Category: Health Freedom

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FDA To Tell Us What Healthy Means–Using Outdated Models That Still Mistakenly Vilify Cholesterol, Fat There is power is words, even in an age of so many lies, half-truths, and obfuscations.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

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

Good News For Beer Drinkers: Hops May Protect Against Liver Disease

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Good News For Beer Drinkers: Hops May Protect Against Liver Disease
I’ll Have An IPA, For My Liver’s Sake: Hops May Protect Against Liver Damage If you’re one of those people who has a hard time deciding what to order when you are standing at a busy bar and there are people waiting behind you, first of all, stop it. Make up your mind before you engage the bartender, and save him or her a ton of frustration along with the rest of us.… Read the rest

Marijuana And Humans, An Intertwined History: 2,500-Year-Old Cannabis Burial Shroud Found In China

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Marijuana And Humans, An Intertwined History: 2,500-Year-Old Cannabis Burial Shroud Found In China
China Find Adds To Humans’ Marijuana History: 2,500-Year-Old Burial Shroud Unearthed We modern humans have a hard time understanding the true scope of history, both our own and that of the world as a whole. With our up-to-the-second Twitter feeds and 24-hour news cycle breathlessly updating to bring us the latest “news” on whatever inanity this or that Kardashian or presidential reality-show contestant has been caught doing, the barrage of new information often obscures just how old the world is, how old humanity is, and how short a time our modern way of living has really been around.… Read the rest

‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana

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‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana
CDC Says The Kids Are All Right: Changing Marijuana Laws Have Had No Effect On Teen Marijuana Use The weird, wild ride of marijuana as an illegal substance in the U.S. appears to be coming to an end. There are currently 25 states that allow some form of legal, regulated medical marijuana use, along with four–Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska–that allow recreational use.… Read the rest

The U.S. Is Waking Up From Its Anti-Marijuana Nightmare: Nine States Leading The Way To Normalization

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The U.S. Is Waking Up From Its Anti-Marijuana Nightmare: Nine States Leading The Way To Normalization
There Are Nine States With Marijuana Reform Laws On Their November Ballots–Here’s Who Is Trying To Change We finally seem to be waking up from our long national nightmare. Of course we’re talking here about U.S. drug policy, a ridiculous, reactionary hodgepodge resulting from decades of fear-mongering, the stoking of racial prejudices and pseudo-science posturing as reality. With 25 states on the books with laws permitting medical marijuana use, and two states–so far–allowing recreational use, it seems like the Drug Enforcement Agency really is behind the times.… Read the rest

Jersey Boys Singing A New Tune: New Jersey Legislator Proposes Radical Rethinking Of Pot Laws

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Jersey Boys Singing A New Tune: New Jersey Legislator Proposes Radical Rethinking Of Pot Laws
A New New Jersey: Radical Pot Law Rethink In The Garden State, Includes Expunging Criminal Convictions In case you haven’t noticed–or you work for the Drug Enforcement Agency–the way the United States looks at marijuana is undergoing a sea change. There are currently 25 states where it is legal to buy, use and sell marijuana for medical purposes, and Colorado and Oregon have made it legal to buy, sell and use marijuana for recreational purposes, with California close behind.… Read the rest

Body Fat Link To Levels Of Bacteria In Feces Shows Possibility Of Explaining Inherited Obesity

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Body Fat Link To Levels Of Bacteria In Feces Shows Possibility Of Explaining Inherited Obesity
Body Fat And Bacteria In Feces: How A Link May Show Us Where To Look For Inherited Obesity Connection A new study coming from the U.K. is showing that the composition of the bacteria found in human feces may influence the levels of dangerous types of fat we have in our bodies. The research could lead to breakthroughs on how and why obesity is passed along in families as well.… Read the rest

There’s More To Ginger Than Meets The Eye: Surprising New Study Shows That Ginger Can Help Fight Cancer

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There’s More To Ginger Than Meets The Eye: Surprising New Study Shows That Ginger Can Help Fight Cancer
Ginger Is More Than A Garnish For Sushi: New Study Shows The Root May Be Useful In Treating Cancer It’s amazing sometimes to think about what a jumbled mess of contradictions humans are, as is the society we’ve created. In a world ravaged by war, on a planet heating up at a record pace, where animal species die off daily and a billion people are hungry, there is still room for hope.… Read the rest