When it comes to embarking on a healthy lifestyle, many people choose diet over exercise, or vice versa. Is one really better than the other?
A recent study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, conducted by researchers from the...
The Alternative Daily team supports label reading. Even if it takes you a few extra minutes when you shop, do yourself a favor and turn the package or container over and skim over the ingredient list.
Becoming familiar with the...
Sugar is sugar no matter whether it is conventional or organic. It all impacts the blood the same way. While there is much good behind the organic label, it has also created quite a stir amongst consumers who are convinced...
Last Monday, Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 76-year old Indiana farmer, lost a Supreme Court battle with Monsanto, genetically engineered (GE) seed tycoon and the world’s biggest seed company.
Bowman was ordered by the Supreme Court to pay $84,000 to the...
Do you roll out of bed each morning, hop in your car, jump out, onto the elevator and take a seat at your desk for 8 hours? If so, you are not unlike many Americans who live a car...
You have heard of super foods but have you ever heard of super herbs? Just the word "super" conveys that these herbs are special, in fact, they are extraordinary. Super herbs have been used for thousands of years to...
How often do you look at your fingernails and wonder what they are saying about your health? If you are honest - your answer is probably very infrequently. However, fingernails like other body parts, are places where we can...
Carrageenan is a highly popular additive often found in organic foods. It is derived from red seaweed, but, unfortunately, the process used to make it leaves it unhealthy and refined. This additive is used in both conventional and organic...
The documentary Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-Up, presented by Rethink Productions, provides strong evidence that the widely-believed ideology that high cholesterol leads to heart disease is completely false.
It details how the scientific groundwork that this belief is...
There is not a fresher sight than a roadside fruit and veggie stand bursting with color and freshness. Produce, picked from the vine just hours earlier, drips with ripeness and wholesome nutrition.
The local movement is in full swing in...
