Author: TruthOpener

Want to be Smarter? Sleep Naked: How Sleeping in the Buff Can Benefit Your Mental Health

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Want to be Smarter? Sleep Naked: How Sleeping in the Buff Can Benefit Your Mental Health
Naked Lunch–And Naked Midnight Snacks Too: How Sleeping Naked Can Benefit Your Health In this harried age of chronic overwork, job insecurity, and economic disarray, we’ve all been subjected to that dreaded feeling of getting through the day on too little sleep. You start the day bleary, unable to feel as if you’ve ever really women up, hoping that the morning coffee will somehow clear away the cobwebs–to no avail.… Read the rest

Zika News: Mosquito Spraying In South Carolina Kills Millions Of Bees While Vaccine Trials Begin In Puerto Rico

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Zika News: Mosquito Spraying In South Carolina Kills Millions Of Bees While Vaccine Trials Begin In Puerto Rico
The Madness Continues: Zika Panic Kills Thousands Of S.C. Bees As Vaccine Testing Begins In Puerto Rico In terms of the Zika virus panic that continues to sweep the U.S., it’s hard to say where you might prefer be: South Carolina, Miami, or Puerto Rico. All three areas have been or are about to be ground zero for various fronts on the Zika/Aedes aegypti mosquito wars that rage across the southeast part of the U.S.… Read the rest

Bad Heart? Move to Greece: Mediterranean Diet Found To Be Better For Your Heart Than Statins

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Bad Heart? Move to Greece: Mediterranean Diet Found To Be Better For Your Heart Than Statins
Nuts To Statins: Mediterranean Diet Better For Your Heart Than Pricy, Ocnrtoversial Statins If you are facing heart problems and wondering if there’s anything you can do to stave off the Grim Reaper a while longer, you might want to consider trading in that statin prescription for a nice plate full of fish and vegetables. A new study has found that for people already suffering from heart problems, a Mediterranean style diet–one rich in vegetables, nuts, fish and leaning more on olive oil than butter–can reduce their chances of an early death by 37 percent.… Read the rest

Your Scare Tactics Are Bad And You Should Feel Bad: No, Marijuana Is STILL Not A ‘Gateway Drug’

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Your Scare Tactics Are Bad And You Should Feel Bad: No, Marijuana Is STILL Not A ‘Gateway Drug’
No, Virginia, Marijuana Is NOT a Gateway Drug: Here Are 40 Years Of Data Prove It In the wake of the stunningly troglodytic and myopic decision by the Drug Enforcement Administration to keep marijuana on the listing of Schedule 1 drugs–those drugs for which there are supposedly no known medical uses, and which are considered the most dangerous–many observers are shaking their heads in disbelief.… Read the rest

Whose Side Is the CDC Really On: How The Agency Is Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Its Face On Soft Drinks

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Whose Side Is the CDC Really On: How The Agency Is Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Its Face On Soft Drinks
The Sketchy CDC: How The Agency Is Playing Both Sides Of The Fence On Sugary Soft Drinks The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sure seems like it is in disarray these days. There’s the Zika panic, of course, which has launched a series of herky-jerky mandates from the agency, including a door-to-door urine sampling unit that cruised the neighborhood where the Zika-infected mosquitoes were thought to be found, to the travel ban issued for pregnant women going to Miami, to the heavy spraying of naled and other dangerous chemicals in neighborhoods where Zika-carrying mosquitoes are suspected to reside.… Read the rest

As School Year Set To Begin, Utah And Other States Finding Vaccine Refusal Rates Climbing, Cite Education As Key Motivating Factor

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As School Year Set To Begin, Utah And Other States Finding Vaccine Refusal Rates Climbing, Cite Education As Key Motivating Factor
Education Is The Key: Utah And Other States Find Vaccine Refusal Rates Climbing; Both Sides Cite Education As the new school year is upon us, more and more stories are coming out about vaccinations and the kids whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated prior to starting class. Many parents cite reasons ranging from religious objections, to health objections–for instance if a child has an allergy that could be triggered by a vaccine–and also personal objections.… Read the rest

Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program

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Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program
Onerous DEA Regs Getting Irksome: Washington State Sidesteps Them On Marijuana Testing In the wake of the DEA’s latest inexplicable decision to keep marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug (read: huge favor for Big Pharma) the agency’s collective jamming of its head in the sand caused many observers threw up their hands in a collective WTF moment. The Schedule 1 designation puts marijuana on the same plane of potential danger as heroin, and indicates that it has no known medical use, a notion which the DEA’s own actions contradict: if there is no known medical use for it, why has the DEA opened up testing protocols and regulations, allowing pharmaceutical companies to grow their own strains for testing purposes, and to develop pharmaceuticals from the plant?… Read the rest

Danger On Your Toothbrush: How Toothpaste May Be The Biggest Silent Health Threat We Face

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Danger On Your Toothbrush: How Toothpaste May Be The Biggest Silent Health Threat We Face
Toxic Mint: How Toothpaste May Be The Most Dangerous Thing You Put In Your Mouth Without Knowing It Ah, that fresh-scrubbed, minty-clean feeling you get right after you brush your teeth–there’s really nothing like it. Of all the ridiculous, overblown commercial images out there, the image of a person getting their mouth hosed out with a torrent of blue or green spray in a toothpaste ad is perhaps one of the most accurate: it really feels like that.… Read the rest

Indigenous Groups In Mexico Win Victory Over Monsanto, Biotech Giant Has GMO Soy Permit Suspended

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Indigenous Groups In Mexico Win Victory Over Monsanto, Biotech Giant Has GMO Soy Permit Suspended
Monsanto Loses Key Battle Against Mexican Indigenous Groups Over Planting Its GMO Soy It’s difficult to overstate just how fiercely the game is rigged in favor of the powerful and wealthy. Just in case you weren’t paying attention: in 2008 Wall Street got bailed out of a mess of its own making to the tune of trillions of dollars while millions of Americans got nothing and lost their homes; the Supreme Court ruled that unlimited money is allowed in political contributions, and Big Pharma continues to make headlines by continuing to gouge the sick, as evidenced by the latest, the EpiPen scandal and its 600 percent price hike.… Read the rest

Living With Fracking: New Study Shows How Unhealthy It Really Is To Live Near A Fracking Well

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Living With Fracking: New Study Shows How Unhealthy It Really Is To Live Near A Fracking Well
Health And Fracking: New Study Proves Conclusively That Living Near A Fracking Well Is Bad For You There are certain things we can all take for granted once we’ve reached the age of say, 14 years old: parents aren’t perfect, there is no Santa Claus, and clowns are scary. Here’s another one that you would have thought would be an obvious truism: Living next to a fracking well is bad for your health.… Read the rest