Posted June 27, 2012
Summer is an exciting season filled with swimming pools and barbeques. Unfortunately, increased time spent outdoors often results in painful sunburns and itchy bug bites that can ruin the fun in a hurry. There are many commercial products available for relieving the discomfort. However, if you would prefer to know exactly what you are rubbing into your skin, then next time you suffer from one of these summertime fun-wreckers, head to your kitchen for one of these all-natural remedies instead. Read more.
Archives for June 2012
The Medicalization of Childbirth
Posted June 27, 2012
Our overzealous medical community has taken the blessed event of childbirth and turned it into a medical procedure with a whole different set of risks and side effects. This medicalization of childbirth turns our newborns into medical experiments and permanently hooks them into a life of medical dependency. Read more.
Smart Spice: Cinnamon
Posted June 27, 2012
We mostly see them as flavorants, as the little jars of powder that line our cabinets and the bags of dried roots, barks, and leaves tucked away in drawers, designed to subtly or drastically alter the flavor profile of our “smart fuel” creations in the kitchen, but for most of human history, spices were also prized for their medicinal qualities. Read more.
Codex: The European Canary Has Landed In North America
Posted June 27th, 2012.
ANH’s Robert Verkerk, PhD examines the health freedom landscape in Canada, The United States and Europe, illuminating the potentional threats, and what can be done in light of them. Read more.
Skinny Fat People: Why Being Skinny Doesn’t Protect Us Against Diabetes and Death
Posted June 27th, 2012.
In a shocking new study published online in Pediatrics, researchers found that from 2000 to 2008, the number of teenagers aged 12 to 19 with pre-diabetes or diabetes increased from 9 percent to 23 percent. Read more.
Bye Bye Bumblebee: Honeybees Aren’t the Only Pollinators In Danger of Extinction
Posted June 27th, 2012.
In the midst of colony collapse disorder (CCD), many farmers are turning to the native bumblebee to help ensure the nation can continue to grow food. However, they’re discovering a stinging reality that researchers have known for more than a decade: Many of North America’s once-plentiful bumblebee species have all but disappeared. Read more.
Wins and Losses: Breaking Down the Food and Farm Bill
Posted June 27th, 2012.
Last week, Washington became the food capital of the country as the Senate debated the 2012 Food and Farm Bill, culminating in the passage of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 yesterday afternoon. Like most people in the country, your next thought most likely is: what does this mean for me? Read more.
Blog: Everything You Think You Know About Healthy Eating Is Wrong!
Posted June 27th, 2012.
Low-fat salad dressing is better than mayonnaise, fat makes you fat and you can’t eat enough fruit, right? Wrong, according to the latest research. Read more.
Mainstream Medicine Takes Another Big Step Backward on Vitamin D
Posted June 27, 2012
A national task force on “preventive” medicine is making dangerous new pronouncements based on profoundly flawed research and thinking. Raad more.
Top Seven Vegan Sources of Protein
Posted June 27, 2012
As long as calorie intake is adequate, it can be easy for vegan diets to meet protein recommendations. Read more.