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Just as the country faces multiple wildfires & hurricanes, hundreds of workers leave the EPA. This is not normal.

"Nearly 400 workers have left the Environmental Protection Agency in recent days, the agency said Tuesday, a wave of departures that soon could take the agency’s staffing to its lowest point in almost 30 years."

Hundreds of EPA Workers Leave in Recent Days Nearly 400 workers have left the Environmental Protection Agency in recent days, the agency said Tuesday, a wave of departures that soon could take the agency’s staffing to its lowest point in almost 30 years.

An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Off a Major Antarctic Ice Shelf. “This is a big change. Maps will need to be redrawn.”

An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Broke Off a Major Antarctic Ice Shelf A crack more than 120 miles long had developed over several years in a floating ice shelf called Larsen C, and scientists who have been monitoring it confirmed on Wednesday that the huge iceberg had finally separated.

And the taxes work as intended, research has found. After Berkeley, Calif., put in place a tax in 2015, sales of sugary drinks fell almost 10 percent, according to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine. Sales of water and other unsweetened beverages rose over the same period.

Opinion Today Last month, the Seattle City Council passed a tax on soda and other sweetened beverages.

Over the last four years, government scientists have compiled an official record running more than 10,000 pages showing the three pesticides under review - chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion - pose a risk to nearly every endangered species they studied. Regulators at the three federal agencies, which share responsibilities for enforcing the Endangered Species Act, are close to issuing findings expected to result in new limits on how and where the highly toxic pesticides can be used.

AP: Dow Chemical pushing to have gov’t findings on 3 pesticides set aside Company with much D.C. clout is challenging validity of gov’t studies showing the chemicals harm some 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species

Turmeric Spices Found Heavily Contaminated with Toxic Lead. FDA Forces Nationwide Recall... This is very alarming. Something to keep in mind for all spices, really. Pay attention to the following brands...

"The sugar industry paid scientists to cast doubt on the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead"

“This comes right out of the to***co industry’s playbook: cast doubt on the science,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University who studies conflicts of interest in nutrition research. “This is a classic example of how industry funding biases opinion. It’s shameful.”

Study Tied to Food Industry Tries to Discredit Sugar Guidelines Critics say the review, a scathing attack on recommendations to eat less sugar, is the latest in a series of efforts by the food industry to shape global nutrition advice.

Boulder County commissioners have scheduled a mid-December meeting to consider whether to terminate, shorten or extend the county's current moratorium on accepting and processing new applications for oil and gas drilling and production in unincorporated parts of the county.

Boulder County imposes emergency oil/gas moratorium extension Boulder County commissioners this morning formally approved an emergency extension of the county moratorium on oil and gas development that was set to expire Friday.

United States Comes in Last Again on Health, Compared to Other Countries

A group that bashes U.S. health care every year has a new zinger Americans are still struggling with their health, and rank last against citizens of 10 other rich countries, yet another new survey finds.

The area south of Colorado Springs, home to an estimated 80,000 people, ranks among the hardest-hit of at least 63 areas nationwide where PFCs have been measured in public water systems at levels the Environmental Protection Agency deems dangerous.

In Colorado, the latest government well test data show PFCs have contaminated groundwater throughout the Fountain Creek watershed, nearly as far south as Pueblo, at levels up to five times higher than that EPA health advisory limit of 70 parts per trillion.

Air Force discloses 150,000-gallon spill of PFCs-laced waste from Peterson AFB tank U.S. Air Force officials on Tuesday disclosed a spill of 150,000 gallons of wastewater laced with perflourinated chemicals, discharged from a tank at Peterson Air Force Base into the Colorado Sprin…

Tyson Recalls 132,000 Pounds of Chicken Nuggets Due to Hard Plastic Contamination

Tyson recalls chicken nuggets due to hard plastic contamination

Cool!

Solar Roadways project unveiling set Solar Roadways project unveiling set

“Made from sugar so it tastes like sugar.” That is 100% true. Each 1000mg packet of Splenda contains 950mg of sugar. The other 50mg - 5% - is sucralose, a mostly non-digestible artificial sweetener. It’s 95% sugar.

What is the biggest scam you've ever seen?

"Studies paid for by the lobbying group helped set the U.S. on a policy course that focused almost exclusively on fat as the main cause of heart disease, leaving out the considerable role that sugary foods play, researchers said."

A new review finds the sugar lobby influenced heart disease studies A sugar industry group paid for studies that underplayed the role that added sugars play in heart disease, researchers reported Monday.

Powerful statement

Shaklee is proud to have powered five athletes from the gold medal winning Women’s Water Polo team.

“As an elite athlete, taking care of my body is a top priority,” said Kami Craig and Women’s Water Polo gold medalist. “I make sure everything I consume will help me compete at my best. It gives me great comfort to know Shaklee produces clean and healthy products, which make it safe and easy for athletes to perform at their best. All the Shaklee Pure Performance Team members and I share the same values in health and competition, and I’m thrilled to be part of the Shaklee family!”

General Mills widened its recall of potentially contaminated flour Monday, and health officials said 46 people have been made sick so far by raw flour.

The flour was contaminated with toxic E. coli bacteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Company Widens Recall of Contaminated Flour General Mills widened its recall of potentially contaminated flour, and health officials said 46 people have been made sick so far by raw flour.

It's one of the largest food recalls in recent memory, with well over 400 products from CRF Frozen Foods in Pasco, Washington, sold under more than 40 different brand names at major retailers like Costco, Target, Trader Joe's and Safeway.

Unusual concern in massive listeria-based frozen foods recall Fears center around millions of packages of fruits and veggies shipped to all 50 states, Canada and Mexico and sold by many major chains

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades.

J&J must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to talcum powder: lawyers

This is an excellent documentary of Ireland's relationship with sugar, and the impacts on family health.

Sugar Crash Dr Eva Orsmond investigates Ireland's consumption of sugar, offering a Kilkenny family tips on cutting back on excessive consumption.

Thirty-five years after the first dietary guidelines, how much do we really know about the science behind a healthy diet?

Video: A Decades-Long Search for a Perfect Diet

Cohen's team found that fructose, in particular, affects a metabolic process (or pathway) called 12-LOX. It helps cells metastasize, or spread.

"The majority of cancer patients don't die of their primary tumor. They die of metastatic disease," Cohen told NBC News.

These findings help explain what other researchers have seen looking at cancer patients in general: Those who eat more sugary foods are more likely to have advanced cancer.

Here's How Sugar Might Fuel the Growth of Cancer Tests in mice show a possible mechanism for how it happens.

Good advice.

Simple Rules for Healthy Eating There’s a lot of advice out there about what kinds of food you should be avoiding. Here’s a more positive approach.

Costco's stopped making and selling it.

"Consumers who purchased rotisserie chicken salad from any Costco store in the United States on or before November 20, 2015, should not eat it and should throw it away," CDC advised

Costco Chicken Salad Sickens 19 with E coli Nineteen people in seven states are sick with an E coli infection linked to chicken salad from Costco, federal health officials said Tuesday.

Another reason we trust Shaklee...

Feds Announce 'Sweeping' Actions Against Supplement Makers

"The sweep resulted in civil injunctions and criminal actions against 117 various manufacturers and/or distributors of dietary supplements and tainted products falsely marketed as dietary supplements," the Department of Justice said in a statement.

List of 663 tainted products:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/sda/sdNavigation.cfm?sd=tainted_supplements_cder&displayAll=true

All Natural? Cures Alzheimer's? Maybe Not, Feds Say Federal officials arrested six executives of a big Texas supplement maker on Tuesday as part of a larger operation cracking down on the less savory offshoots of a $15 billion industry.

Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios recalled due to allergy risk 1.8 million boxes of regular Cheerios and Honey Nut are pulled off shelves for wheat contamination

"t took a lot of olive oil to get the protection - it had to make up 15 percent or more of calories." "Women allocated to the Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil showed a 62 percent relatively lower risk of malignant breast cancer than those allocated to the control diet."

Olive Oil May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Women who ate a Mediterranean diet with a little extra virgin olive oil added have a lower risk of breast cancer, researchers report.

CDC Update: 2 Deaths, 341 Salmonella Cases in 30 States Linked to Mexican Cucumbers. The type of cucumber is often referred to as a “slicer” or “American” cucumber and is dark green in color. Typical length is 7 to 10 inches. In retail locations, the cucumbers are typically sold in a bulk display without any individual packaging or plastic wrapping.

1 Death, 300-Plus Salmonella Cases in 27 States Linked to Cucumbers | Food Safety News A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Poona linked to imported Mexican cucumbers has apparently sickened more than 300 people from 27 states and hospitalized 53 of them, according to an alert posted Friday afternoon by the New Mexico Department of Health and additional reporting by Food Safety News.…

Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show

Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show Both sides in a fight over genetically modified crops have relied on scientists to lend their authority, while providing financial support in return.

One Farmer’s Pest Is Another Farmer’s Pesticide: Ants Excel at Killing Other Bugs The research is the latest to show that ‘beneficial insects’ can help reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture.