Why We Need Prairies, Not Lawns and Corn
Replacing North American prairies with “amber fields of grain” and turf grass highlights insanity of agriculture
Replacing North American prairies with “amber fields of grain” and turf grass highlights insanity of agriculture
Dandelion root induces cancer cell “suicide,” while leaving healthy cells alone, study finds
Those yellow dots that “litter” your otherwise “perfectly green” lawn are more than just pesky weeds. Dandelion has been considered a valuable food and medicine in both Eastern and Western culture for thousands of years and is now being researched for it’s cancer-fighting abilities.
Pasture-raised lard is heat stable, heart healthy and high in Vitamin D
I cook everything in lard — sweet potatoes, steak, chicken, and everything in between.
I guess you could call me a “lard ass.”
I’m far from fat, though. In fact, I’m the leanest, strongest and healthiest I’ve ever been.
Eighty-five percent of workers worldwide admit to hating their jobs when surveyed anonymously, according to a Gallup poll released last month.
“Many people in the world hate their job and especially their boss,” the report says.
As modern medicine grapples with the global epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, studies are revealing Mother Nature may have had the answer all along.
I like the sentiment behind the old saying “mother knows best.” I often see it used to encourage a mother to go with her gut when doctors, the media or authoritarian relatives are trying to convince her to do otherwise.
But more and more I see the phrase tossed around to console women who are reluctantly acting against their gut to keep up with the pressures of modern life — putting infants in daycare centers 45+ hours a week, letting them “cry it out” in cribs, or weaning before their ready.
Every time we take a dump, we’re flushing more than just poop down the drain. We’re flushing money, energy and our most valuable natural resource — clean water — down it too.
The average American uses nearly 5000 gallons of potable water per year just to flush fecal matter down the toilet and even more than that to push it through our sewer systems. That’s over 1.5 billion gallons of water in the U.S alone.
Physical therapist says almost all of us have been practicing a less extreme version of Chinese foot binding
Americans are horrified when they learn about the ancient Chinese practice of foot binding — tightly wrapping the feet of young girls to drastically change the shape and size of their feet.
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