By Heather Callaghan During the “Diploma Rush” days, there were an awful lot of studies citing higher forms of education for a longer life. As though a piece of paper or a few years in training had anything to do with longevity; as though it…
By Heather Callaghan It happens. While celebrating, it might not take much in the way of alcohol to bring on a nasty hangover the next day. The headache that doesn’t go away after taking over-the-counter pain relievers…the unforgivable nausea. Sensitivity to sounds above .0001 decibels….
By Heather Callaghan As demand for local and raw goods continue to rise, more people are asking – where do I find local organic? Where do I find raw milk and join a herd share? Where are the farmers markets, co-ops and stands? [Listen In!…
From Heather Callaghan: The following video features food freedom and raw milk advocate Liz Reitzig of FarmFoodFreedom who was crucial in helping the world to learn about the attack on her dairy provider, Dan Allgyer, as well as other small farmers victimized by FDA sting…
A lively fun discussion took place on January 18th over at Food Riot Radio. Showhost Brad Jordan interviewed Heather Callaghan about the practice of sewage treating industrial farmland and how that affected Whole Foods Market when a consumer blew the whistle on the health food…
By Heather Callaghan Shareholders and stakeholders of Monsanto should start wondering about where their money lies, where it’s actually going, and if it will last. While the world is left largely in the dark about safety risks and labeling, some of Monsanto’s shareholders are just…
By Heather Callaghan Another explanation for Colony Collapse Disorder and the rapid decline of honeybees follows a surprising discovery involving a virus that typically infects the Plant Kingdom – Tobacco Ringspot Virus (TRSV). U.S. and Chinese researchers report their findings in mBio, the online open-access…
by Heather Callaghan It is almost impossible to get necessary amounts of vitamin D from our daily diet; a lot of people use megadoses of supplements. UV-B radiation in sunshine is the most important factor in production of vitamin D – which is why so…
By Heather Callaghan The circadian clock is often associated with the brain and sleep. But did you know that your liver possesses its own clock? A new study reveals links between alcoholic liver disease and its circadian clock… You don’t have to drink alcohol to…
by Heather Callaghan Zilmax is a Merck drug that is given to cattle to “beef” them up; it debuted in the US in 2007. It is now suspected for causing cattle’s hooves to fall off – or as the spin goes: “limited mobility.” It wasn’t…
By Heather Callaghan In December 2012, whistleblower Mario Ciasulli, a semi-retired electrical engineer in North Carolina, put pressure on Whole Foods to come clean about a fertilizer method among their conventional produce suppliers. That is, using sewage sludge, the “pink slime” of large produce farming. No…
by Heather Callaghan Do you remember the 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association 80+ plaintiffs (farmers and small businesses) against Monsanto? They were fighting biotech giant Monsanto’s ability to sue them for patent infringement when genetically modified seeds inadvertently appear in…
By Heather Callaghan With autism rates exploding in recent years and little to no effective mainstream treatments, families have turned to alternative treatments. So it was only a matter of time before researchers caught on to study them. There are no FDA-approved treatments for the…
by Heather Callaghan There is a dizzying and vicious cycle of the overuse of antibiotics in meat production. Animals make up over three quarters of antibiotic use which has helped create a public health crisis. We are now on third-generation drugs that are not combating…
by Heather Callaghan If you are expanding a local growing or food business, you might want to look to Whole Foods Market. Or, do you wish to convert your farm to organic? They had success with their $10 million in fixed low-interest loans to over…
By Heather Callaghan Would you have guessed that the woman pictured here is now 71? She is Annette Larkins from Miami-Dade county, Florida. When she goes out with her husband of 55 years, she gets mistaken for his granddaughter! It is not mere agelessness that…
by Heather Callaghan A year ago at this time, Cheerios cereal company owned by General Mills had a serious mess on their hands. A campaign started by GMO Inisde, a part of Green America, created an uproar of consumer backlash at Cheerios’ use of genetically…
By Heather Callaghan What is making these women so giddy for jabs? See more below… We took the picture above while walking into Kmart after doing a double take. How many droves of Christmas shoppers walked by and simply absorbed the impression that there’s nothing…
Heather Callaghan It looks like the American Psychological Association (APA) is now interested in the power of language and its physiological effects on the body. Interestingly, some new research offered a solution right in its results that did not involve drugs. A technique like this…
by Heather Callaghan University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) researchers actually made a few notable discoveries while creating a new drug for brain cancer treatment. Even though their focus is on new drug trials, perhaps because they were funded by Alberta Innovates – Health…
