American Dietetic Association Wants to be Sole Authority on Nutrition

by Dr. Jonny Bowden
jonnybowdenblog.com
The American Dietetic Association is at it again, working tirelessly to make sure that the only nutrition information you get is from members of their union.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now: I consider the American Dietetic Association one of the most destructive influences on eating behavior in America.
They […]

Farm Subsidies Become Target Amid Spending Cuts

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
New York Times
WASHINGTON — When it comes to spending cuts, members of Congress like to say that “everything is on the table.” Except, generally, food. But now federal farm subsidies, long decried by policy makers as wasteful and antiquated but protected by powerful political interests, appear to be in serious danger.
This week, […]

Sunday Devotional: Are You a Model Believer?

by Brian Shilhavy
And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia… They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath. (1 […]

Can Evolution Hurdle the ‘Mutation Protection Paradox’?

by Brian Thomas, M.S.
Institute for Creation Research
A new study published in The Open Evolution Journal described a paradox that particles-to-people evolution has failed to resolve. Called the “mutation protection paradox,” it could be an intractable problem that would leave creation as the only viable origins hypothesis.
Study researchers observed that both living organisms and computer […]

Is Refined Sugar the Main Cause of All Modern Diseases?

Health Impact News Editor Comments: This is a very good article with supporting evidence and video showing the danger of sugar in our diet. One needs to always be cautious, however, with labeling a entire food group as a “toxin” or as “poisonous.” Sugar is a component of almost all whole foods, and cannot […]

PCOS and insulin resistance diet

by Aloka Mehta Gambhir
THE TIMES OF INDIA
In a previous post on PCOS we established that insulin resistance is one of the root causes of PCOS.
Both men and women can be resistant to insulin but, though it impacts women more directly causing problems in the reproductive system, it is no less important for men to be weary […]

Scented Consumer Products Emit Unlisted Hazardous Chemicals

by Dr. Mercola
Widely used fragranced products, including those that claim to be “green”, can give off chemicals not listed on the label. Some of these chemicals have been classified as toxic.
Twenty-five commonly used scented products were found to emit an average of 17 chemicals each. A total of 133 different chemicals were detected — nearly […]

High Levels of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Supermarket Meat

by Matthew Heller
FairWarning.org
High levels of drug-resistant strains of bacteria that cause staph infections are present in nearly half of the meat and poultry sold at U.S. grocery stores, a study says. And researchers found that the food animals themselves — rather than processing or storage practices — generally are the source of the contamination.
Experts from the Translational Genomics Research […]

The Need for Midwives: U.S. Maternity-Care Crisis

by Ina May Gaskin
The Daily Beast
Excerpts:
Ask your average American what a midwife is and you’ll probably get a puzzled stare in return. Midwife? Isn’t that a kind of witch doctor, discarded by society with the dawn of modern medicine? Do midwives still exist today?
They do, of course—and I am living proof. Midwives have attended women […]

Potting Up Tomato Seedlings

by Cooking Up a Story
I ran over to Jean Ann Van Krevelen the other day – she had put out a shout for any veggie starts. Since she had been traveling she hadn’t had the chance to do much early planting this season. Since we don’t live too far from each other and I had […]