No oils should be in properly made nicotine vape juice…but there is glycerin that comes from vegetable oil and often still contains oils, propylene glycol that’s not safe to breathe, sugars, formaldehyde, acroline (used in herbicides/damages DNA), unregulated “flavorings” and more, all of which are carcinogenic when heated.
Also, there’s plenty of fly by night nicotine vape juice makers that use whatever smokes, including massage oil in some cases.

The only way to be SURE what’s in it is to make your own from ingredients you either produce or vet well. Don’t buy it by the gallon on eBay or Craigslist.

As I mentioned above, I vape live rosen, which has zero additives and is simply heat pressed from fresh flowers. I’m not saying that’s healthy, but it is free of all carcinogenic man made chemical adulterants unlike ANY nicotine or most cannabis juices, and free of nearly all cellulose unlike plain tobacco or marijuana.

I didn't hear him mention that many have also turned out to have exceedingly high levels of formaldehyde that made them uninhabitable.
Terrible investments, especially on credit in non rent controlled "parks".

Your blog post doesn't "simply mention" anything. Your blog post is clearly an attack on Dr. Greger's credibility.

For starters the blog post title is "The case against Dr. Greger" AND!!!!! you put "Dr." into quotations to suggest he's not a doctor, or not worthy of being one.

You try to catch him out on a technicality, which you misword in your post to make it sound worse than it is.

Your artifical sweetner claims are also weak. ( The number of industry funded positive studies don't outweight the recent studies showing how bad artificial sweetners actually are, from obesity, to aspartame turning into formaldehyde in the blood).

These aren't the actions of someone that is "simply mentioning" something. You had a clear agenda when you wrote that blog post. Which was either to create controversy in order to get traffic to your website, or to justify your non-vegan diet at the time of writing.


Also if you're having digestive issues, it's most likely dairy. Not just milk and cheese, but the milk powder they put into processed foods.

Edit:
Chicken nuggets are poultry yes, but they are highly processed - which puts them into the processed meat category. The WHO report doesn't specifically mention every single type of processed meat and brand because they're assuming that people can tell what processed meat is. But apparently they've given people too much credit.

The examples you provide aren't particularly accurate.

The formaldehyde results in the study you're talking about have been misrepresented often. The study actually only showed higher formaldehyde when the vaporizer was run dry, meaning the coil wasn't vaporizing liquid but burning the liquid, wick and coil. Nobody would ever inhale that because it would taste horrible. The actual conclusion of the study showed fewer harmful chemicals in ecigarette vapor than cigarette smoke.

As far as teens using ecigarettes at a higher rate, the only available studies show teenage smoking rates dropping by about the same amount as the adoption of ecigarettes. There's no evidence of a net increase in nicotine use among teenagers. Instead, some teens that would have smoked are using ecigarettes.

Rock music is corrupting kids, comic books are teaching children bad morals, pinball leads to juvenile delinquency, video games make kids violent and ecigarettes are turning teens into addicts. Great headlines, zero facts.

If I were a smoker I'd definitely make my own because the industry has so little regulation, you have no real way to know what chemicals you are getting that may cause even more harm than a cigarette. As an example some brands have been shown to release more formaldehyde and other dangerous carcinogens at significantly higher rates than a regular cigarette.

E-cigs can definitely be used to help quit, but the opposite is also true. I see more teens than ever smoking e-cigs who wouldn't have otherwise smoked cigarettes because they don't ruin your teeth, your sense of taste, your breath, you don't have the smell of cigarettes on you. Those are teens that wouldn't have been addicted to smoking otherwise and now are, even if that addiction is less severe.

As an example, my step-nephew (18) for example and his father both use e-cigs and have for the last year or two as they've gained popularity. His father has since quit after much reduced smoking but the nephew goes through multiple flavored bottles a week. He never puts his down.

Our bodies are best at responding to pathogens that enter our system normally - over mucus membranes, through skin contact, and via ocassional inadvertent ingestion and inhalation.

Directly injecting pathogens (and a whole host of other known toxins) straight into the bloodstream puts their bioavailability at 100%, instantly. These damaging elements have perfect access to the brain, and all other internal organs, giving the body's almost no chance whatsoever to deal with the invading harmful elements. You can expect to see symptoms manifest in minutes, hours, or days - and this is exactly what you do see in vaccine related injuries.

Aluminum, formaldehyde, cyanide, and other elements we do eat, and are harmless when found embeded in their naturally occurring places. Injecting those refined elements (mixed together with all kinds of other poisons) directly into the bloodstream is no where close to eating un-refind foods that have the same elements bonded to other molecules which render them intert or beneficial.

What is the bioavailability of aluminum found in a banana when eaten?

What is the bioavailability of that same quantity of aluminum when the banana is pulverized and injected into the bloodstream?

What is the bioavailability of that same quantity of aluminum when it's refined, and no part of the banana except the aluminum is injected directly into the bloodstream?

Their description of the actual affect of the aluminum in particular is incomplete. Aluminum is a known neural disruptor. If it reaches the brain directly (remember, bioavailability is at 100%) the aluminum will disrupt neurons. This may result in some cases in a neural disruption. Did you know autism is a known neural disruption?

>> ^ghark:

The thing I hated the most in the lab was having to constantly deal with formaldehyde - a pretty potent carcinogen.



Yeah... still dealing with this myself in lab. Its so commonly used that people just messily use it like its sucrose or something.

National Toxicology Program 'Report On Carcinogens, Twelfth Edition (2011)'
pg.195
"Formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient
evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in humans and supporting
data on mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Formaldehyde was first listed
in the Second Annual Report on Carcinogens in 1981 as reasonably
anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence
from studies in experimental animals. Since that time, additional
cancer studies in humans have been published, and the listing status
was changed to known to be a human carcinogen in the Twelfth Report on Carcinogens (2011)."

The thing I hated the most in the lab was having to constantly deal with formaldehyde - a pretty potent carcinogen. It's used in tissue preservation, so anytime you want to extract some DNA/RNA from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue you end up getting a dose of it.

The strangest thing is how in our chemistry labs all the waste chemicals from all our experiments had to be put into one big jar, so there would be this viscous, almost gooey mass of this silvery-orange-black'ish sort of toxic waste which was a combination of all the 30-40 different (already toxic) chemicals put together. That would then need to sit in the lab for a month until waste collection day arrived.

>> ^Fade:

How about you go and rape some women and shoot their husbands? Keep the world safe. It's clearly what you're good at. How many Iragi scalps you got hanging from your hummers rearview? I bet that jar of Afghan ears is fillin up nicely for ya. better make sure and get some formaldehyde to keep 'em fresh just like yo mama likes 'em.
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Seriously. Grow up.

= irony

jesus we sure are coming on strong today.

Calling me names and swearing really is making me sad

How about you go and rape some women and shoot their husbands? Keep the world safe. It's clearly what you're good at. Why are you wasting your time arguing with some randomer?

If I'd known you were such a troll I would have tried harder to get your goat up.

How many Iragi scalps you got hanging from your hummers rearview? I bet that jar of Afghan ears is fillin up nicely for ya. better make sure and get some formaldehyde to keep 'em fresh just like yo mama likes 'em.

Seriously. Grow up.

Oh and bananafone, I didn't call him an idiot. He called himself that. RING RING RING!

When I first saw that Blankfist was to be the subject of this roast I thought, hey finally someone with enough material the sifters can really dig into him. But now that the roast has been going for almost 24 hours I can see I was very wrong.

Initially I blamed gwiz for throwing together some hastily written *insert roastee’s name here* jokes, and then posting it at the sift’s most inactive hour. Could it have hurt you to spend a little more time writing the intro, or was it cutting into the time you normally spend adding to the crusty tissue collection that litter’s your desk, your floor or the pee stained mattress on the floor.

But then it can’t all be jizwiz’s fault, the man did his best typing with only one hand, while fervently distracting himself with the other. I mean reading the comments we get what, an overly in-depth discussion of fisting blankfist, mocking his stupid videos, camel-toe fail (ya know adding fail to the end of everything stopped being funny a year ago), along with the required masturbation jokes.

But then who can blame them it’s the subject matter after all. I mean Blankfist, this guy’s claims to videosift fame are cat-fart videos, a$$gr@vy™, and making comments that’d make Ron Jeremy blush. How do you go about roasting a guy who has no shame and no end to their depravity? Anything we say can only be better than the reality that is Blankfist. It’s like trying to roast Andy Dick, he’s so pathetic and attention starved he’ll do anything. Even his attempts to seem normal come off as creepy. Most guys will say they love women, and the pussy that comes with them, but Blankfist takes every opportunity to remind us how much he loves twat. Its only a matter of time before we see a news report featuring Blankfist and several formaldehyde filled jars of carved up lady bits. And on that subject, a girlfriend? How and why? You holding her family hostage in that secret little room under your garage? Or maybe she’s just a really devoted sociologist who’s working on a stunning exposé into the world of the socially retarded, and personally inept. Either way all I can say is dear God run for it woman run!

"You gotta admire his preservation I guess."

That's the formaldehyde.

The Palestinians would not accept living in Israel now, because this has gone for too and too much blood has been spilled. The only solution is a two state solution, but the momentum towards that is never there because many factions in Israel's government believe that all of Israel is theirs and thus have used policies designed to keep the peace process in formaldehyde.

The Muslims and Jews have occupied the lands in peace for ages, it is only when we factor in political interests that declare the land for one or the other religious denomination do the problems arise.

I fervently believe that civilians in both Palestine and Israel wish for nothing more but peace, and could live with each other in peace. Economic interdependence has seen Israel rely on Palestinian labour countless times and conflict between both as only seen both lose out on economic progress, Israel doing far better because of the massive injects of funds it receives mainly from the US.

However we have political movements like Likud and Zionism and extremist thought in Hamas and other entities that make this a virtual impossibility. The reason for the existence of both is varied, in Israel there is the Manifest Destiny belief, in Palestine there is the oppression and deaths of family members that fermented armed struggle that can only end in the destruction of Israel.

Obama came into the Presidency saying that one of the key factors is that Arab states must recognize Israel, how do you force other nations to suddenly normalized relations with a hostile nation? Its like the UK telling the US to normalize relations with Cuba.

I believe everyone is complicit in the events that we see played out, neither Hamas nor the Israeli leadership will suffer from the deaths in Gaza. But the Palestinians see Hamas as the only entity that is actively fighting IDFs aggression, the whole world condemned the attacks, did anyone do anything other then declarations and condemnations? No. Alot of Palestinian civilians got killed.

And no Israel is not a perfect state as you claim, read on HRW and its own news organizations, Israel's Knesset parties nearly threw out an Arab Israeli calling him a representative of terrorists and a immigrant.

Like all Arab democratic states (of which there are few but they claim to be democratic in spirit! LOLZ) it also abuses the democracy it declares to possess, the IDF and the government as a whole have always the security issue to clamp down on progressive movements and protests. Just like every other corrupt Arab state out there who declare the Israeli actions as horrible but beat the shit out of its own citizens for protesting the same.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/01/21/gaza-crisis-regimes-react-routine-repression

Arabs in my region suspect Obama will change things but he won't, he is a Zionist representative as much as Bush. Bush left office by calling Israel. Obama entered office by calling Israel. The US is the key factor in changing all this however the entire nation in the US is under heavy influence via AIPAC, WINEP, MEMRI and numerous other organizations that paint a very one sided picture of the conflict.

The resolution of this conflict is a corner stone of ending terrorism and extremist action against the US from the Arab world.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
There's no spin. It's an accurate and fair assessment of the situation. There are more players in the game than just Israel and the Palestinians.

Oh blah blah blah, there is no point reading the rest of it.

You say the Arab world is supporting Palestinian efforts but don't acknowledge the large military and political help the Israelis receive from the US. Who they circumvent by attacking Palestinian areas anytime their big brother isn't looking. Note how vicious attacks got post 9/11 (under guise of fighting global terrorism not local oppression) and before transition of power in the US.

The Israels making concessions is a facade, the Road map to peace which I mentioned in my previous comments clearly was a progress to peace that Kadima's Sharon perused. The Palestinians at the time agreed to it, what happens next? Israel unilaterally imposes 'reservations' on the peace process and dismantles the no expansionary Israeli settlement clause in the articles. One of the key arguments Palestinians have with Israel.

Israeli demands and their concessions are out of balance, a 1% adjustment in Palestinian lands to Israelis remove all economic and political areas out of Palestinian lands. This is all while more lands in the West bank are criss crosses and ceded back into Israel with walls, towers and troops moving in to defend these new settlements from people whose homes just got bulldozed.

Israel doesn't want peace, all it wants is to keep the peace process in formaldehyde. The seeming appearance of perusing peace while it builds walls, sniper towers, blockades, and walls the Palestinians in further and further. That's why Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world do not really take their declarations of seeking peace seriously because it's always the same bullshit.

But you know I can see why you would think otherwise, Israel has AIPAC, WINEP, MEMRITV and a thousand other media apologists to fight the media perspective on how this conflict is read out in the rest of the world. I quote:

"Simultaneously, the Israeli media has been towing the government line to such a degree that no criticism of the war has been voiced on any of the three local television stations. Indeed, the situation has become so absurd that reporters and anchors are currently less critical of the war than the military spokespeople. In the absence of any critical analysis, it is not so surprising that 78% of Israelis, or about 98% of all Jewish Israelis, support the war."
http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon01162009.html

"The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an "army of bloggers," to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in "anti-Zionist blogs" in English, French, Spanish and German."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html

""We used to hold signs at protests reading 'The occupation will corrupt'," she told me. "Now, we can see that it has [come to pass]. As a society, we have lost our ability to see clearly; we have let fear blind us. Once, calling someone a racist was the harshest accusation you could make. Later, you began to hear people say 'I know I'm a racist, but...'; nowadays [during Cast Lead], we heard 'I know I'm talking like a Nazi, but at least the Nazis knew how to deal with their enemies'."" Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know. But I don't like those analysis which refers to 1967 as the year when Israel "lost its soul"--whatever that means. It never had a soul to be begin with.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/gaza-protest

But most disturbing of all was the graffiti they daubed on the walls of the ground floor. Some was in Hebrew, but much was naively written in English: "Arabs need 2 die", "Die you all", "Make war not peace", "1 is down, 999,999 to go", and scrawled on an image of a gravestone the words: "Arabs 1948-2009".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/gaza-israel-samouni-family

"Estimates for the proportion of civilian deaths among the 1,360 Palestinians killed range from more than half to two-thirds. Politicians, diplomats and journalists are by and large shying away from the obvious, namely that Israel has been deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians and the very infrastructure of normal life, in order to – in the best colonial style – teach the natives a lesson."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/20/gaza-israelandthepalestinians

Hamas is not to blame for formulating a political and social campaign that managed to oust a largely inept and corrupt Fatah movement. Democracy is what the US pushed for in the Middle East and they got Hamas who they then promptly started ignoring in the the favor of reinstating Fatah into power. Instead of negotiating with Hamas, the US and Israel basically went around them to Fatah. Why? Fatah is more malleable to concessionary action. This was self fulfilling prophecy for Hamas who found more cause to use terrorism against Israel. While this is not a supportive plea for Hamas, who deep inside their ideology believe that Israel should be wiped out, it does show the lengths to which Israel and the US would go to control the terms of negotiation.

Ultimately I believe that it is Israel's wish to contain the peace issue in formaldehyde for as long as possible, their inaction to seriously consider drawing back to 1967 borders only fuels more retaliation by extremists elements, which Israel then uses to impose more security and encroach further into post-1967 lands. Which is beneficial for them, they have captured and controlled more and more land over the last 60 years that this conflict has been playing out over.

At this point Hamas, Fatah and any other formation is fighting a losing battle against an opponent who outmatches them far more on military and economic means. Concession to peace is the only solution the price of which would be a total annexation of most of Palestinian land.

Israel would dictate the terms, an example would be the complete hand over of East Jerusalem, which would mean a lose of its political, cultural and religious center. That is only a 1% adjustment over 1967 lands. I don't believe one is fair when dictating the terms, the Palestinian people would inherit a shell state, or a become a stateless people within Israel along the lines of Bedoun in Kuwait.

Tzipi Livni had to prove she was capable of action, the transition in US power cripples a credible response from the only nation able to dissuade Israel. The losers are the countless civilians caught in the crossfire, most of which will be Palestinian people.

Obama should (but probably will not) make the peace process a central piece of foreign policy, as injustices carried still ring true through Arab people and their leaders. Formulation of peace on which all Palestinians can agree on would allow for normalization of relations between the US, Israel and the Arab world. But that won't happen as Palestinians differ on the terms of peace, Israel is too willing to continue this decade long process of wholly swallowing the Palestinian lands and the US is too afraid to take actionable stances on terms.