Alert! FDA Warns agains migraine treatment drugs for pregnant women

Valproate and other drugs are linked to diminished mental function of babies and are now being warned about by the FDA. If you're pregnant, read this: http://hcp.obgyn.net/pregnancy-and-birth/content/article/1760982/2141651

Stuff without carageenan

RE: my earlier post about the food additive carrageenan possibly causing inflammatory conditions like ulcerative colitis, here's a list of foods that normally have it but that you can get without it: http://www.cornucopia.org/shopping-guide-to-avoiding-organic-foods-with-carrageenan/

Ditch your bra?

Over the years I've posted about the possibility of bras contributing to breast cancer, mostly because they impede lymph drainage. You can read about how the daughter of Olga (yes, that Olga of the bras) died of breast cancer herself and how her daughter was committed to making a "better" bra, which may be no-bra. 

Here is an article on how it seems like anatomically, a bra might not be doing you huge favors, either and may make things SAG EVER MORE. Read more here.

Is Carrageenan bad for you?

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I'm a big seaweed lover, so I thought carrageenan was just another way to get seaweed. However, I'm hearing more and more about how this food additive (I think there's tons in McDonald's milkshakes) may cause gastro and BRAIN inflammation. I think I'd rather be safe than sorry. Also, it's in INFANT formula, although in Europe they don't allow it. That tells you something.

My sadness is that the nut and soy milks I make are so watery, while the commercial stuff is so nice...because of carrageenan.

Supposedly carrageenan is about as natural a seaweed extract as high fructose corn syrup is to corn; i.e., they use terrible alkali and so forth to get it out. I'm getting rid of all my carrageenen products right now.

Read more here: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-18/health/ct-met-carrageenan-0318-20130318_1_carrageenan-fda-scientists-food-additive-safety

and here: http://www.notmilk.com/carageenan.html

Chemicals in perfume

You may have already suspected this, but most commercial perfumes contain chemicals, some petroleum based, many cancer-causing, and in the cases of synthetic musk, they may even affect your hormones.

Especially if you are trying to conceive, you might want to be aware of fragrance use both for yourself and "secondhand" fragrance, e.g., by your colleagues at works, etc., so you can avoid it.

The Environment Working Group helps lay out some of the risks:

Just like American "cheese" isn't really cheese, soon what we think of as milk may not be milk anymore if the big business lobby gets its way: it wants to be able to add ASPARTAME (i.e., Equal, i.e., the stuff that can give people seizures) to milk and not tell consumers. Also, children drink more milk and are smaller and so will be affect disproportionately.

The FDA, by law, has to have this issue open for comments. LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-dairy-industry-petitions-fda-to-approve-aspartame-as-hidden-unlabeled-additive-in-milk-yogurt-eggnog-and-cream/ 

Also, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but in this particular issues of you google "asparatame" "Searle" (the company) and "Rumsfeld" (yet, the Iraq war-monger), you'll see that it'sa travesty of justice that aspartame was ever approved as safe. Know what's in your food! Protect your right not to be drugged.

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