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Soy is Not a Health Food

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Despite the well-crafted, expensive PR campaign, soy is not a health food, and people need to know the havoc it has wrought on both our bodies and the environment.

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The Inconvenient Truth About Canola Oil

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They say canola oil is “heart healthy” and a good source of monounsaturated fats similar to olive oil. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Reversing our Cancer Epidemic

Dr. David Servan-Schrieber believes that we are in the midst a self-inflicted epidemic of cancer, which affects approximately one in three people in the U.S. After undergoing chemotherapy and surgery for brain cancer, Servan-Schreiber, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, asked his oncologist if any lifestyle changes would [...]

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Healthy, Eco Friendly Baby Food

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If you ever looked on the back of a jar of baby food or a box of rice cereal, the first thing you may notice is added modified starches, sugars, corn syrup, or preservatives—even in the organic ones. Your baby certainly doesn’t need any of these things, and some could even be outright harmful.

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The Skinny on Fat, Part 1

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If there is no evidence linking dietary saturated fat and cholesterol to cardiovascular disease or obesity, just what is taxing our hearts and thickening our waistlines?

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Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 2

In the tradition of Michael Moore (Sicko, Bowling for Columbine) and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 30 Days), Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast-paced look at our current state of health. Discouraged by the terrible side effects that pharmaceutical drugs were having on the health of their families, nutritionists-turned-filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set off on [...]

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