Why You Always Go Back For Seconds And Thirds: High-Fat/High-Sugar Diet Hacks The Brain
There is a great character in the sci-fi comedy “Men in Black,” who appears to be a normal, little old man who runs a jewelry shop. Only later, after he is mortally wounded is it revealed that the man is but a bio-mechanical suit, being “driven” by a tiny alien operator whose cockpit is inside the human head.… Read the rest
Author: TruthOpener
Glyphosate Found In Numerous Products, Debate Heating Up Over Quaker Oats
Latest Product Found To Contain Glyphosate Quaker Oats; Consumer Group Sues Over False ‘Natural’ Claims
As more and more scrutiny gets paid to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, we’re jut starting to find out how pervasive it is. The chemical, found last year by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer to be a “probable carcinogen” has turned up in German beer, California wine, and now in Quaker Oats.… Read the rest
Medical Cannabis Poised To Become Legal In Germany: Cabinet Approves Bill, Awaits Parliament
Germany Set To Legalize Medical Use Of Marijuana, Join Countries Like The Czech Republic, Uruguay
The German Cabinet has approved a bill that would allow legal access to medical marijuana for patients who can demonstrate a need for which there is no alternative treatment.
Health Minister Hermann Groehe announced that the legislation will allow doctors to prescribe cannabis in the form of dried flowers or extracts, and patients would be able to get it at pharmacies.… Read the rest
Australian Teen Smoking Rates Hit Record Low: Regulations, Costs, And Teen Attitudes Cited
Teen Smoking Declines Precipitously In Australia, Changing Teen Attitudes, High Taxes Cited As Cause
Smoking continues to be a scourge of preventable disease and premature death. And the big dirty secret the tobacco companies don’t want you to know is that their entire business model is based on hooking kids when they are young. The developing adolescent brain is especially susceptible to chemical addiction.… Read the rest
Erectile Dysfunction Just Got A New Opponent: Flavonoid-Rich Foods Found To Be A Powerful Weapon Against ED
Before Reaching For The Blue Pill, Reach For Red Fruits: Flavonoid-Rich Foods Found To Be Powerful Weapon Against Erectile Dysfunction
Those weird, creepy commercials featuring silver-haired couples lovingly gazing at each other while basking in a glorious sunset and sitting side by side in separate outdoor bathtubs for some reason may never be the same.
It turns out that Mother Nature may already have a powerful weapon to battle erectile dysfunction, one that older men should be taking advantage of anyway for the other health benefits it holds.… Read the rest
How Hungry Would You Have To Be To Eat Your Fork? New Edible Cutlery Could Well Eliminate The Need For The Plastic Kind
Polystyrene In Plastic Cutlery Is Wasteful And Potentially Damaging–One Man’s Solution: Edible Silverware
So you say you’re an environmentalist, huh? But are you committed, I mean really committed?
You may feel like you need to be committed if you were to watch the video linked below with no context. As the man cheerfully takes a bite of his spoon, the first thing that might occur to you–especially if you’ve been to visit the dentist lately–is OUCH!… Read the rest
New Environmental Threat: Ocean Dead Zones Threaten To Eradicate Oxygen
Ocean Dead Zones Much Worse Than Previously Thought–Vast Regions Devoid Of Life Could Soon Be The New Normal
Stephen King wrote a novel called “The Dead Zone” in 1979, but the horrors he imagined are nothing compared to a new dead zone that scientists are only just now beginning to grapple with.
These zones of death are areas of the ocean where the oxygen has been so depleted due to climate change and the warming of the water that life cannot continue to function there as it has for millions of years.… Read the rest
The Rich Are Different From The Rest Of Us: They Live Longer. Lifespan Gap Grows To Shocking Levels
The One Percent’s Shocking Death Gap: The Wealthy Outliving The Rest Of Us By A Shocking Number Of Years
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
In this age of the super wealthy, where even awareness of the existence of the super wealthy has become much more widespread, the spotlight on the differences between us and them has never been more brightly lit, not in recent decades anyway.… Read the rest
Prescription Boom Consequences: Medications Turning Up Everywhere: In Soil, In Fish, Even In Plants
How The Us Love Affair With Prescription Meds Is Insinuating Itself Into Our Soil, Our Fish And Even Our Plants
America, we need to talk: you have a drug problem. Medications are everywhere, you don’t even bother to hide it anymore. You leave them out for anyone to see; you are toxic with them. You have so many drugs running through you, you could be Keith Richards’ stand-in for a Rolling Stones video shoot.… Read the rest
Pills For Everyone: Up To One-Third Of Antibiotics Prescribed Incorrectly
Here’s Why Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore: Study Finds One Third Of Antibiotics Incorrectly Prescribed
Oh, well that explains why antibiotics’ effectiveness is declining.
A recent study shows that not only does more than half of the US population receive prescriptions every year in doctor’s office visits, nearly one-third of antibiotics prescribed to Americans were incorrectly prescribed. The patients either should not have received the drugs at all, or they were not given a long enough course, or they were given an incorrect dose.… Read the rest