Companion planting is the methodology of growing certain plants together in order to increase yield, reduce pest infestations and allow one plant's characteristics to benefit others. The idea of planting certain plants together has been practiced by farmers around the world since the development of early agriculture, around 8,000 BC. Through trial and error, farmers discovered ... Continue Reading
Onset of Disease 33 Percent Earlier Today than in Granny’s Generation
This article suggests 4 ways to turn the trend of early onset of disease in today’s generation: As vaccines pump the population full of mercury and thimerosal, as genetically modified crops alter human DNA, as bisphenol-A in plastics and can linings alter the hormonal structure of the human body, as pesticides pollute the land and water, more people are experiencing disease ... Continue Reading
How to Eat and Drink for Boosting Your Health
This article discusses tips for healthier eating and drinking carved out from the culinary techniques of generations past and the useful new information that science is still uncovering. Throughout history, new discoveries have revolutionized the way societies of the time regarded meal times. First, the discovery of fire changed a predominantly raw ancient diet to one of ... Continue Reading
What About Grass-Fed Beef?
Feeding grain to cattle has got to be one of the dumbest ideas in the history of western civilization. Cows, sheep, and other grazing animals are endowed with the ability to convert grasses, which those of us who possess only one stomach cannot digest, into food that they can digest. They can do this because they are ruminants, which is to say that they possess a rumen, a 45 ... Continue Reading
Factory Farms Impact On Health
One of the techniques modern factory farms routinely use to increase weight in livestock is to give all of the animals a dose of antibiotics with every meal. When this is done, the bacteria in the animals' guts that are susceptible to the drugs are killed. When this practice is ongoing, it creates a microbial vacuum in the animals' intestines that gives an extraordinary ... Continue Reading