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Sugar is better than HFCS

Two new studies out have compared regular table sugar to high fructose corn syrup. The findings suggest that table sugar is far better for you than high fructose corn syrup. Not just a lesser of two evils, but way better for you. As in, avoid HFCS! Read about it over at Natural News.

Table sugar is 50/50 fructose and glucose. HFCS is 55/45 fructose and glucose. Just that small amount of extra fructose and less glucose is enough to cause damage to your body. We’re not talking just weight gain either, but cardiovascular disease and diabetes, even liver damage.

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Beware the Flu Vaccine

It’s coming. Flu season. Along with it comes that dreaded flu vaccine. Last year we heard all about how horrible the flu season was, how limited the vaccine supply was, but did you know that only 90 million of the available 162 million H1N1 doses were given out? Does sound like a limited vaccine to me. Did you know that H1N1 wasn’t even as deadly as the normal seasonal flu? It just happens that it hit different generations and was therefore, more news worthy. It was all hype, as it always is.

And so this year’s vaccines have begun to ship. This year’s season vaccine does contain the H1N1 vaccine. Before getting that shot, you might want to read up on the side affects of that H1N1. They weren’t at all pleasant.

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No receipt, thanks.

Really. As if getting it out of our water bottles and toys wasn’t bad enough, now we need to worry about receipts?! Something we all encounter daily and it’s pretty much beyond our control.

Environmental Working Group did a study on paper receipts from various places and found BPA on 40 percent of them. Sometimes in amounts over 1000 times that found in the lining of cans. One thousand times?! How can that be allowed?

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The Danger of Soccer Goals

We spent Saturday afternoon doing something I really enjoy, a soccer tournament. I love watching my son play and get so emotional in the game. After the medals were distributed, I witnessed something that made me think “oh no”  and reminded me of a blog post I had done in the past. A coach from a lower age group was lifting his players up on top of the soccer goal to take a picture of them.

At first thought, it looks perfectly fine and innocent. What a great picture, right? What a lot of us don’t realize is that those goals are actually quite dangerous. If not anchored properly, they can tip over and do at times result in death.

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Male frogs become Females thanks to Herbicides

I ran across this article on CNN today. Maybe you saw it too. After reading it, I did a little searching on atrazine and was not all that pleased with what I read. Yeah, so what else is new?! Are pesticides affecting humans? Are pesticides to blame for infertility and other issues? I read so many articles linking pesticides and chemicals to defects and such that I just don’t question it anymore. We need to remove the chemicals from our lives or at least study them more before they become so widely used.

Atrazine is a widely used herbicide in the US, mostly for corn, sorghum and sugarcane.

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FDA is finally concerned about BPA!

It took long enough. FDA has finally come forward to say you should take pre-caution with BPA. Did you know that Japan phased out BPA over 10 years ago? Why can’t we do that here?

FDA Says Bisphenol A (BPA) Exposure Is of ‘Some Concern’ for Infants and Children