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Healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte: Make This Fall Favorite at Home
The distinct sweet smell and flavor of pumpkin spice can give us a warm fuzzy feeling during the holidays. What better way to enjoy this spice that we’ve associated with comfort than by adding it to a hot[CO1] drink? If you’re one of those people who absolutely love fall, there is a high chance that you’ve sipped a soothing mug of pumpkin spice latte. However, if you take a closer look at the nutritional content of Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte, you can see that it’s a health disaster waiting to happen. The...
read moreLaboratory Testing Reveals Substantial Amounts of Glyphosate in Foods and Population
By Dr. Mercola As food has become increasingly adulterated, contaminated and genetically engineered, the need for laboratory testing has exponentially grown. John Fagan, president of Health Research Institute Labs (HRI Labs), is an expert in this area. As explained by Fagan, HRI Labs “makes the invisible, visible, giving you the ability to see what is in your food and your environment.” Fagan studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Cornell University, where he also got his Ph.D. After doing research for eight years at the...
read moreCan Adults Develop Food Allergies?
By Dr. Mercola Most of the processed and packaged foods you find on your grocery store shelves are laden with additives, preservatives, colorings, flavorings and a number of other chemicals designed to make the product look and taste good. However, each of these additional chemicals increases your risk you’ll have an adverse reaction. Food allergies are the fifth leading cause of chronic illness in the U.S.,1 and the number of people who suffer from them is on the rise. In the decade between 1997 and 2007, the incidence of food...
read moreHow Astroturfing and Other Media Manipulation Compromise Your Ability to Get Truthful Information
By Dr. Mercola Ninety percent of news media, be it television, radio, print or online, are controlled by six corporations. As a result, the vast majority of what you read, see and hear is part of a carefully orchestrated narrative created and controlled by special interest groups. When you combine that with other astroturf and public manipulation schemes that hide the identity of these special interests, the end result is, to use investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s term, a Truman-esque fictitious reality, where medical journals,...
read moreGrowing Turmeric Is Easier Than You Think
By Dr. Mercola A bright orange spice that’s been a favorite in Thai and East Indian cooking for thousands of years, turmeric (Curcuma longa) is aptly named for the Persian word “saffron,” a hue much like a pumpkin or the flesh of a sweet potato, but the similarity ends there. The vibrant, yellow-orange color is synonymous with the robes worn by many Buddhist priests. Turmeric is part of the ginger family, which is why both exude a pleasant little zing on your tongue, but the flavor is different; the former is described as...
read moreTips on Growing Collard Greens
By Dr. Mercola If you are getting bored eating the same old dark, leafy greens, you may be interested in trying collard greens. Better yet, you can easily grow them in your vegetable garden. Growing and eating collard greens is a southern tradition in the U.S. These greens, which are a great source of fiber and vitamins K, A and C, as well as calcium, are often featured in traditional, southern New Year’s meals. The good news is you can grow collard greens in northern climates too, as they are a cool season crop. Collards are one of...
read moreDiscover Why Ashwagandha Can Be Used for Stress and Anxiety
Ashwagandha, also known as winter cherry or Indian ginseng, is a popular herb in Ayurvedic medicine. It literally translates to “odor of horse” because of the distinct smell it emits, which is similar to horse sweat. Some accounts also say that it was named as such because it gives you the endurance and strength of a horse. In Ayurvedic medicine, ashwagandha herb is classified as “Rasayana,” a type of essence that helps in the healing of the body and the lengthening of life.1 The ashwagandha plant comes from the...
read moreGo Ahead and Cry
By Dr. Mercola When you’re feeling stressed, angry or anxious, having a good cry can leave you feeling inexplicably better. It’s as though shedding tears acts as a physical release for your negative emotions. On average, U.S. women cry 3.5 times a month compared to men’s 1.9 times.1 This refers only to “emotional” tears, a phenomenon that’s said to occur only in humans (but may also occur in elephants and gorillas).2 Emotional or “psychic” tears, as they’re sometimes called, are produced in response to strong...
read moreHow Meditation Benefits Your Body and Mind
By Dr. Mercola There is growing evidence to show that your mind and body are intricately connected, and that your mind has a direct impact on your physical health. Brain imaging technology suggests meditation alters your brain in a number of beneficial ways, and studies show meditative practices even alter your genetic expression.1,2,3 Indeed, thousands of genes have been identified that appear to be directly influenced by your subjective mental state. Examples of genetic effects resulting from meditative practices include the down-regulation...
read moreResearch Finds Sugar Changes Metabolism in Even the Healthiest of People
By Dr. Mercola Sugar is likely one of the most dangerous products you can ingest and may trigger an addiction that is difficult to break. What is so terrifying is that you can find it in almost every processed food you purchase. It hides under a number of different names and affects your body in ways that scientists are continuing to discover. While the media and medical associations have warned about overeating fat and salt, there has been relatively little said about the overabundance of sugar in the American diet. The sad truth is there...
read moreWhy You Should Never Share Towels
By Dr. Mercola Penicillin was the first antibiotic, discovered in 1929, but it wasn’t until the early 1940s that large-scale fermentation processes were developed for mass production.1 Prior to this, many people died from what today is cured with a round of antibiotics. You may be so used to the idea that infections can be cured it is almost incomprehensible antibiotics may lose a significant amount of usefulness by 2050 in the fight against bacteria.2 Scientists estimate nearly 300 million people will lose their life to...
read moreIs Most Back Pain Caused by Repressed Emotions?
By Dr. Mercola Back pain is perhaps one of the most common health complaints across the globe. Worldwide, 1 in 10 people suffers from lower back pain, and it’s the No. 1 cause of job disability. In the U.S., a whopping $90 billion is spent on back pain each year.1 Tragically, back pain is also a leading cause of opioid use, which now kills more Americans than car crashes.2 Seventy-five to 80 percent of back pain cases do resolve within two to four weeks,3 with or without treatment, although it’s important to note that back pain...
read moreAre C-Sections Contributing to Autism?
By Dr. Mercola A well-respected natural-birth pioneer, Dr. Michel Odent, has a theory about what might be behind our rising autism rates: C-sections. While C-sections and autism may initially seem completely unrelated, there is in fact an intriguing connection between the two — a connection that lead back to the gut. We now know that C-sections alter the microbiome in the child, and a number of studies, as well as clinical observations, suggest a disrupted gut flora may act as a trigger for autism. Recent research linking folate deficiency to...
read moreFamily Farms Attacked While Criminal CAFOs Protected
By Dr. Mercola Few would argue that an FBI raid on two small farm animal sanctuaries — in search of two piglets named Lucy and Ethel — makes good use of the U.S. Department of Justice’s time or money. But when you learn the backstory — that the pigs were found near death at Circle Four Farm in Utah, which is owned by the world’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods, and brought to a sanctuary to recover — the raid seems not only nonsensical but also barbaric.1 It’s the latest demonstration of intimidation by the federal...
read moreLatest Major Threat to Bees and Trees
By Dr. Mercola Systemic neonicotinoid pesticides have made recent headlines for their association with bee deaths, while glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, has also been the topic of much debate following the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) 2015 declaration that the chemical is a probable human carcinogen. A relative newcomer to the scene is dicamba, but it’s quickly earning a similarly ominous reputation as the former two. Dicamba has been used by farmers for decades, but the...
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