Tag: health
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In My Snarky Way I Do Try To Educate
Below is a screen grab of a thread on facebook on which I found myself tagged by my sister. I don’t know the OP or any of the commenters except the other person named Shepherd. I kind of feel bad that I invaded it and got a wee bit dogmatic but I really try to…
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Observations About Obesity In America
I have been wanting to post about this topic for awhile. It’s a bit of a rant but there is also a rave or two. Read on. As I watch the perpetually ongoing merry-go-round of health activism with all its blame for obesity and disease going to culprits like GMOs, vaccines, this or that chemical,…
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GMO Use Will Advance Regardless Of Folks Like Mercola
Doc Mercola is at it again – spreading fear and misinformation. Claiming a scientific position when in fact, his extremist posts about GMOs are quite the opposite. I subscribe to his emails – for entertainment mostly. Though I delete the vast majority of the emails, every now and then I open one up, as I…
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Refreshing Voice Speaks In Favor of GMOs
Though I haven’t posted in awhile, I am still passionate about spreading the real truth about GMOs and letting my story be known. My blog tells the story – post by post – about how a person can go from believing that GMOs are dangerous and should be banned to realizing that there is much…
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Sleuth4Health Goes Soylent
Ever heard of Soylent? I’m not talking about Charlton Heston’s chilling revelation that – Soylent green is people – it’s people! – at the end of the classic sci-fi flick of the same name. That movie was based on a novel called Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison. In the novel, ‘soylent’ was a…
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Show “The Doctors” Has Hint of Rationality Regarding Glyphosate (Roundup)
Earlier this week I was putzing around my house in the afternoon with the TV blaring to keep me company and ABC’s show The Doctors came on. I’ve always put this show, perhaps mistakenly, in the same category as Dr. Oz, mainly because these types of shows come off, to me anyway, as generally somewhat…
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Maybe GMOs Could Have Saved Greg
Another (extremely) benevolent GMO Greg was my big brother, and he left this world four years ago. He died from a malignant brain tumor that looked like an octopus just inside his left ear, a tumor that declared war on his body. Specifically, his tumor was a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) which is a very late…
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Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change – Please Take Note!
To anyone concerned about climate change, I am very concerned about climate change too – AND I support biotechnology – GMOs. Please look at this graphic. This is powerful. Julee K/Sleuth4Health
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Whooping Cough Is On The Rise
Anti-vax people. It’s working! Preventable diseases are spreading. Pertussis or Whooping Cough. Same thing. Nasty bacterium. And we have ways, easy and convenient ways, to keep ourselves from getting this nasty little bug, but some in the US are opting not to because of an unsubstantiated and misguided fear of vaccines. I take this issue…
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Spotting Bad Science – For Dummies (Like Me)
From Compound Interest/compoundchem.com: A Rough Guide To Spotting Bad Science* The maker of the graphic from Compound Interest/compoundchem.com , a blog out of the UK written by a ‘graduate chemist and teacher’, says the following: Ahh, a blogger’s dream – to find an attractive and informative graphic you wish you were awesome enough to have…