By ORTON KIISHWEKO
Daily News Tanzania
A GROUPING of small scale farmers in 12 African countries has asked governments to be wary of agribusiness giants who want to bring in Genetically Modified Crops under the disguise of support to small holder farmers.
The grouping, under Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) […]
by KateTietje
Babble.com
Excerpts:
I know we live in a super low-fat culture. I know everyone is terrified that eating fat will make you fat (it won’t) and that saturated fat causes heart disease (it doesn’t; trans fat does). But the thing is, pregnancy is a time when you really need excellent nutrition. And there […]
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by Robyn O’Brien
AllergyKids
Having just learned from the journal Pediatrics that 15% of American girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 (with the number closer to 25% for African American girls) and that 80% of our livestock here in the U.S. are now hopped up on antibiotics according to […]
by Dr. Mercola
The bright colors of grocery store foods are often the result of artificial food dyes, which are now being applied not just to candies and snack foods, but also to products such as pickles, salad dressing and even oranges.
But according to scientific studies, these dyes are causing behavioral problems and disrupting children’s […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
New bills have been introduced in a number of states that will give the ADA a monopoly over the practice of nutritional therapy—these are the people in charge of the wonderful hospital food. Please take action in your state to stop this power grab and ensure […]
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The Imperial Stock Ranch, which began in 1871, faces a new and serious challenge to its very survival: how to create new markets for its products to compensate for longstanding existing markets that have declined or shifted overseas. Some bold steps were needed to […]
by: S. L. Baker
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Hopefully, this will never happen to you, but consider this scene: you’ve been diagnosed with a life threatening condition like colon cancer. So you sit down in your doctor’s office to discuss your medical options with your physician and it turns out there are a couple of treatments.
“What would […]
by John Phillip
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Reporting in the journal Biofactors, researchers found that patients with congestive heart failure that were supplemented with the active form of coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinol) improved ejection fraction by 39%. Ejection fraction is a critical marker of heart function used to determine the volume of blood pumped by the heart through the […]
By Dr. Mercola
Researchers examined the performance of germ-free mice, who lack gut bacteria, on a kind of maze used to test anxiety-like behaviors. The maze is in the shape of a plus with two open and two closed arms; normally, mice will avoid open spaces to minimize the risk of being seen by predators.
Normal mice, […]
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Individual responsibility and personal freedom are becoming a thing of the past in the nation’s public schools, as strict control over what students can and cannot eat — or bring to school to eat — escalates to near-dictatorial levels. The Chicago Tribune reports that for the past six years, Little […]
National Health Federation
The Complementary and Alternative Health Care Services Bill (House Bill 1716/Senate Bill 1084) is a brand-new bill, just filed in the State legislature. It recognizes the safety of complementary-and-alternative modalities and will protect the natural health-care industry from the rampages of arbitrary and mindless medical bureaucrats, and with […]
Dr. John Briffa
for The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
I came across an interesting review recently that focused on the role of nutrition in the condition Alzheimer’s disease. This form of dementia is characterized by the build-up in the brain of a protein known as ‘amyloid-beta’. One of the major points made in the paper is this: cholesterol […]
by Danya Epstein
seattlepi
Eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is a common condition and frequent complaint in primary care offices. It estimated to be prevalent in 1 percent of adults and 5 percent of children. The symptoms include dry, red, itchy and inflamed skin, most commonly on the face, hands, behind the knees and in […]
by Joan Delaney
Epoch Times Staff
Canadian wheat farmers and opponents of genetically modified crops are breathing a sigh of relief due to an announcement by Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) that it does not plan to research genetically modified organisms (GMO) wheat.
The government agency said in a statement that developing GMO wheat is will not be […]
Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News
There is troubling news this spring as many US farmers are switching from traditional food crops such as wheat and corn to cotton, which is selling at all time highs. Cotton today is seen to be a very profitable crop in 2011. This is troubling for several reasons.
First, as we […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Producers of GM crops have come up with even more new ways to get GM soy into your diet: change the fatty acid structure to include Omega 3 fatty acids to eliminate your need to get them from fish! It is called “SDA-enriched soy.” The new GM soy contains […]
by GM WATCH
NOTE: Below is an article on how how Silvio Berlusconi derailed an anti-GM crop ban at the behest of the U.S. We only know about what happened thanks to Wikileaks.
Despite the repeated efforts of some in the mainstream media to downplay the significance of the Wikileaks’ cables, they have been revelatory in […]
by Emelie Peine
Think Forward
On February 18, Republicans in the House of Representatives defeated an obscure amendment to the House Appropriations bill by a 2-to-1 margin. The Kind Amendment would have eliminated $147 million dollars that the federal government pays every year directly to Brazilian cotton farmers. In an era of nationwide belt tightening, with […]
by Food Freedom
On Saturday, April 2, Blue Hill became the third town in Maine to adopt the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance. The Ordinance was passed at Blue Hill’s town meeting by a near unanimous vote. This comes on the heels of the unanimous passage of the Ordinance in neighboring towns, Sedgwick and Penobscot, […]
by Dr. Mercola
Victoria Inness-Brown conducted a personal two and a half-year experiment on the effects of aspartame, probably the worst of the artificial sweeteners on the market.
Her experiments resulted in the book, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, as well as the shorter summary version Are Your Diet Sodas Killing You? Results from My […]
