Posted May 21, 2019
It was early in my actualization as a righteous, post-adolescent that I began to think of birth control as a woman’s right. It would be years before I would learn the nuanced considerations of tacit permissiveness for unprotected sex, the wholesale delegation of contraception to the female counterpart, and the fundamental divorce of a woman from the very feedback systems that fire up her reproductive vitality. Read more.
Archives for May 2019
Easy Way to Lower Your Risk of Hip Fractures up to 44%
Posted May 21, 2019
Reducing the risk of hip fractures is easier than you might think, according to a Framingham Osteoporosis Study. You can enhance bone health by taking a vitamin you should be taking anyway: vitamin C. Read more.
Vitamin C and Chemotherapy
Posted May 21, 2019
When Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced that vitamin C may interfere with chemotherapy, the news media trumpeted it far and wide. But before cancer patients throw away their vitamin C supplements, they need to know rest of the story. Read more.
The Power of the Pesticide Industry
Posted May 21, 2019
The article from the Washington Post, below, highlights how much sway the pesticide industry has in the U.S. government, regardless of the administration in power. Not only do chemical companies hold lobbying power, they also have had a role in drafting the laws that are supposed to regulate their actions and protect consumers. This is a dangerous conflict of interest that has proved, time and again, to lead to public safety concerns. For example, glyphosate (which is one of the most widely used pesticides) was deemed safe by regulatory agencies but has been linked to cancer in ongoing lawsuits against its manufacturer. Read more.
Eating Out: A Date with Glyphosate
Posted May 21, 2019
A new round of food testing commissioned by GMO Free USA found that glyphosate and its break down product or metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), are pervasive in foods served by major restaurant and fast food chains in the United States. Glyphosate is the primary ingredient in Roundup herbicides and other generic equivalents, which are the most widely used weedkillers in the United States and in the world. Over 250 million pounds of glyphosate are sprayed annually on crops in the United States. Foods from Chili’s Grill & Bar, Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts, IHOP, Le Pain Quotidien, McDonald’s, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Panera Bread, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, Pret a Manger, Subway, Taco Bell, and Whole Foods Market were tested. Read more.
Bayer Faces Thousands of Roundup-cancer cases after $2 billion Verdict
Posted May 21, 2019
“We’re not suing them for the fact that their product causes cancer. We’re suing them because they didn’t tell people that it causes cancer.” Annually, for weeks at a time over his more than 30 years of farming, John Barton would spray a thousand gallons of Roundup every day to kill the weeds springing up among his cotton crop outside Bakersfield, California. Read more.
Cancer: Why Nutrition Can Help
Posted May 21, 2019
It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Read more.
An Unrecognized Sign of High Blood Pressure
Posted May 21, 2019
Blood pressure is a measurement of the force your blood exerts as it pushes against your arteries. Blood pressure will normally rise and fall throughout the day but when it remains consistently high it becomes a significant concern as this pressure may damage your heart and cause other health problems. Read more.
Gates Foundation Funded “Fact-Checker” (POLITIFACT) Censors GreenMedInfo on Facebook for Reposting Accurate Vaccine Meme
Posted May 21, 2019
Recently, Politifact.com, a website run by the Poynter Institute and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ran an article titled, “No, anti-vaccination meme is way off on vaccine testing,” claiming that the meme below which we posted to our facebook page on April 15th was false. Read more.
Sleep Disorders and Disease Risk Linked to Nighttime Electronic Usage
Posted May 21, 2019
Sleep disorders are affecting millions of people and Western medicine wants us to believe that the ‘solution’ is the need for unwanted (toxic) medications? Well, any reasonable person can see that drugs are not the answer – as the CDC reports that about one third of all U.S. adults are not getting adequate sleep, each night. And, that’s probably an understatement! Read more.