By the World Mercury Project In the U.S., plummeting SAT scores are one proxy indicator of cognitive fallout; the scores have been falling for over a decade and are at historically low levels, reflecting an across-the-board worsening in critical reading, math and writing performance. A report in 2013 suggested that almost […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor It’s probably no surprise to you that Natural Blaze vehemently opposes the rash of lemonade stand shutdowns dotting the “Land of the Free.” Not only does it quash the entrepreneurial spirit, but it also erodes the innocence and empowerment of children who start lemonade stands to help other […]
By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company with a sordid history of […]
By Jack Burns When a mother tried cannabidiol as a treatment for her young daughter, who was having nearly 40 seizures per day, she was amazed by the effects and thought she had finally found a solution after pharmaceutical drugs failed to work. However, after her prayers were answered, the state […]
By Alex Pietrowski In recent years we’ve learned a great deal about the dangers of sugars, even finding out that research was compromised in the 1970s, misleading the world about its dangers. It is as addictive as cocaine, it is linked to diabetes, and many doctors and scientists believe that […]
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Pesticides cause a multitude of adverse effects on humans. However, they are especially harmful to children. They may have something to do with the mass-shootings in schools all over America because some of them are neurotoxins. This means they affect and damage the central nervous system and the brain – of all […]
By Richard G. “Bugs” Stevens, University of Connecticut A new scientific study shows that bright electric light exposure of preschool children in the evening suppresses melatonin production almost completely, an important addition to the growing body of research in this area. Melatonin suppression is a marker of disruption of our […]
Margaret Kristin Merga, Murdoch University and Saiyidi Mat Roni, Edith Cowan University There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case. In a study […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A small study compared school-based yoga/mindfulness to typical school methods of dealing with anxiety in children. Typical methods of school-based help for anxiety include speaking to a counselor and other activities guided by a social worker. A Tulane University study published in the journal Psychology Research and Behavior Management reports […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor What happens to the minds of children who are exposed to television? This is an important question to answer because children between the ages of 2-11 watch an average of over 25 hours of television per week. That’s a part-time job. And TV is basically an electronic babysitter […]