Everyone wants to change the world, but with so many causes and charities and movements out there, how can we even know where to begin? It can be tough to decide, but one of the fastest-growing among them is the switch millions of people are making to organic from [...]
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The first use of wheatgrass can be traced back to about 5,000 years ago when the ancient Egyptians used young grass for health and vitality. In modern times, wheatgrass consumption was introduced to the Western world by a Food Chemist from Kansas City, Missouri Charles Franklin Schnabel, who is often [...]
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As wheatgrass juice became popular, many sources started to claim that one shot or 1 ounce of wheatgrass juice is nutritionally equivalent to about 2-2.5 pounds of vegetables (some even go as high as 4 pounds). Where did this claim come from? In 1940s Agricultural Chemist Charles Franklin Schnabel studied [...]
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With millions of people waking up to the reality of GMOs and feeling like their trust has been violated, the Monsanto Company is now finding it harder than any time in recent memory to do business. Its share price has dropped 25 percent since this spring, it recently failed [...]
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Coconut oil was once widely demonized because of its saturated fat content in America, but now, it’s becoming almost as widely consumed in America, especially by health-seekers, as it is in native countries where coconuts are grown. The coconut oil and coconut boom might not have been possible if [...]
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Chemotherapy is one of the most expensive medical treatments in the world today, but is it actually…effective? Thanks to alternative media and documentaries like the ‘Truth About Cancer’ series, more and more people are beginning to question not only its efficacy, but also whether it actually does more harm than [...]
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Despite its Earth-shattering status as one of the biggest and most controversial trade deals we’ve seen in many years, the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) has received very little coverage in the U.S. media. But protests and opposition to this Pro-Corporate Dream Bill has raged across Europe. And [...]
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Ivelisse Page’s family has a history of colon cancer. Her father died from the disease in his late thirties. Knowing that she was at higher risk for developing the illness, she followed a healthy lifestyle of organic food and exercise and got regular colonoscopies, yet she also developed colon cancer [...]
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The Monsanto Company has long denied its GMO crops and chemicals have had much of an effect on the Indian farmer suicide epidemic, but a new development is once again casting doubt on their assertion. While some claim that Indian suicides have been caused by an economic crunch in general, [...]
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For any woman who is born today, the chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime is 1 in 8 (in the 1970s it was 1 in 10). In the beginning of 2012, there were 2.9 million U.S. women and thousands of men with a history of breast cancer. Breast [...]
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