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17 October 2006
Parents often think their children grow up too quickly, but few are prepared for the problem that Dr. Michael Dedekian and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School reported recently - children prematurely showing signs of puberty.
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8 August 2006
Elderly people could ward off digestive problems with probiotics, said scientists at a briefing yesterday that may raise awareness of the benefits amongst this sector of the population.
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4 September 2006
Treatment with 'friendly' bacteria could counter autism in children. A spokeswoman for the National Autistic Society (NAS), the UK's leading charity for people with the condition and their families, said it followed new research into possible treatments with great interest.
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Friday, 29 October 2004
SOME STATISTICS ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS
LEADING NATURAL BODY CARE CORPORATION COMING CLEAN Avalon Natural Products, a leading body care manufacturer, has been mislabeling their shampoo and other products as "70% Organic"
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Friday, 22 October 2004
Toxic Cosmetics on Channel 7's Today Tonight Show. AUSTRALIA 99% of products (personal care products + cosmetics) contain ingredients that have not been tested for safety.
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Friday, 15 October 2004
ORGANIC FOODS SLOW GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE The Rodale Institute has found that supporting organic agriculture reduces negative impacts on global climate change.
WOW that's amazing news! The German Parliament on June 18 passed a law requiring farmers who use Genetically Engineered (GE) seed to accept full liability for possible damages…”
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Thursday, 14 October 2004
The use of Propyl Paraben may be withdrawn by the European Commission because no safe level could be established…
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Monday, 6 September 2004
Parabens - Environment Working Group (www.ewg.org) “…a recent study identified parabens in human breast cancer tissue, raising obvious questions about the abilty of parabens to bioaccumulate in the body..”
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Monday, 23 August 2004
Poison for Profit - What A Business Plan! The huge transnational companies that produce toxic chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and industrial and household products profit not only from the sale of these products, but also from the symptoms and chronic illnesses that they can trigger.
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Monday, 2 August 2004
The Toxic Chemicals in Your Home They Aren't Telling You About Several everyday consumer products are made with toxic chemicals that can't be found anywhere on the package label.
Because We're Worth It ! New product tests have found phthalates, which are known to cause birth defects in laboratory animals, for the first time in two popular brands of lipstick, Moon Drops Lipstick by Revlon and Lipfinity Paint by Max Factor. Both lipsticks also contained toxic glycols and organic solvents.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2004
The case against Sodium Laureth Sulfate Narelle Chenery, Director of Research and Development for ONE Group and formulator of the world’s first certified organic skin and body care products, Miessence, and member of the Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemists looks at the much maligned and often misunderstood chemical, sodium laureth sulfate.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2004
Purely Cosmetic? Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, June 22, 2004; Page HE01 You're already counting calories or carbs, measuring your weight and your BMI, monitoring your blood pressure and cholesterol. Do you really need another health-related number to reckon with?
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Wednesday, 16 June 2004
Ontario College of Family Physicians Pesticides Paper In April, Canadian family physicians issued a strong warning on the risks of exposure to pesticides, noting the number of studies linking cancer, reproductive problems and neurological diseases with commonly used pesticides. The following month in Paris, medical specialists from Europe, Canada and the U.S. released an International Declaration on Diseases Due to Chemical Pollution, calling the number of untested chemicals in the environment "a serious threat to children and to Man's survival."
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Friday, 19 March 2004
Genetically modified strains have contaminated two-thirds of all crops in USA More than two-thirds of conventional crops in the United States are now contaminated with genetically modified material - dooming organic agriculture and posing a severe future risk to health - a new report concludes.
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Thursday, 18 December 2003
New Organic Standards Australian Certified Organic (ACO) has recently amended their Organic Standards to come into line with the recent United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP).
These new standards affect the level of organic certification of the Miessence products that contain non-agricultural substances.
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Tuesday, 16 December 2003
WARNING - CLEANING YOUR TEETH MAY BE DANGEROUS!
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