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Neurotoxin

The Gift Of Good Health

Javier Sierra | Posted 03.18.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Fetuses, Learning Disabilities, Big Coal, Epa, Public Health, Obama Administration, Global Motherhood, Babies, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Coal-Fired Plants, Coal Pollution, Decreased IQ, Hispanic Community, Cerebral Palsy, Mercury, Birth Defects, Neurotoxin, Latino Voices News
Javier Sierra

According to a LULAC study, almost 30 percent of Hispanics live dangerously close to a coal-fired plant.

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Sierra Club Took My Hair and All I Got Was a Beyond Coal Button

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.15.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Governor Jerry Brown, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Neurotoxin, Lisa Jackson, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club, The Cove, Clean Air Act, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Methylmercury, University of Georgia, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

I just had a lock of my hair chopped off to benefit science and the planet. I was joined by other moms, children and babies in more than 25 cities ac...

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California Is for Plovers, Not Polystyrene

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.04.2011 | Green
Read More: Food Packaging, Polystyrene, Polystyrene Ban, Malibu Lagoon, Alan Lowenthal, Dow Chemical, Audubon Society, Carcinogen, Coastal Snowy Plover, Neurotoxin, SB 568, Snowy Plover, Sytrofoam, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

The hope in roping off sections of plover habitat in Malibu Lagoon is that we will be able to share the beach with our feathered friends and that the plovers will nest and reproduce.

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Neurotoxins and ADHD: Connecting the Dots

Annie B. Bond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Adhd, Neurotoxin, Health, Neurotoxins, Neurotoxicity Symtoms, Neurotoxicity, Attention Deficit Disorder, Neurotoxins and ADHD, Neurotoxic, Healthy Living News
Annie B. Bond

I've often wondered why the dots haven't been connected by most people between neurotoxic chemicals and ADHD-type behavior.

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Study: Indian Spices, Powders Linked with Lead Poisoning

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lead Poisoning, Behavorial Changes, Indian Ceremonial Powders, Health, Cognitive Damage, Neurotoxin, Indian Children Poisoning, Lead Levels, Lead-Laden, Indian Spices, Wellness, Healthy Living News

After several reports of lead poisoning in Indian children in the Boston area were linked to consumption of Indian spices, researchers at Children's H...

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Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Epilepsy, Axelrod Daughter Epilepsy, Neurotoxin, Susan Axelrod, Neurology, Excitotoxin, David Axelrod, Food Additives, Health, Healthy Living News
Alison Rose Levy

For neurological illnesses, a body of scientific research demonstrates that certain food additives contribute to excessive nerve cell firing, and thus may possibly trigger neurological incidents.

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Parents! Mercury Contamination Found in High Fructose Corn Syrup

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Healthy Eating, Toxic Chemicals, Junk Food, Chlorine, Children, Melamine, Health, Nutrition, Hfcs, Mercury, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Neurotoxin, Fda, Barack Obama, Parents, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

A study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the present.

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The One Unchanging Rule of Health

Anne Dunev | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Pesticides, Personal Health, Nutrition, Health, Fat, Neurotoxin, Health Care, Sugar, Vegetarian, Vegan, Diet, Food Matters, Eating Matters, Food, Healthy Living News
Anne Dunev

Improve your nutrition. This is the one thing you can always do which is never ill-advised and will always improve your condition.

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End of the Innocence: McCain, Obama and Vaccines. Oh My!

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Informed Consent, Jenny McCarthy Autism, Autism Thimerosal, Mccain, Obama, Thimerosal, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Vaccines, John McCain, Cdc, Rebecca Estepp, Fda, Campaign Promises, Vaccine Policy, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Autistic Children, Bush Adminstration, Autism Activism, Hhs, Neurotoxin, Nih, Healthy Living News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

Will the next administration set serious goals of reversing the rate of autism diagnosis by the end of their term or just declare autism a national health emergency and let it go at that?

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