{"id":483,"date":"2024-09-11T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthwatchweekly.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2024-10-22T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:39:15","slug":"a-public-health-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthwatchweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/a-public-health-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Public Health Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/healthwatchweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/HEALTHWATCH3.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is HEALTHWATCH3.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me first of all introduce myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m Michael H. Brown, a professional journalist since 1975 and head of this new weekly health news website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This website will present the very latest in medical, nutritional, fitness, pharmaceutical, environmental, and other health-related content that will be culled from across the massive internet, academic, and medical landscapes and aggregated all in one place for your ready perusal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My own background in this field goes back to the 1970s, when, as a local newspaper reporter, I broke the famous Love Canal toxic-waste crisis in Niagara Falls, New York. You can view my participating (and the incredible story of that dangerous situation) in the recent PBS special, &#8220;Poisoned Ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was nominated for three Pulitzer Prizes for that work, and write a major book about that and other such situations around the nation called <em>Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals<\/em> (Pantheon\/Random House, 1980). I appeared everywhere from the <em>Today <\/em>Show several times and <em>Nightline<\/em> to <em>Phil Donahue<\/em> and Oprah Winfrey before she was famous. I appeared or talked on hundreds of show in the early Eighties about this critical health issue, and spoke at about a hundred colleges and universities. My articles and book adaptations appeared in <em>The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine,<\/em> <em>Reader&#8217;s Digest, American Health, Discover, Saturday Review, New York Magazine, Amicus <\/em>(Natural Resources Defense Council), <em>Newsday<\/em>, <em>Family Weekly, Science Digest,<\/em> and other publications. An expose of mine in <em>Science Digest<\/em> caused McDonald&#8217;s and other fast-food companies to halt the use of beef tallow for frying of French fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now, in this world, face many larger health concerns, and with things like nutrition, have invited a public health catastrophe (wait until you see some of what we&#8217;ll present).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that I have a background in serious health issues and now am extending that to a new journalistic venture that will compile what we believe are the most interesting and helpful articles from around the world when it comes to living healthily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So check us out. Excuse any growing pains. And please let your relatives, friends, colleagues, and social-media contact know about <em>Health Watch Weekly<\/em>. We look forward to informing and serving you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Michael H. 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