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Campbell's Soup: Stop Poisoning Our Food!- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, food, family, diet, children, nutrition, safety )

Daphna
- 3 hours ago - change.org
Consumer Reports has found that major canned food companies including Campbell's Soup are using cans that leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into food. BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, height
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A Flu Shot Gone Wrong
Health & Wellness  (tags: flu shot, illness, reaction, Paralysis, women, warning )

Lone
- 1 day ago - aolhealth.com
You may have heard news reports about 25-year-old Desiree Jennings, the girl with the severe reaction to the seasonal flu shot. Her symptoms -- the
13 comments
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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Side Effect of Plastic: Aggressive Kids
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, children, diet, disease, family, food, government, health, humans, illness, nutrition, news, protection, research, society, warning )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - enn.com
Plastics containing Bisphenol-A have been linked to child misbehavior Yes we know, everything causes cancer, nothing is safe for our kids, a lot of paranoia, right? Sometimes these concerns are for real. A chemical of significant
4 comments
Ask EPA To Ban Carcinogenic Pesticide Methyl Iodide -Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, humans, illness, health, government, environment, ethics, death, disease, risks )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - change.org
Under the Bush administration the EPA approved this carcinogenic new pesticide. However, a week ago, we heard promising news. The EPA has just indicated that it plans to re-consider methyl iodide, pending the results of California's independent Scientific
7 comments
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
GM Soy Is Toxic Soy - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, GM, genetically modified, soya, food, agriculture, farms, farming, farmers, research, safety, science, warning, prevention, protection, food, government, health, environment, ethics, humans, study, risks, nutrition )

Elena
- 14 days ago - toxicsoy.org
Even worse, they legitimise genetically engineered (GE) soy which is designed to be produced with large (and increasing) amounts of agri-chemicals. This is at the cost of people and the environment. This site explains what is wrong with this and questions
27 comments
Take Action: Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, medicine, humans, interesting, illness, health, ethics, food, diet, children )

Daphna
- 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 periods of time to speed gro
6 comments
Protect Against Toxic Chemicals - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, prevention, humans, illness, health, government, food, family, diet, children, environment )

Daphna
- 16 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The 33 year-old law that is supposed to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals is so outdated that China legally exports toxic materials into the U.S. that are not only banned in Japan and Europe, but can't even be used domestically in China.
9 comments
A TALE OF HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY HORROR: I Am Not a Dog
Health & Wellness  (tags: media, healthcare, politics, abuse, crime, healthcare, health, illness, treatment, warning )

Cal
- 17 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
I am not a "dog." That's what health insurance executives called me because I have a disease. I'm also not a "trainwreck," another term they used for members like me. l
4 comments
Swine Flu Characteristics Becoming More Evident
Health & Wellness  (tags: swine flu, death, warning, pneumonia, lungs )

Lone
- 21 days ago - washingtonpost.com
As swine flu continues to spread around the globe, a clearer and in some ways more unnerving picture of the most serious cases has started to emerge, indicating that the virus could
32 comments
Take Action- Tell Secretary Vilsack to Beef Up the USDA's E. Coli Testing Program
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, safety, protection, humans, illness, health, government, food, diet, children, family )

Daphna
- 22 days ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org
Food & Water Watch and other consumer groups have been telling the USDA for years that the agency needed to strengthen its E. coli policy. Because contamination starts much earlier in the process than when beef is ground into hamburger, the agency should
11 comments
Ireland Bans Genetically Modified Crops
Health & Wellness  (tags: warning, study, protection, humans, safety, diet, environment, ethics, prevention, research )

Daphna
- 24 days ago - enn.com
The Irish Government will ban the cultivation of all GM crops and introduce a voluntary GM-free label for food - including meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy produce made without the use of GM animal feed.
7 comments
Poorer Nations Get Swine Flu Jabs
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, warning, drugs, swine flu jabs )

Elderberr
- 24 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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