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The Day After Tomorrow is Today

You may all remember that 2004 science fiction film, where a climatologist is ignored by world government officials when warning them that a gigantic superstorm was about to freeze up the northern hemisphere, which meant a catastrophic natural disaster. According to the film, the superstorm would come about due to the interruption in the normal circulation of ocean currents. Warm and cold water masses that moved north and south ...Read full article...

Many Food Products contaminated with Acrylamide

A few days ago a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, Elihu Berle, put acrylamide on the mainstream map by forcing California coffee shops – including Starbucks – to add a health warning about the carcinogenic risks of this chemical present in the coffee. Next Wednesday, April 11, comes into force a regulation of the European Commission that requires implementing a series of measures to limit as much as possible ...Read full article...

This is why Children need Playing and Fresh Air

Children who play outdoors, instead of being in “cages” avoid stress and anxiety. I bet as an adult you would like to go back in time to feel like a child again. Ask yourself this question, why do people share photos from their childhood on social media all the time? I see it everyday in my classroom. Children are naturally more uncomfortable when limited by four walls than when ...Read full article...

Mass Sterilization of Millions of African Girls through Tetanus Vaccine

Scandal Broadens as Kenyan Laboratory Attacked According to a growing number of reports, Agriq-Quest Ltd, the Nairobi based testing laboratory appointed by the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the Catholic Health Commission to carry out analysis on selected vials of the tetanus toxoid vaccines to determine whether or not they contained the anti-fertility hormone hCG, have had their license suspended. Interestingly, the allegation that their license was suspended came ...Read full article...

Capturing CO2 useless in solving “climate change”

The capture of CO2 has very limited utility, say European experts who warn against the temptation of depending on carbon capture as the main measure to affect climate change. Falling into this climate temptation is quite easy. “Thinking that the technology will come to the rescue if we can not reduce greenhouse gases enough can be an attractive vision,” admits Thierry Courvoisier, president of the Scientific Academic Advisory Committee of the ...Read full article...

Dreaming of sleeping better: Your life depends on it

Sleeping quality is monumental to prevent disease and avoid addictions. Why do we need to sleep? Humans spend a third of our lives sleeping, but we really do not know why we have to lose consciousness to get all the biological benefits of rest. The dream of sleeping better may be a complex neurological mechanism designed to prevent many diseases. The lack of sleep is associated with an increased ...Read full article...

Broken Brain Epidemic and how to Fix it

An unbalanced broken brain is responsible for many mental diseases. The result of those diseases in children, teenagers, adults and the elderly are usually untreated or not even discovered by mainstream medicine. Most doctors aren’t capable of diagnosing most brain-related diseases, much less treat them or cure them. Perhaps the main reason why mental disease is wrongfully treated or not treated at all is that brain health does not ...Read full article...

What We Can Learn 100 Years After the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918

It has been 100 years since Spanish influenza infected 500 million people around the globe and wiped out an estimated 20 million to 50 million of them. (source) And here we are, potentially on the cusp of another influenza pandemic. H3N2, or the “Australian flu” is making the rounds this year spreading to the UK, among other countries. This map from the UK Sun shows the spread – and the ...Read full article...

Intermittent Fasting: A Good Strategy or a Crock?

A new dietary trend has been hovering over the heads of consumers for a few years, both to lose weight and to improve health prognosis through various metabolic markers. That trend is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting seems simple in the initial approach but offers an endless number of versions or modalities. Intermittent fasting may sound like keeping your mouth closed, or at least not opening it as many times ...Read full article...

The Flu Survival Guide: Kitchen Remedies and Natural Strategies

If you are a flu shot avoider, like I am, you probably aren’t crazy about the drug store flu remedies. Here’s a flu survival guide loaded with natural strategies and kitchen remedies in case one or more of your family members gets sick. Despite your best efforts at prevention, sometimes the flu just happens. If you work with the public or have children in school – or heck, even ...Read full article...

The United States will officially allow experiments with Lethal Viruses

Have they ever stop? The answer is yes; officially, at least. But unofficially, experimenting with lethal viruses did not stop. Under Trump, the US government lifted a moratorium imposed by the Obama administration on financing directed to experiments with lethal viruses. In other words, it opens the door to a series of controversial trials that can turn viruses into a deadly weapon, something that was banned since 2014 by Barack ...Read full article...

Drop your Prescription Drugs: Here is how to Prevent and Heal Disease

In spite of what many people believe, pharmaceutical drugs are not useful to achieve or maintain a healthy state, neither physical nor mental. Both physical and mental health are closer to everyone than people imagine. Yet, so many people continue to believe that synthetic drugs are the solution to their problems. Meds provided to the sick by a physician only perpetuate their unhealthy physical state, and those recommended by ...Read full article...

Poor, Obese and unhealthy into the 21st Century

Over 40 million Children are obese according to the latest numbers. Childhood obesity is not just a problem of rich countries. In fact, it is much less so in wealthy nations. According to the World Health Organization, of the 42 million children under five who are overweight in the world, 35 million, or 83%, are part of middle and low-income families. “It’s an explosive nightmare,” says the World Health ...Read full article...

Soda pops contain Cancer-causing chemicals

The caramel coloring in sodas such as Coke and Pepsi, among other includes a cancer causing chemical known as 4-MEI. The chemical 4-MEI caused cancer in laboratory studies and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified 4-MEI as a human carcinogenic. This chemical is a by-product of the caramel color manufacturing, which is later put into soft drinks. A less known soft drink brand, Malta Goya, which ...Read full article...

Plastic particles found in drinking Water

Dying due to plastic consumption seems an outrageous thought. But so was the idea that chemicals in plastic could change someone’s sexual orientation; until scientists proved it. As explained in the link above, chemicals in plastic are responsible for countless diseases and, believe it or not, for the change in sexual orientation. The effects that chemicals used in plastic have on animals have been proven without a doubt, and those same ...Read full article...