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Comment on Dental amalgams revisited by Bill Suydam

Bill Suydam — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:02:57 +0000

Such removal does require special equipment and training. For readers who would like to have amalgam fillings removed, the International Association of Oral Medicine and Toxicology website has a list of trained dentists in your area. To go directly to the search page, you can click here. Note that a link is also provided on that page for finding properly trained dentists in countries outside the U.S. and Canada. IAOMT certification means that the physician or dentist has had the requisite training.

Comment on Fluoride message still not getting through by Colleen Farcc

Colleen Farcc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:23:05 +0000

Why hasn’t media done more investigative journalism regarding the epidemic of misdiagnosing children with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome? Autism Spectrum Disorder is a total joke—it lumps all levels of autism together into one big happy family. The American Psychiatric Association should be ashamed of itself for being so obtuse regarding what autism is and what it is not. Do they even realize that thousands of kids with ADHD, Bi-Polar, OCD,ODD, MPD and genetic disorders such as Fragile X and Hyperlexia are often mislabeled “autistic”? This had gone waaaaaay tooooo far, people! Government wants to label all these kids autistic…WHY? YOU TUBE has a video titled: autism spectrum seems out of control where a mom talks about this from her standpoint of being a mom with a severly autstic kid…

Comment on Dental amalgams revisited by Kids Dentist

Kids Dentist — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:31:18 +0000

Many people concerned about mercury from dental amalgam fillings are requesting that these filling be replaced. Unfortunately, they are doing themselves additional harm due to mercury vapor being released as the amalgam fillings are removed.

Comment on Green Tea slows prostate cancer by health

health — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:10:55 +0000

Quite a great and helpful article! Thanks for sharing the idea about Green Tea and prostate cancer!

Comment on Keep your government hands off my Medicare! by kitty

kitty — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:50:14 +0000

This lack of comprehension makes me so sad

Comment on FDA reverses stance on mercury fillings by Bill Suydam

Bill Suydam — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:23:03 +0000

Yes, Cori, the FDA works in mysterious ways. Thanks for pointing this out.

Comment on Green Tea slows prostate cancer by Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:45:04 +0000

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Comment on FDA reverses stance on mercury fillings by Cori

Cori — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:03:22 +0000

It is interesting to note that mercury amalgam was recently reclassified as MORE risky than before, while at the same time the FDA is still basically claiming it’s safe to use.

“On July 28, 2009, FDA issued a final rule that: (1) reclassified mercury from a class I (least risk) device to class II (more risk) device; (2) classified dental amalgam as a class II device; and (3) designated a special controls guidance document for dental amalgam.”

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/DentalProducts/DentalAmalgam/ucm171120.htm#ifu

Comment on National Animal Identification System (NAIS) by Bill Suydam

Bill Suydam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:28:00 +0000

The irony about NAIS is that it’s a great idea—if you apply it to factory farming and factory farmers only. It should have nothing at all to do with small farmers, organic farmers and private individuals (as opposed to corporations). But the way NAIS is set up, the big corporations get a pass. All they have to report is that they have 300,000 head of cattle at a certain location in Wyoming. They’re not required to put individual taqs on their animals they way small farmers and individuals are.

The whole point behind NAIS is—or at least should be—food safety. Yet the food safety issues always come into play when you have big farms, big slaughterhouses and process plants. The Amish farmer raising a small herd of cattle organically simply isn’t posing any great danger to the food supply.

Yet that’s the type of individual the NAIS is going after.

Comment on Factory farming is key to swine flu epidemic by Victory Gardening

Victory Gardening — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:29:16 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the potential double effect of a factory farm caused pandemic. It appears that the extreme concentration or centralization of our food supply could create a pandemic. If a deadly outbreak were to emerge from a country with such overly centralized food, it seems to me likely that there could be a greater potential for agriculture and food supply chains to be affected as well, as sickness of the fewer numbers of existing farmers alive today than existed in the past, often now producing monoculture crops, could mean a larger impact on our food supply than if more people were growing their own food in a more decentralized system, perhaps even growing their own food as was far more common during the Spanish Flu outbreak.