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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much Sugar?
Table of Contents Why Is Excessive Sugar Bad for Your Health? Effects of Consuming Too Much Sugar Sugar Increases Your Risk of Disease How to Manage or Limit Your Sugar Consumption How to Shake Off Your Sugar Cravings You add it to your morning cup of coffee or tea. You bake it into pastries, cakes and cookies. You even sprinkle it all over your breakfast cereal or your oatmeal for added flavor. But that’s not all. It’s also hidden in some beloved “treats” that people consume on a daily basis, such as sodas, fruit...
read moreHow to Grow Eggplant
Growing eggplant shouldn’t be intimidating when you’re anticipating spring garden planting. Getting your seeds off to a good start, then tweaking them if needed, will help produce a harvest of nutritious fruit. That’s what eggplant is, by the way, although many people think eggplants are vegetables. There are many beautiful varieties: large, purple Globe; Rosita, the 8-inch pinkish-lavender heirloom variety; long, thin Japanese eggplants and yellow, green and white-hued varieties with slightly varying flavors.1 Considered tropical perennials,...
read morePlanting ‘Forest Gardens’ Can Promote a More Sustainable Food System
A process known as “succession” occurs when one plant species replaces another.1 As explained in the National Geographic short film featured above, when an area is left to its own devices, it will naturally turn into a forest over time, replete with a wide variety of plant species, and this diversification occurs unaided by man. The film features a man-made “forest garden” designed to mimic this kind of naturally occurring ecosystem, where fruit and nut trees grow intermingled with shrubs, herbs, vines and a variety of perennial vegetables in...
read moreOver 1 Trillion Trees Need To Be Planted in the Next 10 Years
Planting more trees — to the tune of 1.2 trillion — could be the answer to saving the Earth, with the trees capable of storing so much carbon dioxide (CO2) that they would cancel out a decades’ worth of human-made (CO2) emissions.1 Further, thanks to the work of ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at Swiss university ETH Zurich, it’s now known that there’s room for an additional 1.2 trillion trees on the planet. The team global forest inventory data from the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI) combined with satellite data to...
read moreMarjoram: A Versatile Herb for Cooking and Aromatherapy
Table of Contents The 6 Health Benefits of Marjoram You Should Know About 4 Ways to Use Marjoram Effectively Growing Marjoram in Your Home Try This Healthy Recipe: Spicy Roast Chicken With Tomatoes and Marjoram Marjoram Essential Oil Has Unique Benefits, Too How to Make Marjoram Essential Oil Using Marjoram Essential Oil Properly The marjoram plant (Origanum majorana) is an aromatic herb known for its aromatherapeutic and culinary uses. Its botanical name literally means “mountain beauty.” Interestingly, since marjoram and oregano (Origanum...
read moreHow a Stroke Can Happen When You’re Young Like Luke Perry
Strokes are sometimes referred to as “brain attacks” (instead of “heart attacks”) because they occur when a blood clot blocks an artery or blood vessel, cutting off blood flow to your brain, as opposed to your heart.1 As a result, brain cells die and brain damage can occur. Without proper and timely treatment, a stroke can be lethal. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an estimated 795,000 strokes occur each year in the U.S.2 It’s the fifth leading cause of death, killing an...
read moreCough Medicine Is Ineffective and May Be Dangerous
It may start as a tickle in the back of your throat, or a full throttled bark as you try to clear a growing amount of secretions in your upper respiratory tract. But, however it begins, most would like the coughing to stop. Usually a cough will accompany a cold, beginning as a runny nose, scratchy throat and sneezing. A cold is caused by a virus, the most common of which is the rhinovirus. It may be responsible for up to 50 percent of all colds. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1 most get colds in the winter...
read more12-Minute Presentation on How to Reverse Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is curable and the cure is free. According to a January 2019 update by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 114 million American adults live with diabetes or prediabetes.1 Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in 2015, and continues as seventh in 2019. In a 2017 press release, then-CDC Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald stated:2 “Although these findings reveal some progress in diabetes management and prevention, there are still too many Americans with diabetes and prediabetes. More...
read moreMeasles Propaganda Can Have Dire Public Health Ramifications
Mandatory use of the first vaccine — the smallpox vaccine — became common in the 19th century because that infection had a mortality rate of 30 percent.1 Measles is not and was never as deadly as smallpox. In 1962, a year before the measles vaccine was licensed in the U.S., the measles death rate was reported to be 1 in 1,000 cases.2 However, that 20th century death rate has been challenged by Physicians for Informed Consent arguing that the case fatality figures are based on reported cases and most cases of measles are benign and go...
read more50 Percent Fertility Reduction Because of These Household Chemicals
Male fertility has been on the decline for at least 40 years, with a 50 percent global reduction in sperm quality noted from 1938 to 2011.1 A similar decline in sperm quality has been observed in dogs living in human households, with sperm motility declining by 30 percent over a 26-year period.2 The corresponding declines suggest that something in the environment, and likely in our homes, could be causing the drop in fertility among both dogs and people. In the canine study, the researchers linked certain environmental chemicals to sperm...
read moreThe Great Statin Debate — Why Cholesterol Is Misunderstood
The health editor for the Daily Mail recently published an article touting the merits of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs and, worse, eschewing the “deadly propaganda of the statin deniers.”1 Pointing to an analysis published in BMJ, which suggested 200,000 patients may have stopped taking statins due to negative media reports about the drugs,2 the article attacks those who question statins’ merits and claims the notion that statins reduce the risk of a major cardiac event as “indisputable scientific fact.”3 The...
read moreDegeneration Nation: GMOs, Toxic Chemicals and Factory Farms
Commentary by Ronnie Cummins, International Director of Organic Consumers Association “The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 19431 Welcome to Degeneration Nation 2019. The frightening truth is that genetically engineered foods and crops, toxic chemicals and factory farms — the unholy trinity of industrial food and farming — are undermining our very survival. Public health and the health of the living Earth — our soils, forests, wetlands, watersheds, oceans and climate — are rapidly being...
read moreCase Study Shows CBD Shrinks Tumor
Cannabis has a long history of traditional use as a botanical medicine. The term medical marijuana refers to the use of whole, unprocessed plant and pure extract to treat disease or improve a symptom.1 To qualify, the product must be sourced from a medicinal grade cannabis plant meticulously grown without the use of toxic pesticides and fertilizers. The cannabis plant has over 400 chemicals and at least 60 different cannabinoids2 — chemical compounds the human body is uniquely equipped to respond to. The two primary ones are cannabidiol (CBD)...
read moreWeekly Health Quiz: Sunscreens, Mattresses and Cellphones
1 The following is not a healthy source of dietary fat and should be avoided: Olive oil Canola oil Not all fats have the same effects on your body, and that the fats most commonly found in processed foods, such as corn oil and canola oil, are among the very worst. Healthy dietary fats are natural and unprocessed. Examples include seeds, nuts, butter, olives, avocado and coconut oil. Learn more. Butter Coconut oil 2 Recent research reveals children who receive the diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP) vaccine are more susceptible to this...
read moreLumbrokinase for Heart Health?
Although it’s not a well-known substance, lumbrokinase is recognized by health experts as an extraordinarily health-beneficial enzyme. It boosts circulatory health by breaking down fibrinogen, described by one study1 as having the ability to reduce blood viscosity, making it a “critical factor in clot formation.” Fibrinogen, perhaps another unfamiliar term, is a fibrous protein essential for hemostasis — stopping bleeding. While a “mechanically stable” clot is necessary to prevent blood loss and promote wound healing, and your fibrinolytic...
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