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GLOWING CORAL PHOTO: Fluorescence Found to Aid Healing
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, drugs, Fluorescence )

Nancy
- 9 hours ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Injured corals develop colorful glowing "scabs" to help themselves heal, a new study has found. (See pictures of animals made to glow for science.)
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Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 13 hours ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
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USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, illness, food, government, risks, health, diet, drugs )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619 would phase out, within two years of enactment, the common practice of continually feeding antibiotics important in human medicine to non-sick food animals.
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Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 5 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
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Chasing the Junk Food Dragon: How Junk Food Affects Brain Like Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, drugs, family, food, health, humans, investigation, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - treehugger.com
Before you or your child dig into that plastic jack-o-lantern (or its post-consumer equivalent) full of sugary snacks, you might do well to check out former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating. The book highlights the addictive
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The Benefits of Honey: A Remedy for Sore Throats, Wound Care and More
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, children, diet, drugs, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, nutrition, prevention, protection, treatment )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Spring brings a picture-perfect day. You're enjoying yourself on a well-deserved vacation. Then you fall, a victim of loose gravel. Your leg is a mess. At the local hospital, you're given a cream to apply two times a day to keep infection at bay. Returnin
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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act-Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, medicine, safety, risks, protection, study, food )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - actionnetwork.org
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long
10 comments
Tell the Health Dept: Contraception Is NOT Abortion! Take Action!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, women, prevention, medicine, protection, drugs )

Tierney
- 17 days ago - healthcare.change.org
The Department of Health and Human Services is quietly trying to redefine "abortion" to include birth control. This would effectively end health insurance coverage for the pill and potentially block emergency contraception for victims of rape.
17 comments
The ABCs (and Ks) of Vitamin Deficiency
Health & Wellness  (tags: protection, medicine, nutrition, prevention, humans, health, food, drugs, environment, family, diet, children, babies, women )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - divinecaroline.com
In the sixth grade, we spent a large portion of health class talking about nutrition. We learned about the food pyramid, cholesterol, and the mechanics of the digestive system. We also spent an inordinate amount of time discussing nutrition-related diseas
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Poorer Nations Get Swine Flu Jabs
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, warning, drugs, swine flu jabs )

Elderberr
- 23 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
About 100 developing nations will begin receiving donations of the vaccine against swine flu as early as November, the World Health Organization says.
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Washington State Suspends Limits on Mercury in the H1N1/Swine-Flu Vaccine!
Health & Wellness  (tags: warning, risks, safety, drugs, mercury, H1N1, swine, flu, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness )

Elena
- 28 days ago - healthfreedom.net
Despite the known risks associated with administering mercury/thimerosol-stabilized vaccines to pregnant women and children under the age of 3, health officials in Washington state have temporarily canceled the limit on how much mercury may be allowed
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aspartame May Cause Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: aspertame, cancer, brain, tumors, searle, rumsfeld, politics, money, corruption, crime, health, disease, illness, food, soft, drinks, vitamins, drugs, gum, candy, desserts, yogurt, hot chocolate, risks, safety, research, healthcare, investigation, warning )

Tom
- 69 days ago - world-wire.com
In 1980 the FDA concluded that aspartame could "contribute to the development brain tumors" and recommended that the sweetener no longer be used. However, then Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld vowed to "call in his markers" and got the sweetener approved.
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Thimerosal, Organic Mercury, Swine Flu and You.
Health & Wellness  (tags: vaccine, mercury, safety, risks, research, medicine, drugs, disease, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, news, science )

Elena
- 69 days ago - examiner.com
So, basically, we have a vaccine that may not be needed, that was manufactured in a such a hurry by mega-corporations that the government has exempted them from liability, that hasn't been adequately tested, and that contains a known poison.
11 comments
Spiritual Fasting - A Secret Source of Power   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: fasting, spiritual, fasting, supernatural, abilities, heaing, abundance, additions, inner, peace, manifesting, Body-Mind-Spirit, AlternativeMed, humans, illness, nutrition, drugs, family, prevention, protection )

Gregory
- 72 days ago - youtube.com
A natural gift to enlightenment often overlooked especially in this age of consumption is fasting.Spiritual fasting can help you to heal your body, experience inner peace, get rid of addiction, increase abundance in your life, unleash supernatural
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Tiny 'Nanobees' Fight Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, cure, bee, venom, nanobees, medicine, drugs, research, humans, healthcare, disease, illness, study, treatment, protection, safety, science, technology, discovery )

Tom
- 81 days ago - voanews.com
The challenge for anti-cancer drugs is how to use these deadly compounds to fight disease without harming the rest of the body. Dr. Sam Wickline may have found one solution. He develops tiny nanoparticles that carry medicine to the spot where it's needed.
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Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act-Take Action
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What's Missing From Every Media Story About H1N1 Influenza
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USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals
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