Over the course of my decade-plus as a holistic health journalist and researcher, few fruits have intrigued me, and captured my fancy, like sea buckthorn. I currently live in southeast Michigan where I have resided for all of my life, a region not necessarily known for its exotic fruits. One [...]
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It’s that time of the year, when lively little yellow flowers are popping up on the lawns all over the country. While many see it as “just a weed,” dandelions are one of nature’s gift to men – virtually the whole plant is edible and medicinal. Dandelion is rich [...]
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Heart disease and cancer are the top two killers of Americans among disease conditions according to the CDC, and both are preventable by making the correct diet and lifestyle choices. Despite this, hundreds of thousands continue to die from heart disease and cancer each year, and rates of chronic disease [...]
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Iodine was previously added to salt in the United States in an effort to control the presence of goiters, which are irregular growths of the thyroid gland visible on the neck. Since then, the problem of goiters hasn’t gone away entirely — they are “relatively common” according to Johns Hopkins [...]
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Hair loss is a common situation for millions of people as they get older, and it affects men more often than women. Androgenic alopecia is the most common type of hair loss in the United States, affecting about 50 million men and 30 million women, according to New York University [...]
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Worldwide, there are several healing herbs and substances that come complete with nicknames, described in the most colorful and, at times, exaggerated, ways pertaining to how they are capable of healing the human body. Perhaps the most well-known of all is ‘The Remedy for Everything But Death,’ a nickname given [...]
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Truly healthy protein bars are difficult to find between the aisles and aisles of bars with genetically modified ingredients, artificial sweeteners, and other junk found at grocery stores. Most of the best bars are not found in stores but elsewhere, including one that I tried recently that checks all the [...]
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Millions of pounds of toxic, synthetic pesticides are sprayed each year in the United States in an effort to kill weeds, insects, and other pests. This number began rising in the mid-1990s, with the advent of genetically modified foods, which are engineered in a lab to withstand large sprayings of [...]
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The current life expectancy in the United States is 79.4 years, with Latinos living over 82 years on average and white, Native American and African Americans all living less than that particular number. The United States typically spends the most on healthcare worldwide according to recent statistics, yet health outcomes, [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration along with Feb. 2025 confirmed Department of Health and Human Services Head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have launched an assault on petroleum based, artificial food dyes, convincing food companies to remove them from their products because of concerns about links to cancer, ADHD, allergic reactions [...]
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