As far as chemical companies go, the names “Monsanto” and to a lesser extent “Bayer” elicit the same reactions in millions of people who have taken up a natural, organic and GMO-free lifestyle: disgust. Both companies have dark histories that have only recently been uncovered by [...]
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In 1995, the first insecticide-producing GMO crop (corn) was officially by approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Now, nearly 25 years later, the American agricultural landscape has become a toxic, deadly minefield of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, poison-coated seeds called neonicotinoids, and other instruments of [...]
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A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, Laurie Becklund, battled breast cancer since 1996. Earlier in 2015 she knew her time was limited, and as she greeted her last few months, she wrote an opinion piece “As I Lay Dying” about her story. Becklund died Feb. 8 of that [...]
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It seems as if you can’t visit a health food store, raw organic cafe, yoga studio or other holistic health spot without seeing a Himalayan Salt Lamp, and their signature warming glow. But what you may not realize is that the lamps provide many incredible benefits even beyond [...]
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On the heels of Greta Van Thunberg’s “speech heard ’round the world” at the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York, climate change has been a hot topic. While the world wrestles with how to tackle this and other grave environmental problems (and even debates whether action is [...]
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Breast cancer rates have remained high in recent years; as of today, a woman has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. While environmental toxins play a big role in this epidemic, a large majority of cases are due to ‘overdiagnosis,’ which happens most [...]
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Are you getting enough iron these days? Iron is essential for the health of your red blood cells to be able to deliver oxygen and nutrients to every organ in your body, so now might be a good time to go ahead and check. Children and menstruating women are most [...]
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While President Barack Obama’s stances on GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in agriculture have become well known over the years, current President Donald Trump’s stance was a bit more of a mystery — until now. Speaking to a crowd in Nashville, Tennessee on January 8, Trump finally used the [...]
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As millions of people seek alternatives to meat in hopes of cutting back on consumption, the plant-based burger sector has seized the opportunity to become one of the fastest-growing new players in the food industry. Creating “beef” patties out of a variety of plant-based ingredients, many of [...]
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