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Chemical Industry Decides Public Health Really IS Better Than Private Profits

[This is a guest post by Janelle Sorensen] In a turn of events not even Nostradamus could foresee, Cal Dooley, President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), today announced that the millions of dollars the industry trade group has been using to lobby against policies that protect public health will now be used [...]

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Natural Papa Nominated For Treehugger’s Best of Green

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I usually bring my first cup of coffee into the office to check my email for anything that needs immediate attention. Usually it isn’t much, and I was half asleep this morning. Imagine my surprise to see this email waiting for me from Treehugger: “Congratulations on being nominated for a TreeHugger.com Best of Green award! [...]

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Opium Poppies: Homegrown Pain Medication

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The source of one of nature’s best pain medications, the opium poppy, thrives in your garden, and can be prepared in the kitchen with only some basic instructions for an all natural home remedy. I’m a DIY kind of guy, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to make the things I need, and [...]

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What’s More Important than the Health of Your Child?

I love the message in this video from Healthy Child Healthy World – the message that all it takes is teaching one friend, who teaches one friend, for the awareness to spread throughout our world. It’s a community driven approach that puts some of the power for reform back into the hands of those most [...]

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9 Healthy Body Habits for Overworked Dads

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Among the (oh-so-many) things that people don’t tell you about being a new dad is the fact that your body will have to adjust to it, and that it will take a toll on you. There are assorted back aches and neck pains, lower back issues for some of us, and if you’re not careful, [...]

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It’s Not the Fall So Much as the Impact

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I had a major reality check this last week. Maybe reality check is not the correct term for it – perhaps mortality check is. Something happened to me that changed my life in the space of a single second. I’m writing this propped up in a reclining lawn chair in my living room, with my [...]

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Are You a Processed Person?

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I strongly believe that most of our health issues are related to diet and lifestyle, not disease, as many in the medical establishment would have you believe. And as parents, we are responsible for the foods that our kids eat and the habits that they learn, much of which are carried on into adulthood. So [...]

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Lead Exposure in Early Childhood Leads to Permanent Brain Damage

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Adults who are exposed to lead as children experience permanent brain damage, according to a new study from the Cincinnati Children’s Environmental Health Center, which used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate brain function. “Lead exposure has been associated with diminished IQ, poor academic performance, inability to focus and increased risk of criminal behavior.” [...]

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20 Natural Health Tips for Cold and Flu Season

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Cold and flu season is here, and once it makes an inroad at your house, it may really make life miserable for all of you. If you want to be better prepared for it, set yourself up right with some preventative measures. You can’t avoid every cold virus that’s going around, but you may be [...]

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Taxing Sodas and Sugary Drinks: Good, Bad, or Meh?

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“A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine examines the health affects of soda and other sugary drinks. The authors of the study propose a tax on these products and contend that it would not only reduce obesity among Americans, but it would raise billions of dollars in revenue that could be [...]

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