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Seed Money for Ideas Addressing Global Health Challenges–and the Fly in the Milk Bowl

Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to preventing disease. Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide …

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Unhealthy “Aid” fr Industrial Food Giant’s Ship (a store on an actual ship) Peddled to Brazil’s Poor + Project Peanut Butter & Nutrients fr Moringa

AlterNet / By Michele Simon Nestle Stoops to New Low, Launches Barge to Peddle Junk Food on the Amazon River to Brazil’s Poor Has Big Food already run out of customers in cities and other locales that are more readily accessible by land? July 8, 2010 | Last month Nestlé announced that it, the world’s …

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Review (Guest): The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick – And What We Can Do About It

Amazon: O’Brien turns to accredited research conducted in Europe that confirms the toxicity of America’s food supply, and traces the relationship between Big Food and Big Money that has ensured that the United States is one of the only developed countries in the world to allow hidden toxins in our food–toxins that can be blamed …

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