Category Archives: Health Issues

Food Matters – A Documentary You MUST See!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover… How to use food as medicine Who needs vitamins? Is organic better? How safe is our food? Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol Foods [...]
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Next on the White House Agenda…Drug-resistant Infections from Meat?

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Antibiotics and hormones are fed to livestock, poultry, and fish on factory farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to healthy farm animals. [...]
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Playing the Field

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: January 6, 2010
Photo by mckaysavage Vegetables. We know they’re good for us, but we’re not eating them. According to recent studies, the average American’s daily caloric intake consists of one to one-half servings of vegetables per day. 51 percent of our diets come from processed foods and 42 percent from meat, eggs, or dairy. The other 7 percent is vegetables, fruits, legumes, [...]
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