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You Are What You Eat: Inside America's Refrigerators
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, environment, family, food, health, humans, illness, investigation, nutrition, research, study )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - divinecaroline.com
Photographer Mark Menjivar spent over three years traveling across the US examining food issues and culture. During his travels, he asked people if he could photograph their refrigerators and thus put together his latest project, "You Are What You Eat."
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Depression Link to Processed Food
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, medicine, investigation )

Nancy
- 5 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests.
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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
- 6 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
- 6 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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Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthritis
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, environment, family, health, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, prevention, safety, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - planetsave.com
New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pest
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31 Breast Cancer Myths
Health & Wellness  (tags: breast cancer, prevention, investigation, treatment, warning )

Sally
- 13 days ago - newsblaze.com
National Breast Cancer Coalition dispels commonly believed myths and reveals relatively unknown truths about breast cancer throughout October
3 comments
Iron Fortified Foods Are Better Than Meat for Toddlers
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, children, health, investigation, nutrition, no meat diet )

Animalib
- 13 days ago - examiner.com
Iron-fortified foods may be among the best ways to improve iron status in young children according to New Zealand researchers.
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Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 20 days ago - manitobawildlands.org
A Japanese publication about methyl mercury poisoning exposes former Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau blocking publication of studies about mercury problem at Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario
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Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws
Health & Wellness  (tags: beef, hamburger, E. coli, grocers, contamination, slaughterhouses, FDA, cows, meat, Angus, Beef, Patties, risks, health, disease, food, humans, illness, warning, government, dishonesty, cover-up, investigation )

Tom
- 32 days ago - nytimes.com
Many big slaughterhouses will sell only to grinders who agree not to test their shipments for E. coli. Tens of thousands of people are still sickened annually by this pathogen, federal health officials estimate, with hamburger being the biggest culprit.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Learn Your Risks, Responsibilities, and Ways to Raise Awareness
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, prevention, research, protection, study, humans, illness, healthcare, disease, investigation, science, society, treatment )

David
- 34 days ago - breastcancer.about.com
Anyone with breast tissue - men and women - is at risk for developing breast cancer. But only one percent of men and one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Knowing your risks - and what you can do to reduce your risks - is a great way to start.
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E.P.A. Will Draft New Law
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, government, ethics, E.P.A, americans, warning, research, protection, prevention, investigation, health, government, diet, disease, cancer, children, family )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - enn.com
Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.), is proposing a major change in the way the federal government regulates tens of thousands of chemicals in consumer products, one that would place more of a responsibility on
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Antiperspirant and Breast Cancer: Is There a Link?
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, women, treatment, protection, study, humans, illness, health, investigation, medicine, disease, cancer )

Daphna
- 38 days ago - divinecaroline.com
From bottles and microwaves to phones and McNuggets, it seems everything is giving us cancer. While I refuse to run from my car when pumping gas or stop using my cell, there is one allegedly carcinogenic item that I fear: deodorant. I used to be a fan of
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Blacklisted By Monsanto -Video- This Is a Must Watch....
Health & Wellness  (tags: monsanto, video, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, research, investigation, government, environment, food, family, diet, death, children, news )

Daphna
- 39 days ago - current.com
Monsanto has placed me on their blacklist, I've just discovered. Though I've personally served Clinton, G.W. Bush, Gore, Cheney, and thousands of other influential individuals in my 24 years as a language interpreter, this is the first time I've ever foun
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Schoolgirl Dies After Receiving Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Health & Wellness  (tags: England, death, investigation, interesting, treatment, risks, women, safety, warning, protection, prevention )

Sally
- 40 days ago - smh.com.au
The girl was one of four students who fell ill a short time after being given the Cervarix vaccination against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) at a school in Coventry, central England, as part of a national immunisation programme.
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What Your Body Language Says to Others
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, research, investigation, Body-Mind-Spirit, humans )

Daphna
- 42 days ago - divinecaroline.com
Whether sitting or standing, your body should be loose and open. Do not cross your arms. Do not cross your legs. While you may think it conveys a sense of ease, studies have shown that a people read a closed body differently: they subconsciously think you
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