Author: TruthOpener

Don’t Eat Before Bed, They Say–But Here Are Some Great Bedtime Snacks That Will Help You Drop The Pounds

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Don’t Eat Before Bed, They Say–But Here Are Some Great Bedtime Snacks That Will Help You Drop The Pounds
Eating Before Bed Is A Weight Loss No-No–Or Is It? Some Great Bedtime Snacks That Help You Lose Weight Have you ever seen a photo spread showing the typical meal of a sumo wrestler in training? Do a quick image search, it will blow your mind. We’re talking massive cauldrons of stew, endless plates of meat, fish, rice, and dozens of egg rolls–no matter how hungry you are, it is enough to make you slightly ill to contemplate.… Read the rest

The Battle Against Superbugs May Have Found An Unlikely Ally: Tasmanian Devil Milk

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The Battle Against Superbugs May Have Found An Unlikely Ally: Tasmanian Devil Milk
Tasmaian Devil’s Milk Might Be The Cure For Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: Yes, This Is Actually A Thing If you’ve been a fan of natural health for any length of time, you’ve likely seen some weird things. Because let’s face it: not all “natural” cures are created equal. For every cannabidiol being used to treat epilepsy, or melatonin as a sleep aid, there’s someone doing the 21st century equivalent of washing their face in the blood of a virgin to stay young-looking.… Read the rest

Water From The Sea And The Sun: Amazing New Device Uses Only Solar Power To Desalinate Sea Water + VIDEO

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Water From The Sea And The Sun: Amazing New Device Uses Only Solar Power To Desalinate Sea Water + VIDEO
Squeezing Water From The Sun: Groundbreaking New Distiller Makes Potable Water Using Sunlight–And Seawater Bad news is an up-and-coming commodity these days–just ask cable news outlets. And while there is truth to the assessment that the 24-hour news cycle has created in itself a monster that constantly need to be fed bad news–overhyped, oversold and over-exaggerated though some of it may be–there really is so much out there to legitimately be alarmed about that it is easy to start thinking it’s ALL bad news these days.… Read the rest

Trial Of The Century And You May Have Missed It: Monsanto In The Dock At The Hague

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Trial Of The Century And You May Have Missed It: Monsanto In The Dock At The Hague
Monsanto And Its ‘Crimes Against Humanity:’ Agri-Chem Giant In The Dock At The Hague For Mock Trial It was the Trial of the Century, and the mainstream coverage had its collective talking head up its collective news hole, yammering on about the two most dismally disliked candidates in the history of U.S. presidential elections. Well, to be honest, it was the mock-trial of the century.… Read the rest

What Do You Mean By Healthy: In Controversial Move, FDA Set To Change Official Definition

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What Do You Mean By Healthy: In Controversial Move, FDA Set To Change Official Definition
FDA To Tell Us What Healthy Means–Using Outdated Models That Still Mistakenly Vilify Cholesterol, Fat There is power is words, even in an age of so many lies, half-truths, and obfuscations. Perhaps words are even more important in such an age, as we parse the statements coming out of government and companies’ PR shops like shamen examining the entrails of chickens to distill out the facts that may or may not be swaddled within the blanket of BS.… Read the rest

In The Age Of Peak PR, Pepsi And Coca-Cola Sponsor An Absurd Number Of ‘Health’ Organizations

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In The Age Of Peak PR, Pepsi And Coca-Cola Sponsor An Absurd Number Of ‘Health’ Organizations
Muddying The (Sugar) Water: Coke And Pepsi Sponsored Nearly 100 ‘Health’ Organizations We had the Pleistocene Age, the Jurassic Age, and now what some are calling the Anthropocene Age, the one that has been marked most distinctly by humans altering the planet. But we may be entering a new era right now, even as we speak–that is if big multinational food and beverage companies have anything to say about it.… Read the rest

Sickening, Literally: Over Half A Million U.S. Schoolchildren Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracking Site

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Sickening, Literally: Over Half A Million U.S. Schoolchildren Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracking Site
Mom, I Don’t Feel So Good: 650,000 U.S. Children Attend School Within A Mile Of A Fracked Well Of all the things we do to our children as a matter of course in the U.S., some are worse than others. We batter them with video and audio noise from birth, ply them with giant sodas and fried “chicken” nugget-things practically from birth, thus dooming them to lives battling obesity and type 2 diabetes, pollute their air, destroy their future climate–hell, destroy their future.… Read the rest

As Climate Change Brings New Weather Along With New Diseases Further North: Four To Look For

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As Climate Change Brings New Weather Along With New Diseases Further North: Four To Look For
Meet The New Neighbors: Four Tropical Viruses That Could Make A Big Splash In North America Thanks To Climate Change Some people are never satisfied. Count among them virologists and epidemiologists. Even as The Zika panic cools off along with the weather in the northern hemisphere, these party poopers are on the lookout for new, potentially devastating diseases that could make the leap to the next level and show up in your Sunday paper–and possibly in your bloodstream–sometime very soon.… Read the rest

Marijuana Arrests Still Outnumber Those For Violent Crime, Especially Among African-Americans

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Marijuana Arrests Still Outnumber Those For Violent Crime, Especially Among African-Americans
Legalize It Already: Police Continue Prioritizing Weed Arrests, Especially Among African-Americans The U.S. has a long and checkered relationship with cannabis. The early drafts of the U.S. Constitution were famously written on hemp paper, and founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington even grew it. Yet in the 1930s one man’s crusade against marijuana–using it as a not at all subtle cudgel with which to persecute Mexicans and black people–turned weed into a cash crop of another kind: for law enforcement.… Read the rest

Use Of Popular Anti-Depressants During Pregnancy Shown To Cause Language Disorders In Offspring

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Use Of Popular Anti-Depressants During Pregnancy Shown To Cause Language Disorders In Offspring
Babies With Language Disorders Including Dyslexia May Result From Pregnant Mothers Taking SSRIs It’s got to be hard being pregnant. All the changes wrought on a woman’s body must tremendously stressful–both physically and mentally. That’s probably why SSRIs or selective seratonin re-uptake inhibitors are the most common type of antidepressant prescribed to women who are pregnant. However an alarming new study presents compelling evidence that the use of such drugs during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of language disorders including dyslexia in the woman’s offspring.… Read the rest