Food affects our bodies and minds. Many people would be surprised to discover just how many food ingredients are linked to cognitive disorders, like dementia.

Dementia is considered by many people to be a disease that accompanies age. Contrary to popular belief, however, dementia isn’t a specific malady, but a general term that encompasses a variety of cognitive impairments in memory, thinking and communication.

It’s unsurprising that food alters our brains. What is surprising is that certain foods contain ingredients that can damage our brains. Consider the following as a list of ingredients that are best classified as brain poison.

1. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) may cause plaque buildup in brain
AGEs, also known as glycotoxins, are proteins that have become glycated through exposure to sugars. Cooking foods at high temperatures, including fries and meats, can produce AGEs. These harmful compounds have been linked to hypertension and diabetes; however, recent evidence suggests that AGEs are associated with dementia as well.

Increased levels of AGEs may cause amyloid plaques, which are protein pieces that are characteristic of dementia, to concentrate in the brain. A study published in journal PNAS found that the consumption of glycotoxins led to dementia in mice. The team tracked the cognitive health of young, middle-aged and old mice that were fed diets with portions of AGEs similar to a Western diet. The researchers found that old mice that were fed high amounts of AGEs developed amyloid plaque. The researchers noted that the mice’s cognitive decline was not associated with age, since these symptoms were not found in aged mice on a low-AGE diet.

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(NaturalNews) There has been a great deal of news over the past few years about how the federal government is increasingly spying on the American people, especially via the National Security Agency and the FBI. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that Americans’ privacy is being invaded more frequently, and on a wider scale, by private industry.

Consider just some of the latest technology to hit the market and you can see that we Americans are being watched, monitored, measured and profiled 24 hours a day, seven days a week – and in many ways, we’re helping the process:

“Smart” meters

In recent days, California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered residents of the drought-stricken state to cut water usage by as much as 25 percent. It wasn’t a recommendation, per se; officials are serious about implementing it.

As reported by CBS Los Angeles, state and local officials are going after “water wasters” through the installation of “smart meters” that gauge water use and report it back to water authorities, wirelessly.

“It collects the data every five minutes, then after midnight, the cellphone that’s built in here comes on, makes one call, and calls it in to the database that we and the customer, through a password security system, have online access to their consumption,” Long Beach Water Department General Manager Kevin Wattier told the local affiliate. “The accuracy is just incredible, because we get the data the next day.”

In February, when water smart meters were installed around the city, Wattier used the data to catch the owners of local McDonalds restaurant who were said to be over-watering the lawn there.

Wattier went onto say he believes smart meters will increasingly be used to measure water usage at both homes and businesses throughout Southern California. But no one is talking about getting rid of them once the drought subsides.

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(NaturalNews) Feeling irritable, paranoid or even violent lately? Before you blame other life triggers like your job, money problems or your significant other, you may want to examine your prescription drug regimen, as it could be changing you in more ways than you realize.

Close to 70 percent of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug and more than 50 percent are prescribed two or more, according to numbers released in 2013 by Mayo Clinic, meaning that it’s probably even higher today.

Prescription drug use rose from 44 percent in 1999 – 2000 to 48 percent in 2007 – 2008. While the most common pharmaceuticals in use today include antibiotics, antidepressants and painkiller opioids, another drug is on the rise: statins, a class of drug routinely prescribed to help lower cholesterol levels in the blood.

Find more breaking headlines on statin drugs at statins.news

More than 35 million Americans may be on a drug that causes violent, suicidal and homicidal behavior, and it’s not antidepressants

About 25 million Americans are currently taking statins, and under new guidelines issued in November, another 13 million may be eligible for the cholesterol-lowering drug.

While touted as being nothing short of a miracle for preventing heart attacks and stroke, a new study says statins may cause some pretty scary side effects including “aggressive, violently jealous, suicidal or even homicidal behavior.”

Researchers from the University of California found a link between statins and aggression, particularly in postmenopausal women over 45-years-old. Interestingly, women who were innately calm exhibited the most aggressive behavior when on statins.

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(NaturalNews) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched a probe into the highly controversial HPV vaccination program following thousands of reports of young girls falling seriously ill after getting jabbed. Per the Swedish news source Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), the European Union’s version of the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) launched the investigation to determine whether or not the safety claims associated with Gardasil and Cervarix, the two HPV vaccines currently in circulation, are actually legitimate.

The multinational drug corporations behind the two vaccines, Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), respectively, say the vaccines are perfectly safe and come with minimal risk of side effects. But the many thousands of young girls throughout the world who’ve suffered serious side effects, including several hundred recently featured in a Danish documentary that aired on Denmark’s TV2 network, claim otherwise, reporting major health failures almost immediately following the jab.

HPV vaccines have already been administered to some 70 million women worldwide, but their safety and effectiveness is questionable at best. The science used to justify their commercial approval simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, and yet many countries throughout the world have adopted HPV vaccines as a preventative medicine for preventing cervical cancer.

Canadian researchers published a study in 2013 revealing that the industry-sponsored trials used to justify commercial approval of HPV vaccines are “largely inadequate” and present “evidence of selective reporting of results from clinical trials,” meaning vaccine companies cherry-pick data to suit their own agenda.

“[T]he widespread optimism regarding HPV vaccines long-term benefits appears to rest on a number of unproven assumptions (or such which are at odd with factual evidence) and significant misinterpretation of available data,” the team wrote.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050924_HPV_vaccine_EU_agency_investigation.html

A new report from The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has revealed young people will be the hardest hit under a new future of work, as the economy and labour market undergo significant changes over the coming decades.

The report The New Work Order: Ensuring young Australians have skills and experience for jobs of the future, not the past, highlights the way we work will be increasingly affected by three key economic drivers:

• Automation, with smarter machines performing a growing number of traditionally human tasks
• Globalisation, where technology platforms are making it possible for workers around the world to do jobs from remote locations
• Collaboration, through which we will see an increasing number of people engaged in flexible work with a range of employers to generate an income

While these changes present some positive opportunities for young people – such as lower barriers to entrepreneurship; more flexibility in ways to source income and wider markets to access employment – the report also found significant risks, including rising inequality, unemployment and insecurity which young people are likely to bear the brunt of.

FYA CEO Jan Owen AM said the findings confirm the urgent need for a comprehensive national investment in young Australians, to ensure the next generation is prepared for the economy of the future and equipped with the tools to drive it.

“Australia is already facing the challenge of an ageing population and the subsequent shrinking workforce and if our nation is going to overcome these challenges, young people must be given the opportunity to drive the economy forward,” Ms Owen said.

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