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Senate Energy Comm. Radwaste Discussion Draft Is Unacceptable. Start Over! ACTION LINK
Health & Wellness  (tags: nuclear reactors, radiation, US, EPA, health, containment vents, wastescience )

Nancy
- 8 hours ago - care2.com
Add your voice now. Tell the Committee that "interim" storage and related massive radioactive waste transport is unacceptable. Stop a Mobile Chernobyl. No Fukushima Freeways.
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New Report Finds Over 5,000 Children's Products Contain Toxic Chemicals
Health & Wellness  (tags: children's products, toxins, health, research, children, risks, family, disease )

Nancy
- 21 hours ago - inhabitots.com
According to reports filed with the Washington State Department of Ecology, over 5000 children's products contain toxic chemicals that are linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and reproductive problems. Image courtesy of Shutterstock
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Tell Your Senators: Protect Our Nation's Waters! ACTION US
Health & Wellness  (tags: farm bill, pesticides, environment, protection, bees, ecosystems, water, destruction, habitatdestruction )

Nancy
- 23 hours ago - action.beyondpesticides.org
Commonsense protections from pesticide applications into our nation's waterways are at risk when the Senate takes their version of the farm bill to the floor as early as Monday this week (May 20th). These highly controversial amendments would undermine..
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Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick!
Health & Wellness  (tags: corporate, business, ethics, health, healthcare, medicine, protection, treatment, Body-Mind-Spirit, government, drugs, humans, society )

Cal
- 1 day ago - alternet.org
"Business freedom" in America increasingly means the God-given right to exploit the vulnerability of the public.
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Get Outside! Feel Better and Stay Healthier With Outdoor Activities
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, outdoors, exercise, environment, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - livinggreenmag.com
It's no surprise that more exercise enthusiasts are venturing outdoors, as a growing body of research is extolling the mental and physical benefits of alfresco activity.
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Tell UK Supermarkets Not to Drop GM Ban ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, GM foods, ban, UK, supermarkets )

Cher
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
Three major UK supermarkets have quietly backtracked on their standards. The Co-operative, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer have all decided to drop their long-held ban on chickens fed with genetically modified soya beans.
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How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, environment, ethics, food, genetically modified labelling, right to know, politics, risks, nutrition )

Lynn
- 1 day ago - alternet.org
Sources report that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach amendments to the Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on GE foods.
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US Tax Dollars Promote Monsanto's GMO Crops Overseas
Health & Wellness  (tags: Monsanto, corruption, government, GMO, food, disease )

Lynn
- 1 day ago - moneynews.com
U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based Monsanto Co. and other seed makers, a report issued on Tuesday said. Studies have shown harmful health impacts for humans and anim
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Tell the EPA: Strengthen Radiation Protection Standards; Drop Current PAGs ACTION US
Health & Wellness  (tags: nuclear reactors, radiation, US, EPA, health, containment vents, wastescience )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - org2.salsalabs.com
High "acceptable" contamination and exposures for dirty bomb scenarios are being morphed into regular allowable levels with the nation's drinking water protection first on the chopping block.
14 comments
Prevent Antibiotic Resistant "Superbugs" in Meat ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, antibiotics, superbugs, protection, food, health )

Cher
- 1 day ago - aldf.org
Millions of animals are being harmed and consumers misled by this failure to accurately label food products -- and this is a matter critical to public and animal health. Please contact the USDA and ask them to act today!
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The Unhappy Marriage of Economics and Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: economy, lies, media, propaganda, politics, government, congress, americans, abuse, usa, u.s., healthcare, healthcare, ethics, dishonesty, interesting, investigation, medicine, risks, safety, society, treatment, warning, protection, prevention, family )

JL
- 1 day ago - healthcare-now.org
America's health care system is collapsing, and we can blame the Economics profession. Most economists approach health care in the wrong way, viewing it as a commodity
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STUDY: Retirement 'Can Drastically Damage Health'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, work-play balance, humans, health, research, study, prevention, interesting )

Cal
- 2 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Retirement can cause a drastic decline in health, according to a new study. Record numbers of over-65s working - as study claims retiring is bad for your health
23 comments
Angelina Jolie Mastectomy: Actress Had Procedure to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine, treatment, Women, Risks, Illness, News, Cancer, cancer, safety, Preventative )

Christian
- 2 days ago - chicagotribune.com
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie reveals that she's had a double mastectomy, in a written article, after discovering she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she'd get breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer! Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy. Is There Another Way?
Health & Wellness  (tags: breast cancer, nutrition, detoxing, toxins, food processing, elf, equalmoney, diet, health, healthcare, investigation, nutrition, prevention, research, society, study, risks, women, disease )

Bernard
- 3 days ago - cathy4worldequality.wordpress.com
"It is utter nonsense to claim that catching cancer symptoms early enough will increase the patient's chances of survival. Not one medical scientist or study has proven that in any way. My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims
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