Archive for the 'Health' Category
85% of Big Pharma’s New Drugs Are “Lemons” and Pose Health Risks to Users
August 18th, 2010Via: Natural News: …The problems with Big Pharma’s hugely hyped medications are far worse than most people have even dreamed. Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits — but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users. According to Donald Light, Ph.D., a professor […]
Junk Food-Addicted Rats Chose to Starve Themselves Rather Than Eat Healthy Food
August 17th, 2010Via: Natural News: A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered. In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published in the journal […]
Gulf Oil Spreading East on Sea Floor
August 17th, 2010Florida Oil Spill Law: Full Time Coverage of Gulf of Mexico Situation: Florida Oil Spill Law Via: CNN: Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life, researchers reported Monday. Initial findings from a new […]
Third of Experts Who Advised World Health Organization on Swine Flu Had Received Support from Drug Companies Involved with Vaccine Research
August 17th, 2010I’m surprised that it’s only a third. Via: AFP: Five of the 15 experts that advised the World Health Organisation about swine flu pandemic alerts had received support from the drugs industry, including for flu vaccine research, the WHO revealed on Wednesday. The agency released for the first time a list of the 15 members […]
Cattle Cloned from Dead Animals to Produce ‘That Memorable Taste’
August 16th, 2010Bon Appétit! Via: BBC: Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals, according to a US cloning company. Farmers say it is being done because it is only possible to tell that the animal’s meat is of exceptionally high quality by inspecting […]
Many Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 7, 8
August 10th, 2010See: Child Diabetes Blamed on Food Sweetener: Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis. Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs […]
Germany: ‘Radioactive Boars’
August 9th, 2010Via: AFP: Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still poisoning Germany’s boars nearly 25 years on, with authorities fighting to keep toxic meat off the market as the wild boar population rockets. The boars feed off mushrooms, truffles and wild berries which still contain high levels of caesium-137, carried in the radioactive cloud […]
“The U. S. patent code was never meant to cover your genes, your cells, your blood, or the marrow in your bones. But it does.”
August 9th, 2010Via: Esquire: Like, for example, the gene called BRCA1. There’s a chance you have that gene. There’s an even better chance your wife has it, or your sister or your mom, because that’s the gene for breast cancer. If you could test yourself for BRCA1 right now, or if you could test your wife or […]
Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods: Security Camera Footage of Police (Guns Drawn) Raid
August 5th, 2010As the state stupidly tries to crush suppliers of delicious, nutritious and safe food, people become radicalized. For our purposes, radicalized means increasingly seeking out and paying cash or bartering for outlaw meat, raw milk, free range eggs, heirloom vegetables, etc. … The person who feels empowered by supplying and/or consuming delicious, nutritious and safe […]
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
August 4th, 2010Via: Cnet: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial […]
