By Heather Callaghan, Editor “Along with medicine I also prescribe them Charlie Chaplin DVDs so they can watch and be happy.” Have you heard of people who recover from illness with the help of laughter? Maybe you read Anatomy of an Illness and wondered if you could…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor California has become the first state to prescribe specific – and presumably healthier – meals to chronically ill patients. The newly launched pilot program will treat low-income and at-risk Medicaid patients with “specially tailored meals that are proven to offer relief from…
By Heather Callaghan You may have noticed a pattern with medical associations and other organizations that determine health guidelines for the average Joe or Joan…Every time the health guidelines change, a new group of people is suddenly considered unhealthy. The ever-changing guidelines disseminated by the”experts”…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Do These Basic 5 Things to Live Longer… …according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, published in The American Heart Association’s Circulation in late April. U.S. women and men who followed these 5 things: healthy food,…
By Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze Probiotics are a Bandage on Colony Collapse Disorder But Cause More Problems – while they have been shown to help bees withstand threats like fungal infection and pesticides – is it worth the price bees pay? Previously, commercial probiotics have helped…
By Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze Millennials lead the charge against GMOs and have more in common with their grandparents than their parents’ generation. Millennials are reviving the art of gardening, local food and food preservation so it shouldn’t be surprising to find thousands of them at…
By Heather Callaghan Glyphosate-based herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup are used the world over. In fact, Roundup is still the most popular and widely used weedkiller in the entire world. Pesticide propagandists are fond of leaning on the idea of “safe” dose, but can there really be…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Another start-up has launched a product with the lofty goal of feeding the world. At the very least, you may not need to buy the main ingredient to salad for awhile! We can’t say that Aggressively Organic’s “Plant Pods” can feed the world since…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Scientists accidentally created a super enzyme that eats plastic for breakfast… Or did they? While the discovery is real and it was happenstance – it was in the process of engineering bacteria that the surprising, plastic-engulfing results were revealed. However, the enzyme doesn’t…
By Heather Callaghan When you want to find answers look for a pattern – always look for a pattern. For instance, the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule is a theory that 80 percent of the output from a given situation or system is determined…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Solar is everywhere now. Tech worshipers figure, what better way to harness energy than to capture the very essence of the sun? While it does have its drawbacks, it is a form of “off-grid” energy. Solar cell technology can quite possibly draw us…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Wildlife Services Killed More Than 1.3 Million Native Animals Including Wolves, Bears, Wildcats, Birds and Domestic Animals – But Why? We are sad to report that the government has committed wholesale slaughter of native wildlife. Not just because some of them were pests,…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Have you heard? Cleaning is a life-saving form of exercise, but using cleaning sprays has the same effect on lungs as smoking 20 cigarettes a day. Household cleaners are also known to decrease reproduction in mice studies. But what you may not…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Did you know that there is an aquatic moss that clears 80 percent of arsenic from a water jug in less than an hour? When pollution strikes – or builds up over the years – leave it to humble water plants to…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor An eerie bit of news has graced today’s 4/20 celebrations across America. (“Four twenty” is code for smoking marijuana, making the day 4/20 special in cannabis culture.) On Thursday, the FDA, notorious for approving fatal opioids and other drugs – and attacking plants…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Millions of cartons of milk labeled “organic” contain a mysterious additive. It’s a nutrient called DHA but the millions of customers buying the cartons do not realize how it’s manufactured. While the additive itself is causing people to question whether it should even…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor On February 12, 2018 Georgia Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee, Timothy Cunningham, left work allegedly saying he felt sick and later walked out of his house never to be seen again. The 35-year-old epidemiologist’s sudden disappearance and his role at the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The average person swallows up to 68,415 possibly dangerous plastic fibers a year, according to scientists who tested the particles that fall on our dinner plates. We have been reporting on the startling accounts detailing how we are now drinking plastic nanoparticles in…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A small movement of people are experimenting with LSD microdosing and it’s gaining steam. But its not just laymen – researchers and writers, too, are curious if a microdose can help a person overcome addictive habits. A regular dose of LSD can produce…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze It seems the trail of destruction left behind by the use of heavy pesticides is never ending. Besides the well-known negative effects of pesticides such as glyphosate on human health and the use of certain chemicals on the bee population, there is…
