Anyone who wishes to navigate the aisles of today’s stores and come home with truly natural foods needs a tool designed to help filter out all of the hype-foods marketed as ‘healthy’ or ‘natural’ which may actually prove to be harmful. For example aspartame, once hailed as a ‘healthy’ sweetener when it entered the market,…
There is a reason commentators are referring to the new genetically modified salmon as Frankenfish. At hearings held recently, the FDA noted evidence of abnormalities detected in the fish, including “increased frequency of skeletal malformations, increased prevalence of jaw erosions and multi-systemic inflammation”. While such findings would seem to be cause for alarm, the FDA…
With the arrival of spring, it’s time to start planning this year’s garden. While tomatoes are the most popular garden item, they are difficult to grow from seed as they must be started indoors, often requiring grow lights. However, the second most popular garden item is extremely easy to grow – Pole Beans! Pole beans require little…
(Health Secrets) Popeye was the poster boy for spinach. He could swallow down a can of it and be able to knock out Bluto who was twice his size. Popeye was probably pretty healthy too, avoiding the pitfalls of aging and disease that come from a diet lacking in flavonoids and other nutrients found in spinach. Look what…
Transgenic materials from genetically modified (GM) corn crop byproducts are present in streams throughout the Midwest, even long after harvest, reports ecologist Jennifer Tank and her colleagues at the University of Notre Dame. Beyond the damage such transgenic materials may cause to aquatic life in the waterways, other findings of their study are especially alarming because transgenic material…
Yet another example of deceptive marketing! 7Up is heavily marketing its “Antioxidant Cherry 7Up” drinks in both regular and diet versions with prominent images of natural cherries on consumer ads and packaging labels. Unwitting consumers are taking a look at the drinks 7Up introduced last year and wondering what could be so bad about a soft drink that…
Once upon a time, when bread was considered the staff of life, the bread people ate was of a quality that actually supported life. But the wholesome content of “our daily bread” has dwindled greatly since the late 1800s, in a slow and steady decline that began with the bleaching of flour. In the early 1900s, Dr.…
We are on the verge of the first approval of a genetically modified animal for human consumption, a decision sparking controversy and speculation it could make a major turning point in the way food is produced. The GMO (genetically modified organism) in question is salmon, one of the healthiest foods on earth and a food eaten by people worldwide. The…
Ghee is butter made better. To make it, butter is clarified to a perfection that releases even more of its many health benefits. Ghee is considered medicinal in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, which predates Chinese medicine and is gaining popularity in the western modern world. It’s expensive to buy ghee from a health food store, and…
There are strategies, employed consciously or unconsciously, which lead to permanent and lasting illness and general malaise and malfunction throughout life. Those strategies and the common tools used with them to create disease are revealed in this article. If your goal is a lifetime of sickness and debilitation, read them closely. It is important to know that the…