Jean Twenge, San Diego State University Parents who fear their kids are spending too much time in front of screens now have more reason for concern. New research funded by the National Institutes of Health found brain changes among kids using screens more than seven…
By Rosalinda Rosales The greeting starts out routine. You bump into a friend at the grocery store and they ask how you are. You find yourself thinking you aren’t that busy, at least, not enough to describe how you are. Things have settled down and work…
Seasons Greetings from Heather Callaghan, Editor Dear Natural Blazers! It’s been awhile since I’ve done some special reports or had a direct conversation with all of you. I just want you to know how much we care about you and appreciate your dedicated readership. Thanks…
Wellness is like electricity: You only notice it when it’s missing. When you’re not well, your productivity and mood dim to a shadow of their usual selves. Across a team, that difference can be night and day. Employers who offer and measure the impact of…
By Mae Chan The timings of our meals effect our ability to lose weight, so the integration of sleep rhythm data would help to build more effective personalised diet guides, experts have said. Recent research has highlighted fundamental changes in our knowledge about the workings…
SPECIAL REPORT by Heather Callaghan, Editor Kyrgyzstan Parliament just announced its 10-year plan to phase out all non-organic farming and switch to 100 percent organic agriculture. The country that relies heavily on its agriculture has put the final nail in the coffin of Big GMO….
By Catherine J. Frompovich Vaccines are not what they are cracked up to be in more ways than one, most especially in scientific analyses and assays findings, according to a December 13, 2018 Italian research firm’s findings. Below are some rather astounding, plus frightening, data…
By Mac Slavo A major antitrust lawsuit against some large drug companies accuses Big Pharma of working together to raise the cost of generic drugs. These drugs have had their prices increased by 1,000 % or more. The drugs in question were prescribed to treat…
By Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica This story was co-published with The New York Times. Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned under pressure on Wednesday as one of the editors in…
Are you struggling with alcohol? Do you find solace in drinking? Do you want to overcome your alcohol addiction? If you have answered yes in any of these questions, then it’s advisable to stop drinking and if possible, seek professional help. A recent study by…
Preparing your meals ahead of time is a great way to save time and money while also eating healthy. But most people get frustrated by the process and eventually give up. If you want meal prepping to become something you do – not just a…
Apparently the Geneva Convention doesn’t protect against use in domestic agriculture. Action Alert! Researchers who recently examined studies sponsored by Dow Chemical and used by the EPA to approve chlorpyrifos, a type of insecticide, found inaccuracies in what the company reported to the agency. Worse, there is also…
by Julia Conley A federal appeals court rebuked the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) for allowing an energy corporation to move ahead with its plan to build a pipeline that would cut across two national forests and the Appalachian Trail—arguing that the agency put two energy companies’…
Op-Ed by Dave Albin Recently, the announcement that a scientist in China has apparently created gene-edited humans caused widespread panic and concern. Twins from two embryos that had an altered genetic segment (for mediation of potential future disease), using a relatively new technique called CRISPR,…
By Daisy Luther I can’t be the only one wondering what the heck is going on with our food system lately. The recalls on commonly consumed foods have been so numerous that it seems like there’s another one every other day. The contamination of our…
By Susan Boskey Let it be known that the cultivation of industrial hemp, a non-psychoactive variety of cannabis, is now possible for every state of these United States. This, with the passing of the Unified 2018 Farm Bill, December 2018, championed by Senate Majority Leader…
Great news! Having optimum magnesium levels means you probably have optimum vitamin D levels. New research takes some of the confusion out of getting your vitamin D requirements. A randomized trial by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers indicates that magnesium optimizes vitamin D status, raising it…
A Reuters investigation published Friday charges that Johnson & Johnson, a multi-billion dollar company known for its healthcare products, knew for decades that its iconic talcum baby powder “was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos,” but concealed the information from regulators and the public. Asbestos, “the name given to six minerals…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The 116th United States Congress will convene sometime after January 3, 2019. One newly-elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives is a medical doctor from Tennessee, the former TN State Senator Mark Green, who has vowed to take on…
By Karen Foster Highly-cushioned running shoes are meant to protect against injuries, but they may actually do the opposite by changing the way we run, research suggests. Humans have been running for hundreds of thousands of years, and of course for most of that time…
