Alabama husband saves wife’s life by donating kidney after losing 100lbs
A man has spent a year losing 70lbs so he could donate his kidney to his wife.
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Study: 85% of Tampons Contain Monsanto’s ‘Cancer Causing’ Glyphosate
Scientists have found glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, in cotton products like gauze, swabs, wipes, tampons and sanitary pads. Source: 85% of Tampons Contain Monsanto’s ‘Cancer Causing’ Glyphosate Although this study was small and conducted...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Canker Sores
Aside from a proper diet, there are some things you can do to ease the pain of canker sores until they fade away. For an at-home remedy, put a damp tea bag on the canker sore for five...
How The Food Industry Helps Engineer Our Cravings
It’s not that they engineer bliss points for sweetness in things like soda, ice cream, cookies — things we know and expect to be sweet. The food companies have marched around the grocery store adding sweetness, engineering...
Corporations Have Renamed ‘High Fructose Corn Syrup’
The product is General Mills’ Vanilla Chex, an updated version of the Chex cereal sold in most conventional grocery and discount stores for many years. The front of the box clearly states that the product contains “no...
Cost of Organic Food
On average, organic foods were 47 percent more expensive, but the range was huge. In a couple of instances, the organic product was actually cheaper, by as much as 13 percent for honey at Amazon Fresh. In...
1 in 5 American Kids Has Abnormal Levels of Cholesterol
Among the kids and adolescents, 7.4% had high total cholesterol. The researchers also found that youth with obesity were most likely to have problems related to their cholesterol levels. While the numbers may seem unexpected, the NCHS...
Pineapple Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
The pineapple pesticide made its way into milk in Hawaii and then into men’s brains. A study is the latest to link pesticides to Parkinson’s. A common misconception is that foods with tough skins are protected from...
What Alcohol Does to Your Body after the Age of 40
Alcohol is a tiny molecule, which means it can get everywhere. Although it may make holidays a little bit more shiny, its effects last far longer than the hangover.
Grow up, America: Kids need real sex education in schools – including proper condom use
I wonder if that’s why the Office of Adolescent Health notes that “Adolescents ages 15-24 account for nearly half of the 20 million new cases of STD’s each year,” and says that “Today, four in 10 sexually active...
Meat industry ignores FDA, health experts, buys more antibiotics
From 2009 to 2014, the amount of antimicrobials sold and distributed for use in livestock increased by 22 percent, according to an FDA report released Thursday. Of the antimicrobials sold in 2014, 62 percent were related to drugs...
Try These Apple Cider Vinegar Health and Beauty Hacks
Apple Cider Vinegar has so many internal and external health benefits. No kitchen (or medicine cabinet) would be complete without it.
Gross. Microplastic Found in Salt.
A small study from East China Normal University found that of the 15 commercially available salts they tested, all of them contained microplastics. Microplastics are exactly what the name implies: microscopic flecks of plastic. That you eat....
11 Ways to Perfect the Art of Going to Sleep and Waking Up Again
They say the early bird gets the worm and there is a lot of research to suggest this is so. But how early is early? And what are they even talking about? To us, “early” means a...
For the First Time Ever: FDA Recommends You Cap Your Sugar Consumption
The FDA has just put a cap on recommended sugar intake at 12.5 teaspoons, about the sugar contained in a can of Coke.
Study: What Causes Allergies?
A recent study published last week in PLOS Computational Biological found that the reason we’re allergic to some things such as peanuts and pollen is that they contain compounds that are also found in viruses.
7 Cancer-Preventing Changes to Make to Your Diet Right Now
Make these small changes in your life right now to help stave off all sorts of cancers.
Study: Inflammation May Contribute to Depression
Inflammation leads to all sorts of problems like aching joints, fever, and, as a new study has found: depression.
Half of the cancer drugs journalists called “miracles” and “cures” were not approved by the FDA | Vox
There’s nothing wrong with being optimistic or providing hope to people who are literally scared for their lives, but what we object to in this report by Vox is the haste by which reporters transform a single...
