Lance Armstrong case back in court over bonuses

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | Associated Press – Fri, Feb 21, 2014

http://news.yahoo.com/lance-armstrong-case-back-court-over-bonuses-193044043--spt.html

DALLAS (AP) — Attorneys for Lance Armstrong argued Friday that he shouldn't have to return to arbitration with a Texas company over million-dollar bonuses he received for winning races even if it was revealed years later that the cyclist lied about taking performance-enhancing drugs during his spectacular career.

SCA Promotions of Dallas sued shortly after Armstrong acknowledged last year that he had lied for years about doping. It then asked an arbitration panel to reopen a 2006 settlement it reached over about $12 million in bonuses it said it paid for three of Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories. He has since been stripped of all seven victories and given a lifetime ban from sports.
The panel voted 2-1 in October to review the case. Armstrong's attorneys want Judge Tonya Parker to overrule the panel, saying the arbitration case is closed.
Jeff Tillotson, an attorney for SCA Promotions, said something had to be done when a party in the case "lied at every step of the way." The language of the settlement allowed the panel to handle any future claims about that settlement, he argued.
"You tried to hurt us — legally, (in) public relations," Tillotson said. "What's the penalty for that?"
Tillotson also said Armstrong's attorneys had previously tried to get the panel to issue sanctions after the settlement against his side.
Armstrong's attorneys say state law protects their client in such cases. Even if Armstrong lied under oath, that would not be enough to reopen the case, said Tim Herman, Armstrong's longtime attorney.
"There is no case ... that gave an arbitration panel any authority beyond the conduct of the proceeding that was going on before them," Herman said.
Parker said she would issue a ruling soon, likely early next week.
Armstrong, who did not attend the hearing, has faced several lawsuits related to the millions of dollars he amassed as a cyclist. The biggest is a federal whistle-blower lawsuit over his team's previous sponsorship by the U.S. Postal Service that could lead to fines of more than $100 million.
He settled a smaller suit late last year with Nebraska-based Acceptance Insurance over $3 million in bonuses.
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"There Comes A Time When You Must Face The Threat"

"There Comes A Time When You Must Face The Threat"
from - The Parallax Prophecies -
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
and nationally recognized author on freedom and property rights issues.
We are helping to spread freedom and liberty around the globe.
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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, [will] plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."

Thomas Jefferson

Life is good! He has a loving family, a nice home, a good job, money in the bank, two cars in the garage, all the recreational toys the family could ever want, good health, vacations from time to time and everything is great. Life couldn't be better, could it? But fate and a life-threatening event have other plans for this father.

One night, you are sitting at the dinner table with your wife and two daughters when a lone, masked gunman crashes through the front door and threatens you with a gun, right at your own dinner table. If you don't turn over all your valuables, cash, check books, your keys, your two young girls and your car, he will shoot the whole family dead.

Paralyzing fear grips you. Your mind is racing, adrenalin surges through your body, sweat breaks out on your forehead and your heartbeat accelerates to a dangerous level. You can't think clearly. In a halting voice you try to talk the gunman out of what he is demanding you to do, but he is adamant and becomes even more threatening and irrational. You search desperately in your mind for other actions you could take against this real threat, but you come up empty. You sit there, drained of your ability to act in any meaningful manner. You have no way to defend yourself, much less your family. What choice do you have but to capitulate to the demands of the gunman, or bring certain death to you and your loved ones. As your car races away with the gunman at the wheel, you watch as your valuables, your check books, your cash and your two young, innocent girls disappear into the night. All you can do is to call the authorities and hope they can retrieve the most precious things in your life, your two beautiful daughters. The rest that the gunman stole doesn't matter. You shudder at the thought of what might happen to them, given that this masked gunman was dressed as an Arab.

Despair overwhelms you. Your "good" life has just been shattered and depending on the outcome, your life may be permanently torn to pieces. You fight with your wife and she blames you for not doing anything, when in fact there was nothing you could do. She cries uncontrollably and you try to console her. However, she blames you because there is no one else to blame in the high emotional, irrational state in which she finds herself.

The authorities search for the gunman but he is never found and your girls are lost in the shadowy world of swarthy men and white slavery. You beat yourself up in your mind, asking over and over and over again, "what could I have done?" No answer echoes back to take away your guilt and that sinking feeling of utter helplessness.

Finally, anger and guilt consume you and you drift in an out of sanity. Your wife leaves you because the glue that bound you together was your two lovely girls. You lose your job and your friends abandon you. A serious threat suddenly entered your life and you were totally unprepared and had no way to defend against it.

This fictitious scenario we just posed was an open an notorious threat and given the circumstances, there was nothing this father could have done to save his daughters, or maybe even his marriage. But there is a slow insidious kind of threat that you can't see that reaches out and "touches" you so imperceptibly that you don't even know the threat is there.

Let's take this same fictitious family with the good life, living in the home they bought several years ago. But inside that home is a hidden threat they can't see. The threat comes in the form of a toxic chemical that is embedded in the sheetrock on the walls and ceiling. The sheetrock manufacturing process accidentally injected a lethal toxin into the material, a toxin that very slowly releases itself into the atmosphere of the home, catalyzed by the home's residual heat. After several years one of your young daughters gets sick. You take her to the doctor and after a battery of tests they can't find the cause of the illness. She lies in a hospital bed. The prognosis is terminal.

Next, your wife gets sick. Her skin turns a deathly gray color. She has no energy and lies in bed most of the time. The doctors don't know what is wrong with her either. You begin to notice blotches on your skin that weren't there before. You reach a point where you can't work. Your second daughter gets sick and grows weaker, almost by the day. The whole family is sickened and no one suspects something in the environment of the home that is the cause, because the deadly toxin is undetectable in the air, or in the body. You lose your job because you can't work any more and your home goes into foreclosure, while all this time a hidden threat lies buried in the walls and ceilings in the place you call home. Finally, the whole family dies and the cause of death is listed as unknown because no one thought or believed that the structure that protected the family from the elements, was their hidden enemy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the "home" that is the sovereign land that provides a sanctuary for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and protects you from all enemies, foreign and domestic, depends on the honor and capability of your government, which you elect. The blue print for governing the American government and the people is the U. S. Constitution. If somehow, over time, say like 100 years, a life or freedom-threatening "toxin" (Progressivism) is injected into that Constitution by the operation or corruption of government, if you are not cognizant of what is going on inside that operation, that insidious, slow releasing toxin will reach out and "touch" you while you were engaged in your "good" life and did nothing to meet the unseen threat. Since millions of Americans weren't paying attention, there was no way they could know that their freedom and even their lives were in peril.

All three of the scenarios we have presented here have happened in the past, are happening now and will happen in the future, if the people refuse to be aware of the "home" they live in and the potential threat that lies in wait to put them in chains, or take away their very lives. "The Parallax Prophecies" predicts that if the American people refuse to acknowledge all threats and prepare themselves to defend against them, they will become the victims of history repeating itself once again and future generations will chastise them for having not met the threats, notorious or hidden, with whatever weapons it takes to preserve freedom and life. With the past experience of the almost negligible impact of our articles, we also predict that this powerful message about confronting threats will mostly fall on deaf ears, that's if the reader even gets this far before dismissing the message.

Thomas Jefferson's admonition from over 200 years ago appearing at the beginning of this article, should have warned us to take the threat of government oppression seriously every day of our adult lives and prepare and act accordingly. Being the greedy, self-absorbed weaklings that way too many of us are and always succumbing to the siren call of "free stuff" from government in exchange for our votes, we did not heed and have ultimately ignored Jefferson's warning. Now we are faced either with slavery, or death unless we are prepared right now to meet this threat of oppression head-on with courage, conviction, commitment and force if necessary. To delay is to capitulate and to give in to the inevitable. As in the title to this article, there comes a time when you must face the threat to life and liberty. That time was several yesterday's ago.

If you do not believe that the threat of Jefferson's government oppression is upon us, you do not know history and you are living in an Alice in Wonderland, make believe, upside down world. One day, one of the three threats we have presented here will land on your doorstep, probably sooner than you think and you will have no means of defense to protect you, or your family, just like our story of the father that faced a masked gunman in his own home at the dinner table, with his lovely, adorable family and lost them all. If Americans do nothing, we could very well have our children taken away at gun point. Some already have.

Further, for Americans to willingly give up their guns in the face of rising government oppression just because government passed a law, borders on self-induced national, individual and sovereign suicide and removes the people's last remaining defense against a government who has lost all allegiance to the rule of law, the enumerated powers of the U. S. Constitution and the unalienable, individual, God-given rights of every American.

To get a broader Liberal and Conservative perspective on the entire issue of the 2nd Amendment, we encourage each of you who care about preserving the most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights, to read the article by Matt Bracken HERE.

Mr. Bracken provides a powerful message (warning) to law enforcement that the government is lighting a match to a fire they won't be able to contain, if they continue on the path to repeal, or drastically curtail the 2nd Amendment.

"HOW MUCH WILL YOU GIVE UP
BEFORE YOU FIGHT BACK"
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
© Copyright March 1, 2008 - All Rights Reserved //http://www.narlo.org/howmuch.html

Every single day, while you are looking the other way, your government is stealing things from you and they are doing it with stealth and without constitutional authority. They are just doing it and no one stops them. To help them with their theft are the thousands of social and environmental special interest groups that lobby government incessantly for something they want, at your expense. From the President, to the U. S. Congress, to the state houses and yes, even in the counties and cities, all across America, legislators, lawmakers and bureaucrats are levying ever-increasing taxes and passing tens of thousands of new laws, acts, regulations, restrictions and ordinances that take things from you, mostly your constitutionally guaranteed freedom and liberty. You can forget about your pursuit of happiness. These are the thousands of new laws on top of the millions of already existing laws. It is as if a spider has gone mad and never stops spinning a web that finally traps him in his own biological silk. That is suicide and of course it is insane, but that is exactly what your government is doing to America and you and has for almost 10 decades.
Just try building anything on your property and watch your bank balance sink to zero from all the fees and charges government levies. You watch the months click by as you wait for your permits without regard to the limits that weather places on you, or to the time value of your money. Just try screaming out for justice when government decides to take your land under eminent domain, for other than a clear government purpose. You watch the attorneys eat up your life savings as they try to challenge the almighty government juggernaut, as so many have and have lost everything for the privilege, because they believed in our constitutions and justice, that they never receive.
You watch as your government wastes billions of your tax dollars on poorly thought-out programs that do nothing but have unintended and very expensive consequences. You cry out for redress on the illegal immigration problem, that your government refuses to fix, when the "fix" is pretty damn easy to do just by building and patrolling a fence and enforcing current laws.
You watch as your children are brainwashed and indoctrinated from Kindergarten through four years of college, while you pay through the nose, roll your eyes and do nothing. You stand by and watch your government spend billions of your dollars and pass law after law to save the salmon because government says they are endangered. Then you watch as the Indians, the commercial fishermen and the seals harvest this so-called endangered specie. There is not a peep out of you when these educated idiots tell you we have to dismantle perfectly good dams that provide power, irrigation and fllod control, to preserve a fish that is being harvested to extinction. Talk about cross purposes and contradictions!
You watch as your presidential candidates promise the moon from the public treasury to the undeserving, that will drive America into financial chaos. You watch as your government passes laws that drive up the cost of housing, energy, food, cars and everything else, exponentially, for reasons that defy common sense, but only pander to some wealthy special interest group.
You watch as they promise universal health care that will do nothing more than raise the cost of health care, decrease its quality and give government the rationale to further control your behavior, because they say they are paying for your medical care, which of course they are not. Medicare is nothing more than government-run health care, but many doctors are now refusing to accept Medicare patients because government is reducing what they pay the doctors, to control costs. Just imagine what it will be like under government-run Universal Health care. You can kiss the best health care service in the world, goodbye!
You watch as government outlaws the incandescent light bulb that has served Americans since Thomas Edison provided one of the greatest services to mankind and invented it. They are going to replace the incandescent bulb with a fluorescent bulb that has mercury in it and if it breaks it will cost you $2,000 to clean up the resulting hazardous waste. Oh and it will also cost you to dispose of the fluorescent bulb.
The minute these thieves that call themselves politicians go into session, the stealing begins. They pass gigantic, poorly-managed social programs that take billions of dollars in the sweat and labor from the millions of us that are working and transfers our sweat to someone else, who isn't. Their so-called safety nets discourage the work ethic and entice others to jump on the government bandwagon so they don't have to work either. (A free lunch for them that isn't free for you and me) Need we mention the millions of illegal aliens who come here by breaking our laws and attach themselves to our schools, hospitals and safety nets because their wages are so low they can't exist without government assistance. Then they send billions back to their homeland that they gain from the exploitation of our taxes. Need we also mention what we all saw in living color on our TV screens from the Katrina/New Orleans event.
These so-called representatives of the people steal your land with draconian environmental regulations and you stand by and let them. They use your money to buy up more private land for so-called preservation for future generations, when in fact they should be surplusing more land and transferring it to private individuals instead. When government owns most of the land, you get to pay with your taxes, their right to mismanage that land. Need we mention forest fires that are caused by government's mismanagement of the land they supposedly hold in trust for you, but lock you out of it. Forest fires that burn up hundreds, if not thousands of homes, as well as coughing up millions of pounds of particulates and CO2 gases into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun and making it hard to breath for some.
These burglars pass laws to control all human behavior. Not just the bad guys, but all of us. They pass smoking bans, burn bans, transfat bans, obesity bans and other laws that ban that certain behavior from everybody, not just the few who are the problem. They steal from you your God-given right of free choice. Now they are levying taxes, fees and tolls to encourage (force) you to get out of your car because they unilaterally believe that driving your car contributes to man-caused global warming, with no scientific proof that it is. They are passing land use laws with the sole purpose of driving you out of the rural and suburban areas and into large cities, stacked like rats in a cage. Why? To pander to a bunch of half wits who pray at the alter of the God of Environmentalism and want to force us all, with the power of government, to bow and pray to their God, as well.
If a thief broke into your house to steal and did to you what government is doing to you on a daily basis, you would be furious, angry and hungry for justice. For example, what if the government told you that to discourage you from having any new babies (government-mandated population control), they passed a law that said you had to board up two of your bedrooms in your house? Hold it you say, "government would never do that". Oh contraire! Government has already done it to the rural landowner by forcing the landowner to lock up 65% of their land that they can no longer use, just because the landowner wanted to improve their land with a home, a barn or a fence, or a drainage ditch. Government's reason for passing this law? To provide open space, clean water and aquifer re-charge for the public at large, at the rural landowner's expense. Never mind the equal protection clause in the U. S. Constitution. So if the government can take rural land by just an ordinance, without due process and just compensation that our constitution requires, what is to stop government from forcing you to board up two of the bedrooms in your home to control population? Absolutely nothing!
And if they did, what would you do about it? Nothing, like you are doing now? Or would you fight back and tell government to go to Hell in no uncertain terms. Power always fills a vacuum where no other power is present. Government power has filled the vacuum that the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED has left empty. If you have your hand out to government for anything they offer to you for free, they will instantly bind your hands with invisible hand cuffs (laws and regulations) and they will own you. No! They already own you.
So what does it take to get you angry? What does it take to wake you up? What will it take before you finally tell government where to get off and mean it. You have already given up the ship. Will you further give up your dignity and your life? America and her people are a testament to what freedom and liberty can produce. Give it up and you will see what slavery and serfdom produce. Nothing but more docile slaves and a government that grows more powerful by the day.
The inmates are still in charge of the asylum.

How much will you give up to the inmates,
before you fight back?

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Come On Lawyers! LEARN MERS! Help others and help yourself! Millions can be won from Previous Foreclosures Fraud!

Come On Lawyers! LEARN MERS! Help others and help yourself! Millions can be won from Previous Foreclosures Fraud!

What is frustrating is the fact that judges will rule against the banks on previous foreclosures and people are winning their houses back along with more money.

MERS banks can only foreclose through FRAUD!  There is no legal way for a MERS bank to foreclose on someone legally!  The beneficiary is NOT the Owner and only an Owner can foreclose on a loan!

So everyone who been foreclosed on by a MERS bank in the past few years, can SUE for damages.

I interviewed Scott Stafne from Stafne Trumbull law firm in Washington State.  He won the suit recently, where the judge completely voided the foreclosure from 2009.  Mr. Stafne has more litigation in the court for damages including a RICO case against Bank of America.

Just as Mr. Stafne says in the interview, lawyers throughout the U.S. need to learn MERS and the fraud involved.  There is a lot of money to be had.  He mentioned a woman just won 6 million dollars due to foreclosure fraud.

I am asking lawyers throughout the U.S. from personal injury to other law fields to please learn the foreclosure fraud that is being committed by Wall Street and allowed by the government.

It is Time for the People to have help and for the People to WIN against all the fraud that is being committed in Greed!

People are being thrown out onto the streets through Fraud!

Once the banks foreclose, most of the time they then sell the properties for less than half of what the mortgage was they foreclosed on.  The banks do not attempt to help the current homeowner.  They make money by foreclosing and then selling to what is many times their friends for pennies on the dollar.

The corruption and Fraud need to STOP!

I am asking all of those who have been foreclosed on in the past to contact an attorney and to file a law suit of FRAUD against the MERS bank for wrongful foreclosure!

No foreclosure that is a MERS bank is legal!  I am saying that one more time.

Also I would love for lawyers to look up doing Land Patents for people too!

THIS IS A CALL TO ALL LAWYERS TO START SUING THE BANKS AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE HAD FRAUD COMMITTED AGAINST THEM IN A FORECLOSURE TO SUE THE BANKS!  STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND AGAINST THE WALL STREET FRAUD! 

Posted by Sherrie Questioning All

NY Attorney General confirms real-life conspiracy among drug companies

naturalnews.com

Originally published February 21 2014
Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal antibodies. GlaxoSmithKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial data and fraudulent marketing. Pfizer, meanwhile has been sued by the nation's pharmacy retailers for what is alleged as an "overarching anticompetitive scheme" to keep generic cholesterol drugs off the market and thereby boost its own profits.

NY Attorney General confirms real-life conspiracy among drug companies

by J. D. Heyes

(NaturalNews) The office of the New York Attorney General and the American units of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. have come to terms on a settlement involving claims that an agreement between the two Big Pharma companies restricted competition unlawfully.
Both companies agreed to pay a small fine (by comparison) of $150,000 to New York State and to cease making similar agreements in the future as part of the settlement, Reuters reported. Neither company admitted or denied the allegations, but the settlement absolves them of having to do so.

By settling, the companies have ended an investigation that was being conducted by the state into an agreement that was signed by both in 2010 to sell a generic version of Pfizer, Inc.'s cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the U.S., while not horning in on the exclusivity rights of other generic drugs sold by the pharmaceutical companies. Per Reuters:

The agreement was drawn up as a contingency plan to allow Israel's Teva to sell the generic Lipitor, or atorvastatin calcium, in case Ranbaxy's version was not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before Lipitor lost its patent protection on November 30, 2011.

While India's Ranbaxy, majority-owned by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd, eventually got FDA approval in time, the agreement remained in place and could have been used to protect other drugs made by the two companies.

'Pay-for-delay'

"Agreements between drug manufacturers to protect each other's market positions violate fundamental principles of antitrust law, and can lead to higher drug prices," Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.

While the agreement related only to the sale of the one drug, it included a "no-challenge" clause, which allowed both companies to shield from competition, as well as legal and regulatory challenges, scores of other medications, according to the NY attorney general's office, which added, however, that no anti-competitive effects due to the agreement had been identified during the investigation.

Schneiderman says the entire ordeal represents the application of a recent legal precedent that arose from challenges of "pay-for-delay" agreements that were established between makers of brand-name and generic drugs.

Those deals, where a brand-name Pharma company pays a generic rival not to sell their versions of a drug at a much-reduced price, have caught the attention of regulators in countries all over the world, because such agreements raise patient-care costs as well as the public sector's costs to cover healthcare treatments.

Criminal enterprise

"Ranbaxy... continues to believe that the agreement was pro-competitive and an important part of making the product readily available to patients and the U.S. healthcare system in a timely fashion," a Ranbaxy spokesman said in an email to Reuters, but the other company involved, Teva, would not comment.

"The settlement is positive for (Ranbaxy). The settlement amount will not significantly impact the company," said Sarabjit Kour Nangra, an analyst at Angel Broking, as quoted by the newswire service.

Ranbaxy was banned from exporting drugs to the U.S. after failing to abide by U.S. Food and Drug Administration manufacturing standards.

Natural News has reported on illegal activity committed by Big Pharma companies often in the past. As our editor, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has documented, anyone who has labeled the industry as little more than a criminal enterprise has been vindicated time and again. In 2012, Mike wrote:

Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal antibodies. GlaxoSmithKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial data and fraudulent marketing. Pfizer, meanwhile has been sued by the nation's pharmacy retailers for what is alleged as an "overarching anticompetitive scheme" to keep generic cholesterol drugs off the market and thereby boost its own profits.

This latest settlement with authorities in New York further documents the previous pattern of criminality.

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10 Reasons You Should Be Using Coconut Oil Everyday

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By Dr. Brent Hunter
Posted Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 06:08pm EST
Keywords: anti-inflammatory, cancer, cholesterol, coconut oil, coconut oil hair treatment, Cooking oil, Dr. Brent Hunter, heart disease, Inflammation, metabolism, Metabolism boosters, weight loss, weight loss programs, wellness, Wellness Achiever, Wellness Lifestyle

If you do nothing else for your health, if you make no other changes to your diet and nutrition, then make this one addition. Adding even just 2 tablespoons of coconut oil to your diet everyday has been shown to provide most of the amazing benefits for which coconut oil has become famous. It truly is an amazing food!

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ~Hippocrates

While coconut oil is a fat, It is not a typical oil that most people think of like vegetable oil or canola oil. Many people are confused about why a fat is recommended for balancing metabolism and losing weight. Many people assume, based on incorrect information, that saturated fats are bad for your health, however, it is not saturated fat but trans fats that have negative health consequences. Additionally, many people have asked for more information about why coconut oil is included in the Wellness Achiever Metabolism Boosting Food Guide as a natural, healthy, metabolism boosting, anti-inflammatory food. Let’s first consider the problem with traditional cooking oils.

Dangers of Traditional Cooking Oils

Traditional cooking oils such as canola oil, vegetable oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil and safflower oil are ridiculously damaging to your health and highly unnatural. Have you ever seen a soybean? How do you think they get oil out a soybean? It takes a lot of soybeans and a lot of machinery to squeeze oil out of that little bean. Not to mention that the two of the most widely used oils in this unhealthy list – canola and soybean – are produced from 100% genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMO ‘foods’ are not actually foods but toxic substances. They have been genetically engineered for mass production and to resist toxic pesticides. If toxic chemicals will not kill your food, then it definitely shouldn’t go into your body.

If that weren’t problem enough, consider these facts about these health-destroying oils. They contain long chain triglycerides (LCTs) which are difficult for you body to break down and therefore, they are typically stored as fat, forcing your body to rely of sugar as fuel. They are composed mostly of omega-6 and little to no healthy omega-3 fats. Your body requires both omega-6 and omega-3 oils; however, when they are out of balance, as in these oils, they are highly inflammatory. Further, they have also been shown to inhibit thyroid function, thus slowing metabolic rate and increasing weight gain. These oils serve no purpose in your body other than making you fat and toxic. If you have any of these in your pantry now, throw them away!

Health Benefits of Coconut Oil

1. Supplies Natural Energy and Endurance

Unlike the traditional oils mentioned above, coconut contains medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) which are easily broken down by your body. MCTs are your body’s preferred source of fuel. They are burned for energy and not stored as fat. Your body obtains more than twice as much energy from metabolizing a gram of this fat versus a gram of carbohydrate or sugar. Coconut oil boosts your energy, optimizes performance and relieves chronic fatigue.

2. Slims Your Belly and Balances Metabolism

Coconut oil supports healthy thyroid function, optimizing metabolic rate and control weight. Several studies have demonstrated coconut oil’s fat burning effect in your body. One study showed that 2 tablespoons of coconut oil per day for 2 to 3 months resulted in significant reductions in belly fat, resulting in not only weight loss but also loss of inches around the belly.

3. Natural Remedy for Diabetes

Coconut oil increases your body’s metabolism by as much as 30% while decreasing insulin resistance. This improves blood sugar utilization in your body which helps diabetics naturally balance blood sugar and helps healthy individuals prevent diabetes. It also reduces stress on the pancreas (the gland that produces insulin) and alleviates the symptoms associated with pancreatitis.

4. Makes You Smarter and Prevents Brain Decay

Coconut oil has been shown to boost your brain power, making you smarter and improving your memory. Alzheimer’s disease has been described as diabetes of the brain. We know that sugars, as well as, toxins and heavy metals stored in fats are big contributors to this brain deteriorating disease. A 2006 study in Alzheimer’s patients showed that consuming 2 tablespoons of coconut oil resulted in significant improvements in cognitive functions and memory within just 90 minutes! Imagine the effects when coconut oil is used daily for months and years!

5. Protects Your Heart

Traditional cooking oils damage your arteries and cause inflammation. This leads to reduction of HDL cholesterol and elevated total cholesterol. The increased inflammation is the root cause of heart disease and heart attacks. However, coconut oil increases heart healthy HDL levels, improving your cholesterol ratio. It is anti-inflammatory, providing protection for your arteries and preventing atherosclerosis and heart disease.

6. Natural Antibiotic

Coconut oil has strong, natural antibacterial properties. It contains lauric acid which your body converts to a substance called monolaurin which is highly anti-bacterial, as well as, antiviral and antifungal. It kills bacteria that cause infections such as UTIs, ulcers, gum disease, cavities, and pneumonia. Not only does it work to kill bacterial infections inside the body but on the surface of the skin as well. There is no need for drug-filled, side-effect-causing antibiotic creams when you have coconut oil. You can apply some of this amazing oil to a paper cut or a scraped knee to prevent them from becoming infected and to speed the natural healing process.

7. Natural Flu Defense

This same effect of monolaurin kills the influenza virus as well. There is no need for dangerous vaccines and antiviral drugs. Including coconut oil as part of your healthy, wellness lifestyle prevents infections from developing. From the common cold to the flu, coconut oil can be used to prevent and fight these infections when they do occur. Other viruses found to be killed by monolaurin include herpes, measles, hepatitis C, SARS and others.

8. Kills Yeast Infections

Yeast is a fungus and, as you may have guessed, monolaurin from coconut oil is anti-fungal as well. Candidiasis is a systemic yeast infection that causes many painful symptoms from severe abdominal pain to cracked, bleeding skin. However, thanks to monolaurin, coconut oil brings healing and relief. These anti-fungal properties are also useful against ringworm, athlete’s foot, diaper rash, tapeworm, and other parasites, as well.

9. Healthy Bones, Shiny Teeth and Fewer Cavities

Coconut oil facilitates the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K), as well as, the mineral calcium. Whereas, osteoporosis drugs produce thicker, more brittle bones, coconut oil helps your body produce stronger, healthier bones and teeth. Additionally, the antibacterial properties kill bacteria that lead to periodontal disease and tooth decay. So, consuming coconut oil daily produces stronger, healthier teeth and fewer cavities.

10. Provides Cancer Protection

Coconut oil is highly anti-inflammatory, helping your body balance inflammation. It also has antioxidant capabilities that helps protect your body against free radicals. Not only does this have a youth enhancing effect for your skin, hair and nails but it yields an anti-cancer effect as well. Including coconut oil as part of your daily nutrition is an important part of your anti-cancer, wellness lifestyle.

11. Better Digestion

This is a bonus – number eleven! Coconut oil improves digestion, increasing absorption of fat soluble vitamins. It also improves the horribly painful symptoms associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

How To Use Coconut Oil

It is very important to buy the right kind of coconut oil. There are many cheap versions available that are manufactured using temperatures that are so high that they destroy most of the nutrients that give coconut oil its great, healthy effects. Make sure you purchase organic, virgin, cold pressed coconut oil. You will  several healthy, yet economical choices in the Wellness Achiever Store under the “Coconut Oil” category.

Coconut oil can be used for any cooking scenarios. In fact, it is the most versatile cooking oil because it has such a high melting point and it will not oxidize at high temperatures used for cooking. Other oils, including olive oil (another very healthy oil for raw uses like salads) oxidize and become rancid at the high temperatures of cooking. Coconut is the favored oil for cooking.
Coconut oil is delicious and can be eaten raw right out of the jar. For quick, sustained energy, just spoon out one tablespoon. Of course, it can also very easily be added to smoothies, protein shakes and juices. I regularly use all of these methods to enjoy coconut oil.
Additionally, coconut oil can be applied directly to the skin and hair as well. Not only can it be used to treat infections and skin problems as noted above, but it can be used as a healthy, non-toxic alternative to commercial skin lotions and hair treatment products. It naturally softens and moisturizes the skin to prevent wrinkles, sagging, and age spots. It also smoothes and moisturizes the hair, adds shine, repairs split ends and prevents dandruff.
Coconut oil truly is amazing. It is extremely versatile and it is power packed with health promoting, disease fighting properties. It can easily be incorporated into your daily routine. Pick some up today and begin experiencing these amazing results.

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5 More Healthcare Myths Exposed!

October 28, 2013  Since the early 1900s, the incidence of cancer has increased by over 700%! According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.66 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2013. Yet cancer researchers are no closer to finding a cure. Why? Because the War on Cancer is a farce!

by Dr. Brent Hunter

It’s no secret that our healthcare system is broken. More and more people are also realizing that ObamaCare is not the solution! It takes more than expanding access to our current broken sick care system. We must let go of these healthcare myths and develop a new healthcare system that is based on building real health and healing!

The American Healthcare system is filled with many inconsistencies. In the last article, we learned about these healthcare myths:

• Myth #1: ObamaCare Will Save our Health Care System
• Myth #2: Pharmaceutical Drugs Make You Healthy
• Myth #3: Vaccination Provides Immunity
• Myth #4: Low Fat Diet Foods Help You Lose Weight
• Myth #5: Chiropractic Healthcare is Only for Bad Backs and Necks

In this article, we cover five more.

Myth #6: The Flu Shot is Safe and Effective Healthcare

Every year, beginning in early fall, we begin to hear about how deadly the flu is and how our best flu prevention is the flu shot. It’s like a broken record. Then, towards the end of winter, we hear the same news every year about the incredible ineffectiveness of the flu vaccine.

This CNN Health article reported that the 2012-2013 flu vaccine was only 56% effective for adults a children and only 9% effective for seniors! Every year, the flu shot effectiveness rate averages about 50 percent, according to the CDC. That is the statistical equivalent of flipping a coin and hoping you don’t get sick. It means that 1 of every 2 people who get the flu shot every year will still get the flu.

This leaves us with only two possible conclusions about the flu shot.

1. The flu shot simply does not work.
2. It is a guessing game that the CDC experts just aren’t very good at.

Worse yet, even if you do manage to dodge the flu, the flu shot is extremely toxic and very dangerous to your health. The flu vaccine has caused the flu itself, Guillain-Barre syndrome, mercury toxicity, brain inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, anaphylactic shock, seizures in infants and narcolepsy. It has also caused miscarriages. In fact, despite claims that the flu shot will not harm pregnant women or their unborn children, it has never been tested in pregnant women. Yet, between 2009 and 2010, fetal deaths due to flu vaccinations increase by 4,250%!

While the flu shot is neither safe nor effective healthcare, there are very safe and practical ways to prevent the flu, as well as, safe ways to treat it naturally. Read more about how to build a flu proof immune system here. Additionally, learn how Chiropractic healthcare proved to be the life-saving hero during the worst flu season ever – the 1918 flu pandemic.

Myth #7: Statin Drugs Prevent Deadly Heart Attacks and Strokes

Many millions of people have been placed on statin drugs over the years to avoid a fatal heart attack or stroke. However, their ability to do so is a complete myth! Statin drugs do one thing well for many people – they lower cholesterol. However, they have failed miserably at actually preventing death due to heart attack and strokes!

What we have learned from this is that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. We have also learned that cholesterol can be protective against heart attack and strokes in many people.

Cholesterol serves a purpose in your body. It is there to build healthy cells and to repair damaged cells. Your body actually requires cholesterol for good health. It is time that we stop treating it as the enemy!

Statin drugs have been shown to have dangerous and deadly side effects. You must understand this before taking them. If you are already lowering your cholesterol with drugs, you owe it to yourself and your family to understand more about heart disease and the Cholesterol Myth.

Heart disease is the #1 killer in the United States. However, cholesterol has little to do with the 600,000 people killed by heart disease every year. While statin drugs lower cholesterol, they do not lower your risk of death. Learn how to heal heart disease naturally.

Myth #8: Cancer Research Will, One Day, Find a Cure

Since the early 1900s, the incidence of cancer has increased by over 700%! According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.66 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2013. Yet cancer researchers are no closer to finding a cure. Why? Because the War on Cancer is a farce!

The American Cancer Society has said that, with enough time, a cure will be found for cancer. If this were true, then a cure would have already been found years ago. However, it is a myth that cancer research will find a cure.

While there is no ‘cure’ for cancer, cancer can be healed. The truth is that your body is designed to heal cancer all on its own. It does so everyday without you even being aware of it. A cure, by definition, is a medicine; a drug. Our healthcare system is built on treating symptoms with drugs, falsely hoping that the disease will somehow be cured. However, healing is a natural process that is innate to your body.

So, while buying pink may make you feel as though you are contributing to a great cause, your dollars are actually funding a medical research system that is only producing more toxic cancer drugs. More people actually die from cancer treatment than from cancer itself.

Many millions have healed cancer naturally. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you can heal naturally as well! If you have not been diagnosed with cancer, then you can adopt the same healing lifestyle that will prevent cancer from ever developing in your body.

Myth #9: If You Feel Good, Then You Are Healthy

This is one the most dangerous myths of our healthcare system! Most people simply base their health on how they feel, mistakenly believing that if they feel good, then they are healthy. However, it can be very dangerous to base your health only on how you feel. Your health is more about how you function rather than how you feel. Consider these facts.

Many millions of people feel great but:

• Your arteries can be 50-70% clogged before you have your first symptom of heart disease!
• By the time a medical test detects cancer, it has already grown to over 4 billion cells!
• 50% of the time, the first sign of a heart problem is the actual heart attack and 50% of those heart attacks are fatal!

You may feel great, yet you can have cancer or heart disease developing. You can feel well and yet your body can be functioning poorly and developing disease. The health and healing of your entire body is controlled by your nerve system. Ninety percent of your nerve system is controlling the functions of your body. Only 10 percent of your nerves are concerned with how you feel. To gain real health and wellness, focus on a well functioning nerve system in addition to a well feeling body! This is the basis of a REAL Healthcare System!

Myth #10: Exercise Will Help You Lose Weight

Information about weight loss can be very confusing. There are so many ideas and opinions. Some say that you don’t have to exercise to lose weight, just follow this particular diet. Some say that you don’t have to exercise or diet, just take this magic weight loss pill (which is a myth as well)!

If you want to – not only lose weight but – gain real health and wellness, then exercise is essential! However, did you know that exercise can actually make you fat? Exercise changes the hormones that your body produces. Certain exercise will cause the release of hormones that cause you to store more fat and build weak, flabby muscles. However, high intensity interval training (HIIT) exercise produces different hormones that supercharge your body’s fat burning and help you build lean, fit muscle.

This is why there is so much confusion about exercise and weight loss. The weight loss effects of your exercise efforts depends on the type of exercise you perform. You can dramatically increase your weight loss with exercise but it has to be the right type of exercise. Read more about getting the best results from your exercise efforts for fat loss and reversing diabetes.

The truth is that the healing ability of your own body is so much more powerful than our healthcare system gives it credit for. You are not weak and doomed to disease. Even with a genetic predisposition, you can overcome disease and achieve real healing. However, it will take a completely different healthcare system.

5 Health Care Myths Exposed

October 25, 2013

by Dr. Brent Hunter

http://wellnessachiever.net/5-health-care-myths-exposed/

What do the American Health Care system and Unicorns have in common? They are both mythical creatures! Our health care system does little to care for our health. In fact, it is not a health care system, it is a sick care system! Here are several examples to help you understand how to move past disease management and into real healing.

As a physician, I have had to face the bleak realities of our broken health care system for many years. It is crippled by design. For my patients to move past managing illness and achieve true healing, they have to understand these health care myths and know what a real health care system actually looks like.

Myth #1: ObamaCare Will Save our Health Care System

ObamaCare has always had plenty of opposition. However, ObamaCare opposers now stand with the majority of Americans who understand that it simply cannot work. ObamaCare has been plagued with so many problems that it’s functional existence is as mythical as a unicorn!

The HealthCare.gov website is totally broken and it likely cannot be fixed. ObamaCare – officially called the Affordable Care Act –  is completely UNaffordable for both individuals and employers alike. Doctors do not like it and many do not want to participate. Insurance companies do not like it and cannot provide what Obama has promised.

That is reason enough to scrap the whole thing! However, the real reason ObamaCare will not save our health care system is that it does absolutely nothing to address actual HEALTH care. It simply aims to expand access to our already broken sick care system that does not address HEALTH care.

Our current health care system does not care for health. It manages sickness and disease. As a result, medical treatment is the third leading cause of heath in the U.S. (through the combined effect of drug interactions, medical mistakes, and hospital acquired infections).

ObamaCare does nothing to address this problem. It is not even intended to do so. Therefore, ObamaCare cannot fix our health care system.

Myth #2: Pharmaceutical Drugs Make You Healthy

A drug is defined as “any substance, other than food, used in the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease.” (Stedman’s Medical Dictionary). The concept of a ‘cure’ is certainly confusing. Medical research doesn’t seem to really be looking for actual cures. However, even if a drug is claimed to cure disease, it cannot heal. A drug can only counteract symptoms and help you manage disease.

This is why our current health care system is so broken. It focuses on treating symptoms and managing disease rather than health and healing. A real health care system must provide for your health – not your sickness. It must allow you body to heal – not manage disease.

Your body is designed to heal itself naturally. In fact, it does so everyday. From a paper cut to cancer, your body is a healing machine! However, when interference exists in your nerve system, you cannot heal.

This nerve system interference causes symptoms of disease – such as elevated blood pressure. If we simply treat the symptom with a drug, you will not be any healthier. In fact, you will be even more sick due to the secondary effects of the drug! However, if you remove the interference, your body will heal as it is designed to do with absolutely no need of any drugs.

Myth #3: Vaccination Provides Immunity

This is the dirty little secret of the multi-billion dollar vaccine industry. Vaccines do not provide immunity. However, Big Pharma does not want you to know this! They even try to hide this fact by giving vaccination the erroneous alternate name of ‘immunization’. However, vaccines should never be called immunizations because that is a misnomer.

You have heard a lot about so-called ‘immunization programs’ and creating ‘herd immunity’. However, these are simply myths. Vaccines create a sensitization response in your body not immunity. This is made clear by the fact that most vaccines require booster shots; whereas, natural immunity (produced in your immune system when you actually battle the infectious disease) provides real, life long protection against disease. Additionally, many ‘outbreaks’ – like the recent whooping cough outbreak – occur among vaccinated children. They were vaccinated but did not have real immunity.

Unvaccinated kids can get sick as well but when they do, their bodies develop real, natural, lifetime immunity to that illness. Conversely, vaccines only produce a temporary sensitization reaction in your body – not immunity.

The fact that vaccines do not even work the way that they are claimed is a primary reason that millions of people have decided to exempt themselves and their children from them. When you add to this, the extreme toxicity (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, aborted human fetal cells, GMO yeast, monkey kidney cells, etc.) of vaccines, there is plenty of reason to avoid them altogether.

Myth #4: Low Fat Diet Foods Help You Lose Weight

These diet foods are often loaded with sugar and hormone disrupting toxic chemicals. Both of these destroy your health and your metabolism. They do not help you lose weight but actually make you fatter!

Additionally, the low fat diet fad has created a lot of sick people. Your body requires fat everyday. Your brain and nerve cells are composed of mostly fat. Every one of the 3+ trillion cells in your body is made of an outer layer of fat.

Your body is constantly repairing damaged, old cells and building new cells. Without a steady supply of healthy fats, your body can only build weak, unhealthy cells.

Instead of eating low fat fad foods, focus on eating healthy fats like coconut oil, avocados, olives, nuts and seeds. These healthy fats build healthy cells, balance inflammation and actually cause you to lose weight. Research has shown that consuming 2 tablespoons of coconut oil daily resulted in significant reductions in belly fat. This led to not only weight loss but also loss of inches around the belly.

Myth #5: Chiropractic Health Care is Only for Bad Backs and Necks

Research has proven Chiropractic as the most effective and least expensive treatment for low back pain, many cases of sciatica, neck pain and headaches. I have personally had great success with these conditions in my chiropractic practice for years. In fact, many people seek Chiropractic health care for that purpose alone.

However, back pain relief is actually not the end goal of Chiropractic health care. The purpose of chiropractic is the optimization of your nerve system. Your brain, spinal cord and nerves make up your nerve system and it controls health and healing throughout your entire body.

Your spinal cord and nerves are surrounded by the bones of your spine. When your spine is healthy, it serves to protect your spinal cord and nerves. However, when your spine is misaligned, it interferes with your nerves and inhibits your natural, innate healing. This interference causes organs to deteriorate and ultimately results in disease.

Chiropractic adjustments remove this nerve interference and restore normal health and healing to your body. In fact, the very first chiropractic adjustment – in 1895 – restored not only healing but hearing to the first chiropractic patient. Early chiropractic health care was used for heart disease patients that were given up by the medical community. Chiropractic treatment was shown to be more effective than medical treatment for infectious disease during the 1918 flu pandemic. Chiropractic does not treat infectious disease but improves your body’s immune system and it’s own innate healing ability.

While Chiropractic health care is extremely effective for pain syndromes, it’s real power lies in it’s ability to optimize your nerve system. This results in, not only pain relief but real healing!

The truth is that the healing ability of your own body is so much more powerful than our health care system gives it credit for. You are not weak and doomed to disease. Even with a genetic predisposition, you can overcome disease and achieve real healing. However, it will take a completely different health care system.

Healing Waters: The Benefits of Aquatic Therapy

By Beth Maxwell
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2014 athttp://blogs.naturalnews.com/healing-waters-the-benefits-of-aquatic-therapy/
Keywords: aquatic therapy, Hydrotherapy, rehabilitation therapy, water therapy

The Benefits of Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy is a kind of physical therapy that is performed in the water, as you may have guessed. Patients who have trouble with traditional physical therapy can often make progress with water therapy. The soothing heat, combined with the weightlessness and flexibility the water provides, gives patients a secure place, with very little fear of falling. Although it is geared specifically towards helping in conjunction with regular therapy, there are some specific benefits that go along with it.
Less Impact
Most people are familiar with high- and low-impact sports. This is especially important for people who suffer from an injury in their lower joints, such as the ankles, knees, hips or back. The water helps to take the majority of the individual’s weight, therefore taking the pressure off the affected areas. For someone that already suffers joint damage, such as arthritis or a dislocation, being as gentle as possible while strengthening the muscles is very important.
As an example, if a horse injures its leg, it is pretty much unable to walk. They simply weigh too much to be able to walk on three legs, which is why water therapy is their lifesaver. The animals are able to let the water take most of their weight, and it allows them to exercise enough to regain the use of that leg. Otherwise, they would likely have to be euthanized.
This therapy could, in many cases, also be accomplished by doing exercises lying down, and that may indeed be an aspect of traditional therapy. However, if the injury is something like a dislocated disk in the lower back, then water therapy is really the only thing that will actually help. Additionally, it becomes very difficult to progress beyond a certain point without adding weights, which increases the overall impact.
Increased Resistance
There are many places that offer aquatic rehabilitation. Finding the one that is right for you is incredibly important, but no matter where you go, you will always get this one benefit – an increase in the resistance you work with.
Water exercise is pretty similar to working with light resistance bands. It makes no difference which way you move or how fast you try to move, you will still meet with that same resistance. This forces your muscles to build themselves up, which is why this can be so helpful for people who have suffered from a long-term illness that may have deteriorated some of their muscles.
Muscle Relaxation and Increased Circulation
One key thing to remember is that the water is usually pretty warm. It’s not going to be as warm as a hot tub or bath, but it is above room temperature. One of the key aspects of hydrotherapy is that it allows the muscles to relax. The warm water loosens up the muscles, which helps to prevent cramping and makes stretching easier. At the same time, it also encourages circulation at the very tips of your fingers and toes. Once again, this is a key aspect of helping anyone whose mobility has been limited by pain, and allows them to regain that mobility without worry about re-injuring the affected area.
Mental Relaxation
The last, but still a major aspect of hydrotherapy, is the mental aspect. Of course the focus is on the physical, and there certainly are many important aspects there. However, one thing that athletes and non athletes suffer from is a lack of confidence when they find that their body is no longer in the condition they are used to. This can lead to many mental blocks in recovery, such as fear of falling or of worsening the injury. Cramps can also have a mental effect, and can convince someone that the pain is simply not worth the recovery.
Water helps to work through all of that. The buoyancy people naturally have helps to eliminate the fear of falling. After all, it’s not like you’re really going to go down hard when you’re in the water. The warmth, allowing the muscles and mind to relax, helps to prevent cramps while also improving the individual’s flexibility.
By working on all of these aspects, hydrotherapy not only improves a person’s recovery, but also their personal outlook on things. If someone is unable to do something on land but they can do it in the water, it shows them that they do have attainable goals. Working on those small things and making the improvements that they need gets everyone on the road to recovery. Ultimately, that recovery is the end goal.
Savannah is a writer and health and wellness enthusiast! She is passionate about sharing tips and tricks to living a healthy life! Follow her on Twitter: @savfmarie!
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