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It's American Diabetes Month

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Diabetes Study, Junk Food, Type 2 Diabetes, Low-Fat Vegetarian Diets, Junk Food Ads, Health, Dr. Neal Barnard, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Glucose, Living News
Christina Pirello

Type 2 diabetes is such an American epidemic that we can skip giving kids bikes for Christmas and move right to the wheelchairs they'll be needing later in life. Forget the basketballs, baseball gloves and bats.

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Ground Beef Recall: Two Deaths Could Be Linked To E. Coli Contamination

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Beef, Fairbank Farms, Food Politics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Usda, Kirsten Gillibrand, E. Coli, Business News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, fede...

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Meatless Mondays: 52 Opportunities for Rejuvenation

Sarah Newman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Nutrition, Farmers Markets, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Sarah Newman

One of the easiest and most profound ways to improve your health is by skipping meat and thereby eating lower on the food chain every Monday.

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Federal Reserve Has Lowest Job Approval Rating; CDC, NASA Top List: Poll

Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gallup Poll, Nasa, Cia, Internal Revenue Service, Epa, Fbi, Fda, Gallup, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, Central Intelligence Association, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Federal Agencies, Irs, Federal Reserve, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Dcd, Politics News

At a time when Americans are discouraged about the direction of the country and hesitant about the scope of President Barack Obama's federal budget pl...

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Investing In Prevention

Robert Ross | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Care Reform, Preventative Healthcare, Prevention, Health Care, Recession, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Robert Ross

Our nation can -- today -- make an investment that will return more than five to one. And as a bonus, our nation will not just enjoy greater wealth, but more importantly, better health.

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Possible Link Found Between Obesity and Flu Severity

Washington Post | David Brown and Robin Shulman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Personal Health, Virus, Health, Swine Flu, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Pregnancy, Flu, Weight Loss, Cdc, Obesity, Rikers Island, Living News

A survey of people hospitalized because of swine flu in California has raised the possibility that obesity is as much of a risk factor for serious com...

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Of Epidemics And "Epidemics"

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obseity Epidemic, Center for Disease Control, Swine Flu Symptoms, Swine Flu Pandemic, Obesity Epidemic, Swine Flu, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mexico Swine Flu, Flu, Epidemic, Swine Flu Mexico, Obesity Healthcare, Obama Health Care, Health, Obesity Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Stuart Whatley

The current swine flu epidemic, with all of its gravitas, actually almost makes light of another "epidemic" that has afflicted millions in the U.S. for years and which shows no sign of subsiding: childhood obesity.

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Lyme: Emerging Disease or Hidden Epidemic?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Cure Unknown, Blue Shield, Thomas Gray, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Infectious Diease Society of America, Lyme Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health-Insurance-Industry, Western Medicine, Supression of Diseases, Living News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Many people who have Lyme disease have sounded the alarm, yet the medical establishment is not listening. Why are there so many disbelievers in Western medicine?

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Autism, Vaccines and the CDC: The Wrong Side of History

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cdc, Autism Cdc Mercury, Children, Kids, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Combating Autism Act, Vaccine, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Children's Health, Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Vaccines, Politics News
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby

Being opposed to vaccine-autism research puts one outside of the "mainstream," a charge which is an ugly lie perpetrated by vaccine industry allies and their blind supporters.

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Youth Speak Up and Stand Out in Chicago

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Child Protective Services, Youth Advocacy Trauma Victims, Childhood Trauma, Youth Trauma, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Cps, Chicago News
Michelle Renee

Until recently youth have been ignored in trauma treatment, program and outreach strategy development. This, we are discovering, is a mistake.

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Report On Climate Change Health Risks "Eviscerated" By WH

AP News | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bush Climate Change, Climate Change, Living News

The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact ...

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