- Honeybee Colony Collapse to Devastate Food Companies, Result in Food Scarcity. (6/25/2008)
- Are You Allergic To Wireless Internet? (6/25/2008)
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is a condition in which people are highly sensitive to electromagnetic fields. In an area such as a wireless hotspot, they experience pain or other symptoms.
People with EHS experience a variety of symptoms including headache, fatigue, nausea, burning and itchy skin, and muscle aches. These symptoms are subjective and vary between individuals, which makes the condition difficult to study, and has left experts divided about the validity of such claims.
More than 30 studies have been conducted to determine what link the condition has to exposure to electromagnetic fields from sources such as radar dishes, mobile phone signals and, Wi-Fi hotspots.
There is no autism epidemic
by David Kirby, Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/there-is-no-autism-epidem_b_37647.html
It's been nearly two years since the release of my book, "Evidence of Harm, Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic - A Medical Controversy," and I continue to be vilified by critics who insist that mercury does not cause autism, that autism is a stable genetic condition, and that it cannot be an "epidemic."
I am going to declare a New Year's truce, and announce that my critics are 100 percent correct.
This year, I hope we can ALL agree on one thing: There is no autism epidemic.
Among my most spirited and articulate detractors is a group of adults with autism who belong to a movement that refers to itself as the "neurodiversity" community.
These adults argue passionately that autism is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather a natural and special variation of the chance genetic imprint left upon human behavior. Most of them, I believe, have what science calls "Asperger's Syndrome," or very high functioning autism.
From their eloquent and well reasoned point of view, autism has no "cause," and it certainly requires no "cure." To suggest otherwise is to brand these adults with the stigma of disease and disability, which is patently absurd given their educational and intellectual achievements.
It's like saying that left-handers or gays are deviant and need treatment - something that reasonable people stopped doing years ago.
So maybe autism really is just an odd genetic peculiarity that yields atypical people whose own set of talents and gifts can lead to perfectly happy and fulfilled lives, with little or no dependence on others for their survival.
If that's the case, then autism has always been with us at some steady, but largely overlooked rate. Growing awareness and better diagnostics have certainly helped us identify and count more people with the condition, who might have been mislabeled as "quirky" or "nerdy" a decade ago.
But if that's autism, then the kids that I have met suffer from some other condition entirely. When I talk about "curing" autism, I am not talking about curing the "neurodiverse."
I am talking about kids who begin talking and then, suddenly, never say another word.
I'm talking about kids who may never learn to read, write, tie their shoes or fall in love.
I'm talking about kids who sometimes wail in torture at three in the morning because something inside them hurts like a burning coal, but they can't say what or where it is.
I'm talking about kids who can barely keep food in their inflamed, distressed guts, and when they do, it winds up in rivers of diarrhea or swirls of feces spread on a favorite carpet or pet (no one said this kind of "autism" was pretty).
I'm talking about kids who escape from their home in a blaze of alarms, only to be found hours later, freezing, alone and wandering the Interstate.
I'm talking about kids who have bitten their mother so hard and so often, they are on a first name basis at the emergency room.
I'm talking about kids who spin like fireworks until they fall and crack their heads, kids who will play with a pencil but not with their sister, kids who stare at nothing and scream at everything and don't even realize it when their dad comes home from work.
These are the kids I want to see cured. And I don't believe they have "autism."
Scientists tell us that 1-in-104 American boys are currently diagnosed with some form of autism spectrum disorder. But the mildest, "high functioning" forms of autism have seemingly little in common with the most severe or even moderate cases.
My hunch (and yes, that is all it is) is that most of these kids do not have "autism" at all, and it's probably time we started calling it something else.
American kids are in huge trouble. One in six has a learning disability. Asthma, diabetes, allergies and arthritis are ravaging their bodies in growing numbers. And little of this is due to "better diagnostics" or "greater awareness."
It can only be attributed to radical changes in our environment over the last 10-20 years. There is something, or more likely some things in our modern air, water, food and drugs that are making genetically susceptible children sick, and we need to find out what they are.
Mercury remains a logical candidate for contributing to "autism spectrum disorders," either alone or in combination with other environmental insults. Mercury exposure can kill brain cells. It can cause loss of speech and eye contact, digestive and immune dysfunction, social withdrawal and anxiety, and repetitive and self-injurious behaviors.
So maybe we should leave the autistics in peace and focus on these environmentally toxic kids and what it is that ails them.
Maybe what these kids have is not autism, but something like, say, "Environmentally-acquired Neuroimmune Disorder," which we could call E.N.D. (Great slogan: "Let's End E.N.D.).
Maybe that would explain why a recent CDC-funded study of the San Francisco Bay Area showed that kids with "autism" were 50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high levels of airborne toxins, especially mercury. If a second study underway in Baltimore yields similar data, it will be that much harder to defend the "better diagnosis" argument, (other studies have shown an association between autism rates and proximity to coal-fired power plants).
So maybe what we have here is just a semantic failure to communicate. Columbus thought he had met "Indians," and we only recently began to use the term "Native American."
Columbus was not in the Indies, mercury doesn't cause autism, and there is no autism epidemic.
Pilot
EHS Treatment - But in the USA!
By: ElectroSensitivity-UK (http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk)
June 20th, 2007
Dr. George Carlo and Tamara Mariea are preparing to conduct
a one month pilot ES/EHS treatment for 3/4 EHS in late October/November
2007. The Internal Balance clinic is located in Franklin,
Tennessee.
Internal Balance Inc.
Tamara Jo Mariea, CCN, CERSA
Environmental/Biochemical & Certified Clinical Nutritionist,
certified Electromagnetic Radiation Safety Advisor
www.internalbalance.com
The treatment protocol working on the degree of membrane
sensitivity syndrome exhibited by each individual, is being
written up currently and will be circulated to any interested
participants. The costs will include accommodation, travel
and clinicians and tests.
The 8 hour journey and airport routine is a challenge but
Dr. Carlo and Tamara Mariea are to consult NASA for their
best recommendations. Perhaps, if you could let me know
at sarahdacre@aol.com if you or any of your fellow ES colleagues
wish to receive more details.
Throwing
children into oncoming traffic: The truth about Autism
By: Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
I have been a practicing pediatrician for over 20 years.
I saw my first child with autism in the early 90's - before
that I had never seen an autistic child, and I never saw
an autistic child in all my years at school. The boy was
4 years old and you could see the frustration in his face
as he wanted to speak but nothing intelligible would come
from his mouth except shrieks of anguish.
As I studied his tortured face, it was as if there was
an old time telephone switchboard operator inside his head
trying to plug in the correct phone cables but not being
able to complete the call. This family had known me from
an old practice I worked at in another city, but they had
traveled to see me because they trusted me and were looking
for answers that no one seemed to have for them, but I too
had no answers and I could see the mom was greatly disappointed.
After the family left my office I poured over a few dusty
textbooks and wondered if I had just seen a very rare disorder,
a disorder that affected one child in 10,000 children...autism.
I had been involved in pediatrics for a decade by the time
I saw this boy and it wasn't as if I had no experience working
with rare disorders. I had been able to identify a boy with
Fragile-X syndrome and his mom ending up starting the Fragile-X
support group at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.
I had noticed there was a strange upswing in children with
attention disorders and impulsivity problems. I wasn't a
neurologist, but had studied with one of the finest at UCLA.
While I was still a pediatric resident I spent time in his
office where he helped me study the parade of unusual maladies
that was starting to afflict children. I considered myself
a closet neurologist, because that was what I had really
wanted to specialize in - not pediatrics, but during my
neurology rotation in medical school I learned some discouraging
news. The attending neurologist, whom I greatly admired,
had taken me on rounds for the first time and I watched
him brilliantly explain to the family of a stroke patient
how he had figured out where in the brain the blood clot
had lodged. Then he stood up and walked out of the room
and I asked him what therapy he was going to prescribe for
the patient so he could recover from his stroke, "therapy"
he said, "there is no therapy."
Well, I scratched neurology off my list...diagnosis was
only meaningful if you could offer a treatment and it seemed
neurology had few treatments to offer.
My second patient with autism came to me in the mid 1990's,
but to my relief the purpose of the visit was only to treat
worms. I dutifully prescribed the medicine for pinworms
and went on to my next patient. Later that afternoon I received
a call from the autistic boy's mom who wanted to know what
was that medicine I had given her son for pinworms...her
boy was starting to make eye contact, show affection and
communicate with his family. She said it was amazing! I
told her I didn't really didn't know what was in the pinworm
pill but immediately prescribed enough pills for her son
to take everyday for a month (normally you only take one
or two pills to treat pinworms).
Read
the rest of the article
Electronic
smog
 The
curse of the mobile phone age: around your home there are
countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now
warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer.
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 07 May 2006
Invisible "smog", created by the electricity that powers
our civilization, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages
and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life,
new scientific evidence reveals.
The evidence - which is being taken seriously by national
and international bodies and authorities - suggests that
almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution
with countless sources in daily use in every home.
Two official Department of Health reports on the smog are
to be presented to ministers next month, and the Health
Protection Agency (HPA) has recently held the first meeting
of an expert group charged with developing advice to the
public on the threat.
The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) calls the electronic
smog "one of the most common and fastest growing environmental
influences" and stresses that it "takes seriously" concerns
about the health effects. It adds that "everyone in the
world" is exposed to it and that "levels will continue to
increase as technology advances".
Wiring creates electrical fields, one component of the
smog, even when nothing is turned on. And all electrical
equipment - from TVs to toasters - give off another one,
magnetic fields. The fields rapidly decrease with distance
but appliances such as hair dryers and electric shavers,
used close to the head, can give high exposures. Electric
blankets and clock radios near to beds produce even higher
doses because people are exposed to them for many hours
while sleeping.
Radio frequency fields - yet another component - are emitted
by microwave ovens, TV and radio transmitters, mobile phone
masts and phones themselves, also used close to the head.
The WHO says that the smog could interfere with the tiny
natural electrical currents that help to drive the human
body. Nerves relay signals by transmitting electric impulses,
for example, while the use of electrocardiograms testify
to the electrical activity of the heart.
Campaigners have long been worried about exposure to fields
from lines carried by electric pylons but, until recently,
their concerns were dismissed, even ridiculed, by the authorities.
But last year a study by the official National Radiological
Protection Board concluded that children living close to
the lines are more likely to get leukemia, and ministers
are considering whether to stop any more homes being built
near them. The discovery is causing a large-scale reappraisal
of the hazards of the smog.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer - part
of the WHO and the leading international organization on
the disease - classes the smog as a "possible human carcinogen".
And Professor David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public
Health at the State University of New York, told The Independent
on Sunday last week that it was likely to cause up to 30
per cent of all childhood cancers. A report by the California
Health Department concludes that it is also likely to cause
adult leukemia, brain cancers and possibly breast cancer
and could be responsible for a 10th of all miscarriages.
Professor Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects
at Bristol University, says that "a huge and substantive
body of evidence indicates a range of adverse health effects".
He estimates that the smog causes some 9,000 cases of depression.
Perhaps strangest of all, there is increasing evidence
that the smog causes some people to become allergic to electricity,
leading to nausea, pain, dizziness, depression and difficulties
in sleeping and concentrating when they use electrical appliances
or go near mobile phone masts. Some are so badly affected
that they have to change their lifestyles.
While not yet certain how it is caused, both the WHO and
the HPA accept that the condition exists, and the UN body
estimates that up to three in every 100 people are affected
by it.
Case History: 'I felt I was going into meltdown'
Until a year ago, Sarah Dacre reckoned she had a "blessed
life". Running her own company, and living in an expensive
north London home, the high-earning divorcee described herself
as "fab, fit and 40s". Then suddenly the sight in her right
eye failed: she first noticed it when she was unable to
read an A-Z map. Soon she was getting pains and numbness
in her joints. She could not sleep and spent nights "pacing
about like a caged lion". Her short-term memory failed and
if she took notes to remind her, she would forget she had
made them.
The symptoms got worse whenever she was exposed to electricity.
She could not use a computer for more than five minutes
without becoming nauseous. Even using a telephone landline
gave her a buzzing in the ear and made her feel she was
"going into meltdown".
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