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Roughly 85,000 fewer people living in North America will be forced to drink and bathe in fluoridated water, thanks to four recent community victories preventing or overturning water fluoridation mandates. The towns of O’Fallon, Missouri; Rosetown, Saskatchewan; Lake View, Iowa; and Cassadaga, New York are all now officially fluoride-free, proving that individuals really do have [...]

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Vegans and vegetarians have been promoting the lifestyle for decades and now research firmly supports a huge cancer prevention benefit to those who add fruits, vegetables, herbs and tea to their diets. A study by Susan Steck of the Arnold School of Public Health finds that a high intake of flavonoids, a group of compounds [...]

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Elizabeth Renter As if most consumers weren’t confused enough already about making the “right” food choices, the pseudo-scientific Stanford study released early last month had many of those on the fence thinking it was okay to once-again blindly trust what they found on their supermarket shelves. But, let’s lay this argument to rest (again) and [...]

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Sayer Ji, Contributor While technically a berry, pomegranate “fruit” may be nature’s answer to turning the tide against the #1 cause of death in the industrialized world: heart disease. Let’s start with what it tells us simply through experiencing it… Pomegranate has a remarkable astringency, giving your mouth and gums that dry, puckering mouth feel. This [...]

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You may not have heard the explosion, but it happened. A review from The Cochrane Collaboration, a widely respected research-analysis team, went over all the evidence, and entered its conclusion: In healthy adults, no flu vaccine delivers protection from the flu. Boom! It doesn’t protect against transmission of flu viruses from person to person, either. [...]

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It’s quite simple – you can eat foods that nurture health, or you can eat foods that create disease. Similarly, you can eat brain foods that boost your brain power, or you can eat those that quite literally dumb you down. So, which came first—the intelligence or the healthy diet? While we can’t be certain, [...]

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Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post As far back as the 5th century BC the Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about the use of a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that reduced fevers and eased aches and pains.  Native Americans also used an infusion of willow bark for similar purposes. What was this remarkable “healing” principle [...]

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Written by Andrew Puhanic Woman who are planning to have a baby or are already pregnant are now being warned to avoid foods containing Mercury and are now being encouraged to eat more fish during pregnancy. A new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has concluded that children born from mothers [...]

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