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Maria Rodale: Urban Air Pollutant Linked to Obesity
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon, pioneer in the green consumer movement It's well known that a poor diet and physical inactivity are the main contributors...
Mark Hyman, MD: Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I
After Haiti I realized that the answer had to be somewhere else. If social networks can promote unhealthy lifestyles, maybe we can use social networks to create health.
New figures show Wales as a nation of binge drinking and couch potato teenagers
Study confirms that Wales continues to have some of the worst rates of childhood obesity in the world – fourth after the US, Canada and Greece.
Philip Morris International, Inc. - Shareholder/Analyst Call
Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)May 09, 2012 9:00 am ET Executives Louis C. Camilleri - Executive Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerJerry E. Whitson - Corporate Secretary and Deputy General CounselJacek ...
Beyond Obamacare: How to Fix Our Enormous, Inefficient Health-Care System
Whatever the Supreme Court decides about the individual mandate, the main battle remains to be fought: how to rein in the grotesque costs of the current system.
JOE AMARANTE: We're so fat that TV has taken up the cause (video)
“He’s so fat he had his own zip code.” “When she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house!”
JOE AMARANTE: We're so fat that TV has taken up the cause
“He’s so fat he had his own zip code.” “When she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house!”
15 Million Babies Born Too Soon
Each year, some 15 million babies in the world, more than one in 10 births, are born too early, according to Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, released today by Save the Children, The March of Dimes Foundation, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and The World Health Organization.
Right-wing sexual pathos
Imagine a high school teacher having to separate a smooching pair outside the classroom door to protect herself from being sued for condoning "gateway sexual activity." Envision a sex education class where the mention of homosexuality is forbidden by law and discussion of contraception, or even puberty, is deemed unnecessary. That's the world that would be created by a recent raft of abstinence ...
John Robbins: Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease: Coming to a Burger Near You
This recent case of mad cow disease could be an isolated case. It could amount to nothing more than a fleeting news item. That, certainly, is what the U.S. meat industry would like officials to think, and what it would like consumers to believe.
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