Is there any strife in the world the "Today" show isn't going to blame on global warming? Last week NBC's Ann Curry cited climate change a cause of increasing tween stress, this week, "Today's" chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman warned global warming has sparked an increase of food allergies.
The following exchange between Snyderman and co-host Meredith Vieira occurred on a segment about the increase of food allergies in women on the October 25 edition of "Today":
Meredith Vieira: "You touched on it briefly in the piece but why are food allergies on the rise, especially with women?"
Nancy Snyderman: "I think it starts with infancy. We are exposing our babies to foods that are quite complex very, very early instead of just keeping them on breast milk and pretty basic foods for your own, for a couple of months. And we're exposed to so much more. Even global warming may play a role."
Meredith Vieira: "Really?"
Snyderman: "Things are, well new plants are moving into areas they weren't before and this fall, as you know, has been so warm. So ragweeds and grasses are in the air and they interact. The, the allergies you inhale may, in fact, have an impact on the foods you eat. So it becomes very intertwined."
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Wow
October 25, 2007 - 13:08 ET by allanfI guess all childhoold problems, including poor grades are due to "global warming". Just last week, that legendary emoter, Ann Curry blamed childhood stress on "global warming".
"Global warming" is the trendy "devil made me do it" excuse for the today's "modern heathen".
Don't You See?
October 25, 2007 - 13:08 ET by Wildcatter1980The drive-by MSM is only interested in finding victims and placing blame on people or groups they hate and to hell with facts and honest reporting!
Just my $0.02
global warming
October 25, 2007 - 13:46 ET by gmannnnThis just in, The colorado Rockies lose big time to the Red Sox due to global warming!!! Stay Tuned!!!
allanf. teen stress..
October 25, 2007 - 13:55 ET by Gary HallJust to rehash. As you probably know, it's not that the teen stress is caused by global warming; rather it that the stress is caused by the alarmist fear of global warming which the media and the Gorists have implanted in the minds of our young people. A UK study, last year, suggested that a large % of even younger children were having a difficult time sleeping at night - because they were worried about global warming.
If the media would just stop with the alarmist thing and report the vigorous debate and dialog within the scientific community, I think even the kids would be having both a great learning experience and a good time participating in the debate. (;~>gary
Even global warming MAY
October 25, 2007 - 13:18 ET by HypocriteHaterEven global warming MAY play a role.
The, the allergies you inhale MAY, in fact, have an impact on the foods you eat. So it becomes very intertwined."
Thank you for your expert medical advice, doctor. So my question for you is, well does it or doesn't it? When I'm getting advice from a doctor, I don't want a bunch of "maybes". I want facts based on solid medical evidence. Is that too much to ask for nowadays?
That's like getting tax advice from an accountant who says, "your deductions MAY be valid".
some say
October 25, 2007 - 14:23 ET by TruthMongersome say may:)
and millions actually buy the national enquirer every week
millions also buy into man-made global warming/cooling/climate change/whatever-works
and they religiously watch soaps, the view, and big 3 "news"
their may be a correlation here
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Oh Puh-leeeeze
October 25, 2007 - 13:31 ET by Mr. KafirShe pulled that global warming bullsh!t outta her a$$. Question is did she just ad lib that comment or was it part of a planned dialogue??? Notice that the scientifically trained doctor offers no proof or study that leads her to that conclusion. Besides for a specialist in head and neck cancers, she's waaaaaay out of her specialty. That's called malpractice doctor.
Note to self: avopid doctors attending the University of Nebraska School of Medicine.
Food Allergies
October 25, 2007 - 13:36 ET by Lame CherryI will not go into depth but Doc Nancy is full of excrement as weather has nothing to do with allergies.
The real cause of food allergies are TWO:
1. "Food" stopped being food 50 years ago with non natural hybrids and the putting of the worst hybrid of all corn into every food product from oils to additives.
The human body simply on sub cell levels absorbs these hybrid amino acids joined to human cells which creates a new "frequency" which the body can not recognize. The response is swelling which includes arthritis, lupus, irritable bowel etc.... in the allergen category. In late stages Americans are seeing these horrific killing auto immune diseases.
2. Nitrites and the various preservatives which includes MSG out of hybrid soybeans are the second poison with these frankenfoods which are slowly killing Americans.
This God given research is mine and I should be awarded a Nobel for this too, but the last thing the cartels want is it getting out that the food supply of the world is poison to the human body.
These hybrid pollens are also so "linkage compatable" that they are crossing into other crops polluting the entire system.
I almost died from this last December as a Pharmacist assistant assured me that a new allergy drug Cialis was just like Clemastine Furmurate (Tavist). Instead what happened with me is it masked my symptoms so much that my body overloaded on "corn" to which it finally broke down with an inflamtion that spread through my body ........my entire body. My eyes are still recovering from the swelling.
I have posted on this in my blog, written to media people who agree with the assessment and post here the facts of this. The "food" Americans are getting from mass production is contrary to what the Bible dictates in "no hybrids" in even cloth. This "food" is changing the human body to a hybrid frequency and the human body is simply attacking itself.
God given research, but if this is used or stolen from me without permission or full credit in my real name this will go to court, because I will not allow globalists to steal my work in God and make it the next "global warming" scam to enslave people.
For those looking for real food, try to find grass fed beef if you are hyper allergic and vary your diet to lamb, range fed chicken, wild meats are wonderful as is fish.
For oils use olive oil in cooking and grains can be kamut to spelt which are near wheat.........durum wheat in pasta fools the body too from the current spring wheat in bread.
For veggies stay with non hybrids, and that goes for potatoes too. I have done extensive research on potatoes the past 4 years and some of the best varieties are the Canada Blue lines which include River John, the Crescents which are German Fingerling and Slovenian Crescent, Cobbler and one that is really good is the German Butterball of the yellow class. I got allot of these out of Canada with my research with the government people up there, but places like Milk Ranch with Craig Rocky out of Colorado carry fine lines of the older varieties.
Food though is available and many times greater in flavor than American varieties. The Europeans are better at this as they breed for flavor while American breed for harvest and shipment storage.
Anyone can even grow tomatoe heirlooms in 2 I found last year I really am up on as we had horrid hot weather and that is Backfield and Azoychka (yellow). Backfield along with the original Big Boy non hyrbid is available from Sandhill Preservation Center in Iowa.
Hope that helps people some as it is unforgiveable what that quack on NBC was saying. She honestly should be sued for malpractice.
God bless the good.
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Cialis/Tavist
October 25, 2007 - 13:57 ET by scamorama"...a new allergy drug Cialis was just like Clemastine Furmurate (Tavist)."
So, what happened when you took the Cialis?
Did your nose get bigger?
Or did you get taller?
There are ONLY two excuses
October 25, 2007 - 13:48 ET by Senior ChiefThere are ONLY two excuses or reasons why we are in all of these predicaments: George W. Bush and Global Warming- The Bush Derranged Syndrome movement and the Inconvenient liars are the great propagandists!
Really, only one.
October 25, 2007 - 14:15 ET by ArcherBBut don't you know that Bush is responsible for Global Warming?
If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. --George Orwell
UHHHH???? This is so
October 25, 2007 - 13:48 ET by Airforce_5_OUHHHH???? This is so stupid I just can't find a way to fly off the handle at it. I'll just mock them:
Can I blame my corns on GW too? Can I get govenment run medicine to treat it? Can the prophet of the church of GW please lay his chubby digits on my head and heal me?
The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.
Now I Know
October 25, 2007 - 14:21 ET by ricklailJust in the passed few months I developed an allergy to peanuts.I first thought was that it was coming from a dislike of Jimma Cotter. Now I know. It is from global warming and Bush is to blame. So if global warming goes away then my allergy will go away.
When my granddaugther was born last Halloween the Navy doctor told my daughter to keep her on milk for a year. Two weeks after she was born she started eating cereals. That is the way my wife raised ours. Today she is a very healthy little girl eating anything that you give her. She'll be a year old next week. I have seen a lot of babies that stay on formula for a year. Most are FAT. They don't look healthy. This milk for a year is BS to me. That wasn't the way I was raised and it wasn't the way my children, all healthy with no allergies, were raised.
My sister raised her kids on breast milk for a year or better. They walked around most of the time with snotty noses. They weren't as healthy as ours.
Southern by birth, Tarheel by the grace of God!
I think I'll call in sick
October 25, 2007 - 14:42 ET by jezebelleI think I'll call in sick tomorrow...tell my boss it's global warming. He's liberal, I just might get away with it.
Allergies
October 25, 2007 - 15:02 ET by Emma GrumpAll these allergies are a direct result of Global Warming...er, wait, I mean the war in Iraq....er, wait, I mean the Katrina catastrophe....er, wait, I mean the Bush administration....er, wait, I mean 9/11....er, wait, I mean Evangelical conservatives....er, wait, I mean Rush Limbaugh...it's too soon to blame the California wildfires, and the SCHIP veto, but give it a little time - we can use them, too. Once a democrat is elected to the presidency, all the allergies will disappear, rivers will turn to chocolate, the sun will shine, flowers will bloom, and there will be world peace once again .
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon..er..uh..I mean Gloabal warming
October 25, 2007 - 15:26 ET by Army BratI do believe, that with a little imagination, one can connect GW to pert near anythin'. And the MSM proves it all the time.
Happy Trails...
Rivers will turn to
October 25, 2007 - 15:38 ET by bassndudeRivers will turn to chocolate? Oh no! That will kill the fish! An Eco desaster of biblical proportions! Sun shine?? Drout through out the world! Flowers will burn in the sun! Flower Power will rise to save the flowers! Barefoot, naked teenagers will protest in the parks in S.F. But at least global warming will be under control.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
" The, the allergies you
October 25, 2007 - 17:20 ET by Rackie" The, the allergies you inhale may, in fact, have an impact on the foods you eat. So it becomes very intertwined."
WHERE'S MY DECRAPINATOR?
I think my head is about to
October 25, 2007 - 17:21 ET by msh1973I think my head is about to explode. I mean it, I can't take this anymore. The left has gone completely mad! Everything is either George Bush's fault or the fault of global warming. What are they going to do when George Bush is back in Texas? Who or what will they blame?
when George Bush is back in Texas? Who or what will they blame?
October 25, 2007 - 17:25 ET by MightyMouthWell George Bush of course! There's enough BDS to go around for years after he leaves office.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
MightyMouth, I guess you
October 25, 2007 - 17:42 ET by msh1973MightyMouth,
I guess you are right. I was just hoping against all hope! :)
That's true - Republicans
October 25, 2007 - 17:45 ET by mgerardnThat's true - Republicans would never blame past presidents for current problems.
If you look back in
October 25, 2007 - 17:51 ET by MightyMouthIf you look back in history, and were honest about it (not holding my breath) ,I think you'll find that many more republicans have had to clean up messes left by democrats than the reverse. As a matter of fact I can't think of one democRATic president who hasn't just royally f***ed up the world in one way or another during his stay at the white house. If you can think of an example please by all means let us know....
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
That's very scientific, I
October 25, 2007 - 17:54 ET by mgerardnThat's very scientific, I know FDR royally F'd up the white house during his stay - wasn't there a surplus when Bill Clinton left office?
There was no surplus when
October 25, 2007 - 18:00 ET by bassndudeThere was no surplus when Clinton left office. They used that as a "projected surplus" in 25 or so years, providing there was no additional spending, or increases in benifits in welfare, medicare, medicade, education, ect. ect. ect. Truth be known, the goverment takes in more money now than it did while he was in office. Dont you know anything? Thats how the clinton worked the surplus statement.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Nice avoidance of the FDR
October 25, 2007 - 18:04 ET by mgerardnNice avoidance of the FDR comment - and yes, he had the biggest projected surplus in history until your hero came into office. And suddenly the fiscal conservatives became the biggest spenders in history.
An interesting theory
October 25, 2007 - 21:04 ET by pbthinkerMy daughter, who's in the research field, has an interesting theory on peanut allergies. When she asked a group of people how many kids they knew, growing up, that had peanut allergies, she couldn't find one. In the day-care center her daughter is in, there are 4 children with peanut allergies. Why all of a sudden, should there be so many peanut allergies? Anyway, getting to the theory, she believes it may be because of all the anti-bacterial soap that's popular today. Her theory is that this soap is killing off good bacteria, as well as bad, and not allowing the body to develope a natural immunity to some things. The thing about peanuts is, when they are removed from the ground, their shells have mold and such on them which, when most of us were growing up, wouldn't have bothered us since we would have developed a natural immunity to it.
Anyway, that could be the case with many of these food allergies. Just a thought.
Democrats: Specializing in "high tech lynching" since 1987.
Some recent studies have
October 25, 2007 - 23:08 ET by stratmanSome recent studies have hypothesized that the up swing in asthma and allergies, particularly in children, are, in part, due to a move from agrarian lifestyles. So many allergens can be found on a farm to which the developing fetus and the child are exposed to and develop immunity from at an early age.
Since more people live in cities and suburbs now, there is less exposure to most of the farm allergens so there is less immunity developing. There is, though, a greater exposure to cockroach and rodent excreta which are hypothesized to be creating more asthma and allergies.
No one can definitively say, with appropriate research as foundation, that all the modern additives, preservatives, coloring, unusual emulsifiers and other exotic (as compared to 40-50 years ago) ingredients and antibiotics in our food do not have an effect on immune systems. Nonetheless, there is no good scientific reason to not eat most foods found in your local supermarket, albeit in moderation or judiciously.
Then there are a multitude of other factors that should be considered concerning allergies. The point, though, is that this physician essentially soft-pedaled an alarmist and scientifically unsettled message of AWG. I am unsure how she can equate a 0.6C increase in average temp on the planet as a crisis, either currentlt or looming. There is little to no evidence I've seen of current significant shifts in allergen flora which would cause significant changes in the incidence or severity of allergic response or asthma in the population which is directly related to global warming. If she had the data I wished she had shared it so I could learn. Till then, I don't give two pigs in a poke for her insulting advocacy.
This physician merely pandered AGW to further secure her place as medical consultant for the network. There was no evidence presented and no caveat given. In essence, she prostituted herself and the guiding principles of medical ethics to further her personal desires for fame and fortune.
We used to call people that act this way snake oil salesmen and charlatans. Some things never change... unfortunately.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
Snyderman puts drug company profits above integrity
April 1, 2008 - 13:13 ET by linkeroneNancy Snyderman, again today, April 1, 2008. April Fools Day, began again her blatant promotion of drug company studies as the gospel. In this case a company ( Novartus )
NBC Today Show Link as follows, http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23897327#23897327 who stands to benefit financially, as the sole supplier of this drug. It is generally accepted that there is nothing more despicable, and unconscionable than media manipulation, where the advertisement of drugs is being masked as urgent, and then portrayed as Breaking News!
Matt Lauer guilty too! The Interview process of presenting this information is also known to be a deceptive way of presenting false and misleading information, where the interviewer plays the role of asking leading, and non specific questions, allowing unrelative and misleading comment.
Snyderman continues to extol the benefits of studies done by and for the exclusive financial benefit of the drug companies VS the more rational, and typically more in-depth independent studies.
Her '''Big Profits for Deep Pockets''' approach to the promotion of a "drugged up America" is in stark contrast to general health advise and typical precautions she should be providing the viewers.