From alternet:
Will a TV show be canceled because it features an attorney who successfully argues that a mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one kid?
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics will release the contents of a foreboding letter sent last week to ABC/Disney executives, demanding they cancel the January 31 premiere of a new [...]

Cheap cheap fish! The above is an ad (from one of the large supermarket chains in France) for the fish known as Pangas (also called, Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, Basa Fish and White Catfish, Tra, Gray Sole). It was a reminder to tell you about the dangers of this strange but increasingly popular fish. I [...]

From the telegraph:
“Parents who feed their children ready-made puddings are unwittingly giving them excessive amounts of salt, according to health campaigners.
Nearly half the recommended daily salt intake for a young child is hidden in one serving of supermarket-bought jam roly poly, treacle sponge or sticky toffee pudding, a report reveals.

The research, carried out by Consensus [...]

You might not want to hear about this but if you read it here, maybe it’ll make you think about your soda consumption. For one and the most important reason: soda can cause a myriad of health problems. Is it worth it? I don’t think so. I gave up soda when I was a kid [...]

With the world economy on shaky grounds, one the best and most environmentally friendly ways to be a consumer is to swap items or buy used objects. It’s less wasteful to do this and it can be a really fun activity.
Even without the economy going downhill, doing this type of consuming seems to be the [...]

Achieve a Deep Uninterrupted Sleep -Today Americans get 25 percent less sleep than they did a century ago. Nearly 4 out of 10 don’t get the minimum 7 hours of sleep necessary for optimal health and daytime functioning, while 15 percent get less than 6 hours most nights.
Since we’re all in agreement that a good [...]

Florida surgeon Dr. J. takes an interestingly terrifying peak at the effects of obesity in men. He says that when men gain weight, abdominal fat changes testosterone to estrogen that remains stored in all that extra fat. The unfortunate result is a shrinking “Mr. Happy” (or whatever you call your thing, i.e., Richard, Woody, Mini [...]

Excerpt from rense.com:
“Efforts continue to ban this deadly excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that is addicting the public and triggering so many symptoms and diseases from MS and lupus and seizures to Parkinson’s, diabetes and obesity and even blindness and death. An aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, explains how Don Rumsfeld got this marketed when [...]

If you think the title of this post sounds a bit geeky, you’d be right. Optimism one point OH sounds happy but is a serious little software application that identifies the triggers of depression. It helps make strategies to maintain long lasting mental health.
When people have mental health issues, particularly with depression, it takes a [...]

From NYT:

Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sushi from 5 of the 20 places had mercury levels so high that the Food [...]

Um. Yes I know this is an embarrassing topic for you (not me, I don’t have hemorrhoids!) but it really needs to be addressed these days. Denying that you have them isn’t productive so cut it out right now and admit you have hemorroids. Let’s say it out loud together, ” I. have. hemorroids.” See, [...]

Check it out and I swear you’ll feel better.
Click here to watch the video

You heard me. Of course some of you might vehemently disagree with me that “mindfulness” can occur in business - it’s just that… that isn’t happening where you work. If that’s the case, I’m very sorry to hear that, but have hope. Mindfulness in Business is very possible and in fact, can make that business [...]

Needless to say, no matter how good that pizza looks, you shouldn’t be eating that polymethylsiloxane! And remember what Robyn O’Brien says, “Never eat anything you can’t pronounce.” (Those things are not meant to be eaten.)
From The Milkweed:
“Last month, The Milkweed detailed how Pizza Hut restaurants illegally claim to use “Mozzarella” cheese on certain menu [...]

Just remember all of the fiascos caused by the FDA…
From alternet:
It’s possible to read all 300-plus horrifying pages of a new Food and Drug Administration subcommittee report describing the agency’s slow asphyxiation by prolonged budgetary constraints without learning who is responsible for its decline.
Subcommittee member and attorney Peter Barton Hutt, who served as FDA chief [...]

From Opednews:
Well, now we know. Scientists have documented that the Bush/Cheney administration has been a greater threat to Americans’ health and safety than Osama Bin Laden and his terror band.
Specifically, The New York Times, in its science section today, reports that a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that while [...]

I know. That rhymes.Many of you live in climates where you’ll have a long spurt of very grey, cold, rainy or snowy weather during the winter time, and it leaves much to be desired in terms of staying active and keeping fit and happy. Unless you like using the weather as an excuse to not [...]

The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind. At every moment, where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
All know the Way, but few actually walk [...]

From NewScientistTech:
“Edible antifreeze developed by a US researcher could keep ice cream tasty and smooth, and prevent other frozen foods from being ruined. The antifreeze contains proteins similar to those that help “snow flea” insects survive winter without freezing solid.
The taste of good ice cream depends on a blend of flavour, temperature, and texture – [...]

People seeking to improve themselves tend to be voracious book readers so from time to time, I will have some relevant book recommendations. I hope you will be happy to include it in your library. Here’s today’s:
Mind Training, The Great Collection (Library of Tibetan Classics) is an English adaptation of the first anthology of techniques [...]

Mother of three, Robyn O’Brien has looked deep into the perplexing world of childhood food allergies and sees a conspiracy inside the food industry.
“Ms. O’Brien encourages people to do what she did: throw out as much nonorganic processed food as you can afford to. Avoid anything genetically modified, artificially created or raised with hormones. Don’t [...]

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” - Hannibal Lecter
Sorry bout the unrelated cannibalistic reference from Silence of the Lambs. I’m a brat!
From NewsTarget:
“Two years ago this month a good friend of ours joined us for a humble beginning of our natural nutrition and whole food preparation classes. She [...]

If people could change just one thing about themselves and only one thing, I’d wish for them to choose: eating healthful, unprocessed, untreated, organic REAL food. Why? Food is where practically everything begins and what you eat is directly related to how you feel physically and emotionally. Don’t believe me? Drink a coffee every day [...]

Duh. I know breathing is important to live but there’s much MORE to breathing than people realize.
If you simply take time to be aware of breathing in and breathing out, a wonderful thing happens: You stop thinking, particularly about all the chaos that is swimming around in your head. Whether you’re thinking about what you [...]

It’s a known fact that the power of positivity has had amazing beneficial effects on people. Studies have shown that positive people tended to be in better health throughout their lives, and well, face it, more likable. I mean, who likes a grump?? Not me. There’s nothing worse than a sourpuss with an attitude problem [...]