What if the pounds we pack on during the holidays are just as much a product of the antibiotics we are likely to take during cold/flu season as the foods we eat? Does your doctor know? Has your pharmacist informed you of the antibiotic-weight gain risk? Is Big Pharma covering something up?
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The Buzz About Bees
As if we needed to add to the strain of the already-perplexing Colony Collapse Disorder that continues its silent kill of European honeybees worldwide, a late-year news item from Bloomberg portrays a New York judge taking a delinquent EPA to task for turning a blind eye of approval toward Bayer's latest bee killer, environmental advocates say. Why care? Because those honeybees pollinate our crops. So the honeybee goes, so the human population goes. Do we really need another bug spray — another nail in our own coffin? It's time we got schooled in the art of smart consumerism. It's a new year, a new decade, and it's not too late. Self empowerment, anyone?