Maltodextrin is in some baby vitamins my daughter was asked to evaluate. Along with vegetable oil and milk solids as the first three ingredients. Off to a really bad start here! This was one of the first sites up in Google when I searched the ingredient. Considering how many “foods” contain Maltodextrin, you will find the page an interesting read.
http://fitnessfortravel.com/is-maltodextrin-bad-for-you/
Sowing the seeds of Syria: farming group rescues plant species threatened by war
The Experimental Farm Network seeks to preserve the world’s biodiversity one seed at a time. The best case for a plant’s survival is for people to grow it widely
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/04/syria-seeds-experimental-farm-network-plants-biodiversity
The 7 Questions I Asked That Seriously Changed My Life
This is a seriously good blog post well worth not just the time it will take you to read it, but bookmarking it or, even better, writing down the questions and tucking them away for a regular review.
http://greatist.com/connect/questions-to-change-your-life
Mississippi First in Infant Vaccination Rates – Highest Infant Mortalities
Other nations with far lower vaccination rates have far lower infant mortality rates.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mississippi-first-in-infant-vaccination-rates-last-in-infant-mortalities
Patient wins high court challenge against company's cancer gene patent
Yvonne D’Arcy took US-based biotech company Myriad Genetics to court over its patent of the BRCA1 gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/07/patient-wins-high-court-challenge-against-companys-cancer-gene-patent
Fluoride – Is it a Great Public Health Initiative?? Not Hardly!
It has always seemed strange that any government agency or municipal water district would ever consider using a public water system to dispense drugs. (A drug is something that causes a physiological effect when ingested into the body.)
http://www.behmnaturaldentistry.com/news-and-articles/newsletter-2015-11-01-flouride-action-network
Poisoned Food, Poisoned Agriculture: Getting off the Chemical Treadmill
A peer-reviewed study published last year in the British Journal of Nutrition, a leading international journal of nutritional science, showed that organic crops and crop-based foods are between 18 to 69 percent higher in a number of key antioxidants such as polyphenolics than conventionally-grown crops. Numerous studies have linked antioxidants to a reduced risk of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and certain cancers. The research team concluded that a switch to eating organic fruit, vegetable and cereals – and food made from them – would provide additional antioxidants equivalent to eating between one and two extra portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
Moreover, significantly lower levels of a range of toxic heavy metals were found in organic crops. For instance, cadmium is one of only three metal contaminants, along with lead and mercury, for which the European Commission has set maximum permitted contamination levels in food. It was found to be almost 50 percent lower in organic crops. Nitrogen concentrations were also found to be significantly lower in organic crops. Concentrations of total nitrogen were 10 percent, nitrate 30 percent and nitrite 87 percent lower in organic compared to conventional crops. The study also found that pesticide residues were four times more likely to be found in conventional crops than organic ones.
The research was the biggest of its kind ever undertaken. The international team of experts led by Newcastle University in the UK analysed 343 studies into the compositional differences between organic and conventional crops.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/03/poisoned-food-poisoned-agriculture-getting-off-the-chemical-treadmill/
Game Over: Chevron’s RICO Case Spectacularly Implodes as Corrupt Ex-Judge Admits to Making It Up in Exchange for Chevron Payoff
They don’t come much more criminal than this.
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2015/1026-game-over-chevrons-rico-case-spectacularly-implodes-as-corrupt-ex-judge-admits-to-making-it-up
If You Are Unhappy – Change Something
Great advice!
GE Soybeans Give Altered Milk and Stunted Offspring, Researchers Find
Pregnant goats fed with genetically engineered (GE) soybeans have offspring who grow more slowly and are shorter, according to a new Italian study (Tudisco et al., 2015)… …The reduced growth of the goat kids was attributed by the researchers to their observation that the milk of the GE-fed mothers was significantly less nutritious and contained less of the IgG antibodies important for early growth.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/27/ge-soybeans-give-altered-milk-and-stunted-offspring-researchers-find/