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ACTION ALERT for Illinois Residents — Support Amendment to Stop Fracking!
Posted May 23, 2013
Fracking is very dangerous to our water, air, land and health. Please sign a petition to ask your legislators to support an amendment on SB1715 for a one-year moratorium on fracking. Read more about fracking. Click here to SIGN PETITION.
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Posted May 23, 2013
Voters in Portland, Oregon solidly defeated a city-wide water fluoridation measure yesterday, with 60% of the voters saying “NO!” to the practice of adding toxic fluoride chemicals to the water. Read more.
Posted May 23, 2013
For more than 60 years, many conventional bee farmers have been dousing their hives with antibiotic drugs to prevent their bees from dying of foulbrood, a bacterial disease that has the potential to wipe out entire bee colonies if left unaddressed. This has had the unintended, long-term consequence of generating antibiotic-resistant genes within entire species of bees, especially among bees in the U.S. that have endured the longest and most substantial chemical exposures. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
The conclusion that a government agency has shown that ginkgo extract supplements raise the risk of cancer in human beings is absolutely incorrect. I’d like to discuss it not only to illuminate this particular case, but to provide the reader with some perspective to help analyze stories like these as they arise. They are all too common, I’m afraid. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
Just months after a study was published showing that two Monsanto products, a genetically modified (GM) maize and Roundup herbicide, damaged the health of rats, the journal that published the study appointed a former Monsanto scientist to decide which papers on GM foods and crops should be published, a new article reveals. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
An international team of scientists analyzed the abstracts of 11,944 peer-reviewed papers published between 1991 and 2011 dealing with climate change and global warming. In the papers where a position on the claim was staked out, 97.1 percent endorsed the consensus position that humans are, indeed, cooking the planet. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
Most doctors and laboratories don’t even include magnesium status in routine blood tests. Thus, most doctors don’t know when their patients are deficient in magnesium, even though studies show that the majority of Americans are deficient in magnesium. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
Here’s a list of 10 highly processed foods and ingredients to avoid, ranging from artificial dyes to refined grains to low fat foods. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
Food is medicine. Bad food is bad medicine and will make us sick. Good food is good medicine that can prevent, reverse, and even cure disease. Take away the bad food, put in the good food and magic happens. Read more.
Posted May 22nd, 2013.
Many classic applications for castor oil, an ancient remedy for skin and digestive issues are still useful today, and it turns out that there are lots of other ways that you can use castor oil on your body and around your home. Read more.