The decades old firestorm debate over whether or not thimerosal in vaccines causes Autism got heated up last week when Jenny McCarthy made her accusation on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The U.S. Senate has just released a report after an 18-month long investigation of the FDA and CDC concerning thimerosal levels in pediatric vaccines and the rising rates of neurological disorders in U.S. children. Their verdict: the FDA is guilty of forcing parents to inoculate their children with hazardous amounts of poisonous mercury in the name of disease control. (more…)

Families who continually eat healthy, well-balanced diets are clinically less susceptible to lead toxicity. This is a well recognized fact that has been documented throughout the 20th century, beginning as early as the 1920s [1].

In general, frequent eating causes less lead to be absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. When a person ingests lead with an empty stomach, however, it is absorbed at a much higher level. One study reported that lead on an empty stomach was 35% absorbed while 8.2% of lead ingested with food was absorbed

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