Health

A Harvard University study funded by the National Institutes of Health (HIH) has revealed that children who drink water that contains fluoride have a “significantly lower” IQ than children who drink water with little or zero fluoride.  The 32-page report concludes that people living in areas with highly fluoridated water are at greater risk from mental impairment than everyone else. A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) concluded that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted.

The U.S. Justice Department have joined forces with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to completely ban nutritional supplements in the United States.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently warned consumers that “ingesting substances whose safety and efficacy are not guaranteed” – citing a biased FDA study to back up her claims.

You can't say UnitedHealth didn't warn us.

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Tracking the slow motion trainwreck of Obamacare has become one of our preferred hobbies: below is just a random sample of headlines covering just the most recent tribulations of the "we have to pass it to find out what's in it" Unaffordable Care Act:

Forget income and sales taxes for a minute. Some of the cruelest and most regressive taxes are either hidden or nearly hidden. They are kept out of sight because they hit the poor the hardest. What are these hidden taxes? Tune in!

Scientists have begun experimenting with the therapeutic effects of LSD drugs again, years after the government declared a “war on drugs” and dissuaded the medical community from studying them. Researchers have found that despite the prevalent misconception that LSD is “dangerous” they have had success at healing various ailments with the hallucinogen. Washingtonpost.com reports: They helped alcoholics drink less; terminal patients eased more gently into death. And it’s not just the infirm who are helped by the drugs. Psychedelics can make the healthy healthier, too.