CDC Official Steps Down After Coca-Cola ILSI Scandal Comes to Light

July 25, 2016 DietNatural Health News

By Brandon Turbeville Two days after it was revealed that a veteran leader within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was assisting Coca-Cola and International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) in influencing world health authorities on issues related to sugar and beverage policy, Dr. Barbara Bowman has now stepped down from her position. Dr. Barbara […]

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Sowing Your Wild Oats

June 30, 2016 GMO

By Chris Veritas By now it should be no surprise to the readers of this website that glyphosate was found in Quaker Oats cereal, or that Quaker Oats claims this is no big deal, even though said oats are supposed to be all-natural. I guess it’s just too much to ask that an American company […]

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We ‘Slayed the Dragon’: Community Wins as Nestle Drops Water Extraction Plans

June 15, 2016 Environment

By Andrea Germanos Victory for Monroe County, Penn. community comes on heels of another loss of bottled water giant in Ore. After facing community resistance, bottled beverage giant Nestlé Waters North America this week ditched its plans to extract water from a Monroe County, Penn. spring. The plan would have seen Nestlé take 200,000 gallons of […]

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FDA Changes Food Nutrition Label Requirements For The First Time In 20 Years

May 24, 2016 Diet

By Brianna Acuesta Michelle Obama helped to announce on Friday that the FDA approved a new set of requirements for food nutrition labels for the first time in decades. At a health summit in Washington, the FLOTUS said, “I am thrilled that the FDA has finalized a new and improved Nutrition Facts label that will […]

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Costco Is Selling So Much Organic Produce, It’s Helping Farmers Grow More

May 10, 2016 Home And Garden

By Amanda Froelich Because the retail company can’t keep up with the demand for organics, it has launched a pilot program to help farmers buy land and grow chemical-free crops. Within the next few decades, the trend of eating wholesome, organic food is on the rise. In fact, so many people are choosing to invest […]

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Warren Buffet Says Coca-Cola Keeps Him Healthy, But There’s Just One Problem

May 3, 2016 Diet

By SM Gibson Omaha, NE – On Saturday, 85-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett attributed his health and happiness in life to eating fudge, peanut brittle, and consuming a kidney-crushing amount of Coca-Cola. While speaking with reporters at the yearly shareholders’ meeting of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet said he gets a quarter of his daily calorie intake from the well-marketed, caffeine-infused syrup. […]

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Whole Foods To Launch Budget-Friendly Store To Make Healthy Food More Accessible

May 2, 2016 Diet

By Amanda Froelich The ‘365 Store’ is a budget-friendly version of Whole Foods that will be opening in May. Whole Foods is many things, but affordable for the majority of the population, it is not. Because the health-focused grocery store is often referred to as ‘Whole Paycheck,’ the chain is attempting to rebrand itself by […]

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“Nestlé Is Trying To Break Us” Town Fights To Stop Bottled Water Megacorp From Stealing Their Water

April 28, 2016 Natural Health NewsVideo

By Claire Bernish A small town in Pennsylvania is the latest to be targeted by Nestlé Waters North America, which, in typical fashion, is seeking to extract millions of gallons of freshwater to bottle and sell for an obscene profit — whether or not local residents approve. Nestlé sneakily began testing waters in the Kunkeltown […]

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Kraft Quietly Removed Artificial Food Dyes From Their Mac and Cheese

April 6, 2016 DietFood Freedom

By Brandon Turbeville When most major food corporations are forced to abandon toxic chemicals in their food products, the companies generally try to make as big a deal as possible out of the change so as to take full advantage of the positive public relations that result from it. But when natural health proponents scored […]

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11-Year Old Entrepreneur Turns Lemonade Stand Into Million Dollar Deal With Whole Foods

March 29, 2016 Natural Health News

By John Vibes An 11-year-old girl recently landed a million dollar deal with Whole Foods for her family’s lemonade recipe. The young girl Mikaila began her business by adopting her family’s lemonade recipe for a lemonade stand, and eventually was able to expand her small operation into a legitimate product. According to her website: When I […]

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35 Chocolate Companies Tested Positive for High Amounts of Lead and Cadmium

March 25, 2016 Natural Health News

By Brandon Turbeville As Easter approaches, one of the days for chocolate sales of the year, new concerns are emerging regarding levels of dangerous heavy metals and their presence in name brand chocolates. The news was brought out to the public as a result of a report released by As You Sow, and Oakland-based health […]

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5 Most Pervasive Poisons the FDA Has Approved

March 23, 2016 Big PharmaGMO

By Brandon Turbeville Ever since its inception, the FDA’s influence has steadily grown over the products consumed by millions of Americans and over the choices the American people are able to make regarding those products. For many, the FDA stands as America’s gold standard and a voice by which to measure all things regarding food […]

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How Vermont May Have Inadvertently Delivered GMO Labeling to the Entire Country

March 22, 2016 GMO

By Claire Bernish United States — General Mills’ announcement Friday that it would voluntarily label products containing genetically-modified ingredients means Vermont, one of the smallest states in the Union, might have just managed a coup for consumers. Vermont’s new law, which requires such labeling, goes into effect July 1st and is expected to create a ripple […]

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General Mills to Start Labeling GMOs Nationwide, Doubles Organics

March 21, 2016 GMO

By Kristan T. Harris General Mills has decided to start labeling ingredients that are genetically modified (GMO) within their products nationwide, Star Tribune reports. “We can’t label our products for only one state without significantly driving up costs for our consumers, and we simply won’t do that,” Jeff Harmening, head of General Mills’ U.S. retail operations said in a […]

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GMA Found Guilty of Massive Anti-Labeling Corporate Donation Coverup

March 18, 2016 Food FreedomGMO

By Brandon Turbeville The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) was found guilty on Friday, March 11, of violating the “spirit and letter” of the state of Washington’s Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws by attempting to shield the identities of the corporations that dumped millions of dollars into a campaign to defeat a GMO food labeling initiative that was […]

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The Phrase “Who Peed in Your Cereal” Takes on a Whole New Meaning

March 16, 2016 Food Freedom

By Daisy Luther If you need another reason to avoid the processed foods that have taken over the American diet, here it is. A cell phone video from inside the Kellogg’s factory in Memphis, Tennessee was just released, and it showed a man urinating on the conveyor belt full of cereal.  This wasn’t a video […]

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DiGiorno, Lean Cuisine, Stouffer’s Recall Over Glass Particles in Food

March 12, 2016 Food Freedom

By Brandon Turbeville DiGiorno pizzas, Stouffer’s and Lean Cuisine are all making the rounds in the news headlines as of late. But it is not because of a new product line or new marketing strategy – it is because of a massive recall due to the presence of glass in the finished products. According to […]

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There’s Just One Problem with America’s Parmesan Cheese: Most of It Contains Wood

February 19, 2016 DietNatural Health News

By Claire Bernish United States — “Your parmesan cheese products do not contain any parmesan,” stated one of several FDA warnings to Castle Cheese Inc., in 2012. Another alarmingly rebuked, “your product labels declare that the products are parmesan cheese or romano cheese, but they are in fact a mixture of trimmings of various cheeses and other ingredients.” […]

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Is Big Food Watching Your Step Online With Cyber Armies?

February 4, 2016 Natural Health NewsVideo

By Heather Callaghan (Much of this article was originally published 2 years ago at Activist Post and is posted here with updates to provide context for current events) [easy-tweet tweet=”As you read this article, Nestle is reading it too.” user=”natural_blaze” hashtags=”#nestle #bigfood”] Big food companies enjoy greater sales and popularity using social media. Nestle takes it […]

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McDonald’s Just Came Out with a “Healthy” Kale Salad, But there’s just one Problem

February 4, 2016 DietNatural Health News

By Carey Wedler Though McDonald’s remains a powerful force in the global fast food marketplace, its recent PR disasters, from its ‘19 ingredients in the french fries’ fiasco to its use of abused poultry, have motivated the company to rebrand itself. McDonald’s has made not only an appeal to increasingly bizarre snacks, such as the chocolate-laced fries it […]

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