David Wolfe, Raw Food Expert, Shares His Routine for Being Healthy

 (NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Raw Summit Teleseminar program which can be found at (http://www.rawsummitarchives.com) . In this excerpt, David Wolfe shares his routine for being healthy and filtering health information to decide what will work for you.

Raw Summit Excerpt with David Wolfe raw food and super food lifestyle guru, author, chocolatier, alchemist, speaker and founder of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. He has spent the last 15 years spreading the news of great health around the world. Read more

New Anti-Cancer Compounds Discovered in Apples

 (NaturalNews) Any news item that links apples with good health always brings to mind the old adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". But new research is showing not only is that statement true, but apples might specifically keep a particular kind of doctor away – an oncologist. Read more

Folate and Vitamin B-12: Two Nutrients Critical for Brain Health

 (NaturalNews) Recent research documents the critical nature of two nutrients, vitamin B-12 and folate, in brain health and the maintenance of cognitive functioning, including memory. Deficiencies of these key nutrients are markers of the neuropathology leading to cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s Disease, and stroke. Read more

New Report Spells Out the Critical Health Risk in Adding Human Antibiotics to Animal Feed in U.S. Farms

Common Dreams, April 29, 2008

 

WASHINGTON, DC – April 29 -The release of a new report by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, spelling out the public health risk inherent in factory farming, heightens the urgency surrounding the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA). This bill, which already includes many of the Pew Commission’s recommendations, would phase out the use of antibiotics that are important in human medicine as animal feed additives within two years. Read more

Low Income Families Eat More Processed Food, Fewer Fruits and Vegetables

 (NaturalNews) Three studies published in theJournal of the American Dietetic Association have found that people with lower income do not consume enough fruits and vegetables, largely due to cost factors. Read more

Nutrasweet – the History of this Toxic Chemical and Its Promotion (Part 1)

 (NaturalNews) In December of 1965, while James Schlatter, a chemist for G.D. Searle & Company, was working on an anti-ulcer drug candidate he accidentally discovered aspartame. He was recrystallizing aspartame from ethanol when the mixture spilled onto the outside of the flask he was using. Some of the powder landed on his fingers. Schlatter discovered the sweet taste of aspartame when he absent-mindedly licked his finger later. He realized that the sweet taste must have been the aspartame. Read more

Secretive’ Chemicals Being Hidden in Food Under ‘Artificial Flavors

 by Jennifer McKinley

(NaturalNews) You Thought MSG Was Bad? At least they admit that it’s in there… well, mostly. Have you picked up a can of soup lately and noticed that the sodium levels are lower? Seen a label that said, "No MSG"? How about realizing that there is less sugar on the label of your favorite ice cream? Believe it or not, this is cause for concern. Read more

Analysis: Virtually Zero Alternative Cancer Research Occurring

 (NaturalNews) In an article included in the latest edition of Cancer Monthly’s free newsletter CancerWire, researchers analyzed statistics obtained through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in order to gain a clearer perspective on what type of cancer research is being undertaken in the country.

 

Cancer Monthly is an organization dedicated to providing unbiased evaluation of conventional and alternative cancer treatments. It was founded by volunteers whose lives have been affected by the disease and is currently managed by Michael Horwin, MA, JD.

 

The authors found that of the 7,080 clinical trials for cancer currently ongoing, over 3,000 are focused on chemotherapy — a treatment that already has over 50 years of research to its credit with relatively little practical return on investment. Read more

Eating for Consciousness and Vitality Is Also Eating for the Planet

 (NaturalNews) Our health and vitality was described by the ancient sages of China as having a single major source — our ‘essence.’ This essence is thought to be the rich substance that life springs from. We can think of it as the powerful substances at our core: bone marrow, sperm and reproductive fluids, and the brain and spinal cord. These tissues are absolutely critical in supporting life and consciousness. Read more

Making a Killing from the Food Crisis

GRAIN, April 28, 2008 

 

The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits.

 

Much of the news coverage of the world food crisis has focussed on riots in low-income countries, where workers and others cannot cope with skyrocketing costs of staple foods. But there is another side to the story: the big profits that are being made by huge food corporations and investors. Cargill, the world’s biggest grain trader, achieved an 86% increase in profits from commodity trading in the first quarter of this year. Read more

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