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Cutting Sugar for just 10 Days can Improve Children’s Health, Study Reports

Cutting Sugar for just 10 Days can Improve Children’s Health, Study Reports

Posted by | Oct 28, 2015 | ,

Cutting processed sugar out of young children’s diets for about one week can immediately lead to health improvements, a new study reported. For this study, Robin Lustig of the University of California San Francisco and Jean-Marc Schwarz of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Touro University in California recruited 43 obese Latino and Black children between the ages of nine and 18. The children all had high blood pressure and bad cholesterol levels. They also had too much fat in their livers. The researchers then placed all of the children on a restricted diet that cut out added sugar...

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Jon Stewart Starts Sanctuary with Wife for Abused Farm Animals

Jon Stewart Starts Sanctuary with Wife for Abused Farm Animals

Posted by | Oct 27, 2015 | ,

After signing off as host of “The Daily Show,” comedian Jon Stewart has revealed a new vocation – starting a sanctuary for abused farm animals. Stewart, who ended his influential show on the Comedy Central network in August, was honored with his wife Tracey at a gala Saturday night of Farm Sanctuary, which provides shelter to animals rescued from factory farms. “I’m a little uncomfortable. I’ve spent the last 20 years immersed in the world of Washington politics and the media landscape, so I don’t know how to deal necessarily with people who have empathy,” Stewart told the all-vegan...

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Applebees didn’t pay autistic employee for a year

Applebees didn’t pay autistic employee for a year

Posted by | Oct 26, 2015 | , ,

He’s worked for the popular restaurant chain for about a year, but never received a paycheck. But that will soon change for a man in Rhode Island. Caleb Dyl, 21, was a prep-cook for Middletown, Rhode Island’s Applebees, starting in August 2014, WPRI reported. Dyl is autistic and was placed in the job by the private social service agency Resources for Human Development (who refuses to return calls last we heard). The nonprofit, which gets money from the state, placed Dyl in the company’s training program to see if he was able to do the job. He was in an unpaid position...

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Breaking: Human DNA Found in Hot Dogs (& meat in 10% of veggie hot dogs!)

Breaking: Human DNA Found in Hot Dogs (& meat in 10% of veggie hot dogs!)

Posted by | Oct 25, 2015 | , , ,

This article is not satire. Sources at the bottom. A company that uses genomic analysis technology to derive the contents of food has found a disturbing “additive” in some of the hot dogs they tested- human DNA. Clear Food chalks up the find to 2% of all hotdogs tested to hygienic issues.  Overall, the company said it found that 14.4 percent of hot dogs were problematic in some way. From the CBS article on the subject: A new report, adds extra meaning to the phrase “you don’t want to know how the sausage gets made.”  Clear Foods, which “uses genomic technology to analyze the...

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How Many of Your Facebook Friends Are Undercover Federal Agents?

How Many of Your Facebook Friends Are Undercover Federal Agents?

Posted by | Oct 25, 2015 | ,

The Feds are on Facebook. It’s not just the tin foil hat sites who say the feds are friending you on Facebook. This story has made national news across the country.  There’s a great Ted Talk posted on the site that discusses the paid astroturfers working for big ag (against GMOs) or big pharma, but what about the federal agents? Here’s a quote from an article we just ran across today (source below): “U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and...

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