The top producer of pork in the United States, the Smithfield Corporation of Smithfield, Virginia, is well known for its line of sausages, roasts, ribs, bacon and more. These types of processed meats are favorites among United States customers, where they are widely consumed with Sunday breakfasts, at diners and [...]
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This goes without saying, but tap water is generally not your best bet when it comes to drinking the healthiest water you can find. Mainstream bottled water brands generally aren’t the best idea either, considering some of the chemicals like PFAS that have been found in them recently. As far [...]
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As the industrialized world has became more ‘sanitary’ in all ways from the overuse of toxic chemical hand sanitizers to the pasteurization of food and dairy products, many original, old world traditions have been lost along the way. It’s unfortunate because many of these foods offer health benefits the likes [...]
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Activists, government officials, organic advocates and everyday people have expressed concern over neonicotinoids over the past decade, but bee deaths are still a serious problem with no end in sight. Neonicotinoids are pesticides that have been coated with a thick outer layer of toxic, synthetic pesticide chemicals, and are found on [...]
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Since cellphone use only started becoming popular in the 1990s, the general public has mostly been kept in the dark about risks. The heavy use of applications built around wireless networks 24/7 has become a relatively new trend. And while this technology is still in its newborn phase in [...]
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Multiple reports have exposed conventional foods manufactured in China as fake and even toxic: scams involving rice that contains plastic, fake eggs made from chemicals and many food items containing high levels of arsenic. Now that country-of-origin labeling has been removed by Congress (for meat anyway), and companies are struggling to [...]
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The immune system is something that is highly misunderstood not just by everyday people but also by the many conventional doctors who we depend on for health advice. Most people resort to things like synthetic vitamins and medicines (ignoring better natural alternatives) to deal with colds and improve immunity, but [...]
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With the explosion of the holistic health movement over the past few years, the focus has shifted toward gut health as one of the biggest indicators of a person’s overall health. Maintaining a healthy gut can be a difficult job, however, considering the sheer amount of bacteria that [...]
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Tropical fruits provide some of the best nutrition and disease-fighting power of any foods on Earth, but if you live in the Midwestern part of the United States or other less-than-tropical areas, you probably have only eaten them through shipments from out-of-state. But there’s at least one lesser known tropical-style [...]
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You might not be thinking about it when you go to have a snack, but some surprising foods have been linked to cancer, and it’s often not necessarily because of the food itself but because of how it’s been processed and what chemicals have been used. We all have our [...]
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