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86-year-old woman loses 120 pounds by walking in her living room every day

86-year-old woman loses 120 pounds by walking in her living room every day

Posted by | Feb 15, 2019 | , ,

A lot of people would wonder why any elderly person would bother with weight loss. Really, aren’t they supposed to be relaxing and not stressing themselves out in their golden years? Well, they’re about to be re-schooled by Jessica Slaughter, an 86-year-old grandmother from St Louis, Missouri. RELATED STORY: Walking faster found to reduce cardiovascular death risk over 50 percent This determined senior citizen went down from a size 22 to an unbelievable size 4 in the space of a decade. She wasn’t in such a hurry to lose weight. She was more worried about keeping fit and staying...

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Investigation: Clorox selling pool salt made from fracking wastewater

Investigation: Clorox selling pool salt made from fracking wastewater

Posted by | Feb 15, 2019 | ,

You might be shocked to learn that since 2017 Eureka Resources has been treating wastewater from shale gas development (or “fracking”) and packaging the crystal byproduct as “Clorox Pool Salt” for sale. (Fracking wastewater gets trucked to Eureka Resources where it’s treated and turned into salt.) While the Pennsylvania based company “uses Clorox packaging and trades in Clorox products,”1 they don’t actually deal directly with Clorox. In fact, the bags are palleted for an unnamed third-party distributor and “sold to regional stores like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowes.”1 RELATED STORY: Judge who jailed fracking protesters with ‘excessive’ sentence has...

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NBC: Florida teacher fired for giving zeros to students who don’t turn in their work

NBC: Florida teacher fired for giving zeros to students who don’t turn in their work

Posted by | Feb 15, 2019 | , ,

At the beginning of the 2018 school year, Florida teacher Diane Tirado was fired for giving the students who had earned a zero (for missing assignments) a zero. (Do people really wonder why our public school system is a mess?) Tirado has been a teacher for years and most recently, an eighth-grade history teacher at Westgate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, Florida. After having given her students two weeks to complete an Explorer notebook project, when “several students simply didn’t hand it in”1 she gave them zeros. And then was promptly fired for it. The elementary school has a rule called...

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CNN: Common weed killer glyphosate increases cancer risk by 41%, study says

CNN: Common weed killer glyphosate increases cancer risk by 41%, study says

Posted by | Feb 14, 2019 | , ,

A new analysis from researchers from the University of Washington has found what many have been saying for years: glyphosate raises the cancer risk of those exposed to it by 41%. The team evaluated existing studies into the chemical and concluded that it significantly increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the immune system. RELATED STORY: Analysis: EPA ignored scientific research showing Monsanto’s glyphosate causes cancer This is huge news and is expected to impact the thousands of trials currently pending against Monsanto’s most infamous poison. RELATED STORY: WSJ: Bayer hit by more lawsuits over safety of...

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More than 50% of US infants have cow’s milk allergy

More than 50% of US infants have cow’s milk allergy

Posted by | Feb 14, 2019 | , , , ,

Research presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting (ACAAI) at the end of last year estimated that more than half of children aged 1 year and younger in the U.S. are allergic to cow’s milk. The research also suggested that as children age, the percentage of those with cow’s milk allergy decreases. Cow’s milk allergy is the second most common food allergy among American children. RELATED STORY: ‘Milk Does the Body Good’ is the biggest lie ever and how government helps Big Dairy sell milk “The researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey that included 53,575...

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