Do you love butterflies and birds and want to welcome more of them to your yard? Planting native trees and shrubs in your yard is guaranteed to attract our fluttery and feathery friends! Read more.
Get Informed on Issues Related to Foods
Natural Hair Loss Remedy Discovered with Many ‘Side Benefits’
Pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree improves hair density and may reduce hair loss, offering hope to the millions of women affected by thinning hair. Read more.
Worlds Collide on Science of Public Health
I had just returned from an exhilarating, intellectually stimulating week in Mexico City when the news broke that the United States government had escalated its challenge to Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn to the level of a formal dispute under the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA). Read more.
Gene Editing Found to Cause Chaos in the Genome of Tomatoes
Recent scientific findings have revealed chromothripsis-like effects after the application of CRISPR/Cas gene editing in the genome of tomatoes, reports Testbiotech in an article commenting on a just-published preprint study by scientists based in Israel and the US. Chromothripsis refers to a phenomenon in which often several hundred genetic changes occur simultaneously in a catastrophic event. Many sections of the genetic material can be swapped, recombined, or even lost if this occurs. Read more.
Non-GMO Shopping Guide…When You Dine Out
Welcome! This is your one-stop-shop on how to eat non-GMO, what a non-GMO label means, the differences between non-GMO & organic, and how to avoid GMOs even when there’s no label, and when you dine out. Read more.
Consumer Alert: Splenda’s Profound Toxicity includes DNA-Damaging Effects
It is hard to imagine how anyone still consumes Splenda (sucralose), considering how damning the accumulating body of scientific evidence is showing that it is a SERIOUS threat to both human and environmental health. A new study adds GENOTOXICITY to the list of this chemical’s many serious mechanisms of harm. Read more.
Orthomolecular plus Microbiome Science, Restoring the Immune System of a Farm Community
By combining Orthomolecular science and Microbiome science we find information necessary for the restoration and optimization, over multiple generations, of the health of widespread living systems, such as a local farm community. In our view, the living system called “farm community” consists of the soil, water, air, microbes, plants, insects, wildlife, and livestock of a farm plus the local community of people that receive food and information from the farm. Read more.
5 Top Anxiety-Relieving Foods
Is anxiety affecting your life negatively? Don’t fret — you can soothe your spirit and hunger with these five anxiety-relieving foods that are good for your body and your mood. Read more.
Our Forgotten Sacred Relationship with Food
I don’t think it’s a controversial statement to say that we have lost our relationship with food. But what does that mean? It means that our food has become divorced from the plants, animals, and traditions that it came from. The American diet is filled with highly processed junk foods, and the average person would be justified in not knowing what ingredients were used to create the foods they eat. Read more.
Preventing Dangerous Nutritional Deficiencies
Nutrient deficiencies can cause countless ailments and diseases. However, eating the proper foods and supplementing certain nutrients can reverse poor health and reduce your risk of illness. Read more.