You’ve heard it said before that pets resemble their owners. That’s true in more ways than one. The diseases they get are all too familiar, too: heart disease, cancer, arthritis. The rise in human diseases among pets is no great mystery. They’re getting sick for the same reasons humans are: too much cooked, processed food. The difference is that you have a choice; they don’t.
Archive for December, 2007
Sleep And Obesity
It’s a sad and undeniable fact: we are a nation of fat people. And the most disturbing trend in our rapidly waist-expanding nation is the growing problem of childhood obesity. But are today’s kids fat because they’re lazy, or because they’re exhausted?
Stop Poisoning Yourself with this “Healthy” Sweetener…
The shocking truth of how a political “favor” got the government to approve this poison –
and why aspartame is making us sicker and fatter than good old sugar ever could!
Daily Dose – Fenced in
GOP candidate pledges to build border fence. Common sense from a member of the United States Congress? I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s true! Read on!
Home Invasion
There’s a growing movement by the anti-smoking fascists throughout the country to create a smoke-free housing law. This law would ban smoking in multi-unit residences like apartment buildings and condominiums. That tug you feel is the anti-smoking lobby trying to pull away another of your personal freedoms.
Affection Beats Infection
The healing power of love and close relationships . . . new studies point to an even more dramatic effect these kinds of intimacies can have on your health.
Who Giveth And Who Taketh?
“Fortified” refers to the lame attempt to put back into foods what the refining and preservation processes take out -which is typically anything about it that may have actually been GOOD for you.
Fingerprinted at Shell Gas Stations ?
Would you give up your fingerprints so you could get in and out of a gas station more quickly? Shell Oil thinks that you will. And so once again, it seems that Americans are ready to cash in their privacy for a little convenience. And once again, our society inches just a little closer to the world that George Orwell imagined in his novel 1984 – a world utterly without any privacy.
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