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Temperatures are plunging and winter is only a few weeks away, which means that for homesteaders who live in the coldest parts of the country, it’s time to stockpile necessities for frigid weather. Wood and food are always on that list, but what about medicine? On this week’s edition of Off The Grid Radio we ...

If you’re wary of using conventional antibiotics to treat common infections, there are numerous alternative remedies you could consider.  I discovered the power of naturopathy when I treated my family’s recent staph and viral infections using healing foods right out ...

A Tennessee hospital has reportedly adopted a policy of using security guards to restrain parents as employees apply antibiotic ointment on newborn babies against the parents’ wishes. The policy is apparently designed to enforce what Chattanooga Times Free Press columnist ...

Despite concerns that feeding antibiotics to livestock is harmful to humans, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have to ban the use of antibiotics in ...

A new AIDS epidemic could be just the beginning of an apocalyptic-type increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant diseases. That’s the latest warning from Professor Jeremy Farrar, one of the world’s leading authorities on infectious diseases. “It is not unreasonable ...

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates. But aren’t we interpreting it the wrong way when we put antibiotics in the animals we rear for food? But that’s exactly what we have been doing for ...

According to Hippocrates, all diseases have their origin in the stomach. Ayurveda, the health science of ancient India, has a similar theory. Latest discoveries by modern science also point in the same direction. Based on these findings it behooves us ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a plan it says will phase out the practice of giving healthy animals antibiotics simply to fatten them up, although the plan is only voluntary and already has many critics. The ...

Most people don’t know and may not even care where their food actually comes from. You may imagine a peaceful farm where the animals quietly graze in lush pastures and are comfortably nestled in warm stalls with fresh water and ...

The salmonella outbreak traced back to three Foster Farms chicken plants include a strain that is resistant to antibiotics, and some are blaming the heavy usage of antibiotics in the industry. The salmonella pathogen is reportedly resistant to the same ...