The CDC knowingly used flawed data to claim that high lead levels in the District’s drinking water did not pose a health risk to the public, a congressional investigation has found, according to a Washington Post article.
According to the article, the investigation found that in 2004 the CDC, in response to parents’ demand for explanations of a spike in lead levels in their water, published a “calming analysis” all the while knowing it “relied on incomplete, misleading blood-test results that played down the potential health impact.”
Lead is a toxic metal long known to cause brain damage and developmental delays in fetuses and children when they or their pregnant mothers ingest significant amounts.
School lunchrooms and fast food establishments are using a beef component in their ground meat for burgers that has been injected with ammonia to kill E. coli and salmonella, according to a New York Times article.
Beef Products Inc., the company responsible for this innovative technique to use fatty trimmings that were once relegated to dog food and cooking oils, had commissioned a study that revealed that the ammonia process was effective in killing E. coli and salmonella.
With the approval of the United States Department of Agriculture, this processed beef has become a mainstay in school lunchrooms and fast food establishments. According to the article, the federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.
The article goes on to state: “But government and industry records obtained by The New York Times show that in testing for the school lunch program, E. coli and salmonella pathogens have been found dozens of times in Beef Products meat, challenging claims by the company and the U.S.D.A. about the effectiveness of the treatment. Since 2005, E. coli has been found 3 times and salmonella 48 times, including back-to-back incidents in August in which two 27,000-pound batches were found to be contaminated. The meat was caught before reaching lunch-rooms trays.”
On a personal note, this information is enough for me to no longer allow my son to buy school lunches that contain beef. I have contacted the township school board via email to find out who the beef supplier is for our lunch program. Hopefully, I will get a response soon.
In a series of blatant attack stories, the AP has published a series of highly misleading ”news” with the apparent purpose of destroying the credibility of alternative medicine. Today, we ask for your help in contacting the AP and educating them about why alternative medicine really works: It’s safer, more effective and more affordable than dangerous drugs and chemo.
(NaturalNews) The Associated Press continues its assault on alternative medicine, led by writer Marilynn Marchione who writes attack pieces on everything under the sun (including the sun itself) related to alternative medicine and natural therapies. The Associated Press continues to publish stories carrying this highly-opinionated (and provably false) header:
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks.
NaturalNews and KangenWaterReport are asking readers to contact AP and express both your displeasure with their outright bias against natural medicine and their lack of information about the safety and effectiveness of natural, “alternative” therapies.
So why isn’t Washington focusing on the really important issues that would make a true difference in the lifestyle of the American people?
Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com has compiled a top ten list of issues that, if truly debated and considered, would make a tremendously positive influence on our American public.
If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve already made valuable changes to your lifestyle.
Let’s keep control of our health in our homes, not in the hands of the government.
The following article helps us to understand the acid/alkaline balance that we promote through this website. It’s been a while since we visited this subject, and are lucky enough to have found some great information out there.
Click below to read The pH Nutrition Guide to Acid / Alkaline Balance
The following excerpt from NaturalNews.com is from an article that we all should find interesting, to say the least.
Seeing as we are on this blog because we have decided to take our health into our own hands, this is very important for all of us to understand where the U.S. health care system is heading.
“Health care reform in Washington today isn’t about health, or reform. It’s about mandating monopoly-priced western medicine for the masses. It’s about fining people who wisely opt out of the criminally-operated health insurance industry, and it’s designed to keep the American people sick and diseased while emptying their pockets of any remaining earnings they might have somehow squirreled away during the ongoing financial / real estate crash.”
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