Are There Antibiotics in Your Lettuce?:You’re likely familiar with the fact that your lettuce could be contaminated with pesticides and even rocket fuel, but now researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered another risk: antibiotics.Livestock are routinely given antibiotics to prevent disease outbreaks (which are common due to the typically crowded, unsanitary conditions in which these animals are raised)…. Root crops like potatoes, carrots and radishes may be particularly vulnerable, they said.Consuming antibiotics via your salad could lead to allergies and the development of more antibiotic-resistant superbugs, among many other as yet unknown effects.This time, however, eating organic is not the answer.
The adoptees were as fat as their biological parents, and how fat they were had no relation to how fat their adoptive parents were.The scientists summarized it in their paper: œThe two major findings of this study were that there was a clear relation between the body-mass index of biologic parents and the weight class of adoptees, suggesting that genetic influences are important determinants of body fatness; and that there was no relation between the body-mass index of adoptive parents and the weight class of adoptees, suggesting that childhood family environment alone has little or no effect.In other words, being fat was an inherited condition.Dr…. Going much above or much below the natural weight range is difficult, however; the body resists by increasing or decreasing the appetite and changing the metabolism to push the weight back to the range it seeks.The message is so at odds with the popular conception of weight loss ” the mantra that all a person has to do is eat less and exercise more ” that Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, an obesity researcher at the Rockefeller University, tried to come up with an analogy that would convey what science has found about the powerful biological controls over body weight.He published it in the journal Science in 2000 and still cites it:œThose who doubt the power of basic drives, however, might note that although one can hold one™s breath, this conscious act is soon overcome by the compulsion to breathe, Dr. Friedman wrote.
Three Girls Died, Others Hospitalized, After HPV VaccineAmid controversy over state legislatures in the U.S. requiring young girls to take Gardasil, Merck’s new vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), severe side effects are being reported.1,637 adverse reactions have been reported by Judicial Watch, a public interest watchdog, including three girls who died shortly after receiving the immunization…. There have also been reports from the National Vaccine Information Center about fainting and dizziness reported by dozens of patients as side effects of Gardasil, and there are even some concerns that Gardasil may cause infertility.These are steep risks for a vaccine that only sometimes protects against HPV, which is virtually 100 percent avoidable without an expensive and potentially fatal vaccine.Please realize that Merck has manipulated the medical and political system to FORCE children to get this dangerous vaccine for their own bottom line profit.
Kavanagh listed a number of specific issues with certification for open-ocean net-pen aquaculture, including pollution caused by salmon waste, transmission of disease from farmed to wild fish, farmed fish escapes that would dilute the genetics of wild stock, and the use of wild fish for feed. “Wild Alaskan salmon, a very well-managed fishery, was denied organic certification because with wild fish you can’t control the inputs—you don’t know what it’s been eating or where it’s been,” Kavanagh said, ‘so I don’t understand why it would be OK to take wild fish and feed them to farmed fish.
One Fourth of American’s Calories Come From Soda:An interesting study funded by the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), intended to identify opportunities for milk producers to develop more “value-added beverages,” speaks volumes about how addicted people really are to sugary soft drinks, long considered the leading source of calories among Americans.By the numbers:Almost half of all Americans (upward from age 4) drink a sugary sweet drink — a presweetened iced tea, fruit drink or carbonated beverage — on a given day.Americans drink nearly a quarter of their total caloric intake every day.More than a third of all the added sugars Americans consume come from soft drinks.A look at these numbers on their own demonstrate, without a doubt, why sugary substances like high fructose corn syrup have been targeted as a major culprit in the obesity epidemic.