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CHLORPYRIFOS – A PESTICIDE IN OUR FOOD
This pesticide – chlorpyrifos – was banned by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) about 20 years ago for indoor use and was in the process of banning it for outdoor use when Dow Chemical made a million-dollar donation to President ...
Personalized Diets
For years the Federal Dietary Guidelines have handed out a blueprint to Americans for good nutrition. As it turns out this may not be a good outline for all Americans. People are different in all respects; even identical twins have ...
Killed by overtime
The eight-hour work day is becoming obsolete, as companies pressure employees for “productivity”—that is, long work days. But employees 'may pay the ultimate price for overworking, a new British study finds. Researchers followed more than 7,000 healthy, middle-aged U.K. government ...
Political Donation Limits For 2016 Federal Elections
Washington, D.C. Under current FEC political donation limits, which are adjusted for inflation in odd-numbered years, individuals can give up to $5,400 to candidates—$2,700 for their primary campaigns, and another $2,700 for the general election—and up to $33,400 per year ...
Troubling news for young stoners
The "stoner" stereotype isn't just a myth. Heavy use of marijuana in the teenage years dulls intelligence—and the loss of IQ points may last for life, according to a new study. Researchers tested the IQs of more than 1,000 New ...
Should We Push for Personalized Medicine?
The federal government is trying to get 1 million Americans to sign up to help in developing a personalized medicine program – AKA Precision Medicine. By going with this program, it may help with the health and life expectancy of ...
Man charged with throwing alligator into fast food restaurant
"Man charged with throwing alligator into fast food restaurant", read the headlines when this Florida fast food restaurant got a customer it wasn't expecting who tossed a live alligator through a drive-thru window. Joshua James, 23, of Jupiter, Florida, had ...
Breakfast: Is It the Most Important Meal?
Breakfast starts your day off by helping you start your metabolism and help burn the calories that you have digested all during the day. It gives you energy to get the things done that you have planned for the day ...
Assault on a toddler
Atlanta Assault on a toddler: An Idaho man was charged this week with federal assault for allegedly slapping a crying 2-year-old and calling him a racial slur on a flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta. Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, an executive ...
Kim Jong Un Creates Pleasure Squad
Pyongyang, North Korea Pleasure squad: Now that the mourning period for his father Kim Jong II is over, dictator Kim Jong Un is creating a “pleasure squad” of pretty women. South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reported that Kim has ordered that ...