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    Toxic cosmetics - by frog



    Currently cosmetics in New Zealand don’t have to say what chemicals and toxins they contain. In the USA the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found that many major brands of lipstick contained lead – Lead is a poison that can cause learning and behavioral problems, reduced brain development, infertility and miscarriage. One-third of the tested lipsticks [...] read more
    March 11, 2008 2:41 pm - 4 Comments
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    World Aids Day - by frog



    Today is World Aids Day and the New Zealand Aids Foundation would like to remind us that: The vast majority of HIV transmission in New Zealand occurs sexually. With the advent of new antiretroviral treatments, an HIV diagnosis is not the death sentence it once was, but the serious health effects that an HIV positive [...] read more
    December 1, 2007 3:33 pm - 37 Comments