Tag: toxins
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How a courageous woman took on the chemical industry and raised important questions about humankind’s impact on nature.
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity’s faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or FWS, was uniquely equipped to create so…
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Five Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Toxins in Food
Food may go through a lot on its journey to your plate, sometimes in ways that are not beneficial to your health. Some things may occur before food is even planted or harvested. For example, crops can be treated with pesticides and fertilizers or transformed through hybridization or genetic engineering. And then there are toxic…
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What Is Added To Our Foods Is Making Us Sick
HFI Comment: It is SO VERY IMPORTANT to the health and well being of ourselves and our children to understand the additives in our foods. The rise of chronic disease is directly related to the increase of artificial foods, additives to our food and water and even to the amount of pesticides and herbicides we…
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Tree-killing herbicide pulled from market
Dupont’s new systemic herbicides, designed to keep turf grass free of troublesome weeds, seem to pose little direct danger to human health. But it turns out they do kill trees. After receiving more than 7,000 reports of damaged or killed trees in states throughout the midwest, last week EPA ordered Dupont to immediately “halt the…
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Weed killer found contaminating most popular US foods
FIND OUT WHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD!http://www.cornucopia.org/ The old saying ‘you are what you eat’ is so true. The chemicals that are put on our food are ‘considered safe’ because they are so minute. However, they are cumulative and since most are not properly tested prior to release, we are seeing an unbelievable rise ailments. These…
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CBS Miami: WHO ends Zika public health emergency | Health Nut News
November 18, 2016 the World Health Organization QUIETLY announced that Zika was no longer a global health emergency, instead acknowledging that Zika is here to stay (as it has been for decades). Since spring, the infection has been linked to severe birth defects (including microcephaly) in almost 30 countries. However, they still feel that complications…
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Aspartame now being marketed as natural sweetener, name changed to ‘AminoSweet’
The world’s most toxic artificial sweetener is undergoing a major identity overhaul in an effort by its manufacturer to cover up the chemical’s sordid history, as well as to keep people buying it. “AminoSweet,” in case you see it on food labels, is really just plain-old aspartame, the same synthetic sweetening agent that’s repeatedly been…