Health & Wellness
Recent studies have shown that chemicals associated with the breakdown of prescription drugs have been found in surface water and groundwater. According to this article published on the PBS website, scientists currently believe that this contamination does not pose a threat to people, but that it does have detrimental effects on wildlife.
Even though all releases of pharmaceuticals cannot be controlled, individuals can take precautions to dispose of unused or outdated prescription drugs properly in order to reduce their overall impact on the environment.

Studies have shown that humans have a preference for foods that contain fat, such as this slab of steak.
Indeed, some nutrition experts now believe that certain types of dietary fat may even reduce cardiovascular risk. Some dietary fats may lower fats in the blood called triglycerides. They may also increase levels of HDL, or what is known as the "good" cholesterol, and reduce LDL-cholesterol, or the less healthy type of cholesterol, thus improving the HDL to total cholesterol ratio.
Also, many diet plans that do not strictly limit the total amount of dietary fat a person consumes have been associated with better diet satisfaction, weight loss, and preservation of muscle mass.
One of the few researchers who did write a study on the link between vaccinations and mental illness was Leonie J.T. Balter. However, although Balter and her team of researchers from the Birmingham University did find a significant link between the typhoid vaccination and mental illness, on closer examination, many professionals found her study to be extremely limited.
Not only did her study research a vaccine that was not included in the majority of vaccination schedules, but the only participants allowed to take part in her study were healthy males.
One study, however, did appear to confirm that a wide range of vaccinations were indeed linked to mental illness.
This emerging system places scientists at the forefront of food production, not farmers.
In many cases, lab-made food companies start with admirable goals of ending or minimizing animal suffering, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and other similar missions.
But critics wonder why these novel foods are being rushed to market without long term safety testing at a time when increasing amounts of synthetic foods are being allowed into the U.S. supply.
Comment: Want some plant-based bacon and steak with that Perfect Day milk like substance? The future of food looks bleak indeed:
- Inside the meat lab: The future of food
- Can you really call lab-grown meat 'clean'?
- Cultured meat: Lab grown chicken nuggets are here
- Bacon envy: Israeli Rabbi proclaims that lab-grown pork meat is Kosher
- Mad Science: Move over test-tube burger, there's a lab-grown chicken breast in the works
- Frankenfoods: Food produced in the laboratory might sound appealing but researchers are finding slim pickings
- The Health & Wellness Show: Meet the Meat You'd Never Eat!
The American Heart Association said Thursday that more than 121 million adults had cardiovascular disease in 2016. Taking out those with only high blood pressure leaves 24 million, or 9 percent of adults, who have other forms of disease such as heart failure or clogged arteries.
Measuring the burden of diseases shows areas that need to improve, the heart association's chief science and medical officer, Dr. Mariell Jessup, said in a statement.
Instead of requiring that all children should be mandated to receive vaccines even over the objections of their parents, this lawmaker wants to instead mandate that parents are fully informed as to the ingredients in vaccines injected into their children, as well as the known side effects, so that they can make an informed choice.
Comment: It's amazing that a move to give people more information about vaccines is being met with so much resistance. If vaccines were legit and carried no risk of complications, as the pro-vaxxers claim, there would be no harm in giving people all the information available so they could make an informed choice. The fact that there's push-back against the mere informing of parents just goes to show they've got something to hide.
See also:
- WHO says vaccine hesitancy ranks with Ebola and HIV as global threats
- Vaccine skepticism in Australia now punishable by 10 years in jail
- Vaccine shot killed famed cancer doctor in minutes from "total organ failure", state-run media desperately tries to cover it up
- Attkisson Report reveals threats against congressmen investigating autism-vaccine link
- James Corbett: Vaccination propaganda in overdrive as vaccine/autism link is further confirmed
- Are doctors actually giving patients any up-to-date vaccine safety information?
Based on Fundamentally Weak Science
This report is disturbing on a number of fronts. Most importantly, its diet lacks the backing of any rigorous science. Indeed, it does not cite a single clinical trial to support the idea that a vegan/vegetarian diet promotes good health or fights disease. Instead EAT-Lancet relies entirely on a type of science that is weak and demonstrably unreliable, called epidemiology. This kind of science has been shown to be accurate, when tested in rigorous clinical trials, only 0-20% of the time.[1][2] One wouldn't bet on a football team with such poor odds, so why bet on the public health this way?
Comment: See also:
- EAT-Lancet propaganda gets push-back from Institute of Economic Affairs
- EAT-Lancet's tentacles stretch to New Zealand as health officials ponder a red meat tax
- Agenda pushing: Majority of EAT-Lancet authors (over 80%) favored vegan/vegetarian diets
- EAT-Lancet's plant-based planet: 10 things you need to know
- The twisted web of the EAT-Lancet Commission's controversial campaign to eradicate meat consumption
The Lancet Com-mission on Obesity says taxing joints and burgers will help people choose healthier options and raise billions for healthcare.
But critics claimed the team of doctors and other experts behind the report want a nanny state.
Comment: Much like the warnings on cigarettes, the idea of putting warnings on meat have no scientific basis and simply fall back on political correctness. Meat is essential to health, making the idea of warning against it a propaganda tool, nothing more.
See also:
- EAT-Lancet's tentacles stretch to New Zealand as health officials ponder a red meat tax
- Agenda pushing: Majority of EAT-Lancet authors (over 80%) favored vegan/vegetarian diets
- EAT-Lancet's plant-based planet: 10 things you need to know
- The twisted web of the EAT-Lancet Commission's controversial campaign to eradicate meat consumption
About one in 20 US adults use e-cigarettes and many of them claim to do so because they are 'healthier' than combustible cigarettes.
But the devices are still relatively new and poorly understood.
As more and more research on them comes out, it becomes increasingly clear that 'safer' doesn't mean safe.
Comment: Vaping is new and only now are we beginning to see its harmful effects. Time for people to make the switch back to tobacco:
- A comprehensive review of the many health benefits of smoking
- Health Benefits of Smoking Tobacco
- Can Smoking be GOOD for SOME People?
- Let's all light up! What you don't know about tobacco
We often think of doctors as immune to these human imperfections. But research demonstrates that physicians are also creatures of habit when it comes to prescribing medical tests and treatments even when new research has demonstrated that these treatments are not effective.
Each year, medical journals published by the American Medical Association document medical overuse-i.e., when doctors recommend medical interventions that are not helpful. Within the last year, researchers published systematic reviews detailing medical overuse in the JAMA Pediatrics and JAMA Internal Medicine.
Comment: Pharmaceutical dumping poses risks to wildlife