by Office | Aug 14, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition
It feels like ages since we last blogged about the problems with synthetic sweeteners such as aspartame, and we’re sure you won’t be surprised to hear that the pile of reports on health woes caused by this artificial sweetener just grows. Multitudes of studies have...
by Office | Jul 31, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition
We’ve looked before at some of the ways your own microbiome affects your health, but this week, we’re shifting to the amazing apple microbiome. Yes, just like humans have microbial colonies in our mouths and guts, even plants have their own little worlds of resident...
by Office | Jul 3, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition, Heavy Metals
Given the numbers, odds are that you or your child has a food allergy. Fifteen million Americans do. One in every 13 kids are affected, and that number is climbing. According to the CDC, between 1997 and 2011, food allergies among children increased 50%. While...
by Office | Jun 5, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Once upon a time, people thought Diet Coke was something healthy. After all, it didn’t have all that added sugar. Of course, today, we know synthetic sweeteners cause problems of their own. Now a new study in JAMA Open reminds that another drink many think of as...
by Office | Apr 17, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition
GMOs are one of the last things you’d probably expect to find at a natural food show, but there they were at the world’s largest natural food trade show, Natural Products Expo West. Present and accounted for was Impossible Foods, whose signature product, the...
by Office | Apr 10, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition
For Americans, the latest world health rankings are nothing to cheer about. This year’s Bloomberg Global Health Index of 169 countries ranks the US at #35, one spot lower than last year. In a Lancet study published late last year, we come in even worse at #64. Yet...
