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Saturday, January 29th, 2011

For some reason, we’ve gotten programmed to believe that Proactive Health means— “taking care of my health,” not taking care of “our health.” That’s why in my radio show, blogs, and ezine, I want to make it easier for all of us to take health action. Each week, I’ll be focusing on one action you can take every week to make a critical difference for health– your’s, mine, and our’s. On this week’s Connect the Dots, radio program, physicist Amit Goswami explains how we can do this and why we must. To listen, go here at Noon ET on Saturday, January 29th. Read More→

Health Journalist Featured Action: 1/22/10

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Are You Concerned about a Gas Pipeline in New York’s Greenwich Village?

You should be if you live in New York City– especially downtown, New Jersey, or Staten Island. See pipeline map.

For more information, please tune in to my live radio show today at NOON ET on PRN, featuring special guest, Russell Bishop, editor at large at the Huffington Post.

Gas pipelines recently caused explosions in Philadelphia, and California last September (killing 8 people and destroying 37 homes.) Pipelines in urban areas, and near chemical plants are risky due to both explosions and chemical contamination. They are also terrorist targets. Read more about its dangers here. Read More→

Food Safety S510 Alert: Just in! Aggies Go After Tester

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

You asked to keep updated in this crucial week prior to the upcoming vote on S510 set to occur the Monday after Thanksgiving. This just in from Citizens for Health to warn about Agribusinesses active behind the scenes to remove the Tester-Hagen Amendment which shields small suppliers and farmers from the onerous reporting and bureaucratic regulations needed for the giants. Read More→

Are TSA Scanners Carcinogenic?

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

We don’t need a medical study to use our instincts and common sense. It’s pretty obvious that it’s invasive and inappropriate to undergo an enhanced patdown. Unfortunately, it’s still not clear that scanners are safe.

“Statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” Dr Michael Love, of the Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, told AFP (Agent France Presse.) “No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial.” Read More→

TSA Manhandling Meet Criteria for Sexual Predation

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Earlier this week, Congressional staffers averted their eyes, too embarrassed to watch TSA staff demonstrating a patdown. The new procedures shown at a specially convened briefing, used a young female TSA volunteer. “In front of a room of 200 people, they touched her breasts and her buttocks,” a House staffer who attended the briefing told Politico. “People were averting their eyes. The TSA was trying to demonstrate ‘this is not so bad,’ but it made people so uncomfortable to watch.” Read More→

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Who’s Afraid of Taking Action for Health?

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

We can proclaim the joy of eating healthy, and meditate our stress away. But when it’s time to take action to change policies that affect the health of millions, the response is: Who me? Read More→

What If the Gas Industry Got it About Fracking?

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Do you know those letters you write to people who are really troubling you– but you usually never send? Well, Cornell Professor Anthony Ingraffea just wrote one. But in this case, the distinguished senior engineer wrote the letter that the gas industry would write if they were as keen on safety as they claim to be. Although his letter is a fantasy, in it, an earnest, diligent, accountable, and safety concerned gas drilling industry reaches out to all of the citizens of New York and the dozen or so other states where fracking (a higher risk gas drilling process) is happening, or pending. Read More→

Are Spirituality and Activism Meant for Each Other?

Monday, October 11th, 2010

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious,” Albert Einstein wrote to a friend, I learned from Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., a Jungian analyst. As a journalist, I can say exactly the same thing. But there’s an irony. Whenever the scientist or the journalist finds answers, the answers must remain open, serving as doorways to further questions that naturally arise in their wake. Without this openness to further questions, these answers, whether scientific findings, reports on slices of reality, or certitudes about how things work, may over time crystallize, become opaque, and begin to function as obstacles, blocking further inquiry into the essence of ever-evolving change in the now. Read More→

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