Public Health

Toxic Sleep Is An Epidemic (In Time For National Bed Month)

SKIPTON, England, March 1, 2011- Grotty old beds could be behind a growing epidemic of 'toxic sleep'.   A new Sleep Council survey just in time for National Bed Month shows nearly half of us are getting just six hours sleep or less a night. And ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2011 - 9:53pm

Plants are important tablets are not.

As a child I would ask my father if we take all the minerals, vitamins, amino acids, hormones through injections tablets or in syrup what is the need to take food? My father a botanist of 1940s scolded me for such funny ideas. Minerals need to be taken in ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 1 2011 - 10:08am

Kids Need To Eat A Little Dirt To Be Healthy

Try going into a hospital room to see a newborn baby without using that annoying hand sanitizer stuff- the Frankenstein monster had an easier time with angry villagers than you will have with concerned hospital staff and family members.  The hospital staff ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 3 2011 - 11:38am

Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric: When Pro-Safe Is Pro-Misinformation

Recently, another blogger reviewed  Vaccine Epidemic. The blogger's emphasis was on this quote taken from Allen Tate's chapter, "The Greater Good": "It is indisputable that the vaccination schedule has never been tested for safety ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Mar 9 2011 - 10:59pm

Hygiene Hypothesis Versus Playing In The School Band

How did we ever last this long?  As the occurrence of allergies. asthma and immune diseases rises, but just in wealthy countries, the idea that we are trying to keep kids too clean- the hygiene hypothesis- has gotten public attention. Now a study claims if ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2011 - 11:25am

WHITE COTTAGE ROSE or Rosa alba Linn. has medicinal properties also.

Rosa alba Linn. Rosaceae Stem,flowers It is cultivated to some extent in Bulgaria and Turkey for extraction of oil (otto) from the flowers. Common Uses. The flower is bitter, acrid, pungent, with a flavor, cooling, Astringent to the bowels, aphrodisiac, s ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 21 2011 - 3:55am

'Organic' Food Lovers Should Avoid Raw Bean Sprouts

Sprouts are regarded as a healthy food source, rich with vitamins, minerals and non-meat proteins, but they've also been recalled  five times in the last two years for salmonella and hundreds of people have become sick due to them.    Activists can co ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:11am

Atomic Bomb Survivors Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki- How They Fared

While the current radiation concerns in Japan are not on a par with atomic bombs, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can provide some insight into what effects, if any, radiation might have on residents of Japan today. A review article in the latest i ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2011 - 5:21pm

Want To Make Fast Food Worse For You? Drink Coffee

Generally, coffee can be good for you just like in moderation fast food can be less bad for you.   Together, they are worse, according to a new University of Guelph study. Researcher Marie-Soleil Beaudoin says a healthy person's blood sugar levels spi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2011 - 10:57am

Portioning Your Stash Safely Without Chemical Scale

One of my dear readers out there wrote to me “I don't own a scale and I understand I have to measure this s**t out in mg.” Thus we introduce to the world today: Alpha Meme’s Divide and Join Portioning (DJP©). ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 31 2012 - 1:40am