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This is your brain on sugar: stupid. Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. That’s the exact wording of a press release from the UCLA Health System, which reported the findings of a study that UCLA scientists did on...
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If you’re someone who’s often wondering how something about your body works or why something simply IS, then you’ll probably enjoy this list of 10 fun and fascinating things about the human body. The questions answered here are: Why does breathing helium...
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The University of Missouri was abuzz with excitement recently when researchers announced they’d found a non-toxic treatment that can stop *** cancer in its tracks. In the study, this treatment worked even on deadly, fast-growing *** tumors, inhibiting...
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Poland is the latest country to ban a genetically-engineered food, in a desperate attempt to save the world’s bees. Citing a link to Monsanto’s GE corn and the depletion of bee colonies in the country, Poland banned the insecticide-producing corn after...
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In the wake of U.S. health regulators’ orders to put warning labels on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins because they can cause muscle weakness, diabetes, memory loss and depression, a group of researchers are suggesting that everybody over...
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If you’re pregnant or thinking of having a baby, you might want to take a look at some new research on the effects of plant estrogens, such as that found in soy, on a developing fetus. According to Medical News Today, a paper published in Biology of Reproduction...
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With the height of the sun season upon us, health officials are telling everybody to pull out their sunscreen and slather it on. But before you do that, it might be best to check the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2012 Sunscreen Guide to see if your...
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A historic moment in the era of emotional freedom techniques (EFT) has arrived, with the finding that EFT is closer to meeting the criteria for evidence-based treatments proposed by the American Psychological Association (APA). In a critical review scheduled...
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At some point in their lives everyone suffers from grief, usually from the loss of a loved one. It’s a normal part of living, but now the American Psychiatric Association wants to make grief a certifiable mental illness, thereby treatable by drugs and...
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From: BestHealthDegrees.com You’ve heard of mind hacks for being more efficient in the office and tech hacks for keeping your computer humming. So if you’ve been wondering if somebody will ever come up with some tricks for living a longer, happier, healthier...
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Mood swings, weight gain, tummy problems―you name the ailment, there’s a pill for it. And you, the American consumer, are helping Big Pharma sell it. You don’t believe it? Well, it’s true, and believe it or not, the U.S. is one of only two countries in...
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Weeds. Everywhere. Across America, from sea to shining sea, an insidious army of “super weeds” is taking over our farmlands. It’s a plague that even the most famous herbicide of all―Monsanto’s Roundup―can’t stop, mainly because it’s Roundup that’s caused...
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VANDANA SHIVA: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living (via http://www.occupymonsanto360.org ) An Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s foremost environmentalist, anti-GM activist and an advocate of ecological farming...
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It’s a scene that too many emergency rooms are seeing these days: a baby or toddler has swallowed something, and frantic parents want it out, now. Naturally, ER personnel also want to get it out quickly, especially since some objects such as batteries...
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New research coming out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center suggests that children of women with high levels of antibodies to gluten have an almost double risk of later developing a psychiatric disorder. As reported by Huffington Post, researchers looked...