By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze It’s hard to heed diet goals and eat right – something inside of us kicks against our very best intentions. But what if you could bypass the monkey-mind and go straight to the heart by using mental imagery to affect profound change?…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze As solar energy technology picks up, it is now becoming more affordable, pliable and accessible to the average home owner. The “organic solar panels” were just printed up by Professor Paul Dastoor using conventional printers, that is – they were…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze We’ve written before about the rise of unique solar power. Some of the new solar cells are even wearable. One of the reasons solar is such a boon is the freedom it allows people if they want to go “off-grid.” Whether it be…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Portugal is getting by with a little help from … goats! The U.S. is not the only nation with drought-ridden regions that are extremely susceptible to wildfires. And while the U.S. has quietly employed goats for about a decade to help stall…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze What is your dog trying to tell you? It turns out, dogs are trying to get our attention, but they use more than just a few signals. In fact, we don’t follow their commands they will try harder to elaborate the gesture….
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Farai Chinomwe didn’t set out to bring awareness to bee decline, but his life has changed drastically in the last decade. He always enjoyed marathon running and eventually was inspired to run backward. Meanwhile, he made one very life-changing decision that most people…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Imagine being a lost and thirsty hiker in an arid region… You finally discover water! And it’s not a mirage! But now you have a life-or-death decision to make… Do I drink the water or not? Is it clean or will I…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze The internet is celebrating an unlikely alliance of lions who saved endangered rhinos from being poached by killing and devouring the killers on a South African game reserve. We’re fairly certain that we do not need to point out the poetic justice here,…
By Melinda Cafferty Surgeries to correct hernias are a burgeoning industry because more and more Westerners are being struck with them due to lifestyle factors. In fact, there are over 1 million hernia surgical procedures performed each year. Although 800,000 of these are for inguinal…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze A Polish startup has come up with a whimsically innovative way of turning a common waste product into an “energy drink” for pollinators. GNN reports: Bee Saving Paper is a biodegradable paper that is packed full of energy-rich glucose that is nutritious…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Enamel, located on the outer part of our teeth, is one of the most remarkable structures of the human body if you think about it. It is the hardest tissue in the body and enables our teeth withstand bites, occasional accidents,…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze Hearts are breaking everywhere over Toby the Cat. The “human-forsaken” orange feline that went on a 12-mile journey to the doorstep of the people who abandoned him. The 7-year-old cat, at least middle-aged in human years, was given away by his…
By Melinda Cafferty If our readers just let out a collective “Awwwww!” when they saw this picture – well, we were right there with them. We shudder to how many veterans would have euthanized a squirrel with gangrenous limbs. Interestingly, a team of Turkish rescuers never…
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…
By Melinda Cafferty The smartphone allows you to identify any song while you’re out and about through an app called “Shazam.” But have you ever wished you could hold your phone up to nature and do the same? In a manner of speaking you can….
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze A relatively untapped component of daffodils is now being examined as a potential cancer cure for its ability to hamper cancer proteins and increase cancer cell death. The extract may prove promising as a botanical-based drug to stop the proliferation of cancer…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze The CDC is now taking notice that a significant number of dentists have died in a relatively short period of time at one Virginia care center. The fact that a significant number of deaths at the care center were from dental…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced late Monday that it is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and chemical exposure on America’s children. Critics are calling the move “truly wicked” and another unsurprising sign of the Administration’s…
By Melinda Cafferty Quality of sleep is certainly important, but never underestimate the “power of hours” when it comes to restorative rest. Modern adults are simply not getting enough sleep and they are feeling the effects of it every day. Researchers warned about this in…
By Melinda Cafferty Winter, spring, summer or fall – you don’t need to garden at all! Because IKEA has really gone and done it now. Heck, you don’t even need any soil to create your own produce. Or a yard. Right on the heels of…
