Posted: May 29, 2012
For years, raw food enthusiasts have touted the health benefits of
uncooked food for humans. Now, some veterinarians and pet owners believe
that a raw meat diet is best for pets.
Sharon Misik, an actress
who adopted two Siberian huskies in 2008 from a pet rescue organization,
is a believer. After adopting the animals, Ms. Misik and her husband,
who live in Bradbury, Calif., spent thousands of dollars on specialized
diets and trips to veterinarians to treat a mysterious illness that
plagued their dogs, which had trouble eating and severe diarrhea and
seemed perpetually sick.
When nothing else worked, she decided to
try a raw food diet, even though several veterinarians discouraged it,
saying it would expose her dogs to harmful bacteria. A holistic
veterinarian encouraged her to start her dogs on a line of raw and
freeze-dried chicken and beef foods made by Stella and Chewy's, a Wisconsin-based pet food company.
The difference was immediate, Ms. Misik says.
Read the full story: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com
Posted: May 25, 2012
Flame-retardants are being used in household furniture all over the US because of untrue testimonials coming from a professor and head of a burn center who is likely receiving funds from big chemical companies.
Manufacturers of fire retardants rely on questionable testimony, front groups to push standards that boost demand for their toxic - and ineffective - products.
Excerpt from the article:
[Professor Heimbach's] testimony, the Tribune found, is part of a decades-long campaign of deception that has loaded the furniture and electronics in American homes with pounds of toxic chemicals linked to cancer, neurological deficits, developmental problems and impaired fertility.
The tactics started with Big Tobacco, which wanted to shift focus away from cigarettes as the cause of fire deaths, and continued as chemical companies worked to preserve a lucrative market for their products, according to a Tribune review of thousands of government, scientific and internal industry documents.
These powerful industries distorted science in ways that overstated the benefits of the chemicals, created a phony consumer watchdog group that stoked the public's fear of fire and helped organize and steer an association of top fire officials that spent more than a decade campaigning for their cause.
Today, scientists know that some flame retardants escape from household products and settle in dust. That's why toddlers, who play on the floor and put things in their mouths, generally have far higher levels of these chemicals in their bodies than their parents.
Read the whole article here: http://www.chicagotribune.com
Posted: May 25, 2012
http://www.messagetoeagle.comPlants are very much alive. Not only do they dislike human noise but they also posses the capacity to learn and communicate. Perhaps even more astonishing is that plants can also make music.
Have you ever heard the incredible music of the plants? Plants can actually sing and compose music and listening to it is truly beautiful and relaxing!
Ever since 1975, researchers at Damanhur, in northern Italy have been experimenting with plants, trying to lean more about their unique properties. Researchers use devices which they have created to measure the re-activity of the plants to their environment. The devices judge the plants' capacity to learn and communicate.
Using a simple principle, the researchers used a variation of the Wheatstone bridge, an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.
This device has 3 fixed resistances and 1 variable one. Electrical differences between the leaves and the roots of the plant are measured. These differences can then be translated into a variety of effects, including music, turning on lights, movement and many others.
There is no danger to the plants as the researchers use very low intensity electrical currents.
Posted: May 25, 2012
Have You Emailed, Called, Faxed, or Chatted With The White House Today About Fukushima?
Today Is The Day To Begin Demanding Truth. We are no safer than we were yesterday and even less safer than the day before.
Check out the link below for instructions on how to sign a Fukushima petition on Change.org or take another form of action in regard to the total Press Blackout on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Complex.
http://justanothercoverup.com
Posted: May 25, 2012
The global food system is in profound crisis. More than a billion
people suffer from hunger, and their numbers are rising faster than the
global population. Yet more than enough food is produced to feed
everybody in the world. At the same time we are heading deeper into a
global climate crisis, for which the industrial food system is to a
large extent to blame. Meanwhile corporations are grabbing huge areas of
land and water systems in poor countries, and displacing rural
communities.
A new book called The Great Food Robbery looks at looks
at the forces behind these developments. It focuses on corporations and
the ways they organise and control food production and distribution
because it is corporations who are mainly responsible for the expansion
of the damaging industrial food system.
Read more about it here: http://fahamubooks.org
Posted: May 25, 2012
Radiation levels in most of Japan are "below cancer-causing levels a year after the Fukushima plant accident", a World Health Organisation (WHO) report published on Wednesday says.
According to the article, two areas near the plant have relatively higher levels of radiation, but radiation levels in surrounding countries are "close to normal."
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18181224
But is this the truth about Fukushima radiation, or is it an attempt to ease the minds of the public? Read about what's actually going on here: http://www.naturalnews.com
Posted: May 25, 2012
Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world. Sadly, that is no longer the case. Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rotting and decaying. Cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland were all once places where middle class American workers thrived and raised their families.
Today, all of those cities are rapidly being transformed into cesspools of filth, decay and wretchedness. Millions of good jobs have left our major cities in recent decades and poverty has absolutely exploded. Basically, you can turn out the lights because the party is over. In fact, some major U.S. cities are literally turning out the lights. In Detroit, about 40 percent of the streetlights are already broken and the city cannot afford to repair them. So Mayor Bing has come up with a plan to cut the number of operating streetlights almost in half and leave vast sections of the city totally in the dark at night. I wonder what that will do to the crime rate in the city. But don't look down on Detroit too much, because what is happening in Detroit will be happening where you live soon enough.
Read the full story here: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Posted: May 24, 2012
Natural health advocates spoke out in huge numbers - and we won! Alliance for Natural Health readers sent nearly 90,000 messages in less than 24 hours, and Congress heard you. Sen. Durbin's anti-supplement amendment was soundly defeated today, by a vote of 77 to 20.
This was an important win. If Sen. Durbin's last-minute, under-the-radar amendment had passed, our access to vitamin and dietary supplements would have been drastically curtailed due to a litany of unexpected and unnecessary new regulations.
Durbin's failed amendment serves as another reminder that our freedoms need to be preserved.
Read more here: http://www.anh-usa.org/durbin-amendment-defeated/
http://www.anh-usa.org
Posted: May 24, 2012
New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberals to defend the B.C. fruit industry by working with the federal government to keep the province free of genetically modified fruit.
"The B.C. tree fruit industry produces healthy products that are world famous for flavour and purity. Growers are concerned that this marketing advantage will be undermined if the introduction of genetically modified fruit is allowed to go forward," said Lana Popham, New Democrat critic for agriculture.
There is currently a proposal before the federal government to allow for the introduction of a genetically modified apple variety called the Arctic Apple.
"Conventional growers are concerned that consumer rejection of genetically modified foods could lead to a decline in the market share of B.C. growers if this GM apple is introduced, while organic growers are concerned they will be put out of business when their trees are cross-pollinated by GM trees, leading to the loss of their organic certification," said Popham
Read the full story here: http://www.freshplaza.com
http://inspection.gc.ca
Posted: May 24, 2012
A group of plant scientists at the University of Missouri have discovered a new, inexpensive approach to extracting an powerful anticancer chemical from soybeans. The incidence of a number of common cancers (breast, colorectal, prostate, bladder, lymphoma, and oral cancers) is lower in Japan by a factor of two to ten times than in North America or Western Europe (GLOBOCAN 2008). The medical profession is edging toward a conclusion that a significant portion of the reduction in alimentary system cancers and breast cancer is associated with the importance of the humble soybean to Japanese diets.
Researchers have considered the medical benefits of the soybean for centuries. However, the modern level of interest began with the identification of the Bowman-Birk Protease Inhibitor (BBI) in 1963.
Read the full story here: http://www.gizmag.com
Posted: May 24, 2012
Hundreds of local students have yet to comply with Pennsylvania's new vaccination rules, school officials say.
Harrisburg school officials have not made a decision about whether students will be barred from classes in the fall. But Central Dauphin and Steelton-Highspire officials have put their foot down about that.
Officials from those districts said students will not be allowed to take classes if they are not in
compliance by the first day of school.
Read the full story here: http://mobile.pennlive.com
Posted: May 24, 2012
When it comes to those last globs of ketchup inevitably stuck to every bottle of Heinz, most people either violently shake the container in hopes of eking out another drop or two, or perform the "secret" trick: smacking the "57" logo on the bottle's neck. But not MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith. He and a team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group have been held up in an MIT lab for the last two months addressing this common dining problem.
The result? LiquiGlide, a "super slippery" coating made up of [supposedly] nontoxic materials that can be applied to all sorts of food packaging--though ketchup and mayonnaise bottles might just be the substance's first targets.
Condiments may sound like a narrow focus for a group of MIT engineers, but not when you consider the impact it could have on food waste and the packaging industry.
"It's funny: Everyone is always like, 'Why bottles? What's the big deal?' But then you tell them the market for bottles--just the sauces alone is a $17 billion market," Smith says. "And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every year."
The MIT team chose only FDA-approved materials that are supposedly non-toxic, yet the list of materials - which is heavily patented - is being kept under wraps.
Read the full story here: http://www.fastcoexist.com
Posted: May 23, 2012
Remineralization is a way of using rock dust to enrich soil so that plants and trees can fight pollution, chemicals in the soil and bugs. Much as human beings are enriched by a good diet, remineralizing the soil strengthens plants and creates fertile soil and vibrant plant life in a natural, sustainable way. Remineralization is also inexpensive and organic.
Adding minerals and trace elements is vital to the creation of fertile soils, healthy crops and forests, and is a key strategy to help stabilize the climate.
Learn more at:
http://remineralize.org/
Posted: May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON - Nearly 900 dolphins that washed up along Peru's northern coast this year died of natural causes, according to a report that has failed to convince environmental activists.
Peru's production minister Gladys Trevino announced the results of a government investigation into the mass deaths on Tuesday.
Read the full story here: http://www.abc.net.au
Posted: May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON - The latest attempt by al Qaeda to make an underwear bomb designed to be detonated on a plane headed to the United States has set off a fierce debate among security officials in Washington and their critics in Congress about whether the current measures to protect airliners would have detected the bomb.
The debate has centered largely on the belief among officials of the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration that their so-called multilayered approach to security would have stopped such an attack.
The current approach includes increased sharing of intelligence and boarding pass information, the widespread use of body scanners, officers monitoring human behavior in airports and closer relationships with airport officials around the world.
Read full story here: http://www.nytimes.com
Posted: May 23, 2012
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to 'married' on Saturday but the social-networking website is now contributing to a third of all divorces.
According to a new survey, feuding couples are increasingly complaining about their spouse's behaviour on Facebook in divorce filings, with inappropriate messages to the opposite sex being the biggest cause for complaint.
More than 33 per cent of divorces last year listed Facebook as a contributing factor, a study of 5000 divorce petitions by United Kingdom law firm Divorce Online found.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Posted: May 23, 2012
The presence of street lights substantially changes the ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and insects, research suggests.
Scientists trapped nearly 1,200 of the animals in areas under and between street lights in Helston in Cornwall.
They report in Biology Letters that invertebrate predators and scavengers were more common near the lights, even during the day.
That suggests street lights influence ecology more than previously thought.
Read the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18158529
Posted: May 23, 2012
Results from a large U.S. study suggest women who regularly exercise vigorously, including runners and aerobics buffs, may be less likely to get psoriasis than less-active women.
Researchers have known that people who are overweight or smokers have a higher risk of the chronic skin disease, which is characterized by itchy and painful plaques.
In the new study, women who said they spent more than one hour per week running or at least four hours per week doing aerobics seemed to be partially protected against psoriasis, even after their weight and other lifestyle habits were taken into account.
Read full article here: http://www.reuters.com
Posted: May 23, 2012
By cramming all of your eating into a smaller number of hours, you might be able to reduce your risk of obesity and related diseases, suggests a new mouse study -- even if you continue to eat exactly the same amount of food that you were eating before.
When given the same quantity of high-fat food, mice in the study that ate throughout the day and night became fat and sick, while mice whose eating was restricted to a period of eight hours remained healthy.
Researchers suspect that a period of fasting may boost the efficiency of organs involved in metabolism, allowing the body to better regulate blood sugar, fat storage and other measures. Each organ might also have its own clock that is programmed to work best during the hours when eating fits in to our circadian rhythms. Eating outside those rhythms, on the other hand, could set the body up for trouble.
Read the full story here: http://news.discovery.com
Posted: May 23, 2012
MINNEAPOLIS - Public Record Media claims the U.S. Department of Justice refuses to release records on its use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in war, in a federal FOIA complaint.
http://www.courthousenews.com
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