I have recently joined a growing worldwide initiative to reclaim neighborhood streets from the automobile. It’s a movement driven both by climate…
The health insurance lobby’s aggressive corporatization of health care – which started in the 1980s when Reagan deregulated the insurance industry- has…
At the moment I don’t sense major commitment on the part of either the public or government to end the obesity epidemic.…
Epidemiologists have known for decades that rates of obesity are much higher in low income and minority groups. However it’s only in…
There is a lot of focus in the mainstream media on the growing epidemic of obesity in western countries. The media pretty…
(from Lyn Webster – www.pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz) For me the most interesting part of Lyn’s presentation was her wrap-up, where she talked about the…
America’s pre-eminent consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader frequently talks about the last two generations growing up “corporate” in their…
As I have blogged previously, the whole notion of fluoride being safe and good for teeth is based on decades of corporations…
As Christopher Bryson outlines in his 2004 book Fluoride Deception, the decision to deliberately dose US municipal water supplies with a potent…
It took decades to “prove” that even low-level lead exposure caused mental retardation and behavioral problems in children. In 1973 when I…
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