Tag: children
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Students Sent Home From West Virginia Schools Amid Fears Over Water Contamination
from nationaljournal.com: Students at a handful of schools in Charleston, W.Va., were sent home last week amid reports of potential water contamination following a chemical spill last month, The New York Times reports. Students were told to leave after students and faculty noticed the smell of licorice, a distinct odor given off by the chemical…
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Fast Food Not Major Cause of Rising Childhood Obesity Rates
Parents Deserve More Blame For Obesity Than Fast Food from sciencedaily.com: For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. However a new study found that fast-food consumption is simply a byproduct of a much bigger problem: poor all-day-long dietary habits that…
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Most children get food and beverage marketing at school, study says
from latimes.com: Most students are exposed in school to efforts by food and beverage companies to sell food or gain brand loyalty, despite a decline in some kinds of commercial enterprises, including in soda machine contracts, researchers reported Monday. High school students get the most exposure, and for almost 64% of elementary school students, the…
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Obama Spends SNAP Money On Michelle’s “Let’s Move” Program
Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle’s ‘Let’s Move’* from nypost.com: Food stamp cuts are on everyone’s mind, and we’re all trying not to think about how Michelle Obama’s Child Nutrtion Act has had something to do with it. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the food stamp cuts have been a source of much…
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If a Young Child Wanders, Technology Can Follow
from nytimes.com: Most parents have experienced that feeling of fear when a young child wanders off at the playground or disappears during a trip to the supermarket. New technology, in the form of voice watches and miniature sensing devices, is aimed at thwarting such distress by keeping track of children who are too young to…
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Halloween grinch in North Dakota? Fat notes replace candy
from cnn.com: Instead of handing out candy, a local woman called into a radio station, saying she plans to pass out letters to trick-or-treaters she feels are “moderately obese.” How do you say killjoy? “I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight,” said the woman, who identified…
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Mississippi Baby’s Remission Raises Hope for HIV Cure
from voanews.com: Doctors now have compelling evidence that a newborn girl they treated aggressively for HIV infection may actually be cured. But observers say it is too soon to conclude that early therapy puts the AIDS virus into permanent remission. She is known only as the Mississippi baby, after the southern U.S. state where the…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode169 – Black Sites, Designer Babies, FDA Shutdown
Story #1: Obama Swaps ‘Black Sites’ for ‘Justice at Sea’ // Story #2: 23andMe Receives Patent To Create Designer Babies, Denies Plans To Do So // Story #3: Shutdown Ends Food Inspections in US, Leaving 90% of U.S. Seafood Imports Unchecked
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Interviews w/ Seattle Biodiversity Conference Panelists – August 3, 2013
On today’s menu we have audio from the recent Biodiversity Conference in Seattle which features interviews w/ Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First, Kathleen Hallal of Moms Across America, Rachel Linden of GMO Free Arizona, George Kimbrell from the Center for Food Safety, Rachel Hynes of Slow Money and Alexis Baden-Mayer of Organic Consumers Association… MP3/FeedArchive…
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‘Occult-Driven’ Maid Kills Child In Saudi Arabia
from emirates247.com: An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia waited for her Syrian employers to go to work in the morning went to the bed room of their 10-year-old girl and hit her head with an iron while asleep before stabbing her in the neck many times, leading to her death. When the shocked father later…
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New World Next Week: Episode161 – War Games, David Kelly, Drug Deaths
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode161 – War Games, David Kelly, Drug Deaths Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Russia Amasses ‘Full Combat Readiness’ Strategic Bombers Russia In Largest War Games Since…
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New World Next Week: Episode160 – Independent’s Day, Hacking Hypocrisy, Vatican Arrests
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode160 – Independent’s Day, Hacking Hypocrisy, Vatican Arrests Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Eleven Revolutionary Ways To Celebrate Your Independence From The System On This July…
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Fukushima Meltdown Correlates to Hypothyroidism In American Infants
Children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington were 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism.
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Sandy Hook Survivors Sing ‘Over the Rainbow’ to Commemorate Shooting
Readers should, at least, consider curious song selection of “Over The Rainbow” – a primary tool in mind control – to commemorate lost lives, last month, in Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre? Why choose this particular song? Vigilant Citizen (VC) views selection as creepy Orwellian exploitation of children in article, “Sandy Hook Survivors Are Made…
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Researchers Find Childhood Diet Affects Cognitive Decline Rate
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have found that adults who occasionally went hungry during childhood had a slower rate of decline in their cognitive abilities as they aged than those who always had enough to eat as children.