Tag: Ocean Robbins
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Getting Creative Juices Flowing
I was ten-years-old when my dad first began to write Diet for a New America. It was the first book to expose the truth about factory farms, and the link between food and our planet, to a wide audience. In the five years after the book’s publication in 1987, beef consumption in the United States…
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How To Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit
By Sayer Ji • Originally posted on GreenMedInfo.com The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree. Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms…
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Don’t Eat Your Children’s Food
Following a plant-based diet will benefit the planet and future generations By David L. Katz • Originally published on US News & World Report No, this is not about noshing on plate scraps. Nor is it about “kid food,” per se. I have written about that before. For that matter, my son has weighed in on that…
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Fiber-Famished Gut Microbes Linked to Poor Health
While probiotics receive more attention, key fibers remain the workhorses in maintaining a healthy gut microbiome By Katherin Harmon Courage • From Scientific American KEYSTONE, Colo.—Your gut is the site of constant turf wars. Hundreds of bacterial species—along with fungi, archaea and viruses—do battle daily, competing for resources. Some companies advocate for consuming more probiotics, live…
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A Guide to Homemade Coconut Oil Beauty Products
Created and previously posted by Health Perch Create Your Own Coconut Oil Beauty Products Coconut Oil beauty products are the most popular beauty products on the market. Coconut Oil can help fight bacteria and viruses that cause illness, along with fending off yeast, fungus and candida. You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as…
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How is 67-Year-Old John Robbins Holding Up?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Natural food icon John Robbins recently celebrated the 25th Anniversary of his paradigm shifting best-seller Diet for a New America. And not long after that, his 67th birthday. (Click here for the Food Revolution Summit finale presentation he delivered with his son and colleague, Ocean Robbins.) Looks like his food and lifestyle choices are paying…
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[Infographic] The Comprehensive Guide to Composting
Created by Fix.com It is common knowledge compost is great for the health of your soil and plants, but have you ever stopped to consider the financial worth of the black gold you are mining, or the good you could be doing the planet by being more compost-aware? It is estimated one cubic yard of…
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Turmeric Produces ‘Remarkable’ Recovery in Alzheimer’s Patients
By Sayer Ji • Originally posted on Greenmedinfo.com Turmeric has been used in India for over 5,000 years, which is likely why still today both rural and urban populations have some of the lowest prevalence rates of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the world. A recent study on patients with AD found that less than a…
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Is Big Pharma America’s New Mafia?
By Daniela Drake • From The Daily Beast By now you have probably seen John Oliver’s comic take on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on doctors’ prescribing habits. Media outlets from Mother Jones to the Wall Street Journal commented admiringly, and even the American Medical Association felt compelled to declare they were “committed to transparency” around…
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Kids tell the truth about old MacDonald
In this intense and touching 2 minute video, a group of kids tell the truth about industrialized agriculture, and share their vision for what it can and should be.
