Big Ag doesn’t advertise the chemicals it stuffs into animals, so the scientists conducting these studies figured out a clever way to detect them. Bird feathers, like human fingernails, accumulate chemicals and drugs that an animal is exposed to. So scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University examined feather meal — a poultry byproduct made of feathers.
Tag Archives: health
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
… many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body’s natural preference for segmented sleep …
Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better
Refreshing News: Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better.
I can attest to this. I hated my first PDA, a Pocket PC. I then went several years without a PDA before hating my Blackberry. Now I hate my iPhone … slightly less than the Blackberry. And I’m a “tech-savvy geek.” I just hate tiny devices made for tiny hands. And where do they get off calling themselves “smart?”
My next phone, if possible, will be just a phone.
Vaccinated Children Have 2 to 5 Times More Diseases and Disorders Than Unvaccinated Children
The independent study is self-funded and is not sponsored by a large “credible” non-profit or government health organization with political and financial conflicts of interest
via Big Study: Vaccinated Kids 2-5 More Diseases Than Unvaccinated | Health Freedom Alliance.
Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
Walnuts aren’t the only food whose health benefits the FDA has tried to suppress. Producers of pomegranate juice and green tea, among others, have felt the bureaucrats’ wrath whenever they have suggested that their products are good for people.
Radiation From Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick
Radiation From Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick — Are We All at Risk?j
The moral of this story is, don’t allow a cellphone tower on you property.
CDC Forced to Admit False Raw Milk Death Link After Misrepresenting Stats
Centers for Disease Control to admit that their data on raw milk is factually incorrect
via Activist Post: CDC Forced to Admit False Raw Milk Death Link After Misrepresenting Stats.
3 Ways to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Allergies and to Reverse Symptoms
Yet again, the solutions for most of the ailments that plague modern society are to be found in the natural world, not the synthetic world of establishment medicine and Big Pharma.
via Activist Post: 3 Ways to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Allergies and to Reverse Symptoms.
Computer gamers decipher AIDS enzyme structure
It took them three weeks to accomplish what AIDS-related scientists have failed to do in 10 years. Possibly because gamers are more honest, not worried about job security and their dependence upon AIDS “research” for their livelihoods?
Beyond Frankenfoods and Toxics
Consumers are concerned about billions of pounds of toxic municipal sewage sludge dumped as “fertilizer”
… study after study has shown that small organic farms in the developing world produce twice as much food per acre as chemical and GMO farms …
Bank robber planned crime and punishment
Bank robber planned crime and punishment
Politicians and the media would have us believe that we have “the best healthcare in the world!” In reality, if you’re lucky enough to have access to it at all, it might be in the top 10 in the world.
Virtual gym ‘helps weight loss’
Virtual gym ‘helps weight loss’
As my brother Don says, this one’s for those too lazy to actually work out. 
Greed is Not a Virtue by David Korten — Agenda for a New Economy
By capitalism’s perverse moral logic, if a person sells toxic assets by knowingly misrepresenting them as sound, the fault lies not with the misrepresentation of the seller, but rather with the lack of due diligence on the part of the overly trusting borrower.
via Greed is Not a Virtue by David Korten — Agenda for a New Economy.
Great article.
Irrelevant information leads to memory loss
So this is what happened to me! :) But seriously, I think it lends credence to the theory that mindlessly browsing the Internet makes you stupid. It’s almost as bad as mindlessly watching TV.