Posted December 21st, 2012.
When Monsanto revolutionized agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use—because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened. Read more.
Archives for December 2012
Whole Grains Linked to Lower Prediabetes Risk
Posted December 21st, 2012
Eating whole grains is associated with a decreased risk of prediabetes, a blood sugar elevation that can precede diabetes in adults, according to new research. Read more.
Will Your Next Burger Be Ground-Up Mealworms?
Posted December 21st
This could be another reason to go vegetarian! Read more.
How Science Can Deceive You About Your Cell Phone
Posted December 20, 2012
In an interview with ElectromagneticHealth.org, Magda Havas, PhD, associate professor of Environment & Resource Studies at Trent University,1 Canada shares many of the deceptions surrounding cell phone science.2As an expert in radiofrequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current, she is uniquely qualified to shed light on why it may appear as though cell phones are perfectly safe, when in fact the science itself shows the radiation cell phones emit is anything but … Read more.
Feds Keeping People Sick: The Vitamin D Story
Posted December 20, 2012
No one said it better than Michael Crichton – who, in addition to being a best selling author, was also a physician. During a lecture at Cal Tech, he said, “Let’s be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right. … The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.” Read more.
Grapefruit and Prescription Drugs Make a Deadly Equation
Posted December 20, 2012
For many people, a glass of grapefruit juice at breakfast is as cemented into their daily routine as the steaming mug of morning coffee. Unfortunately; however, research from a Canadian institute has been recently released, and for some grapefruit lovers, the new information could cause a change in their fruit choices. Read more.
Health Hazards Linked to Utility Meters
Posted December 20, 2012
A study conducted by the industry group, the Electric Power Research Institute, concluded that in their tests the radio frequency emissions of smart meters are well within federal safety guidelines. A Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) study titled, “Summary Discussion of RF Fields and the PG&E SmartMeter™ System” concluded that smart meters are “are in full compliance with Federal Communications Commission regulations by a very wide margin.” But are they? Many people would disagree. Read more.
Mercury, Vaccines Hot Topics at Autism Hearing
Posted December 20, 2012
You probably didn’t know it, but Congress recently held a major hearing on the government’s response to autism, grilling two key federal officials on everything from prevalence studies to services for adults with the disorder. Read more.
General Mills Gets a Taste of the Backlash After it Spent Over $1.1 Million to Defeat GMO Labeling Iniative
Posted December 20, 2012
Organic foods are required by U.S. federal law to be produced in ways that promote ecological sustainability, without common toxic and genetically engineered ingredients. But organic products are increasingly being forced to compete with products that are labeled as “natural.” There are no restrictions on the term “natural”, and it often constitutes nothing more than meaningless marketing hype. Most disturbing of all, many foods labeled as “natural” actually contain genetically engineered ingredients, and breakfast cereals are particularly guilty of this. Read more.
Neurological Disorder MMF Found to be Caused by Vaccines: Scientific Proof
Posted December 20, 2012
It is a little-known condition that can trigger persistent and debilitating symptoms similar to those associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) and fibromyalgia, but is also one that the medical profession at large is still unwilling to acknowledge. And yet emerging research continues to show that macrophagic myofasciitis, or MMF, is a very real condition brought about as a direct result of vaccines that contain aluminum adjuvants, which become lodged in muscle tissue and lead to severe neurological damage and other problems. Read more.