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Oh Christmas tree, oh green Christmas tree?
Category: Eco Matters

Nothing says "Christmas" like the smell of pine in your living room on a winter morning! But is that smell really "green" or is it bad for the planet? Is it more environmentally responsible to buy a fake tree and use it year after year? What about keeping a live tree for Christmas? Let's look at the options one by one.
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Disabled people abused in Serbia
Category: Gaia Atrocities
BELGRADE, Serbia - Troubled children bound tightly to fetid cribs they have never left since birth. A 6-year-old boy who tried to rip off his ear while tied to a chair. A teenage girl who attempted to gouge out her eyes as mental hospital staff stood by and did nothing.
The scenes of horror are chronicled in a report released Wednesday by Mental Disability Rights International, a U.S.
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The Secret Food Code Conspiracy
Category: Conspiracy Central
Imagine a world in which no food product could be penalised because of its origins or the way in which it had reached the supermarket shelf.A world where it was impossible to tell if a food item was organic, genetically modified or impregnated with hormones, and where herbal remedies were outlawed, undermining the complementary and alternative health care industry.
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Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's by 30%
Category: Health
Recent research into the Western diet and the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease has led to suggestions that a higher processed food diet produces more cases of the disease.
A French study of 8,085 women and men aged 65 or over participated in the study. None of them had dementia or Alzheimer's at the start.
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Cancer patients hit by NHS cancer postcode 'lottery'
Category: Health
Cancer patients in Britain are subject to an appalling postcode lottery, damning figures reveal.
Some health trusts spend up to three times as much as others on each patient, with differences as high as £12,000.
The discrepancy means life expectancy for cancer sufferers could vary from region to region.
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The missing grey cells that help to create an obsessive
Category: Health
Scientists at Cambridge have found changes in the brain that are linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The condition is quite common, affecting 2 to 3 per cent of the population, and is marked by obsessions and constantly repeated actions. In the film As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson played a novelist with the disorder whose obsessive behaviour made normal relationships almost impossible.
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Indonesia prepares after psychic 'predicts quake'
Category: Psychic
Local officials in a quake-prone Indonesian province said Monday they were taking precautionary measures after a Brazilian psychic warned a powerful earthquake would strike next month.
Brasilia had passed on a letter from a "professor" and psychic predicting a quake would rock the island on December 23.
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Additives 'a risk to children's health'
Category: Health
Parents have been warned to remove food additives linked to hyperactive behaviour from children's diets by the EU's leading expert on the issue.
Dr John Larsen, who heads the European Food Safety Authority's panel on additives, said the measure would be "prudent" to protect youngsters' health.
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Sunshine 'helps to keep you young'
Category: Health
A healthy dose of sunshine may be the secret to staying young, British scientists have revealed.
Vitamin D is produced naturally by the skin in response to sunlight and may help to slow the ageing process and protect against heart disease, according to the study.
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Mysteries of the Brain Part 6
Category: Health
K. Anders Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University, believes that at bottom, AJ might not be all that different from the rest of us.
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Mysteries of the Brain Part 5
Category: Health
"My brother used to say, 'Oh, she's the Rain Man.' And I was like, 'No I'm not!' But I thought, what if I really. . . . Am I? Is there something wrong with me?" At one point AJ considered setting up shop on the nearby boardwalk as the Human Calendar and charging people five bucks to let them try to stump her with dates. She decided against it. "I don't want to be a sideshow.
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Mysteries of the Brain Part 4
Category: Health
Researchers also learned more about another kind of remembering from HM. Even though he couldn't say what he'd had for breakfast or name the current President, there were some things that he could remember. Milner found that he was capable of learning complicated tasks without even realizing it.
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