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Stealthy Tactics Reduce Quantity Of Many Food Products
February 02, 2009We’ve all noticed that food prices have gone up, and will continue to increase over the next 6 months. What you might not have noticed is the stealthy tactics many corporations are doing in conjunction with there price increase [...]
WWOOF – World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms
January 29, 2009WWOOF, it stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. I hadn’t heard of this organization until today when I came across it while doing some research. I figured it would be interesting to do a quick post on. Basically, it’s an organization that [...]
Huge Avocado Shortage Looms
January 22, 2009California farmers expect to harvest the smallest avocado crop since 1990 and possibly even as far back as 1980. The price of avocados is expected to rise later this year in response to a predicted avocado shortage.
Why Buy Poison Just Use Coke or Pepsi
January 21, 2009Indian farmers find a use for Corporate Cola. Why buy poison retail when you can get it at wholesale prices? This is a great video of an unintended consequences of pesticide contamination in Coke and Pepsi sold in India [...]
We Are All Processed People In A Processed World
January 03, 2009When they’re not busy picking our pockets, or telling us we have to give up liberties in order to have freedom, they’re selling us garbage and telling us it’s food. Last time I checked, the manufactured food business is bigger than Big [...]
Research Proves Sugar Is Addictive
December 10, 2008A study offers scientific proof for what many dieters already know: Sugar is addictive. The research showed binging on sugar can act on the brain in ways very similar to a drug abuse. It can produced behavioral and neurochemical [...]
About 1 in 9 US Kids Use Alternative Medicine
December 10, 2008Just like their parents, kids are taking supplements from fish oil to ginseng, a sign of just how mainstream alternative medicine has become. More than one in nine children and teens try those remedies and other nontraditional options. Their parents’ practices played a big role. Kids were five times more likely to use alternative [...]
Appetite For Organic Food Wilts As Economy Suffers
December 09, 2008The rotten economy is eating into sales of organic foods as fewer Americans put these often costly groceries on their plates. Overall sales of organic food are still rising, though the industry’s robust growth of recent decades is tapering off. Many devotees of organic foods are not willing to cut back though they say [...]
Vermont Healthiest State; Louisiana Deemed Unhealthiest
December 09, 2008Vermont is the healthiest U.S. state, while Louisiana is the least healthy, according to the 19th annual America’s Health Rankings report, issued by the United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association, and the Partnership for Prevention advocacy group. The rankings are based on 22 health measures [...]
Chia Seeds Are Natures Perfect Food
December 09, 2008Chia seeds are an ancient superfood that’s making a big comeback and for good reasons. These little black and white seeds are one of the most powerful, functional and nutritious superfoods in the world! Chia seed are an excellent source of fiber, packed with antioxidants, full of protein, loaded with vitamins, minerals, and the richest known [...]
What is Stevia?
December 05, 2008Stevia, also known as Stevia Rebaudiana, is an herb that has been used as a natural sweetener for centuries. Its been suppressed for decades by the FDA, but with Coca-Cola and Cargill interested in using it, Stevia is about to go mainstream. Extracts from the leaf of the Stevia plant have been found to be high in [...]
Corrupt Food Industry Killing Us With Salt
December 04, 2008It is well known among the medical and health community that to much sodium in your diet can lead to strokes, heart attacks and other health problems. However the food industry doesn’t care. They have fully acknowledges that sodium levels are too high in there products, but are not making any plans on changing [...]
Wine Boosts Omega-3 in the Body
December 04, 2008A major new finding shows moderate alcohol intake is associated with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in plasma and red blood cells. The alcohol acts like a ‘trigger’, boosting the amount of omega-3 fatty acids in our body. It does this by influencing the metabolism of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, as [...]
Too Little Vitamin D Puts Heart at Risk
December 03, 2008Several large studies have shown that people with low vitamin D levels were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or other heart-related event. Traditionally associated with bone and muscle weakness, but in recent years a number of studies have shown that low levels of the vitamin may [...]
Man Tries to Become ‘Certified Organic’
December 03, 2008A pediatrician has spent the last three years only eating organic food, whether he’s cooking at home, dining out or snacking on the road. Why three years, because that was the amount of time it took to have a breeding animal certified organic by the Department of Agriculture and he wondered whether a person could meet the [...]
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