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19 09, 2012

The Pill -Excerpt From Cancer Schmancer by Fran Drescher

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 19th, 2012|Cancer, Cancer Schmancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Fran Drescher, Less Cancer|

I remember Elaine had spent a year complaining about leg pain before being dianosed with a blocked artery by a vascular doctor. Until that point she'd been told she needed back surgery for a compressed disc.  Her fear of surgery kept her searching for another diagnosis, though, and she eventually found her way to Mind Over

9 09, 2012

The Power of Pooze – By Miles O’Brien

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 9th, 2012|Aileen O'Brien Graef, Bill Couzens, boing boing, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Schmancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Detroit, GMO, GMOs, lance Armstrong, Less Cancer, Maryann Donovan, Mia Farrow, michael moore, Michigan, Miles O'Brien, New Hampshire, Phillp Morris, Prevention, Thomas M Sherman, Tom Sherman, Uncategorized, Virginia, Xeni Jardin|

Below is the beautiful tribute Less Cancer Board Member, Journalist, Miles O'Brien had to say about his sister Aileen O'Brien Graef.  A last hurrah, a summer break Aileen and Miles O'Brien in this beautiful moment captured by Miles daughter Connery O'Brien. The Power of Pooze By Miles O'Brien We may not be in

7 09, 2012

Hugh-ville- A State of Heart

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00September 7th, 2012|Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Less Cancer, MIddleburg, Middleburg Virginia, ORGANIC|

 Hugh-ville may sound as if its a place that lept of the pages of a Dr. Seuss.  It did not. For Hugh-ville is not a place but rather a state of heart. In my rural Virginia community we had a little boy by the name of Hugh Wiley who fought a courageous battle against lymphoma.

6 09, 2012

The Stanford McStudy

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00September 6th, 2012|Bill Couzens, boing boing, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Farming, Food, GMO, GMOs, Less Cancer, ORGANIC|

News of the latest Stanford study published in  Annals of Internal Medicine  says that the published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods. Consumption of organic foods may reduce exposure to pesticide residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A message for me, the "non- scientist" that was not so much about what

26 08, 2012

One Idea For More Cancer

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00August 26th, 2012|Cancer, Chemical Companies, Couzens, Less Cancer, Prevention, Uncategorized|

 Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones  reported Friday August 24,2012  that if Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) gets his way, soon we may lose detailed information about the chemicals putting us at risk. The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, publishes the biannual Report on Carcinogens, which is one of the primary sources of public

20 08, 2012

Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health-Air Pollution Associated with Asthma Development Among Young Children

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00August 20th, 2012|Asthma, Bill Couzens, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Couzens, Less Cancer, Maryann Donovan, New York, Thomas M Sherman, Uncategorized|

NEW YORK (August 20, 2012) Exposure to air pollution in the womb and continuing exposure during early childhood increase risk for development of non-atopic asthma, according to a study by researchers at Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health  at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Pyrene -a

15 08, 2012

Johnson & Johnson Working Towards Less Cancer

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00August 15th, 2012|Bill Couzens, Cancer, Center for Environmental Oncology, Chemical Companies, Coke, Couzens, Detroit, Less Cancer, Maryann Donovan, MD, Middleburg Virginia, New Hampshire, Prevention, Rye, Tom Sherman, Virginia|

In the work for Less Cancer fewer rewards are greater than the good news headlines that Johnson & Johnson plans to remove trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic products worldwide within 3 1/2 years.Late last year Johnson and Johnson pledged to remove “chemicals of concern”

29 07, 2012

Robyn O’Brien Says Stick Your Heart Out

By |2017-11-10T21:07:02-05:00July 29th, 2012|Allergy Kids, Bill Couzens, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Couzens, Farming, Food, GMO, Less Cancer, Prevention, Robyn O'Brien, seed|

In a recent blog post in Prevention Robyn O'Brien founder of Allergy Kids had been invited to speak to a group of 400 in Montana that included farmers, parents, foodies and agriculturalists. As O'Brien reports, she opened the night to questions, reporting a farmer’s daughter spoke hesitatingly at first about seed companies and global banks.  O'Brien makes

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