Food & Health – Week of 03.21.14

‘One in 68 Kids has Autism’
Yahoo! News | 27 March 2014
One in 68 children has autism, a 30 percent rise over the last estimate released in 2012…

8 Foods We Eat That Other Countries Ban
AARP Blog | 25 June 2013
There are chemicals and additives we allow in our snacks, drinks and packaged foods…

Americans’ Brains Being Fried by Cell Towers: New Scientific Evidence Reveals Shocking Extent of Electropollution Damage
Natural News | 26 March 2014
Exposure to cell phone towers alters brain function in alarming ways…

Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: A Cross-Sectional Study
BMJ Open | 30 December 2013
We performed a re-analysis of the data from Navarro et al (2003) in which health symptoms related to microwave exposure from mobile phone base stations…

The FDA’s New Food Label Guidelines – A Sneak Attack on Your Dietary Supplements
National Health Federation | 26 March 2014
In a glitzy roll-out last month featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and Food and Drug Administration…

More Than Three-Quarters of Soybeans, Corn and Cotton Grown in U.S. are Genetically Engineered
AllGov | 20 March 2014
New agricultural figures out of Washington show that genetically engineered crops now overwhelmingly dominate the yields of America’s production of soybeans…

Precedent Setting Agriculture Bill Signed by Governor Terry McAuliffe
Farm to Consumer | 10 March 2014
Virginia Senate Bill 51 (SB51), a landmark bill creating more economic opportunities and decreasing regulations for Virginia’s family farms was signed…

Race Against Time to Save Rice
Gulfnews | 21 March 2014
Conservationist reintroduces genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties…