Steadily rising gas prices have become a cold, hard reality for the American people. But according to one highly-placed with close connections to the gas and oil industries, things may be about to get much worse. In a recent television ...
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Privacy as the Barometer of a Healthy Society
Privacy is a key tenant of American society, but many either have forgotten what the idea actually means, or have willingly put it aside for the notion of the “greater good.” Many people will proclaim that they value their privacy ...
Read More »Treating Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS)
According to WebMD, more than 12 million Americans suffer from Fibromyalgia. It is described as the most commonly diagnosed arthritis-related illness following osteoarthritis. It is considered to be a rheumatic condition, which means it’s related to conditions such as Rheumatoid ...
Read More »Fire in the Sky: The Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Action on the Grid
“For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.” (Matthew 24:27) Of course, in this context, I hasten to add, “But of that ...
Read More »Why Worry About High Blood Pressure?
Well, first of all, no one is recommending that you worry. True (at least in part) to the popular stereotype, stress can raise your blood pressure. Why is this a bad thing? Blood Pressure is Inherently Volatile Exercise—for that matter, ...
Read More »Walking – A Weapon Against Alzheimer’s?
One of the most promising bits of research in the often grim field of senile dementia studies proposes a simple activity that may slow the progress of both Alzheimer’s disease and the “mild cognitive impairment” that develops into Alzheimer’s among ...
Read More »Sprouts: A Genuine Super Food
Sprouts are tasty, nutritious, and versatile, from their familiar use in salads to baking sprouted-grain breads to making excellent quick snacks by the handful. Their virtues were discovered by the Chinese millennia ago and modern research continues to uncover their ...
Read More »Sprouts: The Ultimate Kitchen Garden
There’s a wealth of plants that can be usefully sprouted besides the usual suspects of alfalfa and mung beans. Among others, you can sprout almond, buckwheat, cabbage, chickpeas, clover, fenugreek, flax, millet, oat groats, quinoa, radish, sesame, sunflower, wheat and ...
Read More »Essential Oils: Are Their Healing Powers Fact or Fiction?
First of all, what are essential oils? Often confused with perfume oils (which they are not), essential oils are liquids that have been distilled, often employing the use of steam and any of the following: Bark Roots Leaves Stems Flowers ...
Read More »The Low Down on Dirt
Volumes have been written about soil classification and competing systems have been devised for different purposes. The prevailing system in the U.S. includes some 13,000 “series”—roughly comparable to species in biology—grouped into 11 soil orders. You may not need to ...
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