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What Is The Meaning of Celibacy? Science and Enforced Sexual Abstinence.

Mike Magee The current crisis and controversy that has enveloped the Catholic Church and its leadership and victimized its most vulnerable parishioners shows no signs of abating. This is largely the result of non-transparency, cover-up, and litigation rather than the result of an open and scientifically rigorous examination of cause and effect. In 1979, while […]

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The American Food Revolution: Jamie Oliver Leads The Way

Mike Magee Last night, my wife Trish forced me to sit down and watch British chef Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution“. (1) He’s on a mission to change the way America eats. And he has some experience doing just that . His 4 part series in the UK unlocked the purse strings to the tune of 1 […]

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“Virtual Water”: Water For Food

Mike Magee Most US health professionals understand by now that the average American diet is seriously out of wack. Both in quantity and quality we’re way off the mark. And the direct results are soaring levels of childhood obesity in the young and an ever expanding burden of chronic disease in adults. And US based […]

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The World Water Organization and its “Water For Haiti” Benefit

Open Here: Learn more about The World Water Organization and the Water For Haiti concert in NYC this Saturday, March 13, 2010.

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Do You Know What A Population Pyramid Is?

Mike Magee If you take a look at the map, you can see that Africa, and to a lesser extent for South and Southeast Asia and Central America, have relatively high numbers of individuals who are young. Gary Fuller in 1995 described this as a “youth bulge”1995. Some have suggested that an excess in especially […]

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Is There Formaldehyde In Your Bedroom?

Mike Magee VIDEO (press here) If you talk to most doctors about their medical school training, many will tell you that one of the most impactful experiences was participating in the human anatomy lab. Beyond the humbling nature of learning from a human cadaver, the physical nature of the experience – sights, sounds, and especially […]

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Uniting Health And Water Professionals

WEFTEC OPENING SESSION, Orlando, FL  (VIDEO) On October 12, 2009, I completed a journey that began a little over 8 years ago, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. As NYC dwellers at the time, our family was directly impacted by the events, the immediate response, and the short, and continuing long term recovery. I was […]

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