The coronavirus situation has prompted wholesale societal changes at every level, leading many to proclaim that wearing masks, social distancing and avoiding face-to-face human contact should be the “new normal.” But recently, stats directly from the CDC’s own website have contradicted the prevailing media-given numbers that make [...]
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Recent estimates predict the cost for autism care in America will rise to a staggering $461 billion (if not a trillion dollars) by 2025, and the current costs are already more than double the combined costs of stroke and hypertension. But what if doctors have been treating autism all wrong, [...]
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Autoimmune diseases are reaching levels of epidemic proportions, and one of the least understood is lupus, of which cases have nearly tripled in the past four decades. We still have a lot to learn about lupus treatment options, which is what makes pop star Selena Gomez’s 2015 announcement so [...]
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Shelly Cooper’s story will sound familiar to many. Overweight for most of her life, she went through a row of fad diets that promised quick results but did not deliver. In between diets that failed, she always fell back on a conventional American diet. During her two pregnancies she [...]
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Robin Williams was always known more for his outrageous antics than his commentary on issues surrounding topics like health and politics, but like most comedians who speak without a filter, he has the ability to absolutely nail it whenever he does. Case in point: the following rant he went [...]
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Do you eat your meat and potatoes together at the same meal? If you’re a vegetarian that answer is obviously a resounding “no,” but for millions of people it’s something they’ve probably never even thought twice about. “He’s a meat and potatoes kind of guy” is of [...]
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If there is one remedy that can prevent and aid healing of any symptoms of colds and even flu, it is fire cider. Also known as fire vinegar, this folk medicine has a long history of use in the world of herbal healing. While there can be some variations to [...]
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Is there a limit to how extreme the industrial agriculture system can get? Grinding up male baby chickens by the thousands, keeping animals in horrible conditions, poisoning the consumers, and now they are literally drilling holes in cows by a processes called fistulation. Fistulation includes partial removal of [...]
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It’s common knowledge that the bee population in the United States has struggled in recent years, in large part due to toxic, pesticide-intensive farming practices that show no signs of slowing. While the U.S. is buying organic food in increasingly larger amounts, the vast majority of all organic [...]
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Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects the person’s ability to move. According to the CDC, every 3 out of 100,000 people in the US died from this disease in the 1980s, in the early 2000s that number doubled. A recent [...]
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