By Anna Hunt When it comes to making the organic food industry successful, Nuremberg, Germany, is a shining example of what is possible. One of the city’s initiatives is to gift first-graders with yellow lunchboxes filled with organic food on their first day of school,…
By Carey Wedler This week, a study of eleven popular water bottle brands revealed microplastics are pervasive in packaging around the world. Though this may be unsurprising considering the widespread use of plastics, Coca-Cola admitted the possibility that their water products contain synthetic materials. The research was…
By Jack Burns On Thursday someone with ties to the Trump administration leaked information which indicates the president plans to execute drug dealers in an attempt to curb the national overdose death crisis. But absent from the president’s yet-unannounced policy is any accountability directed toward…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor America has a “first” to be truly proud of. The first permitted 3D printed house in the U.S. was just completed in Austin, Texas in less than 24 hours and costs less than $4,000. Not only is this amazing feat turning heads everywhere,…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A longitudinal study led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the NIH found subtle, estrogen-like responses in infants fed soy formula versus breast milk, and apparently versus cows’ formula, too. This is obviously important news for new and expectant mothers who may…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor How do you make a problem disappear? Simple. Pretend it doesn’t exist. Simply remove the culprit from the equation. That’s what the French government is doing even though pesticides have created problem after problem for French farmers, wine makers and beekeepers. French beekeepers…
The Coca-Cola Company proposed and financed the now-defunct group Global Energy Balance Network as a “weapon” in the “growing war between the public health community and private industry” over obesity and the obesity epidemic, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Epidemiology…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor WHO launches health review after microplastic fibers found twice as high in popular bottled water brands versus tap. Although people are grossly over-paying for shelf-stable, bottled water – they are gulping down double the plastic nanoparticles than they would if they drank tap,…
We normally assume that when people are a healthy weight and seem to live an active lifestyle, they are getting all of the health benefits that are promised from doing this. It is generally assumed that athletes feel full of energy all the time, and…
Laurie Mintz, University of Florida One in 3 American adults do not get enough sleep. Sexual issues are also common, with as many as 45 percent of women and 31 percent of men having a concern about their sex life. While these might seem like…
By Melinda Cafferty, Natural Blaze A relatively untapped component of daffodils is now being examined as a potential cancer cure for its ability to hamper cancer proteins and increase cancer cell death. The extract may prove promising as a botanical-based drug to stop the proliferation of cancer…
By Anna Hunt Dr. Dominic D’Agostino did not set out to find a treatment for cancer. Yet, during his research into the treatment of seizures, he found a possible non-toxic alternative approach to cancer management. D’Agostino discovered that eliminating carbohydrates from the diet could starve…
By Rosanne Lindsay What if the concept of the virus as a cause of disease was a PR campaign created to hide the truth about the power of your immune system? Two hundred years ago, the practice of medicine embraced a holistic view of the individual…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze If there wasn’t enough wrong with America’s public schools already, a science teacher at a junior high school in Idaho was accused of feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students after school, according to a number of…
This unique study was performed by scientists from the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Indiana University School of Medicine. The study conclusion states: “This is the first study of GLY [glyphosate] exposure in US pregnant women using urine…
By Markab Algedi, Natural Blaze This month, yet another state decided to sue Monsanto for the contamination that its toxic PCB chemicals caused. “Superfund” sites are the title given to areas of land contaminated by such things as PCBs, or heavy metals, or radiation, usually a result…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze A Photo Gallery of Seven Preventable, Catastrophic Tailings Ponds Disasters Related to Hard Rock Mining (and one pipeline disaster) (If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, the DNR and PCA Will Have no Rational Choice Other…
By Vanessa, Natural Blaze Insomnia continues to rise and is such a problem now that it is implicated in causing dangerous conditions, depression and anxiety. If you are one of those having troubles falling asleep at night, forget about your sleeping pills and try this…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The United States currently maintains the largest incarcerated population in the world. It routinely sees armed men throw men, women and children to the ground, guns drawn, and subsequently thrown into cages over the possession of plants. The police state has ballooned…
By Jessica Corbett Angering organic farmers and advocates, the Trump administration announced on Monday that it will officially withdraw a rule that would have added animal welfare regulations for meat, eggs, and dairy marketed as “organic.” “The decision nullifies 14 years of policymaking in a process mandated by…
