Posted in Home on Mar 20th, 2008
Conventional agriculture, which depends on heavy applications of chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides and irrigation, may inhibit plants’ natural production of cancer-fighting flavonoids, while organic agriculture, which does not use synthetic pesticides or chemical fertilizers, may actually promote the production of flavonoids.
Flavonoids are plant by-products believed to protect the plant from insects, bacterial and fungal [...]
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Posted in Home on Mar 14th, 2008
Strokes have recently tripled among middle-aged women, a trend that doctors are calling “alarming.”
While only about 0.5 percent of women aged 35 to 54 had a stroke from 1988 to 1994, a federal health survey found that had increased to nearly 2 percent between 1999 and 2004.
Physicians say that the obesity [...]
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Posted in Home on Mar 8th, 2008
Twelve-year-old middle school student Jasmine Roberts’ project won the science fair at her school.
Her results were not what she expected, and have serious implications for everyone.
Her project compared the ice used in the drinks at five fast food restaurants with the water from toilet bowls in the same establishments. Seventy [...]
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Posted in Home on Mar 4th, 2008
In the largest meat recall in U.S. history, 143 million pounds of beef have been recalled by the U .S. Department of Agriculture. The beef represents the past two years of production for California-based Westland Meat, and was recalled because the company did not prevent sick animals from entering the U.S. food [...]
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Posted in Home on Feb 25th, 2008
Can SeaAloe Increase Your IQ?
Even if you thought there was no hope to be the next Einstein, it’s a proven fact that proper nutrition can make you smarter.
In order for your brain to work it at it best it needs, FUEL. And that fuel is a proper balance of nutrients. So do some foods make [...]
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Posted in Home on Feb 21st, 2008
Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals, the makers of an insecticide-based treatment for head lice, have stopped promoting their product after a sharply worded warning from the FDA. The FDA’s warning follows years of controversy regarding shampoo and lotion treatments that contain the insecticide lindane. Lindane-based live treatments have been banned in California.The FDA expressed concern advertising by [...]
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Posted in Home on Feb 16th, 2008
Consider these statistics Some 77,000 chemicals are produced in North America. Over 3,000 chemicals are added to our food supply. More than 10,000 chemical solvents, emulsifiers and preservatives are used in food processing. 1,000 new chemicals are introduced each year.
Where do all of these chemicals end up? They are absorbed into our groundwater, rivers, lakes [...]
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Posted in Home on Feb 9th, 2008
U.S. girls are reaching puberty at younger ages than ever before. In the 1990s, breast development — the first sign of puberty in girls — at age 8 was considered an abnormal event that should be investigated by an endocrinologist.
However, by 1999, following a 1997 study that found almost half of [...]
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Posted in Home, happiness on Feb 7th, 2008
By Alan Mozes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
“Money can’t buy me love,” sang The Beatles, and they may have been right. Researchers say those who look for happiness in the almighty dollar may end up short-changed.
“There’s no one reason people acquire money, but where people get into trouble is when they try to [...]
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Posted in Home, water on Feb 5th, 2008
Most people fall short of recommendations to drink eight 8-ounces servings a day, results of a new survey reveal. Although nearly three quarters of Americans are aware of the recommendation, only 34% actually drink this amount, while 10% said they do not drink water at all. However, Americans drink an average of [...]
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