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PATH: BS | Health & Medicine

Nutrition "Science" Has Hijacked Our Meals -- and Our Health Posted by Pile (11316 views) [E-Mail link]	[Junk Food]
Why would anyone need to write a book called In Defense of Food? If we can afford it and can get our hands on it, we eat food several times a day. Or do we? According to Michael Pollan, most of what Americans consume isn't food. He calls it "edible foodlike substances." He also says that the way we consume it is not really eating. It's something we do pretty unconsciously as we work or drive or watch TV.
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Your Drinking Water Probably Contains Drugs Posted by Pile (9815 views) [E-Mail link]	[Environment]
A vast array of pharmaceuticals � including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones � have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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Utah Republican Fighting Against Steroid-Free Milk Labels Posted by Pile (13581 views) [E-Mail link]
Most Utah consumers want to know what's in their food and how it is produced. Some prefer vegetables and fruit that are grown without pesticides, and milk and meat that are produced with no growth hormones. Enter Republican representative Kerry Gibson from Utah, who is actively fighting against producers being able to identify whether the mild you drink is from steroid-free cows.
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Study Shows Antidepressant Drugs Don't Work Posted by Pile (13275 views) [E-Mail link]
They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people every year. But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't work.
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FDA Drags Feet On Bayer Recall, 22,000 Dead Posted by Pile (12205 views) [E-Mail link]
The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutes program.
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Ben & Jerry's Fights To Promote The Safety Of Their Ice Cream Posted by Pile (12481 views) [E-Mail link]
Ben & Jerry�s Homemade Inc., one of the first companies to label its ice cream as free of a synthetic hormone, is protesting a move by some states to restrict such labeling. The ice cream maker has joined a national campaign to block what critics say is an effort driven by Monsanto Co., which markets recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, also known as recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH. Many people want to know if products contain this substance and Monsanto would rather you not, and they are trying to stop companies from advertising that they DON'T HAVE Monsanto's chemical additives!
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FEMA Forgets Formaldehyde Posted by ueberbill (9362 views) [E-Mail link]
FEMA, a federal agency that ranks in the mind of the public somewhere above herpes and somewhere below groin punches, has been having a bad couple of years. Last summer it came to light that FEMA had avoided testing their famous trailers for formaldehyde (best known for making the dead stay fabulous) in order to not get sued. Well, the hits just keep on coming...
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F.D.A. To Drug Companies: Suicide is Bad! Posted by ueberbill (10517 views) [E-Mail link]
The Food and Drug Administration, tasked not only with regulating my two favorite vices but determining whether or not a drug will kill us all, has made a pretty interesting decision. They will require companies to not only disclose if their drugs kill people, but to find out if their drugs make people kill themselves.
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Monsanto Loses Bid To Outlaw Labelling Of Potentially Safer Milk Posted by Pile (11128 views) [E-Mail link]
Pennsylvania resisted a lobbying push by Monsanto that sought to outlaw the labeling of milk that is free of artificial hormones. Monsanto had argued that there is no discernible difference between milk from cows that have or have not been injected with its recombinant bovine growth hormones, known as alternately as rbST, bST, BGH or rBGH. It is banned in Europe and Canada.
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Pfizer Cranks Out New Diseases Posted by Pile (13185 views) [E-Mail link]
"Fibromyalgia is a real, widespread pain condition," stresses a woman in a television ad for Lyrica, a Pfizer drug that recently became "the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition." But some doctors have their doubts. These skeptics "say vague complaints of chronic pain do not add up to a disease.
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Patton Oswalt Eats KFC's "Famous Bowl" And Lives To Tell Posted by Pile (16979 views) [E-Mail link]	[Junk Food] [Humor]
If you think you've read a restaurant or food review before that amused you, think again after you find out what Patton Oswalt thinks of KFC's fast food monstosity, "The Famous Bowl"...
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My Angry Pills Don't Work! That Makes Me So... Oh Posted by ueberbill (13446 views) [E-Mail link]
Antipsychotic drugs, used for everything from treating threatening behavior to being Britney Spears, may not be doing what you think they're doing-- AND do it a lot less well than your garden-variety tic tac.
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Cigna Defends Administrative Decision That Leaves Girl Dead Posted by Pile (10633 views) [E-Mail link]
Cigna HealthCare is taking heat this Christmas but isn't backing down after its decision to deny a liver transplant to a teenager afflicted with leukemia left her dead. Nataline Sarkisyan, 17, died last week after suffering complications following a bone marrow transplant. Cigna had refused to cover a liver transplant the girl's doctors had requested, dubbing it "experimental," only to reconsider at the last minute when the girl's parents had already decided to take her off life support. After taking a beating in the press and on the Web, the Philadelphia-based insurance giant distributed a letter to the press Monday defending their decision.
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Lead Found In Lipstick Posted by Pile (11881 views) [E-Mail link]
Toys made in China aren�t the only products laced with dangerous heavy metals: lipstick manufactured in the United States and used daily by millions of American women also contains surprisingly high levels of lead, according to new product tests released today by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The lead tests were conducted by an independent laboratory over the month of September on red lipsticks bought in Boston, Hartford, Conn., San Francisco and Minneapolis. Top findings include: More than half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead, with levels ranging from 0.03 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). None of these lipsticks listed lead as an ingredient.
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Government Finds Lead Test Kits Don't Detect Lead Posted by Pile (13638 views) [E-Mail link]	[Faulty Products]
Are you concerned about toxins found in products around the house, like lead in toys? Why not get one of those nifty home lead test kits? Well the Consumer Product Safety Commission has just announced most of those kits don't really work. I wonder where they come from?
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer Posted by Pile (9604 views) [E-Mail link]
Children shouldn't use cellphones. No one should drink diet sodas sweetened with aspartame. And think twice before getting X-rayed with a CAT scan except in a bona fide life-threatening emergency. That's just some of the precautionary advice that epidemiologist Devra Davis, who runs the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, delivers in her new book, "The Secret History of the War on Cancer."
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Maher: Ask Your Doctor If Getting Off Your Ass Is Right For You Posted by Pile (12634 views) [E-Mail link]
Bill Maher goes off on a classic tirade against the pharmaceutical industry. It turns out diet and exercise is just as much (if not more) effective a treatment against depression as Zoloft and Paxil. Go ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you!
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No... Some... Most Children Left Behind Part 2 Posted by ueberbill (6831 views) [E-Mail link]
We reported earlier about Bush's plans to veto a bill passed with some pretty impressive bipartisan support to expand the federal program which makes sure poor kids have health insurance. Never one to back down from his decisions, Bush quietly vetoed the bill today.
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Study Shows Nutrisweet-Aspartame Causes Cancer In Approved Doses Posted by Pile (12551 views) [E-Mail link]	[Biotech]
You might want to re-think how much of the common diet soft drinks, candy and other artificially-sweetened foods you consume these days. A recent, peer-reviewed study suggests the artificial sweetener causes cancer in rats at levels currently approved for humans.
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Know Your Food Coloring Posted by Pile (19138 views) [E-Mail link]
Used in everything from soft drinks to canned vegetable, food coloring is pervasive in our society. Here's a short guide to the various food colors and whether or not you'll be that excited about seeing them in your food from now on..
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