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False Logic: Fluoride in tap water is good for health

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Fluoride in tap water might according some studies lower IQ and make people more docile.
If I wanted to transform a nation into an army of docile useful idiot borg, I would start with that.
You must understand the more you put your government into your life more problems you will have.
The government is unhappy and I want to serve itself and not you.

Fluoride: lowering IQ’s?
New studies from China show that an excessive intake of fluoride can accumulate in the brain, permanently reducing a child’s intelligence.

Two suburban villages in Shanxi Province in China are very much alike - except for the level of calcium fluoride in their water supply. Read more of this article

Most of the United States’ water supplies are fluoridated in a medical practice designed to improve children’s dental health.

“Fluoride causes health problems, damaging the bones and the brain. There have also been 23 studies done in China, India, Iran and Mexico showing fluoride lowers IQ levels in children.
“The health experts say they have been fluoridating for 50 years and if there were any problems we would know about them by now. But if you don’t study it properly, you don’t notice the subtle changes.
“No British authorities are studying the link between fluoride and lower IQ levels, and they are ignoring all the studies from the other countries.” Read full article

The fluoride added to water supplies is an industrial waste byproduct

Water fluoridation may cause significant health & environmental complications: According to Dr. Dean Burk, Chief Emeritus, US National Cancer Institute: Fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical…30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year, from various causes, may now be attributable to fluoridation. Read full article

Why some people are good at generalizing from past experience

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Source: ScienceDaily

Decisions are often guided by drawing on past experiences, perhaps by generalizing across discrete events that overlap in content. However, how such experiences are integrated into a unified representation is not clear, and fundamental questions remain regarding potential underlying brain mechanisms. It is likely that such mechanisms involve the hippocampus, a brain structure closely linked with learning and memory. The midbrain may also play a role, as its projections modulate activity in the hippocampus, and activity in both regions has been shown to facilitate encoding of individual episodes.

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Is television doing the thinking for you ?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Source: NaturalNews

The world’s biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to think that television has absolutely no effect on how we think or what we do. We believe that it is a way to relax. Many of us may be surprised to know that television is a controlling medium, relaxing us enough to switch off our analytical brain (the left side of the brain) so that we uncritically, or unlogically, process the information beaming from the television. This means we are less able to make decisions or judgments about what we hear on television.

Our brains undergo a similar process under hypnosis. The similarity between hypnosis and the effects of watching television is unveiled in Dr Aric Sigman’s book called Remotely Controlled.

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Mindfulness to disengage from overly emotional reaction

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Found via KCity

“...Mindfulness is built around the premise of disengaging from overly emotional responses and extraneous thoughts that clutter the mind’s ability to think clearly. By using techniques such as breathing, visual imagery and meditation to slow down and focus on the present, the theory goes, a person can tap into a higher level of awareness. The more acute awareness is the byproduct of more active brain waves brought on by meditation, studies have shown.

Simply put, it’s going from worrier to warrior, says Rogers, 45, a lawyer who conducts seminars for other lawyers and school groups.

“We want to move into a place where the outside world will do whatever it’s going to do without us going through the roller coaster of emotions,” Rogers says. “We want to maintain this more alive, vigilant, present way of being that is somewhat independent of how things are going.”….

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Trick Your Brain To Sleep

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

To get a solid night’s sleep, many turn to medications, herbs and even alcohol — but what if you could trick your brain into falling asleep? A new study says this is possible.

An old method of treatment for epilepsy and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder shows promise as a treatment for insomnia. In instrumental sensorimotor rhythm conditioning (ISC), patients shape their brain activity by watching a feedback screen and adjusting their behavior accordingly. To encourage sleep, participants in the study used physiological relaxation and positive thinking to mold their brainwaves into a certain shape. (more…)