The modern diet includes too much food, eating too often, and the wrong kind of foods. These errors at the dinner table create monstrous health problems that are now being addressed by fantasy politicians with “universal health care”. Instead of dealing with the underlying cause, let’s use drugs and surgery to mitigate the symptoms…until things […]
Real Food and Healing What is real food and why does it matter? (from the forthcoming book Beating Cancer with Nutrition 2018 by Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS) We would love your feedback on this chapter of my new book. Your comments at the bottom of this article will help shape the direction of the new book. […]
Medicinal use of apple cider vinegar can be traced back to Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who used it to treat wounds. In the 10th century, Sung Tse, the founder of forensic medicine, recommended use of apple cider vinegar, also known as ACV, together with sulfur to protect from infection when conducting autopsies. In […]
What is Kombucha? Kombucha is an effervescent tea that is produced through the process of fermentation. Generally, black or green tea is fermented using SCOBY, which stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The bacteria are used to oxidize the alcohols that are formed by the yeast, creating acetic acids. The SCOBY is introduced […]
We produce enough food within our borders to feed our people, to have about half of them get overfat, to waste enough in trash cans to feed another 50 million people per day, and to ship enough overseas to help our foreign trade deficit. America is unquestionably the most agriculturally productive nation in the history […]
In the 1970s, researchers fed a vitamin E deficient diet to a group of healthy volunteers (read: graduate students) for one year. There were no serious deficiency symptoms, as would be expected if you did the same thing with vitamin C or thiamin. The researchers concluded: “Vitamin E is a vitamin in search of a […]
Living in Tulsa, OK for 11 years, I asked the locals if crime was a problem. They replied, “well, in August you better be sure to lock your car, because otherwise someone might put a bag of zucchini in your car.” 🙂 People who grow zucchini, like me, harvest more than we can eat. Zucchini, […]
The Himalayan salt lamp is actually made up of a salt named Himalayan Pink Salt (HPS) found in areas near Himalaya. Himalayan salt lamps when lit offers a soothing and nice warm glow. Himalayan salt lamps are made with large pieces of pure Himalayan Salt crystals. Himalayan salt lamps got extremely popular over the world […]
“Better living through chemistry.” Dupont Chemical ad campaign, 1935 Progress in the 20th and 21st centuries has been unprecedented in human history. We have computers, cell phones, satellite communications, drugs, plastics, and more that pervade our lifestyle. Most of it for the better. There are more than 70,000 chemicals in regular use in the developed […]
According to a number of studies, the average American consumes up to 50 grams of high fructose corn syrup in a single day. When you add this to other sugars, you could be taking an astonishing 140 pounds every year. This is alarming considering the myriad health hazards of consuming large amounts of high fructose […]
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