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Feature articles on pesticides:

Study Links Parkinson's Disease With Chemical Exposure

5/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) Scientists have now discovered additional evidence of a connection between Parkinson's disease and long-term exposure to pesticides. Parkinson's disease strikes movements like walking, talking and writing. Symptoms of the disease first tend...

Lawsuit Filed to Halt Use of Dangerous Pesticides

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) A 1996 federal law required the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the safety of all pesticides and to rule by 2006 whether they could be used on foods safely. The EPA found four pesticides posed risks to human health but decided...

Dr. Gabriel Cousens on Diabetes, Cell Memory and Reducing Blood Sugar

4/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Summit Teleseminar program which can be found at (http://www.rawsummitarchives.com) . In this excerpt, Dr. Gabriel Cousens shares important information regarding diabetes and how we can...

First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

4/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Though bats are a bit spooky looking, inviting thoughts of Dracula, the real horror story is that bats are becoming sick and perishing. A massive bat die-off is happening. Their extinction in the United States is threatening -- and no one...

The Organic Advantage: A Nutritional Edge

4/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) A recent UK government report found that chickens raised in the widespread, non-organic fashion, have a 23.4% chance of being contaminated with salmonella, a bacteria responsible for food poisoning. The chance of an organic flock having...

Tracing Pesticides in Children From Ingestion to Elimination

3/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) If a child eats conventionally grown produce, will it affect his or her health? Recent research revealed that pesticides do show up in the urine of children after consuming non-organic foods. Though the study did not look at whether or not...

Want a Nutritional Edge? Buy Organic

3/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) A recent UK government report found that chickens raised in the widespread, non-organic fashion, have a 23.4% chance of being contaminated with salmonella, a bacteria responsible for food poisoning. The chance of an organic flock having...

Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced

3/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the...

$74.5 Million Set for the Spraying of Toxic Chemicals Over San Francisco

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) I am angry! On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of (USDA) Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California...

If You Are a Wine Drinker, Here Are Facts You Should Know

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Many health-conscious people wonder whether wine is a medicinal tonic that benefits their health, or something that should be avoided at all costs. Nutritionist Frank Cooper spent two years researching the subject of wine and health, and...

More for Your Money When You Choose Organic

2/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) If you look at your food as sustaining your health as well as the environment, the price of organically grown food seems well worth it. Recent studies have shown organic fruits and vegetables contain more vitamins, and a little soil science...

The Truth About Honeybees Provide Clues to Their Disappearance

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Honeybees are disappearing. Searching for likely causes leads us to find out about adulterated honey, poison in beehives and other shocking realities that few of us recognize. By now you’ve probably heard of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....

Poisoning the Earth for Profit - DDT, a Vaccine for Mosquitoes?

1/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) “You wouldn't spray your child's head with an aerosol can of roach spray because they had head lice. But you might as well if you use those bottles of stuff you get from the drug store". That was a comment made by Steven Tvedten, President...

Pesticides in Food and the Home: Warnings and Alternatives

10/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) Pests in the home are a big problem for many. Standard treatments rely on poison in the home to kill the invaders which often return anyway, but the poison is not specially designed to only hurt certain types of living creatures, so it is...

What's in an apple? Buying organic, healthful produce becomes increasingly complicated

9/17/2007 - These days, it seems increasingly difficult to know what to shop for at the grocery store. Is organic always better than conventional? What if it's an "organic" product that's been flown half-way around the world, burning up fossil fuels that contribute...

Common crop herbicide Atrazine linked to reproductive mutations in amphibians

8/27/2007 - Pollutants such as pesticides and toxins damage the ecosystem and cause a variety of damaging ailments in humans. One particular herbicide, Atrazine, has now been found to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites, rendering them impotent by causing their...

Pesticides and chemical fertilizers clearly linked to premature births

7/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) The use of pesticides and nitrate-containing fertilizers is almost certainly responsible for rising rates of premature birth in the United States, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in Toronto,...

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet

5/3/2007 - There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that...

Free consumer guide to pesticides in produce offered by Environmental Working Group

3/28/2007 - The new "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce," recently released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), is a quick and easy reference to which fruits and vegetables are the most and least contaminated with chemical pesticide residues. The guide...

Lindane pesticide banned by the EPA, but still allowed by FDA in children's products

3/27/2007 - After being under review for nearly 30 years, the pesticide lindane was finally withdrawn by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in agriculture last summer. Called by the EPA "one of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever...

Mysterious collapse of honeybee populations threatens national food supply

3/21/2007 - The honeybee population in the United States is currently suffering a devastating collapse. Honeybees are flying off in search of pollen and nectar and simply never returning to their colonies. Have they all been kidnapped by mad beekeepers, or is something...

Processed orange juice bad for the environment

3/20/2007 - (NaturalNews) That carton of 100-percent Florida orange juice from the store may have made a large impact on the environment before it reached your grocery cart. To make processed orange juice, it requires "958 litres (253 gallons) of water for irrigation...

Artificial meat would be a preferable alternative to the cruelty and environmental impact of factory farms

1/18/2007 - Technology is rapidly emerging that will allow scientists to grow artificial meat for human consumption. Yes, this will be just like meat at a molecular level, except it won't come from an animal. It will come from a factory where it was grown cell by...

Pesticide exposure could increase risk of early onset of Parkinson's disease (press release)

11/2/2006 - Low-level exposure to a banned but lingering pesticide appears to accelerate changes in the brain that can potentially lead to the onset of Parkinson's disease symptoms years or even decades before they might naturally develop. This finding, by researchers...

Breast cancer risk tripled for women exposed to farm pesticides and chemicals

10/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) Adolescent girls who work or live on farms may run a higher risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to a new Canadian study published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University...

Pesticide levels in produce detailed in free downloadable guide by the Environmental Working Group

10/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) Even small doses of pesticides and related chemicals can cause adverse health effects in people who consume them, and especially during periods of fetal development. Pregnant women should carefully consider eating fruits and vegetables that...

EPA may approve neurotoxic pesticide that harms children

10/4/2006 - (NaturalNews) The EPA announced Aug. 3 that its 10-year review of U.S. pesticide safety had been completed, and administrator Stephen L. Johnson issued an optimistic statement that said, "By maintaining the highest ethical and scientific standards in...

Research Documents Children’s Exposure to Pesticides (press release)

9/19/2006 - Two studies of immigrant farmworker families in North Carolina and Virginia found evidence of pesticide exposure in young children, and prompted researchers to call for pesticide safety training for workers’ spouses. In the American Journal of Industrial...

Pesticides found to cause Parkinson's disease

9/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new study presented at last week's annual meeting of the American Chemical Society revealed that a pesticide banned since 1987 but still present in today's environment could prompt the onset of Parkinson's disease. Researchers from...

Genetically engineered crops contain latent pesticides that are activated when eaten by consumers

9/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a recent article from the Institute for Responsible Technology, certain varieties of herbicides used on genetically modified (GM) crops -- though inactive inside the plants they protect -- can be re-activated after consumption...

Pesticides Exposure Associated With Parkinson's Disease (press release)

8/29/2006 - In the first large-scale, prospective study to examine possible links between chronic, low-dose exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s disease (PD), researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have shown that individuals reporting exposure...

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