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Factory Farming - A View from New Zealand

International Health News - Your Gateway to Better Health A review of factory farming in New Zealand FACTORY FARMING – A VIEW FROM NEW ZEALAND BY MAURICE MCKEOWN, BDS, PHD As the world struggles with yet another health crisis – Bird Flu, we have to ask how many of these problems have we brought upon ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/rfarming.htm 03/27/04, 23753 bytes

Is Modern Food Still Your Best Medicine?

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH NEWS IS MODERN FOOD STILL YOUR BEST MEDICINE? by Maurice McKeown, BDS, PhD Many of us would like to think that this is the case, but there are growing doubts that the prescription can be relied upon. In recent years we have been assailed by messages about unsafe food. Is it from ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/foodandmedicine.htm 10/01/07, 23229 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – JANUARY 1999

NEWSBRIEF - Organic farming is better. Intensive, chemical-based agriculture seriously depletes soil content of organically bound carbon and nitrogen. It may take as much as 200 years for the soil to recover if left in its natural state. The addition of manure can double soil carbon and nitrogen levels ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n85b.htm 03/02/04, 2755 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – AUGUST 2001

NEWSBRIEF - PCBs in chicken. A major food scandal in Belgium in 1999 revealed widespread contamination of chicken and eggs with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). This particular contamination was caused by the addition of 50 kilograms of old transformer oil to 500 tons of animal feed. Belgian researchers ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n116e.htm 03/02/04, 2839 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – FEBRUARY 2004

NEWSBRIEF - Perils of chicken farming. Approximately 49 billion chickens are consumed worldwide every year. Thirty years ago it took nearly 3 months to grow a broiler chicken to slaughter weight (2 kg) – today it takes 41 days and the stated goal of the chicken industry is to reduce this period by ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n144d.htm 03/02/04, 3423 bytes

The French Paradox – Fact or Fantasy

... R. Ware, PhD The French Paradox is based on the notion that the French eat a diet rich in butter and other fatty sauces, foie gras, fatty cheese, foods high in cholesterol and saturated fat, and have traditionally shunned low-fat products, i.e. theirs is a diet conventional wisdom holds to be bad, and ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/paradox.htm 10/01/07, 33706 bytes

Salmonella common in ground meats

Salmonella common in ground meats COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND. About 1.4 million cases of salmonella food poisoning occur each year in the United States. Most cases resolve on their own within five to seven days, but between 3 to 10 per cent require treatment with antibiotics. Researchers at the University ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a121l.htm 03/02/04, 4325 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – MAY 2003

NEWSBRIEF - Safety of food supply questioned Food poisoning kills 5,000 people, puts 325,000 in hospital, and makes 76 million sick every year in the USA. One of the major reasons for this is the antiquated US food inspection system, particularly in the beef industry, which places the burden of preventing ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n137b.htm 03/02/04, 3414 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – DECEMBER 1999

... . Bt is also a very close cousin to B. anthracis the bacterium that causes anthrax, a potentially fatal disease that can affect both humans and farm animals. Bt expert Lars Andrup of the National Institute of Occupational Health in Copenhagen now warns that Bt is able to exchange DNA with other Bacillus ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n96f.htm 03/02/04, 3661 bytes

Is fast food addictive?

Is fast food addictive? WASHINGTON, DC. Obesity and diabetes are growing at alarming rates in countries where fast foods have become the staple diet. The health commissioner in New York City recently announced that the incidence of type 2 diabetes in that city now stands at 8% or double the rate encountered ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a135d.htm 03/02/04, 4208 bytes