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Recently there have been a handful of studies criticizing the use of vitamin supplements to prevent or cure disease. These studies, though they are few compared to the studies touting the benefits of vitamins, have made national headline news—Multivitamins Did Nothing to Prevent Cancer, Heart Disease in Older Women and Studies Reveal Vitamins C, E Do Not Prevent Prostate Cancer.
You may not be familiar with mitochondria and the role they play in your overall health, but you should be.
Imagine a vibrant world hidden beneath the ocean surface, a world teeming with life; a veritable forest of coral that houses sea sponges, sea t
| Grain | Cooking Time/Water (per cup dry grain) & Yield | Uses |
| Long Grain Brown Rice | 45 minutes/2.5 cups Yields: 3.5 cups | Firm, fluffy side dishes, salad, pilafs. |
| Medium Grain Brown Rice | 50 minutes/2.5 cups Yields: 3.5 cups | Softer. |
Garlic is probably the best researched and most commonly used herb in the world. Native to Central Asia, garlic is now used in most every country’s cuisine. Mention of garlic can be found in the ancient medical texts of Egypt, India, China, Greece, and Rome, some dating as far back as 5,000 years.
Even though we don’t tend to think of it as such, chocolate is a luxury item that is very labor and environmentally intensive to grow.
With the advent of the “little blue pill” men’s sexual health has been thrust into the public eye, and now, rather than worrying in embarrassed silence about “performance” issues, men are able to openly seek the help they need to function at their best.
“Genetic engineering presents our society with problems unprecedented not only in the history of science, but of life on Earth. It places in human hands the capacity to redesign living organisms, the products of some three billion years of evolution. The results will be essentially new organisms, self-perpetuating and hence permanent. Once created, they cannot be recalled.
Iodine is an essential trace mineral. It is needed to make thyroid hormones, which are essential for the proper development and differentiation of all cells of the human body. These hormones also regulate metabolism, affecting the body’s ability to burn protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism for energy.
China says no to GMO. If you were the biotech industry trying to infiltrate the largest economy in the world, what would you do? Let's take a look at why the strategies that worked in the United States have backfired in China. And then talk about what this means for the GMO labeling movement back home in the states. It's not about safety. It's about national sovereignty.
With obesity as widespread and as costly as it is, why should only one organization’s nutrition professionals be given the exclusive right to counsel patients on ways to treat it? June 25, 2013 Via Alliance for Natural Health
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