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Udderly Amazing

By on January 7, 2012 in Allergies, Dairy, Video
Are dairy products good for us? For centuries, we have been led to believe that dairy products should form an essential component of our diets. However, it is well known that many nations are dairy intolerant, and that even dairy tolerant nations are subject to many allergenic responses to dairy products. New evidence implicates dairy in not only allergenic responses, but in potentially lethal diseases such as osteoporosis, leukemia, diabetes, and many others. The latest scientific findings and their [Read more]
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Dairy: Essential Nutrition or Health Saboteur?

By on January 6, 2012 in Dairy, Video
A presentation by Joseph Keon, Ph.D. North Americans are some of the least healthy people on Earth today, and much of the problem stems from poor dietary choices inspired by nutritional myths. Perhaps the biggest nutritional myth of all is that which says humans need the milk of a cow to be healthy. Joseph Keon, author of Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth about Cow's Milk and Your Health, will show how North Americans unwittingly sabotage their health every day by drinking milk, how our obsession [Read more]
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Matthew’s Weight Loss

By on January 5, 2012 in Featured Content
My weight gain began around 11 years of age. Before then, I was naturally active, as most boys are, but I was limited by lack of opportunity to exercise.  We lived in a suburb that was not interesting to explore, and around neighborhood kids who rarely came outside, preferring to stay indoors and play computer games. I didn’t want to play outside alone. Who would? By age 13, the scale topped 183#.  I was embarrassed  to wear a swimsuit at the public pool. My stomach hung down over my waistband [Read more]
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TEDxAustin Robyn O’Brien 2011

By on December 30, 2011 in Allergies, Video

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Minding Your Mitochondria

By on December 23, 2011 in Dr. Terry Wahls, Gut Brain Connection, Paleo Diet, Video
For 7 years, Dr. Terry Wahls got the best care and the newest drugs to treat her MS but she continued to get more disabled. She could only walk short distances using two canes. She was losing her keys, her phones, and having nightmares that her clinical privileges at the hospital where she worked would be taken away. Then she learned how to properly fuel her body. After 3 months of eating her new diet, she was able to walk short distances with only a cane. After 4 months, she no longer needed [Read more]
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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

By on December 21, 2011 in Documentaries, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Video
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making [Read more]
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Big Bucks Big Pharma

By on December 20, 2011 in Documentaries, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Video
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which Direct-To-Consumer pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, [Read more]
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Food Bullies

By on December 20, 2011 in Vegetarian
At Dr. Fuhrman's Weekend Immersion in Princeton, New Jersey last month, sharing scrumptious meals together with others was a highlight for me. (snip) Unfortunately, pushy in-laws and overbearing relatives and friends were a topic of discussion for many in overcoming obstacles during the upcoming holidays. [Read more]
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