by Daisy Luther If you shop in the health food section of the grocery store or read the foodie blogs, you may have noticed a trend over the past couple of years: gluten intolerance seems to be on the rise. Kristen Michaelis explains this intolerance…
by Lizzie Bennett At this point drought conditions are devastating crops and even causing shortages of drinking water in California. Texas has also recently experienced a crippling drought that killed tens of thousands of cattle who had no access to drinking water. There are things…
by K.J. McLaughlin Diabetes is a chronic disease which is sweeping our globe in epidemic proportions. In the U.S., there are millions of new cases being diagnosed every single year. In my opinion, the only method we have at our disposal is to try and…
by Dr. Richard Foxx There’s an herb that’s part of the sunflower family that’s called arnica. You’ve likely heard about arnica as you’ve made your way through health magazines and online articles. Arnica is known for its ability to help the body heal from injuries,…
by Catherine J. Frompovich In January of 2014, the Netherlands-based advocacy group Wemos published a 58-page report “The Clinical Trials Industry in Kenya: Realities, Risks and Challenges” wherein it questions if trial participants are fully informed before they give their consent to participate in new…
by Alanna Ketler Have you heard about the amazing Himalayan crystal salt that comes directly from the Himalayan Mountains? It is packed with some pretty amazing benefits and is an amazing new staple to add to your pantry. It is an absolutely wonderful alternative to…
by Jeffry John Aufderheide Do pharmaceutical companies believe in their product? No. They believe in money and power – they answer only to their stock holders. If they believed in their products, they wouldn’t require legal protection from their product harming children through Public Law…
by Gaye Levy When it comes to being prepared, is seems that there are about a thousand things to take into consideration. Well, maybe not a thousand but at least a hundred or two. At times, it feels like we are jugglers, with so many…
by Dr. Victor Marchione Three of the best substances for boosting immunity are pycnogenol, resveratrol, and green tea. Pycnogenol is a patented blend of bioflavonoids that are derived from pine bark. These bioflavonoids hook up with vitamin C and help to boost immune function. There…
by Heather Callaghan The Sugarcrashers have crashed Facebook and YouTube by uploading an interesting video from the time of their recording: 1998. After years of blaming fat for heart disease, sugar is increasingly coming to light as a heart killer. It used to be that…
by Heather Callaghan There are benefits to buying online, but there are also some grave concerns with the direction of online purchases. Big box stores might claim to be interested in consumer demand and start stocking health products, but is that really so? And will…
Garlic contains a substance that is particularly effective in encounters with even the hardiest bacterial strains. A young researcher at the University of Copenhagen will soon be defending his PhD thesis on the positive properties of the malodorous plant. Aggressive multi-resistant infections constitute an increasing…
by Joe Martino Napping can be great! But sometimes when you wake up after a nap, you feel groggy and almost as if you are more tired now than you were before taking the nap. Why does this happen? According to Dr. Michael Breus “If you…
Feeling extreme loneliness can increase an older person’s chances of premature death by 14 percent, according to research by John Cacioppo, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. Cacioppo and his colleagues’ work shows that the impact of loneliness on premature death is nearly…
by Sayer Ji A new review published in Autoimmunity Reviews titled, “On the relationship between human papilloma virus vaccine and autoimmune disease,” is destined to reopen the controversy surrounding numerous reports of HPV vaccine-induced harm that have surfaced ever since their widespread use, beginning with…
‘The bad years are going to be worse’ Fertilizer could be too much of a good thing for the world’s grasslands, according to study findings to be published online Feb. 16 by the journal Nature. The worldwide study shows that, on average, additional nitrogen will…
by Jeffrey Green Policy makers should value environmental, health benefits of small-scale local farming, researcher argues. While the biotech industry continues to assert that modern-day farming must be driven by genetic modification in order to provide more consistent crop production in ever greater numbers, an…
by Catherine J. Frompovich Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to be increasing in frequency. — Dr. Philippe Grandjean, MD and Philip J Landrigan, MD Finally, two medical doctors are…
by Rady Ananda Nineteen of the European Union’s 28 states rejected Dupont’s insecticidal corn, citing concern for pollinators. Five EU states approved the genetically modified maize, and four abstained. But because state votes are weighted based on population size, no clear majority was reached either…
by Brandon Turbeville As a survivor of the Icepocalypse that recently gripped much of the South in crippling power outages and freezing temperatures, at least three lessons can be deduced from the experience. 1. A very small minority of people are equipped to deal with…
