Category: General

I Haven’t Slept A Wink: Some Reasons Why You Are Tired All The Time–And Some May Surprise You

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I Haven’t Slept A Wink: Some Reasons Why You Are Tired All The Time–And Some May Surprise You
Some Surprising Reasons Why You Might Be Tired All The Time–Hint: It’s Probably Not Due To Over-Exercise It’s an interesting phenomenon around the world: productivity increases are touted on all the business news programs, meaning that workers from fast food restaurants to factories on up to the loftiest office suites are doing their jobs more efficiently than ever before. Yet somehow people are working longer hours than ever before as well.… Read the rest

Frightening New Report: Malaria Drug May Cause Brain Damage That Mimics Symptoms of PTSD

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Frightening New Report: Malaria Drug May Cause Brain Damage That Mimics Symptoms of PTSD
Malaria and PTSD: How An Anti-Malarial Drug Might Be The Cause Of Many Soldiers’ PTSD Symptoms A frightening new case study has come to light on a military servicemember who was diagnosed with PTSD, but who is now thought to be suffering brain damage suffered as a result of an anti-malarial drug he was given. The implications for a thousands of soldiers similarly diagnosed after 9/11 could shake the military medical community to its very core.… Read the rest

Amazing News: Plastic Bag Use In England Down 85 Percent. Here’s How They Did It

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Amazing News: Plastic Bag Use In England Down 85 Percent. Here’s How They Did It
English Plastic Bag Miracle: Use Down 85 Percent In Under A Year. Here’s How Paper or plastic? It used to be this was the unfortunate, Sophie’s choice question with which you would presented at the grocery store. The implication of course is: would you rather kill trees, or contribute to the massive waste, poisoning of the landscape, and killing of all manner of fish, fowl and fauna due to ingesting or getting entangled in plastic bags?… Read the rest

Cockroach Milk: The Next Big Thing For Superfood Enthusiasts?

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Cockroach Milk: The Next Big Thing For Superfood Enthusiasts?
Cockroach Milk And You: How One Study Has Made Thousands Of People Go “Ewww.” In this age of scientific freedom, massive funding, and seeming daily breakthroughs, it is hard to pass a single day without encountering some study or another purporting to have the next big cure for something or everything. But on the other hand, there are studies, and then there are studies.… Read the rest

SPF Zero: New Study Demonstrates That Sunscreen May Be Useless–Or Worse

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SPF Zero: New Study Demonstrates That Sunscreen May Be Useless–Or Worse
Sunscreen’s A Dream: Study Shows That Applying The Go-To Summer Protection May Be Worse Than Useless As summer in the northern hemisphere gears up for the final push through to September and the official end of beach days, barbecues and sunburns, a new study says that a longtime standard-carry item in everyone’s beach bag, good old sunscreen, may actually be useless.… Read the rest

Coal Ash In Drinking Water: When Big Coal Says Jump, N.C. Governor Pat Mccrory Says ‘How High?’

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Coal Ash In Drinking Water: When Big Coal Says Jump, N.C. Governor Pat Mccrory Says ‘How High?’
When Big Coal Talks, You Better Listen: N.C. Governor Changes Rules On Coal Ash Toxins For Former Employer If there is any lesson big corporations have learned in the past few decades, it’s that, if you don’t like the rules surrounding pollution, or food standards, or labor, all you have to so is install a compliant head of a regulatory agency or politician in a position of power.… Read the rest

The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It

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The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It
Over 75 Percent Of Americans And Britons Are Vitamin E Deficient–Why You Should Make Sure You’re Not One Of Them With so many supplements out there, and so many substances for health-conscious individuals to be aware of–it seems like there are ten new studies in the news every day highlighting some deficiency or toxicity we are unwittingly getting in our regular diets–its hard to know which ones are really vital.… Read the rest

Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’

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Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’
The FDA And ‘Healthy’ Food: How An Avocado Is Less ‘Healthy’ Than Frosted Flakes The labeling law brouhaha over Vermont’s efforts to inform its citizens whether they were eating genetically modified food, and therefore food that is routinely heavily treated with chemicals, herbicides and pesticides has ended for now. With Congressional slaves to the big food industry falling in line to instead enact a joke of a labeling law that does more to hide what is in our food and supercedes laws like Vermont’s Americans now know even less than we did before about what we are eating.… Read the rest

Two Promising New Testing Regimes May Offer Hope For Non-Invasive Way To Detect Alzheimer’s Early On

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Two Promising New Testing Regimes May Offer Hope For Non-Invasive Way To Detect Alzheimer’s Early On
Tommy Can You Smell Me: Two Exciting New Studies Show Promise For Developing Simple, Non-Invasive Tests To Detect Alzheimer’s They say that when people are dying, the last of the five senses to leave them is smell. People who have experienced near-death in an operating room or in an accident often describe in vivid detail smells from childhood: mom’s baking bread, the smell of woodsmoke from a fire, cinnamon apple cider.… Read the rest