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10 Reasons Why No One Needs GM Foods
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
GM foods won’t solve the food crisis A 2008 World Bank report concluded that increased biofuel production (crops grown for fuel rather than food) is the major cause of the increase in food prices. GM giant Monsanto has been at the heart of the lobbying...

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How to Survive an Earthquake -- Tips From a Pro
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
Doug Copp is the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI). Here is his advice on how to survive an earthquake. Almost everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' when buildings collapse ARE CRUSHED TO DEATH. People...

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9 Food Label Lies
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
The most healthy food often has the least marketing muscle behind it. The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently published a comprehensive report on the subject, a persuasive indictment called "Food Labeling Chaos." Here are nine of the most...

Filed under: Corporate Greed, Food
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U.S. Adults Forgo Routine Immunization
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
Only about a third of seniors decided to get a vaccination against pneumonia in 2008. Only a quarter of adults that U.S. health officials claim “should” receive Merck’s Streptococcus vaccine Pneumovax get it. Only 36 percent of all adults were vaccinated...

Filed under: Vaccines
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The Real Cost of Coke
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
How would you feel if you had to pay $8.50 a gallon for gasoline? Then why would you pay that much for water and high-fructose corn syrup? That’s how much Coke costs in the new 7.5-ounce, 90-calorie cans. Coke in the new can costs between 50 and 140 percent...

Filed under: Corporate Greed
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Saturated Fat is NOT the Cause of Heart Disease
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
The saturated fat found mainly in meat and dairy products has a bad reputation, but a new analysis of published studies finds no clear link between people's intake of saturated fat and their risk of developing heart disease. In the new analysis, which...

Filed under: Fats, Heart Diseases
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Science Finally Reveals How You Can Actually REVERSE Aging
Published 02-08-2010 2:54 AM
Sierra Sciences CEO Bill Andrews, PhD, explains his research into extending telomeres to change the human aging process.

Filed under: Aging
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Can Foods Contribute to Infertility?
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
Millions of people have celiac disease, but most don’t know they have it, in part because symptoms can be so varied. It is an often overlooked digestive disorder that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and...

Filed under: Food, Sexual Health
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Acupuncture Effective Against Depression During Pregnancy
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
Researchers will soon unveil findings that show that acupuncture may be an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy. About 10 percent of pregnant women meet criteria for major depression and almost 20 percent have increased symptoms of depression...

Filed under: Mental Health, Women's Health
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Despite Lancet Retraction, the Vaccine-Autism Controversy Remains
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who coauthored a paper suggesting a potential link between autism and Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine, is one of the most vilified medical practitioners of recent times. He carries the extremely rare dishonor of a retraction of his...

Filed under: Conventional Medicine, Mental Health, Vaccines
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Chinese Plant Could Help Refine Cancer Treatment
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
Researchers are seeking to refine cancer treatment with an anti-inflammatory plant derivative long used in Chinese medicine. Celastrol, derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, has been used for centuries in China to treat symptoms such as fever...

Filed under: Cancer
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The Top 10 Places You Can't Go
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
The world is full of secret and exclusive places. This is a list of ten of the most significant places around the world that are closed to the general public or are virtually impossible for the general public to visit. Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia...

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Baker's Yeast: A Promising, Natural Therapy for Cancer
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
Dr. Mamdooh Ghoneum, a researcher at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, is investigating the potential use of non-pathogenic baker's yeast as a promising, natural therapy for cancer. For more than two decades, Dr. Ghoneum has pursued a theory...

Filed under: Cancer
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More Than Half of Americans Use the Internet for Health
Published 02-05-2010 2:40 AM
More than half of Americans looked up health information on the Internet last year, U.S. government researchers have reported. In a survey running from January through June 2009, 51 percent of adults aged 18-64 said that had used the Internet to look...

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Obesity Delays Boys' Puberty
Published 02-04-2010 2:29 AM
A study following over 400 boys shows that those who are obese are twice as likely as their normal-weight counterparts not to have started puberty by the age of 11 and a half. Obesity may cause a maturity delay in boys, a situation with unknown and possibly...

Filed under: Children's Health, Obesity

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