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Health & Wellness

Fight Hunger- Don't Let the Government Make Any More Cuts to Hunger-Fighting Programs!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Fight Hunger- Don't let the government m )

Agnes
- 13 hours ago - thehungersite.greatergood.com
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides low-income families with the financial assistance they need to purchase food. SNAP is the United States' most successful anti-hunger program; close to 47 million low-income Americans used SNAP
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Top 10 High Fibre Foods
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, disease, health, interesting, study, humans )

Frans
- 4 hours ago - za.news.yahoo.com
If a bowl of salad full of veggies is the only thing that pops in your mind when someone talks about high fibre food, feed your brain with numerous other options. Fibre constitutes a very important part of our diet.
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ACTION NEEDED Outlaw the Sale of African Lion Meat
Health & Wellness  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, wildlife, protection, endangered, world, safety, prevention, treatment, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, conservation, endangered, extinction, killed, killing, sadness, suffering, slaughter, wildlife, environment, animals, cats, c )

Kelly
- 20 hours ago - forcechange.com
Today, there is an estimated population of 18,000-20,000 lions in the world. The actual figure is probably much lower. Companies like Czimer's Game & Seafood hunt, kill, and sell wild animals, such as African lions, to the public.
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Son of Woman in Alleged Elder Abuse Video Urges Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Son of woman in alleged elder abuse vide )

Agnes
- 15 hours ago - mykawartha.com
Anyone that is in power and turns their head away from the situation is as guilty as the people performing the acts of abuse, says Camille Parent
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Vermont Legalizes Assisted Suicide
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, Human rights, Medicine, Politics, USA )

Ray
- 13 hours ago - rt.com
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed a bill into law that has legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who want to end their lives.
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Extra Virgin Coconut Oil Benefits
Health & Wellness  (tags: Extra Virgin Coconut Oil Benefits, health )

Austin
- 5 hours ago - healthdesigns.com
Coconut oil in the extra virgin state is helpful and healthful in a number of concerns. Although, this oil still contains fats as the major content but these fats play vital role in the health building rather than being unhealthful.
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Victory: Science and Integrity Defeat Big Fluoride in Portland
Health & Wellness  (tags: fluoride free, clean water )

Stefanie
- 4 hours ago - ecowatch.com
In rejecting fluoridation, Portland voters agreed with the majority of western nations that there are safer, more effective and less intrusive ways to promote oral health than adding a chemical linked to thyroid disease, IQ loss and other ailments ...
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The UltraSimple Diet
Health & Wellness  (tags: weight loss, health, nutrition, medicine, interesting, food, children, diet, treatment, prevention )

Marty
- 4 hours ago - organicconnectmag.com
What if there was an ultrasimple diet that could treat arthritis, fatigue, irritable bowel, reflux, chronic allergies, eczema, psoriasis, autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart disease, migraines, depression, attention deficit disorder?
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New Asthma Drug Generates Excitement For Patients -- And Its Maker
Health & Wellness  (tags: asthma drug, health )

Austin
- 4 hours ago - forbes.com
An experimental asthma drug could give new hope to patients for whom existing medicines are not enough and give yet another boost to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company developing it, which has seen its shares rise 376% in the past two years....
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Gardasil: The Journey No One Should Take...
Health & Wellness  (tags: Autism, Canada, cdc, fda, G / S Canada, gardasil, Gardasil / Silgard Injuries, informed consent, Merck, one more girl, pharma fraud, sanevax, truth about gardasil, Vaccine Adverse EventsTagged With: adver )

SANE
- 17 hours ago - sanevax.org
A Mother's story of the journey after her daughter received the Gardasil Vaccine and her life quickly spiraled into illness and pain. As a mother who has gone down the same road with my own daughter, I understand this mother's struggle. Take heed to this
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Why Women Struggle More Than Men With Life After Retirement: 80% Feel They Have No Purpose in Life After Quitting Work
Health & Wellness  (tags: Why women struggle more than men with li )

Agnes
- 16 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Women are less likely then men to enjoy retirement and more likely to miss their working lives, a survey has found. The research revealed eight in ten women feel they have no purpose in life once they have left their jobs, compared to just 54 per cent
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Natural Stress Relief: Herbs
Health & Wellness  (tags: health )

Larry
- 1 day ago - motherearthnews.com
unwind and lift your spirits -- naturally! -- with these herbal remedies for stress relief...
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Activist Post: Pesticide Content in Food Less Regulated By Codex Than Vitamins and Minerals
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, ethics, danger, health, safety, pollution, poison )

Kevin
- 14 hours ago - activistpost.com
"Indeed, for those who are familiar with the aforementioned Codex standards, it may not come as a surprise that dangerous pesticides and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) largely escape the application of rigorous standards that vitamins and miner..."
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RSOE EDIS - Epidemic Hazard in USA on Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 at 03:30 (03:30 AM) UTC. EDIS CODE: EH-20130522-39327-USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, interesting, warning, humans, children, government, prevention, research, risks, society )

Governmen
- 36 minutes ago - hisz.rsoe.hu
Two people have died and five others have been hospitalized in a mysterious cluster of respiratory illnesses in southeast Alabama, state health officials said.
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