Soda, potato chips, cookies and candy: Slow mind poison "Allowed" into Gaza

Noted British psychiatric researcher Malcolm Peet has conducted a provocative cross-cultural analysis of the relationship between diet and mental illness. His primary finding may surprise you: a strong link between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia.

In fact, there are two potential mechanisms through which refined sugar intake could exert a toxic effect on mental health.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-depression-cure/200907/dietary-sugar-and...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/01/diabetes-slows.html

Here's a good reason to get your blood sugar under control: Another study has linked diabetes with a decline in several types of mental functions. The study, published today in the journal Neuropsychology, also found that these mental deficits appear in people who are in the early stages of the disease and persist into old age.

http://www.frequencymagazine.com/realstory/100409-sacred-geometry.html

The yin/yang, Star of David, and flower of life symbols are three of the most recognized symbols in the world, but few know of their connection to the bridge between the studies of science and religion around the world.

(To read more about the graphic, get Galactic Alignment by John Major Jenkins, Part 4 Chapter 15)

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Last week, after Israeli commandos killed nine volunteers on a Turkish-organized Gaza aid flotilla, Israel again said its aim was to stop the flow of terrorist arms into Gaza.

However, in response to a lawsuit by Gisha, an Israeli human rights group, the Israeli government explained the blockade as an exercise of the right of economic warfare.

"A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare,'" the government said.

McClatchy obtained the government's written statement from Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, which sued the government for information about the blockade. The Israeli high court upheld the suit, and the government delivered its statement earlier this year.

Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, said the documents prove that Israel isn't imposing its blockade for its stated reasons, but rather as collective punishment for the Palestinian population of Gaza. Gisha focuses on Palestinian rights.

A recent study by the University of California finds the recent increase of high fructose corn syrup to be the cause for the obesity epidemic in the western world. The rise of obesity is usually blamed on too much eating and not enough exercising, but Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF pediatric neuroendocrinologist, asks us to look beyond the obvious.

http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-...

Processed food linked to depression: People with diets high in sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products are more likely to become depressed over time, according to the study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry .

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