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Is ‘electrosmog’ harming our health?

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By Michael Segell

updated 12:35 p.m. ET, Mon., Jan. 18, 2010

In 1990, the city of La Quinta, CA, proudly opened the doors of its sparkling new middle school. Gayle Cohen, then a sixth-grade teacher, recalls the sense of excitement everyone felt: “We had been in temporary facilities for 2 years, and the change was [...]

Swine Flu Home Remedy

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Swine Flu, it origins and precautions by Dr. Goyal.
Author Tom Johnson
9-11-09

Dr. Goyal reported that virus H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tract and proliferates only there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible not [...]

Smokers need not apply

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As reported in the Post On Politics blog , if you want to work for the Palm Beach County Tax Collector in Florida then you have to be a non-smoker.

Beginning tomorrow Anne Gannon will no longer hire applicants who admit to the use of tobacco products. If you want to be considered for [...]

Chikungunya Virus Invading the West from Africa

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Author Tom Johnson 9-25-09

Invading virus from Africa spread by mosquito’s

We had the west nile virus and now we have the swine flu and now reported in Reuters we have the Chikungunya virus coming to the west. This mosquito-borne disease is reported to be far more unpleasant than the West Nile virus that swept [...]

Foods Surprisingly High in Added Sugar

New American Heart Association guidelines warn against Americans’ sugar bingeing
By Sarah Baldauf
Posted August 24, 2009
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Added sugars, which are sprinkled on and processed into packaged foods and beverages, have become all too common in the American diet, says the American Heart Association. The group argues that sugar bingeing is helping drive the uptick in metabolic [...]