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Pesticide Exposure Boosts Parkinson's Risk by 60 Percent

11/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new study has provided one of the strongest links yet between pesticide use and Parkinson's disease. A team of researchers from Duke University, Miami University and the Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence has found...

There Is No Such Thing as the West Nile Virus

11/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause? Are they real people flying around performing magical deeds? Hopefully you don't believe this. Yes, they are fun stories, "something to believe in," when you are a child; or possibly they...

Pesticides Make Farmers Literally Depressed

10/26/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pesticides are poison. They are used to kill living creatures. In order to kill those living creatures, humans apply the pesticides. We also eat what`s left of them. We`ve seen handlers of banana pesticide sterilized, a young couple who...

Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations

9/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family...

Ecologist Jim McMahon Talks About Water Reports and Filters

9/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Renegade Water Secrets, which can be found at (http:// www.renegadewatersecrets.com) . In this excerpt, Jim McMahon shares on water reports and water filters. Renegade Water Secrets with...

Germany Bans Eight Pesticides Linked to Honeybee Population Collapse; Clothianidin Chemical Found Contaminating Dead Bees

8/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) The German government has provisionally banned a family of pesticides conclusively linked to the massive dieoff of honeybees in a southern state. "It's a real bee emergency," said Manfred Hederer, president of the German Professional...

Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths

7/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France. Although...

The Poisoning of America's Water Supplies

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) Every day in the United States more than 240 million people turn on their faucets in order to drink, bathe, and cook, using water from public water systems. But more people are arriving to the point where they will not let a drop of water...

Organic Produce vs. Conventional Produce: Which Is Best to Buy?

6/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Because we advocate so highly that at least 70% of your diet by volume should be fresh, live produce --high water content vegetables and fruit -- this is a question we get asked a lot. We’d like to go over the pros and cons of both, so that...

Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Continued Use of Four Pesticides

5/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children,...

Think That Your Gift Is Pesticide-Free? Give Organic Flowers and It Will Be

5/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Did you know that in a 1997 study, the Environmental Working Group found that conventionally-grown flowers may be laden with up to 50 times the amount of pesticides allowed for food? And that these pesticides can easily enter your body through...

Study Links Parkinson's Disease With Chemical Exposure

5/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Scientists have now discovered additional evidence of a connection between Parkinson's disease and long-term exposure to pesticides. Parkinson’s disease strikes movements like walking, talking and writing. Symptoms of the disease first tend...

Lawsuit Filed to Halt Use of Dangerous Pesticides

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) A 1996 federal law required the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the safety of all pesticides and to rule by 2006 whether they could be used on foods safely. The EPA found four pesticides posed risks to human health but decided...

Dr. Gabriel Cousens on Diabetes, Cell Memory and Reducing Blood Sugar

4/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Summit Teleseminar program which can be found at (http://www.rawsummitarchives.com) . In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens shares important information regarding diabetes and how we can...

First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

4/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Though bats are a bit spooky looking, inviting thoughts of Dracula, the real horror story is that bats are becoming sick and perishing. A massive bat die-off is happening. Their extinction in the United States is threatening -- and no one...

The Organic Advantage: A Nutritional Edge

4/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) A recent UK government report found that chickens raised in the widespread, non-organic fashion, have a 23.4% chance of being contaminated with salmonella, a bacteria responsible for food poisoning. The chance of an organic flock having...

Tracing Pesticides in Children From Ingestion to Elimination

3/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) If a child eats conventionally grown produce, will it affect his or her health? Recent research revealed that pesticides do show up in the urine of children after consuming non-organic foods. Though the study did not look at whether or not...

Want a Nutritional Edge? Buy Organic

3/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) A recent UK government report found that chickens raised in the widespread, non-organic fashion, have a 23.4% chance of being contaminated with salmonella, a bacteria responsible for food poisoning. The chance of an organic flock having...

Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced

3/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the...

$74.5 Million Set for the Spraying of Toxic Chemicals Over San Francisco

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) I am angry! On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of (USDA) Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California...

If You Are a Wine Drinker, Here Are Facts You Should Know

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Many health-conscious people wonder whether wine is a medicinal tonic that benefits their health, or something that should be avoided at all costs. Nutritionist Frank Cooper spent two years researching the subject of wine and health, and...

More for Your Money When You Choose Organic

2/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) If you look at your food as sustaining your health as well as the environment, the price of organically grown food seems well worth it. Recent studies have shown organic fruits and vegetables contain more vitamins, and a little soil science...

The Truth About Honeybees Provide Clues to Their Disappearance

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Honeybees are disappearing. Searching for likely causes leads us to find out about adulterated honey, poison in beehives and other shocking realities that few of us recognize. By now you’ve probably heard of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....

Poisoning the Earth for Profit - DDT, a Vaccine for Mosquitoes?

1/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) “You wouldn't spray your child's head with an aerosol can of roach spray because they had head lice. But you might as well if you use those bottles of stuff you get from the drug store". That was a comment made by Steven Tvedten, President...

Pesticides in Food and the Home: Warnings and Alternatives

10/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) Pests in the home are a big problem for many. Standard treatments rely on poison in the home to kill the invaders which often return anyway, but the poison is not specially designed to only hurt certain types of living creatures, so it is...

What's in an apple? Buying organic, healthful produce becomes increasingly complicated

9/17/2007 - These days, it seems increasingly difficult to know what to shop for at the grocery store. Is organic always better than conventional? What if it's an "organic" product that's been flown half-way around the world, burning up fossil fuels that contribute...

Common crop herbicide Atrazine linked to reproductive mutations in amphibians

8/27/2007 - Pollutants such as pesticides and toxins damage the ecosystem and cause a variety of damaging ailments in humans. One particular herbicide, Atrazine, has now been found to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites, rendering them impotent by causing their...

Pesticides and chemical fertilizers clearly linked to premature births

7/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) The use of pesticides and nitrate-containing fertilizers is almost certainly responsible for rising rates of premature birth in the United States, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in Toronto,...

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet

5/3/2007 - There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that...

Free consumer guide to pesticides in produce offered by Environmental Working Group

3/28/2007 - The new "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce," recently released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), is a quick and easy reference to which fruits and vegetables are the most and least contaminated with chemical pesticide residues. The guide...

Lindane pesticide banned by the EPA, but still allowed by FDA in children's products

3/27/2007 - After being under review for nearly 30 years, the pesticide lindane was finally withdrawn by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in agriculture last summer. Called by the EPA "one of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever...

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