By Heather Callaghan Ragini is a popular fashion blogger from India. Her indie style photos featuring herself wearing her own put together dress outfits have been featured on websites like BuzzFeed. Painful acne had been the bane of her existence and affected her work for…
by Heather Callaghan I still don’t feel guilty. It’s intolerable today to be forced to hide and to be frightened for taking a stand. –Emmanuel Giboulot Last year I wrote about a major pesticide problem in French wines. One that had unfortunate results. For instance,…
By Heather Callaghan Can we just hang up our hats and admit that every fruit is a superfruit? It turns out peaches are beyond amazing. A Washington State University food scientist and colleagues at Texas A&M have found that compounds in peaches can inhibit the…
By Heather Callaghan The issue of corn-destroying rootworms becoming resistant to the very crops designed to kill them – isn’t breaking news. Not only was it predicted before the advent of commercialized genetically engineered crops, but it’s been an ongoing problem. Apparently, it’s become such…
By Heather Callaghan A lot of home builders and painters will know what trisodium phosphate (TSP) is. But a lot of them don’t know that they eat it for breakfast! Even though it appears right on the ingredients label, a lot of people don’t realize…
by Heather Callaghan If you plant it, they will come. A new study confirms the crucial aid that typical British gardeners might unknowingly provide to rapidly declining pollinators. According to Ecologists at Plymouth University, it matters not to busy bees where they are are getting…
By Heather Callaghan Such a walk conjures images of Forrest Gump, and, like his character, it wasn’t for physical health reasons that German man Christoph Rehage decided to take that long walk all across China. Something inside of him drove him to it. He walked…
By Heather Callaghan The case of author and radio show host Kevin Trudeau is one that raises questions about free speech, business, law and natural health. Trudeau has been jailed since last November when he was convicted of criminal contempt by jurors for defying a…
By Heather Callaghan The regulation guidelines for expired foods are few and arbitrary, really. They are also voluntary. They sprang up in the 1970s for more consumer information and perceived freshness. Expiration labels are only required by law for infant formula and baby foods; other…
By Heather Callaghan Young Jack Y. has a tree nut allergy. He is frustrated at the lack of understanding at just how deadly a food allergy can be to 1 in 13 children under age 18. He says: My friends, my extended family, food workers,…
By Heather Callaghan Shareable.net, where have you been all of my life? I clicked all over you recently. Shareable is a non-profit news hub for people to share ideas and real how-to information for transformation amid a crisis-ridden world. Read: grassroots economics. A fallen economy…
by Heather Callaghan & Jeffrey Green A major shift in the consciousness of food consumers is forcing the industry into a competitive race to become more natural. The market is telling food producers that they no longer want so-called factory food because of its many…
By Heather Callaghan Great April Fools’ Day prank idea: Switch up your loved ones’ sugar with salt. When they spit out their coffee and comment on the saltiness you can insist that it’s really sugar and that there’s nothing wrong, giving the prank a twisted…
By Heather Callaghan Have you ever heard or spoken the tired line of “single-dom” – but if I don’t get married, I might choke alone and die and no one will ever find me in my apartment until weeks later… But married people choke too…
by Heather Callaghan Innovative Solving of Nature With Nature Daniel Salatin, the son of popular Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, has combined animals to maximize space and uses “nature to solve nature’s problems.” A fascinating new mini-film by Kristin Canty, who brought us Farmaggedon: From the…
by Heather Callaghan There once was a guy who wrote a book about his journey out of crippling brain fog. He warned that to get out of it he and others needed to use extreme caution about what they brought into the house. With gloves,…
by Heather Callaghan There are diseases that show up in beekeeper hives – they are common among managed colonies. But now they are showing up widely in in the UK’s wild bumblebee population, according to new research published in Nature. Are they spreading from sickened…
by Heather Callaghan The Sugarcrashers have crashed Facebook and YouTube by uploading an interesting video from the time of their recording: 1998. After years of blaming fat for heart disease, sugar is increasingly coming to light as a heart killer. It used to be that…
by Heather Callaghan There are benefits to buying online, but there are also some grave concerns with the direction of online purchases. Big box stores might claim to be interested in consumer demand and start stocking health products, but is that really so? And will…
By Natural Blaze Activist Post writer, Brandon Turbeville, interviews Heather Callaghan on his show, Truth on the Tracks, 9 p.m. EST. They discus the list of hidden places to find your food sources – Where to Find Local Food, Family Farms, Markets, & Co-ops.
