NEWSWORTHY

 

Newsworthy

 


  Newsworthy provides links to items of interest that have appeared in the news during the last month or so....


 

Five Major Poisons Inherently Found in Animal Foods

Asparagus and Cancer...

Got Milk? A Disturbing Look at the Dairy Industry

Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why It's a Health and Environmental Nightmare

Honeybees Will Die in Greater Numbers This Year

What Goes Into Chicken

Downer Pigs in the Food Supply

Exercise Makes Your Brain Brighter at Any Age

Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated as 'Non-human Persons'

 

Simple Care for Diabetes

How a Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription

Drug Resistant Germs Lurk in Meat

Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight

Dietary Estrogens Have Little Effect on Cancer Risks

Monsanto GM Corn Dangerous to Liver, Kidneys, Other Organs

CT Scans Will Lead to New Cancer Deaths

 

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Scientist Confirms GM Maize Unsafe

Non-GMO Shopping Guide

Monsanto Seed Biz Role Revealed

The Six Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

What's in the Water? (300+ pollutants)

New Chemo Drug Gives You a Few Extra Months - and Costs $30,000 a Month...

Mist of Pig Brain Tissue Sickened Slaughterhouse Workers...

ACS Chief Sends Mixed Messages on Mammography

Drop That Burger

 

Too Fat to Graduate?

Vegetarian Options for Thanksgiving

Biofuels Push Leads to World Hunger

Pigs Prove to Be Smart, If Not Vain

Chemicals in Our Food, And Bodies

Low Fat Diets Improve Mood

 

Overweight Kids Are Coronary Time Bombs

Does the Vaccine Matter?

Go Vegetarian, Save the Planet (CNN video)

American Cancer Society Reverses Its Position on Mammography and PSA Testing

Heart Disease: A Toothless Paper Tiger That Need Never Exist

To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates

The Benefits of Flaxseed

 

New Study: Livestock Causes Half of All Human-Caused Greenhouse Gases

The Anti-Cancer Power of Supermarket Mushrooms

Report: School Lunches Fall Short on Veggies

Monsanto Found Guilty in French Court

Courts Force U.S. Reckoning with Dominance of GM Crops

Teenage Girl Left Brain-Damaged After Receiving Cervical Cancer Vaccine

California Leaves Agriculture Out of Climate Change Policy

 

New GMO Swine Flu Vaccine in Your Cornflakes...

Overweight and Young Equals Ill Health in Old Age

Moderate Exercise May Lower Prostate Cancer Risk

Social Isolation 'Worsens Cancer'

Obese Middle-Aged Women Face Unhealthy Future

Stress Disease Killing Australia's Koalas

Blacklisted by Monsanto

Seasonal Flu Shot May Increase H1N1 Risk

 

Obesity On Verge of Becoming Top Cancer Cause

Runaway Melt on Antarctica, Greenland

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

Judge Rejects Approval of Biotech Sugar Beets

Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells

Do Fish Feel Pain? (answer: yes)

 

Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products (database)

For Your Health, Froot Loops (an industry-backed labeling scam called 'Smart Choices')

Flu Factories (online DVD by Michael Greger, M.D.)

Pesticides Blamed for Killing Bees

Chicks Ground Up Alive to Bring You Cheap Eggs

More School Lunches Going Vegetarian

 

'Smoke and Mirrors' Used in Organic Food Marketing

GM Crops: Battlefield

Go Meatless One Day a Week

Healthy Lifestyle Beats Cancer

On Prostate Cancer Screening - John McDougall

Whole Tomatoes More Nutritious Than Individual 'Super' Ingredients

New Non-GMO Verification Seal for Foods

Can Plant Foods Provide Enough Iron?

 

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

Simoncini's Bicarbonate Treatment for Cancer

Attend an Eat-In on Labor Day to Get Real Food in Schools

Solar Thermal Heating Up Sharply

Scientists Spot How Sugar Feeds Tumors

Primary Liver Cancers Soaring

Health Care Costs for Obese Getting Heavier

Mercury in Fish Everywhere

Playing Chicken with Antibiotic Resistance

Is Exercise a Waste of Time?

It's Time For More Moms to Breastfeed

 

Andrew Weil, M.D. On Health Care Reform

A Good Diet Can Stave Off Kidney Stones (a better diet will prevent them altogether)

Doctor Loses Job After Denouncing Donuts (!)

Farmacology: The Problem with Antibiotics on Factory Farms

Resuscitating Health Care Reform - Dean Ornish, M.D.

Vitamin Water's Empty Calories...

Antitrust Enforcers Begin Visiting Farm Belt

Living in U.S. Raises Hispanics' Cancer Risk

Woman Sentenced For Drunken Breast-Feeding

 

Organic Consumer Assn Responds to Faulty and Misleading FSA Study

U.S. Climate Bill Costs Low for Households

Deet Bug Repellant 'Toxic Worry'

Study Finds Pesticide Link to Childhood Leukemia

Midlife Cholesterol Levels Strongly Linked to Later Dementia

Organic Food Is All That and More. Just Eat It.

Miami Girl Poster Child for Healthier School Lunches

 

Antidepressant Use Doubles in U.S.

The Alcohol - Cancer Link

Chicken Won't Eat GM Corn

A Conversation With Patricia Bragg

Organics Industry Hits Back at Dietary Findings

Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?

 

The Meat of the Problem

Denny's Sued For Salty Food

Tough Love for Fat People: Tax Their Food to Pay For Healthcare

Animals Getting Cancers From Human Pollution

In Search of a Nontoxic Home

Organic Agriculture More Than Doubled Since 2000

 

Some Claim Secret to Good Health Is a Diet Rich in Raw Foods

Another Reason to Avoid Refined Soy Products: Gasoline...

GM Soy a Health Risk

A Guide to Grilling Vegetables

Nanoparticles: Tiny Troubles

Consumers Think Natural Is Better Than Organic...

The More Hybrid Cars the Better?

 

Modern Agriculture: The Bypass of the 20th Century

Obama Admin. Seeks to Ban Routine Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals

China Study Proves the Link Between Cancer and Nutrition

Beans and Grains: A Fresh Look at Saving Money

Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds...

Australian Town Bans Bottled Water

 

Celiac Disease Cases Quadruple in U.S.

As 23 States Get Even Fatter, Heavy Costs Loom

Americans Consider Pets Part of the Family

Obesity Worries Lift Health Food Prospects in Asia

Why Foie Gras is Foul

How Your Workout Makes You Smarter

Obese and Malnourished

 

Vegetarian Diets Weaken Bones...?

ADA - Vegetarian Diets Can Help Prevent and Treat Chronic Diseases

Vegetarians Less Likely to Get Cancer

Animal Fat Increases Risk for Pancreatic Cancer

Belching Cows Hot Topic in Climate Debate

Parkinson's: The Pesticide Link

 

Group Takes Aim at Prostate Cancer Claims

Widespread Use of Drugs in Livestock on Factory Farms

Cancer Fighting Boost From Whole Carrots

New Studies Link BPA with Heartbeat and Fertility Problems

Demand for Vegetable Seed on the Rise

HRT Does More Harm Than Good

The Benefits of Green Tea

Honeybee Population Plunges in Six Months

 

The Dirt on Dairy

Poisoning the Planet (with GM crops)

New Book Debunks Calcium as Means to Prevent Osteoporosis

Exercise, Education Keep You Sharp in Old Age

Exercise Cuts Breast Cancer Risk

Big Food Under Fire

 

Organics Superior, Studies Confirm

Physician Writes on Why He Stopped Eating Meat

Healthy Lifestyles on Decline in U.S.

Why Breastfeeding Needs to Be Part of Health Care Reform

Meditation on Demand

Hardened Arteries Threaten Obese, Diabetic Youth

Carbon Pollution to Grow by 40% by 2030

 

Teen Refused Chemo, Beat Cancer With Alternative Therapies

Industrial Farming Is Giving Us Less Nutritious Food (stick with organic)

Vitamin D Key to Healthy Brain

Owls Replace Pesticides in Israel

10 Year Old Girl Has Mastectomy...

Healing Horses Turn Tragedy to Triumph

 

Federal Circuit Court Limits Patentability of Genetic Sequences

Climate Change Biggest Health Threat

Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene

Cheerios Are a Drug? FDA's Surprising Letter to General Mills

Eating Plastic Will Make You Sick...

 

T. Colin Campbell Rebuts Dr. Mercola's Criticism

We Need Food and Farming Regulations Now

How to Squeeze In a Quick Trip to the Gym

Researchers Urge Crackdown on Junk Food TV Ads

Flu? Don't Blame the Pig

 

Cow Bolts Slaughterhouse, Milks Freedom

Brain Trainers: A Workout For the Mind

German Court Rejects Monsanto Plea to End GMO Ban

Europe Passes Ban on Seal Products

Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat

Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms

Swine Flu May Have Evolved at U.S. Hog Farms

 

African Americans Need More Sun

Vegetarian Champ at West Point

Swine Flu and Factory Farms: Fast Track to Disaster

The Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power

Avastin Drug Fails to Prevent Colon Cancer

How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood...

A Guide to Swine Flu

 

Going Cold Turkey From Meat

Eating for the Earth

Doughnuts Could Soon Be Advertised as Low Fat in Europe...

Rush Limbaugh On Animals and Religion (this may surprise you)

Vilsack Pledges 'Better Push' on Biotech Crops...

Lose the Lawn: Plant an Edible Garden Today

Asparagus 'Tips'

 

Folic Acid Supplementation May Raise Cancer Risk in Offspring

Superweed Explosion Threatens Monsanto Heartlands

Breast Cancer On the Rise in Developing Countries

E.P.A. Declares Greenhouse Gases to be Pollutants and Subject to Regulation

Farmer Suicides in India and GM Crops

 

Find Out Who the Polluters Are in Your Area (just enter your zip code)

Is Local Food Better?

Dairy Industry Puts Pressure on Cornell to Cancel Course Taught by T. Colin Campbell

Humanity Even For Nonhumans

Pesticides Cause Brain Damage to Honey Bees (and humans)

Genetic Engineering Has Failed to Increase Crop Yields

Big Food Is Copying Big Tobacco's Disinformation Tactics

 

Diabetes Impact on Brain Power

How Childhood Food Memories Shape Our Taste Buds

More Bad News About Plastic Containers?

Food Fortified with Folic Acid Linked to Rise in Colon Cancer - Again

DMV Denies Tofu License Plate Request...

Tax Sugary Sodas

 

Reversing Breast Cancer With a Plant-Based Diet

Weeds Becoming Resistant to Roundup-Ready Seed

Ancient Corn Offers Solution to Modern Climate Challenges

Food to Die For - Flat-liner Fries and Lipitor on the Side: The Heart Attack Grill...

Obama's Farm Subsidy Cuts Meet Stiff Resistance

Broccoli Good for the Gut

The Dangerous Cost of High Blood Sugar