Raw for 30 Days is kind of like a reverse Super Size Me. The film follows several people with “normal American diets” and type-2 diabetes who undergo a drastic lifestyle change as they go on a completely raw diet. Within a few weeks they don’t need their insulin shots, and by the end of one month, they effectively cured their own diabetes. They also became much happier and emotionally balanced as a result. Check out the trailer above.

Scientists on Tuesday reported that perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel, was contaminating virtually all samples of women’s breast milk and its levels were found to be, on average, five times greater than in cow’s milk…

Perchlorate blocks the nutrient iodide and inhibits thyroid hormones, which are necessary for brain development and cellular growth of a fetus or infant. A baby with impaired thyroid development may have neurological defects that result in lower IQ or learning disabilities…

“This is not just another study,” said Renee Sharp, a senior analyst at the Environmental Working Group, which advocated a strict national standard. “It ends the questions about whether women are passing along perchlorate to their kids through breast milk, and the sky-high levels the scientists found put more than half the kids over the safe levels the NAS now recommends.”

Environmentalists have urged the EPA to set its standard based on the body weight and perchlorate intake of an infant rather than an adult. Toxicologists said that would probably mean a standard of a few parts per billion. Pentagon officials have said that would shut down many water systems across the country and cost the military and its contractors billions of dollars in cleanup costs. They have instead lobbied for a standard of about 200 parts per billion based on thyroid studies of adults.
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