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• Horrifying environmental impact of non-Gulf shrimp
  (NaturalNews) Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the United States, with the average resident consuming 4.1 pounds per year. But this food comes at a serious cost for the planet and for human health, warns Jill Richardson, author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It."Unfortunately much of the shrimp we eat […]
• Metal from hip replacements could cause tumors
  (NaturalNews) Metal hip replacements may cause soft tissue destruction and even tumors, the British health regulatory agency has warned.The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recently announced that it would test all 40,000 patients who had received metal hip implants for high levels of metal in their blood. This would indicate that t […]
• Amino acid L-arginine vital for fighting, preventing infections
  (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Alberta (UA) have made an interesting discovery about the way the body fights and prevents infections. Richard Lamb and post doctoral fellow Virginie Mieulet, found that L-arginine, an amino acid present in protein-rich foods, is necessary for the immune system to properly detect and eliminate invading bacteri […]