The FDA is Making Our Children Into a Nation of Drug Addicts! Why are parents allowing this to happen?

by Marianne Skolek
Salem-News.com
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In 1997, 5 million children were listed as using psychotropic drugs, Ritalin being among the most common. Ritalin use has increased by 700% since 1990. By the year 2000, it was prescribed for approximately 7 million children.  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed eight times more […]

Right to Know Rallies Against GMOs held Across the US

This past Saturday (March 26, 2011) people in Washington DC and across the country in many cities rallied to protest the lack of labeling in genetically modified foods. It didn’t exactly make headlines in the mainstream media. Here is one video from the rally in Los Angeles:

Right to Know Rally, Los Angeles 3.26.11 from […]

The U.S. should follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics

by Scientific American
For more than 50 years microbiologists have warned against using antibiotics to fatten up farm animals. The practice, they argue, threatens human health by turning farms into breeding grounds of drug-resistant bacteria. Farmers responded that restricting antibiotics in livestock would devastate the industry and significantly raise costs to consumers. We now have empirical […]

Statin Drugs linked to rise in Diabetes

from Mercola.com
By Suzy Cohen, R.Ph.

Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, killing one in five adults, and doctors are very quick to prescribe statins. In fact, statin drug sales rank in the billions each year globally.
These drugs are so pervasive that they are no longer just indicated for hypercholesterolemia, […]

Sixth study in recent months links mercury in flu shots to brain damage, autism

by Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) The toxic effects of the mercury, also known in vaccines as Thimerosal, have once again been confirmed, this time by researchers from the University of Brazil. Marking the sixth major study in recent months to condemn the use of mercury in medicine, the new study reveals that mercury causes serious […]

Organic dairy farmer Francis Thicke promotes House File 394, the Iowa raw milk bill

by Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Iowa is one of only 11 states that prohibits any form of raw milk sales to the public. In fact, Iowa has one of the most oppressive anti-raw milk political climates in the US. But a new bill being spearheaded by former candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke […]

Turning backyards into Urban Farms – A Successful Model Feeding People in the City!

By Jared Page
ksl.com

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24-year-old Sharon Leopardi is the owner of Backyard Urban Garden (BUG) Farms, a community-supported agriculture (CSA) business that uses Salt Lake City residents’ backyards as places to grow, tend and harvest fresh produce to sell to consumers. Her goal in starting the business a little more than a year ago was to prove that […]

Sustainable Winter Agriculture in Colorado

Health Impact News Editor Comments:

Kudos to Frank Stonaker of Colorado State University for understanding how unsustainable our current agricultural system is with less than 1% of our population providing our food. Mr. Stonaker recognizes the importance of small-scale farming and local sustainable agriculture, and he is actually DOING SOMETHING about it with this great […]

Even ‘BPA-Free’ Plastics Leach Endrocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

by Dr. Mercola
Plastic containers and linings often leach chemicals into the surrounding environment.  And some of those chemicals, like the endocrine-disrupting bisphenol-A (BPA) and phthalates, may be harmful to your health.
Manufacturers have even begun advertising some products as “BPA-free.” But a recent study found that most plastic products leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals even if they’re […]

The Real Cause of Revolution in the Middle East? Food Subsidies can no longer Provide Cheap Bread

Health Impact News Editor Comments: If you read the mainstream media covering events in the Middle East where regimes are quickly being toppled, you come away feeling that the people just all of a sudden developed a taste for democracy and wanted a better government. The real truth, however, is something more basic. Food. […]