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		<title>UK Government Warned About Swine Flu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy surrounding swine flu will not go away and just a couple of weeks back the UK Health Protection Agency issued a written warning to the UK Government. This warning is very interesting because it draws on scientific evidence from a vaccination programme from 1976 in the USA.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-368" style="border: 10px solid black;" title="nerve-damage" src="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/nerve-damage.jpg" alt="nerve damage UK Government Warned About Swine Flu" width="385" height="261" />The controversy surrounding <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">swine flu</a> will not go away and just a couple of weeks back the UK Health Protection Agency issued a written warning to the UK Government. This warning is very interesting because it draws on scientific evidence from a vaccination programme from 1976 in the USA.</p>
<p>The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, was leaked to <em>The Daily Mail</em>, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.</p>
<p>It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">vaccine</a>. GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.</p>
<p>The letter refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:</p>
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<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">More people died from the vaccination than from <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">swine flu</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times</li>
<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">vaccine</a> was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear</li>
<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The U.S. Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected</li>
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<p>Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown.<br />
<span>Sources:</span><br />
<img src="http://articles.mercola.com/Themes/mercolaArticle/images/bullet.gif" border="0" alt="bullet UK Government Warned About Swine Flu"  title="UK Government Warned About Swine Flu" /> <span id="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_rptSources_ctl01_cslSource"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html">The Daily Mail August 15, 2009</a></span></p>


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		<title>Swine Flu Vaccine &#8211; More Dangerous Than Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets take a quick look at the reality of the Swine Flu Vaccination

The swine flu vaccination contains dangerous and life threatening fillers, including adjuvants such as squalene, animal tissues, which may include pig tissue, viral and bacterial proteins, and live viruses, all of which contain pig DNA.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets take a quick look at the reality of the Swine Flu Vaccination</p>
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<li>The swine flu vaccination contains dangerous and life threatening fillers, including adjuvants such as squalene, animal tissues, which may include pig tissue, viral and bacterial proteins, and live viruses, all of which contain pig DNA.</li>
<li>Live viruses have a history of lethal danger, disease and are contagious. People who have been vaccinated with a live vaccine can and do spread the illness further.</li>
<li>The swine flu appears to have been laboratory generated and designed to have its dangerous effects amplifies by the use of all the available swine flu vaccines.</li>
<li>Although the UK Government hasn&#8217;t actually said as much I suspect the intent will be to commit to mass vaccinantion and although probably not mandatory at the moment  who knows what they will insist upon. The intent of the US government is to make the live <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">virus</a> <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">swine flu</a> vaccination mandatory for all Americans and Canadians.</li>
<li>The best way to protect yourself from any flu including the H1N1 live virus swine flu is to have a healthy <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/garlic" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/garlic';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">immune system</a> by living a natural, earth-connected way of being, which includes: Organic, plant-source only supported by supplements where necessary.</li>
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<p><img class="size-full wp-image-330 alignleft" style="border: 15px solid black;" title="syringe-vaccination" src="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/syringe.jpg" alt="syringe-vaccination" width="120" height="91" />These healthy approaches have been historically proven to be far more safe and effective that generated vaccines, which have truly never been scientifically proven to be either safe or effective.</p>
<p>It is important that we all take a stand while we are still healthy enough to be standing.</p>
<p>Some important details&#8230;</p>
<p>This live virus <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/viridian_olive_leaf_extract';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">vaccine</a> has 2.3 times more genetic mutability, and added adjuvant (adjuvants simply modify the behaviour of other things) toxicity than a natural virus because it includes squalene.  Squalene is the biochemical precursor to the whole family of steroids and quite safe in a dietary form when injected directly into the blood stream is actually highly toxic.  Squalene, when injected, has significant autoimmune inflammatory effects and general severe autoimmune effects, which are a significant potential threat to the health of the individual.</p>
<p>Based on scientific evidence, mass mandatory vaccinations with a highly mutable live virus could actually activate a real and lethal pandemic rather than prevent it. Therefore if we look at it purely in scientific perspective here is no valid reason for mandatory vaccinations.</p>
<p>For this reason we recommend that you decide for yourselves if you want to be vaccinated against this virus.</p>


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		<title>Health Care &#8211; Free Sickness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an advocate of healthy living I&#8217;ve been saying this for years &#8211; we have a health care system that is focussed on caring for people once they get sick. What would it be like if we focussed on keeping people healthy to start with and only resorted to pharmaceutical drugs once everything else had [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-129 alignleft" style="border: 25px solid black;" title="what-choice" src="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/what-choice.jpg" alt="what choice Health Care   Free Sickness" width="200" height="200" />As an advocate of healthy living I&#8217;ve been saying this for years &#8211; we have a health care system that is focussed on caring for people once they get sick. What would it be like if we focussed on keeping people healthy to start with and only resorted to pharmaceutical drugs once everything else had failed.</p>
<p>This article from an influential US senator shows that people in high places are beginning to listen &#8211; at last. Wonder if the UK government is listening &#8211; would like to think so.</p>
<p>Shifting America from sick care to genuine wellness<br />
Thu Jun 25, 3:21 am ET</p>
<p>By Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)<br />
Washington, DC — With the Senate health committee convening daily to craft a comprehensive health reform bill, the basic outline of this landmark legislation is now clear.  Yes, it will ensure access to affordable, quality care for every American.  But, just as important, it will hold down health care costs by creating a sharp new emphasis on disease prevention and public health.<span id="more-128"></span></p>
<p>As the lead Senator in drafting the Prevention and Public Health section of the bill, I view this legislation as our opportunity to recreate America as a genuine wellness society – a society that is focused on prevention, good nutrition, fitness, and public health.</p>
<p>The fact is, we currently do not have a health care system in the United States; we have a sick care system.  If you’re sick, you get care, whether through insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, community health centers, emergency rooms, or charity.  The problem is that this is all about patching things up after people develop serious illnesses and chronic conditions.<br />
We spend a staggering $2.3 trillion annually on health care – 16.5 percent of our GDP and far more than any other country spends on health care – yet the World Health Organization ranks U.S. health care only 37th among nations, on par with Serbia.</p>
<p>We spend twice as much per capita on health care as European countries, but we are twice as sick with chronic disease.</p>
<p>How can this be so?  The problem is that we have systematically neglected wellness and disease prevention.  Currently in the United States, 95 percent of every health care dollar is spent on treating illnesses and conditions after they occur.  But we spend peanuts on prevention.</p>
<p>The good news in these dismal statistics is that, by reforming our system and focusing on fighting and preventing chronic disease, we have a huge opportunity.  We can not only save hundreds of billions of dollars; we can also dramatically improve the health of the American people.</p>
<p>Consider this:  Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">heart</a> disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity.  What these five diseases and conditions have in common is that they are largely preventable and even reversible by changes in nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle.</p>
<p>Listen to what Dr. Dean Ornish told our Senate health committee: “Studies have shown that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">heart</a> disease.  Thus, the disease that accounts for more premature deaths and costs Americans more than any other illness is almost completely preventable, and even reversible, simply by changing lifestyle.”</p>
<p>It’s not enough to talk about how to extend insurance coverage and how to pay for health care – as important as those things are.  It makes no sense just to figure out a better way to pay the bills for a system that is dysfunctional, ineffective, and broken.  We also have to change the health care system itself, beginning with a sharp new emphasis on prevention and public health.<br />
We also have to realize that wellness and prevention must be truly comprehensive.  It is not only about what goes on in a doctor’s office.  It encompasses workplace wellness programs, community-wide wellness programs, building bike paths and walking trails, getting junk food out of our schools, making school breakfasts and lunches more nutritious, increasing the amount of physical activity our children get, and so much more.</p>
<p>I am heartened by the fact that the major players in this endeavor – Democrats and Republicans alike – all “get it” when it comes to prevention and public health.  We all agree that it must be at the <a href="http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10" style=""  rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.naturalwayhealth.co.uk/weblog/coenzymeq10';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">heart</a> of reform legislation.</p>
<p>As President Obama said in his speech to Congress earlier this year: “[It is time] to make the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that&#8217;s one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.”</p>
<p>No question, comprehensive health reform is an extraordinarily ambitious undertaking.  But what makes me optimistic is that all the major groups are playing a constructive role, including those that opposed the 1993-94 heath reform effort.  Everyone agrees that the current system is broken.<br />
Winston Churchill famously said that “Americans always do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”  Well, we’ve tried everything else, and it has led us to bad health and the brink of bankruptcy.</p>
<p>Comprehensive health reform legislation is our opportunity to change the paradigm.  We are going to extend health insurance to every American.  And we are going to give our citizens access to a 21st century health care system – one that is focused on helping us to live healthy, active, happy lives.</p>
<p>Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairs the Senate panel that funds medical research and health care..</p>


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