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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
