Health Issues

Why Your Gut Microbiome Matters

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Your gut is home to millions of microbes that help you digest food and perform other essential functions – this is known as your gut microbiome.

Happy American Heart Health Month!

Happy American Heart Health Month! February is the time to focus on all the ways to boost and maintain cardiovascular health. Your heart is one of your most important organs – it pumps blood around your body, providing it with all the essential nutrients and carrying oxygen to your cells.

Diet-Related Illnesses Cost U.S. Economy $1 Trillion Annually

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Down to Earth found that the U.S.’s top five diet-related chronic diseases cost the U.S. economy a staggering $1 trillion each year! This is an estimate of direct medical costs and the indirect impact of productivity losses due to illness and premature death associated with chronic heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis.

Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products

By Andrew Schneider P-I Senior Correspondent Government promises to rid the nation's food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren't doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children. The peer-reviewed study found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II.