Apparently the incidence of babies born in the US with opiate withdrawal has spiked in the Bush decade. New born infants with symptoms increased 3x, from prescription and recreational drug use. Babies gestated with these powerful drugs in the mothers system are less well developed. An editorial in the Journal of The American Medical Association …
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Learning is painful.
At least when you’re making a leap or really starting something new. You can either accept the pain of the process or not. Not accepting it means avoiding it and not learning. If you accept the challenge choose to live with the pain and enjoy the process. Or choose to hate the pain and fight …
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Aspirin for cancer.
What is aspirin? Now manufactured in a lab it originally started as a natural remedy based on extract of willow bark. It is a magic cure for headaches and now cancer. But it has side effects because it does change the consistency of blood and increases the chance of internal bleeding. Taking a low dose …
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I used to love a nice, bloody steak …
.. but now, having been on a non-meat diet for years, wouldn’t be able to digest it. As a meat eater, health was not one of my priorities. Living, having fun, partying, burgers and beer, were much more important. But just in case you care, it’s probably worth getting good beef … it seems processing …
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Micro-plastic, from clothes, is entering the food chain.
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. The findings appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Dr Browne, a member of the US-based research network National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, said the tiny plastic was a …
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Who governs FIFA? Alcohol and sports are not compatible.
It is outrageous that FIFA, sponsored by Budweiser, is demanding the Brazilian government change their law banning alcohol at matches. Soccer is soccer. Fans might like to have a pint while watching teh game in their local, but thousands of intoxicated men in confined spaces – that’s just stupid. Anyone who has seen crowd violence …
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We love factory food.
Factory farming is bad. The new movie Contagion, based on the book Viral Storm, dramatises the kind of risk we nurture with intensive farming techniques. The kind of techniques that deliver the variety and volume of food at such low prices that we demand. From The Ecologist: Viral storm: why factory farming is bad for …
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Is your milk good for you?
A friend of ours, who is an agricultural engineer and farmer, mentioned a strange notion recently while rinsing his milk pails. “Check out the issue of A2A2 milk”, he said. So I did. I don’t drink much milk, though I really enjoy the luxury of the raw milk that he gives us. But my children …
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Why are we all getting cancer?
This latest report says that 40% of us are getting cancer. That’s a big number. It seems like it was a very unusual disease just a couple of decades ago. Have we polluted out food, homes and lifestyles so much that our bodies can not cope? Probably. Is it just that we’re living longer and …
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A drink or two helps cancer grow in you.
The latest research finds that people who drank more than two standard drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women were particularly at risk of alcohol-related cancers. Of course anyone who is drinking every day is displaying signs of addiction. Can you remember the last day you didn’t have a drink? …
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