Tag: Health - Page 4
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Campaign Launched to Improve Dismal School Lunches
Earth Day Network is kicking off its National School Lunch Week campaign to help schools serve healthy and sustainable food.
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44 Healthiest, Cheapest Fruits and Vegetables
EWG’s latest invaluable list highlights the top foods that are nutrient dense at a good price, with the fewest pesticides, contaminants and artificial ingredients.
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Just what we needed Dept: an $8500 Wobbly Chair
Evidently your butt is connected to your brain, and this chair will make you happy.
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New App Uses Your iPhone Camera as a Touch-Free Biosensor
Monitor and track your heart rate on the go with your smartphone camera and a new app, which turns your phone into a touch-free biosensor.
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New England Harbor Seals Killed by New Strain of Avian Flu
"There is a concern that we have a new mammalian-transmissible virus to which humans haven't been exposed yet," says report editor Anne Moscona.
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Outdoor Games Created by Kids to Get Them Playing Outdoors
Outdoor play is important to the health and development of children. Use these free games to pull your kids away from the TV and outdoors.
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Vaccines Used on Factory Farms Causing New Resistant Viruses
It's not just bacterial diseases that are developing resistance to the medicines required to be administered to keep animals from dying on factory farms.
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Thousands of Lives Would Have Been Saved If Obama Had Backed Stronger Smog Standards
According to Johns Hopkins scientists up to nearly 8000 lives would have been saved annually if President Obama backed the EPA's strongest recommendations for ozone pollution limits.
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100 Organizations Call on Surgeon General for Report on Soda
The groups say that soda and sugary drinks have a devastating effect on health, want call to action.
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Safe Composting Tips for People With Food Allergies
Composting is safe for people with food allergies, as long as they take some basic precautions. Here are some tips from allergy experts.
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Standing Desk Add-On Is a Low-Cost Way to Stand at Work
An adjustable height desk add-on can give you a standing desk in no time.
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Time For That Standing Desk: Yet Another Study Says That Sitting Is Bad For You
Add two years to your life by sitting less than three hours a day. Dump your TV and get another 1.4 boring years.
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FDA Approved Drug Produced in Genetically Engineered Carrot Cells
Genetically engineered plants will be our next drug factories?
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Government of Quebec Gives $58 Million To Reopen Closed Asbestos Mine
Why would they subsidize the production of a killer that nobody wants?
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Fast Food Imports are Linked to Rising Obesity in Persian Gulf
Wealth and fast food are changing the habits of people in the Persian Gulf leading to skyrocketing obesity rates.
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Bangladeshi Women Shunning Cleaner Cookstoves, Despite Health & Climate Benefits
If given the option of a new cookstove or cash, they'd overwhelmingly take the cash and invest it in schooling, healthcare, clean water or a toilet.
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Whether Obamacare is Constitutional or Not, Republicans Created This Reality. A Lesson We Can't Afford to Ignore
As Supreme Court Judges Obamacare, We Must Ask: How Did We Get Here?
