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Behind the TIME Cover: Most Human Societies Don't Get Our Breastfeeding Hang-Up
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, diet, disease, environment, food, healthcare, illness, humans, nutrition, prevention, protection, safety, society, study )

Kit
- 1 day ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
My son will be 3 years old next month and is still breastfeeding. In other words, he is a typical primate. However, when I tell most people about this the reactions I receive run the gamut from mild confusion to serious discomfort.
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CONSUMER HEALTH ALERT! Laundry Detergent Pods Poisoning Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, healthcare, risks, laundry detergent pods, investigation, government, illness, ethics, Body-Mind-Spirit, warning, study, prevention, news )

Cal
- 2 days ago - abcnews.go.com
To some kids, the bright colors and bite-size packaging of single-doss packets of laundry detergent simply look too much like candy. The American Association of Poison Control Centers is reporting a recent surge in calls about the packets making children
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Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, safety, study, interesting, Body-Mind-Spirit, protection, prevention )

Cal
- 4 days ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com
Two new studies have found that people with sleep apnea, a common disorder that causes snoring, fatigue and dangerous pauses in breathing at night, have a higher risk of cancer
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Tell Congress: Fix the Flaw! ACTION US
Health & Wellness  (tags: medical devices, health, healthcare, treatment, death, surgery, ethics, research )

Nancy
- 8 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org
When the user-fee bill comes up for a vote I urge you to make sure it gives the FDA the authority to require medical device makers to "fix the flaw" when they are applying for approval of a new device based on its similarity to another unsafe device.
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Government Announces National Strategy to Fight Alzheimer's, Aid Caregivers
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, government, Alzheimer's disease, research, treatment, protection, Body-Mind-Spirit, news, medicine, interesting, protection, society, study )

Cal
- 10 days ago - abcnews.go.com
In a meeting at the National Institutes of Health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced new steps in the government's strategy to develop treatments for the disease and provide better support to patients, families and caregivers
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Report Offers a Bit of Good News for American Moms
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, children, ethics, family, government, health, healthcare, humans, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection, risks, society, study, women )

Rosemary
- 16 days ago - cnn.com
There is a little good news for mothers in the United States. The U.S. has moved up six places -- from 31st to 25th -- in the annual Save The Children State of the World's Mothers report. That puts the U.S. right between Belarus and the Czech Republic.
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Ask Your Doctor If This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America
Health & Wellness  (tags: business, corporate, corruption, consumers, americans, health, healthcare, medicine, risks, Body-Mind-Spirit, drugs )

Cal
- 17 days ago - alternet.org
In medicated America, the fix for every problem is just a prescription away. Except that it's not.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 13+ Ways to Boost Your Work Energy
Health & Wellness  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, research, humans, healthcare, health, exercise )

Cal
- 21 days ago - rd.com
Get a comprehensive, hour-by-hour guide on how to be energized at work, with a round-up of expert tips and our picks of the best in productivity apps.
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7 May Superfoods
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, diet, food, medicine, humans, healthcare )

Cal
- 24 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
So what are our picks for May superfoods? Take a look at our list. Then, as always, let us know if there are any in-season favorites you can't believe we overlooked.
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ASPARTAME: POISON IN DISGUISE. Ban Artificial Sweeteners From Children's Food Products. SIGN NOW!
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, lies, science, safety, risks, food, medicine, drinks, research, protection, prevention, interesting, health, healthcare, humans, illness, investigation, diet, disease, drugs, ethics, children, study, warning, nutrition, society, government, FDA )

Jim
- 26 days ago - forcechange.com
One would think that artificial sweeteners were originally developed as healthy alternatives to sugar. This is not true at all. Each artificial sweetener that is now on the market(saccharine, aspartame, cyclamate, acesulfame, and sucralose) was discovered
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Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story
Health & Wellness  (tags: protection, healthconditions, Autism, destruction, health, healthcare, children, protection, prevention, environment, risks, interesting )

Cal
- 30 days ago - alternet.org
An investigation into the relationship between environmental poisons and human health is riveting -- and terrifying.
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Psychiatry and the DSM----Shredded
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, children, diet, death, disease, government, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, nutrition, news, prevention, protecti )

Kenneth
- 31 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
An article on the placebo effect of antidepressants and a multitude of quotes by psychiatrists and psychologists who rip to shreds the field of Psychiatry and its billing book, the DSM
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Frontline: The Child Cases
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, children, coroners, disease, death, family, healthcare, investigation, medicine, protection, research, science, society )

Kit
- 37 days ago - video.pbs.org
As a society we consider child murder the most heinous of crimes. This Frontline investigation focuses on the major mistakes in both the diagnoses of child murder, as well as the mistaken assumptions that are used to convict innocent people.
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PLEASE SIGN!! Urge President Obama to End the War on Drugs! *** TAKE ACTION***
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, death, diet, disease, drugs, environment, food, government, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society, study, treatment )

Kit
- 39 days ago - secure2.convio.net
For the first time, we have a real, coordinated international opportunity to end the failed war on drugs. Tell Obama to stand with Latin American leaders to end the drug war today! Please Sign!
49 comments
How Music Improves the Memory of Dementia Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, treatment, music therapy, dementia patients, science, study, interesting, AlternativeMed )

Cal
- 39 days ago - theweek.com
Millions of elderly Americans suffer from Alzheimer's. And listening to tunes from their salad days could help them unearth old memories -- and make new ones
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