by Katherine Smith | 5 Aug, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health |
Website editor’s note: The fluoride debate discussed below has now been screened on TV. If you missed it you can watch it on youtube at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa2WhKPpLf0i
The following information is excerpted from a recent Fluoride Free NZ newsletter. Fluoride Free NZ (www.fluoridefree.org.nz) has been working to educate New Zealanders about fluoride and end the unethical practice of... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 31 Jul, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health |
Professor Paul Connett recently visited NZ to give a series of lectures on water fluoridation. During his visit here he was interviewed on Mainland TV. You can see the interview below.
A huge thank you to Professor Connett for traveling all the way down to NZ to help educate New Zealanders about this issue and the Mainland TV presenter for a great interview.
If you would like to help remove fluoride from... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 27 Jul, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health |
Using a wired internet connection (and turning off any wireless modems in your computer) means that you avoid exposing yourself to potentially carcinogenic microwave radiation while you are online.
Wired internet connections are generally faster than wireless, too, although there are exceptions.
This website has a couple of links to help you enjoy safer net-surfing.
They are below for your convenience.
The link... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 25 Jul, 2016 | Environmental Health |
If you have never wondered about the origin of fluoride compounds used in water fluoridation and many other fluoride-containing products …this short video shows the source of a large proportion of these chemicals. To learn more about the fluoridation situation in NZ, please visit the website of Fluoride Free NZ at www.fluoridefree.org.nz
About The NZ Journal of Natural Medicine
The NZ... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 18 Jul, 2016 | Environmental Health, Nutrition |
Here’s something inspiring and worth emulating… Ron Finley is bringing fresh food to people in his neighbourhood by growing veggies in areas that no one else is using.
You can see his now famous TED X talk at this link
https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?language=en
While a longer interview is at the link below:
NB: If you believe that nutrition is... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 8 Jul, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, Vaccination |
Man Made Epidemic, the new documentary that explores how vaccines, pesticides and electromagnetic radiation are helping to destroy the health of a growing number of children, leaving them ill and autistic recently had its premiere in London.
News about the premiere is at this link:
News
The film can now be streamed from the film’s website:
http://www.man-made-epidemic.com
You can learn more about the film... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 23 Jun, 2016 | Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, News |
Most people spend a large amount of their waking hours at work so it is important that workplaces are as safe as possible, in terms of the exposures to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for both staff (and any customers who may come onto the premises.)
The article at the link below discusses different sources of EMR in the workplace:
http://en.geovital.com/forced-exposure-to-emf-radiation-at-work/
if you are an... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 13 Jun, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, Health Freedom Reports |
Website editor’s note: The information below comes from the website of Fluoride Free New Zealand which is working to end water fluoridation in NZ. (In some NZ towns and cities, local councils add fluoride compounds which are waste products of industry (typically fertiliser manufacture or aluminium smelting) to municipal water supplies despite the fact that it is unethical to use drinking and bathing... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 31 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, News |
A word to the wise; the featured image illustrates what NOT to do with a cell phone. Don’t let a child use a cell phone as a toy or talk on a cell phone; their skulls are thinner and smaller than an adult and they will absorb more radiation into their developing brain.
If you have not already seen the documentary Mobilize, there is now an opportunity to see it for FREE.
Free viewing is available at the... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 31 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health |
In response to a recently published paper that was widely promoted as showing that cell phones do do not cause brain cancers, this website recently published the article that you can read at HERE.
And a follow up article that you can read HERE:
Now, following the Chapman 2016 study being covered in Medsafe, Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Director Center for Family and Community Health
School of Public Health,University... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 30 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, News |
Microwave News has recently covered a new study by the National Toxicology Program that shows that exposure to cell phone radiation increases cancers in the unfortunate animals exposed to it.
This shouldn’t be much of a surprise given that a number of studies show that people who use cell phones are at increased risk of developing some types of cancer. (NB: See below for some examples as well as important... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 30 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Children's Health and Development, Environmental Health, News |
Website editor’s note: The information below comes from Auckland Weed Management Advisory which has been provides information about weed control. Unfortunately, Auckland Council has chosen to ignore the cancer risks (glyphosate was recently classified as a “probable carcinogen” and spray glyphosate based herbicides on our streets and parks, including around childen’s playgrounds.
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This talking doll is amazing…but is it safe?
A new trend in children’s toys (previously discussed at this link of our website) is so-call “smart” toys.
This doll is one of a new generation of “smart” toys and the technology is amazing.
As you can watch at the video on this link of the website of the Geovital Academy for Radiation Protection and Environmental Medicine, when the little girl talks to the... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 16 May, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health |
This talking doll is amazing…but is it safe?
A new trend in children’s toys (previously discussed at this link of our website) is so-call “smart” toys.
This doll is one of a new generation of “smart” toys and the technology is amazing.
As you can watch at the video on this link of the website of the Geovital Academy for Radiation Protection and Environmental Medicine, when the little girl talks to the... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 13 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Environmental Health |
He’s smiling now now…but could his cell phone habit have deadly consequences in the future? (If you have to talk on a cell phone for work, please use an air tube headset to reduce the amount of radiation reaching your brain. Please see below for more information.)
Those readers who enjoyed the article Do you really think that mobile phones don’t increase the risk of brain cancer? may... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 7 May, 2016 | Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Environmental Health, News |
A new study by Professor Simon Chapman et al which was published by Cancer Epidemiology has just been trumpeted in The Conversation and the Daily Mail as showing that cell phones don’t cause brain cancer.
But is this really the case?
The text of abstract alone gives rise to some observations and pertinent questions:
Why was 10 years chosen for a cut off point for the Chapman study?
The new Chapman study was... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 20 Apr, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Environmental Health |
Fluoride Free New Zealand has reported that the NZ government is planning to introduce legislation to that will essentially make the fluoridation of community water supplies mandatory. (Currently, water fluoridation is the responsible of the local authority – such as the city or district council – that provides a reticulated water supply for a city or town.)
In recent years, a significant number of... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 25 Mar, 2016 | Children's Health and Development, Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, News |
Good food is one of the basics of health. Qualty fresh fruit and vegetables are particularly important – but NZ children who live in low income households often miss out on sufficient fresh fruit and veges..
Robina McCurdy of the Localising Food Project who produced the documentary Growing Schools which profiled successful school gardening initiatives, is now working on a new documentary called Save Our... Read More | Share it now!
by Katherine Smith | 10 Mar, 2016 | Education, Training and Professional Development, Environmental Health, News |
Author of Playing God Benjamin Nowland learned the hard way that the current standard for electromagnetic radiation in Australia does not protect against health effects. After purchasing an apartment Sydney that was close to cellular phone infrastructure, he became very ill with microwave radiation sickness. (Ben relates the story of his illness in his excellent book and you can read more information about... Read More | Share it now!