Schools complicit in crimes against children: junk-food vending… part 1 of 4
In July 20′s Daily Herald (Utah Valley), reporter Ace Stryker gives these infuriating statistics from a 2006 study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where my home state of Utah leads the nation in these categories: 83 percent of Utah schools are selling chocolate in vending/school stores versus 40 percent nationwide 76 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →FDA finally admits fillings containing mercury may be harmful
In my local paper June 11, local dentist Michelle Jorgenson, who quit using amalgam fillings 10 years ago, is “vindicated.” That’s because, due to the settlement of a class action lawsuit, the FDA’s site now says, “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have nerotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Consider vaccines carefully
Recently, the biggest government entity, the Department of Health and Human Services (governing the FDA and CDC) finally settled one of many claims by families whose children have been damaged by vaccines. This came after years of dodging and denying that Thimerosal (containing mercury) may cause autism. This is some of the evidence documenting [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →Community Supported Agriculture selling shares in Draper
Wasatch Front locals only: I think it’s very exciting that http://www.bellorganic.com/csa.php is now offering shares in its Community Supported Agriculture co-op! HURRY, because they’ll be selling only through May 15, and I think they have only about a dozen shares left. What a CSA co-op is: you buy a share and pick up once a [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Healthy New Year’s Resolutions
This arrived in my email inbox today from Brigham Young University where I teach, touting the newly published research of Ray Merrill. This is exciting evidence that we can make long-term, profound changes in our health, if we educate ourselves and have a support system. This is the entire goal of both greensmoothiegirl.com and my [...]
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