plus 4, Costa Rican woman sues NJ jail over health care - Post-Star

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• Costa Rican woman sues NJ jail over health care - Post-Star
• Shirts (clothing) - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
• Flower Mound teen wraps gifts for breast cancer donations - McKinney Courier-Gazette
• Certain Canned Foods Contain High Levels of BPA Chemical Toxin - American Free Press
• Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate - Chippewa Herald

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Shirts (clothing) - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:27 AM PST Recipient E-mail Addresses (up to 3, separated by commas) Send me a copy. From: Name: E-mail: Comments: </p> <input type="hidden" name="galleryslug" value="chi-pod-pix"/><input type="hidden" name="_fields" value="toaddress"/><input type="hidden" name="_fields" value="fromname"/><input type="hidden" name="_fields" value="fromaddress"/><input type="hidden" name="_fields" value="comments"/></div></div><p><em>This content has passed through <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fivefilters.org">fivefilters.org</a>.</em></p><br><br><img alt="image">

Flower Mound teen wraps gifts for breast cancer donations - McKinney Courier-Gazette Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:03 PM PST During tennis season, Brooks Byers is serving up tennis balls for a point. This holiday season, the Flower Mound High School junior is providing a service to shoppers ... all for a good cause. Byers has set up a stand at Belks department store in Flower Mound to giftwrap items that shoppers buy there, and the donations he receives all go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for research to help find a cure for breast cancer. He had his first giftwrapping fundraiser last weekend at Belks with help from three friends. Byers said breast cancer research is important to him considering how much the disease has affected his family. His mother, Christy Baily-Byers, is a breast cancer survivor, finishing her last round of chemotherapy a year ago. His grandmother, MaryAnne Baily, died from the disease on Thanksgiving Day in 2000. His great grandmother, Christina Burton, also died from it. Byers worries that with breast cancer running at least three generations deep, it could impact other family members as well, and he hopes there is soon a cure so that it won't someday affect his sister, who is 9. Byers said he chose this time of year to have the fundraiser since this is the time of year he lost his grandmother. And giftwrapping seemed like the perfect idea, though he admits it was a learning process. "I learned how to giftwrap the night before the fundraiser," Byers said. "There was really only one item we came across that we couldn't gift wrap. But there was a time when two people came up to us to give us advice on how to do it right. I had no idea how to do it, but I got better as the day went on." They raised about $200. As shoppers left the store, Byers would ask if they would like to have their gifts wrapped for a donation. "It seemed like a good time to do it because it was Black Friday, so there would be more of a crowd," said Byers, who will have another stand from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Belks. "Of course, this weekend won't be Black Friday, but we hope to still raise a good portion of that $200." Byers said he also plans to set up a table Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, and possibly a couple of days after school. Belks store manager Susan Held said she welcomes his efforts. "Obviously, the cause this goes to is near and dear to almost everyone's hearts," Held said. "They have been very customer-oriented. They told the customers what the fundraiser is about and then let them decide if they wanted to donate. He wrote me a letter asking to do this, and it was very well done and he was very well-spoken. So why wouldn't we let him?" But not all stores were as eager, Byers said. "I made a lot of calls and wrote a lot of letters to stores asking if I could do this, and some of them said they weren't allowed to do that, and others just hung up on me," Byers said. "Some of them were rude, and I was surprised by that." In addition to the giftwrapping efforts, Byers, who plays on Flower Mound's tennis team, has also hosted tennis clinics for children, with money raised from that also going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. "I'm really proud of him for taking this on," Baily-Byers said. "Sometimes it's hard for students to do something like this because the hours at charities don't work well with a student's schedule. So he had to get creative and come up with other ideas." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Certain Canned Foods Contain High Levels of BPA Chemical Toxin - American Free Press Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:49 AM PST Certain Canned Foods Contain High Levels of BPA Chemical Toxin   By the Whole Body Health Staff The food processing world is reeling right now after a shocking new series of tests released in the current issue of Consumer Reports revealed that many leading brands of canned foods contain bisphenol-A (BPA)—a toxic chemical linked to health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other problems. BPA is used in the lining of cans, and the toxin leaches from the lining into the food. According to Consumer Reports, just a couple of servings of canned food can exceed scientific limits on daily exposure for children and expectant mothers. But fetuses and infants are not the only ones at risk. Researchers are also finding that BPA exposure can affect teenagers and adults as well. There are more than 100 independent studies linking the chemical to serious disorders in humans, including: prostate cancer; breast cancer; diabetes; early puberty; obesity; and learning problems. MESSING WITH YOUR IMMUNITY According to the research doctors, "Based on the type of invader, your immune system activates either Th1 or Th2 cells to get rid of the pathogen. Th1 (T Helper 1) attacks organisms that get inside your cells, whereas Th2 (T Helper 2) goes after extracellular pathogens; organisms that are found outside the cells, in your blood and other body fluids." When your Th2 cells are over-activated, your immune system will over-respond to toxins, allergens, normal bacteria and parasites, and under-respond to viruses, yeast, cancer and intracellular bacteria.When one system activates, the other is blocked. BPA BANNED The chemical bisphenol-A, which has been used for years in making clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to BPA, which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of various other ailments. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain some BPA. Furthermore, the canned organic foods tested did not always have lower BPA levels than nonorganic brands of similar foods analyzed. Testers even found the chemical in some products in cans that were labeled "BPA-free." The federal government is currently studying the dangers of BPA, and health advocates are calling on the FDA to ban the use of BPA in food and beverage packaging by the end of the year. Companies in other industries, including Wal-Mart, Target, Nalgene and Babies R Us, have already made commitments to stop using BPA. THE WORST OFFENDERS According to Consumer Reports testing, the levels of BPA can vary greatly from one can to another, which makes sense when we consider that the BPA leaches from the lining, and a variety of factors, such as heat, can influence the rate of contamination. In general, canned green beans and canned soups had some of the highest BPA levels of the foods tested. The worst offenders during their tests included: Del Monte fresh cut green beans, which had BPA levels ranging from 35.9 ppb to as much as 191 ppb; Progresso vegetable soup had BPA levels ranging from 67 to 134 ppb; Campbell's condensed chicken noodle soup, which had BPA levels ranging from 54.5 to 102 ppb. Subscribe to American Free Press. Online subscriptions: One year of weekly editions—$15 plus you get a BONUS ELECTRONIC BOOK - HIGH PRIESTS OF WAR - By Michael Piper. Print subscriptions: 52 issues crammed into 47 weeks of the year plus six free issues of Whole Body Health: $59 Order on this website or call toll free 1-888-699-NEWS . Sign up for our free e-newsletter here - get a free gift just for signing up! (Issue # 49 & 50, December 7 & 14, 2009) This content has passed through fivefilters.org. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate - Chippewa Herald Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:39 PM PST Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate By ERICA WERNER Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:45 PM CST Senate Republicans forced Democrats to defend cutting $40 billion from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Obama planned to visit Capitol Hill on Sunday to help Democrats resolve internal disputes that stand in the way of Majority Leader Harry Reid bringing the 10-year, nearly $1 trillion legislation to a vote. Chief among them is a disagreement over a proposed government insurance plan that would compete with private insurers. Several moderate Democrats are opposed, and Reid doesn't have a vote to spare in his 60-member caucus. Senators met privately Saturday and several cited progress on the issue, perhaps in moving toward a plan that would be run by a nonprofit entity. "I'm optimistic that something, I'm not sure what, but something can be arrived at," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. "It's definitely going to be something that's of a nonprofit nature." Reid called the unusual sessions as he races to finish the bill by Christmas. The weekend work also allowed him and other Democrats to highlight their commitment to Obama's signature issue, arguing that Americans can't take weekends off from worrying about health care, so the Senate shouldn't, either. Republicans, determined to stall if they can't kill the bill, weren't impressed. "I think the majority leader believes that somehow if we stay in on weekends the Republicans are going to blink. I assure him we're not going to blink," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Lawmakers went at each other over who really wanted to protect older people. Republicans, bent on making Democrats cast politically risky votes, offered their third amendment in the debate so far showcasing more than $400 billion in cuts to projected Medicare spending that would pay for the bill, mostly for subsidies to help extend coverage to millions of uninsured. Democrats have defeated the other two. The latest, by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., would eliminate $42 billion in cuts in Medicare payments to home health agencies over the next decade. "These are truly some of the most vulnerable Americans that receive these services and the cuts are placed directly on their backs," Johanns said. Democrats said those cuts, and others to Medicare private insurance plans and providers, would reduce overpayments, inefficiency and waste in the popular program, thereby strengthening it. They noted repeatedly that AARP supports the cuts. "They're busy talking about the cuts when this actually improves what Medicare beneficiaries are going to get," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., referring to new preventive services and other items in the bill. "That doesn't cut one benefit for a senior but it makes the program more effective," Kerry said. He offered an alternate amendment designed to safeguard home health care benefits. The overhaul legislation would provide coverage to more than 30 million more people over the next decade with a new requirement for nearly everyone to purchase insurance. There would be new marketplaces, lower-income people would get subsidies, the federal-state Medicaid program for the poor would grow, and there would be a ban on unpopular insurance company practices such as pulling coverage when someone gets sick. Saturday was the sixth day of debate on the legislation. An expected vote on an amendment by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., that would limit tax deductions for insurance executives' salaries was delayed, probably until Sunday. It would not specifically limit their pay, but how much of it that companies could deduct as a business expense. Currently that amount is $1 million per executive. Lincoln's amendment would reduce it to the level of the U.S. president's salary, now $400,000. The bill already includes a limit of $500,000, added earlier by Lincoln earlier. On the Net: Comparing the House and Senate bills: http://tinyurl.com/yeshhgv GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/user/gopweeklyaddress This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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