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Toxic Taters Polluting the Air
By Dr. Mercola McDonald’s is the world’s biggest purchaser of potatoes,1 buying more than 3.4 billion pounds of U.S.-grown potatoes a year2 and processing them primarily into their well-known french fries and hash browns. Many would assume that it’s in this fried form that they pose the most danger — at least to the health of those who choose to eat them — but the potatoes the fast-food giant relies on are dangerous before they even come out of the ground. Potatoes are a very chemical-intensive crop, and in areas where...
read moreThe Most Common Nutrient Deficiencies
By Dr. Mercola Even when you eat a balanced, whole-food diet similar to the one presented in my nutrition plan, you may still fail to get the right balance of vitamins and minerals your body needs for optimal health. Because many factors contribute to your body’s ability to derive nutrients from the food you consume, you may eat a healthy diet and still lack proper nutrition. Changes in animal feed, climate, farming and food-processing methods, soil conditions, water quality and weather patterns, as well as increased use of genetic...
read moreTry Apple Cider Vinegar and Black Cumin Oil as Your Go-To Salad Dressing
30 Tips in 30 Days Designed to Help You Take Control of Your Health This article is part of the 30 Day Resolution Guide series. Each day a new tip will be added designed to help you take control of your health. For a complete list of the tips click HERE By Dr. Mercola Vinegar, said to have been discovered around 5,000 B.C., was originally used as a food preservative. In time, a number of medicinal uses became apparent, and in the 1700s it was used to treat everything from poison ivy and croup to stomach aches and diabetes. While vinegar can...
read moreWeekly Health Quiz: Vaccines, Vitamins and Bones
1 Which former CDC director was hired to oversee Merck’s vaccine division and has made millions of dollars after leaving the CDC? Julie Gerberding A perfect example of the “revolving door” between government and industry is former CDC director Julie Gerberding, who left the agency in 2009 where she had overseen vaccine decisions to head Merck’s vaccines division. In 2015, she sold 38,368 shares of her Merck stock valued at $2 million. Learn more. Tom Frieden Jeffrey Koplan Thomas Insel 2 The safety of popular drugs is...
read moreGhost in the Machine, Part 5 — Lies, Denial, Deceit and Manipulative ‘Research’
By Dr. Mercola In the last decade, vaccines have become Big Pharma’s biggest profit center. A report published by MarketsandMarkets estimates the global vaccine market, currently valued at $34.30 billion a year, will grow to an astounding $49.27 billion by 2022.1 Why the boom? As blockbuster drugs like Lipitor, Viagra, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Singular and Concerta have gone off patent, vaccines prove a lucrative replacement. Not only are they priced much higher than pills, governments and NGOs shamelessly help market vaccines to huge swaths...
read moreNourishing Beef Broth With Turmeric, Coconut Cream and Ginger
Recipe From Pete Evans My new recipe book, the “Fat for Fuel Ketogenic Cookbook,” is now out on store shelves. This endeavor is something that I proudly share with one of the most talented chefs I’ve ever met, Pete Evans. Both of us are committed to providing you with valuable knowledge on how to improve your health by adopting the ketogenic diet into your lifestyle — and this book will surely fill you in on that. For now, let me whet your appetite with this delicious, creamy beef bone broth recipe, brought to you by Pete. The turmeric...
read moreGhost in the Machine, Part 4 — The War on Supplements, Essential Oils and Homeopathy
By Dr. Mercola If you suspect that supplements are more popular than ever, you are right. More than half of American adults have used one or more supplements and more than half of women and 43 percent of men used a supplement of some kind within the last 30 days.1,2 While that means not takirang vitamins or supplements is now a minority position, it also means Big Pharma is trying to get “in on” the supplement business. The U.S. retail sales of vitamins and supplements is expected to exceed $36 billion in 2017.3 While that’s...
read moreHave You Ever Wondered Why Your Blood Is Red?
By Dr. Mercola The range of color in nature is amazing. Hues of all colors may be found in animals as a form of camouflage, protection, sexual behavior and even communication. Some animals are even translucent in order to improve their ability to escape predators.1 In the human body, color is an important way to differentiate tissues, organs, bones, tendon and muscle. Pathologists have a unique need to be aware of color differences as this sometimes translates into pathological processes that require identification for appropriate treatment....
read moreGhost in the Machine, Part 3 — Pride and the Politics of Vaccines
By Dr. Mercola There needs to be an open, rational discussion about vaccination, infectious diseases and health. After all, don’t all of us want our children to be healthy and safe from unnecessary harm? If we want to protect the health of all children, we cannot continue to ignore the signs that public health policies making mandatory use of multiple vaccines in early childhood as our nation’s No. 1 disease prevention strategy have gotten tothe point where we have no idea how children’s lives are being sacrificed in the...
read more5 Ways To Be Happy and Healthy
By Dr. Mercola If I were limited to only one area of my life in which I could aspire to be happy, undoubtedly I would choose my health. In my experience, having a sense of health and well-being opens the door to contentment, purposeful living and pleasure. In contrast, the absence of health can be limiting and sometimes downright depressing. It’s easy to regard happiness as something that happens to you, but I believe being happy is a choice, a state of mind you must actively seek. When you are consistently in a happy frame of mind, you...
read moreGhost in the Machine, Part 2 — Success Breeds Greed That Gets in the Way of Ethics, Common Sense and Caution
By Dr. Mercola Direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising, which began in 1997, has done a lot more than make Pharma arguably the most profitable industry in the world and a Wall Street success story. It has greatly increased the number of prescription drugs that Americans take. In 1992, five years before DTC advertising began, Americans took an average of seven prescription drugs a year. A mere 15 years later that number had nearly doubled to 12 per year.1,2 To sell drugs, aggressive drug advertising whips up fears over rare diseases like...
read moreWhy You Should Try This Sweet-Smelling and Health-Boosting Essential Oil
Beyond its wonderful scent and flavor, cinnamon bark oil also offers an array of therapeutic and healing benefits. Here’s what you need to know about this essential oil. What Is Cinnamon Bark Oil? Cinnamon bark oil is obtained from the bark of trees that belong to the Cinnamomum species (also called Cinnamon zeylanicum), which comprise more than 250 aromatic evergreen trees and shrubs all throughout Asia and Australia, although it is native to Sri Lanka, Myanmar and India.1 Cassia oil, sassafras and Ho leaf oils fall under the same...
read moreAir Pollution Damages Neurons, Leads to Infertility and Birth Defects
By Dr. Mercola Air pollution is a traveling, insidious health problem. In other words, air pollution created in Michigan affects those in Canada, and pollution that enters the air in Asia affects people living on the California coast. Air pollution is a worldwide problem that must be addressed with worldwide solutions. The Commission on Pollution and Health1 is an initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A report from the Commission found:2,3 “[T]he largest...
read moreCanola Oil Proven to Destroy Your Body and Mind
By Dr. Mercola According to a study by AARP,1 93 percent of Americans are concerned with their brain health, but very few understood some of the natural strategies they could use to improve it. Contrary to popular belief, your brain function and cognitive performance do not have to decline with age. There are steps you can take that influence your memory, processing, executive functions and more. Even if you are already in your “golden years,” simple changes may prompt brain health for the better. For instance, where once it was...
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