Tag: health
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2 Smart Meter Opponents Arrested In Naperville, Illinois
‘A Society of Violating One Another’ from chicagotribune.com: Two vocal opponents of Naperville’s initiative to install wireless electric meters on homes were arrested after interfering with the installation process, according to city officials. Police are accompanying crews this week as they install smart meters at homes that previously sent away installers. “The previous installation attempts…
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Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
EFSA has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene.
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Case Dismissed! Texas Ends 15-Year Fight Against Cancer Doctor Burzynski
After a grueling 15-year long battle, the Texas Medical Board has officially ended its crusade to revoke Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s medical license.
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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.
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Junk food linked to #asthma and #eczema in children
from telegraph.co.uk: The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children’s immune systems, it is believed. A research project involving more than 50 countries found that teenagers who ate junk food three times a week or more were 39 per cent more likely to get severe asthma. Younger children were 27 per…
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2013 Food Trend: A Healthy State of Mind!
from houstonpress.com: Many companies and corporations have posted their predictions for the food trends of 2013. Of course, many of these lists include goofy trends like cake-pop push-pops (which sounds fun), but the common theme among a majority of all the predicted food trend lists of 2013 is health.
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Top 10 Packaged Foods You Shouldn’t Buy
I added five more to Jane Mountain’s list, for a total of 10. Canned Soup, Stock or Bouillon, Canned Beans, Hummus, Cereal, Microwave Popcorn, Bottled or ‘Functional’ Water, Fruit and Vegetable Juice, Yogurt, and Fermented Vegetables.
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What’s a Food Industry to Do?
“I’d been asked by the food industry to give this talk at an industry breakfast, but 3 days prior to the event they got cold feet and dis-invited me.”
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The HIV Virus: A Possible Cure for Leukemia?
The experimental technique relies on help from a disabled form of HIV because the virus is adept at carrying genetic material into T-cells so they’re able to kill off cancer cells.
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TriHealth Fires 150 Employees for Not Getting Flu Shots
One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot.
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October #BingeAndPurge: Depop, Poison, Plants and More
Leading World Bank Demographer: Vaccination Campaigns Part Of Population Reduction Policy // California Squirrel Tests Positive For Bubonic Plague Exposure // How the CIA undermines DEA drug investigations // GMO Ticking Time Bomb – Part 2 // It takes a lot to get people to suck down poison // “Gasland” Director Arrested at Congressional Hearing
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Monsanto’s Roundup, Glyphosate Linked to Parkinson’s and more
from naturalsociety.com: We already know the links between herbicides and sterility in men, birth defects, mental illness, obesity and possibly cancer—but now we have something new to add to the nasty effects of pesticides list — Parkinson’s disease and similar neurodegenerative conditions. New research, published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, indicates a connection between…
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Coca-Cola, Sanofi Team for New Line of ‘Beautific’ Drinks
U.S. soft drink company Coca-Cola Co is teaming up with French drugmaker Sanofi to launch a line of drinks in France that will claim to aid health and beauty. The partnership calls for the co-development and distribution of drinks under the Oenobiol “Beautific” brand, a Coca-Cola spokesman said.
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Medicine Rarely A Slam Dunk, Despite Splashy Studies
Next time a research finding leaves you slack-jawed, thinking it’s too good to be true, you might just be right, according to a massive new analysis tracking the fate of splashy medical studies.
