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How much do you spend on bottled water? If you buy certain brands thinking the water is cleaner or safer, experts say you may as well be pouring money down the drain because some brands of bottled water are actually just tap water.

Physician Jane Sadler says, “There is no guarantee that bottled water is any better than tap water. 25% of bottled water is actually just repackaged tap water.” Also, what kind of plastic is the bottle made out of?
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Researchers have found a link between a lack of exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and breast cancer. UVB exposure helps create vitamin D3 in the body, which can you can also get from your diet and from supplements, if you don’t have enough chances to get out in the sun. But vitamins may be BAD for you.

Science Daily quotes researcher Cedric F. Garland as saying, “In general, breast cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres. Even after controlling for known variables such as meat, vegetable and alcohol intake, cigarette consumption, weight, fertility and others, the inverse association of modeled vitamin D status with breast cancer incidence remained strong.”
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Be sure to tell your local comics store to order a copy of Whitley’s new graphic novel The Nye Incidents, which is based on REAL events. Click here to see a preview of the Nye Incidents. This will spawn aPDF file on your computer of the cover and the first 20pages of the graphic novel. To get a copy, contact your local comics shop and ask them to order it from Devil’s Due Comics. It will be published in June. Whitley Strieber and co-author Craig Spector can be seen talking about it on the internet TV show “Dave navarro’s Spread.” To watch the show, click here.

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In the days prior to the gigantic earthquake that devastatedSichuan province in China, oddswarmsof frogs were seen inthe streets of cities in the area, and have subsequentlybeen identified as unusual animal behavior of the type thatis thought by some geologists to precede earthquakes. Now ithas developed that similar frog appearances have been takingplace inBakersfield,California for about two weeks, andnobody is sure why. Strange swarms of frogs also appearedbefore the 6.9LomaPrieta Earthquake in October of 1989.
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