, this illness can cause miscarriage or stillbirth, or for your baby to be very sick when he/she is born. According to the BC Center for Disease Control, <b>pregnant women</b> are about <b>ten times more likely</b> to <b>get listeriosis</b> than the <b>general population</b>. ... there <b>have been cases in BC</b> where <b>eating soft pasteurized cheese</b> has led to <b>illness for mother and baby</b>. ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>What's the recommendation? </b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">To avoid this risk, it's recommended that pregnant women <b><span style="color: red;">avoid eating all uncooked soft cheese</span></b>, even if it's pasteurized. ... includes products like brie, camembert, feta, Mexican-style soft cheeses and <b>mould-ripened cheese</b> like gorgonzola. </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Foods containing these cheeses need to be cooked to an internal temperature of at least 74C (measured with a food thermometer) before they're eaten. ... also the case for</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile75.stm"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">other foods</b></span></a> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">that are at high risk for Listeria contamination. And of course, following</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthyeating/food-safety-pregnancy.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>safe food handling</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">practices is also an important step in preventing food borne illness. ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>What kinds of cheese are safe to eat during pregnancy? </b>...</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> lots of delicious cheeses that are considered safe to eat during pregnancy. ... a few:</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> Pasteurized <b>hard or firm cheese</b> such as cheddar, swiss, gouda, parmesan, brick, emmental, and provolone ...</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> Most <b>pasteurized semi-soft cheese</b> like mozzarella, havarti and monterey jack (<b><span style="color: red;">not</span></b> mould-ripened cheese like blue cheese)"</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quack "<b>Enzyme
Deficiency</b>" - 2003, bolding added by me, with FACTS! The SAME bs CLAIMS are on quack social
media/websites in 2015.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/6Em1VwGTUm" target="_blank" title="http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/mp.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/mp.html</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>"Fact ... "Food enzymes" are not
needed by the body, either for digestion or for any other purpose."</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Quacks say so - <b>Hippocrates</b> did
<b>NOT</b> - “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - more health
terrorism, lies!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/i2dN4NMAR3" target="_blank" title="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Tomato extract's heart effects
exaggerated</b>" - Health News - NHS Choices, 2014, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/NHSChoices" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">NHSChoices</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://t.co/fVx1y6A8bJ" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank" title="http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/06June/Pages/Tomato-extract-effects-exaggerated.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/06June/Pages/Tomato-extract-effects-exaggerated.aspx</span></span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"larger studies are
required to determine whether the effects shown here will have real health
benefits" - <b>UNPROVEN </b>There are <b>NO</b> superfoods except in marketing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Controlling </span>Cholesterol with Statins</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2017, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm293330.htm" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm293330.htm</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Statins have a well-established track record for reducing the risk for heart attacks and strokes"</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks try to scare people off
drugs onto their bogus remedies - more health terrorism - many natural
"remedies" have side effects plus interactions. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What do quacks try to use as
"evidence"? Anecdotes, questionable to say the LEAST
"testimonials" and</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the ravings
of - other quacks - <b>UNPROVEN!</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;">A problem in identifying a reaction to a product or ingredient can be labeling, which can have different names for identical ingredients. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;">A significant problem is company, quack use of preliminary, and older animal, and questionable human studies to make false or misleading claims, with no cautions. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><br /></span></span><span style="text-indent: 0cm;">With the "jury still out" on health benefits, safety, and dosage, there is <b>NO</b> reason to ingest a rose water drink at all<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, and cautions are warranted with other products</span>!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;"><b>Current</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Click on "Methyl eugenol" </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/standards#.Wz0JlfZFzJq" jslog="10929; track:click" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #2962ff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/standards#.Wz0JlfZFzJq</a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">then scroll down here,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ba0008; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/standards-library/open/23617#.Wz0LRvZFzJo" jslog="10929; track:click" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #2962ff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/standards-library/open/23617#.Wz0LRvZFzJo</a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">to "Note Box" under it highlighted for current restrictions. </span><br style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">"Critical effect ... CARCINOGENICITY"</span><br style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">& "frequently asked questions"
</span></span><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/frequently-asked-questions#.Wz0PAPZFzJo" jslog="10929; track:click" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #2962ff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.ifraorg.org/en-us/frequently-asked-questions#.Wz0PAPZFzJo</a></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
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"METHYL EUGENOL"</span></span><br />
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"(d) Other leave-on products and oral products ..."Maximum concentration in ready for use preparation ... </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(d)</span><span style="text-indent: 0cm; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 0.0002% ... v.3"</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">"Methyl eugenol is a suspect carcinogen ... Rose oil or absolute is the most common culprit ... </span><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Products containing mostly rose water can also fall foul of the regulations"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2e2e2e;">"<b style="font-style: italic;">Rosa damascena</b></span><span style="color: #2e2e2e;"><b> as holy
ancient herb with novel applications</b>", color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Rose essential oil </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">may cause sensitization in sensitive persons</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. ...</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><b style="font-family: inherit;">R. damascena</b></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> infusion ...</b><b style="font-family: inherit;"> may have hepatotoxic effects at extraordinary high doses.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Although, many studies demonstrate the medicinal applications of rose <span style="color: red;">in vitro</span> and in <span style="color: red;">animal models</span> ...</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">other large preclinical and clinical studies are needed</span> </b><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">for evaluating its potencies on different patients.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">" = </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNPROVEN </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">therapeutic benefits</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> in people! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">Assessment report on Rosa gallica L., Rosa centifolia L., Rosa damascena Mill., flos</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">",</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;"> color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">"In conclusion, traditional herbal medicinal products containing Rose flower ... can be registered in the following indications: </span><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #292f33;">1) Traditional herbal medicinal product ... mild inflammations of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa ... 2) relief of minor skin inflammation ... </span><b>in the absence of sufficient data ... use is intended only in adolescents, adults and elderly ... not recommended during pregnancy and lactation</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">no available data on genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity on Rose flower</span></b>"<span style="color: #292f33;"> See also </span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span lang="IT" style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The indications adopted by HMPC" "<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The use in children under 12 years of age is not recommended</b>.</span>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2014 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">"<b>Essential Oil Chemical Diversity of Forty-Four Rosa damascena Accessions from Ira</b>n"</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Results showed that the essential oils of these accessions had considerable variabilities for major and minor components."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.133333px; text-indent: 0cm;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.133333px; text-indent: 0cm;">A preliminary study on some potential toxic effects of Rosa damascena Mill</b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.133333px; text-indent: 0cm;">", a study on dogs, bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263662558_A_preliminary_study_on_some_potential_toxic_effects_of_Rosa_damascena_Mill" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513032512787_2321" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263662558_A_preliminary_study_on_some_potential_toxic_effects_of_Rosa_damascena_Mill</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Recent studies suggest a wide variety of therapeutic effects for R. damascena ... <b>little is known regarding potential toxic effects of this herbal medicine</b> ... results suggest minimal nephrotoxic or hepatotoxic effects for the <b>infusion</b> of R. damascena ... however, the medication may be hepatotoxic at extraordinary high doses ... <b>Further research is needed to identify the potentially toxic ingredients</b>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Interesting and honest</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1991</span></span><br />
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<span lang="RO"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span><b>Contact dermatitis from </b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>geraniol</b></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><b> in Bulgarian
rose oil</b><span style="color: #292f33;">", color added by me</span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="RO"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;"></span><a href="http://t.co/MZEUZvnBBH" target="_blank" title="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0536.1991.tb01726.x/abstract"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0536.1991.tb01726.x/abstract</span></span></a>
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<span lang="RO"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">"GERANIOL" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #14171a; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm; white-space: pre-wrap;">"In human patch test gerianol ... 32% concn was severely irritating ... 1979"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2002</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Allergic contact dermatitis following exposure to essential oils.</b>", full text, color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">"Keywords: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">Bulgarian rose oil; hand dermatitis; lavender oil; </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">natural therapist; occupational skin disease; ylang ylang oil ... Allergic contact dermatitis from the topical use of essential oils is not widely recognized as an occupational hazard. Four cases of allergic contact dermatitis to essential oils occurring in three aromatherapists and one chemist with a particular interest in aromatherapy are described ...<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;">Case 2 exhibited</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;">sensitivity to <span style="color: red;"><b>geraniol</b></span></span><span style="text-indent: 0cm;">" And from "Table 1 Results of patch tests"<b> <span style="color: red;">all 4 Cases</span></b> tested positive (sensitivity) to Bulgarian rose oil. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Allergic Contact Dermatitis to Cosmetics</b>", color and bolding added by me<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"In our series, we found 55 positive patch test results to perfumes ... 33 fragrances that caused sensitization from the specific series were <span style="color: red;"><b>geraniol (7 cases)</b></span>, hydroxycitronellal (4 cases) ... oak moss absolute (2 cases), eugenol (2 cases), <span style="color: red;"><b>Bulgarian rose oil (2 cases)</b></span>" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"<b>PATIENT
SHEET ROSA DAMASCENA EXTRACT</b>", bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Your patch testing results indicate that you have a contact allergy to ROSA DAMASCENA EXTRACT ... important that you familiarize yourself with this chemical and take steps to avoid coming in contact with it ... can be identified by different names, including:<b> Absolute bulgarian, Rose Oil, Rose De Mai oil, Attar of Rose, Rose oil, Bulgarian, Rose leaf oil </b>... This <b>may not be a complete list as manufacturers introduce and delete chemicals from their product lines</b>." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Updated 2016</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Fragrance
mix allergy</b>", color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/fragrance-allergy.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/fragrance-allergy.html</span></a>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Fragrance mix is a mixture
of 8 individual fragrances that is used to screen for fragrance allergy. The 8
listed are the most common allergy-causing fragrances that are used across many
products for their fragrant and flavouring properties ... <span style="color: red;"><b>Geraniol</b></span> ... <b><span style="color: red;">Sweet floral odour of rose</span></b> ...<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Constitutes a large portion of <span style="color: red;"><b>rose </b></span>and palmarose oil,
geranium oil, lavender oil, jasmine oil and citronella oil ...<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Present in over 250 essential
oils</span></b>" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;">2015</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Contact Dermatitis: A Practice
Parameter - Update 2015</b>", bolding added by me, <o:p></o:p></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AAAAI_org" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">AAAAI_org</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.aaaai.org/Aaaai/media/MediaLibrary/PDF%20Documents/Practice%20and%20Parameters/Contact-dermatitis-2015.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.aaaai.org/Aaaai/media/MediaLibrary/PDF%20Documents/Practice%20and%20Parameters/Contact-dermatitis-2015.pdf</span></a>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"These parameters are not designed for use by
the pharmaceutical industry in drug development or promotion ... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Botanicals” (such as tea tree oil, propolis,
and other essential oils) are plant extracts ... increasingly used as
additives to skin care products and are potential causes of CD. <b>It is important
that patients who are allergic to fragrance also be made aware of the potential
dangers of cosmetic products that may contain plant extracts and patients
should also be counseled that “natural products” does not equate with safety.</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Essential Oils: A Poor Choice for Asthma (and a few other things)</b>", color and some bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/chadhayesmd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">chadhayesmd</span></span></a><span style="color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.chadhayesmd.com/essential-oils-are-a-poor-choice-for-asthma-and-a-few-other-things/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456622462361_2927" style="cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.chadhayesmd.com/essential-oils-are-a-poor-choice-for-asthma-and-a-few-other-things/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Asthma can also be triggered by “volatile organic compounds,” one example of which would be essential oils.</span> Advising parents to treat asthma by diffusing essential oils is dangerous and irresponsible, and it demonstrates a tremendous lack of understanding about the disease.</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">promoting unproven treatments for serious medical conditions amounts to practicing medicine without a license, which is illegal as well as dangerous</span></b> ... <b>As a physician, it scares me. ... because there are people out there treating serious conditions that <span style="color: red;">they know nothing about with treatments that have no data to show that they are safe or effective</span></b><span style="color: red;"><b>–</b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">because our children’s health is at risk.</span>"<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">2013</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Allergic
Contact Dermatitis to Plant Extracts in Cosmetics</b>", bolding added by me </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;">"Specific</span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;">botanicals implicated in causing cosmetic contact
dermatitis include ... <b>tea tree oil</b>, <b>peppermint</b>, <b>lavender, lichens, henna</b> ... </span>many plant extracts ...
reported to cause allergic contact dermatitis through cosmetic use in one or a
limited number of reports. These include <b>Aloe vera ... Azadirachta indica oil
(neem oil) ... Curcuma longa
(tumeric) ... Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) ... Hamamelis virginiana (witch
hazel) ... Olea europaea oil (olive oil) ... Ricinus communis oil (castor oil
plant) ... Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) ... Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) ... Thymus vulgaris (thyme)" Note: "tumeric" should read turmeric.</b></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2001</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Occupational Acute Anaphylactic
Reaction to Assault by Perfume Spray in the Face</b>", bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"no history of rashes, wheezing, allergies, or reactions to fragrances, soaps, or perfumes, and there was no history of asthma or eczema ... anaphylactic reaction and respiratory distress as a result of a deliberate assault with a perfume spray ...<b> many organic compounds present in perfumes have been documented to cause or exacerbate asthma, eczema, or dermatitis.</b> <b>This case represents an incident of acute asthmatic symptoms in a person with pollen allergies when exposed to a large amount of perfume</b>"</span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-79815607754629447872015-06-06T09:24:00.000-04:002018-12-02T15:44:12.993-05:00Fraud and Law<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>THE
EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF FRAUD VICTIMIZATION</b>", color and bolding added by me,<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/EtUmlS0wJ0" target="_blank" title="http://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/victim-witness/victim-info/financial-fraud"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/victim-witness/victim-info/financial-fraud</span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Fraud
crime is a personal violation</span></b>."<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 1pt none; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.65pt; padding: 0cm; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2013</span></o:p></span></div>
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VICTIM OR RECKLESS INVESTOR? – OUR RESPONSE TO BLAMING THE VICTIM</b>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.investigationcounsel.com/post/fraud-victim-or-reckless-investor-our-response-to-blaming-the-victim/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.investigationcounsel.com/post/fraud-victim-or-reckless-investor-our-response-to-blaming-the-victim/</span></a>, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/icpclaw" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">icpclaw</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Fraud victims should be aware that the issue of their alleged contributory negligence has been addressed by the courts ... the Supreme Court of Canada held that, with respect to torts of strict liability, such as conversion (theft), the claim itself “militates against the defence of contributory negligence”. ... more plainly, a fraud victim’s lack of due diligence or reckless investing is not a defence available to some who made intentional fraudulent misrepresentations to obtain a fraud victim’s money. ... <span style="color: red;"><b>a fraud victim’s lack of due diligence is not a defence to a fraudster who steals by lies</b>.</span>" - </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>YOUR</b> <b>lack of research</b> does <b>NOT</b> let <b>them</b> "off the hook" (from <b>being</b> <b>liable</b>) for <b>their crimes! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>April 4, 2016: Former Carlsbad Resident Jailed for Sale of Unapproved “Energy Wave” Medical Devices</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">SAN DIEGO – <b>Former Carlsbad resident David Perez was sentenced ... to 30 months in custody for selling unapproved “Energy Wave” medical devices over the internet and mailing them to customers throughout the United States</b>. ... <b><span style="color: red;">The Energy Wave device </span>consists of a micro-current frequency generator with a digital readout, two stainless steel cylinders, two personal application plates with connectors and lead wire for the cylinders and plates. ... <span style="color: red;">to treat specific conditions from abdominal pain, AIDS and diabetes to stroke, ulcer and worms.</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>... David Perez ... <b>admitted that he knew or should have known a number of his customers were vulnerable <span style="color: red;">because they had purchased the device in an attempt to cure cancer, </span>and that they were marketing the device without the proper FDA approvals.</b> <b><span style="color: red;">“It’s unconscionable to sell useless medical devices to critically ill people who are hoping for a miracle,” said U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy.</span> “This sentence reflects the serious nature of this crime, and our commitment to protecting those who are most vulnerable to being preyed<span style="color: red;"> upon by heartless predators.”</span></b> <b>“This investigation uncovered a serious public health threat <span style="color: red;">and should serve as a warning to those who put consumers at risk for their own financial gain,”</span></b> said Dave Shaw, special agent in charge for HSI San Diego. ... <b>“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service will continue to work with our partners in law enforcement to ensure that the U.S. Postal Service isn't used as a conduit for those criminals who seek to perpetrate medical quackery upon the American consumer,” said Robert Wemyss, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service - Los Angeles Division.</b> <b><span style="color: red;">“This type of crime takes advantage of the most vulnerable segment of the population to include the elderly and terminally ill.</span></b> <b>The protection of our citizens remains the cornerstone of our mission.”</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">When criminals sell misbranded devices not cleared by the FDA, they put users’ health at risk,” </span>said Lisa L. Malinowski, Special Agent in Charge, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations’ Los Angeles Field Office.</b>" </span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"January 20, 2016: Businessman Sentenced for Marketing and Selling Unapproved Remedies for Cancer", </span></span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>James Feijo, 68, owner and operator of Daniel Chapter One</b>, a Portsmouth, R.I., based company, <b><span style="color: red;">was sentenced yesterday to 6 months in federal prison to be followed by 6 months home confinement</span></b> for <b>marketing and selling products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and failing to pay more than $218,000 in employment taxes due the IRS</b> ... U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., also ordered Feijo <b><span style="color: red;">to serve 3 years supervised release</span> and to pay restitution in the amount of $218,408.04 owed to the IRS.</b> Feijo pleaded guilty on September 11, 2015, to introduction of a new unapproved drug and tax evasion. ... “The FDA’s drug approval process ensures that patients receive safe and effective medications,” said George M. Karavetsos, Director, FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations.<b><span style="color: red;"> “When criminals evade the FDA process and sell their non-FDA approved products to our most vulnerable consumers, we will take action to protect the public’s health.”</span></b> ... <b>Feijo admitted to the court that he engaged<span style="color: red;"> </span>in the marketing, sale and distribution of unapproved cancer treatment health products and supplements which were not generally recognized as safe and effective for use by the FDA.<span style="color: red;"> </span></b>Additionally, the products, as marketed, <span style="color: red;"><b>were not generally recognized as safe and effective by qualified experts for the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of cancer. </b></span>The products were marketed and sold through various websites, in-store advertisements, a call center, on Feijos’ daily radio program, and through the use of promotional materials and publications." </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>October 5, 2015: Manufacturer of Unapproved Medical Devices Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a> <b>Note: The link is currently unavailable.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/mW6zc0nM1i"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm467863.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>David Arthur ...</b> manufacturer of an unapproved medical device ... to serve 18 months in custody for his role in the distribution of the Energy Wave. <b><span style="color: red;">The Energy Wave</span></b>, a so-called Rife machine, consisted of <b>a micro-current frequency generator</b> with a digital readout and keypad, and two stainless steel cylinders and personal application plates with connections to ports on the generator. Users were provided with an operating manual and list of Auto Codes that set forth hundreds of digital device settings <b>for treatment of specific medical conditions, including</b> <b><span style="color: red;">AIDS, diabetes, stroke, ulcer, </span>and<span style="color: red;"> worm infection</span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span> ... Arthur was also<b> fined $3,000</b> and <b>ordered to forfeit $30,000.</b> ... <b>U.S. Attorney Duffy </b>stated ... <b>“</b><b>This case demonstrates <span style="color: red;">our commitment to protecting the sick and vulnerable </span>from those who would prey upon them and offer expensive miracle cures which <span style="color: red;">have not been proven</span> to be <span style="color: red;">safe and effective</span> for use.</b><b>”</b>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> "<b>October 28, 2015: Seller of “Miracle Mineral Solution” Sentenced to Prison for Marketing Toxic Chemical as a Miracle Cure</b>", color and bolding added by me, <a href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA"><span style="color: blue;">@US_FDA</span></a> <b>Note: The link is currently unavailable.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm469831.htm"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm469831.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>sentenced ... to more than four years in federal prison for selling industrial bleach as a miracle cure for numerous diseases and illnesses</b>, <b>including <span style="color: red;">cancer, AIDS, malaria, hepatitis, Lyme disease, asthma</span></b> <b>and</b> <b><span style="color: red;">the common cold</span></b> ... <b>Louis Daniel Smith</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">to serve 51 months in prison </span>to be followed<span style="color: red;"> </span>by<span style="color: red;"> </span>three years of supervised release.</b> ... Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. <b><span style="color: red;">“Consumers have the right to expect that the medicines that they purchase are safe and effective.” </span></b>... <b>Smith</b> <b>provided instructions for use of his product including</b> <b>that</b> <b>nausea, diarrhea and vomiting<span style="color: red;"> </span>were<span style="color: red;"> </span>all signs<span style="color: red;"> </span>that the<span style="color: red;"> miracle cure was working.</span></b> ... <b>instructions also stated</b> <b>that</b> <b><span style="color: red;">despite</span></b> <b>a risk of possible <span style="color: red;">brain damage</span>,</b> <b>the product<span style="color: red;"> might still be appropriate</span></b> <b>for</b> <b><span style="color: red;">pregnant women or infants</span></b> <b>who were seriously ill</b>." </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks are known for</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;"> stating side effects are signs their products are working to manipulate their victims in hopes of preventing them from reporting adverse reactions to authorities. </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I've actually read such bs in their replies to customer inquiries online. For more on that, please also see <span style="color: red;">"herxing"</span>, also known as <span style="color: red;">"Healing Crisis"</span> in this blog post </span></b><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457880566527_2587" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html</span></a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015<br />"<b>Seller of “Miracle Mineral Solution” Convicted for Marketing Toxic Chemical as a Miracle Cure</b>", color and bolding added by me, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept"><span style="color: blue;">@TheJusticeDept</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seller-miracle-mineral-solution-convicted-marketing-toxic-chemical-miracle-cure"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seller-miracle-mineral-solution-convicted-marketing-toxic-chemical-miracle-cure</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Louis Daniel Smith</b>, 45, was convicted ... of <b>conspiracy, smuggling, selling misbranded drugs and defrauding the United States</b>. Evidence at trial showed that Smith operated a business called “Project GreenLife” (PGL) from 2007 to 2011. PGL sold a product called “Miracle Mineral Supplement,” or <b><span style="color: red;">MMS</span></b>, over the Internet. ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>“This verdict demonstrates that the Department of Justice <span style="color: red;">will prosecute those who sell dangerous chemicals as miracle cures to sick people and their desperate loved ones,</span>” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.”</b>"</span></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-68323936512205081572015-05-06T21:52:00.001-04:002015-05-06T21:56:56.451-04:00Cruelty-free Cosmetics<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
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animal research labels.", 2015, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/thestarfishca" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">thestarfishca</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<a href="http://t.co/L8wujZLvXk" target="_blank" title="http://thestarfish.ca/home/2015/4/the-truth-about-animal-research-labels"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">thestarfish.ca/home/2015/4/th</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">e-truth-about-animal-research-labels</span></span></span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"these labels mean rather little, both in the <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Labeling/Claims/ucm2005202.htm">U.S.</a> and in <a href="http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/drugs-products-medicaments-produits/consumer-consommation/products-produits/advertising-publicite-eng.php">Canada</a>. Companies can say “Not Tested on Animals”, even if they actually do. There is no legal definition for animal research claims. Often, this means that the final cosmetic product is not tested on animals, but the individual ingredients are. Other types of labels ... have some meaning granted by a third party organization, but they do not guarantee that no animal testing was done in the creation of the hand soap, face wash, or body lotion."</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Questions and
Answers: Animal testing and cosmetics", 2013, updated 2015, Europe</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>With the full ban in place – can consumers be sure that cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients purchased in Europe were not subject to animal testing?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">With the testing and marketing ban in force <b>there can be no new animal testing for cosmetics purposes in the Union</b> – be it for cosmetics products or ingredients thereof - and <b>it is no longer possible to simply carry out testing for these purposes outside the Union and then use the data here to substantiate the safety of cosmetics.</b> Consumers can therefore be sure that the cosmetic use of an ingredient in Europe cannot be the reason for any new animal testing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">However, the majority of ingredients that go into cosmetics are ingredients that are also in use in many other consumer and industrial products, such as in pharmaceuticals, detergents, food ... They may therefore be subject to animal testing requirements under these respective legal frameworks."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Translation - no guarantee. And Note: The ban only applies to new animal testing for cosmetics, not prior testing.</span></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-57739637376245483072015-04-17T15:09:00.000-04:002016-12-22T12:44:33.274-05:00Gluten-free<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">To me, it is just as important when debunking quack claims, to offer people reputable sources, for reputable information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Celiac/coeliac is </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i>not</i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a modern disease - and that's been known for a</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i>very</i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">long time!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gluten sensitivity as a neurological illness</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">" 2002, bolding added by me</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/5/560.full" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480339013451_3194" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/5/560.full</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Aretaeus the Cappadocian, one of the most distinguished ancient Greek doctors of the <b>first century AD</b>..“on the coeliac diathesis”, was the <b>first description of coeliac disease</b> ... </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Aretaeus' books were first published in Latin in 1500 ...</b></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Coeliac disease ... <b>remained obscure until 1887</b> when Samuel Gee gave a lecture entitled </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the coeliac affection ... </em><span style="color: #333333;">Hospital for Sick Children ... London ... he acknowledged Areteaus' contribution and went on to give an accurate description of CD based on his own clinical observations."</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Also spelled celiac.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>New Study Finds that Many Probiotics Are Contaminated with Traces of Gluten</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"these findings <b>raise troubling questions</b> ...“Why is there any gluten in these products? <span style="color: red;"><b>Why should the consumer pay any attention to gluten-free labeling on such products?</b></span> ... will regulatory bodies take action to protect the public?”"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Many Probiotics Contain Traces of Gluten, Study Says</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me<br /><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/headline/many-probiotics-contain-traces-of-gluten-study-says/" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/headline/many-probiotics-contain-traces-of-gluten-study-says/</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Dr. Peter Green, professor of medicine and director of the <a href="http://celiacdiseasecenter.columbia.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">Celiac Disease Center</span></a>. “We found previously that about 25% of celiac patients <b><span style="color: red;">use supplements or non-traditional medical products </span>...</b> people [who used probiotics] <span style="color: red;"><b>had more symptoms compared to people who weren’t taking these supplements</b></span>”"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The study discussed above </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>108 Widespread Contamination of Probiotics With Gluten, Detected by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry</b>", 2015<br /><a href="http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(15)30097-4/abstract?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gastrojournal.org%2Farticle%2FS0016-5085%2815%2930097-4%2Fpdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451403557449_3130" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(15)30097-4/abstract?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gastrojournal.org%2Farticle%2FS0016-5085%2815%2930097-4%2Fpdf</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Do Not Disturb: Probiotics Aren't There Yet</b>" by Peter H.R. Green, MD (the same Dr. Peter Green quoted about the study above), 2015, color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AmerGastroAssn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">AmerGastroAssn</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Studies have used probiotics in patients with ... and celiac disease.</b> No doubt these specific probiotic samples were supplied by the manufacturer. One also wonders whether the probiotics available to consumers are of the same standard as those supplied to the investigators. ... <b>only five of the 22 probiotics we purchased in our study had an advisory that they should be refrigerated</b>. ... raises further questions about the viability of the organisms in the capsules that are supplied to the consumer. <span style="color: red;"><b>What is the shelf life? Does refrigeration make a difference?</b></span> <b>At what rate does viability decline and does this matter</b>, as dead microorganisms may convey some health benefit? ... are we there as yet with our currently available probiotic products? <b>I do not think so. </b>With the questions raised above, I wonder whether we should be advising the use of products that we know so little about, <b>including their manufacturing processes and efficacy.</b> <b>They are not regulated like the other medications we prescribe</b> ... maybe we should be advising patients to avoid them."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO)</b>", 2015, color added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>FAQS</b>"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/5pojE2gt8y" id="LPlnk859721"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.gfco.org/get-certified/faqs/</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Does gluten-free certification guarantee that a product is gluten-free? ... </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">mark assures that the finished product contains 10-ppm or less gluten ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: red;">No testing method is available that measures to zero.</b>"</span></span><br />
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<b>ANY</b> cosmetics company that claims "tested 100% gluten-free" products is<b><i> </i>NOT</b><i> </i>being truthful since such testing doesn't exist yet!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>ANY</b> cosmetics company that uses scare tactics, and or misleading, confusing labeling to sell their products is to me, disreputable period!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Think You’re Sensitive to Gluten? Think Again</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2015, bolding added by me</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">,</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/usnews"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">usnews</span></span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>86 percent of individuals who believed they were gluten sensitive could tolerate it</b>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity among Patients Perceiving Gluten-Related Symptoms.</b>", 2015</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Eighty six percent of patients reporting gluten-related symptoms have neither NCGS, nor CD, nor WA. Self-perceived gluten-related symptoms are rarely indicative of the presence of NCGS" </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Obsessive-compulsive disorder</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">", updated 2016, color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/medlineplus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">medlineplus</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000929.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458006810709_4297" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000929.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Doctors do not know the exact cause of OCD.</span> <b>Factors that <span style="color: red;">may</span> play a role include head injury, infections, and abnormal function in certain areas of the brain. Genes (family history)<span style="color: red;"> seems</span> to play a strong role.</b> OCD is treated using a combination of medication and behavioral therapy. ... Medicines used include antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. ... Talk therapy (cognitive behavioral therapy; CBT) has been shown to be effective for this disorder." </span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Still unknown causes make this a ripe disorder for quackery and in fact -<span style="color: red;"> it is</span> - which makes quack "remedies" for the causes of it e.g. "detox health food cleanses" which <span style="color: red;">ARE</span> scams - FRAUD upon FRAUD! </b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Please see this blog post for detox scams</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458008974822_2585"><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/04/detox-scams-2014.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458008974822_2582" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/04/detox-scams-2014.html</span></a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>exact cause has not been identified ...</b></span></span> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Abnormalities, or an imbalance in the neurotransmitters, or brain chemicals, including serotonin, dopamine or glutamine are thought to be involved in OCD.</b>" Regarding the last sentence = <b>UNPROVEN</b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br />"<b>CELIAC DISEASE AND MENTAL HEALTH: ANXIETY</b>", 2015, bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CeliacAwareness" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">CeliacAwareness</span></span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.celiaccentral.org/mental-health/Anxiety/614/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.celiaccentral.org/mental-health/Anxiety/614/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"researchers are beginning to recognize ... <b>association</b> between celiac disease and anxiety, <b>more research is needed to fully understand the relationship between these two conditions</b>."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Factors linked to development of celiac disease identified</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/medical_xpress" style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">medical_xpress</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"celiac disease in children is</span><b> <span style="color: red;">significantly</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> associated with </span><b style="color: #292f33;">sex of the child, maternal celiac disease, and type 1 diabetes</b><span style="color: #292f33;"> "</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Gluten and Food Labeling: FDA's Regulation of 'Gluten-Free' Claims</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" updated, 2015</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" <b>Myth 5: Kids with celiac disease have to use gluten free soap, shampoo and lotion. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Fact: Gluten cannot be absorbed through the skin, but parents need to be aware of hygiene products that are easily ingestible, especially when bathing younger children." </span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"<b>Action
Alert: Notifying the FDA about Misbranded Gluten-Free Products</b>" | Gluten
Free Watchdog, 2014 </span><a href="https://t.co/mZS2Hf1e4y" target="_blank" title="https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/blog/Action-Alert-Notifying-the-FDA-about-Misbranded-Gluten-Free-Products/37"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/blog/Action-Alert-Notifying-the-FDA-about-Misbranded-Gluten-Free-Products/37</span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Foods
Labeled Gluten-Free Must Now be in Compliance with the FDA Gluten-Free Labeling
Rule</b>" | Gluten Free Watchdog, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Are gluten-free standards too strict for manufacturers?</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" | Food Magazine:, 2014, bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Thirty years ago ... threshold sensitivity for gluten testing ... as high as 200ppm ...Ten years that ... dropped to 30ppm. Five years ago it ,,, dropped to 10ppm. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Nowadays it’s around 3ppm </span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">... Australian analytical laboratories are looking at new test methods that are around 10 times more sensitive ...</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"> Improvements in gluten detection means that a food which was gluten-free five years ago may not be gluten-free today, and a food that is gluten-free today may not be gluten-free next year.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>What Is Gluten-Free? Foods With Gluten-Free Label Still May Contain Some Gluten</b>", 2014, bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/aboutcomhealth" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">aboutcomhealth</span></span></a></span><br />
<a href="http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/copingwiththediet/a/What-Is-Gluten-Free-Foods-With-Gluten-Free-Label-Still-May-Contain-Some-Gluten.htm" id="LPlnk321342"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/copingwiththediet/a/What-Is-Gluten-Free-Foods-With-Gluten-Free-Label-Still-May-Contain-Some-Gluten.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Current testing technology can detect gluten down to about 3ppm</span></b> ... some specialty manufacturers produce products with less than 5ppm of gluten in them ...<span style="color: red;"> <b>if you're sensitive to lower levels of gluten, you may react to products tested to have less than 5ppm of gluten in them.</b></span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><b>Gluten-free skin and
beauty products: Extracting cash from the gullible</b></span>", 2014, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">ScienceBasedMed</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"overblown claims for “going gluten-free,” and ridiculous products such as
gluten-free skin care products"<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Should Your Children Avoid Gluten?</b>", 2013, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/nationwidekids" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">nationwidekids</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"gluten free diet does have potential deficiencies including fiber, calcium and other vitamins and minerals ... If your child is having any symptoms that make you suspicious that he or she may have celiac disease ... important to talk with your pediatrician. If your pediatrician has your child tested and it is it found that they have celiac disease, or if they think your child would benefit from a gluten free diet, work with him or her to find alternative sources of these nutrients to supplement their diets."</span><br />
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<a href="http://t.co/j06lMx5CgF" style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" target="_blank" title="http://700childrens.nationwidechildrens.org/author/ivorhill/"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://700childrens.nationwidechildrens.org/author/ivorhill/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Cosmetic Labelling Regulations</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">", 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"To date, we have been unable to find any toothpaste that contains gluten."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Therein lies the "rub" (quandary) to
quote Shakespeare. If a manufacturer is claiming gluten-free for certain products, can that
claim be trusted? </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">If you have celiac disease, or young children who do, it is best to c</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">onsult with your medically qualified specialist for recommendations.</span></span><br />
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-15898348641559542522015-04-15T15:23:00.000-04:002018-05-19T13:10:13.789-04:00Quackery<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br />
I will be adding to this post.</span><br />
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Quacks rely on 3 things </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">1. ignorance of health issues </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2. emotional manipulation to gain trust - so that </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">3. no one will check their lack of reputable evidence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><b>5 signs an adult quack is targeting your children</b><br />1. talking like a child<br />2. their personal woes with real medicine<br />3. "epiphany" + "cure"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">4. using trending: teen and pre-teen texting phrases, slang, acronyms, symbols, Emoji</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">5. dressing like teens, styling themselves to appear much younger than their actual age </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">1912</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from the Journal of the American Medical Association.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" Everything old is new again! You can search within the book, and view it all!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009666425" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009666425</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1922</span></span></span><br />
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CULTS</b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">", color and bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1517406/?page=1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477882627014_2649" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1517406/?page=1</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"parasites ... clinging to each successive stage of civilization ...</span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"> <b>in the Vedas of India, the classics of Greece and Rome, the early records of Egypt and Arabia</b> ... <b>quackery described, deplored, and condemned in terms almost of today</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></div>
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download both pages as a printable PDF file</b> - full text of the article - fascinating! Quackery 101 - published <i>that</i> long ago, and it is <i>still</i> applicable today. For copyright and other information - see the top left of the page under the article author.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
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of the VIBE Machine</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@SkeptInquiry</span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/hard_pseudo_science_the_second_coming_of_the_vibe_machine/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/hard_pseudo_science_the_second_coming_of_the_vibe_machine/</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Crystals are repackaged as having “the combination of far infrared light,
negative ions</span></b></span> ... Elixirs, potions, and tonics are<b> <span style="color: red;">rebranded as the
“Wonder nutrient of the century-cellular liquid-food liquid minerals</span></b> ...
There was also a so-new-it’s-unnamed product; yet another device “invented by
Tesla” that Tesla didn’t seem to know about. ... salesperson ... he
didn’t use the word cure, but he did<b> use the phrases “cancer free” and
“completely free of any diseases. ... vendor was very cagey</b> ... talking
about the product ... <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">for good reason: we recognized it as a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b> <span style="color: red;">remake
of ... (VIBE) Machine recalled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2008</span></b>.</span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Medical Quackery PSA</b>", PSA is the acronym for Public Service Announcement, and this one is still valid today, uploaded 2010, credit for Tweeting the video, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SkepticalDDS" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">@</span>SkepticalDDS</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span><b><span style="color: red;">Z-rays</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;">" - </span><b style="color: #292f33;">rebranded now as crystal healing fraud for assorted
maladies</b><span style="color: #292f33;"> - the name was taken!</span></span></span></span><br />
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"<b>NOTICES OF JUDGMENT</b>" pdf on the U.S. National Library of Medicine website - regarding the Zerret Applicator and <span style="color: red;"><b>"Z-rays"</b></span> - Final Disposition - <span style="color: red;"><b>1950</b></span>, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/785837541131972608" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526749434251_2516" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/785837541131972608</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Claims included:</span></span> "Expanded Hydrogen Atoms" "natural healing force" "original force which activates every life form would be conducted into the body" "atomic energy" They didn't use the word chakras. It was not in vogue at that time. <b><span style="color: red;">The verdict was guilty, a motion for a new trial was denied, and jail sentences were imposed.</span></b> You can find the exact or almost the exact same wording regarding crystal "healing" on the Internet, just reworked for new victims. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Zerret Applicator <span style="color: red;"><b>(Z-rays)</b></span> case is </span>spot on as a precedent regarding<span style="font-family: inherit;"> crystal healing claims!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"adjudged case or
decision of a court of justice considered ... an example ... for an identical
or similar case afterwards arising or a similar<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thelawdictionary.org/question-of-law/" style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: blue; padding: 0cm;">question
of law</span></a></u><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>The history of quackery is important!</b> It tells you how and why recent quackery has evolved to "get around laws" and replace failed strategies. Rebranded fraud is still the exact same fraud! Want healthy positive vibes? Think pleasant thoughts, be kind! It's free!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>October 5, 2015: Manufacturer of Unapproved Medical Devices Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison</b>", color and bolding added by me, <a href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA"><span style="color: blue;">@US_FDA</span></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm467863.htm"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm467863.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>David Arthur ... </b>manufacturer of an unapproved medical device, was sentenced ... to serve 18 months in custody for his role in the distribution of the Energy Wave. <b><span style="color: red;">The Energy Wave</span></b>, a so-called Rife machine, consisted of <b>a micro-current frequency generator</b> with a digital readout and keypad, and two stainless steel cylinders and personal application plates with connections to ports on the generator. Users were provided with an operating manual and list of Auto Codes that set forth hundreds of digital device settings <b>for treatment of specific medical conditions,</b> <b><span style="color: red;">including AIDS, diabetes, stroke, ulcer, </span>and</b><span style="color: red;"><b> worm infection</b>.</span> ... Arthur was <b>also fined $3,000</b> and <b>ordered to forfeit $30,000.</b> ... <b>U.S. Attorney Duffy</b> stated ... <b>“</b><b>This case demonstrates <span style="color: red;">our commitment to protecting the sick and vulnerable</span> from those who would prey upon them and offer expensive miracle cures which<span style="color: red;"> have not been proven</span> to be <span style="color: red;">safe and effective</span> for use.</b><b>”</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2010</span></span></div>
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hyperactivity disorder</b>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477882627014_3022" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/</a> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"an analysis of historical literature suggests that <b>children presenting with symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity have previously been described by several authors during the last 200 years</b>"</span></div>
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Good news? </span>There's a growing "army" of <span style="color: red;">reputable</span>, evidence-based social media users, using awareness to clear the landmines of quackery for you.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333;">"Dermatologist cautions parents about misinformation on safety of children’s skin care products", </span></b><b style="color: #333333;"> </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333;">color and some bolding added by me,</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AADskin"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span class="u-linkcomplex-target"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">AADskin</span></span></span></a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/skin-care-product-safety"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/skin-care-product-safety</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">“</span>Parents who have read about concerns with
ingredients found in children’s skin care products sometimes make choices that ... <b>do more <span style="color: red;">harm</span> than good</b>,” said board-certified dermatologist Renee
Howard, MD, FAAD, associate clinical professor of dermatology, University of
California, San Francisco. “<b>These parents either don’t use the
doctor-recommended products on their child or they substitute with natural
products,</b> <b><span style="color: red;">only some</span></b> of which can be helpful.<b><span style="color: red;"> In children with eczema</span></b>, these
choices can <b><span style="color: red;">delay the healing process</span></b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">lead to skin infections</span></b>,
<span style="color: red;"><b>further</b> <b>sleep deprivation</b></span> ... disturbance ... <span style="color: red;"><b>learning delays</b>.</span>”</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></strong><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Are
“herbal” or “organic” skin care products a safer option?</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal;"> ...</span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"> “</span><span style="color: red;"><b>Natural
products aren’t necessarily safer</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"> ... </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">many have had </span><span style="color: red;">very limited</span><span style="color: #333333;"> testing</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">,” ... “<b>Some of these products may not be as effective as traditional
skin care products.”</b> ... plant compound </span><b style="color: #333333;">calendula</b><span style="color: #333333;"> is
commonly ... in “herbal” or “organic” skin care products,<b> </b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>including products
to treat eczema</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>.</b> ... </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">is</span><span style="color: red;"> not</span><span style="color: #333333;"> well tested</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.
“<b>Some studies</b> show calendula is anti-inflammatory, but it’s </span><b><span style="color: red;">not</span><span style="color: #333333;"> clear</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> how much
calendula <b>is in these products</b> and</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">how </span><span style="color: #333333;">effective</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> calendula is compared to
hydrocortisone – <b>a standard treatment for eczema</b>.” ... </span><strong style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: red;">How can parents get reliable
information on the safety of children’s skin care products?</span></strong><strong style="color: #333333;"> </strong><strong style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">... </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">Dr. Howard recommends parents</span><span style="color: red;"> <b>ask their child’s</b>
<b>pediatrician or dermatologist</b> <b>for advice on choosing skin care products</b> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">... </span><span style="color: red;"><b>have an open dialogue about any safety concerns</b>.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;"> ... “If
parents have <b>any questions or concerns</b>, they should </span><b style="color: #333333;">speak openly</b><span style="color: #333333;"> with their
child’s pediatrician or dermatologist. Board-certified dermatologists have
</span><b><span style="color: red;">years of training</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">, making them experts in all things related to the skin, hair
and nails.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">jeremy faust, <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyfaust"><span style="color: blue;">@JeremyFaust</span></a><br />"<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">YOU DON'T ACTUALLY <i>WANT</i> TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM</span></b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">"</span><b>Something to Sneeze At</b>"</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, color and some bolding added by me, </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">By </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyfaust"><span style="color: blue;">@JeremyFaust</span></a> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"people are taken in by the seemingly friendly ... <b>marketing </b>of ... products ... fork over their money for what <b>overwhelmingly amounts</b> to <b>snake oil</b> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>Boosting your immunity</b></span> is actually a <span style="color: red;"><b>pretty bad idea</b>.</span> Even if these remedy and prevention products did what they purport to, you wouldn't want them to." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wake Forrest Baptist</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/wakehealth" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">wakehealth</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Acne Can’t Be Prevented or Cured But It
Can Be Treated Effectively</b>"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.wakehealth.edu/Dermatology/Acne-Can-t-Be-Prevented-or-Cured-But-It-Can-Be-Treated-Effectively.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477882627014_3160" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;">http://www.wakehealth.edu/Dermatology/Acne-Can-t-Be-Prevented-or-Cured-But-It-Can-Be-Treated-Effectively.htm</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"research has shown that acne is not caused by dirty skin or by eating chocolate, pizza or greasy foods ... "</span><b><span style="color: red;">Just like with any condition, there isn’t a magic bullet</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> ... treatment depends on the severity of the acne, the type of acne, where it’s located, and the patient’s individual preference and motivation for treatment" ... Dermatologists today also have </span><b>advanced ways to treat scarring</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, including </span><b>chemical peels, microdermabrasion and laser technologies</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">" </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Complementary therapies for acne vulgaris</b>" "<b>Intervention Review</b>", color and bolding by me</span></div>
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<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009436.pub2/abstract" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458693287900_3320" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009436.pub2/abstract</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Some low-quality evidence from trials <span style="color: red;">suggest </span>that a unique low-glycemic load diet, tea tree oil and bee venom <span style="color: red;">could</span> reduce the number of skin lesions in acne vulgaris</b> ... lack ... <b>evidence to support the use of other complementary and alternative medicines like herbal medicine, acupuncture or wet cupping in the treatment of this condition</b>. Potential adverse effects exist for <b>herbal medicine</b>; <b>future studies will nevertheless <span style="color: red;">assess the safety of all these complementary and alternative treatments.</span></b> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>strength of the available evidence is weakened by the inherent limitations of the methodology and the quality of reporting in the included studies.</b> </span>Future studies should be designed to <b>ensure a low risk of bias and meet current standards for reporting clinical trials.</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">= </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNPROVEN safety and effectiveness - ALL! </b></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Observational study of Arctium lappa in the treatment of acne vulgaris</b>." Arctium lappa is also known as <b>burdock</b>, bolding added by me</span></span></div>
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931753" id="yiv2876690134yui_3_16_0_1_1458136725144_2603" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931753</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">uncontrolled</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> observational interventional study was conducted on human subjects ... "</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Further controlled, randomized studies with larger sample size are desirable</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" = </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNPROVEN</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> - and no kidding! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2016 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Compositae allergy</b>", color and bolding added by me<br /><a href="https://t.co/EeZ4c1ULny" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458139169908_2602" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.dermnetnz.org/dermatitis/compositae-allergy.html</a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458139169908_2604" style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Allergic symptoms have been reported <b>from <span style="color: red;">ingested </span>compositae</b> ... Case reports have described <a href="http://www.dermnetnz.org/reactions/angioedema.html"><span style="color: blue;">angioedema</span></a>, <a href="http://www.dermnetnz.org/reactions/urticaria.html"><span style="color: blue;">urticaria</span></a> and <b><span style="color: red;">systemic </span>contact dermatitis</b>." THAT is NOT "herxing"!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Burdock</b> is listed under "Common irritants"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Contact dermatitis</b>",<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/1TqnZjxuxJ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/contact-dermatitis/basics/causes/con-20032048</span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">THAT is NOT "herxing"! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015<br />Despite quack bs and <b>FRAUD</b> about <b>dandelion root</b> and <b>"detoxification"</b>, and it <b>"helping acne"</b> this is what the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has to say about dandelion.<br />"<b>Dandelion</b>", color and bolding added by me, "Precautions and "Possible Interactions" are offered too, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/UMMC" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">UMMC</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/dandelion" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458140585436_2612" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;">http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/dandelion</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b><span style="color: red;">So far, there have not been any quality scientific studies on dandelion.</span></b> ... Herbalists use dandelion root to detoxify the liver and gallbladder, and dandelion leaves to help kidney function. ... <b><span style="color: red;">Most scientific studies of dandelion have been in animals, not people.</span></b> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>Researchers need to see if dandelion will work in people.</b></span> ... <b>A few animal studies ...</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>suggest</b></span> that dandelion might help fight inflammation." = <b>UNPROVEN</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Human clinical trials on for cancer killing dandelion extract</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/UWindsor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">UWindsor</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/o6dYrjpIGz" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1458146608897_2617" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2015-02-18/human-clinical-trials-cancer-killing-dandelion-extract</a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b><span style="color: red;">The dandelion root formula in use in the Pandey lab is about five times more concentrated than the extract that can be purchased over the counter</span></b> ... proven to kill leukemia, melanoma ... pancreatic cancer cells in lab mice." STILL <b>UNPROVEN</b> in people despite quack bs! And quack websites are running wild with it - to make sales - which amounts to <b>FRAUD!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"<b>State of the Art in Acne Scar Treatment</b>", </span><a data-mentioned-user-id="20724761" href="https://twitter.com/THEClinique" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">theclinique</span></span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2012</span></span></span><br />
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Scar Treatments Work </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">[DermTV.com Epi #458]"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ16XuPFOaA&feature=youtu.be" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477882627014_3443" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ16XuPFOaA&feature=youtu.be</span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">NO!!!</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> with details why, and
treatment options that can work well - the video is only </span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">3 minutes 13 seconds.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2008</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Glycolic Acid Peels Versus Salicylic–Mandelic Acid
Peels in Active Acne Vulgaris and Post-Acne Scarring and
Hyperpigmentation: A Comparative Study</b>", bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Because both of the peeling agents are <b>superficial peels</b>, they
serve only to resurface the upper layers of the epidermis. ... <b>neither of them</b> has
a deeper action that could lead to <b>significant improvement</b> in icepick, deep
boxcar, and rolling scars." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Email Reply:
</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">what is mandelic acid?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">An alpha hydroxy
acid (AHA) </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2008 - same study as above</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Glycolic Acid Peels Versus Salicylic–Mandelic Acid
Peels in Active Acne Vulgaris and Post-Acne Scarring and
Hyperpigmentation: A Comparative Study</b>", bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Mandelic acid ... Owing
to its large structure, its penetration as a chemical peeling agent <b>has not
been easily evaluated or used.</b>" </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Antimicrobial Activity of Mandelic Acid Against Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus: a Novel Finding with Important Practical Implications</b>", bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/h0voMLf7vn" target="_blank" title="http://idosi.org/wasj/wasj31(5)14/36.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://idosi.org/wasj/wasj31(5)14/36.pdf</span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"for ... <b>first time</b>, we showed ... antimicrobial effect ... MA ... and <b>encourage</b> ... <b>clinical studies</b> ... for treatment of MSR and other bacterial skin
infections." = <b>UNPROVEN!</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">That hasn't
stopped mandelic acid being touted some places and by quacks as a new
"super" ingredient to shill for big $ - <b>BOGUS!!!</b> Mandelic acid is a
"milder" AHA with apparently fewer side effects. However, research so
far is: lacking, of very poor quality, yet to be done!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quack acne "preventatives/cures"? <b>ALL BOGUS!</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - <b>0 reputable evidence to support them,</b> and if you look closely you can see when their skin photos FAIL! There are different ways to make skin look brighter, better, less scarred in photos - lighting, digital photo manipulation e.g. Photoshop - even for <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/video-editing.html"><span style="color: blue;"><b>videos</b></span></a>, and quacks USE them - <i><b>not</b> </i>always successfully! </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks use all kinds of manipulation to shill UNPROVEN (FRAUD) remedies - first and foremost - emotional to win your trust - copying old, known quack ploys! They also shill UNPROVEN products/services to gain sponsorship/"discounts" (deals)/affiliation - it's all about them - NOT caring about you/your family - <i>their</i> greater "recognition" - greed plus ego! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Quacks also use: "photo-ops" with pets, sometimes not even their own, and friend/family support ("testimonials") to emotionally manipulate victims.</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> I've read a quack say a family member would do ANYTHING for them - that's unfortunate - UNPROVEN health remedies are not ONLY fraud - they're DANGEROUS too! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0cm;">2015</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Amy Tuteur, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ATuteur" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">ATuteur</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Don't wait! Start your career in quackery today!</b>"</span></div>
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<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.skepticalob.com/2015/12/dont-wait-start-your-career-in-quackery-today.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.skepticalob.com/2015/12/dont-wait-start-your-career-in-quackery-today.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>1: Inspire fear</b> ... <b>2: Invoke a conspiracy </b> ... <b>3: Flatter the reader</b> ... <b>4: Explain </b>...<b> intuition is far more important than knowledge</b>" All of the bs covered used then (in 2011) - is still used now! The list is longer - those first 4 I seen EVERY quack I watch plus more use ALL the time - part of the quack (health terrorist) manipulation formula!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Quack methods are NOT new</b> - same bs - different day!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Twenty-Six Ways to Spot Quacks and Vitamin Pushers</b>"</span><br />
<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/spotquack.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/spotquack.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>9.</b> "<b>You Are in Danger of Being "Poisoned" by Ordinary Food Additives and Preservatives ...</b> <b>25. They Warn You Not to Trust Your Doctor</b>" The bs used to get you to TRUST them! I've seen ALL used by various quacks currently as part of their manipulation strategies - and the article was first written - years ago!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">David Kroll, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/davidkroll" style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@davidkroll</a></span><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://twitter.com/ktanimara"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">@</span>ktanimara</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span lang="EN">Similarly, I've seen homeopathy
rebranded as "nanomedicine" to piggyback on a real technological
advancement. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;">2015</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul Morgan,</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> <a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="https://twitter.com/drpaulmorgan"><span style="color: blue;">@drpaulmorgan</span></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"To anyone quoting John Benneth, please note the following"</span><br />
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<a href="http://t.co/yTphvqnfc7" target="_blank" title="http://americanloons.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/22-john-benneth.html?m=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://americanloons.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/22-john-benneth.html?m=1</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"<b>4 of the Biggest Quacks
Plaguing America with False Claims About Science</b>" | Alternet</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">,</span><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/cliffweathers"><span style="color: blue;">@cliffweathers</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://t.co/z11GnkvrX4" id="LPlnk715661" style="letter-spacing: 0.200000002980232px;" target="_blank" title="http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science#.VS6PimjFehk.twitter"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science#.VS6PimjFehk.twitter</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>7/20/15 - Fake Doctors Infect Hospitals</b>", bolding added by me<br /><a href="http://t.co/2mrrE4dXst"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.pharmacychoice.com/news/article.cfm?Article_ID=1409833</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"This year alone, at least 40 cases are currently in court involving quack doctors on prosecution. Some 32 cases are open ... eight of them are in Lagos. The state has been nicknamed 'the den of quack doctors'. It is a growing clique of increasing organisation and sophistication."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">EXCELLENT regarding prosecution!</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>2014 in cancer quackery: UK edition</b>"
- JREF, </span></span><a class="account-group js-user-profile-link" href="https://twitter.com/SceptiGuy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@SceptiGuy</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"There were at </span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">least three
successful prosecutions in 2014</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">, one in Essex and two in the City of
Westminster." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Quackery is a <b>worldwide problem with very old
roots.</b> Electronic media has simply elevated it to a more profitable, and vast
problem.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #444444;">"The Registrar, Medical and Dental
Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Dr Abdulmumini Ibrahim, said on Friday that <b>the
council had successfully prosecuted 23 quacks in the medical profession in
Nigeria</b> ... the council was poised to sanitise the profession to restore
standards. ... activities of quacks would no longer be tolerated. ... </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;">any training institution that falls short of standards, we
caution that institutions and if need be, we suspend its accreditation."</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://allafrica.com/c/-5Rc-r" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://allafrica.com/c/-5Rc-r</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Lyme Disease Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ)</b>" - reviewed and updated, some bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">CDCgov</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"What is "chronic Lyme
disease?""</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) ... <b>Because
of the confusion in how the term CLD is employed, experts in this field do not
support its use</b>"</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"></span></span></div>
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Syndrome</b>", 2015, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">CDCgov</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">The correct title - Information</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">"Editorial Commentary: Xenodiagnosis for
Posttreatment Lyme Disease Syndrome: Resolving the Conundrum or Adding to It?" - </span><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.133333340287209px;">from the CDC link above - full text</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Bottom line - animal study results used by quacks -
INCONCLUSIVE! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Lyme Disease:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Questionable Diagnosis and Treatment</b>", revised 2017, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.133333px;"><a href="http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lyme.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457703542486_4129" style="cursor: text; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lyme.html</span></a></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">"herxing,"</span></b> <b>a colloquial term for the Jarisch-Herxheimer (J-H) reaction.</b> <b>This reaction is an acute response to the release of toxic or biologically active molecules from certain types of bacteria <span style="color: red;">in the presence of some antibiotics.</span> </b>About 10% of patients treated for early Lyme disease experience a J-H reaction involving chills, fever, muscle pains, rapid heartbeat, and slight lowering of blood pressure during the first 24 hours of antibiotic therapy. These symptoms usually last for several hours, and require little more than aspirin and bed rest. <span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: red;">Yet many Lyme newsgroup participants write about a "herx" beginning days or weeks after the start of antibiotic therapy, and "herxing" for weeks at a time—often in a cyclic fashion.</span></b></span><b>" Herxing" events have even been likened to an "exorcism" that is "a necessary evil to be endured."</b> ... <b style="color: red;">Neurological symptoms, blurred vision, gastrointestinal upset, vomiting, and palpitations, for example, should be reported to a physician, not posted on the Internet with a request for comments.</b>"<b style="color: red;"> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;">I have read "herxing" (aka "Healing Crisis") applied by quacks and </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;">unscrupulous</span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> marketers, to everything from kombucha tea reactions to "organic" cosmetics "detox" = FRAUD! </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">There is absolutely no reputable scientific evidence to support such claims but there <span style="color: red;">are</span> considerable health risks, that can result from following their UNPROVEN safety and effectiveness recommendations.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">How
quackery can and does kill</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">1. toxic ingredients, medication interactions, dangerous "manipulations"
e.g. chiropractic, "torturous treatments" - various</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2. delay in REAL needed medication (including vaccines)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">3. murder of park rangers, and animals for unproven "remedies"</span><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><span style="color: #292f33;">See</span><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-real-scoop-on-ancient-cosmetics-and.html"><span style="color: blue;"><b>this</b></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;">
</span><span style="color: #292f33;">blog post.<span style="color: #292f33;"></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">Quackery
is not and never has been benign. Constantly in the news - helpless children
suffering and dying and this is NOT new - because people have been duped by
manipulative quacks. NO natural oil, or combinations thereof are</span><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/03/the-latest-on-skin-cancer-melanoma-and.html"><span style="color: blue;"><b>substitutes</b></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><span style="color: #292f33;">for
REGULATED SPF sunscreens - recommended strengths - 30+ - the lack of which is a
cancer risk. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> Why Ancient Egypt and quackery? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Years ago "no one could prove them wrong" but they could and did. For example, the quackery claim "cancer is a modern disease" has been disproved. Admitting that interferes with profit, and their scams unravel! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2013</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">"<b>Let
not thy food be confused with thy medicine: The Hippocratic misquotation</b>", color and bolding added by me </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Hippocrates medicine consists of more than 60 texts known as <span style="color: red;">The Hippocratic Corpus</span> (Corpus Hippocraticum).</b> This important text in the history of medicine expounds on the theory of diet. ...<b> <span style="color: red;">the phrase “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”... is nowhere to be seen.</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>This ... is not only a misquotation but it also leads to an essential misconception: in the Hippocratic medicine, even if food was closely linked to health and disease, the concept of food was not confused with that of medicine ... More research is warranted to ascertain the precise origin of the Hippocratic misquotation." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>Qualified medical doctors have always recognized healthy food as important, and REAL food and diet research is ongoing. Quacks have always recognized an opportunity to lie, misinform and run with it. The Hippocrates misquote is misused by quacks to turn certain foods into "superfoods" with FALSE health claims (no reputable evidence for them), to sell questionable, unnecessary, often harmful "natural" supplements, and products out of pure greed.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">2014</span></span></span></span><br />
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evidence say?</b>", bolding added by me, </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst"><span style="color: blue;">@EdzardErnst</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://edzardernst.com/2014/01/alternative-cancer-diets-what-does-the-evidence-say/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477882627014_5462" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;">http://edzardernst.com/2014/01/alternative-cancer-diets-what-does-the-evidence-say/</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">all of them </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">– are </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">not supported by good evidence</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">for efficacy as a treatment or prevention of any type of cancer. In addition, </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">they might also cause harm</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2016</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Kombucha tea, a "health" drink w/0 PROVEN benefits but REAL risks, another good M.D. tells you why</span>
</span></span><a href="https://healthybutsmart.com/kombucha-health-benefits/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483202491292_2524" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://healthybutsmart.com/kombucha-health-benefits/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"There are no studies to support an immune boosting effects of kombucha tea in humans ... There are definite risks to taking kombucha tea as an immune booster.</span>"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Kombucha</b>", Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, color and some bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<b>TTB regulations </b>on alcohol beverages<b> </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="color: red;">DO APPLY</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> to <b>any kombucha</b>
that has less than 0.5% </span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">alcohol by volume when bottled ... </b><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><b><span style="color: red;">alcohol content
increases to 0.5% or more alcohol by volume at any point afterwards</span></b></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> ... <b>result
of continued fermentation in the bottle.</b>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<b>General Kombucha Information</b>", some bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://ttb.gov/kombucha/kombucha-general.shtml" id="LPlnk735004" style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">http://ttb.gov/kombucha/kombucha-general.shtml</span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>K10. May I produce kombucha containing 0.5% or more alcohol by volume for my personal or family use without paying federal excise tax? </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Yes, if the kombucha is classified as beer. Federal law and TTB regulations allow an adult to produce, without payment of tax, <b>a limited amount of beer</b> for personal or family use and <b>not for sale.</b> The amount produced may not exceed 200 gallons per calendar year for households of two or more adults, or 100 gallons per calendar year if there is only one adult residing in the household. See <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/usc.cgi?ACTION=RETRIEVE&FILE=$xa$busc26.wais&start=19470355&SIZE=7550&TYPE=TEXT"><span style="color: blue;">Section 5053(e) of the IRC</span></a> and <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=b5cd0ee75ce734970c6231ea770b6d26&mc=true&r=PART&n=pt27.1.25#se27.1.25_1205"><span style="color: blue;">27 CFR 25.205</span></a> </span>for more information about the personal exemption for beer. ... Home producers of beer or wine should also contact<b> <a href="http://www.ttb.gov/wine/state-ABC.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">state and local alcohol regulatory authorities</span></a></b> to learn about their requirements."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #303018;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Kashi
and GT’s Kombucha Face Consumer Class Actions Over False Advertising Claims</b>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Millennium Products GT’s Kombucha & Synergy
Beverage Class Action Settlement</b>"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"Millennium Products, the makers of the popular
“<b>GT’s Kombucha</b>” and “GT Synergy” beverages, has reached a class action lawsuit
settlement over <b>failing to warn consumers that its “non-alcoholic” beverages
actually contain as much as</b> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">2-3% alcohol</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> – <b>equal to or greater than some brands
of beer.</b>"</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Beverage-maker cashes in on a resurgence in kombucha tea</b>", color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.arcamax.com/business/businessnews/s-1786985" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.arcamax.com/business/businessnews/s-1786985</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">""People are looking for healthier beverages, they're looking at ingredients and because there's a segment of consumers that are really interested in that,</span></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> kombucha just kind of becomes one of those niche products that is able to get a following.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">" ... with that growth comes increased scrutiny by federal regulators to keep kombucha's alcohol content under the limit acceptable for nonalcoholic beverages. ... </span></span><b style="font-family: inherit;">In the last few months, the industry seems to be in a similar situation as in 2010 after the TTB said it sent out warning letters to some kombucha producers about their alcohol levels.</b> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>"We have found product in the marketplace that exceeds the statutory limit after which something is considered an alcoholic beverage,"</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> said Hogue of the TTB. Other beverage-makers are starting to snap up kombucha businesses to <b>cash in on the industry's potential</b>.</span></span><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The health benefits however the alcohol issue is resolved and it
needs to be for PUBLIC HEALTH - medication interactions, and transparency - remain
<b>UNPROVEN, WITH RISKS!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">e.g. regarding medication</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Can you tell me what I should eat while I am taking warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven)? What foods should I avoid?</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="color: #9e5205; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thrombophlebitis/expert-answers/warfarin/faq-20058443" id="LPlnk84844" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thrombophlebitis/expert-answers/warfarin/faq-20058443</span></a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"One nutrient that can lessen warfarin's effectiveness is <b>vitamin K.</b> <b>It's important to be consistent in how much vitamin K you get daily.</b> ...<b><span style="color: red;">Certain drinks can increase the effect of warfarin, leading to bleeding problems.</span></b> <b>Avoid or drink only small amounts of these drinks when taking warfarin: <span style="color: red;">Cranberry juice Alcohol</span></b>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Not just in the U.S. and recently</b>, <b>kombucha
Recall July 29, 2015</b>, Australia, color and bolding added by me</span></span></span></div>
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<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/recalls/Pages/Kombucha.aspx" role="presentation" style="line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/recalls/Pages/Kombucha.aspx</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Buchi Kombucha (Roots in Nature Pty Ltd) is <span style="color: red;"><b>recalling all of its kombucha</b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> due to it containing alcohol at levels that may be potentially intoxicating.</span> <b>Consumption of this product may be potentially intoxicating.</b> Consumers should not drink this product and should return the products to the place of purchase for a full refund."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Kombucha
- Scientific Review on Usage, Dosage, Side Effects</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/Examinecom" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">Examinecom</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://examine.com/supplements/Kombucha/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://examine.com/supplements/Kombucha/</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Improper sanitation</b> and <b>too long of a fermentation period</b> <b>can contribute to kombucha’s <span style="color: red;">toxicity</span></b>, which can result in death. ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">health properties are</span></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"> <b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">not
very convincing ... </span></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: red;">it comes with a risk</span> not seen in other tea products </b>... <span style="color: red;"><b>it is not recommended </b></span>to drink<b><span style="color: red;"> kombucha for its health benefits.</span></b>"</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">It
is <b>NO</b> "superfood"!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>What is kombucha tea? Does it have any health benefits?</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/kombucha-tea/faq-20058126" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/kombucha-tea/faq-20058126</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b><span style="color: red;">there isn't good evidence that kombucha tea delivers on its health claims.</span></b> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>s</b></span><b><span style="color: red;">everal cases of harm have been reported. ...</span></b> <b><span style="color: red;">prudent </span>approach </b>is to <b><span style="color: red;">avoid </span>kombucha tea</b> until more definitive information is available." <b>I agree!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2013</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Hepatotoxic Botanicals - An Evidence-based Systematic Review</b>", 2013 Note: Margosa oil is Neem oil, bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JPPS/article/viewFile/17973/15135" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JPPS/article/viewFile/17973/15135</span></a><span style="color: red; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Kombucha has other names e.g. "Kombusha, Manchurian mushroom tea, Manchurian fungus tea or Kargasok tea" and is in this Review with a hepatitis case report and more "A case of hepatitis due to intake of
Kombusha drink was reported in a 53-year old
professor ... <b>He drank the preparation as a
half cup twice a day for two weeks </b>... he recovered
after discontinuation of the Kombusha drink."</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Kombucha: a systematic review of the clinical evidence.</b>", bolding added by me, Ernst E. is <a href="https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst"><span style="color: blue;">@EdzardErnst</span></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/avPTxf9uNy"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12808367</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="line-height: 17.9998px;">No clinical studies ... found ... efficacy of this remedy ...</span> case reports and case series raise doubts about the safety of kombucha.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">They include suspected liver damage, metabolic acidosis ... One fatality is on record."</b></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>A case of Kombucha tea toxicity.</b>" Both this study and the one above it are cited in the 2015 link above. Bolding added by me<br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19460826"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19460826</span></a><br /><b>"case reports exist of serious ... sometimes fatal, hepatic dysfunction and lactic acidosis within close proximity to ingestion."</b></span></span></span></div>
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stated in the 2015 source, kombucha tea can be made safely. However, <b><span style="color: red;">all claimed health benefits to date</span> are</b> <b><span style="color: red;">still</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><b>UNPROVEN</b></span>, as research continues. Despite
reputable research to the contrary, <b>quacks still promote kombucha tea as a "miracle
cure" based on anecdotes, lies, faulty research, and in far too many instances, with 0 cautions given. <span style="color: red;">AVOID!</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-74839728430366005092015-03-26T14:05:00.002-04:002017-06-16T19:23:07.771-04:00The Latest on Skin Cancer, melanoma, and Sunscreens <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><b>Practicing effective melanoma prevention</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">", 2017</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a class="" href="https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491489240876_2516" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma</a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Effective prevention of melanoma is two-fold: First, reduce and limit UV (ultraviolet) exposure both from natural sunlight and artificial (e.g., tanning beds) ... Second, identify and <a href="https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/diagnosing-melanoma/detection-screening"><span style="color: red;">diagnose melanoma</span></a> as early as possible."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a;">nano sunscreen toxicity clinically proven validated </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=nano+sunscreen+toxicity+clinically+proven+validated" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497655036180_2533" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=nano+sunscreen+toxicity+clinically+proven+validated</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Claims for = FRAUD </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<b>Sun Protection AND Vitamin D</b>", 2016, bolding added by me, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; white-space: nowrap;">@SkinCancerOrg</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
<a data-expanded-url="http://www.skincancer.org/healthy-lifestyle/vitamin-d/damage" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/OgFvyE3Sl8" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2747" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank" title="http://www.skincancer.org/healthy-lifestyle/vitamin-d/damage"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2748" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; line-height: 0;">http://www.</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2749" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">skincancer.org/healthy-lifest</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2750" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; line-height: 0;">yle/vitamin-d/damage</span></span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2751" style="background-color: white; color: blue; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Studies have <b>never found</b> that everyday sunscreen use leads to vitamin D insufficiency."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a; text-indent: 0cm;">"</span><b>Human
skin penetration and local effects of topical nano zinc oxide after
occlusion and barrier impairment</b>.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2016</span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27131753" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497655036180_2461" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27131753</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #14171a; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">"not associated with any measurable zinc oxide
penetration into, or local toxicity in the viable epidermis below the
application site"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<b>Why chemical free claims are harmful</b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="" href="http://chemistscorner.com/why-chemical-free-claims-are-harmful/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482258394775_2652" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;">http://chemistscorner.com/why-chemical-free-claims-are-harmful/</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; white-space: normal;">"There is no such thing as a chemical free cosmetic ... claims of “chemical free” sunscreens are complete fabrications!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>There is SPF swimwear for children of all ages, as well as adults. Check for the UPF rating!</b>
</span><a data-expanded-url="http://www.arpansa.gov.au//uv/testing.cfm" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/H0flgYinqw" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2815" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank" title="http://www.arpansa.gov.au//uv/testing.cfm"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2816" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2817" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; line-height: 0;">http://www.</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2818" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">arpansa.gov.au//uv/testing.cfm</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2819" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: #f5f8fa; line-height: 0; line-height: 0;"></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2820" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: #f5f8fa;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482255785751_2821" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span></span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<b>It's not up for </b></span><span class="twitter-hashflag-container" style="color: #292f33; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/debate?src=hash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">#debate</a><a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/debate?src=hash" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="twitter-hashflag" draggable="false" src="https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/US_Election_Debates_Additions/US_Election_Debates_Additions.png" style="border: 0px; height: 1.25em; padding: 0px 0.05em 0px 0.1em; vertical-align: -0.2em; width: 1.25em;" /></a></b></span><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> - there is no such thing as a safe tan.</b>", 2016</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a class="" href="https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma/why-is-tanning-dangerous?platform=hootsuite" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475177902088_2753" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma/why-is-tanning-dangerous?platform=hootsuite</a> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="29520332" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CureMelanoma" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.26px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">@CureMelanoma</span></a><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;">"base tan"..equivalent to an SPF of about 3..research shows tanning is, in fact, addictive" + more on misleading information</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<b>Skin cancer</b>", 2016, color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AADskin" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">AADskin</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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most common form of cancer in females age 15-29.</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">" </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33;">Allaying nanosunscreen fears</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">" June 6, 2016, with "Related" links included, including the "Perspectives" research article, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.doctorportal.com.au/mjainsight/2016/21/allaying-nanosunscreen-fears/?utm_source=mja&amp%3butm_medium=web&amp%3butm_campaign=related_content" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482258394775_2857" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.doctorportal.com.au/mjainsight/2016/21/allaying-nanosunscreen-fears/?utm_source=mja&amp%3butm_medium=web&amp%3butm_campaign=related_content</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"sunscreens <b>containing
nanoparticles</b> ... </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">not only</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"> ... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">safe</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">, but also ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>more effective</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"> protection than
<b>“regular” </b>sunscreens"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"Suntan and Sunburn", </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">2015, color and bolding added by me</span><b style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><a href="https://t.co/e18X7tUijJ" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5812" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="http://ja.ma/29eJKal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5813" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5814" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5815" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5816" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">ja.ma/29eJKal</span></span></span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467644618133_5817" style="color: blue; letter-spacing: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b>A suntan or sunburn is a sign that skin
has been damaged by ultraviolet (UV) rays.</b></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<b>Metal oxide sunscreens</b>", 2015
</span><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpp.12214/full" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491512405727_2523" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpp.12214/full</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide provide UV protection primarily via absorption of UV radiation ... not through significant reflection or scattering ... </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This study confirms ... provides quantitative data relating to the mechanism of action of the inorganic sunscreen filters</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">AAD statement on the safety of sunscreen</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2015, color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AADskin" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">AADskin</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/aad-statement-on-the-safety-of-sunscreen" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456919107174_2621" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.aad.org/media/news-releases/aad-statement-on-the-safety-of-sunscreen</a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b style="color: red;">Current scientific data does not support claims that sunscreen ingredients are toxic or a hazard to human health.</b> ...<b><span style="color: red;"> </span>evidence <span style="color: red;">supports</span> the benefits of applying sunscreen to minimize short- and long-term damage to the skin from UV radiation.</b>" </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Response to the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) 2015 Sunscreen Report</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me, </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-indent: 0cm; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@SkinCancerOrg</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.skincancer.org/media-and-press/press-release-2015/ewg" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456930080052_2879" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.skincancer.org/media-and-press/press-release-2015/ewg</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) recent claims about sunscreen ingredient safety</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, consumers should</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="color: red;">rest assured </b>...</span><b> sunscreen ingredients </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">oxybenzone </span><b>and </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">retinyl palmitate </span><b>are </b><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">safe and effective</span><b> when used as directed.</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">claims made by the EWG (which is not a scientific organization) are dangerous because they may dissuade the public from taking proper measures to protect themselves against the world’s most common cancer.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<b>The Faces of Pediatric Melanoma</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me,</span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MDAndersonNews" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MDAndersonNews</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span><b><span style="color: red;">Childhood melanoma
affects kids of all ages and all races.</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Indoors or outdoors, there's no such thing as a safe tan</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2014, color and bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://blogs.cancer.org/expertvoices/2014/05/22/indoors-or-outdoors-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-safe-tan/?_ga=1.198890412.2057404929.1465074847" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467473855811_2608" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="http://blogs.cancer.org/expertvoices/2014/05/22/indoors-or-outdoors-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-safe-tan/?_ga=1.198890412.2057404929.1465074847
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://blogs.cancer.org/expertvoices/2014/05/22/indoors-or-outdoors-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-safe-tan/?_ga=1.198890412.2057404929.1465074847</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"If you read no further, know this: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.96px;"><b style="line-height: 15.96px;"><span style="color: red;">there is no such thing as a safe tan</span></b><span style="color: #565454; line-height: 15.96px;">.</span><span style="color: #565454; line-height: 15.96px;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>Indoor tanning is just as dangerous, if not more, than tanning outside in the sun</b></span>." </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Alert over DIY organic sunscreens made of
oils: Doctors warn against following 'nonsense' internet advice that oils can
offer protection rating of up to 50</span></b></span>" 2014, color and bolding added by me,<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" data-aria-label-part="" href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MailOnline</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2702190/Alert-DIY-organic-sunscreens-oils-Doctors-warn-against-following-nonsense-internet-advice-oils-offer-protection-rating-50.html" id="yiv3548738317yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467853853010_2687" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2702190/Alert-DIY-organic-sunscreens-oils-Doctors-warn-against-following-nonsense-internet-advice-oils-offer-protection-rating-50.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.96px;">"alternative health ... advising people to use
coconut oil ... beeswax to protect their skin because shop-bought sunscreen has
‘toxic ingredients’... carrot seed oil ... red raspberry seed oil .</span><span style="color: #565454; line-height: 15.96px;">.. </span><span style="line-height: 15.96px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>‘Shop-bought sunscreens are made to meet certain
standards – under EU law they have to be safe to use and are tested to check
they give the protection claimed on the bottle. ...</b></span><b> </b></span><span style="line-height: 15.96px;"><b>‘With a homemade sunscreen, there’s no way of
knowing how much protection, if any, you get</b> <b>..</b></span><span style="line-height: 15.96px;"><b>.</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>Anyone who relies on something like this is putting
themselves at real risk of ... melanoma</b></span><b><span style="color: red;">.’</span></b></span><span style="color: #565454; line-height: 15.96px;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Skin cancer is </span><b>NOT</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> almost "unknown in the Philippines", another despicable</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><b>LIE</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> told by quacks and coconut oil marketers to shill+sell coconut oil as an alternative to Regulated SPF sunscreens!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Melanoma: Deadly skin cancer</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/cebudailynews" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">cebudailynews</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;">, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">"</span><b>NRA<span style="color: blue;">, </span></b></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cebu City, Philippines</b><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/41815/melanoma-deadly-skin-cancer" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457532685717_2825" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/41815/melanoma-deadly-skin-cancer</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"What are the types of skin cancers? The <b>three</b> are, <b>basal cell carcinoma (BCC)</b>, s<b>quamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma.</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>Basal cell</b></span> cancer, which rarely spreads, <b>unless neglected,</b> usually affects the face, <b><span style="color: red;">the part most exposed to the sun ...</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><b>BCC is the commonest skin cancer among Filipinos.</b></span> <b>Squamous cell cancer ... affects ... Filipinos ... usually parts that are NOT exposed to the sun, like legs and feet.</b> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>...</b> <b><span style="color: red;">melanoma ... is the most aggressive and deadliest of those three. ...</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><b>What are the prevention measures? </b></span><b><span style="color: red;">...</span></b> <span style="color: red;"><b>if you have to go out</b></span>, use an umbrella<b> <span style="color: red;">and sunscreen (SPF 85+ and higher are now available for the face) </span></b>...<span style="color: red;"><b>The use of at least SPF 30 or higher is preferred</b></span>, applied generously about 30 minutes before outdoor activities, and every two hours thereafter especially after swimming or sweating a lot."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Consumers confused about sunscreen SPF ratings</b>", 2013</span><br />
<a class="" href="http://dermatologytimes.modernmedicine.com/dermatology-times/content/tags/dermatology/consumers-confused-about-sunscreen-spf-ratings" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483303758120_2376" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://dermatologytimes.modernmedicine.com/dermatology-times/content/tags/dermatology/consumers-confused-about-sunscreen-spf-ratings</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"sunscreen..higher SPF..more safety..don’t rub..in..spread..over..skin” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Indoor Tanning: The Risks of Ultraviolet Rays</b>", 2015, bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/WLGlRmMyKY"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm186687.htm</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.25px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“Since lamps used in tanning beds emit UV radiation, the <b>use of indoor tanning devices also increases your risk of skin cancer</b>.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">The Tale of Tanning</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", 2011</span><br />
<a class="" href="http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/tanning/tale-of-tanning#.Vfl0s4Qmyys.twitter" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483303758120_2741" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/tanning/tale-of-tanning#.Vfl0s4Qmyys.twitter</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">truly health-conscious, style- savvy individuals have abandoned tanning</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">to embrace sun protection and their own natural skin tones"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Interview on the latest melanoma
treatments - Melanoma Institute Australia</b>", 2015</span></span><br />
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the 9 minute video!</b> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">My late uncle died years ago from metastasized melanoma. It eventually went to his brain. The fact modern
medicine can now target the melanoma itself is awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Sunscreen Facts</b>", 2015, color and bolding by me</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma/facts-about-sunscreen" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/preventing-melanoma/facts-about-sunscreen</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">,<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CureMelanoma" style="line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">CureMelanoma</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"><b>"No current published data has demonstrated adverse health effects on humans from the regular use of sunscreen."</b></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://www.melanoma.org/get-involved/support-the-mrf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456930080052_2542" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.melanoma.org/get-involved/support-the-mrf</span></a><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456930080052_2544" style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>What you need to know about
sunscreen (but were too afraid to ask)</b>" - Melanoma Institute Australia, December 2014, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MelanomaAus" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MelanomaAus</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Are nanoparticles safe?" From the webinar: Answer YES and MORE efficient for additive protection (e.g. zink)! Also from the webinar:</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">NO association of sunscreen use and lowered levels of Vitamin D - that is from research</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">. And you need a broad spectrum 30 SPF approved sunscreen! For a day at the beach? Sunscreen SPF 50+ which under new regulations is actually at "least SPF 60" - that surprised me but it is maximum protection. What also surprised me? </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Don't rub sunscreen into skin.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> I've done that, </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">even if it looks white. It will disappear - reason - you need a "uniform layer" on your skin.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Sunscreens: Safe and Effective?</b>", 2011, color and some bolding added by me,</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SkinCancerOrg"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkcomplex-target">SkinCancerOrg</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/dKMmEBJsnY" target="_blank" title="http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/sun-protection/sunscreen/sunscreens-safe-and-effective#.VU9RXZPnAlc.twitter"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">skincancer.org/prevention/sun</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">-protection/sunscreen/sunscreens-safe-and-effective#.VU9RXZPnAlc.twitter</span></span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Because the human body produces some vitamin D in response to the sun’s UV radiation, sunscreen use could </span><b style="color: #333333;">in theory</b><span style="color: #333333;"> reduce vitamin D levels. ... </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">several studies have found that subjects’ regular sunscreen use </span><span style="color: red;">did not</span><span style="color: #333333;"> prevent adequate vitamin D intake</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">...</span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"> also</span><span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"><span style="color: red;"> <b>important to note that our bodies can manufacture only a certain amount of vitamin D from the sun. </b></span><span style="color: #333333;">After reaching this limit within minutes</span><b style="color: #333333;">, </b><b><span style="color: red;">further UV exposure has a reverse effect, breaking down vitamin D into inactive compounds</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Nanoparticles</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">concern is that nanoparticles can be absorbed by the skin and harm living skin tissue. ... </span><b><span style="color: red;">current research indicates that fears about absorption are unwarranted</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">: Sunscreen is applied to the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of skin, which is made up of dead cells, and </span><b><span style="color: red;">multiple studies have shown that nanoparticles do not penetrate living skin</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">. </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">...</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> <b>in sunscreen formulas</b>, it appears that nanoparticles <b>tend to clump together to form larger-than-nano-sized particles</b>.</span>"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"The Skin Cancer Foundation is a non-profit
organization. Your donation is tax deductible."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>In vitro sun protection factor
determination of herbal oils used in cosmetics</b>", 2010, color and bolding added by me </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/P2ihl7llDg" target="_blank" title="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140123/"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">MC3140123/</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span><b><span style="color: red;">SPF</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> value of </span><b><span style="color: red;">olive oil</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> and </span><b><span style="color: red;">coconut oil</span></b><b style="color: #292f33;"> </b><span style="color: #292f33;">was ... around</span><b><span style="color: red;"> 8</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Red Raspberry Seed Oil</b>"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<a href="http://www.lotioncrafter.com/reference/oomah.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4f5c7f;">Oomah study</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> ...</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> indicates red raspberry seed oil<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em>may have the potential </em>to act as a broad-spectrum UV-A and UV-B shield ... <strong>it should, by no means, be relied upon without further independent testing. </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">... </span></strong></span><strong><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">We do not endorse or recommend ... Red Raspberry
Seed Oil be combined with Coconut Oil and Carrot Seed Oil as a DIY
sunscreen. Without testing, it is impossible to know the SPF of such a
combination and the use of untested sunscreen products can result in severe
burns!"</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">RESPONSIBLE
and honest! Kudos! (the study, dated 2000 is linked) </span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><b>"Mineral Makeup</b> <b>- Fact vs Fiction</b>", 2014, color and bolding added by me, <o:p></o:p></span><a href="https://twitter.com/KJBennettBeauty" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">KJBennettBeauty</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://kjbennett.com/mineral-makeup-fact-fiction/" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://kjbennett.com/mineral-makeup-fact-fiction/</span></a><span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b><span style="color: red;">totally reckless of ... companies ... to lead people into believing ... they'll get sufficient UVA/UVB protection from a color cosmetic … ALONE</span></b>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #292f33;">"</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><b>Mineral Makeup:
Hype vs. Reality</b></span><b style="color: #292f33;">", </b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2012, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/W8cyQKmqKH" target="_blank" title="http://www.modernghana.com/lifestyle/3429/16/mineral-makeup-hype-vs-reality.html#.VTOec7pUil4.twitter"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.modernghana.com/lifestyle/3429/16/mineral-makeup-hype-vs-reality.html#.VTOec7pUil4.twitter</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“It's
sufficient for ... <b>running a few errands outside</b>”... <b>spending hours outdoors ... choose a sunscreen with an SPF 45.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“There <b>isn't any natural source of titanium
that's pure enough to be used in cosmetics</b> ... It's<b> all contaminated with things like mercury
and lead.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“I'd
like someone to show me a zinc oxide mine. ... “It doesn't exist.
<b>Zinc oxide is synthesized in the lab."</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: red;"><b>Mineral
makeup has limitations - it's not "all natural" - ingredients are processed to remove
contaminants, create zink oxide, and there is not enough serious UV protection!</b></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"> -</span><span style="color: #292f33;"><b> NOT what marketers, those sponsored and quacks tell you about such products they promote/sell! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Email Reply:</b> Mineral oil an irritant?</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">Additives to it like fragrance can be. From </span><a href="http://t.co/FnMiX1pBTu" target="_blank" title="http://www.happi.com/contents/view_features/2012-03-01/truly-natural"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.happi.com/contents/view_features/2012-03-01/truly-natural</span></a><span style="color: #292f33;">,
2012, bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"long-term use and by multiple studies indicating that<b> both mineral
oil and petrolatum are not comedogens, irritants</b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">, allergens and certainly not carcinogens"</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">It can be difficult for consumers
to pinpoint ingredient(s) as culprits to reactions. Consulting with a
dermatologist is best if reactions are persistent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>A 10-Step Guide To Applying Split Thickness Skin Grafts</b></span>"<br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.podiatrytoday.com/10-step-guide-applying-split-thickness-skin-grafts" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479490500509_2728" style="cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.podiatrytoday.com/10-step-guide-applying-split-thickness-skin-grafts</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Lubrication with an abundance of mineral oil is also helpful" </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="color: #292f33;">Both links from are from </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2013/11/curly-hair-and-mineral-oil.html"><span style="color: blue;">this</span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"> blog post</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">"<b>Chemical Burns Treatment & Management Prehospital Care</b>",
2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://t.co/T8s2lmEgvo" target="_blank" title="http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/769336-treatment"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">emedicine.medscape.com/article/769336</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; text-decoration: none;">-treatment</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"If contamination with metallic lithium, sodium, potassium ... has occurred,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> irrigation with water can result in a chemical reaction that causes burns to worsen. In these situations the</span> area should be covered with mineral oil"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Proper wound care: How to minimize a scar</b>", 2015 </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="https://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/health-and-beauty/general-skin-care/proper-wound-care-minimize-a-scar" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">https://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/health-and-beauty/general-skin-care/proper-wound-care-minimize-a-scar</span></a>,<span style="color: blue;"> </span>with video,<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AADskin" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">@AADskin</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"To help the injured skin heal, use petroleum
jelly to keep the wound moist. Petroleum jelly prevents the wound from drying
out and forming a scab ... This will also help prevent a scar from getting too
large, deep or itchy. As long as the wound is cleaned daily, it is not
necessary to use anti-bacterial ointments." </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">Nothing
expensive, exotic, hard to find, or fanciful - just sound advice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33;">"<b>Worst Case Scenario: Treating Sunburn</b>", 2015</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/sunburn/worst-case-scenario-treating-sunburn#panel1-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/sunburn/worst-case-scenario-treating-sunburn#panel1-1</span></a>, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/SkinCancerOrg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">SkinCancerOrg</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Sunburn literally cooks the protein in the skin," says Zoe Draelos, MD, clinical associate professor of dermatology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ... Usually, sunburn does not require a doctor's care .... if you are running a fever, see a doctor ... would indicate possible heatstroke ... home remedy for soothing the skin ... using a washcloth soaked in cold skim milk ... coolness takes out the initial fire, and the milk creates a protein film that helps ease the ensuing discomfort." Great article with more information, and tips 1-6 to click through at the end of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">More on skim milk and sunburn</span></b> with <b><span style="color: red;">more detail </span></b>and variation</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Skim Milk Compress Soothes
Sunburned Skin</b>", 2011, color and bolding added by me</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/drafts/skim-milk-compress-soothes-sunburned-skin" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/drafts/skim-milk-compress-soothes-sunburned-skin</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/DermTV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">DermTV</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"from Neal B. Schultz, MD, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and owner of Park Avenue Skin Care ...</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Normally, the skin’s pH ... on the acidic side ... sunburn causes inflammation ... makes skin more alkaline ... <b><span style="color: red;">protein in the milk acts as a chemical buffer that helps reduce painful inflammation and restore the skin’s proper pH</span></b> ... as the milk evaporates ... it causes cooling ... makes dilated blood vessels contract ... reducing inflammation ... skim milk ... higher ratio of protein to fat ... protein that helps the healing process ... <b><span style="color: red;">mix equal amounts of skim milk and slightly warm water to create a room-temperature mixture</span> </b>... <b>cold compress might feel more soothing initially ... liquid would not evaporate as quickly ... wouldn’t get as much anti-inflammatory action</b> ... smooth cloth ... handkerchief or T-shirt ... washcloth’s rough texture would be too irritating"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><b><span style="color: red;">The video of information in the above article - poison ivy?</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> - </span></span><b><span style="color: red;">skim milk and water compresses</span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"> for that too.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>DermTV - Home Remedy for
Sunburnt and Irritated Skin [DermTV.Com Epi #015]</b>", uploaded 2009</span></span></div>
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r<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;">eply in Comments <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You bet it's true! I've been
recommending milk and water compresses to my patients for 30 years for relief
of inflamed, irritated or itchy skin. Of course it doesn't fix everything but
certainly helps reduce the discomfort, itch and inflammation."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Anti-inflammatory mechanisms of
bioactive milk proteins in the intestine of newborns.</b>", 2013, color and bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23660296" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23660296</span></a> </span></div>
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anti-inflammatory properties</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>... </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>both
human and bovine milk</b> ... <b>multitude of milk proteins act against the
inflammatory process according to both </b>in <b><span style="color: red;">vitro and in vivo studies.</span></b>"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Full text of the above and you can download it as a pdf - free of charge</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33;">"</span><b>Discredited by Scientists, Ignored by Media - It's Time for EWG to
Retire Decades Old "List"</b><span style="color: #292f33;"> ", 2015, bolding added by me, </span></span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/SafeProduce" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">SafeProduce</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Until 2010, EWG’s list had become
one of the main sources of misinformation about produce safety targeted toward
consumers – until the <b>Alliance for Food and Farming's (AFF) Management Board
said “no more” to disparaging these safe and healthy products and launched the
Safe Fruits and Veggies initiative </b>... To date, <b>no group, including the EWG,
has questioned any of the information found at safefruitsandveggies.com, which
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-16618770272009993112015-01-28T21:07:00.000-05:002015-06-19T16:55:59.909-04:00Various Email Questions I Ask, and Pertinent Only Sections of the Replies, from Sources<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I will be adding to this post.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Email:</b> I asked <b>Health Canada</b> via email (an online report - <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">you check for privacy,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"> </span><a data-expanded-url="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli-conform/prob-report-rapport/frm-0317-eng.php" href="http://t.co/WdvUaFgfCS" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli-conform/prob-report-rapport/frm-0317-eng.php"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli</span></span></span><span class="invisible" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">-conform/prob-report-rapport/frm-0317-eng.php</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></a>), if glutathione is approved in Canada for injections. I had read</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> this article,<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a href="http://t.co/g8vQKIcd5s" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank" title="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-skin-lightening-glutathione-injections-safe-and-effective/"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-skin-light</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">ening-glutathione-injections-safe-and-effective/</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. I sent them the article, and the second of the four links below: two, three and four, I found through research.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Reply: </b>This is what Health Canada replied in their email to me. All bolding is by me.</span><br />
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IV products nor have authorised its sale in Canada."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Ingredient Glutathione is classified as a natural health product (NHP) <b>under Schedule 1</b>, item 2 (an isolate) of the Natural Health Products Regulations. According to the definition of NHP, <b>under Schedule 2</b>, item 5 (A substance that is administered by puncturing the dermis), substances which are administered intravenously <b>are excluded natural health product substances</b> and <b>would be regulated under the Food and Drug Regulations as drugs.</b>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which means</b>: (<b>not</b> a quote from the email reply)
The advertising used some of the regulations but <b>not</b> the CORRECT one. That
appears to me to be - VERY MISLEADING!</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">See Also </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Philippines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"DOH-FDA
Advisory No. 2011-004 || Safety on the Off-Label Use of Glutathione Solution
for Injection (IV) ...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Warning to the Public:"</span></div>
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<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.fda.gov.ph/attachments/article/38960/Advisories_cosmetic_DOH-FDA%20Advisory%20No.%202011-004.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.fda.gov.ph/attachments/article/38960/Advisories_cosmetic_DOH-FDA%20Advisory%20No.%202011-004.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"FDA Advisory
No. 2014-022 || Consumer Information - Findings on Health Products Used by Spas
and Beauty, Skin or Wellness Clinics"</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://t.co/rjH7EuW3UP" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank" title="http://www.fda.gov.ph/advisories/cosmetic/150674-fda-advisory-no-2014-022"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">fda.gov.ph/advisories/cos</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">metic/150674-fda-advisory-no-2014-022 </span></span></span></a></div>
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whitening agent has <b>no</b> approval from the FDA"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">And 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"FDA Advisory No. 2014-045 || Public Warning against Advertisement, Promotion, Offer for Sale and Use of “LUXXE WHITENING, ENHANCED GLUTATHIONE”"<br /><a href="http://www.fda.gov.ph/advisories/163488-fda-advisory-no-2014-045"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov.ph/advisories/163488-fda-advisory-no-2014-045</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">And 2013</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">U.S. FDA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/2013/ucm354493.htm"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/2013/ucm354493.htm</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Your products identified above are <b>not</b> generally recognized as safe and effective for the above-referenced uses and, therefore, the products are “new drugs” ... New drugs may not be legally marketed in the U.S. without prior approval from FDA ... FDA approves a new drug on the basis of scientific data submitted by a drug sponsor to demonstrate that the drug is safe and effective.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Furthermore,</b> </span>your ... <b>products are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners. Therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes.</b> ... these products are misbranded ... in that the labeling for these drugs fails to bear adequate directions for their intended uses." </span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-8302644702534789422015-01-27T12:21:00.001-05:002017-01-10T18:39:49.982-05:00New Research on Hair Restoration or Growth<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I will be adding to this post - See also updates in this post</span></span><br />
<a class="" href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2013/12/new-research-on-hair-restoration-or.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484090583848_2749" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2013/12/new-research-on-hair-restoration-or.html</b></span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2016</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Create <b>NEW</b> hair follicles for previously <b>NOT</b> luxurious hair?
<b>NOT YET!</b> The research is linked.</span></span></div>
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<a class="" href="http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/gene-gray-hair-irf4-03670.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484090583848_2620" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/gene-gray-hair-irf4-03670.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2016</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Patient information: Hair loss in men and women (androgenetic alopecia) (Beyond the Basic</b>s)"</span><br />
<a href="http://www.uptodate.com/contents/hair-loss-in-men-and-women-androgenetic-alopecia-beyond-the-basics" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472769528243_2690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.uptodate.com/contents/hair-loss-in-men-and-women-androgenetic-alopecia-beyond-the-basics</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> Science+current treatments minus all fraud! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a class="" href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/smri-usc012715.php" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477924964273_2754" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/smri-usc012715.php</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The
research is linked in the article. Still early days, also only on <b><span style="color: red;">mice</span></b> so far but promising. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"<b>Hair loss</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hair-loss/basics/alternative-medicine/con-20027666" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477924964273_2883" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hair-loss/basics/alternative-medicine/con-20027666</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><span style="color: red;"><b>Some </b></span><span style="color: #292f33;">studies
report ... alopecia areata </span><b><span style="color: red;">may </span></b><span style="color: #292f33;">be helped by lavender oil ... thyme, rosemary ... cedar
wood. </span><span style="color: red;"><b>Further study is needed.</b></span><span style="color: #292f33;">" = <b>UNPROVEN</b></span></span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-42066475118628679322014-12-21T12:47:00.000-05:002016-11-15T11:42:24.220-05:00Various Email Questions and Replies<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> Is brushing damp to wet hair damaging?<br /><b>Yes!</b> <a href="http://t.co/6tM5ioC1oJ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.pantene.com/en-ca/hair-science/Pages/wet-hair.aspx</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Wet hair ... is very fragile ... easier for ... breakage to occur. Brushes have many teeth ... likely to hit a snag ... pull hair to a breaking point ... <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;">best way to detangle ... a wide-toothed comb or pick</span>" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> blow drying?<br /><a href="http://t.co/6tM5ioC1oJ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.pantene.com/en-ca/hair-science/Pages/wet-hair.aspx</span></a><br />"hair brush to blow-dry ... wet hair ... use ... vented brush that has the fewest teeth possible"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b style="color: #292f33;">Email Reply:</b> "cheese cake" for those on restricted diets/not, 2013, no bake,
gluten-free, dairy-free </span><a href="http://t.co/n68IVe6upc" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" target="_blank" title="http://blog.freepeople.com/2013/07/vegan-cheesecake-4th-july/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://blog.freepeople.com/2013/07/vegan-cheesecake-4th-july/</span></span></a><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Maple Syrup: Healthy or Unhealthy?</b>", 2015<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://authoritynutrition.com/maple-syrup/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://authoritynutrition.com/maple-syrup/</a>,</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AuthNutrition" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">AuthNutrition</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;">"number of antioxidant substances found in maple syrup, but the
amount is still low compared to the large amount of sugar." </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; text-indent: 0cm;">"maple syrup ... poor source of nutrients
compared to vegetables, fruits ... if you’re going to eat it, make sure to do
so in moderation only." "Maple syrup is about 2/3rds sucrose (as in
table sugar) ... 100 grams ... around 67 grams of sugar."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1/2 cup? Lots!<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.133333340287209px;">From this data on maple syrup, 2014</span></span><br />
<a class="" href="http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5602/2" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5602/2</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Total sugars "1 cup - 192" - half that - 96, so the above calculation is right!</span><span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So while that recipe for "cheese cake" sounds and may taste great, there
is quite a bit of natural sugar in the <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/7348/2"><span style="color: blue;">dates</span></a> </span>-<span style="color: blue;"> "</span>1 date - 16g"<span style="color: blue;"> </span>(in the crust), and a LOT in the maple syrup!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Dried Fruit: Good or Bad?</b>", 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="" href="http://authoritynutrition.com/dried-fruit-good-or-bad/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://authoritynutrition.com/dried-fruit-good-or-bad/</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Dried fruit is relatively high in calories and sugar. Common dried fruits contain 38–66% sugar ... eating too much of them may contribute to weight gain and various health problems."</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>WHO calls on countries to reduce sugars intake among adults
and children</b>", 2015<span style="color: #292f33;"> </span><a href="http://t.co/BelhWerLLX" target="_blank" title="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/#.VaJnVqSQkIw.twitter"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/#.VaJnVqSQkIw.twitter</span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">"</span>new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake ...</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams ... per day would
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GIBSON AND THE FAILURE TO FACT CHECK</b>", 2015</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sent to me via email regarding Belle's "epiphany". Note: This link is not currently working - that however does not change the following. Anyone who had an "epiphany" that led
them to sell items for health or promote "medicine" with no reputable evidence?
They are cashing in on quackery, and are a quack! Lately, I have read and seen quacks do just that. They have <i>embraced </i>"epiphanies" as yet another emotionally manipulative strategy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Email Reply:</b> May 8, 2016, Belle Gibson "epiphany" <br />Quacks I watch embraced them AFTER publicity about her!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Pass the Salt (But
Not That Pink Himalayan Stuff)"</b>, 2014,</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">ScienceBasedMed</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/8f12avynOW" target="_blank" title="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/pass-the-salt-but-not-that-pink-himalayan-stuff/"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">sciencebasedmedicine.org/pass-the-salt-</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">but-not-that-pink-himalayan-stuff/</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"NO evidence published in peer-reviewed journals that replacing white salt with pink salt makes a ... difference or leads to any improvement in health ... it includes a number of radioactive substances like radium, uranium, and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">polonium.
It also includes substances that act as poisons, like thallium. I wouldn’t be
worried, since the amounts are so small; but if anyone believes the trace
amounts of “good” minerals in Himalayan sea salt are good for you, why would
they not believe the trace amounts of poisons and radioactive substances are
bad for you? ... claim that it “promotes health and wellness” is false until
proven otherwise by legitimate clinical studies ... I’d just as soon my salt
didn’t contain uranium."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">The amounts of uranium, polonium may be harmless but no thanks too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some fans of pink salt attack lead in lipstick and <a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/04/aluminum-and-alzheimers-disease-2014.html"><span style="color: blue;">aluminum</span></a> in cookware, </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">antiperspirants</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a class="" href="http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductsIngredients/Products/ucm137224.htm#q2" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductsIngredients/Products/ucm137224.htm#q2</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">but are oddly silent about both substances in Himalayan pink salt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Below is a spectral analysis of Himalayan pink salt as it is typically found. The list shows all the trace minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in Himalayan salt."</span><br />
<a href="http://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469984729446_2677" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis</span></a></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Email Reply:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Hair models</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hair models usually have naturally thick hair. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hair extensions are also used in advertising.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/krGXUXmVNw"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1230008/Its-bad-hair-day-LOreal-model-Cheryl-Cole-accused-misleading-fans.html</span></a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I have seen pictures of hair
models when they were younger. Some had long hair - that actually looked
healthier than it looks in the ads!<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Gimpsuited greenscreen fluffer flicks shampoo model's hair</b>"</span><br />
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<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/06/26/gimpsuited-greenscreen-fluffer.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://boingboing.net/2014/06/26/gimpsuited-greenscreen-fluffer.html</span></a><br />
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windswept effects in ads and movies"<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/4BlPu9LslG" target="_blank" title="http://dailym.ai/1o9w66F"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">dailym.ai/1o9w66F</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN">Email ?:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: inherit;">
lemon oil 4 cleaning?</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"essential oil do not always possess
in-vitro antimicrobial activity against different ... bacterial strains."<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN">Source:</span></b><span lang="EN">
2014 -</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"> </span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2314853514000626" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2314853514000626</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">In vitro
is in the lab under controlled conditions - means in vivo outside the lab -
less so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">From
same source<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Almost similar antimicrobial results
were obtained from both essential oils of lemon samples by other reported
results"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Reason ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"variation of percentage of
active ... ingredients depends on the extraction process, samples process and
environmental conditions"<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Email Reply:</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> You create your own reality? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">So everything that happens to you is your fault. Good news for ISIS/Boko Haram, etc. Quacks love it!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">Quacks? That means they have nothing to prove like providing evidence
the products they are shilling actually work/that they are not committing fraud</span>.
Oh and you are to blame for natural disasters too - shame on you!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Adults are responsible for their actions. Villains rarely see
themselves as such because it requires a conscience, ethics most don't possess.</span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Email
Reply:</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"> Quacks quoting love, forgiveness platitudes</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Seen
that 2. 1st is a universal ploy, everyone needs love. 2nd hedging their bets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"hedge
your bets" ... to reduce or mitigate your risk." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #292f33;">Source:</b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></span></span><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42054/the-meaning-and-origin-of-hedge-your-bets" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42054/the-meaning-and-origin-of-hedge-your-bets</span></a></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Email Reply:</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> Naturopath
testing for food "sensitivity"/intolerance/allergies</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">G(IgG) testing offered is not supported period. Text bold added by me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<span style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"><b>There is</b> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><b>no body of research that supports the use of this test</b> ... </span></span><b>person with a true immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated food allergy ... at significant risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis, may ... not have elevated levels of specific IgG to their particular allergen ... may be inappropriately advised to reintroduce this potentially deadly item into their diet. </b>... <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">CSACI ... formal statement supporting</span><span style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">opinions ... by the American Academy of
Allergy Asthma and Immunology ... and by the European Academy of Allergy and
Clinical Immunology ... warn about the inappropriate measurement of
food-specific IgG or IgG4 to suggest the presence or potential of adverse
reactions to food. ... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"><b>blood testing of any kind cannot substitute for consultation with a trained and accredited medical professional such as an Allergist/Immunologist for the diagnosis and management of adverse reactions to food.</b></span>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Email Reply: </span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quinoa and celiac disease</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">“further studies are needed to determine the
long-term effects of quinoa consumption.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Source: </b>2014 - </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://t.co/6suMV1HnJ6" target="_blank" title="http://celiac.org/blog/2014/02/12/gluten-alternatives-effects-of-eating-quinoa-in-celiac-patients/"><span style="color: blue;">http://celiac.org/blog/2014/02/12/gluten-alternatives-effects-of-eating-quinoa-in-celiac-patients/</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the full text of the 2012 study, referred to in the link above, that also discusses celiac disease and oats. </span></span>Just Control f, and type oats.</span></div>
<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/96/2/337.full" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/96/2/337.full</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And there are other issues regarding quinoa
reported online </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">on several websites, not about just one brand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN"><b>Source example: </b>2010 - </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://t.co/Sy5rLwSgEX" target="_blank" title="http://embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.ca/2010/04/quinoa-killer.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.ca/2010/04/quinoa</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">It is wise if you have a strong negative reaction to any food, to
have a consultation with a <i>qualified </i>medical specialist. See the email reply above this one. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Email Reply: </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">Flower waters and food</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For food use, all I have seen are preserved with a dated shelf life (which is for unopened bottles only). Opened bottled water has a shelf life of 2 weeks or so, if kept refrigerated. They are regulated under food safety laws, e.g.<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/non-federally-registered/safe-food-production/guide/eng/1352824546303/1352824822033#s1-1-4" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/non-federally-registered/safe-food-production/guide/eng/1352824546303/1352824822033#s1-1-4</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243);">They are not regulated under food safety laws. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Preservation is also necessary
despite claims to the contrary. They cannot replace medicine!</span></span></div>
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-</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.naturalingredient.org/hydrosol_martin_watt.html#safety" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.naturalingredient.org/hydrosol_martin_watt.html#safety</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>See Also</b> 2006 - S<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">croll down text to read "Possible
microbiological dangers of hydrolysates or hydrolysats"</span></span><br />
<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="https://t.co/VILD2ZdebD" target="_blank" title="https://books.google.ca/books?id=rGQps9fQX1YC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=hydrosols+without+preservatives+safety&source=bl&ots=BoZqKDd6l6&sig=18gEHfTZBguIKP6esejI7CTE-YA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=herCVPagEYWoNs6-g7AJ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=hydrosols%20without%20preser"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">https://</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">books.google.ca/books?id=rGQps</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">9fQX1YC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=hydrosols+without+preservatives+safety&source=bl&ots=BoZqKDd6l6&sig=18gEHfTZBguIKP6esejI7CTE-YA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=herCVPagEYWoNs6-g7AJ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=hydrosols%20without%20preservatives%20safety&f=false </span></span></span></a><br />
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risks? Yes! Ask for microbiological purity testing evidence, and proceed with
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-56648874179789545432014-12-04T10:44:00.000-05:002015-05-21T20:48:46.867-04:00Known Allergens in Cosmetics<br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Awareness of known allergens means easier identification of one in a product, and testing you for it, if a reaction occurs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span><br />
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lipcare products"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">alba cera (Cera alba) = beeswax</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Interactions and cautions are included below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333;">Grade C - "C (Unclear or Conflicting Scientific Evidence)" = unproven effectiveness</span><br />
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-24377620650133541352014-11-30T21:50:00.000-05:002018-12-16T23:56:10.469-05:00The Toxicity of Herbs and Oils: Pets - A Departure from My Usual Posts for Those Who Have Pets <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #b00226;"></span><b></b><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Neem
oil: animals</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I knew toxicity existed for <b>neem</b> (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>aka: margosa, </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Azadirachta indica, A. indica</b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">) oil and mice from the research I had previously done for the post below this one</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>, 2008 </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://medind.nic.in/ibv/t08/i1/ibvt08i1p56.pdf" style="color: #9e5205;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">http://medind.nic.in/ibv/t08/i1/ibvt08i1p56.pdf</span></a></span><b>, </b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/11/neem-oil-margosa-oil-safety-and-uses.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/11/neem-oil-margosa-oil-safety-and-uses.html</b></span></a><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"> However, it is not the only one, and mice are not the only animals affected.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span>"Cats..Essential Oils"<br />
<a href="https://www.canadianveterinarians.net/documents/cats-and-essential-oils"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.canadianveterinarians.net/documents/cats-and-essential-oils</span></a><br />
"lack..information..many essential oils on..health..pets..reported cases..harm..death..Dogs..also susceptible..cats..much more so..Eucalyptus..Rose..Rosemary..Avoid..use..oils on..lists pending further research" <a href="https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/1074440898212057088"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/1074440898212057088</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>ESSENTIAL, 'HERBAL', OIL POISONING</b>", color and bolding added by me Note: the link is not currently on that server.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #222222;">"Essential Oils, volatile oils extracted from plants ... </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">components of 'herbal' medicines such as flea or tick treatments or other products </span><span style="color: red;">can be toxic in dogs and/or cats</span><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Melaleuca (Tea Tree) Oil, </span><b style="color: #222222;">Neem (Margosa) Oil</b><span style="color: #222222;">, Pennyroyal Oil, Potpourri Oil, Pine Oil, Peppermint Oil, Cinnamon Oil, Lemongrass Oil, Clove Oil, Thyme Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Rosemary Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, and d-Limonene have been in products associated with signs of toxicity."</span></span></span><br />
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from essential oil-containing natural flea products exempted from Environmental
Protection Agency regulations in dogs and cats</b>", color and bolding added by me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Dogs and cats can experience <b>significant adverse effects when exposed to plant-derived flea preventatives <span style="color: red;">even when used according to label directions</span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span>" </span><br />
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<a href="https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/essential-oil-and-liquid-potpourri-poisoning-in-dogs" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545003026198_2601" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/essential-oil-and-liquid-potpourri-poisoning-in-dogs</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Essential oils are the concentrated liquids (volatile organic compounds) of plants. ... use in aromatherapy ... alternative medicine ... in cleaning products, food and drink flavorings, herbal remedies, ... personal care products ... </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Many liquid potpourri products </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">and essential oils, </span><span style="color: red;"><b>including oil of cinnamon, citrus, pennyroyal, peppermint, pine, sweet birch, tea tree (melaleuca), wintergreen, and ylang ylang, are poisonous ...</b> </span></span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Both ingestion and skin exposure can be toxic.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> ... Essential oils and liquid potpourris contain chemicals ... rapidly absorbed orally or through the skin. Many of these chemicals are metabolized through the liver. ... <b>cats lack some of the enzymes necessary to effectively metabolize these chemicals.</b> ... <b>can also irritate or burn the skin and mouth.</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">Only a couple of licks or a small amount on the skin could be harmful.</span>"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Understanding
the toxicity of lilies</b>" </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://aercmn.com/blog/posts/understanding-the-toxicity-of-lilies/#.Vq-maumFQ9Q.twitter" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477611337518_2827" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://aercmn.com/blog/posts/understanding-the-toxicity-of-lilies/#.Vq-maumFQ9Q.twitter</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"many common lilies are extremely toxic to cats ... All parts of the plant are toxic ... leaves, stems, pollen" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #071b29; font-family: inherit;">I have seen raw garlic recommended online for flea and tick control - Toxic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #071b29; font-weight: normal;">"</span><span style="color: #071b29; font-weight: normal;"><b>Hidden Dangers in the Kitchen: Common Foods Toxic to
Dogs and Cats</b></span><span style="color: #071b29; font-weight: normal;">"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.vetfolio.com/toxicology/hidden-dangers-in-the-kitchen-common-foods-toxic-to-dogs-and-cats" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477611337518_2893" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.vetfolio.com/toxicology/hidden-dangers-in-the-kitchen-common-foods-toxic-to-dogs-and-cats</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Most cases of toxicosis are attributed to a single episode of accidental ingestion of raw onion or feeding of foods containing onions</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><b>or garlic</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">."</span><br />
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2001</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Herbal and Other Natural Products Pose Intoxication Risks to Pets</b>"</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.vin.com/apputil/content/defaultadv1.aspx?pId=11131&id=3844040" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545022454331_2522" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.vin.com/apputil/content/defaultadv1.aspx?pId=11131&id=3844040</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> Reports online neem oil, pets</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">I found this among others like it when I decided to research neem
oil and pets. </span><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RFWWC4IGYD8IM/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt/175-8014626-5235322#RFWWC4IGYD8IM" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477611337518_3025" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/review/RFWWC4IGYD8IM/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt/175-8014626-5235322#RFWWC4IGYD8IM</a></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-7249653244304719662014-11-24T01:43:00.000-05:002018-07-22T02:36:15.678-04:00Neem Oil (Margosa Oil) Safety and Uses<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I will be adding to this post.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Neem, 2018 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/H5LTERHGw1"><span style="color: blue;">drugs.com/npp/neem.html</span></a> </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"inadequate clinical trials to support specific therapeutic doses … poisoning … infants … oral … oil … seizures, coma, hepatoencephalopathy, and death … Management of poisoning … largely symptomatic … no specific antidote available"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">hepatic encephalopathy<br /><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000302.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1532241211273_2512" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000302.htm</a><br />"Loss of brain function occurs when the liver is unable to remove toxins from the blood … Causes … include … Poisoning by different toxins or medicines"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Neem Oil Poisoning as a Cause of Toxic Encephalopathy in an Infant</b>"</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12098-013-1327-x/fulltext.html"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12098-013-1327-x/fulltext.html</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Poisoning is usually accidental <b>by nasal or oral administered to infants and children</b> for cough and cold, pain abdomen, and deworming; or rarely suicidal ... <b>Even small doses can cause toxicity </b>include vomiting, drowsiness, generalized seizures, coma, and severe metabolic acidosis especially in infants and young children ... Prognosis is usually good, however, delayed milestones, long term neurodeficits, recurrent seizures, abnormal ... (EEG), and <b>deaths have been observed</b> ... <b>Since neem oil is commonly used as traditional medicine in India, its poisoning is not uncommon. ... pediatricians should be aware of this condition and public should be educated regarding the safe use of neem oil.</b>"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The bolding and color of text in all quotes is by me. The information speaks for itself. These are not studies. They are case reports. The information in this post is not new in that references of other case reports go back years! The question is Why is neem oil still being promoted with no cautions as if there are none? The short answer is it is not as profitable to include them. For those who promote <a href="http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyGuidanceManual/ucm073838.htm"><span style="color: blue;"><b>health fraud</b></span></a>, the lack of cautions does not surprise me in the least. They buy fake followers, reviews, and comments to stoke their ego, and further their agenda (sales), with no regard for consumers. However, they cannot buy credibility, and <i><b>it</b></i> cannot be faked. Credibility comes with reputable evidence, which they cannot produce about what they promote because it does not exist. It is also being reported in scientific literature, that within alternative therapy communities there is a lack of or underreporting of adverse events, that are nonetheless observed! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>A rare case of toxic optic neuropathy secondary to consumption of neem oil</b>", Full text</span></span><br />
<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2014;volume=62;issue=3;spage=337;epage=339;aulast=Suresha" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2014;volume=62;issue=3;spage=337;epage=339;aulast=Suresha</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>A Systematic Review of the Reporting of Adverse Events Associated With Medical Herb Use Among Children"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"There is <b>considerable need for improvement in reporting adverse events</b> in children following herb use."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Neem oil poisoning: Case report of an adult with toxic encephalopathy</b>", Full text</span></span><br />
<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841499/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841499/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Neem oil</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Herbal remedy is natural and safe</b>"--truth or myth?"</span></span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/e24p5h1JvQ" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24974507</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">MYTH!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Hepatotoxic Botanicals - An Evidence-based Systematic Review</b>", Under Margosa oil</span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JPPS/article/viewFile/17973/15135"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JPPS/article/viewFile/17973/15135</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>The hepatotoxicity of herbs was extensively acknowledged. ... Further scientific studies with high and good quality are needed to identify toxic compounds and understand the exact mechanism of hepatotoxicity-induced by herbs.</b>" <br />Table 1 lists the botanicals discussed in detail, Pages 402-404. Just: control f, type 402, and hit enter to access it quickly (you have to scroll up a bit to start at the Table beginning). A control f keyword or number search is a great way to find, or check if something you are looking for is in a long document. If what you are looking for is in the document more than once, hitting enter repeatedly will take you to all locations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>MARGOSA (NEEM) OIL POISONING</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>The easy availability of margosa oil and its promotion without proper warning of these life threatening side effects warrant legislative measures and active awareness. </b>This is a potentially toxic chemical and should be used with vigilance." Amen to that!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2008</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Neem Oil Poisoning</b>" - reference #6 in above link and heartbreaking!, Full text</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://medind.nic.in/ibv/t08/i1/ibvt08i1p56.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://medind.nic.in/ibv/t08/i1/ibvt08i1p56.pdf</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Exact toxicity level doses for humans are not known.</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2015 - <b><span style="color: red;">regarding skin, scalp issues</span></b> - neem - <b>STILL</b> <b><span style="color: red;">unproven effectiveness, and safety</span></b> - neem aka </span></span>Azadirachta indica, A. indica</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Antifungal
activity by ethanolic extracts of medicinal plants against Malassezia furfur: A
potential application in the treatment of Dandruff</b>", color and bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://sphinxsai.com/2015/ph_vol8_no3/3/(440-443)V8N3.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://sphinxsai.com/2015/ph_vol8_no3/3/(440-443)V8N3.pdf</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Dandruff
is one of the most afflicting problem confronted in healthcare and cosmetics.
Malassezia sp. is an opportunistic pathogen on the normal skin flora which is a
causative of dandruff under unfavourable conditions. <b>Traditionally dandruff is
treated using a large number of medicinal herbs but <span style="color: red;">the complete cure is far
from reach.</span></b> The present investigation dealt with study of the potentiality of
Evolvulus alsinoides, Lawsonia inermis, Hibiscus rosasinensis, Azadirachta
indica and Murraya koenigii against Malassezia furfur. ... The work was also
emphasized in <b><span style="color: red;">determining the minimum fungicidal concentration</span> of each plant
extracts against Malassezia sp. to know the <span style="color: red;">efficiency of the herbs</span> in treating
dandruff.</b> The
results obtained were <b><span style="color: red;">promising</span></b> that it would help in formulating a
polyherbal mixture to treat dandruff and enrich hair growth." = <b>UNPROVEN</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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curry leaf extracts, against selected bacteria and fungus, also 2015, color and bolding added by me</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.irjponline.com/admin/php/uploads/2431_pdf.pdf"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.irjponline.com/admin/php/uploads/2431_pdf.pdf</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>further
studies need to be done</b> ... for the fungal pathogen ... <span style="color: red;"><b>all 3 extracts of A.
indica were ineffective</b></span>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">When it comes to product safety <b>BOTH</b> short-term <b>AND</b> long-term safety data needs to be compiled, and confirmed - <b>NOT</b> just what was observed in one short study! For example, probiotics "the data on safety, particularly long-term safety, are limited", 2016,</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> <a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2016/01/prebiotics-probiotics-and-health-scams.html" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2016/01/prebiotics-probiotics-and-health-scams.html</b></span></a></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Natural Standard - neem oil uses - <b>All grade C: "Unclear scientific evidence for this use" = UNPROVEN EFFECTIVENESS!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2011 </span></span><br />
<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.davidsnaturalmarket.com/ns/DisplayMonograph.asp?storeID=cf1d83c59a914deeb1f49f78c9be5747&DocID=bottomline-neem#EVIDENCETABLE" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.davidsnaturalmarket.com/ns/DisplayMonograph.asp?storeID=cf1d83c59a914deeb1f49f78c9be5747&DocID=bottomline-neem#EVIDENCETABLE</span></a></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-59774250316596973342014-10-22T11:39:00.002-04:002018-05-19T21:18:37.468-04:00The Real Scoop on Ancient Cosmetics and Health<div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I will be adding to this post.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The History of Cancer</b>", color and bolding added by me</span><br />
<a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/history-of-cancer/what-is-cancer.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520622166153_2475" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/history-of-cancer/what-is-cancer.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Our oldest description of cancer</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (although the word cancer was not used) was </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">discovered in Egypt and dates back to about 3000 BC.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">It’s called the Edwin Smith Papyrus and is a copy of part of <span style="color: red;">an</span> <span style="color: red;">ancient Egyptian textbook on trauma surgery. It describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill.</span> <span style="color: red;">The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">"<b>Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year-old
osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa</b>", bolding added by me</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305692334_Earliest_hominin_cancer_17-million-year_old_osteosarcoma_from_Swartkrans_Cave_South_Africa" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520622166153_2598" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305692334_Earliest_hominin_cancer_17-million-year_old_osteosarcoma_from_Swartkrans_Cave_South_Africa</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-indent: 0cm;">"<b>Such tumours are not related to
lifestyle</b> ... often occur in younger individuals ... <b>malignancy has a considerable
antiquity in the fossil record, as evidenced by this specimen</b>"</span> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2014 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">BBC News - Ancient skeleton is the earliest case of
cancer yet detected</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26627941" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_4409" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26627941</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2011 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"</span><span style="color: #292f33;"><b>Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient
Egypt</b>", </span></span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">NewsfromScience</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/10/mummy-has-oldest-case-prostate-cancer-ancient-egypt" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_4912" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/10/mummy-has-oldest-case-prostate-cancer-ancient-egypt</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2007 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 13.5pt;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 13.5pt;">Oldest known case of
metastasizing prostate carcinoma diagnosed in the skeleton of a 2,700-year-old
Scythian king from Arzhan (Siberia, Russia).</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 13.5pt;">" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17918181" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_5422" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17918181</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"The diagnosis mainly rests on the results of the microscopic examination of the lesions and the positive evidence of PSA, which is an important marker for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. It is remarkable that, in this ancient case, the morphological pattern at the microlevel is the same as in recent cases." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Cancer is <b>NOT</b> a modern disease! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt</b>" </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam23.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_5935" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam23.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">(for grey hair) "blood of a black ox or calf was boiled in oil to transfer the blackness of the animal to the greying hair, or the black horn of a gazelle was made into an unguent with oil to prevent grey hairs from appearing."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Neither remedy worked. Hair was also dyed in ancient Egypt. Animal horn continues to be used today in equally ineffective "magic" remedies. <b>Rhino horn, bear parts or elephant tusks, there is no reputable science (evidence) for such "health" remedies, only the death of the animals, those who protect them (park rangers), and the greed for money. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Rising murder toll of park
rangers calls for tougher laws</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.iucn.org/?17196/Rising-murder-toll-of-park-rangers-calls-for-tougher-laws" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_7237" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.iucn.org/?17196/Rising-murder-toll-of-park-rangers-calls-for-tougher-laws</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2011 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">A Review of the Use of Mercury in Historic and Current Ritualistic and Spiritual Practices</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", full text, bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526745842830_3018" style="color: #000025; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://nj.gov/health/ommh/documents/diverse_culture/reviewof_use2011.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526745842830_3025" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://nj.gov/health/ommh/documents/diverse_culture/reviewof_use2011.pdf</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">evidence that mercury has been used in ethno-medical and magico-religious rituals and spiritualistic practices in China and India since before the historical record ... mercury has been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 1,500 BC</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2010</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Ancient Egypt’s Toxic Makeup Fought Infection, Researchers Say</b>" </span><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19egypt.html?_r=1&" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_8795" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19egypt.html?_r=1&</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"the scientists say the makeup is not something that should be used today" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Products Kohl, Kajal, Al-Kahal, or Surma: By Any Name, Beware of Lead Poisoning</b>", <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a><span style="color: blue; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productsingredients/products/ucm137250.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_9811" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productsingredients/products/ucm137250.htm</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, George
Bernard Shaw, 2012 EBook </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">See "CLEOPATRA'S CURE FOR
BALDNESS</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_10402" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"I give a couple of the remedies she actually believed
in. They are quoted by Galen from Cleopatra's book on Cosmetic."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"For bald patches, powder red sulphuret of arsenic and take
it up with oak gum, as much as it will bear. Put on a rag and apply, having
soaped the place well first. I have mixed the above with a foam of nitre, and
it worked well." Several other receipts follow, ending with: "The following is
the best of all, acting for fallen hairs, when applied with oil or pomatum;
acts also for falling off of eyelashes or for people getting bald all over ...
Of domestic mice burnt, one part; of vine rag burnt, one part; of horse's teeth
burnt, one part; of bear's grease one; of deer's marrow one; of reed bark one
... pounded when dry, and mixed with plenty of honey til it gets the
consistency of honey; then the bear's grease and marrow to be mixed ... the
medicine to be put in a brass flask, and the bald part rubbed til it
sprouts." </span><br />
<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Cleopatra's actual "book on Cosmetic" has never been found. Today, quacks invoke her name to sell healing crystals (which have no proven effectiveness), and various other "ancient" remedies attributed to her. </span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2010</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Ancient Egyptians discarded the human brain in preparation for the
afterlife.</span><br />
<a href="http://historyofneuroscience.umwblogs.org/early-history-of-nueroscience/ancient-egypt/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_11581" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://historyofneuroscience.umwblogs.org/early-history-of-nueroscience/ancient-egypt/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b>
<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Scammers rebuff critical thinking regarding their products and services. </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ancient Egyptians used religious beliefs<b> with</b> medical practices for healing, the first often when there was <b>no</b> medical treatment for an illness but there is <b>no evidence</b> they were used <b>as</b> medicine! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">1976</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Ancient Egyptian gems only glass</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", by Eric Pace, "Cairo (NYT)" New York Times, color and bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19760725&id=XfdLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ne0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3764,3449782&hl=en" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_12351" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19760725&id=XfdLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ne0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3764,3449782&hl=en</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Experts from New York and Cairo museums</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">, examining ... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">jewelry of the ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamen</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">found ... many stones that were earlier reported to be costly lapis lazuli and turquoise, are in fact pieces of colored glass.</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... Metropolitan's director Thomas P. Hoving said ... </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">what mattered in judging ancient Egyptian jewelry was not the sort of stones it
was set with but "It's overall design-the language of the shapes." </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">2 more stones named in the link as examples of actually being made of glass - "</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">carnelian and feldspar</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">More on all of that below </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2004 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Egyptian Amulets</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egam/hd_egam.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_12872" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egam/hd_egam.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"In ancient Egypt, amulets might be carried, used in necklaces, bracelets, or rings ... placed among a mummy’s bandages to ensure the deceased a safe, healthy, and productive afterlife. ... <b><span style="color: red;">Symbols and deities generally conferred the powers they represent.</span> ...</b> <b>Magic contained in an amulet could be understood not only from its shape. Material, color, ... words said or ingredients rubbed over the amulet</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> could all be the source for magic granting the possessor’s wish.</b></span>" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2006</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">In Search of Desert Glass</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/WorldArchaeo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">WorldArchaeo</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.world-archaeology.com/world/africa/egypt/in-search-of-desert-glass.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_13556" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.world-archaeology.com/world/africa/egypt/in-search-of-desert-glass.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>unique ... yellow-green glass occurs in ‘the Great Sand Sea’</b>... the <b>Egyptian Sahara.</b> ... first documented in 1932 by Peter Clayton, a topographer for the Geological Department of the Survey of Egypt. ... <b><span style="color: red;">clear that locals have known about this type of glass for thousands of years.</span> </b>... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Italian</b> <b>archaeologist and geologist Vincenzo de Michele</b> ... <b>expert on the yellow-green silica glass. In 1996 ... noted that a scarab in the centre of a pectoral in the Tutankhamun exhibit in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo appeared to be made of this unusual glass.</b> ...<b><span style="color: red;"> listed as being the mineral chalcedony, when de Michele was granted access to test it, he found it to be consistent with desert glass samples found in the Great Sand Sea.</span></b> In another room of the Egyptian Museum ... he discovered ... <span style="color: red;"><b>a knife – roughly four inches long and estimated to be about 5,000 years old – was also found to be made of the same glass.</b></span> ... various people travelling through the Great Sand Sea had reported finding pieces of the glass that had been worked. ... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the question of the origin of the glass still remained unanswered. ... <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">uranium testing has established that the glass was formed nearly 30 million years ago.</span>" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Libyan Desert Glass: Diamond-Bearing Pebble Provides Evidence of Comet Striking Earth</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/scinewscom" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">scinewscom</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-libyan-desert-glass-diamond-bearing-pebble-evidence-comet-01446.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_14080" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-libyan-desert-glass-diamond-bearing-pebble-evidence-comet-01446.html</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"comet entered the atmosphere above Egypt about 28.5 million years ago. It exploded, heating up the sand beneath ... resulting in the formation of a huge amount of yellow silica glass ...</span><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.temehu.com/libyan-desert-glass.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Libyan Desert Glass</span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>specimen of the Libyan Desert Glass, polished by ancient jewelers, is found in Tutankhamun’s brooch with its striking ... scarab.</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Prof Jan Kramers from the University of Johannesburg, a lead author of the</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X13004998"><span style="color: blue;">paper published online in the journal <i>Earth and Planetary Science Letters</i></span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and his co-authors analyzed the diamond-bearing pebble ‘Hypatia,’ named in honor of the first well known female mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, <a href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hypatia.html"><span style="color: blue;">Hypatia of Alexandria</span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Modern science and open minds know no borders!</b></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;">The the color of Libyan Desert Glass varies.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.saharagems.com/libyan-desert-glass.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476559617091_2543" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.saharagems.com/libyan-desert-glass.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-indent: 0cm;">Crystal/gemstone/Libyan Desert Glass
"healing" is "ripened" Z-ray fraud renamed! The exact same
fraud and promos for new victims!</span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526748293833_2531" style="color: #14171a; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/785837541131972608" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526748293833_2537" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/785837541131972608</span></a></span> </div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ancient Egyptians used colored glass to simulate precious stones and crystals, as well as real crystals and gems as protection in amulets and jewelry. All<b> </b>were</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> used because of religious beliefs, with <b>no reputable evidence</b> offered by quacks<b> any</b> were successfully used<b> as</b> medicine. Quacks defile ancient religious beliefs with their fraud, the same way other terrorists defile religions, and harm and kill. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The fraud put forth by quacks that crystals were worn in ancient Greece for actual protection fails too with the truth being very different! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Glass rings and bracelets</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and some bolding added by me</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/705252" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_15277" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/705252</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Period:</b> Hellenistic and Imperial ... <b>Date:</b> 3rd century B.C. –4th century A.D. ... <b>Culture:</b> Greek and Roman ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> In prehistoric times, <b>naturally occurring glass</b>, called obsidian ... used not only for weapons and tools but also for <b>objects of personal adornment</b>. <b>After the invention of glassmaking, <span style="color: red;">similar objects </span>were fashioned in man-made glass, or a combination of glass and other precious materials. </b><span style="color: red;"><b>Hellenistic jewelry ... intricate gold patterns<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>augmented by bits of </b></span><span style="color: red;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">semi-precious stone and colorful inlay elements.</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> ... Romans greatly favored the use of stone and glass in their jewelry ... expanded the Hellenistic tradition ... </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>Romans used glass extensively to imitate precious stones such as emerald, sardonyx, and amethyst, since glass was much easier to carve and the glassmaker had full control over colors and patterns.</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Jade in Mesoamerica</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jade2/hd_jade2.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_16477" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jade2/hd_jade2.htm</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2014 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Mineral spirits: Turquoise magic at MIAC</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/PasaTweet" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">PasaTweet</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/museum_shows/mineral-spirits-turquoise-magic-at-miac/article_38e26f1e-ae30-5929-b0a8-488d7fa59735.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_21061" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/museum_shows/mineral-spirits-turquoise-magic-at-miac/article_38e26f1e-ae30-5929-b0a8-488d7fa59735.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"small group of artifacts discovered at U-Bar Cave in southwestern New Mexico. ... 700-year-old wooden pendants ... painted ... to resemble turquoise. Although this kind of simulacrum, ersatz turquoise, is not very common in Southwestern archaeology, other examples are known, including a large number of wooden objects discovered at various Chaco Canyon sites over the past century. Exhibition curator Maxine McBrinn ... <b>wooden pendants are not fakes in the modern Western sense of objects created with the intent to deceive; rather, they were painted blue to evoke turquoise. </b>Anthropological and ethnological accounts of Pueblo Indians, including Elsie Clews Parsons’ Pueblo Indian Religion (1939), stress the <span style="color: red;"><b>role of painting in ritually activating objects such as kachina masks.</b></span> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>for many Native peoples of this region, turquoise’s color connects it by complex chains of metaphors to water and rain, the sky, fertility, and health.</b></span> ... <b>much turquoise must be treated in one way or other to be usable by jewelers. McBrinn emphasized ... pure untreated turquoise of the highest quality is prohibitively costly for both artists and consumers.</b> ... <b>Stabilized turquoise is widely used in Southwestern Native jewelry, and no one considers the stones to be fakes." </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2005 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Turquoise: Sky Blue Wonder of the World</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", By Ken Casey, color and bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.delminsociety.net/motm/motm_sep2005.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_20343" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.delminsociety.net/motm/motm_sep2005.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>The color ‘turquoise’ flavors the lore of history ... “Wadj, the word for green, which also meant to flourish <span style="color: red;">or be healthy</span>, was used for the papyrus plant as well as for the green stone malachite.</b> Green malachite was a symbol of joy. In a larger reference, the phrase "field of malachite" was used when speaking of the land of the blessed dead. ... <span style="color: red;"><b>Another green stone, which was a favorite among Egyptians, was turquoise. The word for this greenish stone was mefkat, which meant joy or delight.</b></span> ... In ancient Egypt, if no turquoise could be found, glazed quartz was used as a substitute. <b><span style="color: red;">It was the representation of the color, more than the actual material itself that mattered.</span></b>" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Lots of great information in the 2 articles above, minus quack FRAUD! The quoted text confirms information above them. I chose to concentrate on 2 elements, health and with the first article, turquoise treatment. There is much more in both articles to enjoy. Throughout the world turquoise has associations with health, also with <b>no reputable evidence any</b> were successfully used <b>as</b> medicine. Quacks lie, misinform to make sales, disrespecting cultural beliefs, and putting lives at risk for money, and their egos, not caring! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2006</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Debunking Crystal Healing</b>", color and bolding added by me </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://t.co/e2Miwikoeo"><span style="color: blue;">http://recursed.blogspot.ca/2006/05/debunking-crystal-healing.html</span></a><span style="color: purple;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"If you and your friends make claims about crystal healing, <b><span style="color: red;">then the onus is on</span></b> <i><b><span style="color: red;">you</span></b></i>, not me." (regarding proof) <b>TRUE! All </b>replies to comments<b> are still valid - there is still no proof!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Randi debunks Crystal Power and Applied Kinesiology</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rat poison worked the SAME!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">1964 </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Ancient dandruff remedy includes hippopotamus fat and fish
oil </span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413987474121_2997" style="cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=Y84UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=ancient+Egyptians+used+animal+fats+in+cosmetics+and+vegetable+oils&source=bl&ots=TgT0qDyggG&sig=bXZug2VBzJZMhxEtX0b5SHAz3LI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H7RGVJHfAbOI8QHMvYDAAQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBw#v=snippet&q=dandruff&f=false" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_19976" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://books.google.ca/books?id=Y84UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=ancient+Egyptians+used+animal+fats+in+cosmetics+and+vegetable+oils&source=bl&ots=TgT0qDyggG&sig=bXZug2VBzJZMhxEtX0b5SHAz3LI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H7RGVJHfAbOI8QHMvYDAAQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBw#v=snippet&q=dandruff&f=false</a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="color: #70aced;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See also for spots on the face and wrinkles "gall of ox" and "red ochre".<span style="font-family: inherit;"> R</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">ed ochre was also used to color lips and cheeks - you
can text search on the left, then click on found text to expand. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Related: Neither diet nor the medicines </span><b>available were sufficient to prevent, treat/cure diseases</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> present!</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b>2</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">002 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Health conditions before Columbus: paleopathology of native North Americans</b>", 2002, color and bolding added by me </span><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071659/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_19077" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071659/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Diseases ... <span style="color: red;">treponemiasis</span> and <span style="color: red;">tuberculosis</span> were <span style="color: red;">already present</span> in the <span style="color: red;">New World</span>, along with ... <span style="color: red;">tularemia</span>,<span style="color: red;"> giardia</span>, <span style="color: red;">rabies</span>, <span style="color: red;">amebic dysentery</span>, <span style="color: red;">hepatitis</span>, <span style="color: red;">herpes</span>, <span style="color: red;">pertussis</span>, and <span style="color: red;">poliomyelitis</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... Archaeologic </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>remains</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> show that native groups </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>were not</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> living in a pristine, disease-free environment before contact with Europeans" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b>
<b style="font-family: inherit;">After European contact? </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"<b>How Europeans brought
sickness to the New World</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">NewsfromScience</span></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/06/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476558692144_2681" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/06/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #292f33;">doctor finally flew in 6 days later, he
treated them for what turned out to be a relatively mild virus ... </span><span style="color: red;">tribesmen
recovered</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"> ... FUNAI officials say ... to avoid repeating the tragic history of
epidemics, they need the resources for competent and skilled
interventions." </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2013 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">The
Cultural Implications of European Disease on New World Populations: With
Primary Focus on the Abenaki, Powhatan, and Taino Groups.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding
added by me </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.monroecc.edu/fileadmin/SiteFiles/GeneralContent/events/scholarsday/documents/rivera-finaldraft.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1526778904279_2471" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.monroecc.edu/fileadmin/SiteFiles/GeneralContent/events/scholarsday/documents/rivera-finaldraft.pdf</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>Native
Americans and their ancestors’ immune systems were never equipped to handle
European infections</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, the diseases annihilated millions before they ever saw the
“pale faced” explorers." </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b>
<b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">Before and after European contact </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">2006 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">The Persistence of American Indian Health
Disparities</b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding added by me </span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1698152/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_17945" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1698152/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>American Indians <span style="color: red;">struggled with ill health</span>
even before Europeans arrived.</b> Although pre-Columbian populations were spared
the ravages of smallpox, measles, influenza, and many other infections, they
did not inhabit a disease-free paradise. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Careful <span style="color: red;">analyses of skeletal remains</span>
have revealed <span style="color: red;">many diseases</span>, including <span style="color: red;">tuberculosis</span> and<span style="color: red;"> pneumonia</span>.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 13.5pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 13.5pt;">2015 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Why
the rest of the world doesn’t suffer from leprosy like India does</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color
and bolding added by me, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/qzindia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">qzindia</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://qz.com/328951/why-indias-poor-continue-to-be-ravaged-by-the-worlds-oldest-disease/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_17465" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://qz.com/328951/why-indias-poor-continue-to-be-ravaged-by-the-worlds-oldest-disease/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>primary treatment for leprosy—a triple antibiotic course called<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.who.int/lep/mdt/en/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Multidrug Therapy</b></span></a> (<a href="http://www.who.int/lep/mdt/en/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>MDT</b></span></a>)</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>—is provided free of cost by the government</b> ... <b>Leprosy ... chronic infectious disease ... afflicted mankind since civilisation itself.</b> ... thought to have originated in East Africa or South Asia in the Late Pleistocene ... migrated to India </span><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005669"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>around 2000 BC</b></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">. ... <span style="color: red;"><b>once detected and treated by MDT, in 98% of cases, leprosy ceases to be contagious and can be cured in six to 12 months.</b></span> ... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">detected too late</span></b> ... <b>leprosy can cause<span style="color: red;"> nerve damage and conditions such as erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), </span>a painful immune-mediated reaction causing fever and angry inflammation of the skin, eyes and joints, which calls for powerful steroids or thalidomide, and continuous follow-up visits.</b> ...</span> <b>study doesn’t quantify <span style="color: red;">stigma</span> as an indirect cost</b> ... authors acknowledge <b>that it has <span style="color: red;">grave impacts,</span> the <span style="color: red;">most damaging of which is a delay in treatment.</span></b> “There’s a <b><span style="color: red;">huge stigma</span></b> <b>and<span style="color: red;"> superstitious beliefs floating around.</span></b>” ... “<b>India has been reporting about <span style="color: red;">130,000</span> new cases a year</b>" </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The <b>ONLY</b> cure for leprosy is the <b>MODERN </b>drug treatment/therapy <b>MDT</b>, and it <b>MUST</b> be given in time to cure it without ongoing, costly complications. Superstition, myth, and quackery (<b>FRAUD)</b> are <b>NOT </b>medicines<b>! Medicines (drugs) are government approved and regulated, as are <a href="http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/"><span style="color: blue;">vaccines</span></a>, and medical devices. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>"Breakthroughs made in ovarian cancer research</b>" 2014, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ScienceDaily" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">ScienceDaily</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> </span> </span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140808111946.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_17094" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140808111946.htm</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Breakthrough in acne research, full text</b>, 2013 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: invert; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(15)36405-8/fulltext" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460234975132_3400" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(15)36405-8/fulltext</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"As P. acnes is the major skin ... bacterium found in both acne and healthy skin, this strain-level analysis is important to help understand the role of P. acnes in acne pathogenesis and in skin health." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Facts are far more interesting than the scams - </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">FRAUD</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> used to
romanticize and lie about ancient times, to sell </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNPROVEN</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> safe and effective treatments and preventatives.</span></span></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-89835568432460479502014-09-02T11:37:00.000-04:002014-12-21T19:42:00.581-05:00Received via Email<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Not everyone uses social media for sharing great articles but some do like sending and discussing them via email. I have been getting a few such articles lately. I will continue to Tweet them, and I will be adding specific ones relevant to this blog, to this post!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Mineral Makeup - Fact vs Fiction"</span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/LjOmN3EwfG"><span style="color: blue;">http://kjbennett.com/mineral-makeup-fact-fiction/</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"As you can see, deceptive marketing and carefully worded claims can lead us to believe that mineral makeup is “better”. Truth be told, while mineral makeup may sometimes have less irritating ingredients, it’s NOT automatically the best choice. ... I’m simply pointing out that modern cosmetic technology provides MANY excellent makeup formulas that offer the same safety and performance attributes that are presented in minerals makeup marketing."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Essential oils: a perfect example of alternative medicine exaggeration"</span><br />
<a class="yiv2869272259" href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/02/02/essential-oils-a-perfect-example-of-alternative-medicine-exaggeration/" id="yiv2869272259yui_3_16_0_1_1415993331958_4607" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/02/02/essential-oils-a-perfect-example-of-alternative-medicine-exaggeration/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">"</span><a href="http://helios.e-e-e.gr/medicine/files/History_of_medicine_days.pdf#page=19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #ff4b33; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Treating disease by ingesting animal feces or applying it to your skin</a><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span>is also an ancient Egyptian remedy, in fact more common than essential oils, but I don’t see that catching on in the same way. ...The real problem I have with essential oils is the exaggeration of their effects</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">. ... The benefits of essential oils are exaggerated because exaggeration sells. ... Trying to sell a sick person something that in the end won’t help them is at least unethical, if not criminal. ... I am not saying that essential oils have no use. Instead I am saying that their effectiveness is exaggerated."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Not Found</b>" <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/Others/HOM/Dayspapers2001.pdf">pdf</a> and text</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"the extraction of bladder stones, or lithotomy as it came to be called in more modern times, was performed with surprising frequency by people in the ancient civilizations of Egypt ... Stones were well known in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the earliest urolith ever recovered was retrieved from the nasal cavity of the mummified corpse of a young Egyptian boy. This great artifact was unfortunately later destroyed during the Nazi bombing campaign over Britain. References to stone disease have been found in several Egyptian writings, and treatments seem to have usually been medical in nature, consisting of specially-designed exercises and the administration of lotions, ointments, laxatives and special diets. Fly droppings, feces, gazelle dung, crocodile excrement ... were all used!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">More from the pdf, Pg 11, and on point</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Our knowledge of the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt is clearly inadequate to support many sweeping generalizations about the effectiveness of the drug therapy regimens. Making actual conclusions on the efficacy of the pharmacological treatments of the swnw is difficult for a number of reasons, including the incomplete pharmacopoeia translations, difficulty in defining the conditions that treatments were suggested for and lack of information about how often a therapy was used. Further compounding this is the lack of first hand accounts of the clinical experiences and success of the swnw." Yet that is <i>exactly</i> what is done today by scammers, promoted as remedies and preventatives for money, based on 0 evidence from then, or test results on ancient medicines done now! It is called fraud. </span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-88785067574309062162014-08-30T11:27:00.001-04:002018-09-26T21:19:47.069-04:00Twitter<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />I will be adding to this post.
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />I read Tweets! I still will <b>not</b> buy followers. I am not the least bit interested in doing so. Fake followers can have profiles, often duplicated ones but they do not generate more followers, they just fill space. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
Fraud in content does far worse than fill space, it is dangerous! And fraud is everywhere on the Internet, especially about food and health. Eating some food raw like veggies is great. Some veggies are better for you cooked like tomato (technically a fruit), and none cure cancer. Everyone makes mistakes. Fraud is not a mistake when it is repeated over and over again. That is deliberate, and it cannot be covered up with fake, or any followers.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> No amount of fake followers, paid testimonials, marketing, screaming "religious" rhetoric, or recruitment can undo the fraud that they contain.</span></span><br />
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There are plenty of famous and not famous vegetarians who have died of cancer. A balanced diet is best with a variety of real food choices, minus all fraud about the choices. Fraud is much more insidious than religious, or ideological extremism.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It is based purely on greed without any trace of humanity, no matter how pleasant its face. Fraud is always costly in money, and in lives. Greed combined with the lies of fraud kill people.</span></span><br />
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You cannot buy health! NO crystal, "vibration", homeopathy as examples can replace reputable, needed medicines, or vaccines. No herb, honey, supplement(s), or food can treat, cure, or prevent all disease, or illness. Such examples of fraud stating otherwise are fantasies of a past that NEVER existed, does not exist now except in lies. Reputable medicines, and vaccines must be affordable, and reach ALL who need them. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />"<b>Weasel Words</b>", 2015, <a href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed"><span style="font-family: inherit;">@ScienceBasedMed</span></a></span><br />
<a data-expanded-url="http://www.sfsbm.org/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=552&Itemid=649" href="http://t.co/Bc0TZ12F7F" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://www.sfsbm.org/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=552&Itemid=649"><span class="invisible" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">sfsbm.org/index.php?opti</span></span><span class="invisible" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">on=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=552&Itemid=649</span></span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 18.4px;">“</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">stone medicine is nonsense, complete and total, divorced from all realty.</span><span style="color: #292f33; line-height: 18.4px;">”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Crystal Healing: Stone-Cold
Facts About Gemstone Treatments</b>", 2015, color and bolding added by me, <span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">@</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">LiveScience</span></a><span style="color: #b45f06; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">"Scientifically
speaking, <b><span style="color: red;">there is no evidence that crystal healing can be used to cure
diseases, because diseases have never been found</span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">to be the result of a so-called energy flow in
the body</span></b>. ... <b>no scientific studies have shown that crystals and gems can be
differentiated by chemical composition or color to treat a particular
ailment</b>." While crystal healing can be a placebo, the risk other
than the safety of a stone, is in delaying, or abandoning qualified needed
medical care. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>crystal power</b>", u</span>pdated 2015, color and bolding added by me</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Crystals ... used not only for physical healing, but for emotional problems as well ... emotional healing ... self-expression, creativity, meditation, and the immune system. <b><span style="color: red;">None of these claims is backed by any scientific evidence.</span></b>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Mouse magic, or How lab mice learned to stop worrying and trust the healing energy</b>", 2015, </span>bolding added by me, <span class="screen-name" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.25px; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; outline: 0px;"><a class="pretty-link js-nav" data-send-impression-cookie="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/oracknows" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">@oracknows</a></span><span style="color: #66757f;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/07/16/mouse-magic-or-how-lab-mice-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-trust-the-healing-energy/" target="_blank">http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/07/16/mouse-magic-or-how-lab-mice-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-trust-the-healing-energy/</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"I frequently call homeopathy The One Quackery to Rule Them All ... not so sure ... that’s the case ... another ...<b>“energy medicine ... a specialty so ridiculous ... 11-year-old girl could show ... TT practitioners cannot detect “human energy fields,” much less manipulate them</b> ... also appalling that money was spent on this that could have been used in real cancer research." "11-year old girl" - Emily Rosa"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Trick or Treatment?</b>", 2008, Professor Edzard Ernst </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: inherit;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">EdzardErnst</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and</span> Dr Simon Singh <a class="ProfileCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" data-aria-label-part="" href="https://twitter.com/SLSingh" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">SLSingh</span></a>, color and bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Trick-Treatment-Undeniable-Alternative-Medicine/dp/0393337782" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.ca/Trick-Treatment-Undeniable-Alternative-Medicine/dp/0393337782</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"healer then had to sense Emily Rosa's energy field to decide where she had placed her hand ... <b>Emily was only nine years old when she conducted this experiment</b> ... two years later she wrote up her research ... published in ... Journal of the American Medical Association ... <b><span style="color: red;">nobody has ever come up with an experiment that has overturned her findings.</span></b>" </span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Placebos, </span></span>bolding added by me<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/jvasP2Z0HH" target="_blank" title="http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2015/01/28/WNL.0000000000001282"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">neurology.org/content/early/</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">2015/01/28/WNL.0000000000001282</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. 2010, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Placebo effects</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">,<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #b45f06;">@ScienceBasedMed</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/7sOX2bLZPT" style="color: #b45f06;" target="_blank" title="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effects-revisited/"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effect</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-decoration: none;">s-revisited/</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
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release is increased by belief, novelty, and the expectation of reward - mental
states that underlie placebo effects"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a measured benefit for some subjective outcomes ... due to trial design (and
therefore bias) rather than a real effect. ... <b>Placebo medicine is a sham. And
any potential placebo benefit worth having can be fully realized with
science-based interventions</b>." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">The second quote makes particular sense.
Bias or expectation can relieve symptoms but not affect the actual illness or disease,
where real treatment can treat, or cure it. <b>Placebos aside from being shams or scams
are costly - usually expensive, and when they fail to have long lasting (real) effects
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Any cosmetic "intended for a therapeutic use" as stated <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/GuidanceRegulation/LawsRegulations/ucm074201.htm#Definedrug" target="_blank">here</a> (FDA, updated 2016), as well as in other countries is considered to be a drug, and it is subject to drug regulations.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Signs</b> of new and pending sales on a website promoting health fraud - an increase in obvious fake followers, other fakery e.g. fake or paid for "reviews", everything <b>but</b> reputable evidence for what is shilled! On Twitter but some can also apply to other social media, examples of obvious fake followers: many old eggheads, many locked accounts, irrelevant content, duplicated profiles, no profiles. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reputable evidence, sound science, and the truth defeat fraud <i>every</i> single time! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply</b>: "You can watch bought or fake followers being added ... just click
on followers ... there is gap where real followers should be ... refresh and view the bought or fakes added.", December 8, 2014 </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't be fooled by quack "followers", most are bought fakes. I watched one quack adding 30 at once, Tweeted the observation and now they add them slowly. They will still add them in spurts - not usually unless I have hit home well (ones that read me), and many of the fakes have 0 account relevance.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Email Reply:</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>added fakes</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I was told about it before - observed the same thing (later) during the Twitter experiment adding "Following" - gap - then more there. I was initially confused by what I saw - not the results - included an email here and observed it myself again. I wondered about the process - why I reached out to ask about it and included the response in this blog post (above). I had not wanted or was given more details.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Email Reply:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b><span style="color: red;">added fakes </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">From what I have observed and been told - you can arrange the fakes any way you want - so they can be "<b><span style="color: red;">inserted</span></b>". I have 0 desire to learn the process, no interest. I just wanted to understand what I was seeing - not just results (higher numbers).<br /> <br /> I watched the Twitter experiment where "Following" was added and <b><span style="color: red;">"insertion" - confirmed.</span></b> "Following" accounts (I had not Followed) were not in any order. I have no doubt the process is similar with other social media. You can Google and buy many things e.g. YouTube views, comments, and subscriptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Email Reply:</b> Testimonials<br />Friends/family? Loyalty questionable. Paid - like "real" bought followers - paid to say what is wanted - still fake!</span></span></div>
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Email Reply</b>: Scams</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Agreed - the only thing worse than the fraud is a scammer using "I have or had a hard life, or time" in an attempt to gain sympathy. Many scammers use sympathy bids to distract you from the fact that what they are doing is fraud, or endangering you as well as have you waste your money! A lot of fraud is based on eliciting just the "right" emotional response to enable the fraud to succeed unimpeded.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />The following quack "mantras" you can find A LOT online on numerous social media platforms, including Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>"More Ploys That Can Fool You", </b>2014,<b> </b>bolding added by me</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ploys.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;" target="_blank">http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ploys.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"To gain your allegiance it is not necessary to persuade you that all of the statements below are true. <b>Just one</b> may be enough to hook you ... quackery is organized ... unlike members of the scientific community, quacks rarely criticize their own methodology or that of their colleagues."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>"We really care about you!" "No side effects" "We treat medicine's failures." </b><b>"Think positive!"</b><b> "Time-tested" or "Used for centuries!" "Take charge of your health!" "Health freedom" and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"If only you had come earlier."<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This phrase is handy when the treatment fails. It encourages patients and their survivors not to face the fact that consulting the quack was a mistake." </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Related</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>WHAT A CON ARTIST LOOKS FOR IN A SCAM
VICTIM</b>"</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, color and bolding added by me</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><a data-expanded-url="http://www.fraudaid.com/backstage/victims_con_artists_look_for.htm" href="http://t.co/KKpymY0JCf" style="color: #e69138; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://www.fraudaid.com/backstage/victims_con_artists_look_for.htm"><span class="invisible" style="color: #e69138; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url" style="color: #e69138; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">fraudaid.com/backstage/vict</span></span><span class="invisible" style="color: #e69138; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">ims_con_artists_look_for.htm</span></span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Con artists choose you very carefully. <b><span style="color: red;">They are only interested in those people who can be turned around to believe in them without question ... </span></b></span><i><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>They seek out the needy</b></span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">A
nonprofit organization - See top corner, left-hand side of page.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A Facebook sympathy bid scam, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Facebook 'farming' scam preys on sympathy to garner 'likes,' money</b>"</span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/sddps1eCk0" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Facebook-farming-scam-preys-on-sympathy-to-garner-likes-money-212814891.html </a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Does Twitter verification still mean anything?</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">", 2013 -The quote below verified what I thought from the questions I was asked, based on what people had observed. bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/3TwSMKV5Hp" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/does-twitter-verification-still-mean-anything/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>There are a handful of sites where users have had their handles priced, and you can browse for one with the badge that you can then take over and make your own</b>." No thank you to any of that, too!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Quack signs on Twitter </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>The list</b> below is
meant to be taken as a whole. All points are applicable and most are usually present.
<b>The list is not inclusive.</b> Quacks also<b> use other social media the same ways</b> - See <a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/07/fraud-and-health.html"><b><span style="color: red;">this</span></b></a> blog post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">1. 0 reputable
evidence (for all health claims)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2. No Tweets in
a while and or only about them or products they promote<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">3. Only Retweets
about them <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">4. Increased followers (fakes) after evidence questions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">5. Really bad
advice (0 reputable evidence for all of it too)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">6. Following plus
promoting other quack information </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">7. Not crediting
non-quack ideas, information NOT their own but presented as theirs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">8. Arrogance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9. </span>Incompetence<span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the limited research they do resulting in further lies, misinformation </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">10. Painfully obvious paid for fake positive reviews, comments e.g. "You are an inspiration"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quacks love to discuss "toxins" as a
topic of their pseudoscience but not the
toxicity of what they promote, or ANY serious, needed cautions. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">12. Increased obvious paid for fake followers despite no recent Tweets, or Retweets (a number of which are also obvious fakes - no replies to their contrived positive comments but quick replies to others, or no replies at all) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">13. </span>Increased obvious paid for fake followers, comments despite "<b><span style="color: red;">inactivity</span></b>" - no Tweets, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">or Retweets (<b><span style="color: red;">"inactive" quacks</span></b>)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">14. Obvious fake followers with 0 relation or relevance to the topics Tweeted about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not even the Paris terrorist attacks drew </span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>"inactive" quacks</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I watch out of hiding online writing self-praise, and more - "well" but "busy" according to family - to show they care for any real fans left! Quacks specialize in "caring" - their primary manipulation - as bogus as their paid for </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/07/fraud-and-health.html" style="font-family: inherit;">self-written delivered comments</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Followers, reviews, and "remedies"! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>There is NO SUCH THING as a benign quack - direct/indirect harm can cause death. No "silly"/"playful" rhetoric can change that. Quacks are dangerous! Quacks are health terrorists often killing, torturing helpless children, Islamic terrorists want to scour the earth - both are heinous to me! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Quacks, ISIS and their ilk - share yet another thing in common - fear mongering! DON'T let them play you! A quackery example - See </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/04/detox-scams-2014.html" style="font-family: inherit;">first link and quoted text</a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2009 - background on "toxins", bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><b>Toxins”: the new evil humours</b>"</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span>,<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed"><span style="font-family: inherit;">@ScienceBasedMed</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e69138; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/BXbAQZ9u91" target="_blank" title="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxins-the-new-evil-humours/"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxins-the-new</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">-evil-humours/</span></span></a> </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"fundamental premise ... in “alternative” health is that we are swimming in a world of “toxins” and those “toxins” are causing disease. Like most premises in “alternative” health<b> it has no basis in scientific fact</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>; makes intuitive sense only if you are ignorant of medicine, science and statistics; and speaks to primitive fears and impulses</b>."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The safety of personal data is a real concern for people these days, especially on social media. Is your personal data safe with a quack? Not a chance in my opinion.</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> Quack companies often do free giveaways to their mostly fake subscribers, or followers, so your personal information can be used!</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> A few people may receive their free goods, and the rest? </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">The REAL bonus is to the quacks - harvested personal information. </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">THAT is why a number of the free goods are "donated" - your information - gets shared! Most social media is about business. That is fine. Privacy concerns should center on with whom we do </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">any </i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">sort of "business". </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, there is social media surveillance - as there should be to a
degree, and with abuse issues a lot more needs to be done. What I am saying is
you need to be very selective with whom you do business even when no business
appears to be happening. People get deceived into thinking their personal information or data is safe when in fact it is shared, and probably shared again. If one
continuously gives misinformation, and lies like quacks or scammers do, they often
do other unscrupulous or illegal things too. Being online for quite a while has
only cost me - what I am willing to pay for, not more. </span></span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-59480386389183955422014-08-24T22:51:00.001-04:002017-10-15T09:50:03.246-04:00Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids and Cosmetics<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Comfrey", bolding added by me</span></div>
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<a class="" href="https://www.cancercarewny.com/content.aspx?chunkiid=104671" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507999109530_2718" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e69138; font-family: inherit;">https://www.cancercarewny.com/content.aspx?chunkiid=104671</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"comfrey contains substances called <b>pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are both toxic to the liver and carcinogenic </b>... Pyrrolizidine alkaloids ... can be absorbed through the skin ... <b>it may be prudent to avoid topical comfrey products entirely</b>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/success_stories/disease_detectives2.htm" target="_blank">Success Stories: Disease Detectives in Ethiopia, Part 2</a>", ingestion, CDC, bolding added by me</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>The disease is now called “pyrrolizidine alkaloid-induced liver disease” (PAILD)</b> for the toxic PA that causes the illness. More important, grain farmers in Ethiopia now have the information they need to protect themselves and their families from a once mysterious and sometimes fatal disease."</span><br />
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2013</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<a href="http://www.pinnaclehealth.org/wellness-library/blog-and-staywell/health-resources/article/39564">Comfrey (Symphytum spp.)</a>", bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.9844px;"><span style="color: #444444;">The "<b>alkaloids may also be absorbed through intact skin</b>"</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.9844px;"> Note: Grade B uses require "further" or "additional" research to "confirm" results. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/CausesOfIllnessBadBugBook/default.htm">Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook</a>", quote from the pdf</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #484138; font-family: inherit;">"All humans ... believed to be susceptible to the hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Males are more susceptible than females ... fetuses and children show the highest sensitivity. Home remedies and consumption of herbal teas in large quantities ... risk factor ... the most likely causes of alkaloid poisonings in the U.S."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>A number of plants contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids besides comfrey, e.g. coltsfoot and alkanet (alkanna), and are used in some cosmetics in varying amounts.</b> The use of such plants tends not to be in mainstream cosmetics. <b>I have seen alkanet listed as the colorant used in handmade "organic" lip and cheek cosmetics on the market.</b> Ironically, their<b> inclusion can frequently be found in alternative cosmetics touting safety by being free of other ingredients proven to be safe.</b></span></div>
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I see no valid reason for ingredients containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids to be used in cosmetics given the risks. <b>Avoid! </b></span></div>
ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-51791144544714450452014-08-16T23:17:00.001-04:002019-03-30T18:21:07.793-04:00Oil Pulling<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">I will be adding to this post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Indian Dental Association, </span><span class="screen-name" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="pretty-link js-nav" data-send-impression-cookie="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/IndianDentalAsn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">@IndianDentalAsn</span></a><span style="color: #66757f;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://twitter.com/IndianDentalAsn/status/600172555182297089" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/IndianDentalAsn/status/600172555182297089</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Based on the</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">lack of</span> </b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">currently available</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">evidence</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">, oil pulling is</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><b>not</b> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">recommended as a supplementary oral hygiene practice.", <b><span style="color: red;">2015</span></b>, color and bolding by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">India is the country of origin of oil pulling. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Exogenous lipoid pneumonia caused by repeated sesame oil pulling: a report of two cases" </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>2015</b></span><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628246/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1553970158213_2685" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628246/</span></a><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Recurrent lipoid pneumonia associated with oil pulling" </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b>2014 </b></span><br />
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259766039_Recurrent_lipoid_pneumonia_associated_with_oil_pulling_Correspondence" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1553974836199_2573" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259766039_Recurrent_lipoid_pneumonia_associated_with_oil_pulling_Correspondence</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Oil Pulling" <span style="color: #404040; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.76px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AmerDentalAssn" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">AmerDentalAssn</span></span></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/az-topics/o/oil-pulling" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1553970158213_2576" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; color: blue; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: invert; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/az-topics/o/oil-pulling</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Based on the lack of scientific evidence, the American Dental Association does not recommend oil pulling as a dental hygiene practice."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.7600002288818px;">merican Dental Association, </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/AmerDentalAssn" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">AmerDentalAssn</span></span></a> Note: the link with the quote is no longer available.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">"The Practice of Oil Pulling", </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;"><b>2014</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">, color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ada.org/en/science-research/science-in-the-news/the-practice-of-oil-pulling#.VTpxqVqgyIA.twitter" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.ada.org/en/science-research/science-in-the-news/the-practice-of-oil-pulling#.VTpxqVqgyIA.twitter</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Based on the <span style="color: red;"><b>lack of</b> </span>currently available <b><span style="color: red;">evidence</span></b>, oil pulling is <b><span style="color: red;">not</span></b> recommended as a supplementary oral hygiene practice, and certainly not as a replacement for standard, time-tested oral health behaviors and modalities ... </span><b><span style="color: red;">insufficient peer-reviewed scientific studies to support its use for oral conditions</span></b> ... Existing studies<b> are unreliable for a number of reasons, including the misinterpretation of results due to small sample size ... absence of negative controls, lack of demographic information ... lack of blinding.</b> To date, scientific studies have<b><span style="color: red;"> not provided</span></b> the necessary clinical evidence to demonstrate ... oil pulling<b> reduces the incidence of dental caries, whitens teeth or improves oral health and well-being</b> ... articles in the media recommending oil pulling ... have not described potential adverse health effects ... <b><span style="color: red;">case reports of lipoid pneumonia ... diarrhea or upset stomach have been reported.</span></b>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Oil Pulling Your Leg", <b><span style="color: red;">2014</span></b>, color and bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/ScienceBasedMed" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">ScienceBasedMed</span></span></a></span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/gbNfx81R12"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/oil-pulling-your-leg/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"I did come across <b>one other published paper on oil pulling – a report of <span style="color: red;">recurrent</span> lipoid pneumonia from oil pulling</b>. ... Oil pulling for general health or any other indication is<b> pure pseudoscience. Detox claims are based on nothing, as are all detox claims.</b> There is<b> no evidence </b>or plausible rationale to recommend oil pulling for <b>any indication </b>other than as a poor substitute for oral care." </span><br />
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"Lipoid Pneumonia And Oils: Important Health Information", 2012</span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/I0URmkXP3i"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2012/12/lipoid-pneumonia-and-oils.html</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Of the types of oils that can be aspirated, animal oil causes more problems than vegetable oil, which causes more than mineral oil."</span><br />
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"Oil instillation pneumonia - A social evil", 2009, from the above blog post, full text. <b>Oils named - "Gingilli oil" (sesame), "Coconut Oil", "Neem oil" </b></span></div>
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<a href="http://t.co/1W74RdA34t"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.indmedica.com/journals.php?journalid=13&issueid=138&articleid=1826&action=article</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"eighty seven percent of the patients with oil instillation were acutely symptomatic; 10% of them required mechanical ventilation for worsening hypoxia and respiratory failure of which three (4.1%) expired. ...Though, this issue was highlighted way back in 1973 by Balakrishnan [1], oil-aspiration pneumonia is still a health problem in countries where infants are forced to receive vegetable or animal oil due to traditional belief."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>3 children died</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Oil pulling has <b><span style="color: red;">risks</span></b>, which are <span style="color: red;"><b>reputably documented</b></span> and <b><span style="color: red;">no reputably recognized benefit</span></b>. That is not widely disseminated in articles on the topic but should be included. Scammers are too busy promoting an oil with misinformation to research properly, or care. No amount of fake followers, celebrity, or a congenial demeanor can make up for misinformation, lies, or undisclosed facts. <b>AVOID! </b></span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-68683724521483200722014-08-07T13:18:00.000-04:002014-11-28T17:13:05.984-05:00Contact Lenses and Make-up<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/dHHT2CzZN3" target="_blank" title="http://thriveswla.com/style-beauty/cosmetics-and-contacts"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-rendering: auto;">http://</span></span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">thriveswla.com/style-beauty/c</span></span></span><span style="text-rendering: auto;"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #292f33;">"Avoid frosted, pearlized, iridescent, or
other glittery types of eye shadow, which may contain ground oyster</span> shells
or tinsel when can get trapped under your lens and scratch the surface of the
eye. ... Avoid using loose powder on the face. ...</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; text-indent: -17.85pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -17.85pt;">Avoid lash-extending mascara, which has fibers that can irritate the
eyes, and waterproof mascara, which cannot be easily removed with water and may
stain soft contact lenses.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Contact Lenses and Cosmetics"<br /><a href="http://t.co/B7m5b6Lgdm">aoa.org/patients-and-pu</a><br />"Choose an oil-free moisturizer. ... Choose water-based, hypo-allergenic liquid foundations. Cream makeup may leave a film on your lenses."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><a href="http://www.cnib.ca/en/your-eyes/ask-expert/Pages/makeup_safety.aspx" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Q: My niece has just started using contact lenses and she already uses makeup. Can you suggest any tips for eye safety?</span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #155d7f; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">CNIB</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Keep in mind that there is no real difference between high- and low-end brands. Any brand of makeup can pose a risk if expired or not applied properly - proper use is critical to keeping your lenses clean and your eyes healthy."</span><br />
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ingredients"<span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e69138; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.co/2QOVKXMcnO" target="_blank" title="http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/consumer-consommation/products-produits/advertising-publicite-eng.php"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-rendering: auto;">/</span></span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">healthycanadians.gc.ca/consumer-conso</span></span><span style="text-rendering: auto;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">m</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Hypoallergenic" is neither a legal
nor a scientific term. It simply means that the manufacturer has chosen
ingredients to produce a finished product with minimum potential for causing
allergy. This does not guarantee that the product will not cause an allergic
reaction in some individuals"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=go%20big%20or%20go%20home" target="_blank">go big or go home</a>"? (first definition) NO! Tell it like it <i>really</i> is or don't bother because someone else will do so!</span></div>
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ktanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909443115485235178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634509785901015977.post-58297549456801182522014-07-30T12:33:00.000-04:002018-09-25T20:01:37.139-04:00Fraud and Health<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />I will be adding to this post.</span><br />
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Fraud is not just unethical, illegal. It can cause harm, cost lives. Scammers lie, misinform, use fake followers, anything, to lure victims. Fraud is everywhere. Scammers are into everything. Online they have 0 reputable health information (easy to check out), and lots of fake followers. Anyone can get some fake followers.</span><br />
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Profiles get duplicated for fakes but they do not generate more followers because they <i>are</i> fakes. On Twitter for example, count the number of those irrelevant for the account subject matter, and locked accounts, by scrolling through the followers list. Hundreds of fakes on an account with not all that many followers, or accounts followed disproportionately is a sure sign of purchased fake followers. I have never bought any followers and I will not buy them. They are filler to impress. I am not impressed that easily. </span><br />
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Not only can you buy comments and reviews for social media, e.g. Instagram and YouTube videos - you can write your own and have them delivered (Google buy custom Instagram, or YouTube comments) </b>- <b><span style="color: red;">NOT</span></b> something I support! I am amazed at what is<b> offered for sale on the Internet for social media,<span style="color: red;"> fake:</span> followers, Retweets, likes, dislikes, reviews, comments, subscribers and views (for YouTube videos).</b> <b><span style="color: red;">Google buy then each one individually, and see for yourself</span> </b>- plus more I have not looked into. Filed under SCARY! <b>Buy "real" any of the listed? They're paid for so their actions are STILL fake!</b></span><br />
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</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: red; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How can you tell quacks bought fakes?</b> </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>It's very obvious when you look closely!</b>
1. Stats upsurge after PROOF challenges they cannot reply to because they have none, or their absence from posting or Tweeting
2. Even more "inspiration", continue your xxx (FRAUD), and "congratulatory" self-written comments</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Most quacks are narcissistic sociopaths </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0cm;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/821315770420490241" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/ktanimara/status/821315770420490241</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will also see self-written comments about how "beautiful" and "worshiped" they are by "others". Quacks build carefully crafted social media shrines to their insatiable ego for <i>your</i> money. They happily continue to put you and yours in danger of harm or death, posing for more photos of themselves as they do so!</span></span><br />
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Lies are often easy to spot - inconsistent and contradictory information because scammers have forgotten what they said previously, usually in the promotion of a sponsor, or would be (hoped for) sponsor. It is all in the details.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Alluring</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> images are often used to sell or
promote products. However, what is actually being offered must be supported by solid facts to have any value.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Dismiss fraud ploys, e.g. "I love"
my: family, God, country, followers, subscribers, viewers which are simply manipulative distractions.</b> Research from <b>reputable</b> sources
regarding what is promoted, for sale, sold, and discuss openly with your <b>qualified <span style="color: red;">medical provider</span></b>, what risks there may be for you in having used any of them! Quacks do <i><b>not</b> </i>provide proper cautions and warnings. The only things quacks do are more fraud manipulations, for more money.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b>Health Fraud Scams</b>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; text-indent: 0cm;">"Health fraud scams refer to
products that claim to prevent, treat, or cure diseases or other health
conditions,</span><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"> but are not proven safe and effective for those uses."</span> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quack "0 proof doesn't mean there can't be any." </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNTIL</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> there is - claiming there is while selling unproven safe and effective products and or services </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">is</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> fraud!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> There "may be unicorns" - until there is reputable proof they're just myths too! </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Quacks shill myths as truth </span>(e.g. crystal "healing"- please see<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-real-scoop-on-ancient-cosmetics-and.html"><span style="color: red;">this</span></a></span> blog post)</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - for health that can, does, has harmed and killed! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;"><b>NO</b></span> "mommy" (family), or friend "testimonial" can "kiss" what quacks do (health terrorism) and "make it better", or turn it into anything other than what it </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">REALLY is</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> - </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;">FRAUD</span><span style="color: red;">! </span></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Every bs public relations quack spin has a sale linked, spoken of, referred to by quacks. Family? Love can be dangerous too - accessories or duped! </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Mommies who enable or participate in their quack child's dangerous <b>FRAUD,</b> or other <b>CRIMINAL</b> activities are <b>JUST</b> as guilty - <b>SHAME</b> on <b>ALL</b> of you!</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">There is no difference between media fraud and other fraud. Both are about making money fast, and misinformation is irrelevant. Fraud is abuse!</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> It capitalizes on people's emotional responses to yield profit, whether the topic is cocoa products health benefits (</span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/07/health-and-diet-extremeism.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">UNPROVEN</span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">), or cancer "cures". There is money to be made - often at the cost of lives. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">One such lost life is too many.</span></b></span><br />
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Essential Medicinal Chemistry of Curcumin</b>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"No double-blinded, placebo controlled clinical trial
of curcumin has been successful."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Turmeric</b>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claims ... curcuminoids ... reduce inflammation aren’t supported by strong studies ... </span><span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">High doses or long-term use of turmeric may cause gastrointestinal problems." UNPROVEN with risks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Turmeric (Curcumin)</b>", color and bolding added by me, link includes side effects and cautions</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/oH7Fs3EbmL" target="_blank" title="http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/lifestyle-guide-11/supplement-guide-turmeric?page=1"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">webmd.com/vitamins-and-s</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">upplements/lifestyle-guide-11/supplement-guide-turmeric?page=1</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Turmeric
is an <b><span style="color: red;">unproven</span></b> treatment" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Aromatherapy</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductsIngredients/Products/ucm127054.htm#drug" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456610147227_3286" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductsIngredients/Products/ucm127054.htm#drug</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"If a product is intended for a <b>therapeutic use, such as treating or preventing disease, or to affect the structure or function of the body, <span style="color: red;">it’s a drug</span>.</b> For example, <span style="color: red;"><b>claims that a product will relieve colic, ease pain, relax muscles, treat depression or anxiety, or help you sleep are drug claims.</b></span> ... <b>Such claims are sometimes made for products such as soaps, lotions, and massage oils containing “essential oils” and marketed as “aromatherapy.” </b><span style="color: red;"><b>The fact that a fragrance material or other ingredient comes from a plant doesn’t keep it from being regulated as a drug.</b></span>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #484138;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>dōTERRA International, LLC 9/22/14</b>", bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">US_FDA</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"your products are ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">not generally recognized as safe and effective </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in their labeling."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Aromatherapy: trick or treat or treatment?</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">", color and bolding added by me</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3130" style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">, <a href="https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3129" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3128" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">EdzardErnst</span></a></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3132" style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3131"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439390101149_3130"><a href="http://edzardernst.com/2015/08/aromatherapy-trick-or-treat-or-treatment/" id="LPlnk145498" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="http://edzardernst.com/2015/08/aromatherapy-trick-or-treat-or-treatment/
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">http://edzardernst.com/2015/08/aromatherapy-trick-or-treat-or-treatment/</a></span></span><br />"The quality of the included <span style="color: red;"><b>studies was often very poor</b></span> ... the overall conclusion cannot be definitive ... <b><span style="color: red;">Lack</span> of sufficiently <span style="color: red;">convincing evidence</span> regarding the <span style="color: red;">effectiveness of aromatherapy</span> combined with its potential to cause adverse effects questions the usefulness of this modality in any condition.</b>" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2015</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Essential Oils: A Poor Choice for Asthma (and a few other things)</b>", color and some bolding added by me, <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/chadhayesmd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: blue;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">chadhayesmd</span></span></a><span style="color: #8899a6; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.chadhayesmd.com/essential-oils-are-a-poor-choice-for-asthma-and-a-few-other-things/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456622462361_2927" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.chadhayesmd.com/essential-oils-are-a-poor-choice-for-asthma-and-a-few-other-things/</span></a><br />"<b><span style="color: red;">Asthma can also be triggered by “volatile organic compounds,” one example of which would be essential oils.</span> Advising parents to treat asthma by diffusing essential oils is dangerous and irresponsible, and it demonstrates a tremendous lack of understanding about the disease.</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">promoting unproven treatments for serious medical conditions amounts to practicing medicine without a license, which is illegal as well as dangerous</span></b> ... <b>As a physician, it scares me. ... because there are people out there treating serious conditions that <span style="color: red;">they know nothing about with treatments that have no data to show that they are safe or effective</span></b><span style="color: red;"><b>–</b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">because our children’s health is at risk.</span>"<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Can you tell me what I should eat while I am taking warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven)? What foods should I avoid?</b>", color and bolding added by me, </span></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MayoClinic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important;">MayoClinic</span></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thrombophlebitis/expert-answers/warfarin/faq-20058443" id="LPlnk84844"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thrombophlebitis/expert-answers/warfarin/faq-20058443</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"One nutrient that can lessen warfarin's effectiveness is <b>vitamin K.</b> <b>It's important to be <span style="color: red;">consistent</span> in how much vitamin K you get daily.</b> ... <b><span style="color: red;">Certain drinks can increase the effect of warfarin, leading to bleeding problems.</span></b> <b>Avoid or drink only small amounts of these drinks when taking warfarin: <span style="color: red;">Cranberry juice Alcohol</span></b>" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Regarding drinks with alcohol - please also see this blog post with information on kombucha </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">tea </span><a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html" id="LPlnk310511"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/04/quackery.html</span></b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Supplemental nutrition drinks: help or hype?</b>", color and bolding added by me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>You don’t need a doctor’s okay to try a shake, but it’s a good idea to
ask your doctor if any of the ingredients will interfere with your medications.
For example, some drinks contain vitamin K, and </b><b style="color: red;">sudden
changes in vitamin K intake may interfere with the effect of the blood thinner
warfarin (Coumadin) </b>... <span style="color: #292f33; letter-spacing: 0.266667px;">look for <b>10 to 20 grams of protein</b>, <b>no more than 6 grams of fat</b> ... <b>no more than 40 grams of carbohydrate, including sugar.</b>" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">European Journal of Integrative Medicine</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"<b>Reducing the risk of complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM): Challenges and priorities</b>", color and bolding added by me </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187638201300142X" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187638201300142X</span></a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"Even those CAM practices and products that are regulated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: red;">rarely have adequate systems</span> in place<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">for reporting,
assessing and acting on harmful incidents.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> ... </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Homeopathic
remedies are generally considered safe<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>so
patients may increase the dose, <span style="color: red;">risking overdose</span> with non-homeopathic
ingredients,</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">such as ‘non-active’
solvents, up to toxic levels</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">... risk may arise from ‘mistaken identity’,
where e.g. herbal and other medicines are described as homeopathic to make them
look safer ...<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red;">Deliberate contamination during preparation constitutes another risk</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>THIS</b> is preliminary research,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">1999 </span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/REKfIN4P3V" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/411030.stm</span></a><br />
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And <b>THIS</b> is the truth, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Liberia: Does bitter kola cure Ebola?</b>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"to date no vaccine or cure has been found for Ebola. ... anyone caught administering fake vaccine or tablets and even spreading wrong information on the Ebola disease would face prosecution."</span><br />
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I absolutely agree! Stop fraud in its tracks before more people die or become ill by not following approved recommendations. Prosecution will not remedy disease and illness. It may however prevent illness and death by fraud. It is "organic" and nontoxic too!</span><br />
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FRAUD says it is a drugs versus plants war. REPUTABLE science creates drugs FROM plants. Research can be promising. It has be <span style="color: red;">proven</span> and <span style="color: red;">safe</span> for human use for uses intended.</b></span></div>
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2015</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>WHO | Ebola virus disease</b>"</span><br />
<a href="http://t.co/cWsigKLHzn"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.who.int/mediacentre/fa</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"No licensed vaccine for EVD is available. ... No specific treatment is available ... New drug therapies are being evaluated."</span><br />
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2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;">"</span><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/08/27/science.1259657.full" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak</span></a>"<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, full text</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<i><b>In memoriam</b></i><b><i>:</i></b> Tragically, five co-authors, who contributed greatly to public health and research efforts in Sierra Leone, contracted EVD in the course of their work and lost their battle with the disease before this manuscript could be published. We wish to honor their memory."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">May they RIP</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014<br />"<a href="http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm410086.htm#.VANPPdT2NJ8.twitter" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Press Announcements FDA warns consumers about fraudulent Ebola treatment products</span></a>" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Beware Of Fake Ebola Supplements</b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="http://t.co/Lt5v8QeeCO"><span style="color: blue;">http://onforb.es/1pcB1GX</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>A review of halotherapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</b>", full text (<b>salt therapy</b>), bolding added by me</span><br />
<a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937102/" role="presentation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.n"cbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937102/</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"From this review,<b> recommendations for inclusion of halotherapy as a therapy for COPD cannot be made at this point</b> and there is <b>a need for high quality studies to determine the effectiveness of this therapy</b>." <b>Unproven</b> regardless of <b>whether it is in a chamber, or by inhaler.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><b>You cannot heal or treat or prevent a health issue by: being near or holding a crystal or stone, wearing jewelry, inhaling any type of salt or essential oils. ALL unproven effectiveness! </b></span><br />
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<a href="http://t.co/k71RZoqpFu" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank" title="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~chima/publications/Secret_Lives_of_Minerals.pdf"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">its.caltech.edu/~chima/publica</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">tions/Secret_Lives_of_Minerals.pdf</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>New Age practitioners wield rose quartz ... to treat physical maladies like kidney disease, sexual dysfunction, and migraines</b> ... <span style="color: red;"><b>myths</b></span>" </span></div>
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of silicon, oxygen, aluminum, and boron. ... </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b>natural quartz is the source for the silicon wafers in ... electronic brains.</b> <b><span style="color: red;">But the quartz must be ultrapure ...</span></b><span style="color: red;"><b> discovery of boron-bearing dumortierite in rose quartz ruled out this potential source of silicon.</b></span>" <b>It is NO health remedy and has NEVER been PROVEN to be one.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2002</span><span style="color: #292f33;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Fibrous nanoinclusions in massive rose quartz: HRTEM and AEM investigations"</b></span></div>
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began, updated <b><span style="color: red;">2014</span></b>)</span></div>
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the myth of Atlantis, one channeler, Frank Alpert, proposed the use of</span><span style="outline-color: initial !important; outline-width: initial !important;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="ref703984" name="ref703984" style="outline: none !important;"></a></span> <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/145105/crystal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span href="http://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/145105/crystal" property="about" style="outline: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">crystals</span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">as healing-transformative tools. ... Crystals were thought to be great
reservoirs of energy and distinct healing and of transformative powers that
could be released for personal benefit.<b> In the 1980s they were among the most
popular items at New Age stores and conventions;</b> however, <b><span style="color: red;">critics were quick to
point out the unscientific nature of the movement’s claims for crystals.</span>" - which remains today with <span style="color: red;">0 proven effectiveness, reputable evidence for any of them</span> - they've simply been rebranded.</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">1967</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection – Introduction</b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.early-pictures.ch/kellogg/Kellogg_Introduction.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458796914565_3228" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.early-pictures.ch/kellogg/Kellogg_Introduction.pdf</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"The best introduction to the main points of my research is provided by <b>Herbert Read: ...</b> <b>It has been shown by several investigators, but most effectively by Mrs. Rhoda Kellogg of San Francisco ... the expressive gestures of the infant, from the moment that they can be recorded by a crayon or pencil, evolve from certain basic scribbles towards consistent symbols.</b> Over several years of development such basic patterns gradually become the conscious representation of objects perceived ... Scientists may object that the analysis of this process has not been carried far enough to justify a generalization, but we have an hypothesis that should hold the field until it has proved to be false. <b>According to this hypothesis <span style="color: red;">every child, in its discovery of a mode of symbolization, follows the same graphic evolution.</span> Out of the amorphous scribblings of the infant emerge, first certain basic forms, the circle, the upright cross, the diagonal cross, the rectangle, etc. ... then two or more of these basic forms are combined into that comprehensive symbol known as the <span style="color: red;">mandala</span>, a circle divided into quarters by a cross.</b><span style="color: red;"><b> Let us ignore for the present the general psychological significance of the process: I merely want you to observe that it is universal and is found, not only in the scribblings of children but everywhere ... the making of signs has had a symbolizing purpose-which is from the Neolithic Age onwards. [ Read, 1963, p. 4.1 ]</b></span>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Regarding the above, please also see "Quack signs on Twitter" in the blog post linked below - #7 "Not crediting non-quack ideas, information NOT their own but presented as theirs" - used for "epiphanies" or "intuition" or other, on social media other than Twitter too, to <b>FALSELY</b> impress and emotionally manipulate victims or potential victims, e.g. in this case, "I instinctively or intuitively drew mandalas from a young age."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://t.co/ksPbWeHhIm"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2014/08/twitter.html</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Drawing and or coloring, mandalas and the reduction of anxiety - abstracts - UNPROVEN - more research is needed, </b>color and bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2005 </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety?</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07421656.2005.10129441?src=recsys" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458829163926_2982" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07421656.2005.10129441?src=recsys</a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Results ... <span style="color: red;"><b>anxiety levels declined approximately the same for the mandala- and plaid-coloring groups</b></span> ... both of these groups experienced more reduction in anxiety than did the unstructured- coloring group. ... <b>findings <span style="color: red;">suggest</span> that structured coloring of a reasonably complex geometric pattern <span style="color: red;">may</span> induce a meditative state that benefits individuals suffering from anxiety.</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety? A Replication Study</b>"</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07421656.2012.680047?src=recsys" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458829163926_3383" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07421656.2012.680047?src=recsys</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Results support ... <span style="color: red;">hypothesis</span> ... coloring a mandala reduces anxiety to a significantly greater degree than coloring on a plaid design or coloring on a blank paper.</b>"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2015</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Effectiveness of a Classroom Mindfulness Coloring Activity for Test Anxiety in Children</b>"</span><br />
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15377903.2015.1056925?src=recsys" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458829163926_3714" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15377903.2015.1056925?src=recsys</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b><span style="color: red;">a significant gender by group interaction</span> demonstrated that while both genders experienced anxiety reduction in the mandala condition,<span style="color: red;"> males reported a greater anxiety reduction in the free coloring condition</span> while <span style="color: red;">females only benefited from the mandala condition.</span></b>"</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Related - also UNPROVEN</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2014</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The effect of creative psychological interventions on psychological outcomes for adult cancer patients: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.</b>"<br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24953449" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458829163926_4126" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24953449</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">findings of <b>randomised controlled trials</b> of <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">art</span><b>, drama, dance/movement and music therapies on psychological outcomes were examined. ...</b></span> <b>There is <span style="color: red;">initial</span> evidence that CPIs benefit adult cancer patients with respect to anxiety and depression, quality of life, coping, stress, anger and mood;<span style="color: red;"> there was no evidence to suggest that any one type of CPI was especially beneficial.</span> ...</b> <b>more and better quality research needs to be conducted, particularly in the areas of drama and dance/movement therapies.</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2005</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>MANDALA SYMBOLISM IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE POTENTIAL UTILITY OF THE LOWENFELD MOSAIC TECHNIQUE FOR ENHANCING THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS</b>", color and bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-37-02-164.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458791904147_2691" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-37-02-164.pdf</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The word mandala, Sanskrit for ‘‘circle’’... more specifically, <span style="color: red;">a magic circle</span> ... refers to a circular pattern that has been found in cultures all over the world
and throughout history ... <span style="color: red;">dating back at least to the
Paleolithic era</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>... <b>Mandalas are
frequently associated with eastern religions and philosophies, including Buddhism ... and Hinduism ... where they often
were and are used for meditation and contemplative purposes.</b> ...<span style="color: red;"><b> However, mandalas have also frequently appeared in western culture, including
European artwork ... have clear affiliations with Christianity ... Gnosticism ... early Navajo and Pueblo
American Indian cultures ... and western esoteric traditions such as
alchemy ... and shamanism.</b></span> ... <b>Mandalas also have been incorporated into particular forms of psychotherapy.</b>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2013</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Cancer patients who use alternative medicine die sooner</b>",<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">@<span style="text-decoration: underline;">EdzardErnst</span></span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://t.co/mw123eghQk"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://edzardernst.com/2013/04/cancer-patients-who-use-alternative-medicine-die-sooner/</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.9998px;"><span style="line-height: 17.9998px;">2015</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Adverse event reporting in studies of penetrating acupuncture during pregnancy: a systematic review.</b>", bolding added by me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25603694" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/PPQCbcfp3I" rel="nofollow" style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank" title="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25603694"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="line-height: 0;">http://www.</span><span class="js-display-url">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25603694</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.9998px;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Adverse event reporting within acupuncture trials is generally poor."</b></span></span><br />
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2014</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>Allergic Contact Dermatitis (Type IV Hypersensitivity) and Type I Hypersensitivity Following Aromatherapy with Ayurvedic Oils (Dhanwantharam Thailam, Eladi Coconut Oil) Presenting as Generalized Erythema and Pruritus with Flexural Exzema</b>", color and bolding added by me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a class="yiv3513242613" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037951/" id="yiv3513242613yui_3_16_0_1_1415020785423_2973" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037951/</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"Positive prick test to Dhanwantharam thailam and Eladi coconut oil ... <b>Adverse reactions to topical and systemic Ayurvedic medications <span style="color: red;">are observed but have not been properly documented or reported</span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span> ... the <b>misconception that is herbal and absolutely safe should be corrected as any topical medication on repeated application</b> <b>as in aromatherapy</b> may predispose the predisposed individual to contact allergy (type IV hypersensitivity) or type I hypersensitivity."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b><i>Review Article</i> Essential
Oils for Complementary Treatment of Surgical Patients: State of the Art</b>"</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.civtedu.org/uploads/41572/ufiles/Webinar/Essential_Oils_for_Complementary_Treatment_of_Surgical_Patients.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.civtedu.org/uploads/41572/ufiles/Webinar/Essential_Oils_for_Complementary_Treatment_of_Surgical_Patients.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"false belief of
essential oils as a panacea, and we believe it is necessary that these
substances are used at therapeutic level with the same degree of precautions
normally followed by the use of pharmacologically active substances."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2010</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #292f33;">"<b>£1million bounty offered for UK's first
chemical-free product</b>", bolding added by me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><a data-expanded-url="http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2010/CTPA100ChemicalFree.asp" href="http://t.co/yyg76mnqfN" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2010/CTPA100ChemicalFree.asp"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">rsc.org/AboutUs/News/P</span></span><span class="invisible" style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">ressReleases/2010/CTPA100ChemicalFree.asp</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<b>The challenge</b> ... set ... by the UK's cosmetic and toiletries industry reveals 52% of women and 37% of men actively seek out chemical-free products, demonstrating the <b>deep-seated public confusion about the role and application of chemicals in daily life.</b> The RSC made the announcement at a media event in central London hosted by the UK's Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA). ... "The Facts About Chemicals", explored the popular perception of chemicals as something harmful to be avoided" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Over <b>5 years later</b> - <span style="color: red;"><b>the "bounty" is</b> </span><b><span style="color: red;">still</span> <span style="color: red;">UNCLAIMED</span>!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">And</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The facts about... chemicals</b>", 2010 - <b>It is the one discussed above</b> - the title is just written differently.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.thefactsabout.co.uk/files/1932010103755Facts_about_chemicals_factsheet.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.thefactsabout.co.uk/files/1932010103755Facts_about_chemicals_factsheet.pdf</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Everything in the known universe is made up of chemicals.</b> Chemicals are even the
building blocks of life. Whether those chemicals are natural or man-made, they all obey
the same laws. ... whether ingredients are natural or man-made has no
bearing on how safe they are at all. ... <b>key importance are the properties of
the chemical as well as how much of it you are using and in what way you are using it.</b>"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Link from within the above pdf</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">2016</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Common questions</b>", bolding added by me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><a href="http://t.co/yb06amCoS6" target="_blank" title="http://www.thefactsabout.co.uk/common-questions/content/195"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span></span><span class="js-display-url"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">thefactsabout.co.uk/common-questio</span></span><span class="invisible"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">ns/content/195</span></span></span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Although nature can provide inspiration as a source of new ingredients for cosmetic and personal care products, natural resources are not always sustainable. ... <b><span style="color: red;">excessive harvesting</span> of plants from the wild ... reduction in their numbers in nature or ... <span style="color: red;">loss of natural habitat and biodiversity</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>scientists can produce man-made replicas of many natural ingredients ...<span style="color: red;"> <b>replicas are the same in every way as their natural counterparts and behave in the same way when put on the skin</b>.</span> In fact, <span style="color: red;"><b>man-made ingredients can be even purer than natural ones, since they are produced under very strictly controlled conditions</b>.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">" See also<b> <a href="http://ktanihairsense.blogspot.ca/2015/03/the-latest-on-skin-cancer-melanoma-and.html"><span style="color: red;">this</span></a></b> blog post on mineral makeup ingredients.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>The effect of essential oil on heart rate and blood pressure among solus por aqua workers</b>"</span></div>
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<a href="http://cpr.sagepub.com/content/21/7/823" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412885285448_2851" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://cpr.sagepub.com/content/21/7/823</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"Whether exposure to essential oil increases the risk of cardiovascular events is still unknown. ... Exposure to essential oil for 1 hour was found to be an effective method of relaxation, as indicated by decreases in the HR and BP. Prolonged exposure for longer than 1 hour to essential oils may be harmful to cardiovascular health among spa workers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2012</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Effects of essential oils on the formation of formaldehyde and secondary organic aerosols in an aromatherapy environment</b>"</span><br />
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132312001394" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413217771843_2897" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132312001394</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"This study demonstrated that formaldehyde and SOAs were generated through ozone-initiated reactions with the major constituents of essential oils (terpenes) in an environment with low ozone concentrations ... Generated formaldehyde and nano-sized SOAs should not be neglected in aromatherapy environmental settings because of their potential health effects."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">2011</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Research questions aromatherapy safety</b>"</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111024/Research-questions-aromatherapy-safety.aspx" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412883329594_3024" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111024/Research-questions-aromatherapy-safety.aspx</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">And the study</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"<a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ees.2011.0004" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412883329594_2704" style="color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Characteristics of Air Pollutants and Assessment of Potential Exposure in Spa Centers During Aromatherapy | Abstract</span></a>"</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">2002</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">"<b>Allergic contact dermatitis following exposure to essential oils.</b>", full text </span></div>
<a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11258286_Allergic_contact_dermatitis_following_exposure_to_essential_oils"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;">http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11258286_Allergic_contact_dermatitis_following_exposure_to_essential_oils</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Concerns regarding allergies and sensitization to essential oils for: those who work in the aromatherapy and massage industries, their clients, and those who use essential oils at home. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><b>
NO</b> <b>ancient </b>culture known <b>ANYWHERE</b> had the secret to health, or longevity. To say so is pure fantasy, pure <b>FRAUD</b>, and is<span style="color: red;"><b> dangerous</b></span> to believe!</span></div>
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