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For Healthier Food Systems: Turn the Tide Against Ultra-Processed Products

For Healthier Food Systems: Turn the Tide Against Ultra-Processed Products

The World Food Programme distributing food in El Salvador. The second of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Credit: WFP/David FernandezBy Trish CotterMELBOURNE, Sep 21 2021 (IPS) COVID-19 has exposed serious vulnerabilities in how people around the world access and consume food.
One of the mo
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Colorado Farm Bureau’s Mental Health Program Tailors Resources to Farmers

Describes theColorado Agricultural Addiction and Mental Health Program, which was developed by the Colorado Farm Bureau and offers support and mental health resources for farmers and ranchers, including vouchers to access licensed behavioral health professionals primarily through telehealth. Discusses the stresses that agricultural producers face and the efforts of rural communities and organizati
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CDC Health Advisory: Increases in Availability of Cannabis Products Containing Delta-8 THC and Reported Cases of Adverse Events

CDC Alert on the Increased availability of cannabis products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the potential for adverse events (Source: NIDA News)
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Health Care Hero: Nurse on front lines of addiction care has ‘saved countless lives’

OneFifteen’s Connie Fischer helps to stabilize patients in the throes of addiction. She is a 2021 Health Care Hero. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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Major U.S. cities are becoming fentanyl-infested cesspools as millions plunge into hopelessness and despair

(Natural News) If you live near a major U.S. city, you don’t have to go to a movie theater to see a horror show.  Instead, just find out where fentanyl-laced heroin is being sold and go hang out with the drug addicts for a few hours.  If you survive the encounter, it will be an… (Source: NaturalNews.com)
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