Some Low-Life, Drug Dealing 'Scumbags' Must Have Had a Really Bad Day (to say the least!) This Last Week When Australian Customs Officials Intercepted a Whopping $215 Million Dollars Worth of Ice Tablets They Had Been Trying to Smuggle Into the Nation Hidden Inside a Stone Elephant…
In the mid 80's I ran a successful drug rehab in Western Australia and have witnessed first-hand the devastation that drugs cause.
I was so happy when I read this news I felt like dancing! [Read More]
Filed under In the Media by on Jul 13th, 2008. 
Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Enter the Kitchen…
Can you believe that popcorn bags are actually made out of paper that has to be coated with a substance to repel grease and moisture so the bag doesn't become soggy and rip while it's getting heated in the microwaave. The chemicals used to coat the paper break down, when heated, in to a substance called perfluorooctanoic (PFOA).
The Environmental Protection Agency has identified PFOA as a "lilely carcinogen."
But – it gets worse…
Not only is the bag coating a carcinogen, but also the fake butter flavoring. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health determined that a disease that destroys lung tissue was triggered by exposure to the artificial butter flavoring. This study was done after 24 workers in a Missouri microwave popcorn plant got this disease that was destroygin their lungs. And it wasn't just 24 workers affected. There were 130 other employees who had high rates of bronchitis and asthma from this butter flavoring.
What's the deadly 'added extra' in the fake butter? Diacetyl.
It gives artificial butter it's flavor and smell. This is an FDA-approved chemical that is also found in many wines, cookies, candies, beers, and cheese-flavored products.
In Nov '05 54 former workers from the popcorn plant settled lawsuits out of court, while 4 others went to trial and the verdict totaled mover $50 million dollars in compensation for the 7 workers.
How can the FDA approve something known to kill your lungs? That's absurd.
So before you make your next bag of microwave popcorn, thing of what it's doing to your health. More people should go back to the good old fashioned method of popping kernels in oil in pots on the stove.
Filed under Blog by on Jul 13th, 2008. 1 Comment.
The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, reports that conditions such as female sexual dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and “restless legs syndrome” have been promoted by companies hoping to sell more of their drugs.
Other minor problems that are a normal part of life, such as symptoms of the menopause, are also becoming increasingly “medicalised”, while risk factors such as high cholesterol levels or osteoporosis are being presented as diseases in their own right, according to the editors. [Read More]
Filed under Drug Companies Exposed by on Jul 12th, 2008.
