By digesting our food and helping us get the maximum energy out of each calorie, getting new gut bacteria decreases our appetite and even changes the foods we crave.
Scientists are discovering changing a person’s gut bacteria transforms everything about them, including their weight.
Nearly 60 percent of women diagnosed and treated for stage 1 breast cancer detected by mammography never had breast cancer, according to a bombshell study published in The British Medical Journal
The implications of the latest and largest mammogram study to date are shocking and disturbing:
If you or a loved one has undergone surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy for stage 1 breast cancer detected by a mammogram, there’s a 60-percent chance it was all for nothing, according to a Dutch study of 8 million women.
A new study finds veterans’ PTSD scores plummet after six weeks of horseback therapy
Veteran’s Hospitals are teaming up with veterinarians to find desperately needed alternative therapies for the 23 million American military veterans who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder each year.
99 percent of the genetic material in our bodies is bacterial. Change the bacteria and you change the whole person, scientists are discovering.
Whether by dietary changes, probiotic pills
Water kefir has twice as many strains of beneficial bacteria as kombucha and takes as little as 24 hours to brew
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos now holds the reins at Whole Foods. Photo Credit: Salon
Conditions in Amazon’s warehouses have been called “worse than Walmart” and are about to get even worse with wristbands that track workers’ every move and nudge their hands in the right direction when they make a mistake.
Almost half of tattoo inks contain “unsafe levels” of heavy metals and other carcinogens, according to the European Commission. A recent study found these toxins travel from our skin to our lymph nodes. Safer options are available.
Forty-three percent of the 358 tatoo inks analyzed by the European Union’s Joint Research Centre last year contained “unsafe levels” of carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons. They also contained arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and nickel, all known or probable carcinogens.
In the middle of a global water crisis, we are permanently contaminating 5 million gallons each time we frack a well. The water is so toxic after it gets injected deep underground afterward, where it causes earthquakes.
Open pit storage of toxic flow-back water near well in Pennsylvania. Credit: Paulio Shakespeare, warights.org
Hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas has raised serious concerns about water quality, but a new study indicates the practice also has an alarming impact on water quantity.
The white-tailed sea eagle is one of the oldest, if not the oldest eagle in the world, and a member of an endangered species
An Icelandic farmer noticed an eagle struggling to fly on a riverbank near his farm Saturday. When he realized it was injured he threw his jacket over it and captured it, took it home and fed it wild salmon and lamb for dinner.
The FDA banned most of the chemicals found in antibacterial soaps last year, but the new chemicals companies are replacing them with are even more toxic, a new study warns
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned 19 chemicals found in antibacterial soaps last September, acknowledging they’ve caused more harm than good over the last half century.
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