The Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society is disputing the prevailing explanation for runaway health care costs. Dr. Otis Webb Brawley suggests insurance companies aren’t the only parties guilty of our current heath care cost debacle. When President ...
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‘Tis the Season for the Flu
Unless and until you have experienced the flu, it is actually easy to minimize it. Think of how often you’ve heard someone say that they have or had the flu and thought he or she was exaggerating when using descriptions ...
Read More »Healthy Skin Without Harsh Chemicals
I once spent more than $60 on a tube of face wash. There, I admitted it – but I’ll also admit that now I spend less than a $5 to get the same results. I’m making my own stuff now, ...
Read More »Easy Homemade Beauty Treatments
Exfoliation is not a primary preparedness worry, but I’m vain. I want to look good while I’m growing my own food, distilling my own water, and otherwise living off the land. To buy something from the beauty aisle would be ...
Read More »How to Make Your Own Deodorant
Deodorant. It’s the one toiletry most of us won’t do without – after all, who wants to stink? Not even our ancestors put up with nasty body odor. Early commercial deodorants ate through clothes they were so strong, but people ...
Read More »DIY Hair Removal
Our ancestors were not hairy, unshaven beasts. The modern trend for smooth legs and shaved armpits dates back to the pre-Christian era, when hairlessness was a sign of socio-economic status. Wealthy types would use everything from pumice to tweezers to ...
Read More »Too Much of a Good Thing: The Biology of Antibiotic Resistance
There is no disputing that antibiotics can be lifesavers. For those suffering from dangerous bacterial infections, taking these medicines may very well be necessary, and there may not be any good alternatives available in many cases. Any sane medical system ...
Read More »Big Pharma and the Drugging of the World: Following the Trail of the Many-Tentacled Octopus
It is no secret to anyone that large and powerful institutions have an influence on society and the course of events in general that is inimical to the workings of democracy. But in the past, undue influence by the largest ...
Read More »Why is There Arsenic in Our Chicken?
As a survivalist you already know that big government is only out for itself and the big businesses it serves – those being agribusiness and Big Pharma, of course. This is likely to be one of the many reasons why ...
Read More »High Blood Pressure: If You’ve Got It, You Can Beat It
Ever since I was about fifteen years old, I have been aware of hypertension. My maternal grandmother and great-grandmothers both died from aneurysms. Neither saw her sixty-fourth birthday; as a result, my mother never met her grandmother, and I never ...
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