Tag: Health

  • Ditch the Low Fat Diet and Eat Like an Early Victorian for Better Health

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    Reposted from “to your Health.” One of the biggest mistakes I see in nutrition is that we that we look at life in these narrow “slices” of time, and think this is how things always have been. We might think that nutritionally, we’re a little worse than a while ago (or not), but we don’t…

  • Who’s Writing Your News Content?

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    I just received a newsletter from William Reed Newsmedia titled Science & Nutrition that I didn’t sign up for, but that focuses on topics that are of interest to me. So, when an article titled, “Autism linked to decreased microbe diversity in the gut” popped up I clicked on it.  I landed on a page…

  • The Poetry Quilt

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    Meyrem Hussain brings us a poignant article about  “hundreds of scraps of materials and thousands of painstaking stitches… brought together in a six-month labour of love.” Women attending the Stuart Low Trust have just completed their ‘poetry quilt’ – a riot of colour with the compositions of 15 budding poets. The poems include a tale of…

  • Pesticides Linked to Development of Parkinsons

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    Amy Boulanger reports on the link between Parkinsons and pesticides in a recent article in Medical Daily: Choosing an organic-based diet might be a healthier option for helping prevent the onset of PD, or helping those already diagnosed with the disorder. Numerous studies demonstrate the health risks of exposure to pesticides, which are used to…

  • One More Reason to Eat Organic: We’re running out of fertilizer

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    AUTHOR: JULIE M. RODRIGUEZ One of the most frustrating aspects of the organic food “debate” is the fact that the conversation seems to be stuck debating whether organic food is more nutritionally dense than conventionally-grown food. So when studies come out showing that you won’t get more vitamins from eating organic, conventional growers use that to bash organic…

  • Scientists Discover Bt Toxins Found In Monsanto Crops Damage Red Blood Cells

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    May 11, 2013 by Arjun Studies are showing that Bt toxins found in Monsanto crops are harmful to mammalian blood by damaging red blood cells and more. RBC’s are responsible for delivering oxygen to the body tissues through blood flow.Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) is a bacterium commonly used as a biological pesticide. It is a microorganism that produces…

  • Antibiotic Resistance – another reason to reduce meat consumption (if you needed one)

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    One of the hundreds of reasons to choose homeopathy over allopathic medical options… the dangerous rise in antibiotic resistant bugs. Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most pressing public health threats. Did you know you may unknowingly be choosing antibiotic-laden foods to put in your shopping cart and into your family’s mouths?”Though persistent organic pollutants…

  • Organizing Principles

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    In his article “The Down to Earth Economy” in the Winter issue of yes! magazine, David Korten maintains that, “extreme individualism, greed and violence are pathological and a sign of physical, developmental, cultural and/or institutional system failure.”  He contrasts the organizing principles of Wall Street with those of nature and concludes that we must “restructure…