The health authorities are constantly whining about the state of our diets, the newspapers are telling us that everything gives us cancer and the media are producing TV shows to exhibit obese children and their terrible parents. However, while many are taking a negative stance on the man-against-cardiovascular disease campaign, there have been plenty of positive and encouraging reactions to our heavier society. TV chefs have made money promoting simple, healthy meals, a new wave of food branding has emerged with friendly, tongue-in-cheek comments on their pastel-colored cartons and McDonalds now sell bags of fruit. Among these positive reactions lie the ‘Superfoods’.
Superfoods have risen to stardom as a result of their high phytonutrient content. Phytonutrie (Read More....)
***The following is a guest post for Organic Health by Jimmie Parr*** When I was very young, my mother told me about the nutritional value of oranges, and citrus fruits, in general. She said that English sailors had become known as “limeys,” because they carried limes, or other citrus fruits, on their vessels. They had discovered that citrus fruits helped prevent a condition called scurvy, which had, in past times, been linked to a deficiency of Vitamin C. I say that, “in past times,” scurvy had been linked to a deficiency of Vitamin C because that type of information may now be lost on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the March, 2006 ed (Read More....)
****The following is a guest post for Organic Health by author Jim Knapton**** Let us not kid ourselves anymore. America does not offer, in the main, healthcare but hugely expensive systems to support the care of the largely unnecessary sick. Is this not more aptly labeled sickcare? In contrast to any other developed nation, we lack a national health policy whose minimum qualification ensures at least adequate treatment for all, irrespective of economic standing. Socialized medical plans, no matter how abhorrent to American individualists who see them as an abominatio (Read More....)
****Today we have a guest post by Barbara Fix. She is an outstanding writer and I think that you are really going to enjoy what she has to share with us below. We encourage everyone to visit Barbara at Survival Diva Blog http://www.survivaldiva.com/.**** Our food chain has been un (Read More....)
Check out this video which exposes the centrally planned "farmers market" where now you must submit a "crop plan" and have your Garden inspected by filling out a "farm schedule" After that's done you're more than welcome to sell your oranges once you fill out your various tax forms, sign the ten page 8000 word contract agreement with the city manager, pay your filing fees and attain your organic certification and proper permits. It has become harder than ever to grow and sell organic natural food. Support venders who sell organic who now have to jump through multiple hoops to make natural food available. (Read More....)
If you have been diagnosed with cancer like mesothelioma, you may be faced with an overwhelming number of decisions. Choosing doctors, health care facilities, and even treatments can leave you feeling numb and exhausted, and that won’t even take into account your emotions and physical toll from the cancer itself. While conventional medicine may play a large role in treating mesothelioma you may be considering alternative treatments as well. For centuries, people have been turning to the world around us for medicinal plants and healing treat (Read More....)
Today it is becoming increasingly difficult to live an organic lifestyle. We are literally being bombarded with toxins in what we eat, what we drink and in what we breathe. There are so many serious health dangers all around us that it is hard to name them all. Aspartame, fluoride, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high fructose corn syrup, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic vaccines are just a few of the major health dangers that confront us each day that most (Read More....)
It seems with each passing month the world just keeps becoming a crazier and crazier place. We really do live in extraordinary times. The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, the genetic modification of our food and of our animals continues to accelerate and global threats to our health just seem to continue to multiply. Things are getting really frightening out there. Fortunately there are websites like this that can help keep us all up to date about what is going on out there. The following are some of the top organic health news stories from all over the globe....
The health authorities are constantly whining about the state of our diets, the newspapers are telling us that everything gives us cancer and the media are producing TV shows to exhibit obese children and their terrible parents. However, while many are taking a negative stance on the man-against-cardiovascular disease campaign, there have been plenty of positive and encouraging reactions to our heavier society. TV chefs have made money promoting simple, healthy meals, a new wave of food branding has emerged with friendly, tongue-in-cheek comments on their pastel-colored cartons and McDonalds now sell bags of fruit. Among these positive reactions lie the ‘Superfoods’.
