Coffee is one of those products that has a 50/50 split when it comes to health benefits and health risks. While some people do extremely well with it, others feel jittery or experience other side effects that aren’t enough to offset the benefits. What few people realize, however, [...]
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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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In today’s social media-dominated world, one well-placed health graphic can practically start a revolution. One of the most popular graphics that has made the rounds over the years praises the health benefits of Graviola, the super fruit/herb/tree from the Amazon Rainforest, and its “powerful effects at stopping cancer.” As the [...]
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There’s no way to sugar coat this: industrialized, pasteurized and GMO-fed dairy products are far from ideal when it comes to health. For many of us, almond milk seems like the perfect replacement. It turns out it may not be the case, at least considering the way commercial almond [...]
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Deaths from correctly taken prescription drugs number above 100,000 every year, which is just one of the main reasons why the popularity of natural medicine has surged lately. But even as Americans’ attitudes about medicine have begun to change and realign with the classic Hippocrates mantra of “First, [...]
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For the last few years, some have raised concerns over chemicals being sprayed on plane passengers before flying (even video footage had surfaced). While I have not experienced direct spraying inside the plane myself, it was impossible to ignore that on my last international flight to Europe, as soon as [...]
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Fisherman Antônio dos Santos received serious burns on his arm after a gas explosion on his boat. Josué Bezerra Jr. suffered burns while working as an electrical supervisor. Maria Ines Candido da Silva was injured by a gas cooker explosion. The treatment that the doctors offered these patients was unconventional. [...]
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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has published a new report for the 2021 shopping season that rates produce on the amount of pesticides they are likely to contain, part of its famous ‘Dirty Dozen’ and ‘Clean Fifteen’ series. Strawberries have continued to rank high yet again, taking first place [...]
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At the age of 28, Somer McCowan’s life became a series of medications, side effects, and weight gain, after she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. The autoimmune disease caused her to have severe abdominal pain and bloody stools caused by tiny sores in the colon. She also often had [...]
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Cancer research has tried many unusual ways of treating the dreaded disease, from scorpion venom and bee stings to mistletoe extract treatments. But what this professor has discovered might become the strangest cancer discovery of the decade. Researcher, and the head of Oral Robert University’s Cancer Lab, Dr. William [...]
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