Is This Type of Yogurt Bad For You?
As you've probably noticed in the last couple of years, probiotics are all the rage as one of THE most important factors that helps control your immune system (an estimated 70% of your immune system resides in your gut), as well as your digestive system health. Most people "think" they get enough health-boosting probiotics from yogurt (the average person eats...
A Pretty Passionate and Potent Herb That Blows Away Stress
Passion flower, also known as passiflora, apricot vine, wild passion flower and purple passionflower, is a fast growing and stunning perennial vine in warm regions and a prolific annual in others. There are over 400 species of passionflower growing all over the world. Passionflower incarnata is native to the Midwest and Southeastern United States. Passionflower herb is used as...
The Downsides of “There’s a Pill for That”
Is true health really as easy as popping a pill? What happens when we stop taking the pill or the contents of the pill are seen as foreign to the body? These are stark questions now being asked at a time in history when so many Americans seem so sick despite enormous advances in technology and access to new...
Processed Foods Endorsed By Celebrities Sway Our Children
What have great advances in technology brought us? Certainly some immensely valuable and life saving tools. However, there are also a lot that are unnecessary and potentially harmful, and even some that are both Television, it has been argued can be both a tremendous educational and reporting tool but also a dangerous weapon in the hands of advertisers who monopolize...
Popular Antibiotic Z-Pack Linked to Heart-related Deaths
It has been just shy of a year since the ever popular drug azithromycin, commonly known as Zithromax or Z-Pack for short, was implicated in cardiovascular-related deaths. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now issuing a warning after reviewing the Vanderbilt University Study released May, 2012. The FDA states that the warning is not a result of adverse...
Would You Brush Your Teeth With FDA-Labeled Poison?
When a Colorado Springs dentist noticed brown spots on the teeth of local residents in 1901, an almost fifty-year investigation ensued. The result was that fluoride in the water was causing teeth to develop a condition known as fluorosis. However, it ended not in the eradication of fluoride from water but from the recommendation that low levels of fluoride...
Whole Foods Takes Stand In Labeling GMO’s
So, who pays attention to food labels anyway? According to recent statistics, more and more people are concerned not only with the nutritional value of food but also with other issues such as organic vs non organic and whether or not foods are genetically modified. Consumers are more educated than ever and are becoming increasingly more so thanks to...
Studies Show Healthier School Lunches Paying Off
Generations of students who have dined in school cafeterias have had to suffer through unhealthy, starch-filled, processed and often unsavory options. Fortunately, it seems things are slowly turning around. School districts in several states are pioneering healthy, cost-efficient cafeteria choices, and the effects on students are encouraging. Additionally, some students are taking matters into their own hands and protesting...
Agave Nectar As Bad as High Fructose Corn Syrup?
The blue agave is an exotic plant that grows in Mexico’s rich volcanic soil under the hot tropical sun – known as an amazing healing remedy for digestive disorders and skin wounds; it’s not surprising that many believe that agave nectar must be a wonderful, healthy food. But that’s just what the agave nectar sellers want you to believe....
Soy: Healthy Alternative or GMO-Packed Frankenfood?
It looks a bit like chicken and smells a bit like chicken but it is not chicken at all, it is probably soy. Many unassuming health conscious people have turned to soy look-a -like products in an attempt to live a healthier life. Unfortunately, unfermented and highly processed soy like soy fake chicken, soy ice cream, soy cheese and...
