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Nutrition



State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger
• Carolina Journal OnlineThe North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle. Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statute

Study Warns Of Autism Risk For Children Of Obese Mothers
• http://www.npr.org, by Jon HamiltonScientists have found one more reason that pregnancy and obesity can be a bad combination.

The Plutonium Files - Radiation Experiments on US Citizens (Video)
• DemocracyNow.com73 disabled children were fed oatmeal laced with radioactive isotopes. 829 pregnant women were served "vitamin cocktails" (so they thought) containing radioactive iron. An eighteen-year-old woman believing she was being treated for a pituitary diso

Toxic artificial sweetener 'Neotame' now being added to your food
• Terrence AymNot only do aspartame and its derivative Neotame contain substances that become formaldehyde in the body, but both also have an exctiotoxic amino acid that can lead to nerve damage over time. Neotame, however, has an additional chemical known as 3-di

U.S. Schoolchildren Now Subjected to Sack Lunch Searches by Government Agents
• By Mike AdamsYou thought the TSA was bad? Get ready for school lunch pat-downs!

Obama administration appeals ruling on White House visitor logs
• PoliticoThe Obama administration is appealing a judge's ruling that Secret Service records of visitors to the White House complex are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The Justice Department filed a formal notice of appeal Friday

Why is this "Unsafe" Food Banned When It's 35,000 Times SAFER Than Others?
• articles.mercola.comAs you're probably aware of by now, there's a war being waged against raw milk.

The Type of Food that Will Slow Nearly EVERY Inflammatory Disease...
• Mercola.comEnzymes drive biological processes necessary for your body to build raw materials, circulate nutrients, eliminate unwanted chemicals, and the myriad of other biochemical processes that go on without your even thinking about it. Videos included...

Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good for You!
• Donald W. Miller, Jr., MDConsumption of margarine made with trans fats has gone up five fold, and vegetable oils, more than fifteen-fold. Along with trans fats, these often rancid vegetable oils are new to the human diet. A good case can be made that these changes in fat-

Codex Alimentarius: Vast Majority of Americans Are Ignorant and Gullible
• Activistpost.com/The ignorance of the vast majority of Americans toward Codex Alimentarius, unfortunately including most natural health advocates, is one reason Codex is not currently a major source of popular concern. However, another more disturbing reason is...

Ten Things You May Not Know About Baby Formula
• Amanda Whitney-yahoo news1. The linings of formula cans contain bisphenol-A, 2. Feeding an infant formula can increase the child's risk of developing food allergies and inflammatory bowel disease, 3. It is impossible to produce sterile powdered infant formula. 4. Baby fo

US Military Says School Lunches are a Threat to National Security
• InfowebsA group of retired military officials recently expressed concern that school lunches are a threat to national security... the food being fed to children at schools is making them "too fat to fight", leaving a considerable gap in military recruitment.

Corn Bread Cuisine
• arcleinOn the contrary, replacing whole-grain, freshly milled cornmeal with chemically bleached, nutrient-stripped, shelf-stable industrial flour proved nothing but detrimental to Appalachian health.

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
• Orthomolecular Medicine News ServicePoison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety. There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.

Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of th
• Alliance for Natural HealthMcCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and n

Garlic Booms on the Back of Flu Panic
• Telegraph.co.ukWhat was the best investment you could have made in booming China last year? Shares? No. Gold? Try again – because garlic beat them both.

The Flu Outbreak, What Are The Options?
• Simply Your HealthThe Swine flu is worse than we thought, and is inching ever closer to becoming a 1918 pandemic.
The federal government is silently moving forward to force vaccinations upon the public.
Are there any answers? What are some of our options?

A Cancer Drug From Sunny Thailand?
• ABC Newsa little-known pharmaceutical firm in Bangkok, Thailand, has been working on a cancer treatments for decades and has amassed some extraordinary evidence for the effectiveness of its product Yaamet-Dor. In 2007, the results of a a 4-year, population-based, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial that involved approximately 1,200 women were announced. It reported that Yaamet-Dor, this time at 1,100 units per day, led to a 60 percent reduction in cancer incidence.

Coffee may decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s: Study
• food navigator.com via Rense.comDrinking between three and five cups of coffee a day in middle age could decrease the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by 65 per cent, says a new study from Scandinavia.

Save the Earth: Eat Chocolate
• BoinkyWhole Foods, whose website brags about their green policies, has a new idea: Chocolate Change Chocolate Bars. Scam or Next New Thing?

Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell
• By Beth Marchant - www.studiodaily.comThe Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students. (WOW WOW WOW!!!)

McDonald's goes Trans Fat-Free
• NewsMaxMcDonald's Corp. has finally selected a new trans fat-free oil for cooking it famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said Monday. While it has developed a healthier new oil, the company is still not saying when it will b

Big Apple Slims Down, Adds New Laws to the Menu
• Judge Richard A. Posner - Legal TV NetworkThe ban thus forces people who want to eat in restaurants to pay higher prices even if they would prefer to pay less and take the risk of an increased likelihood of heart disease.

Cloneburgers, anyone? Farmer can’t wait
• MSNBCFor nearly four years, dairy farmer Greg Wiles has poured milk from his cloned cows down the drain in compliance with a voluntary ban on food from cloned livestock. Now in financial straits, Wiles says he may be forced to sell his cloned cows for ham

Pot of Gold
• Denver WestwordJoseph Brodsky eyes the freshly pulled double espresso with scorn. "This looks terrible," he mutters darkly. From its poorly foamed surface, he can tell the coffee has been extracted from the espresso machine in a few measly seconds rather

The Bloomberg Diet
• Wall St Journal(Thanks to Karen Decoster) 20 years ago, Mr. Jacobsen's CSPI launched a public relationis blitz against fast food joints for using palm oil to cook fries. The group claimed victory when restaurants starting using partially hydrogenated oil inste

Lawsuit Claiming Kraft's Guacamole Dip Doesn't Contain Avocado
• Fox NewsThe Kraft product contains modified food starch, coconut and soybean oils, corn syrup and food coloring. It is less than 2 percent avocado, which in traditional recipes is the main ingredient of the Mexican dish.

Scientists find clue to why red wine is healthy
• By Shaveta Bansal (AHN) - www.chinadaily.comAlthough red wines are long known to have heart-healthy properties, the researchers found that the wines which in particular have higher levels of "oligomeric procyanidins" are more potent.

Common chemotherapy drugs can kill healthy brain cells: report
• New York's University of RochesterCommon drugs used to treat cancer patients may do more harm than good by killing healthy brain cells, a research study released Wednesday shows.