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Lettuce And Spinach To Be Secretly Irradiated! Say It Isn’t So!
Written by Wellness Club on September 4, 2008 – 1:55 pm -It Isn’t So! There has been somewhat of a flurry of outrage recently with the FDA announcement that on August 22, 2008, they published a final rule allowing the use of irradiation on fresh iceberg lettuce and fresh spinach. The FDA claims that this will make them "safer and last longer without spoiling." Opponents are […]
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Gardasil, Mandatory Vaccinations, And Health Freedom – What Can History Teach Us?
Written by Wellness Club on August 24, 2008 – 2:04 pm -Do we learn nothing from history? Be it the "Swine Flu" vaccine in the 1970′s that caused more deaths than the swine flu did, or the polio vaccine in 1955 that cause more disease than it prevented (known as "The Cutter Incident"), it looks like we need to be reminded over and over again that […]
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"Double Standards" and Natural, "Non-Conventional" Health Care
Written by Wellness Club on August 22, 2008 – 1:26 pm -I was discussing the subject of drugs and drug testing with a friend online the other day, and thought that the following might be of interest to HealthBeat readers: My friend wrote: The problem: pilots are human, and subject to all the normal problems everyone else goes through. When a pilot gets depressed, they […]
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Health Freedom Restrictions Predicted by Country’s Founding Fathers
Written by Wellness Club on August 19, 2008 – 2:03 pm -Dr. Benjamin Rush and Thomas Jefferson, signers of the Declaration of Independence (in case you forgot), knew 200+ years ago that our health freedoms were in danger of restriction. They said: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom… To restrict the art of healing to […]
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FDA Declares BPA Safe!
Written by Wellness Club on August 18, 2008 – 3:04 pm -It looks like the plastics industry has gotten to the FDA – no surprise really, considering the amounts of money involved – and FDA commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach now assures us that he just can’t find any evidence of danger from bisphenol A — BPA — in plastic products such as baby bottles. It seems […]
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