We’re not really fond of articles like this: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating.
Why?
Because they always somehow manage to leave you with the impression that if you just eat these “superfoods,” you can directly cause a desired health outcome. Just as our parents and guardians tried to persuade us to eat our veggies when [...]
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Percent of GDP spent on health care in the United Kingdom: 8.7
In the US: more than 16
Life expectancy at birth in the UK: 78.7 years
In the US: 78
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Percent of income a four-member American family making $50,000 a year will pay into the US health care system via taxes: 26.4
Percent of annual [...]
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Posted in Environmental Health, Informed Consent, Recommended Sites, dental health, fluoride, tagged fluoride, Informed Consent, dental health, pesticides, Environmental Health, Recommended Sites on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The Fluoride Action Network “is an international coalition seeking to broaden public awareness about the toxicity of fluoride compounds and the health impacts of current fluoride exposures.”
And indeed, their site is packed with valuable, timely scientific information on all sources of fluoride and the damage it can do. They also provide news on fluoride policy, [...]
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Driving through California’s Central Valley, despite all the commercial development that’s paved over land once given to agriculture, you can’t help but be at least a little awed by the amount of food grown here. And yet our local counties - San Joaquin and Stanislaus - are junk food paradises.
The Modesto Bee recently reported on [...]
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