REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannA woman holds a jar of baby food in a supermarket in Bonn, Germany, February 3, 1998.
A nonprofit organization has discovered that leading brands of baby food products contain a high amount of arsenic and other contaminants that can affect the motor and cognitive skills of developing infants.
Clean Label Project, a nonprofit advocacy group for transparent labeling, tested more than 530 baby food products used in the past five months. With the help of Nielsen data, it was revealed that top-selling and emerging brands contain arsenic and other contaminants in them.
Of the 530 baby food products subjected to test, 65 percent was found positive for arsenic, 36 percent for lead, 58 percent for cadmium, and 10 percent for acrylamide. The research also revealed that the top offenders are the popular brands, such as Gerber, Enfamil, Plum Organics and Sprout, all of which only garnered a 2/5 score from Clean Label Project’s report card due to the presence of toxic metals in their products.
According to Jennifer Lowry, a pediatrician and toxicologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, the presence of the said chemicals in the tested products pose a threat on the fine motor and cognitive skills of babies. Arsenic, for instance, which was revealed to be present in 80 percent of baby formula samples that were tested, is associated with developmental defects, cardiovascular disease, neurotoxicity, diabetes and even cancer.
Jaclyn Bowen, executive director of Clean Label Project and a food safety scientist, pointed out that most baby food products containing high…
A new House of Commons report suggested some sexual or violent offences committed under the age of 18 should not always be automatically flagged up in checks.
MPs said the current approach is hindering access to employment, education, housing, insurance and visas for travel for large numbers of people.
Pastor Philip Noel from Jesus House in London counsels young people, and some have criminal records.
He told Premier that difficulties to secure jobs and housing sometimes drive them back to crime.
He explained: “Society’s not allowing the youth to forget their past.
“The youth don’t actually forgive themselves and the circle of friends that have wide open arms are the friends that were in the crimes in the first place.”
MPs have called for a major overhaul of the regime, saying it undermines youth justice principles and may fall short of the UK’s international obligations.
Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, individuals are not required to divulge past convictions and cautions once they have become “spent” – meaning a certain period of time has passed.
But there are some circumstances when disclosure can be requested, and employers are required to carry out checks when hiring people for certain roles such as work with children or vulnerable adults.
Pastor Noel told Premier: “I’ve witnessed many of them have put lies on their CV to actually get in front of an employer in the first place.
“The majority of the time the outcome is not good. So they’re…
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Charlie was a high school valedictorian with a full scholarship to college when she found herself suddenly going down the wrong path—an unfortunate detour that included drugs, addiction, jail and plenty of other difficult roads.
It’s unusual to meet the authors of a best-selling book that becomes a major movie. But that’s what happened for my wife and me after Same Kind of Different As Me was published and became a cultural phenomenon.
Janet arranged an evening at the Dallas church we pastored for Ron Hall and Denver Moore to discuss their book with our congregation. Before they met, Hall was a successful art dealer in Ft. Worth, while Moore was homeless. According to Ron, their first encounter didn’t go well: “After he threatened to kill everybody in the room, I tried to avoid him.”
Their transformational friendship became the subject of their book and now a movie starring Academy Award-nominated actors Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou and Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger. I saw the film last night and urge you to see it and to encourage your pastor, congregation, and everyone else you know to see it. It is one of the most powerful and profound movies I’ve ever experienced.
I won’t give away the plot of this amazing true story. Rather, I’d like to think with you about a reality that Same Kind of Different As Me makes clear. Brennan Manning makes my point better than I can: “God loves you as you are, not as you should be, since no one is the person they should be.”
Let’s explore his assertion in reverse order.
“No one is the person they should be”
We are each made in God’s image and likeness (Genesis 1:27). However, we have each sinned and fallen short of our Creator’s glory (Romans 3:23). This conflict between our intended nature and our fallen nature triggers a great disruption in our souls.
We know who we should be, but we also know that we are not who we should be.
So, we create what psychologists call an “idealized self,” the person we wish we were. We learn to project this person to other people. Many live behind this facade for so long that it becomes who they believe themselves to be.
Felix Ngole, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said he was expressing a traditional Christian view and complained that university bosses unfairly stopped him completing a postgraduate degree.
But Deputy High Court judge Rowena Collins Rice has ruled that university bosses acted within the law following a High Court trial in London.
Mr Ngole had argued that his rights to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.
But lawyers representing the university argued that he showed ”no insight” and said the decision to remove him from the course was fair and proportionate.
They said Mr Ngole had been studying for a professional qualification, adding that university bosses had to consider his fitness to practise.
Judge Collins Rice said freedom of religious discourse was a public good of great importance.
But she said social workers had considerable power over the lives of vulnerable people and said trust was a precious professional commodity.
She said that after weighing the facts of this case she decided to dismiss Mr Ngole’s claim for judicial review.
Mr Ngole posted comments two years ago, when in his late 30s, the judge had been told.
He was taking part in an debate on a Facebook page about Kim Davis, a state official in the US state of Kentucky, who refused to register same-sex marriages.
Mr Ngole said he had argued that Mrs Davis’s position was based on the “Biblical view of same-sex marriage as a sin”.
Israeli soldiers hold an Israeli flag after leaving Lebanon near the Israeli-Lebanon border Aug. 14, 2006 in this picture released by the Israeli Defense Forces. (Reuters/Dan Bronfeld/IDF/Handout)
Some 20 years ago on a parade ground in central Israel, a class of graduating junior officers marched proudly to accept their lieutenant bars. The parents of those graduating watched proudly from a reviewing stand as the new commanders were sworn in. There were also quite a lot of journalists in…
Rev Daniel Woodhouse (pictured left) and Samuel Walton (pictured right) said they broke into the BAE Systems site in Warton to disarm Tornado planes they feared would be used by Saudi Arabia to bomb Yemen.
Reacting to the decision by a district judge at Burnley Magistrates Court on Thursday to clear them, 30-year-old Rev Woodhouse and Mr Walton, 31, said they would take the action again “in a heartbeat”.
In a joint statement, they said: “We did not want to take this action, but were compelled to do so in order to stop the UK government’s complicity in the destruction of Yemen.
“We do not regret taking action, and would do it again in a heartbeat; the only thing we regret is that we were not able to finish the job.”
“We deplore the continued UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia.”
Rev Woodhouse, from Armley Grange Drive in Leeds and Mr Walton, of Cromwell Road in Lambeth, gained entry to the BAE Systems site in January but were stopped by security staff before they could reach the aircraft.
A spokesman for BAE Systems was quoted by the BBC as saying: “We note the verdict today. This matter was for the magistrates’ court to resolve.”
About a quarter of congregations belonging to the Church of England did not have any children for their worship services, according to recently released figures.
In an analysis of church attendance among their congregations during the month of October 2016, the Church of England found that the smallest 25 percent of churches reported 0 children attended on average.
Released last week, the figures also noted that the median or middle church averaged three children per worship service, while the largest 5 percent of churches averaged 35.
The Church of England directed The Christian Post to an online copy of the report, titled “Statistics for Mission 2016.”
The report showed that an average of 930,000 people, 14 percent of whom were children, attended weekly worship services at Church of England congregations during October 2016.
Church of England spokesperson Anna McCrum told CP that the denomination does have a way to reach children, as it educates approximately 1 million youths in about 4,700 schools.
“These pupils are from all faiths and none and the provision of education is for the common good. Our pupils take part in collective worship and are educated in a Christian…
Earlier that day, the Blares were at the beach when Delbert, who had lifeguard training, spotted a man drowning away from shore.
“He was looking over the situation to determine if he could get out there, and all I can say is he must have seen a way,” Deb says. Deb is blind, and asked her husband to rescue the other man.
Delbert dove in, but his heart stopped beating and he suffered cardiac arrest. The man who was drowning made it safely back to shore and refused hospital transport.
“Please keep Deb and the family in your prayers during this time of great loss. In lieu of flowers please donate to the GoFundMe in his memory. Donations will go to assist with funeral expenses, repairing their home that was hit by a tornado during Irma, and moving expenses for Deb since [she] will no longer be able to stay here alone due to her disability,” according to the church Facebook page.
Delbert worked at Walmart and left an impact on his colleagues.
“I worked with Delbert as a truck Unloader. I thought of him as my grandpa. He was the grandad to all of us truck Unloaders. We are all deeply hurt by his loss. The only things we could think is.. This is a Delbert thing. He would have done this no matter the situation . He was selfless and had a very beautiful soul. … He always listened to my problems even though he didn’t have to. Always was smiling. I’m going to miss his laugh and beautiful smile. It pains me and the boys that he is gone,” one colleague posted to Facebook.
At the time of reporting, the GoFundMe page had more than $3,700 of the $5,000 goal.
Jessilyn Justice is the director of online news for Charisma. Born and raised in a pastor’s family in Alabama, she attended Lee University and the Washington Journalism Center. She’s passionate about sharing God’s goodness through storytelling. Tell her what you think of this story on Twitter @jessilynjustice.
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