Just One Weekend Of Camping Can Reset Your Sleep Rhythm

February 6, 2017 Home And Garden

By Heather Callaghan, Editor When you’re lying wide awake for the hundredth time because you have severe insomnia – are you thinking of sunshine, the moon, the stars or the far-off mountains? These majestic manifestations of nature might be your best friends when you desperately need to sleep – and need to bounce out of bed in […]

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How to Make Awesome Slow Cooker Rice

February 3, 2017 Home And Garden

By Heather Callaghan, Editor If you could make giant batches of rice for your week’s meals without babysitting the pot or buying an expensive rice cooker – would you do it? Of course! It makes life so much easier, so here we go… Food.com has great recipes – but more importantly, techniques. I didn’t just follow […]

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Fast Food Packaging Now Found to Have Fluorinated Chemicals

February 2, 2017 Natural Living

By Heather Callaghan, Editor For all the attention paid to damaging fast food ingredients – it is only recently that a spotlight illuminated its packaging to be among the worst ingredients to which consumers could expose themselves. A comprehensive analysis on the prevalence of highly fluorinated chemicals detected this chemical in more places than originally known. These damaging […]

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Panera Kept Promise, New Menu is Now 100% Clean

January 31, 2017 Food FreedomTop

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Big news! Panera Bread Menu is Now 100% Clean. Panera has kept its promise to phase out artificial ingredients, artificial food dyes, preservatives and ingredients no one can pronounce. Even as late as 2014, the chain failed to live up to their $70 million dollar ad campaign: Live Consciously. Eat Deliciously. Not with their GMOs, […]

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Meals Without Bees – A Photo Series by Fairmont

January 30, 2017 Environment

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Fairmont Hotels has released a photo series depicting a day’s worth of typical meals – but in a near-future without bees. What do hotels have to do with bees? The two don’t really go hand-in-hand, do they? Hotels…bees…hotels…bees… Well, in a world with declining bees you certainly wouldn’t get a complimentary […]

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And the Verdict On Starchy Foods Is…

January 27, 2017 Diet

By Heather Callaghan, Editor A recent review found that the starchy foods you love – the ones that are rich in resistant starch – may benefit your health in very necessary ways. If you’ve been let down by the “low-carb” fad that just won’t die – you’ll definitely want to read this… “Resistant starch” is a term […]

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Eat Leafy Greens and Veggies to Keep Your “Crystallized Intelligence”

January 26, 2017 Diet

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use a lifetime’s accumulation of skills and knowledge you have learned and earned. (Fluid intelligence, on the other hand, is the ability to solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns.) A recent study of older adults has discovered a link between consumption of […]

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Nanoparticles From Engines Can Awaken Dormant Viruses

January 25, 2017 Environment

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Nanoparticles expelled from a variety of combustion engines can activate viruses that are dormant in lung tissue cells. Combustion engines make the world go ’round – cars, planes, boats, some trains and jets, lawn mowers, weed cutters – any gas or diesel engine requiring internal combustion to force the movement of pistons. Viruses are […]

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40 Amazing Benefits of Milk Thistle

January 23, 2017 Homeopathic Remedies

By Brandon Turbeville and Heather Callaghan As health trends ebb and flow throughout the centuries, the use of herbs to heal is often banished, suppressed, ignored or scoffed at. This statement might be said for the humble milk thistle – sadly and too often scorned as a prickly weed. But there it is, always waiting in the wings […]

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Microwaved Popcorn Contains Fluorinated Chemicals – Try This Instead!

January 20, 2017 Natural LivingTop

By Heather Callaghan, Editor If you’re reading this site, you mostly likely avoid all manifestations of fluoride in order to protect your brain and health. You may even avoid microwaved popcorn, perhaps fearing the GMO hydrogenated soybean oil that slathers the kernels. But if you don’t avoid popcorn bags, then please know that your microwavable popcorn […]

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Vegan Curry Butternut Squash Noodles Easy, Quick, Grain-Free

January 19, 2017 Home And GardenTop

By Heather Callaghan, Editor The meal above was one of the most enjoyable meals I’ve made in a long time. It was actually mouth-watering and surprisingly filling. I finally tried my hand at a quick vegan and grain-free, nutrient-dense meal and it was so enjoyable I just had to share it. You won’t find this […]

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Toledo Hemp Center Debuts a Grandma-Approved Commercial #WheresTheRelief

January 17, 2017 Health And Wellness

By Heather Callaghan, Editor In an effort to promote the emergence of CBD oil for pain relief in Toledo, Ohio, the Toledo Hemp Center has just released their homemade comedic commercial, and you gotta see it! Former DJ and longtime radio talkshow host Fred LeFebvre of WSPD AM reported: The Toledo Hemp Center Specializes In Providing […]

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The Government – Placing Kill Orders On Homemade Cookies and Muffins

January 11, 2017 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Hey, I know that we extol the virtues of fruits and veggies over flour-y baked and processed goods – but if you can’t be free to make, buy and sell muffins, cookies and other goodies in this country then what the heck are you free to do? Answer: Free to to […]

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Chair Trump’s Commission on Vaccine Safety

January 10, 2017 Vaccines

By Heather Callaghan President-elect Donald J. Trump asked to meet with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Trump Tower in Manhattan to discuss issues surrounding “vaccines and immunizations.” On Tuesday it was revealed that Kennedy would be leading a vaccine safety commission. The unlikely pair both call themselves “pro-vaccine” but want safety assurances and more scientific rigor. Kennedy […]

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Alzheimer’s and Aluminum in Brain Tissue – True Link Found by Scientist

January 9, 2017 Natural Health News

By Heather Callaghan We’re living in the “Age of Aluminum” according to Chris Exley, PhD of England. Do you associate aluminum exposure with Alzheimer’s disease? Despite the correlation between the neurotoxin and brain disease over the decades, a definite cause hadn’t been clinically presented. Perhaps you’ve heard of the intriguing work of Professor Chris Exley who found that […]

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France Pulls An All Out Ban on Pesticides in the Public

January 2, 2017 GMO

By Heather Callaghan, Editor French Ban on Pesticides a Long Time Coming… At the very end of 2016, AP News reported that “children will soon be able to frolic in the grass without risk of intoxication.” “Pesticides will be banned in all public green spaces from Sunday while non-professional gardeners will no longer be able to […]

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A Need to Grow – Film Needs Your Help

December 27, 2016 Food Freedom

By Heather Callaghan, Editor The Need to Grow is a positive new film by Rob Herring and Ryan Wirick that explores tons of options on the individual level towards feeding the world without destroying the earth. This film – years in the making! – follows innovators of both low- and high-tech solutions to help localize […]

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Watch CBD Oil Transform This Former Cop With Parkinson’s in Seconds

December 23, 2016 Homeopathic Remedies

By Heather Callaghan, Editor A video recently made viral rounds on the Internet of a former policeman trying CBD oil as a last ditch effort to quell his volatile Parkinson’s symptoms. Due to the progression of his Parkinson’s, Larry the former policeman cannot speak and absolutely cannot control his limbs or facial muscles. In under […]

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Sunlight the “New” Best Cold Remedy?

December 20, 2016 Homeopathic RemediesTop

By Heather Callaghan, Editor It may well be that the lack of sunshine in the wintertime is the biggest reason we get more colds and flues during that time. It turns out that sunshine directly charges the immune system to help all stages of a cold – and it has nothing to do with vitamin […]

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Why Not Consuming Nuts Could Be a Risk

December 18, 2016 Diet

By Natural Blaze According to research from Imperial College London, a large analysis of current research shows that people who eat at least 20g (3/4 oz) of nuts a day have a lower risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases. But there’s more to this story than meets the eye. The analysis of all […]

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