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One look at the dark emerald green color of chlorella should indicate to you that it is a valuable plant-based whole food. Chlorella is a well-known nutraceutical (a food that has shown to be able to improve health & decrease or treat disease) often called a superfood. It’s called this because it has so many health attributes.

As a healthcare provider for over 20 years, I have seen the damage that can be done from unhealthy diets that have been increasingly affected by a worsening state of environmental health. Yearly, many of you already know about stories of contamination of lead in public water systems, the increasing amount of uncontrollable fires, increased smog and air pollution, increased methane and carbon emission from factory farms and increased chemicals, even nuclear wastes in our oceans. All these pollutants find their way into our foods in small or large amounts and they affect human health negatively. One statistical number that we shouldn’t ignore is the rising level of obesity and cancers, so much so that it is now common to see people developing cancer every day.

You may have heard of the "forever chemicals" and how people are starting to become aware of them and avoiding them as it becomes public knowledge that they negatively affect health. These chemicals are everywhere in our modern society but things are changing now as companies aware of their effects are starting to no longer use them.

For instance, I just read over the weekend that Lowes the popular home retail outlet will stop selling carpets sprayed with these forever chemicals known as Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The problem with these chemicals is that they serve a useful function which is to make products non stick, but they leach back into the environment and concentrate and make it back into our bodies.

Certain groups of people are at higher risk for accumulating larger amounts and they persist in our food, water, products, homes, environment and end up in our bodies where they can increase disease.

With all the things we are constantly learning about to eat for better health, let us not forget the mighty Omega-3 molecule. It can sometimes be forgotten in the shuffle of getting more broccoli, kale and berries into our daily diets. There is quite a bit of science on the importance of Omega-3s in health and sickness. Today we are going to look at an article written by Kris Gunnars, BSc named "Omega-3 Fatty Acids - The Ultimate Beginner's Guide."

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fats that you must get from your diet. These incredibly healthy fats have important benefits for your body and brain. However, most people who eat a standard Western diet are not eating nearly enough omega-3 fats. This is the ultimate beginner’s guide to omega-3 fatty acids.

Omega-3, or n-3, fatty acids, are a family of polyunsaturated fats that you must get from your diet. They’re termed essential fatty acids, as they’re needed for health, but your body cannot produce them as it can other fats. As polyunsaturated fatty acids, their chemical structure has several double bonds. Omega-6 fatty acids are another type of polyunsaturated fat. The "omega" naming convention has to do with the placement of the double bond in the fatty acid molecule. Omega-3s have the first double bond placed three carbon atoms away from the omega end.

In today’s hustle and bustle society, there are so many things competing for our time. From the minute we turn on our computers and/or television, our brains are getting bombarded by carefully planned strategic ads made by professional advertisers whose main goal is to get us to spend our hard-earned money.

One of the things they know well is that many of us are pressed for time because of work, kids, caring for our home, chores etc. They like to use this to get us to buy things that make our lives easier. One of the main things that takes time is food. Shopping for healthy food and preparing it does require time and an understanding of nutrition, and many do not choose to make it a priority in their schedules. As a result, to fill this void in our society, there is a giant industry known as fast food.

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The soles of your shoes, the fabric of your clothing, your contact lenses, your chewing gum, your phone, food containers, mattresses – all are made with plastic. It’s everywhere. It’s in our salt and it’s in our water. Plastic may be the most insidious and enduring product we’ve ever produced.

While plastic improves our daily life in countless ways, it is also suffocating our planet and causing catastrophic pollution, much of it hidden and microscopic. Just how bad is it? Bottled water samples were collected and analyzed by scientists over a ten-month investigation. The study analyzed 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries across 11 different brands and found an average of 325 plastic particles for every liter of water being sold.

This study comes just after a damning study of plastic found in sea salt brands was published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports. They analyzed seventeen commercial salt brands from eight different countries on four continents for plastic particles. They found plastics in all but one brand.

What is cupping?

Cupping is a type of alternative therapy that originated in China. It involves placing cups on the skin to create suction. The suction may facilitate healing with blood flow.

Proponents also claim that suction helps facilitate the flow of “qi” in the body. Qi is a Chinese word meaning life force. A famous Taoist alchemist and herbalist, Ge Hong, reportedly first practiced cupping. He lived from A.D. 281 to 341.

Many Taoists believe that cupping helps balance yin and yang, or the negative and positive, within the body. Restoring balance between these two extremes is thought to help with the body’s resistance to pathogens as well as its ability to increase blood flow and reduce pain.

Cupping increases blood circulation to the area where the cups are placed. This may relieve muscle tension, which can improve overall blood flow and promote cell repair. It may also help form new connective tissues and create new blood vessels in the tissue.

People use cupping to complement their care for a host of issues and conditions.

Original article by Neal Barnhard, M.D. at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Many people avoid milk because it contains saturated fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, lactose sugar, and frequent traces of contamination, or simply because they don’t feel well after consuming dairy products. Milk is also linked to type 1 (juvenile-onset) diabetes and other serious conditions. Happily, there are many other good sources of calcium.

Keeping your bones strong depends more on preventing the loss of calcium from your body than on boosting your calcium intake. Some cultures consume few or no dairy products and typically ingest fewer than 500 milligrams of calcium per day. However, these people generally have low rates of osteoporosis. Many scientists believe that exercise and other factors have more to do with osteoporosis than calcium intake does.

(Taken from kcet.org | By Laurel Randolph; Photo Credit: Marianne Zaugg)

“Tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, beans, strawberries, eggplant, sugarcane, guava, corn…”

Liz Christy and Marianne Zaugg list the bounty of spring produce that’s being planted at the Arroyo High School community garden before excitedly listing plans they have for improving the space. Christy and Zaugg are from ECo Urban Gardens, a small-scale agricultural nonprofit that partnered with the high school in 2016. The goal was to transform a barren piece of land into a lush teaching garden. Over the last few years, the community has watched the space go from a few neglected beds to an expansive working garden producing fresh produce.

The school garden began as a student project in 2015, spurred on by KCETLink’s Youth Voices program. “Our goal was to create a project that could help the students at Arroyo High School learn about our current environment, local food systems, and urban agriculture, but most importantly redefine the negative way others see our city,” wrote the pilot class of Arroyo High School students working at the garden.

Upon seeing the garden’s positive effect in the community (where nearly half of which lies in a food desert), the school partnered with ECo Urban Gardens to keep the project going. “We weren’t really gardeners, so we needed someone who knew what they were doing,” explained principal Angelita Gonzales-Hernandez. Soon after, the garden started to receive funding, with a Healthy Living grant kicking things into high gear. City of Hope, who supplied the grant, is a comprehensive cancer treatment center headquartered just a few miles from the high school. “We felt this was a really great way to create a sustainable healthy food movement in the school district,” explains City of Hope’s Nancy Clifton-Hawkins. “Now we’ve been able to really expand the vision of how this program can truly impact the health and the lifestyle of people living around the campus as well.”

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(Taken from Healthfully.com | By: Kimberly Riggins)

Adrenal fatigue is a medical condition that causes the adrenal glands to slow down and function at a less than optimal level. Symptoms associated with this condition include intense stress, extreme tiredness and a general feeling of malaise. Individuals who suffer from adrenal fatigue often rely on stimulants such as coffee and cola to help offset the symptoms; however, they usually make them worse. One herb that has been found to be effective for adrenal fatigue is maca root.

About Maca Root

Maca, scientifically known as lepidium meyenii, is an adaptogen herb native to the high Andes mountains of Peru and Bolivia. It is used both as a root vegetable, similar to a radish, and as a medicinal remedy. Maca is a nutritional powerhouse containing proteins in the form of polypeptides, fiber, lipids including the fatty acids linoleic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid and sterols; vitamins and minerals including thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium and potassium, and amino acids such as aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, glycine, arginine, valine, phenylalanine, tyrosine and threonine. According to the website, Drugs.com, maca has been used for centuries to treat anemia, tuberculosis, depression, menstrual disorders and adrenal fatigue. It is also proposed to help enhance fertility and sexual performance. Maca can be found as a whole food, powder, liquid, tablet, or capsule.

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Anti-oxidants are important for good health and disease prevention. They are important because many things cause (ROS) Reactive Oxidative Stress to the body. It is also known as oxidation. ROS creates instability in cells and basically begins the process of DNA damage. This will trigger inflammation. Damaged DNA equate to bad health, disease, sickness and is the gateway to ALL chronic inflammatory diseases like arthritis, gastritis, prostatitis, colonitis, etc… What are the things that cause ROS?

Cell phones, WI-FI towers, EMF from computer routers, microwaves, air pollution, water pollution, synthetic chemicals in your clothes, synthetic fibers in clothes, petroleum based food coloring, effects of drugs medicines, allergies, parasites, virus, bacteria, hidden chemicals in our food, processed foods, fried fire retardant chemicals in our furniture, pesticides, herbicides, vaccines, paint fumes, cars that use gasoline. The list could go on for pages but you get the idea.

(from Nutrisphere by medium.com)

Revolutionary research has shown that environmental factors such as diet can activate or deactivate certain genes. This can make us and our children more or less vulnerable to uncountable diseases.

Epigenetics is a new scientific field that has changed the way we think about genetics. We had always assumed that our genetic material was predetermined and beyond our influence. But researchers have challenged this assumption. They showed that lifestyle decisions can influence our genes by changing our epigenome, allowing us to adapt better to the environment. Interestingly, the changes in our epigenome are not permanent and can be changed by modifying our lifestyle.

(from Facty Network by Team Member Chris)

Many people are looking to stay healthy naturally while avoiding unecessary exposures to drugs, chemicals and artificial sources of vitamins and minerals. With the rising interest in plant based nutrition, it becomes more important to understand that mother nature provides all we need to be healthy. We just need to learn to search in the right places.

Blackstrap molasses isn’t the stuff you want to use for your cookies, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consume it. The biggest difference between this molasses and the regular molasses you buy at the store is its bitter taste. There are also a lot more nutrients in blackstrap molasses. Not only does it have some of the vitamins and minerals you need in your daily diet, but it also offers some other really fantastic health benefits too. Read on to learn more about the health benefits of blackstrap molasses and how you can take advantage of them.

(by Dr Joseph Mercola)

Food additives have been used for centuries to enhance the appearance and flavor of food and prolong shelf life. However, do these food additives really “add” any value to your food?

Food additives find their way into our foods to help ease processing, packaging, and storage, but how do we know which food additives are in that box of macaroni and cheese, and why does it have such a long shelf life?

A typical American household spends about 90 percent of their food budget on processed foods and in doing so they get exposed to a plethora of artificial food additives, many of which can have serious consequences to your health.

(Taken from Ayurvedic Upchar)

Tulsi is also known as Holy Basil in English it is one of the most sacred plants in India and in Ayurveda it is pondered as "The Queen of the Herbs" for its revitalizing and spiritual properties. It is also spelled Thulasi or Tulasi it has been used for thousands of years to aid in natural detoxification, stress and to restore balance and harmony.

In Hindu society, Holy basil or so-called tulsi is a mark of holiness or piousness. The word tulsi literally means a thing that can't be compared with anyone. Tulsi is a plant that grows through our India and is worshiped by Hindus. Mythological it is believed that tulsi or the holy basil is related to lord Krishna, and she was his most beloved wife. Due to diverse actions of Tulsi, it has been the part of human evolution and is very much responsible for maintaining the health among the people.

(by Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM)

Agribusiness is all about profits, not your health. It is an industry that has developed a system of food production that’s completely forgotten what food is all about: nutrition and health — not to mention taste. It’s gotten so bad that it’s becoming difficult to even call the stuff that agribusiness produces food. It would be more honest if they were to call it “stuff for ingestion” and include a warning label.

The voice of those of us who are not interested in what’s now called “conventional” farming is ever-increasing. We’re not interested in consuming chemicals, toxins, or GMOs. What are we interested in? Organic food. Why? It’s better. Here’s a quick list of six reasons why you should make it a point to consume organic whenever possible.