By Heather Callaghan, Editor Hearts broke everywhere when the bright light of Jerry Garcia was extinguished in 1995. Chances are, he’d love that his legacy is living on through the Grateful Dead‘s new efforts to recharge the declining bee and monarch populations by gifting Deadheads. Garcia’s bandmates Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor In a shocking announcement today, Amazon.com Inc. is buying Whole Foods Market Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at about $13.7 billion, including the store chain’s debt. The companies have just made the announcement today (Friday June 16th 2017), adding that Amazon is to pay $42 a share for…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Today, Conagra brands just announced a recall of about 725,000 lbs of Chef Boyardee, Libby’s, and other brands‘ spaghetti and meatballs products due to “misbranding and undeclared allergens.” The undeclared allergens? “Undeclared milk.” Undeclared milk allergens on the label can pose a major danger…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Urban Food Street (UBS) is a hugely popular precinct in Buderim, on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. This precinct spanned 11 streets and over the past 7 years neighbors grow food on the verges, free to the community. They grew enough food for…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor One of the largest human experiments ever was conducted on unsuspecting residents in the open air of San Francisco. It was the U.S. Government’s own experiment conducted on its own people in 1950. IFL Science reports [emphasis mine]: In the wake of…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Japan does a lot of things right. Just look at the warmth and friendship in the lunch room. Others point out the amount of play allowed in childhood. But Japanese adults are seriously driven. Obviously, drive is a good trait. But sometimes…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor While most health sites would not likely endorse eating at Baskin-Robbins or Dunkin’ Donuts – we know people do. And if they should partake in a sweet treat, they don’t deserve harmful and unnecessary ingredients. Period. Not only are there more natural…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Associated Press is reporting that NASA is to release luminescent, artificial clouds above the mid-atlantic coast. The clouds will be accompanied by a sounding rocket launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore between 4:25 a.m. and 4:42 a.m. NASA’s…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor “Listen to the lyrics,” someone said. When I heard the song “Boom, Like That” by Mark Knopfler, former Dire Straits frontman, I was blown away to hear the entire McDonald’s story. Not the glory-story that businessmen would regale me with, almost…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Sweden may be going after the home use of weedkillers containing glyphosate due to fears of its toxicity levels. Strangely, some of the country’s authorities are taking this opportunity to ban the use of a less toxic weedkiller – vinegar. Claire Robinson of…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor For the first time – during just the tiniest dot in history – most people in the Western world can afford to be leisurely. That is to say, hard physical labor isn’t necessarily the way most people are active. Physical movement…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor This article is powered by Rosemary essential oil – and there’s a reason for that. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) has long been thought to stoke memory in folklore. Now that science has been putting those uses through clinical human trials – we…
Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze, via John McDougall The drug industry buys the professors first, then chiefs of department, then the other chief physicians and so on. They don’t buy junior doctors. –Dr Peter Gøtzsche Big Pharma drugs kill around 200,000 Americans every year – half of them…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor We earth dwellers reside in the troposphere, but this is not where we fly. Up above in the lower stratosphere lies a cool, calm and cosmically mystical world unbeknownst to even air travelers. That is except for modern “sky walkers” like…
By Brandon Turbeville and Heather Callaghan Amino acids are the components of protein and proteins are the building blocks of life. And if you’ve got all your amino acids – you’ve got protein! Do you eat fish, other animal products, eggs or sea plants such as algae?…
By Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze Do you ever hear things like “drink lemon water to lose weight” and wonder if stuff like that is really true? Ginger’s effects on cancers like leukemia are stoking interest in both the scientific community and with consumers, but what about…
By Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze As greater interest in alternative and renewable energy grows, so do the numbers of people stepping up to innovate. We need better ways to provide energy that do not rely on vampiric energy companies that monopolize towns, jack up prices and…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor WARNING – below is a graphic photo that contains lurid, violent adult content. Jimmy John’s founder Jimmy John Liautaud is in the public eye again as a circulating photograph of what appears to be a naked trophy hunter straddling a freshly killed shark…
By Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze The NGO, SOS MAIZ BOLIVIA has reported that genetically engineered Roundup Ready maize has been found growing illegally in the Bolivian village of Charagua, in the south of Santa Cruz department. The illegal intrusion was discovered on March 17 2017, when “an…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Did you know that most kitchen pans sold today – especially non-stick pans – are incredibly toxic? When all that Teflon coating wears off of the pan it is actually inside of you because it becomes a part of your food…
