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• ARE WE BEING POLLUTED BY ELECTRICITY?

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  Express17.11.2010By Emily WebberEMILY WEBBER investigates ways of protecting yourself against everyday radiationHANNAH HUGHES was a bubbly and energetic child, so when the 11 year old began to fall ill every Wednesday after school her family were mystified.“I didn’t understand why she was coming home sick, ” ...
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• ‘Obesity now a bigger threat to people’s health than smoking’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Scientists in the U.S. have warned that obesity is now a bigger threat to people’s health than smoking.Their study has shown that expanding waistlines now cause as much or more disease than tobacco, and do as much or more to shorten healthy lifespans.To reach this conclusion, researchers ...
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• Another Reason to Quit: ADHD and Smoking

  
  3 Steps To Conquering ADD-ADHD Member\'s Site — Authority: 121
  It is very interesting to observe how profoundly a culture can change in the matter of a few short decades. One of the areas where this has certainly happened over the past 20 years is the public perception of smoking: As late as the 1980s smoking was still seen as a trendy, if somewhat risky, activity that clearly ...
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• 2009 UN policy brief on how to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries *

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  UN Population Division Policy BriefNo. 2009/1 March 2009What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?Fast population growth, fueled by high fertility, hinders the reduction of poverty and the achievement of other internationally agreed development goals. While fertility has ...
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• Nzu Traditional African Remedy Contains Lead and Arsenic

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  The Texas Department of State Health Services is warning consumers, especially pregnant or breastfeeding women, to avoid consuming a traditional product called Nzu because of the potential health risks from high levels of lead and arsenic.
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• GPs ’should offer climate change advice to patients’

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  Telegraph29.11.2009Nick BrittenDoctors should give patients advice on climate change, a leading body of medical experts has claimed.The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of ...
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• How to Lose Belly Fat For Men?

  
  I Married A Fat Bitch — Authority: 131
  I want to lose my belly stout! How to lose belly stout for men is a question that men have begged an answer for years. Thankfully, there are things that can be done to trim the stout around your largest problem area. There are exercises that men can do to help with stout loss around the belly and chest, the two ...
  6 days ago

• People Who Think Long-Term Make Better Health Decisions

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 584
  Do you think more about the long-term and your future than others? If so, according to new research you’re more likely to make positive decisions about your health. Researchers found that people who tend to think in the long term are more likely to make positive decisions about their health, whether it’s how much ...
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• Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division (opinion)

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  Natural News22.12.2009Mike AdamsYou’ve heard it before, how the pharmaceutical industry has a giant “revolving door” through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke that Dr. Julie Gerberding, who headed the CDC ...
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• Poll: Dutch prefer sending New Year’s wishes by post card

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  THE HAGUE (BNO NEWS) — Nearly all Dutch send their new year’s greeting by post cards, according to a poll by TNT Post released on Tuesday.The poll held by the national postal company shows that 96 percent of the Dutch send their New Year’s wishes by post, rather than online. Around 39 percent of the [...]
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• Brussels approves GMO bean despite public fears

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  EU Observer09.09.2009LEIGH PHILLIPSThe European Union has approved the import of a strain of genetically modified soybean, a move announced on Monday (8 September) by the European Commission.The bean, which bears the moniker A25704-12 and was developed by German biotechnology firm Bayer Cropscience, is now authorised ...
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• Mind-reading brain implant could allow paralysed to turn their thoughts into instant speech

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  Daily Mail23.12.2009By Claire BatesA revolutionary new device that reads a person’s thoughts and turns them into speech could soon change the lives of paralysed patients around the world.The Neuralynx System is being developed by a team of scientists led by Professor Frank Guenther at Boston University.Users will ...
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• Scientists find single ‘on-off’ gene that can change gender traits

  
  Wise Up Journal — Authority: 133
  The Times11.12.2009Hannah DevlinScientists have identified the gene that keeps females female. An international team found that the action of a single gene is all that stops females from developing male physical traits, including testes and facial hair.When this gene was artificially “switched off” in adult female ...
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• How Sweet It Isn’t: High Fructose Corn Syrup Proven to Cause Human Obesity

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 512
  You’ve heard it before: a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. If people are fat, it’s their own fault for eating too much. These words are usually spouted by PR hacks for the corn refiner’s association – or the dietitians paid by them. They may not, as it turns out, be true. We finally have the smoking corn ...
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• Hello, Is That Erin Brockovich?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Atta boys. The Kings County Board has given the big thumbs up to expanding the largest toxic-waste dump in the West despite the fact the area has had an alarming increase in birth defects and infant deaths. Come on people you know there is no evidence to link the facility to mutantcy! Get this, in 2007 (when the last ...
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• Hello, Is That Erin Brockovich?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Atta boys. The Kings County Board has given the big thumbs up to expanding the largest toxic-waste dump in the West despite the fact the area has had an alarming increase in birth defects and infant deaths. Come on people you know there is no evidence to link the facility to mutantcy! Get this, in 2007 (when the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coffee may have health benefits and may not pose health risks for many people

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 953
  Of all the relationships in my life, by far the most on-again, off-again has been with coffee: From that initial, tentative dalliance in college to a serious commitment during my first real reporting job to breaking up altogether when I got pregnant, only to fail miserably at quitting my daily la...
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• Weight Loss Diet An Overview Of Rapid Weight Loss

  
  I Married A Fat Bitch — Authority: 131
  A rapid weight loss curriculum will require vital changes in your life if it is to be a success. One of the most vital aspects of losing weight is attitude and changing terrible habits and replacing them with new, but excellent ones, something that requires a certain consistency. There are quite a few things that can ...
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• Dietary estrogens have little effect on cancer risk (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 180
  Reuters - Dietary "phytoestrogens" -- plant substances that have weak estrogen-like activity -- have little impact on the risks of developing hormone-sensitive cancers like breast and prostate cancer or colorectal cancers, new research suggests.
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• Alcohol and tobacco more harmful than many illegal drugs

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 146
  Filed under: Booze , Happy Hour Hero , Health , Science (Our happy hour fact to amaze your pub-going pals with.) Heroin and cocaine are the two most dangerous drugs; but alcohol and tobacco rate as riskier than most illegal substances. In what many drug experts feel is the most objective assessment of ... ...
  2 weeks ago

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