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Every action you take in buying foods and beverages has an ecological footprint. There is a CO2 footprint associated with every item you buy. From the transportation of the food item to the fossil fuels spent in the farming, ranching or processing of the ingredients, it all adds up to an “ecological footprint” that’s invisible but very real.

How big, exactly, is this ecological footprint? Astonishingly, the eco-footprint of your food is larger than the eco-footprint of the car you drive!

(NaturalNews) The number of serious injuries and deaths linked to the use of prescription medications reached a new high in the first quarter of 2008, according to a report issued by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

Researchers found mention of 4,825 deaths and approximately 21,000 serious injuries among voluntary adverse event reports submitted by doctors to the FDA between January and March. These numbers were 38 percent higher than the quarterly average for 2007 and a striking 200 percent higher than the first quarter of 2007.

World Health Day is a program sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) to focus attention on the health needs of people worldwide. This year’s theme focuses on the safety of healthcare facilities and readiness of emergency care workers around the world. The motto for this year is “Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies”. Always celebrated on April 7th, this year’s opening ceremony took place in Beijing China. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, gave the opening remarks, entitled, “Keeping hospitals safe in emergencies protects people’s health.”

The promotion of the Mother’s Act is like a rewind of a bad movie dating back to the 1960′s when rock stars were singing songs about “mother’s little helpers.”

Women fought for years to gain acceptance of the fact that many female health problems were real and not symptoms of hypochondria. The psycho-pharmaceutical cartel’s profit-driven invention of an epidemic of pregnancy-related mental disorders will wipe out a century of work toward that acceptance.

Sadly, the end result of this latest marketing scheme will be that the relatively few women who truly do suffer from postpartum depression will not be taken seriously.

Just how good are fish oils, flaxseed oils and other omega-3s at preventing prostate cancer? According to the experts quoted below, they may represent some of the most powerful anti-cancer nutrients available today!

Read this large collection of quotes on omega-3 oils and prostate cancer, and you’ll learn how boosting omega-3 intake while reducing omega-6 intake can help halt prostate cancer tumor growth and end the chronic tissue inflammation that ultimately contributes to prostate cancer.

(NaturalNews) Of all the hare-brained ideas about climate change I’ve heard in the last few years, this one takes the grand prize: John Holdren, the new science advisor to President Obama, is actively considering radical geoengineering ideas in order to halt global warming. One such idea now being discussed with the Obama administration involves — get this — launching enormous amounts of pollution particles into Earth’s upper atmosphere to block the sun’s rays and “chill” the planet.

The Shifting Calories Theory is one of the newest “it” phrases in the weight loss industry. The interesting thing, though, is that shifting calories has been around for a long time. It’s been called many things, including “calorie cycling”, “calorie shifting”, and “the zigzag diet”.

Although most “it” diets focus on restriction of some kind (whether through calories, food groups, or eating only specific foods), The Shifting Calories Theory is a bit different. It focuses on eating any kind of food that the dieter wants (but recommends healthy foods, of course).

The shifting calories method which is becoming very popular in the United States is a unique diet method which was developed in order to ensure a fast and continuous weight loss.

Why is that important? Because in contrary to other diet plans which may provide a short term weight loss, the Shifting Calories method ensures that you will not gain back the weight you have lost and that you will continue to lose more and more weight for weeks and months.

Foods that Speed Metabolism with calorie shifting

The soy myth

Finally the soy myth needs to be exposed. This is another persistent one among alternative circles. An often-used argument is that soy has been used in Asia for thousands of years. Another half truth. While it is true that soy products were consumed as far back as the Ming Dynasty, only fermented soy was used. Raw soy products such as tofu, soy milk, soy lecithin and soy oil are only 200 to 300 years old. Once again they have been popularized by a powerful industry which has been pulling the wool over our eyes by emphasizing a healthy tradition in fermented soy use and confusing it with unfermented soy. Health food stores sell this as a health food!

Trans fats

The missing link between saturated and unsaturated fats is trans fats. A trans fat is an unsaturated fat which is heated, causing the fluids to evaporate and the fat to solidify. A hydrogen molecule is then added to the fat. This hydrogenation process alters the chemical structure of the fat. What was originally an unsaturated fat has now become a saturated fat. These fats are man-made and do not exist in nature. What’s their advantage? Take that cookie. Vegetable fats are cheaper and are used in place of butter. They are liquid, however, and don’t have the same semi-solid structure as butter has naturally. By hydrogenating vegetable fats they can be used as a direct replacement for butter. They also keep well. So what if butter is a natural saturated fat and trans fats are unnatural saturated fats? The consumer won’t even know the difference, right?