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Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally got around to acknowledging a 2009 petition regarding the requirement to label milk as “artificially sweetened” when the milk contains a sweetener like aspartame. The petition, started by International Dairy Foods Association (...
According to reports filed with the Washington State Department of Ecology, over 5000 children’s products contain toxic chemicals that are linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and reproductive problems. The Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer States performed an analysis of the rep...
Growing up, kids and adolescents in my neighborhood ran around outside all day until long after the streetlights came on . We’d climb trees, build forts with real tools, jump on trampolines, play football in the street, go swimming sans parents and ride public transportation all over ...
It’s not entirely clear why male cells end up in female brains, but the researchers on this study point out that the most likely source is to acquire these cells during a pregnancy with a male fetus. Women who have not given birth (cases of abortion or miscarriage) but were at some po...
“Although this mural may just be bottle caps and paint to some,” said Benus, “it means much more than that to us. To me, this mural represents the success that can be achieved when different people in a community come together to help support our schools. It represents the engagement ...
Mayer installed a nursery in her office , and she’s allowed to bring her child to work. It’s good to be the queen, because apparently she’s a working mother who combines her career with parenting, but her fellow Yahoo! employees do not share this privilege and are now going to be forc...
remove brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from Gatorade after consumer complaints started rolling in via a petition started at Change.org by 15 year-old Sarah Kavanagh. Kavanagh launched the petition after reading the label of her Gatorade drink and seeing “brominated vegetable oil” in th...
Vanis’ influential actions extend beyond environmentally-focused ideals as well. This young entrepreneur is also a budding philanthropist. Project Hope Alliance , an organization that provides outreach assistance to homeless and underprivileged children, receives a whopping 25% of his...
