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Making your own natural all-purpose cleaner is an easy and fun way to reduce the chemicals in your home. What makes this cleaner so unique is that it works in both the kitchen and the garden alike. It cleans the counters and the table, and kills bugs and spiders. Sounds
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A recent study conducted by The Environmental Defense Fund found 20 percent of 2,164 baby food samples and 14 percent of all other 10,064 food samples had detectable levels of the dangerous neurotoxin lead. While it was reported by many news outlets, some astonishingly downplayed the finding, saying not to “freak out”.
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Recently Maine has been making headlines for some very different reasons. First off, the state was heralded for having the highest rate of toddler vaccinations out of the country, taking first place for having the largest percentage of children between 19 and 35 months old vaccinated with at least one
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New evidence has emerged linking Primodos, a 1960’s pregnancy test drug, to serious birth defects, as well as a major scandal and cover-up that hid that information from the public. The Sky News documentary Primodos: The Secret Drug Scandal details the groundbreaking and heartbreaking findings that Schering, the German drug company
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Raise your hand if you have ever read a scientific study? Or even looked at one. Scientific studies are these megaliths of information. They can be tedious to read, difficult to understand–after all, they are their own completely unique language. To a lay person, like me, we need other people
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Vaccinations give us all a false sense of security. A universal mantra that vaccines are safe and effective has trumped any attempt to have a conversation about it without being attacked and ridiculed. But are vaccines really safe? Are they always, indefinitely effective? Why are asking these very basic questions
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If you are a mom or a dad, or are expecting a little bundle of joy in the next 9 months, this is a series you don’t want to miss. Where ever you reside in this divisive debate, what everyone wants in the end is more transparency and safer vaccines.
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Over the years, California State Senator Richard Pan has been slowly chipping away at parental rights. In 2012 he introduced Assembly Bill 2109, which placed a stipulation on parents who exercised their right to a personal belief exemption to their children’s vaccine requirement at school. The bill required parents to
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The first episode is now online for The Truth About Vaccines, the 7-episode documentary series scheduled to air one episode a day from April 12-19. Each episode is only live for 24 hours, after which they will probably charge to view the series, similar to Vaccines Revealed. The series brings together
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Our body does a great job at protecting us against foreign substances. We are covered in skin that separates us from the outside world, which sheds periodically to remove germs. We have hairs that filter the air and trap pollutants. We have eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and a few other
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As a new parent, there are so many “Do’s” and “Don’ts”, it can be mind boggling. Especially when the recommendations trickling down from our pediatricians and medical experts seem to change every few years. But hey, they’re just people too, right? Now, in response to our growing food allergy epidemic,
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I admit to being a recovering fever phobic. When one of my kid’s temperature would climb to 102° F, it made me all kinds of nervous. Suddenly I wish my children’s skin were made out of glass and I could peek inside to see what is going on in there.
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After several lawsuits were thrown out of court and a San Diego judge denied an injunction on the controversial law, there is one group, A Voice of Choice, that is actively fighting and lobbying against SB 277, the controversial mandatory vaccine bill authored by California Senator Dr. Richard Pan, and hopes to
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We are women. We are pregnant. We are becoming mothers. All we want is to nurture and raise healthy, thriving babies and children. The Bad News Unfortunately, we live in a world where chemicals and toxins have become overwhelmingly profitable and marketized. There are a lot of known risk factors accounting
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Not much is known about the women who unwittingly donated embryonic cells to science some 50 years ago, until now that is. Meredith Wadman, author of The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, which came out on Feb. 7, found and interviewed the Swedish woman who unknowingly donated
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Look. I don’t need scientists, doctors or the FDA to twist my arm into ordering shrimp and lobster fajitas the next time I’m out to dinner. But it’s refreshing to know everyone is finally in agreement that eating fish and shellfish every week is extremely beneficial to everyone’s health, especially
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I don’t know if you’re a glass half full kind of person, or a glass half empty kind of person, but a vaccine that is 48% effective does not sound remarkable, especially given the side effects that can come from the flu shot. According to the CDC’s most recent Seasonal
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The entire world praises the benefits of vaccines, reassuring us they are safe and effective and responsible for eradicating horrible deadly diseases. What they aren’t telling you, is they, just like any other medication or product, can be contaminated with foreign bodies, chemicals, viruses and particles. Here is a contamination
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