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    • Apple Cider Vinegar and Honey for Sleep: A Fact or A Myth? - Sleep Reportby Emily Alexander Ages: 15+People have been using apple cider vinegar and honey to improve their health for hundreds of years. Honey has many uses. It can be utilized as a sweetener, a hair conditioner, or a skin scrub, just to name a few. Apple cider vinegar is a natural remedy that can help or clean just about anything. It can be used as a fabric softener, skin cleanser, aid for weight loss, and preventing diabetes.Subjects: article, ACV, digestion, weigh loss, sleep, sore throat, anti-inflammatory, natural antiseptic, blood pressure, diabetes

    • Why You Should Ditch Antiperspirant: 6 Natural Deodorants That Workby Lisa Beres Ages: 14+Deodorant or antiperspirant is something most of us apply daily. We prefer to feel clean and fresh - not stinky. But many people are still unclear about the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant. Consequently, the majority of the populous is slapping, smearing, and spritzing on toxic chemicals to sensitive - and sometimes freshly-shaven - areas without even realizing it. Now, that stinks.Subjects: links, deodorant, antiperspirants, natural, recipes, kidney stones, Pit Detox Protocol

    • How To Overcome Candida Naturallyby Bee Wilder Ages: 18+Candida is the short name used to describe yeast overgrowth in the body. The technical term is Candidiasis. One family "Candida Albicans" lives in all mucus membranes, i.e. intestines, eyes, ears, bladder, stomach, lungs, vagina, etc. It is one of the billions of other friendly organisms that serve a useful purpose in the body. One of its important functions is to recognize and destroy harmful bacteria. However, candida is not intended to overgrow and get out of control while the body is alive. This is only intended to happen when the body dies, when it's function and characteristics change in order to break down the body.Subjects: natural, candida, yeast overgrowth, yogurt, Candida Albicans, hay fever, asthma, thrush, eczema, hives, antibiotics, immune system, food additives, preservatives, pesticides, heavy metals

    • Barefoot Lass's Home Remediesby Barefoot Lass Ages: 10+Home remedies from Arthritis to Yeast Infections. An arthritis remedy sent in by Carole Johns; "Eat a serving of Jello once a day. Gelatin contains amino-acids and they help restore cartilage for flexible joints. You can use sugar-free if you are watching your weight. It takes about three months, but you will see a definite improvement in your joint pain."

    • Got the Blues? It's a Good Thing, if They're Blueberries!by Ed Mashburn Ages: 16+In the US, there three types of blueberries for the smallholder to consider. There are low-bush, high-bush, and rabbit-eye blueberries which grow naturally in different parts of the country, and these native plants have been the origins of the multitude of hybridized and perfected commercial blueberries.Subjects: blueberries, cereal, nutrition, health benefits, growing blueberries, commercial production, cash crop,

    • Doctor Yourself- Health, Naturally - free newsletterby Andrew Saul Ages: 10+Review: "Doctor Yourself provides details on natural options that are supported by both research studies and clinical experience. Andrew Saul's lively, often irreverent writing style and keen sense of humor sets the book apart." (Feingold Association of the United States)Subjects: Articles, supplements, natural healing, cancer, protocols, nutrition, reference, vitamin C therapy

    • ConsumerLab.com -- Independent tests of herbal, vitamin, and mineral supplementsby Tod Cooperman, M.D., President, Founder, and Edito Ages: 14+ConsumerLab.com, LLC is the leading provider of independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products. Since its founding in 1999, CL has tested more than 5,600 products, representing over 850 different brands and nearly every type of popular supplement for adults, children, and pets.Subjects: Articles, news, recalls, raw material tests, herbal products, vitamins, minerals, personal care

    • GMO - Genetically Modifying Foods - The Physics, the Safetyby C. Johnson Ages: 18+There are incredible dangers in some of the genetic modification of food products being done today! It is an example of our technology knowing only a tiny amount of a subject, but yet we proceed to roar along, principally because there are enormous profits involved! Until early in the year 2001, no one even knew how many genes we have! Most estimates were at least 100,000, with some being far more! The Human Genome Project discovered that we really only have around 30,000 individual genes.Subjects: GMO, safety, Human Genome Project, gene-splicing, profits, modification, science, research, double-helix DNA, atoms and molecules, Ebola virus

    • How to Make Natural Toothpasteby Katie Wells Ages: 12+Why natural toothpaste? Most brands contain Fluoride, a toxic chemical that has not actually been shown to reduce tooth decay, and certainly not at the rate that a diet low in phytic acid can. Fluoride also has been linked to thyroid damage and hosts of other problems. We have been using this natural toothpaste for a while now, and it seems to work great. I've actually noticed less plaque on the kids and I when brushing our teeth.Subjects: fluoride, sodium lauryl suphate, glycerin, teeth, remineralizing, toothpaste, experiment, xylitol, coconut oil, cavities, plaque, baking soda

    • Chocolate 'could cure coughs'by BBC News Ages: 18+Chocolate could provide the key for a new kind of cough medicine. But experts say patients should not take the news as a license to eat lots of chocolate bars if they are sick. A chemical in chocolate called theobromine has been shown to be effective...Subjects: chocolate, coughs, chemicals, medicine, prevention, remedies, research

    • A Natural Cure for Depressionby The McDougall Newsletter Ages: 18+There are tangible reasons for this epidemic of antidepressant-pill-prescribing that are as familiar to you as your comfortable bed, your easy chair, and your neighborhood fast-food restaurant. People now suffer, physically and mentally...Subjects: natural cure, depression, antidepressants, diseases, medications

    • Healthy Cleaning - A Guide to Toxic Free Laundry Ages: 18+Added fragrances are taboo for environmentally sensitive individuals, as well as those with asthma or any allergies. More and more people are becoming sensitive and allergic every day. Could it be because artificial fragrances are everywhere?Subjects: links, laundry, safe, fragrance free, cleanliness, safe bleach, toxics

    • How a vitamin cured my anxietyby Elisa Black Ages: 14+MY anxiety is a wild beast. It has destroyed relationships, clawed at my insides until I was sick, left me cowering under blankets, plagued me with panic attacks and tipped me into post-natal depression following the birth of my first son. I was nervous from the beginning.Subjects: Article, anxiety, panic attacks, medication, manic, drugs, homocysteine levels, neurodevelopmental, post-traumatic stress disorder, MTHFR and anxiety, folinic acid

    • All Natural Info, Sorting Through the Messby Debbie Bilezikian Ages: 18+All of the above have one thing in common: They all purport to have ingredients derived from plant materials, and assume that this fact is equivalent to the concept of "natural". But where does the concept of "natural" come from? People who are looking for natural products are suspicious of man-made products for many reasons. The reasons can be as amorphous as the concept that Nature knows best how to maintain a balance, and has created more wonders than man/womankind can ever dream of.Subjects: natural body care products, natural foods store, plant-derived, nature, FDA, non-synthetic, non man-made products

    • Food Expert and Author Jonny Bowden Talks About Nutritional Supplementsby Kevin Gianni Ages: 18+This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Renegade Roundtable. ...Certainly, multivitamins, magnesium. 75% of people are getting less than optimal levels of magnesium. Probiotics are a good one. Digestive enzymes.Subjects: Interview, supplements, fish oil, multivitamins, magnesium, co-enzyme Q10, postmenopausal

    • How Sourdough Bread Works

    • Independent news on natural health, medicine, nutrition and more

    • LongLocks Hair Care CookBook - Free Recipes for Home Made Natural Hair Products

    • Natural, Alternative Therapies for all Diseases, including Cancer and AIDSby Lorraine Day, M.D. Ages: 18+Many of the answers to questions I receive are already given in my Workbook, my DVDs/videos, and my CDs/audios. These materials are available on my website at www.drday.com for anyone who wants them. If you ask a question that is already answered in those materials, I will direct you to where the answer is In those materials. That's why I wrote the Workbook and made the DVDs and CDs - so I wouldn't have to answer the same questions over and over again and so the answers would be available to all who may be interested.Subjects: cure, cancer, AIDS, orthopedic surgeon, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center,

    • Organic Food Stores Locator - Find Your Local Organic Food Stores and Suppliers (CA)

    • Pastured Products Directory -- California - Eat Wild

    • Peanut Oil Health Benefit

    • Public Appearances by Dr. Lorraine Day, M.D

    • Shampoo Recipe Using Essential Oils

    • Soap Kitchen Solid Shampoo Recipe

    • Soap Making Products - Essential Oils - Fragrance Oils

    • The food guide built to benefit you, not Big Business - HonestFoodGuide.org

    • The Paleolithic Diet

    • Xylitol a naturally occuring sweetner

    • National Center for Home Food Preservationby The University of Georgia Ages: 15+The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation.Subjects: canning, freezing, seasonal, dry, cure, smoke, jam, pickle

    • Soap Naturally - Natural soapmaking recipes, shampoo recipes, books and reference

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