5 Things to Release on the Path of Enlightenment
Wes Annac – The enlightenment path requires us to sacrifice things that hold us back.
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10 Similarities Between Sugar, Junk Food and Abusive Drugs
Kris Gunnars – Here are 10 disturbing similarities between sugar, junk food and abusive drugs.
New Research Reveals the Real Causes of Depression
Dr. Mercola – Contrary to popular belief, depression is not likely caused by unbalanced brain chemicals; however there are a number of other biological factors that appear to be highly significant.
How Sugar Affects the Brain and the Body
Video – When you eat something loaded with sugar, your taste buds, your gut and your brain all take notice.
High Fructose Corn Syrup Is More Toxic Than Refined Sugar
Dr. Mercola – Corn syrup is more toxic to female mice than table sugar. Not only did corn syrup adversely impact the animals’ rate of reproduction, it also caused premature death…
The Forgotten History of Vaccinations You Need to Be Aware Of
Dr. Mercola – Vaccines are one of the most controversial medical therapies, and it’s impossible to make an informed decision unless you know both sides of the story.
These 2 Processed Foods are Causing Addiction to Junk Food
Marco Torres – Postindustrial humans as any trip to an all-you-can-eat buffet will tell you have become a soft, sedentary, overfed lot…
6 Notoriously Misleading Food Terms Used to Trick Consumers
Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Our modern day food industry has become quite the debacle, with chemicals being sprayed all over our fruits and vegetables, to genetically modifying to processed food. As a result, the world has seen a large resistance to modern day food practices, and the resistance continues to grow, and for good …
Splenda Found To Have Possible Neurotoxic Properties
Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times It seems like every six months a new study is published on the bitter truth about Splenda’s lack of safety, which is still marketed to the world as a safe alternative to relatively calorie-rich sweeteners like sugar and honey. Now a new study published in the open access journal PLoS titled, …
Why is There GMO Sugar In Salt?
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times Great April Fools’ Day prank idea: Switch up your loved ones’ sugar with salt. When they spit out their coffee and comment on the saltiness you can insist that it’s really sugar and that there’s nothing wrong, giving the prank a twisted flair. But you’d be right – because there’s …
Big Sugar Tips Balance of Scale
Dr. Mercola Waking Times There is no shortage of research linking excessive sugar consumption with obesity, and the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages appears to have a particularly strong link. It was five years ago when UCLA researchers found that adults who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day are 27 percent more likely to …
Sugar Promotes Heart Disease and Cancer
Dr. Mercola Waking Times More than 1,660,290 new cancer cases are projected to be diagnosed in the US this year, and an estimated 580,350 Americans will die from the disease.1Another 600,000 Americans die of heart disease each year.2 At present, heart disease is the leading cause of death among both sexes. Despite massive technological advances over …
Heart Specialist Calls for Major Repositioning on Saturated Fat, as it’s NOT the Cause of Heart Disease
Dr. Mercola Waking Times For the past 60 years, conventional medical authorities have warned that saturated animal fats cause heart disease and should be severely restricted in a heart-healthy diet. As of 2010, recommendations from the US Department of Agriculture1 (USDA) call for reducing your saturated fat intake to a mere 10 percent of your total …
5 Foods As Addictive As Cocaine
Indian Country News Waking Times Just looking at a photo of a stack of cookies or freshly baked bread can make your mouth water. Research says simply seeing tempting food releases the chemical dopamine in the brain. The neurotransmitter, often referred to as the “happy hormone,” helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. When you indulge, …
10 Disturbing Reasons Why Sugar is Bad For You
Kris Gunnars, Guest Waking Times Added sugar is the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. It can have harmful effects on metabolism and contribute to all sorts of diseases. Here are 10 disturbing reasons why you should avoid added sugar like the plague. 1. Added Sugar Contains No Essential Nutrients and is Bad For …
All Foods That You Crave Are Driven By A Lack of Specific Nutrients – So Which Foods Will Address Your Craving and Why?
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times Once we become aware of the foods that do not agree with our biochemistry, hormonal balance and digestion, we can rectify and tweak our diet to satisfy something larger that our body needs. Severe cravings can lead to binge eating and other eating disorders. If we know exactly why …
Is There Any Safe Level of Sugar?
Waking Times As the American public continues to consume increasing levels of sugars, a study published just recently in Nature Communications shows that the accepted safe sugar levels for humans might not be so clear cut as previously thought. Wayne Potts is an evolutionary biologist working in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah and says, …
10 Foods You Should Never Eat
Erin Schumacher, Guest Waking Times We indeed are what we eat and what we are eating in many ‘first world nations’ is quite scary. The chemicals added to these ‘foods’ are disrupting our hormones, causing cancer and leading to a variety of health issues. “In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our …
Revealing the Connection Between Sugar and Cancer … Again
Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society Waking Times An estimated 12.5 million people had some form of cancer in 2009, according to the American Cancer Society. Another 25.8 million have diabetes. These two preventable diseases are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide each year. In the constant battle to stay healthy, many of us know that too …
The 3 Foods That Can Be Destroying Your Health
Neda Smith, FDN, CMTA, HHC, Guest Writer Waking Times Often addiction, especially to food, occurs during your childhood years. We all remember eating cereal as kids, but over the past three years the amount of cereal consumed by children and adults has increased to an all-time high. In its original form it was designed to …