Posted January 26, 2018
Did you know that your liver is actually your largest internal organ (it’s roughly the size of a football!) and responsible for crucial functions like digesting your food, storing energy, plus removing toxins from your body? Many ancient populations, including the Chinese, considered the liver to be the most important organ — hence the word “live” in its name. Read more.
Archives for January 2018
The Fraud that Threatens the Genetic Core of World’s Food
Posted January 26, 2017
Steven Druker’s book Altered Genes,Twisted Truths (2015) indicates that the commercialisation of GM food in the US was based on a massive fraud. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) files revealed that GM foods first achieved commercialisation in 1992 but only because the FDA covered up the extensive warnings of its own scientists about their dangers, lied about the facts and then violated federal food safety law by permitting GM food to be marketed without having been proven safe through standard testing. Read more.
The Vaccine Program: Betrayal of Public Trust & Institutional Corruption — Part 2 of 7
Posted January 26, 2018
Principal reports authored by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CDC-sponsored reports published in the most influential medical journals are shown to be the product of scientific fraud and malfeasance by high-level CDC officials. The internal CDC documents include emails, memoranda, and transcripts of meetings and conference calls, are an irrefutable record revealing how key CDC studies and CDC-commissioned studies[12] were shaped by use of illegitimate methods, including data manipulation, selective inclusion, and deletion of data from the published reports. Read more.
How Much Do People Weigh Around the World?
Posted January 26, 2018
While it might not be a shock to some that the United States ranks highly on the list of countries with the highest average weight, it’s not at the top. It’s actually third, behind first place Micronesia and second place Tonga [1]. A study published in the journal BMC Public Health highlights the problem of obesity in relation to the environment. Read more. Read more.
Ingrown Toenails: 6 Surprisingly Effective Home Remedies
Posted January 26, 2018
If you’ve ever had an ingrown toenail, you know the pain that it can cause. Not only that, but it’s annoying because we use our toes in some way or another as part of our usual daily movement, and this use and constant knocking seems to aggravate the nail even more. It makes it more noticeable and seems to last forever! Read more.
Is the Gallbladder Really “Not Needed” and OK to Routinely Remove by Surgery?
Posted January 26, 2018
Surgically removing gallbladders has become big business for surgeons. There are around 750,000 surgeries for removing gall bladders in the USA each year. It’s estimated that 10 to 15 percent are emergency removals that are almost life or death necessities. The other 85 to 90 percent, are elective. Read more.
Vitamins in Hospitals: the Final Frontier
Posted January 26, 2018
A hospital, by definition, is a collection of the sick, the injured, the infirm, and the stressed. All these situations call for larger than the normal quantities of dietary vitamins. When is the last time you saw a hospital or nursing home routinely give even a daily multivitamin, let alone specific high-dose therapeutic supplements? This can immediately change, and you can help do it. Prepare to stand firm on what is most important, and negotiate the rest. Read more.
7 Tips for Starting Seeds Like a Professional Grower
Posted January 26, 2018
There you sit, surrounded by seed catalogs. You have a head full of dreams about the best gardening season ever, flipping through pages of new cultivars to try and great new gardening tips to test out. Your seed is fresh, you have an ample supply of compost bursting with life, and you have more planting space prepared than ever before. What could possibly go wrong? Read more.
This is What Happens with Your Lungs When You Diffuse Essential Oils
Posted January 26, 2018
Asthma is a disease that inflames the walls of passageways that supply air to the lungs. Inflamed airways are sensitive and complicate breathing. Common asthma symptoms include breathing problems, wheezing, coughing, and tightness in the chest. Asthma has no cure. Doctors identify the factors that trigger asthmatic attacks or symptoms in each patient and help them avoid those factors. Doctors also prescribe medications including inhalers to manage the disease. Read more.
Keep Your Health in Check with Cinnamon
Posted January 26, 2018
There are some scents that remind us of the comforts of home and can soothe our bodies in the process. Case in point: the sweet and warm smell of cinnamon. This spice is derived from the stems of the cinnamomum tree. The inner bark is then extracted, and the woody parts are removed and left to dry. This results in the formation of strips that eventually curl into the cinnamon sticks known today. Read more.