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New research coming out of Johns Hopkins Children?s Center suggests that children of women with high levels of antibodies to gluten have an almost double risk of later developing a psychiatric disorder. As reported by Huffington Post, researchers looked at 764 neonatal blood samples and birth records of people born between 1975 and 1985, and learned that 211 of that number went on to develop schizophrenia or similar disorders.

Researchers also did comparison studies, ruling out substances like milk proteins as a causative factor. They noted that more research is needed to identify the underlying mechanisms that made the gluten-psychiatric disorder association possible, so they could possibly develop preventive strategies in the future.

Mood swings, weight gain, tummy problems?you name the ailment, there?s a pill for it. And you, the American consumer, are helping Big Pharma sell it. You don?t believe it? Well, it?s true, and believe it or not, the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows this to happen.

What we?re talking about is direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, that barrage of ads you see on TV and in magazines and newspapers, or on the radio and Internet. They?re ads telling you to run right out and ask your doctor if this or that pill would be right for you. It?s a bonanza that?s turned America into a medicated mass of people who?ve been brain-washed into thinking that taking pills will make everything better?even for ailments you don?t yet have (think pre-diabetes, pre-high blood pressure or pre-cholesterol).

It?s a disgusting, dishonorable way to generate sales, but it works: according to AlterNet, in the U.S. every $1000 that a drug company spends on DTC advertising produces 24 new patients?seven times more customers than the companies would get if they didn?t advertise.

Weeds. Everywhere. Across America, from sea to shining sea, an insidious army of ?super weeds? is taking over our farmlands. It?s a plague that even the most famous herbicide of all?Monsanto?s Roundup?can?t stop, mainly because it?s Roundup that?s caused the problem in the first place. Like the old axiom, ?life finds a way,? the weeds Roundup targets have found a way to resist Roundup?s powerful poisons, making them stronger and more prolific than ever.

It?s a problem that?s helped some of the worst weeds grow more than 6 feet tall as they?ve attacked and taken over more than 12 million acres of prime U.S. farm ground, primarily afflicting the very crops Roundup was supposed to protect?corn and soybeans. We?ll probably never know whether Monsanto knew in advance that Roundup would only contribute to creating Frankenstein-like super weeds. But now that it?s happened, farmers who once embraced the genetically-modified Roundup Ready seeds and their companion herbicide are begging for relief and a solution to their woes.   

Rest assured, one of Monsanto?s competitors, Dow Chemical, has what they say will save the GM farming world: a newly-formulated herbicide built on the deadly 2,4-D compound better known as Agent Orange.

VANDANA SHIVA: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living (via http://www.occupymonsanto360.org)

An Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva, one of the world?s foremost environmentalist, anti-GM activist and an advocate of ecological farming and sustainable agriculture as a solution to climate change, food security, hunger and peace. The interview was taken on 16th March 2011, during ?Grandmonther…

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If you haven?t made up your mind yet about whether genetic engineering is equivalent to crop suicide, then watch this short video, which features a grandma in India who is trying to save the environment, and ultimately the world, with natural seeds and ecological farming. The star of this movement is Dr. Vandana Shiva, who founded the Navdanya Biodiversity Farm in India to help save traditional seeds before it?s too late.

This is vitally important because huge corporations like Monsanto are genetically modifying the world?s seeds and patenting them as their own. These corporations say they?re doing it to make farming more sustainable and better able to feed a growing, hungry world. But as Dr. Shiva points out, that premise is proving to be nothing but a big fat lie. It?s a lie that?s been the source of countless suicides committed by Indian farmers who?ve gone broke from farming GM crops.

It?s a scene that too many emergency rooms are seeing these days: a baby or toddler has swallowed something, and frantic parents want it out, now. Naturally, ER personnel also want to get it out quickly, especially since some objects such as batteries can harm or kill a child in as little as a couple hours.

As reported by Reuters:

?If a child swallows a button battery, the parent might not see it happen and the child might not have symptoms initially?and the clock is ticking,? said Dr. Gary Smith, head of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children?s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. ?We?ve seen children in less than two hours have severe, severe injuries from button batteries getting caught in the espophagus.?

The number of children seen in ER departments who?ve swallowed batteries in the past 20 years has doubled, Reuters says. But that?s not the only thing they?re swallowing or putting in their ears or up their noses. Other dangerous items include magnets, hair, pills, alcohol, nails, needles, pins, and tacks.