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Health & Wellness News tagged with prevention

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The Nutritional Origin of the Term "Red Neck" and Other Fascinating Historical Facts About Vitamin Deficiencies
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, prevention, protection, research )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 1 day ago - naturalnews.com
There is a long and fascinating history of relationships between nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease. One of the most well known is probably scurvy -- a disease where your bones lose their rigidity due to a deficiency in vitamin C.
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Death By Cheese and the Dreaded Ruptured Stomach
Health & Wellness  (tags: death, diet, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - slate.com
The past and future of competitive eating injuries.
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Change.Org - Urge the Senate to Fund AIDS Relief By Finally Passing PEPFAR! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, health, prevention, GLOBAL AIDS BILL, AIDS Relief, Senators )

Kelli
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 5 days ago - change.org
TAKE ACTION NOW! Contact your Senators now and express your disappointment that they have not yet reached bipartisan consensus to move forward with the reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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Artificial Meat Would Be a Preferable Alternative to the Cruelty and Environmental Impact of Factory Farms
Health & Wellness  (tags: prevention, protection, artificial meat )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 5 days ago - naturalnews.com
That's one reason why I support the artificial meat idea, because if we can create meat and make it available to consumers without having to kill animals in the process, then we are in fact doing far less harm to the world.
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Nutricide and Pharmacide: Killing People Not So Softly
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, nutrition, prevention, research, risks, safety, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, protection, disease, diet, ethics, family, warning, society )

Elena
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 6 days ago - naturalnews.com
<p>(NaturalNews) As I look at the increasingly bizarre world around us, I think two new words seem appropriate: nutricide, the killing of people by serving them junk foods; and pharmacide, the killing of people by over-prescribing pharmaceutical</p>
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Red Meat Consumption Linked Yet Again to Increased Cancer Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, prevention, protection, research, risks )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 6 days ago - naturalnews.com
The researchers noted that meat also contains other potential carcinogens, including heme iron (the type of iron found in meat), nitrates and nitrites, saturated fat, hormones and salts.
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Dissecting a Study Disproving Vitamin B's Role in Preventing Heart Disease
Health & Wellness  (tags: B vitamins & antioxidants, health, humans, diet, prevention )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 7 days ago - naturalnews.com
<p>Antioxidants are vital to the equation. A diet high in fruits and vegetables provides an assortment of antioxidants that, can reduce the free radical damage caused by these foods.</p>
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Cheap, Processed Chocolate Has Virtually No Health Benefits Due to Lack of Flavanols
Health & Wellness  (tags: chocolate, health, humans, protection, prevention )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 7 days ago - naturalnews.com
<p>People should not be misled into believing that the typical chocolate bar is good for heart health, according to an editorial published in Lancet, most processed chocolate contain very low amounts of the nutrient that makes chocolate good healthy</p>
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To D Or Not To D: Lack of Sunshine Vitamin May Cloud Survival Odds
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, health, humans, protection, prevention, vitamin D deficiency )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 8 days ago - examiner.com
<p>Patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels.</p>
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How PH Levels and Acidity Relate to Heartburn
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, diet, prevention, protection, research )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 10 days ago - naturalnews.com
Our diet plays an important role in maintaining appropriate pH levels in the body. Most diets can give rise to unhealthy acidic pH. An imbalanced pH can interrupt cellular activities and functions.
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Beyond Lycopene: Scientists Study Health Benefits of Phytoene and Phytofluene From Tomatoes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, cancer, prevention, protection )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 10 days ago - naturalnews.com
The FDA has approved claims that tomatoes reduce the risk of gastric, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers. But the FDA has raised doubt as to the effectiveness of lycopene alone in protecting against cancers
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Can You Be Sabotaging Your Health By Not Knowing the Truth About Sugar?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Sugar substitutes, health, prevention, protection )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 10 days ago - naturalnews.com
Scientists theorize that humans are born with a preference for sweet foods. There are healthy alternatives that do not wreak the havoc that sucrose (Sugar) does. The two alternatives to processed sugar are raw honey and pure maple syrup.
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How Green Is DuPont's Replacement for Teflon Chemical?
Health & Wellness  (tags: prevention, research, health, Tabs )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 11 days ago - ewg.org
In 2006, under pressure from the U.S. EPA, DuPont and 7 other companies promised to phase out by 2015 a cancer-causing chemical called PFOA, used to make Teflon and also found in grease-resistant coatings for food packaging.
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CUBA DEVELOPS 'BREAKTHROUGH' CANCER DRUG
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, prevention, research )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 11 days ago - worldblog.msnbc.msn.com
A Cuban Scientific Research Institute just patented a promising new drug that it says helps terminal lung cancer patients live longer
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One in 10 Had 'Silent Strokes,' Study Finds
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, humans, prevention, research )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 11 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Brain scans revealed condition which can raise risk of memory loss
 

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