Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological damage as well as many serious medical conditions in both Vietnam veterans and the Vietnamese.
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]]> Garlic is a potent, broad-spectrum, herbal antibiotic. Whether applied topically or taken internally, it has been proven to kill a wide range of bacteria. Garlic owes this powerful antibiotic effect to allicin,
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]]> For millions of women, access to basic health care is in danger right now. Extreme anti-choice forces are fighting to reverse the White House's decision that requires employers to include birth control coverage in their employee's insurance plans.
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]]> A petition that I created to put a stop to the cruelty and inhumane treatment of animals on factory farms. I hope you all support me on this issue because it not only affects animals, but our food supply as well.
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]]> The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure for breast cancer. In recent years, however, it has cut by nearly half the proportion of fund-raising dollars it spends on grants to scientists working to understand the causes
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]]> The health effects of eating genetically engineered foods are largely unknown, but research to date suggests they may play a role in cancer, birth defects, lung damage, organ disruption, allergies, DNA damage and more.
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]]> If you are a post-menopausal women with high cholesterol, your doctor will almost certainly recommend cholesterol lowering medication or statins. And it just might kill you.
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]]> Water for Dimock: Emergency aid needed for Pennsylvania fracking victims!
It wasn’t a flood or natural disaster that left 11 families in Dimock, PA without drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was created single-handedly by the Cabot Oil and Gas
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]]> Karen Handel, vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, announced her resignation on Tuesday amid allegations that she played a significant role in the foundation's decision to stop providing grants to Planned Parenthood, the AP/At
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]]> At best this new “super cholesterol” drug by will lower cholesterol numbers without killing too many people while increasing health care costs by billions of dollars as millions of new prescriptions are written for this new “super cholesterol drug.
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]]> Please take the time to light a candle for our beloved friend Marilynn MM. My great thanks to James W. who created Light a Candle for Marilynn group page. Thank you so much James. May God bless you and all of you.
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]]> Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers over time, according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people
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]]> Komen may have apologized, but they still need to clean house -- starting with the person who drove this atrocious decision.
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]]> Urge the Komen Foundation’s Board of Directors to restore the funding that allows hundreds of thousands of women to get breast cancer screening through Planned Parenthood--and tell them that regardless of where people stand on pro-choice/pro-life issues,
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]]> Great news! A successful organic farmer has just been appointed to head California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) by Gov. Brown. This is happy news on a number of fronts, but first and foremost, it means that CA is now poised to reverse the...
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]]> We are overwhelmed by your amazing support since yesterday's announcement that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation will stop funding breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood health centers. Thank you.
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]]> Families Facing Alzheimer's Disease Can't Wait
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]]> Nutritional biochemist Genita Petralli has dedicated her life to helping people with mental difficulties by finding and treating undiagnosed physical conditions that manifest as psychiatric symptoms, focusing on non-toxic, non-addictive workable solutions
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]]> Also known as tartrazine, FD&C Yellow Aluminum Lake is a chemical concoction derived from coal tar. It is known to be a reproductive toxin. All artificial colors contain Aluminum Lake,

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]]> Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork,
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]]> The Blue Garlic Surprise
Perhaps you, as I, have been cooking with garlic for years, expecting garlic to remain a kind of off-white, uninteresting color throughout the cooking process. Then one day, the
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]]> In When Your Parent Becomes Your Child I discussed the issue of aging parents that concerns all of us sooner or later. But how do you know that your parent is in need of intervention?
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]]> What Exactly Is Organic Chocolate?
Before writing this hub, I always defined organic chocolate as ‘expensive’ chocolate; I never stopped to research why it’s expensive, and
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]]> With news that the U.S. honeybee population has been so devastated that some beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief dollars, comes a report from Purdue University that one of the causes of honeybee deaths is - as long suspected - neonicotinoids.
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]]> When a 58 year old, active, lean, intelligent financier from Florida came to see me for a second opinion, I should not have been surprised. For Valentine's Day the prior year, his wife's present was a computed tomography
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]]> More and more quantum physicists are speculating about a correlation between how our creative minds process thoughts and the way the universe works. University of Oxford's mathematician
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]]> Following a similar project outside of Amsterdam, Swiss developers plan to build an entire village for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. The $27 million Swiss facility will recreate the environment of the 1950s. Not all think it's such
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]]> "Stand by me" is a common refrain when it comes to friendship but new research from Concordia University proves that the concept goes beyond pop music: keeping friends close has real physiological and psychological benefits.
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]]> Anyone who has a close relative with Alzheimer's shares the same worry: Am I next? However, a growing body of research indicates that our lifestyles - particularly what we eat and whether we're obese - play a greater role than our genes in determining
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]]> You Don't Have to be a Slave to Your Addictions
Are drugs, alcohol or cigarettes ruling your life? Have you tried quitting only to pick back up again -- even though you really, really want to stop? A healthier life awaits you. You can do
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]]> Asian women who consumed an average of 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day—the equivalent of roughly two cups of coffee—had elevated estrogen levels when compared to women who consumed less, according to a study of reproductive age women by research
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]]> Why is it that we cannot break the bad habits that stand in our way, crushing our desires to live a healthy life, be fit, simplify, be happier?
How is it that our best intentions are nearly always beaten? We want to be focused and productive, exercise
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]]> Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possib
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]]> (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation's POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone
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]]> Those who suffer from high blood pressure may want to reach for another cup of tea, after a new study found that people who drank three cups a day lowered their levels by an average of two to three points.
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]]> Tokyo, Jan 25 - Even though the Japanese have the world's highest life expectancy, smoking and high blood pressure (BP) still remain the biggest health hazards, reveals a study.
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]]> Obese teens are on both sides of the bullying divide with a greater likelihood of being victims and perpetrators compared to their peers, a new study suggests.
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]]> Washington, Jan 10 : Heart attack risk rises by approximately 21 times in the first 24 hours after losing a loved one, researchers say.
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]]> Congress wants to limit your access to research—even though your tax dollars paid for it. If this bill passes, you’ll learn only what mainstream medicine wishes you to know. Action Alert!
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]]> Unrealistic is our expectation that there exists some Promised Land of guilt-free, sugar-free candies and desserts that allow us to keep eating anything we want. In fact, we want this fantasy so badly that we are willing to overlook brain tumors...
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]]> Eating food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, finds a paper published in the British Medical Journal online (bmj.com). The authors stress, however, that their study took place in Spain, a Mediterranean
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]]> The study, led by Durham University, found that the mechanism for using 'inner speech' or 'talking things through in their head' is intact in children with autism but not always used in the same way as typically developing children do.
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]]> Teenage boys seem to eat non-stop. My grandson was visiting for the weekend and brought a friend. It was all that I could do to keep up with their insatiable appetite. Eventually, they took on the task of rooting around for food.
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]]> A sizzling steak with a side of loaded mashed potatoes. Shrimp wrapped in a fried batter. Decadent chocolate cake – or maybe a slice of cheesecake drizzled in raspberry sauce.
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]]> Winter can be rough on the skin – especially the hands, which are often exposed to the colder, more severe weather. An NYC-based dermatologist shared her tips for keeping your hands healthy and smooth through the season.
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]]> "Narcissistic men may be paying a high price in terms of their physical health, in addition to the psychological cost to their relationships," says Sara Konrath, a University of Michigan psychologist who co-authored the study
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]]> Smoking is one of the nastiest habits, which, unfortunately, is very common nowadays. It is really hard to give up this habit, and thousands of people, who wanted to quit smoking,
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