Health Issues
Big Ag and Big Pharma are interested in profit, not public health, and their lobbyists fight to protect their corporate interests, not consumer interests. OCA advocates for a sustainable, integrative healthcare system with an emphasis on prevention, nutrition, wellness promotion, and freedom of choice in healthcare for everyone.
Citizens for Health cosponsored a survey which found the following: 75% of Americans use “vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements or natural or homeopathic remedies” and 70% of Americans are more “likely to support a congressional candidate in their district who will protect the public's access to dietary supplements and other natural and homeopathic remedies”.
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Five popular tampon brands — including two advertised as organic — have detectable levels of fluorine, an indicator of the group of chemicals known as PFAS, according to a new report from Mamavation. The environmental wellness blog and
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A recent visit and conference with members of the Amish community in central Pennsylvania revealed surprising health challenges facing Amish children. Dependence on chemical farming as well as the consumption of ultra processed foods were largely responsible for the disappointing health report card.
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Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the largest and deadliest in history. Over 29,000 people were infected and more than 11,000 died in what was also an economic and social calamity.
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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, is one of the most influential professional health associations in the U.S. This fact sheet discusses the Academy’s relationship with ultra-processed food, beverage, pesticide and pharmaceutical corporations, including accepting contributions from and even investing in those companies.
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The involvement of unhealthy commodity corporations in health policy and research has been identified as an important commercial determinant contributing to the rise of non-communicable diseases. This study explores the interactions between corporations and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), and their implications for the profession in the USA and globally.
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As Russia continues to attack Ukraine this week, targeting civilian locations in Kyiv using drones, the risk of deployment of a biological attack—the deliberate use of an infectious agent to cause harm—is an increasing concern in Ukraine, and throughout Europe and North America. It also adds to the existing threat of the use of nuclear weapons.
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For decades, Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has manufactured and marketed a widely used weed-killing chemical called paraquat, and for much of that time the company has been dealing with external concerns that long-term exposure to the chemical may be a cause of the dreaded, incurable brain ailment known as Parkinson’s disease.
Read moreScientists Call For Moratorium on 5G After Study Shows Regulators Ignoring Health Risks of Radiation
The authors of a peer-reviewed study published Tuesday warned about the risks of exposure to radiation from 5G technology and said their research shows existing exposure limits for wireless radiation are inadequate, outdated and harmful to human health and wildlife.
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After top CDC officials said yesterday they were not adding COVID vaccines to the childhood schedule yet, today they added them. Not really a surprise, but it was both sneaky and remarkably bold. There were so many extraordinary goings on at this meeting, entirely apart from the braindead members and briefers who wanted to inject everyone for everything they might someday encounter somewhere.
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