Essays and Links Related to the Environment and Health

Disclaimer: We cannot say that the links below provide unquestionable truth, we present them to stimulate thought, discussion and further research by citizens in important topics.

Chronic health problems?  We highly recommend  Ultraprevention by Mark Hyman, M.D. and Mark Liponis, This book is written by two M.D.s whose personal health experiences have led them to understand the limits and problems of modern conventional medicine and how to blend it with
natural approaches effectively. 

MedPortal is where you can start searching and begin to understand your health problems better, learn to work with your doctor and ask the right questions of your doctor! Do not act on any web medical information without getting your doctor's approval!

How much should we trust scientists?

There are prescription drugs that are sometines unsafe.

Are anti-depressants relatively safe and non-addictive? Seroxat is Paxil in the U.S.

Do you believ drug companies can be trusted?

Here's a guide to managing the risks of medicines.

Here's a recommended book on keeping your medicines safe.

Do you want to talk to your doctor about complimentary medicine?

What is technology do to our societies? This site gives just a small sample of what is going on.

Agriculture and Health

Read about our food supply, environment, etc.

There are genetically modified food risks and the companies that are motivated by profit, not consumer health.

Genetic Engineering: Public Health and Environmental Risks

Genetic Food Accidents are already beginning to endanger us and the ecosystem.

Read about reduced nutrition in our food.

Is science actually making a new disease?

There's an increase in food-born illness.

Read about dangerous amounts of antibiotics in our food.

Adding to the risk of antibiotics in foodby irradiating food, and even more about irradiated food.

Check this website with many links about genetic engineering dangers

The dangers of bioprospecting and the little thought for public safety.

There's an accelerating increase in autism. The article suggests it's dues to some environmental contamination and if so, it wasn't anticipated by so-called "science" in general.

The risk of catastrophic climate climate change may be much greater than science can begin to understand and evaluate. The changes may abrupt and irreversible.

More public involvement in science means less dangerous and better science.