What The World Needs Now ... Is A Prion Killer

Now that they've been linked to some cases of Alzheimer's, we need a prion-killer more than ever.

-Hopefully one that won't kill everything else.

These odd little assassins are the things that eventually kill you in all Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, like Mad Cow Disease, and my personal favorite: Kuru.

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Posted by Will on 03/ 3/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Echinacea Is Cat's Butt At Restoring Prairies, Not So At Fixing Colds. -Unless ...

According to this study by Turner & Pals, Echinacea is not effective against the common cold.

-Bummer.

If you believe that study.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though...

This post by UVA Med + Turner himself reveals

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Posted by Will on 01/22/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

TOUCHDOWNNNNNN!!! Cargill Gets Stevia Past Los Federales. -TRUVIA Is Here!!!

OLÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ!!!!!

FINALLY you don't have to go out all the way to the Health Food Store to get your hands on some non-lethal, non-sugar sweetener.

Years and years after the Nutrasweet corporation helped to scuttle Stevia into the "Supplements" category, even though it's been on the GRAS list in Europe for quite awhile, it -or at least MegaCorp Cargill's version of the sweetener is now GRAS as far as El Fed is concerned.

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Posted by Will on 12/29/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Can Burton Water Salts Cure Sensitive Teeth?

Basically, at one point, I was getting ~all my water from a highly-filtered source.

I soon found myself having very sensitive teeth.

I'd heard something awhile back about how even though it's sterile and clean, that actually drinking Distilled or Deionized Water is really bad for you.

And on another forum through some weird coincidence, it turns out a guy was killing his plants by watering them with distilled water.

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Posted by Will on 08/ 5/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Review: Zevia, the Soda With Stevia

Track 4 from “Transistor”, by 311 -or a Star Wars Trilogy Sandwich

Okay, this one’s been on the shelf and now the hot weather is officially here, I thought it was time to send it out.

Awhile back, I noticed a google ad here on the site and thought, “Soda with Stevia? -NO WAY!” -I immediately shot out an email & Stacey Fujimura + the good folks at Zevia sent us out a sixpack of their soda.

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Posted by Will on 07/15/08 | Comments (2) | Email to a friend |

The G-Shot. Not Gardasil, But Definitely A Shpot Heard 'Round The World

Once Upon A Time, sweet kind ladies like my adopted Aunt, who was recently made an official Saint by The Vatican, would get together and have quaint little sales parties discussing things like makeup and reusable plastic storage containers.

In another notch down the ratchet of our increasingly Britney-fied culture, Ladies who had long-ago abandoned their prim but sassy Doris Day dresses for -well maybe not Christina Aguilera Underpants

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Posted by Will on 06/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

TRIPLE FRAK!!! =>Rocket Fuel In Water. EPA Sez, "What, me worry?"

-Probably won't do anything to get it out of the water or pass any laws that "represent a meaningful opportunity for reducing risks to human health" -yay.

Wait, what was that about buying a really good home water filter?

I could fantasize about the Rocket Fuel functioning like

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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Aw, >>FRAK<< ! -Canucks Bork Nalgene. Thanks, Bisphenol A!!!

BLAME CANADA!!

Our neighbors to the north in their perpetual re-bid to be a haven for pot smokers, asian prostitutes, odd guys named Doug, expatriated French-holes and to remain the red-headed stepchild of socialst Sweden have struck YET AGAIN!!!!

Damn you, Canada! -Singlehandedly pounding the Nalgene Nunc company by outlawing polycarbonate drinking vessels made using Bisphenol A.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 7/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Nero; -I Mean Teh EPA Sez No 'Known' Ill Effects from PPCPs In Water

"To date, scientists have found no evidence of adverse human health effects from PPCPs in the environment."

"There are no known human health effects from such low-level exposures in drinking water"

O RLY?

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Posted by Will on 04/23/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Residual Antibiotics, Hormones found in Public Water

Apparently, fish getting their freak on for Jesus in it is becoming the least of our problems.

And though CityNews has clarified for us some of the snow types not to eat (yellow is still bad, btw), AP’s national investigation team has discovered some stuff may be making its way into the water, -particularly unmetabolized birth control hormones and other

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Posted by Will on 04/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Ben & Jerry's Wants Hormone Labeling on Ice Cream

If Al Gore, after inventing the internet without DARPA, Unix and Tim Berners-Lee, can get labels on food telling us what the Nutrition Facts are, wouldn't it be nice to know about the other stuff that goes into making it? -Like the chemicals and drugs

Now, I am never one to advocate looking into an Industrial Sausage Press, or a Hot Dog Factory. -Because sometimes, you really don't want to

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Posted by Will on 03/20/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

ACHTUNGUNTZEE! -Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash and Brown Spots

No longer afraid of being a lifelong alcoholic, perpetually falling off the wagon, I've written the current Crest ProHealth Mouthwash off my dental hygeine list after this comment from Consumerist's reader "Monique".

"Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash turned my teeth brown! And on top of that, I can't taste anything! I can't believe this stuff is even

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Posted by Will on 03/18/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |