The government has uncovered new plans to ban corporal punishment against children.

"Beating children has to be banned by law. It is unacceptable as a method of bnnging up children," said Labour minister Jolanta Fedak to the TVN24 news channel.

"There is consent for beating children among the general public. This has to stop. We want to change the law on counteracting violence in such a way that corporal punishment will be banned," said Fedak.

Asked whether spanking a child will also be banned, the minister did not answer directly, but said only that the line between scolding and beating is very thin.

A New York organization whose members are raising alarms about the damage from fluoride in America's water supplies says a government study available online suggests the additive can be blamed for a multitude of problems stemming from thyroid imbalances, including cardiac disease, depression, constipation, fuzzy thinking and fluid retention.

Eurobodalla Shire Council has done a backflip on last week's controversial decision over water fluoridation.

Most councillors have now voted to have fluoride added to the shire's public water supply.

(Made by Monsanto, the world's largest manufacturer of poisons and pollutants), Aspartame is not only used in food, per se, but is also used in pharmaceutical products. You might be surprised by the number of products that contain aspartame. A sample research project was initiated in April 1994, with requests to companies that produce pharmaceuticals. A number of companies failed to respond to a request for information. Some companies did respond. Pumping aspartame into children appears to be a priority! Frequently it is not listed on the outside of the package but in the small print on the slip of paper inside the package.

Aspartame is banned in all childrens products in the European Common Market. Why not in the U.S. and Canada?

Because Monsanto pays off the FDA, the American Medical Association, The American Dietetic and Diabetic Associations, Congressmen and Senators and virtually anyone who gets in the way, and in other countries too. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation caught them red handed and aired a program where Monsanto was trying to bribe a couple of Canadian Doctors at Health Canada.

Author Peter Sills writing in the Toronto Globe and Mail said, after a three and a half year court case against Monsanto, brought by railroad workers exposed to dioxin following a train derailment had ended and in which the jury awarded a $16 million in punitive damages against Monsanto, "The evidence of Monsanto executives at the trial portrayed a corporate culture where sales and profits were given a higher priority than the safety of products and it's workers. They (Monsanto) just didn't care about the health and safety of their workers. Instead of trying to make things safer, they relied on intimidation and threatened layoffs to keep their employees working.

If you find a product you bought contains this poison return it to the store and insist on getting your money back or a substitute that does not contain aspartame.

The following is a brief list of the use of Aspartame By Pharmaceutical Companies.

Disordered eating among women in the U.S. may be more widespread than we thought. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of young American women report experiencing disordered eating behaviors, and ten percent report symptoms of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, or binge eating disorder, according to new study findings published in HealthDay News.

These findings resulted from information provided by more than 4,000 women in an online poll conducted by SELF Magazine in conjunction with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The women ranged in ages from 25 to 45.

Health insurance company Health Net Inc. rewarded employees for finding ways to drop customer policies and not pay for their medical expenses, according to an investigation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC).

Since 2005, the DMHC has been investigating five of the seven insurance companies that provide health care plans to individuals in California. The department is attempting to crack down on the practice among insurers of dropping people's coverage based on often accidental errors in their enrollment applications. In many cases, people's policies have been dropped after they submitted medical claims.

High vitamin D concentration in the blood is not associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer, researchers report in an article published online May 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Laboratory studies suggested that high doses of vitamin D may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, but epidemiological studies that have examined the relationship have reported inconsistent results.

WASHINGTON - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with video games might be put to good use. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced Thursday it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each for studies lasting one to two years.

A total of 341 Russian servicemen committed suicide in 2007, Russia's chief military prosecutor said on Thursday.

Suicides remain the leading cause of non-combat deaths in Russia's Armed Forces, ahead of crimes, accidents and hazing.

Mania is a medical condition often associated with some types of depression, particularly manic depression. Manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) is characterised by alternating cycles of euphoria and despair, often accompanied by unusual thought patterns, strange ideas and a high degree of creativity.

The term mania when used as a suffix in a word denotes an irrational, intense and abnormal preoccupation, fascination or obsession with something. For example, we may have heard of pyromania; which is a compulsion to set things on fire, or kleptomania; a pathological compulsion to steal, or even nymphomania; which describes an abnormally intense desire to have sexual relations. No one really understands what causes mania but one or more of genetic, environmental, psychological, social and biological factors are believed to play a contributory role.