By Sara Tipton The United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an unusual warning to businesses due to the concerns occurring from the Russia/Ukraine conflict. “Every organization—large and small—must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity,” the agency says in its warning….
By Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev RN, MS, CNS Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced it is relaxing its mask requirements, but alas they are “a day late and a dollar short” since the vaccines are failing all over the world. They simply don’t…
By Colette Using the four levels of disasters introduced in an earlier OP article, I will take a close look at canning as a method of food preservation. Exactly how does canning and the four levels of disaster mesh? For each level of disaster, I…
By Cody Watling, University of Oxford; Aurora Perez-Cornago, University of Oxford, and Tim Key, University of Oxford A growing number of people are choosing to eat less meat. There are many reasons people may choose to make this shift, but health is often cited as…
By Amy Allen With the price of food rising and availability dicey, boosting food production in any way possible can only help. There’s nothing cheaper or more available than the food you grow yourself! Both greens and micro-greens can be grown indoors, even in winter,…
By Sayer Ji With the public’s growing awareness of the deadly side effects associated with the regular use of synthetic painkillers like ibuprofen, the need for natural, evidence-based alternatives has never been greater. People generally think that over-the-counter drugs are safer than physician-prescribed ones. Unfortunately, that…
By Duane Mellor, Aston University It seems like almost every plant-based food is being turned into “milk” these days, the latest being potato milk. It’s not surprising that potatoes have been chosen to be the latest plant-based milk. After all, potatoes have many health benefits…
By Joanna Miller All eyes are on Russia and Ukraine right now, wondering who will attack first. Whether or not this turns into a hot war (and I really, really hope it does not), the Russians have implemented a policy that will hit every American….
By GreenMedInfo Research Group In the face of the mounting costs of anxiety in the U.S. and globally, here are seven substances that act as natural anti-anxiety agents and may make a difference in addressing the unprecedented levels of stress people are facing today, in…
By Hannah Cox In 2020, Kendra Riley and her husband Dave made a life-changing discovery. Not one, but two of their three daughters were diagnosed with an incredibly rare and deadly disease called Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD). MLD is a highly progressive and rare brain disease….
By Indiana Lee We’re living in uncertain times. Between the effects of natural disasters and social unrest, things can feel overwhelming. Your life might change instantly, and if you’re not prepared for it, you could find yourself struggling to get by both physically and emotionally….
By Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster For decades fermentation was used to preserve foods, enhance shelf life, and improve flavour. But many people are not aware about the health benefits of fermented food. Fermented foods are generally defined as “foods or beverages produced through controlled…
By Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart The chimpanzees of the Rekambo community in Gabon, West Africa never fail to surprise. For a start, they are known to kill and eat tortoises, which sets them apart from any other community of chimpanzees. Now they have been…
By Peter Caddle A school in the UK has decided to ban all meat options from its lunch menu over fears surrounding climate change. Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire revealed to parents in a recent letter that it had banned all meat options from its…
By Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev Alert for all U.S. citizens, but especially Californians—here’s a 9-minute video from The HighWire regarding California state senator Richard Pan’s new bill 871 to eliminate all student exemptions from the still experimental COVID19 shots. Unfortunately, mandates passed in one state often…
By Jessica Corbett Underscoring the value of collaboration, experts from around the world on Monday unveiled what they described as the first “truly global study” of pharmaceutical drugs contaminating rivers, which has “deleterious effects on ecological and human health.” The historic analysis, published in the…
By Richard Hoffman, University of Hertfordshire It’s common advice for people watching their waistlines or looking to eat healthier to beware of the amount of oil they use while cooking. But that doesn’t mean we should cut oil entirely from our diet. This is because…
By Tyler Durden Consumer psychology radically changed during the early days of the virus pandemic as shortages at supermarkets emerged. Bulk-buying habits were never a thing with the modern consumer in a pre-COVID world, but now ‘prepping’ has gone mainstream two years since the beginning…
By Derrick Broze A battle over the distribution of ivermectin by the Mexican government continues as a paper describing the apparent benefits of the program has been removed from a popular online science database. In late January, Reuters released a “Fact Check” titled “Mexico no…
By Kerry McDonald During the 2020 lockdowns and prolonged school closures, it was (or at least should have been) no surprise that mental health, particularly for young people, deteriorated. Data quickly emerged from the CDC suggesting that one-quarter of young adults considered suicide in the…
