Cow milk is polluted.
A recent story in the news is about toxic chemicals in human milk.http://www.healthaim.com/breast-milk-toxic-chemicals/27981 These chemicals come from common household products (cookware, pizza boxes, lining of cans) and also from all the manmade compounds used in fertilizers and food, pesticides and plastics. We can not digest these chemicals; they build up in our organs, alter our.. read more →
Boycott movie theaters.
I want to feel safe when I watch a movie. That’s why I am now watching movies at home, instead of going to a theater. When I go to the theater, I am a target. I need to feel safe to spend my money. I want to relax to enjoy the movie without fear of.. read more →
Disarm the NRA.
Last night’s news tells of another random act of violence in a town full of friends and music: http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2015/07/23/shooting-reported-grand-theatre-johnston/30598925/ This is becoming commonplace. The scenario is always the same, and too familiar: a crowd of people plus one lone crazy man with a gun. Mass shooting epidemics are only a small fraction.. read more →
WTF?
Fracking is devouring the earth. In a quest for oil, natural gas released by fracking is being burned. The fires from our burning planet are seen from space ships. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-night-giant-fields-of-burning-natural-gas-make-north-dakota-visibile-from-space-2533561/?no-ist “The government has known for years that oil deposits lay a couple miles beneath North Dakota farms, but it was only until fracking technologies recently developed that.. read more →
“If you can, breastfeed.”
An abstract from the newly published European Code Against Cancer 4th Edition: Breastfeeding and Cancer states that breastfeeding reduces breast cancer risk by 2% for 5 months. Risk is reduced the longer a woman breastfeeds, and her lifetime duration is cumulative; an example is the woman who breastfeeds 3 children for 4 months has a.. read more →
Doing one’s job
I’ve held a job since I was 16, starting out as a dietary aide in the local hospital kitchen and an after–school clerk in the local drugstore, and moving to working in hospitals and public health agencies as a nurse and lactation consultant. Only once in that half-century did I ever quit a job because the work.. read more →