Tropical fruits provide some of the best nutrition and disease-fighting power of any foods on Earth, but if you live in the Midwestern part of the United States or other less-than-tropical areas, you probably have only eaten them through shipments from out-of-state. But there’s at least one lesser known tropical-style [...]
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While the United States of America has been pushing, supporting and defending a post World War II style of agriculture predicated on GMOs and chemicals, the EU has been on the front lines of protecting human health and the health of our pollinators. A recent New York Times [...]
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Common plantain, or Plantago major, is a perennial herb that can be found on roadsides and waste places from June through October. It has dozens of healing properties, and a renowned American herbalist Rosemary Gladstar calls it the “most common and most useful weed.” But there is one [...]
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One of the most perplexing aspects of choosing a healthy diet in today’s day and age is separating the hype from what’s truly healthy. While human beings have been consuming raw, grass-fed dairy for thousands of years and it’s a staple of many of the longest-living cultures in the [...]
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The supplement and vitamin aisle is packed with many different pills, products and potions, but sometimes the best ones are the simplest and most overlooked. Among these supplements is MSM, also known as Methylsulfonylmethane. It sounds like an unhealthy substance created by the chemical industry, but MSM is actually a naturally-occurring [...]
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One of the best parts of being an organic food and drink enthusiast is discovering healthy and delicious new products. While alcohol including beer, wine and liquor is widely seen as something unhealthy, the truth is that virtually all of the world’s longest living cultures enjoy some type of alcoholic [...]
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The United States Food and Drug Administration employs over 10,000 people in approximately 3.8 million square feet of office space. The organization is charged with protecting the sanctity and safety of our food supply, both long and short-term. But according to one organization that specializes in a similar profession, the [...]
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The movement to remove industrial sodium fluoride from the world’s water supply has been growing in recent years, with evidence coming out against the additive from several sources. Now, a report from the world’s oldest and arguably one of its most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet, has officially classified [...]
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Sunscreen is seen as a necessity in today’s society, going by what TV reporters and news articles have to say on the subject. But what most people don’t realize is that sunscreens are usually loaded with toxic chemicals that can clog up pores, seep into the bloodstream, and pollute [...]
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Genetically engineered food ingredients are found in up to 75% of all packaged food products according to the Center for Food Safety, and that’s a problem considering that these crops are widely sprayed with toxic, potentially carcinogenic pesticides or engineered in a laboratory to produce its own pesticides within the plant. Avoiding GMO [...]
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