Add Spice to Your Love Life and More With Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha, otherwise known as Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, is one of the most revered herbs in Ayurveda, the millennia-old practice of Indian medicine. Used for centuries to treat a number of ailments, few of us today realize the benefits of this extremely potent herb. Check out these four ways ashwagandha can benefit your health. Enhance Sexual Energy While this much-revered...
It’s Back! The McRib and Other Processed “Delights”
It is astounding that people actually get excited when they hear that McDonald's restaurants are going to be featuring the infamous McRib Sandwich for a "limited time only," once again. Introduced in 1981, just before the chicken McNugget, this so-called "boneless pork" product is more like a marriage of pig parts, including tripe, stomach and heart. When a Reddit user...
One Third of Population May be More at Risk of Colorectal Cancer from Processed Meat
We've said it before and we'll say it again - processed meat is hazardous to your health. The various chemicals and copious amounts of sodium it contains have no business being introduced into your body. On top of the general - and already substantial - risk factors that these chemically-treated products carry, a new study has found that about one...
Your DNA Determines Whether You are a Night Owl or an Early Riser
Are you a night owl or a morning person? New research  from one of the world’s leading sleep exerts, Till Roenneberg, a professor of chronobiology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, says that if you try to live and work outside of your natural circadian rhythm you may be negatively affecting your health. Roenneberg says that chronotypes refer to whether...
The Key to Your Breakthrough 
(It’s Not What You Think)
Have you ever heard the mantra, "No pain, no gain"? Sure, we all have. It's a notion that the harder we work, the more successful we'll be. Ironically, this saying is mostly associated with exercise and the fitness world.And just in case you're wondering, the irony lies in the fact that working "harder" to lose weight and get healthy...
2 Organic Organ Meats You Should be Eating
With the rise in popularity of the Paleo Diet, organ meats have received more attention than they have in quite some time. However, many people still don't understand how to best incorporate these vital nutritional powerhouses into their diet.Here are 2 organ meats that are worth trying. Organic Beef Tongue Beef tongue is a muscle meat and a great source...
Mexico Approves Junk Food Tax
In Mexico, the average citizen is said to drink about 43 gallons of soda each year, or 40% more than the average American, which ranks the nation as the largest consumer of soft drinks in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Almost one-third of its citizens are obese and 70% are overweight, prompting lawmakers to approve the...
Herbs that Fight Inflammation
All too often, doctors are quick to treat joint pain with medication. While these drugs may ease pain, they do little to combat the underlying cause and often come with a host of dangerous side-effects. Skip the pills and instead treat inflammation naturally with these 5 natural inflammation-fighters. Burdock Root (Arctium lappa or Arcticum minus) Burdock has been used as a...
If You Wouldn’t Eat out of Your Toilet Pay Attention to This
Are you one of those people who cringe when you open the door of a public bathroom, wipe the grocery cart handle off a thousand times before you start shopping and carry extra bottles of hand sanitizer in your pocketbook? If so, you may find it interesting to note that although many public places are loaded with germs, those...
Strengthen Your Immune System and Fight Infection with Jujubes
Jujubes - the fruit, NOT the candy - are relatively unknown in the west, although they have been cultivated for over 4,000 years in China. They are notably high in vitamin C, and are often featured in a number of traditional Asian remedies. A jujube is a small, oblong tree fruit with a single stone inside. It starts out...
