Category Archives: Women’s Health

What the Supreme Court’s Decision about Health Care Means to Us

Posted on June 29, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Diana Zuckerman, PhD, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families

The term “Obamacare” began as an insult but now it is the name almost everyone uses to describe the healthcare reform law. Earlier this year, some of Mitt Romney’s critics called it RomneyCare, because it was, after all, a descendent of the healthcare program that Mitt Romney developed for Massachusetts. (An excellent program that Romney now says he opposes.)

But let’s forget the politics and call it what it is: the health care law that survived the Supreme Court. Continue reading →

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‘Safer’ alternatives to tanning?

Posted on May 23, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

By Deirdre Imus, president and founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center

In the age of appearance-obsessed television shows like “Toddlers and Tiaras,” “Jersey Shore,” and the “Real Housewives,” all of which feature heavily tanned girls and women, it surprised me little that a mother would be arrested and charged with felony child endangerment for taking her five-year old daughter into a tanning booth with her at a New Jersey salon. Continue reading →

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The Top Environmental Factors Affecting Your Health

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

By Deirdre Imus, president and founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center

The first ever Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, after Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, called for “an environmental teach-in.” More than 20 million people participated that year, and now more than 500 million people in 175 countries observe Earth Day on April 22 by raising awareness for environmental issues around the world. Continue reading →

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The Low-Down on BPA

Posted on April 20, 2012 by lzerbe| 6 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University

BPA has become a classic example of how point of view influences decisions about low-dose chemicals in the food supply for which the science is uncertain.

If you are a believer in the “precautionary principle,” any suggestion of harm is enough to support banning BPA until it is proven safe. Continue reading →

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Pesticide News Every Family Needs to Know

Posted on April 19, 2012 by lzerbe| 1 Comment

by Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network

Spring has sprung, and farmers across the country are preparing for planting season. One of their biggest headaches will be dealing with the millions of acres of cropland that have been infested with superweeds and with new generations of superbugs. These superpests have evolved as the direct — and inevitable — consequence of Monsanto’s aggressive promotion of its genetically engineered “RoundUp-Ready” and insecticidal seed packages over the past 15 years.  Continue reading →

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Danger in the Poultry Aisle

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University

Apparently as a result of a need to cut costs, the USDA is changing the way its inspectors oversee chicken processing.

As Dana Milbank of the Washington Post puts it, this is

a proposal to allow chicken slaughterhouses to inspect themselves — eliminating those pesky federal monitors who have the annoying habit of taking diseased birds out of the food supply.

Even if the Obama administration were inclined to bring down capitalism with an orgy of overregulation, there isn’t enough money in the budget to enforce the rules on the books.  That’s what the chicken fight is about: Spending cuts…are a form of de facto deregulation (my emphasis). Continue reading →

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The New GMOs: What You Need to Know

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 3 Comments

By Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network

As if the disaster of RoundUp resistant superweeds sweeping our farmland weren’t enough, Monsanto is now preparing to launch an even greater disaster: a new soybean engineered to be resistant to the older, more toxic weedkiller, dicamba. The seed — which Monsanto plans to market in 2014 if approved — will also come stacked with the company’s RoundUp Ready gene, and is designed to be used with Monsanto’s proprietary herbicide “premix” of dicamba and glyphosate. Continue reading →

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Superbug Lawsuit Could Save Antibiotics

Posted on March 26, 2012 by lzerbe| Leave a comment

by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council

Last Thursday night, a federal court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on the practice of giving antibiotics to livestock through animal feed. This victory will help protect American families against superbugs and other drug-resistant bacteria. Continue reading →

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Salt Wars: What’s Really Too Much?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by lzerbe| 2 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University

Dietary sodium continues to generate much talk but little action.

The CDC issued a recent Vital Signs report on dietary sodium with this graphic:

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Are sugars toxic? Should they be regulated?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by lzerbe| 8 Comments

by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.

Nature, the prestigious science magazine from Great Britain, has just published a commentary with a provocative title–The toxic truth about sugar—and an even more provocative subtitle: Added sweeteners pose dangers to health that justify controlling them like alcohol. Continue reading →

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