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Activism: Health
"We are praying that mankind does wake up and think about the future, for we haven't just inherited this earth from our ancestors, but we are borrowing it from our unborn children."-- Joseph Chasing Horse
Alternative Health News Online
- presents a number of techniques and approaches that appear to be worth your time to investigate and to discuss with your physician or health-care provider, and reports on wellness and natural approaches to staying healthy and living longer.
- The Internet's largest database of alternative medical health information
- "Making Health Care Freedom a Reality"
- provides leadership in legal, scientific, and grassroots efforts to address the increasing concerns about the impacts of our food production system on human health, animal welfare, and the environment.
- a grassroots advocacy organization committed to protecting and expanding consumer natural health choices.
- HAI promotes personal growth and social evolution by replacing ignorance and fear with awareness and love. The Human Awareness Institute aims to create a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, honesty, compassion and love.
- The Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children
- New Food Pyramid (Scientific American, January 2003)
- established to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the forefront of America's health policy debate
- an alliance of more than 70 grassroots groups in 11 countries united to win human rights in the "mental health system."
- a center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science; training CAM researchers; and disseminating authoritative information.
- Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability.
- Providing pathways for living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting
- Such an important topic it gets it's own section
- Infact's Tobacco Industry Campaign
- Kraft Boycott
- Bombarded by billions of dollars in tobacco advertising and promotion, 3,000 US teens start smoking every day. Half of those who wind up hooked for life will die a painful, early death from illnesses like lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and strokes. Tobacco giant Philip Morris counts on us to support them in the grocery store by buying their Kraft, Post, and Maxwell House products.
- SmokeFreeWorld.com
- your guide to smokefree dining, entertainment and travel.
- TheTruth.com
- "our goal is to alert everyone to the lies and hidden practices of the cigarette companies, while giving people the tools to have a voice in changing that."
- a free service from Greenpeace, to connect consumers who want to take action to end the use of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in our foods.
- Hunger afflicts one out of seven people on Earth. WFP is the frontline United Nations Agency whose mission is to provide: Food for LIFE to sustain victims of man-made and natural disasters; Food for GROWTH to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives; and Food for WORK to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labour-intensive works programmes.
- The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
