Children's Health: Not ordinary growing pains ♦ Olive, sunflower oil on baby skin weakens natural defenses ♦ Childhood family breakups harder on girls' health,

Olive, sunflower oil on baby skin weakens natural defenses Using olive or sunflower oil on newborn babies' skin damages the barrier which prevents water loss and blocks allergens and infections, new research has found.

Not ordinary growing pains A recent study shows that acupuncture may be a safe and effective adjunctive integrative medicine treatment for chronic pain in pediatric patients.

Childhood family breakups harder on girls' health, A childhood family breakup can have long-term negative consequences for the children. Recent research looks at overall health, depression, and smoking as a health-related behavior and finds that, for girls, all three are worse.

Children's ability to detect sugar varies widely Sensitivity to sweet taste varies widely across school-aged children and is in part genetically-determined. The findings may inform efforts to reduce sugar consumption and improve nutritional health of children.

7/28/14 Health News: Halliburton Fracking Spill Mystery ♦ EUROPEANS DON’T REFRIGERATE RAW SHELL EGGS ♦ China probes food businesses ♦ Claims of chicken contamination

WHY MOST AMERICANS REFRIGERATE RAW SHELL EGGS AND EUROPEANS OFTEN DON’T

American travelers to Europe may have noticed that people “across the pond” often store raw shell eggs at room temperature. They can safely do that because of the way eggs are produced in Europe, but it can’t be safely done in the U.S. because of Salmonella. Salmonella bacteria, discovered in 1885 and named for the... Continue Reading

China probes food businesses, HK bans imports

Shanghai, China (Reuters) - China's food regulator has visited close to 600 restaurants, businesses and food distributors as it investigates a fast-spreading food safety scare that has dragged in a number of global brands and hit food outlets as far away as Japan. Hong Kong said on Thursday it suspended, with immediate effect, all imports from the US-owned Chinese supplier at …continue reading

UK supermarkets investigate after claims of chicken contamination

Chicken farm. Credit: Chris Radburn/PA Comments (1) Supermarkets in the UK are investigating following claims that chicken being sold on Britain's high street is contaminated. UK Poultry processors 2 Sisters Food Group and Faccenda, who are at the centre of the the claims, are denying the allegations which is forcing Tesco, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencers to … continue reading

Halliburton Fracking Spill Mystery: What Chemicals Polluted an Ohio Waterway?

A recent accident highlights how state fracking laws protect corporate trade secrets over public safety.

On the morning of June 28, a fire broke out at a Halliburton fracking site in Monroe County, Ohio. As flames engulfed the area, trucks began exploding and thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals spilled into a tributary of the Ohio River, which supplies drinking water for millions of residents. More than 70,000 fish died. Nevertheless, it took five days for the Environmental Protection Agency and its Ohio counterpart to get a full list of the chemicals polluting the waterway. "We knew there was something toxic in the water," says an environmental official who was on the scene. "But we had no way of assessing whether it was a threat to human health or how best to protect the public."Continue Reading

China Using Gutter Waste for Cooking Oil

Chinese Court jailed 1 man for life and sentenced more than a dozen to up to 15 years in jail for producing and selling cooking oil made from gutter waste, the latest food safety scandal to fuel public mistrust.

The Intermediate People's Court in the city of Lianyungang, (530 miles north of Shanghai, found the defendants guilty of making and trafficking in the "poisonous, harmful" oil between January 2011 and March 2012

The product, made from waste oil and "meat-product waste", known in China as "gutter oil", was sold to processors in at least four provinces or provincial-level cities, including Beijing, it said. In 2011 and 2012 Wang's company, Kangrun, made more than 60 million yuan ($9.80 million) selling the oil.

It just keeps happening.Its amazing that we trust China to make our chicken nuggets. Maybe they will cook them in gutter oil to save money.