Posted April 4, 2018
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We scan major advocacy news sites to keep you informed about important legislation that impacts your health choices. The only emails we send are Action Alerts!
We scan major advocacy news sites to keep you informed about important legislation that impacts your health choices. The only emails we send are Action Alerts!
How to Prevent Damping Off Disease in Your Seedlings
So you’ve decided to start your own seedlings this year. You’ve chosen your varieties, set up your area, and planted. You’re seeing lovely green sprouts in the pots and are very excited, taking the best care of them you know how. Then one day, soon after sprout, your seedlings are lying on the potting medium. Read more.
Ginseng Provides Natural Help for Hair Loss
The two FDA-approved medications for hair loss come with a risk of significant side effects. Ginseng provides a powerful natural alternative. Read more.
Millions of Avoidable Deaths from COVID-19
In the recent pandemic, a common reason many people died is the failure to use widely available, highly effective, safe, and inexpensive treatments that have proven to drastically reduce morbidity and mortality from this disease. Over the last several centuries and especially within the last decades, we have gained a huge amount of medical knowledge about biochemistry and nutrition — and how important this is for maintaining a strong, resilient body and immune system. Read more.
This Coconut Oil Hack Can Reduce White Rice Calories 50-60%
The excessive consumption of white rice can contribute to overweight, obesity and blood sugar disorders. Exciting research indicates adding coconut oil while cooking it can dramatically and positively alter its nutritional structure and function. Read more.
To Protect Corporate Profits, U.S. Plans to Bully Mexico into Buying GMO Corn
Corporate money has always corrupted the political process in order to create laws and trade agreements that protect corporate profits at the expense of not just U.S. citizens, but citizens of the world. We can find, perhaps, no better case in point than genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Read more.
Prioritizing an All-Organic Diet — Paybacks from Safer, Nutrient-Dense Food
Every spring the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™. For nearly 20 years, this guide has been designed for consumers concerned about pesticide contamination in fruits and vegetables. A new white paper critiques the legitimacy of encouraging shoppers to purchase commonly contaminated conventional, non-organic produce. Read more.
Why There is No Such Thing as ‘Safe’ Tap Water
Despite being at the top of the global food chain and industrial developmental ladder, the United States has a poor track record for delivering uncontaminated drinking water to the public. Even the nicest restaurants are guilty of serving you directly from the tap. It’s time to get real about the ‘tap water problem,’ one of the most significant vectors of toxicity of our age… Read more.
GMO Wheat: A Concerning Addition to our Food Supply
Despite USDA claims that bio-engineered wheat is safe, consumers have reservations (“Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Wheat Scandal Is No Surprise, by Paul Klein, Forbes magazine”). While genetically modified corn and soybeans are primarily grown as animal feed or for use in processed foods, wheat is a crop grown to be consumed directly. That makes it a harder sell (“Explainer: Biotech corn and soy widely used, consumers still wary of GM wheat,” Reuters, March 3, 2023, Julie Ingwersen). Read more.
Get Fat Happy!
One of the dirtiest marketing campaigns in our recent history, that continues to wreak havoc on people’s health, surrounds the myths, lies, fallacies and omissions about dietary fats. This includes the fats we eat in our everyday diets like butter, cheese, cooking oils, nuts, avocados and meats. Read more.
EPA Acts on PFAS
Thanks to your advocacy, the agency is proposing drinking water limits on six PFAS chemicals. But there’s a lot more work to do. Action Alert! For the first time, the EPA has proposed enforceable limits on six PFAS chemicals in Americans’ drinking water. Read more.
