Hazards, Issues & Diseases
To help safeguard your brain and mental health, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Alzheimer’s Genome Project™, recommends following the SHIELD plan, which emphasizes a multi-faceted approach to avoid disease. The six components of the plan include sleeping, handling stress, interacting with others, exercising, learning new things, and following a healthy diet.
Recent data show blue light from digital devices activates retinal in your eye to attack macular photoreceptor cells, accelerating age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Exposure to blue light also affects your ability to produce enough melatonin to achieve quality sleep, thus increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity and other health problems. Here’s how you can limit damage from blue light.
On August 10, 2018, a jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Dewayne Johnson, who claimed Monsanto’s Roundup caused his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and awarded Johnson $289 million in damages According to the ruling, Monsanto “acted with malice or oppression” and was responsible for “negligent failure” by not warning consumers about the carcinogenicity of its product. There are an estimated 5,000 additional plaintiffs waiting in the wings for their day in court with Monsanto. All believe Roundup exposure caused their cancer. In the week following Johnson’s verdict, Bayer stock fell by 18 percent, evaporating about $14 billion of the company’s market value (a loss equivalent to 21 percent of Monsanto’s acquisition value). Will Bayer survive 5,000 more lawsuits?
Here are the 22 best foods for an upset stomach along with an explanation as to why they work.
Conscious living brings alignment in health & well-being and what it truly means to be free. Freedom from bonds, limitation and restriction. Freedom of movement, thought and expression – freeing our spirit from attachments. Freedom to create and serve without ego. Freedom to be present and to follow our bliss. Freedom to live in beauty and grace.
According to the science of spirituality, 50% of difficulties in our lives are caused solely due to spiritual factors and 30% due to spiritual, psychological and/or physical factors.
Sitting for long periods of time takes a huge toll on your body. You cannot out-exercise the number of hours you sit at work, in the car and in front of the television, which increases your potential risk for heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. Moving as little as 10 minutes for every hour of sitting may help reduce negative effects.
A study of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods delivered sobering news this week when almost all of the products examined by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate. Glyphosate is classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization and was listed last year as a chemical known to cause cancer by California.
Dryer sheets are part of the laundry routine for millions of people. Those dryer sheets are caked with ingredients you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. We’re talking about things like known carcinogens, hazardous pollutants, endocrine disruptors and things that target specific organs in the most unpleasant ways. Let’s examine what we know about dryer sheets and your health, then get into simple alternatives for a safer laundry routine.
Agrochemical giant, Monsanto, to pay $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages for failing to warn consumers that exposure to Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
In recent years, researchers have found that working long hours is linked with a variety of health issues, as Jennifer discovered. (Abiding by Workaholics Anonymous policy, she gives only her first name.) Among the ailments linked with long work hours are stroke, heart disease, mental health problems, diabetes, and abnormal heart rhythms.
Mineral water claims to promote all sorts of health benefits, including lower blood pressure, better acid/alkaline balance in the body, and even weight loss.
Oranges have profound medicinal properties that are often overlooked
Eighty-three percent of supermarket meats are contaminated with fecal bacteria, and a high percentage of them were antibiotic-resistant. Chicken is particularly prone to contamination with not just drug-resistant bacteria but also other dangerous pathogens linked to lethal food poisoning.
Thousands of studies spanning many decades show excess sugar damages your health, yet the sugar industry successfully buried the evidence and misdirected the public with manipulated science. Sugar Coated” investigates the sugar industry’s once secret PR campaign, showing it normalized excessive consumption by deflecting evidence implicating sugar as a cause of ill health.
