Big companies like Nestle are quietly making the switch to natural food coloring. What are the dangers?< Nestle announced last week that it plans to remove all artificial colors and flavors from its candy bars. The company said it was doing so in response to consumer preferences, not because there was anything dangerous about the artificial products it was using. Nestle isn’t the only company making the switch. Hershey’s is beginning its journey in this direction as well. Luke J.W. Haffenden, the chief flavorist with Novotaste, a Montreal-based flavor solutions provider, told me he thinks these moves are just the tip of the iceberg. “In the food industry, in the last couple of years, it has been a hot topic of discussion. You go to any of […] Read More
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Medicinal CBD cannabis oils are all the rage, but there’s a lot of misinformation out there. Let’s take a look. It doesn’t get you high, but it’s causing quite a buzz among medical scientists and patients. The past year has seen a surge of interest in cannabidiol (CBD), a non-intoxicating cannabis compound with significant therapeutic properties. Numerous commercial start-ups and internet retailers have jumped on the CBD bandwagon, touting CBD derived from industrial hemp as the next big thing, a miracle oil that can shrink tumors, quell seizures, and ease chronic pain—without making people feel “stoned.” But along with a growing awareness of cannabidiol as a potential health aide there has been a proliferation of misconceptions about CBD. 1. “CBD is medical. THC is recreational.” Project […] Read More
By Dr. Mercola For Americans, it’s that time of the year again—time to move your clocks an hour ahead; losing a precious hour of sleep in the process. For many, the time change associated with daylight savings time1 (DST) also means spending several days or even weeks feeling generally off-kilter. As reported by Prevent Disease:2 “A study, published in 2007… combined surveys from 55,000 people in central Europe with data on 50 individuals’ sleeping and wakefulness patterns for eight weeks around the shifts to and from daylight saving time. The researchers found people never fully adjust their circadian rhythms to the hour shift associated with daylight saving time (or, as it is known in Europe, summer time). Springing ahead by an hour, however, was most […] Read More
What if you could place a seed under your tongue and the seed could recognize what your body is nutritionally missing? What if this same seed could provide those missing nutrients? by Yolanda Arenas, Guest writer, In5D.com yolysands@gmail.com Many people today carry around a lot of weight. Not only do they carry the weight of their bodies, but the weight of their troubles as well. And so much so is the fact that their ability to outweigh the extra baggage becomes a major issue when it comes to their health. Many begin to experience physical discomforts like those accompanied by such illnesses as; Anxiety, Depression and Fibromyalgia. An individual can experience feeling “rugged all the time” or “drained of energy” which can become somewhat troublesome […] Read More
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack answers this question, and intrigues us to consider the implications of this finding. Not all water is H2O, a radical departure from what you may have learned from textbooks. Dr. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington professor of bioengineering, has developed a theory of water that has been called revolutionary. He has spent the past decade convincing worldwide audiences that water is not actually a liquid. Dr. Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of bioengineering. For years, Dr. Pollack had researched muscles and how they contract. It struck him as odd that the most common […] Read More
Abhal (= Juniperus communis Linn. berries) – Juniper berries, Hauber Abhal (Berries)rn * Abies borisii regis* – Boris firrn * Abies delavayi faxonia* – Delavay fir ”faxonia”rn * Abies webbiana (A. spectabilis)* – Himalayan firrn * Abrotanum – Southernwoodrn * Acacia armata* – Kangaroo thornrn * Acanthus mollis ”Lactifolius”* – Bear”s breech var. ”Lactifolius”, Grecian pattern plant var. ”Lactifolius”rn * Acidum benzoicum – Benzoic acidrn * Acidum bromum – Bromic acidrn * Acidum carbonicum – Carbonic acid (H2CO3)rn * Acidum fluoricum – Hydrofluoric acidrn * Acidum formicum – Formic acidrn * Acidum gallicum – Gallic acidrn * Acidum phenyl-aceticum – Phenyl-acetic acidrn * Acidum phosphoricum – Phosphoric acidrn * Aconitum septentrionale – Wolf”s-bane B †rn * Actaea racemosa – Bugbane, Black cohoshrn * Actinium metallicum […] Read More
Ultimate Detox Mask Recipe Type: Masks Cuisine: Natural Cures Ingredients – 1 tbsp. bentonite clay – 1 tbsp. activated charcoal – 1 tsp. camu camu – 1 drop tea tree essential oil – apple cider vinegar (enough to make a paste consistency to your liking) Instructions Bentonite Clay – As mentioned above, bentonite clay physically pulls everything from grime to bacteria out of your skin. Activated Charcoal – Activated charcoal draws bacteria, poisons, chemicals, dirt and other micro-particles to the surface of skin. It has been proven to adsorb thousands of times its own mass in harmful substances, making it a perfect remedy for wounds and cracked, exposed skin. This is your best bet to purify and give your skin the deep cleaning it desperately […] Read More
By: Dr. Matthew Buckley, PSc.D. Interested in slowing your aging process? Take note! One of my most recent blog entries(1) summarized roughly 10 years of research related to the consequences of inflammatory processes in the periphery of the body, such as the gut, and how this was driving brain degenerative inflammatory processes within the brain. One of the key findings from that research was how pathogenic bacterial waste products known as “lipopolysaccharides” , (LPS) would trigger an immune response, and this immune response would then trigger the brains immune cells, the microglia, to become overly active and degrade brain cells. (LPS is basically small parts of the cell wall of the bad bacteria.) This response is called “microglial activation”. You’ll be hearing a lot more […] Read More
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, two Republican congressmen Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chair of the appropriations subcommittee that handles D.C.’s budget, ominously warned not to move forward with legalization in the District, claiming that to do so would be a violation of federal law. D.C. officials and federal lawmakers have sparred over whether Initiative 71, a ballot measure approved by 70 percent of voters in November, can legally take effect. The letter arrived the same day that the voter-approved legalization measure is scheduled to become law, at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. It sets the stage for a showdown between the will of the D.C. voters […] Read More
Five new cannabis-centric studies warrant major attention. By Paul Armentano February 9, 2015 Scientific discoveries are published almost daily in regard to the healing properties of the cannabis. But most of these findings appear solely in subscription-only peer-reviewed journals and, therefore, go largely unnoticed by the mainstream media and by the public. Here are five just-published cannabis-centric studies that warrant attention. Men Who Smoke Pot Possess a Reduced Risk of Bladder Cancer Is cannabis use protective against the development of certain types of cancer? The findings of a just released study in the journal Urology imply that it might be. Investigators at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Neurology assessed the association of cannabis use and tobacco smoking on the risk of bladder cancer in a […] Read More