Continuum Wellness News

Food Inc: Michael Pollan and Friends Reveal the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
The new film Food Inc. is a shocking look at the health, human rights and the environmental nightmare that lands on our plate each meal.
It turns out that figuring out the most simple thing — like what’s on your dinner plate, and where it [...]

Tags: agribusiness, business of food, FDA, food industry, food safety, from farm to plate, healthy eating, politics of food, where does food come from

What is going on with the food supply? Unprocessed legumes, nuts and alfalfa have all variously put on the carpet as being potentially dangerous to eat due to possible salmonella poisoning. Pistachios, which by the way I recently ate with gusto (from Whole Foods Market) were on the “danger” list. Peanuts have been on [...]

Tags: alfalfa sprout recall, food recalls

Congressional Bill HR 875 was introduced by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro,
whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto. The bill is
essentially a giant gift package for Monsanto, mandating the
criminalization of seed banking, prison terms and confiscatory fines for
small farmers and 24 hour GPS tracking of their animals, and of
“industrial” standards to independent farms.
The corporations want nothing [...]

Tags: corporate greed, farm freedom, food freedom, genetic seeds, legislative action fda, monsanto, organic farming, small farmers

If for some reason you need to take pharmaceutical drugs, protect yourself and loved ones by reading the package inserts. According to this research adverse drug events happen to the the tune of $3.5 billion dollars, and those are the reported incidents.
The new Food and Drug Administration drug package insert: implications for patient safety [...]

Tags: drug dangers, drug safety, drug side effects, patient safety

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has stated that there is no known threat of contamination of infant formula manufactured by companies that have met the requirements to sell such products in the United States. However, the following is a list of companies and their products being recalled because of detected melamine contamination:
Lotte USA Inc., [...]

Tags: Add new tag, food contamination, foods recalled for melamine contamination, melamine, melamine poisoning

The FDA has indicated that tomatoes from the following sources are not associated with the outbreak:
* Alabama
* Arkansas
* California
* Georgia
* Hawaii
* Louisiana
* Maine
* [...]

Tags: food safety, salmonella, tomatoes, tomatoes safe to eat, what tomatoes are safe to eat

Your diet is healthy, you stretch and exercise what else might you need to look at if you want to detox your body? Open your mouth and say a-a-h. Do you have any mercury fillings in your mouth? Moms against Mercury recently won against the FDA regarding the safety of amalgams. [...]

Tags: dental health, mercury amalgams

FDA is investigating a possible association between the use of Singulair and behavior/mood changes, suicidality (suicidal thinking and behavior) and suicide. Singulair is a medicine in the drug class known as leukotriene receptor antagonists. Singulair is used to treat asthma and the symptoms of allergic rhinitis (sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose, itching of [...]