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Will Anyone in Their Right Mind Actually Buy Into These Three New Vaccines?

Jan 31

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Posted by: Dr. Mercola
November 07 2009

A storm has erupted over the announcement last month that an experimental AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand proved modestly effective. It was billed as a major scientific advance — the long-awaited hard evidence that it is possible to inoculate people against AIDS. But now the trial has been called into question in a way that is overblown and possibly destructive.

But this isn’t the first time the efficacy and safety of a vaccine has been called into question. The government recently announced that $10 million of stimulus money would be used to fund a phase 3 clinical trial of a promising anti-smoking vaccine produced by Nabi Pharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md. However, another company working on a similar vaccine has not been so successful. Read the rest of this entry »

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TV and Your Child’s Brain – EXPLAINED

Jan 20

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I looked at some research into how TV affects the viewers brain. I will try to explain it in simple terms (because I am rather simple myself)

  • The stimulus (TV/Porn/Movie/Music video/etc) sends A/V signals to the subject’s brain.
  • The subject’s brain then processes what it is experiencing with eyes and ears.
  • The subject is stationary, usually at rest, in a familiar setting and is comfortable there.
  • The violent stimulus triggers natural fight or flight reactions in the subject’s brain, but the subject is not in any real danger, so the subject’s brain suppresses any reactions.
  • Change the stimulus and the respective reactions take place in the brain, usually contrary to the subject’s state, and the brain suppresses further.
  • There are no exciting videos of people sitting on their couches. The SIMS is the closest you’re going to get to that, haha, so the stimulus is almost always in direct contrast to the viewer’s current state.

Now, with that said, what happens when the brain reacts, then is suppressed – repeatedly? Well, over a 120 minute movie with the action, romance, and drama peaking and falling throughout, the brain gets a good workout. As an adult you’re used to it, but with a kid, they’re just learning to suppress these things, and what happens is they build up the feelings rather than suppressing them. So, at the end of a fighting movie they want to release that build up, and they act-out. At the end of a sad movie they might be on a downer, or appear saddened. Over time, they develop coping mechanisms, but some kids don’t and they act-out all the time, and as they grow up they act-out on a larger scale.

Think About It.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/20/how-television-affects-your-brain-chemistry-and-that-s-not-all.aspx

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Avoid The Talk‐Persuade‐Argue‐Yell‐Hit Syndrome

Jan 20

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AVOID THE TALK‐PERSUADE‐ARGUE‐YELL‐HIT SYNDROME

Source: ParentMagic Newsletter, Jan 2010

Many adults enter parenthood with visions of “picture perfect” children. They imagine a warm and loving home, as well as respectful and polite kids, all eagerly doing whatever is asked with only an occasional explanation from Mom or Dad.

As a veteran parent, you know this is not reality. But many parents have the idea that kids are just smaller versions of adults: reasonable and unselfish. This is the “Little Adult Assumption.” Moms and Dads who embrace this myth often prefer the “modern method” of discipline—talking and reasoning. Unfortunately, many times words and reasons alone prove unsuccessful. Sometimes they have no impact at all, and then parent and child fall into the trap known as the Talk‐Persuade‐Argue‐Yell‐Hit Syndrome.

This tragic sequence results from the very best of parental intentions. Your child is doing something you don’t like. You tell her to stop. She continues her misbehavior, so you try persuading her to see things your way. When persuasion fails, you start arguing. When arguing is not successful, you yell. Yelling fails, so—feeling there is nothing left to do— some parents turn to hitting. The two biggest parenting mistakes—too much talking and too much emotion—trigger the Talk‐Persuade‐Argue‐Yell‐Hit Syndrome.

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Gay is a Sickness, like Alcoholism

Jan 13

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God-Loves-EveryoneI was listening to the CBC Radio this morning where the host had two guests on talking about an issue similar to this one.

The American politician (name not worth mention) was saying that homosexuality is a mental disorder like alcaholism, and for society to grant them the same rights as heteros is to also grant pedophiles, beastiality and incest the same legal rights and freedoms.

Why? How could he possibly justify that? Well, he thinks that those things are all part of sexual patterns people get into early in life. He said the homosexual movement has a plan to lure young people, convert them to the gay side and grow their movement.

I can’t believe this is 2010!

The other guest is a Ugandan Christian Priest. He said his sister wanted a divorce but that’s against his faith, so he advised her not to. She listened to him and while he was away in school her husband murdered her. It took the death of his sister for him to realize that his faith did not provide him with the answers to life’s questions. So if the bible says marriage is permanent and gay is wrong, but he cannot take his faith as it is written, then what can he do? Read the rest of this entry »

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