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Top 10 Chemicals Threatening Your Health Right Now

The United State's new chemical safety law is giving the Environmental Protection Agency more authority to regulate dangerous chemicals. The new requirements under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act will for ...

Croup Cough Symptoms + 6 Natural Remedies

Have you ever had a cough that sounds similar to a barking dog or seal? Well, then, you've unfortunately had experience with croup cough. What is croup exactly? It's a viral infection that's most common in children, ...

5 Weird Ways to Stop an Infection (or Prevent One in the First Place)

No one likes getting sick or, even worse, contracting an infection. What with doctor's visits with long waits, the overprescription of antibiotics that lead to superbugs and generally feeling awful, most of us probably agree that preventing ...

Pneumonia Symptoms, Risk Factors & Natural Treatments

Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children globally, killing more than 2,500 children a day worldwide. It's also to blame for up to 7 percent of all deaths in adults. (1) According to ...

Mercury Poisoning Symptoms & How to Avoid or Recover from Them

Mercury poisoning is the result of exposure to mercury, a heavy metal that's seriously toxic to our health. Numerous studies have shown that high exposure to mercury changes and poisons the central nervous system, which can result in irritability, fatigue, ...

Working Out On an Empty Stomach: Does It Burn the Most Fat?

For something that should be simple, working out doesn't always feel that way. There's choosing the best fat-burning workout. There's that pesky question of whether exercise or diet is key for weight loss. And now ...

Atrazine: the Most Common Toxic Contaminant in Our Water

Almost all of us go out of the way to avoid harmful toxins and poisons: We wouldn’t leave bleach near a toddler, for instance, and most of know about the dangers of Monsanto Roundup. But what ...

The Best Natural Cleaning Products to Limit Your Toxin Exposure

While cleaning products are meant to clean, their impact on your health may be a little more than you bargained for within your home and body. Many of us were raised to use some of the ...

Improve Your Homocysteine Levels to Protect Your Heart

Never heard of homocysteine before and wondering what causes someone to have elevated homocysteine levels? Homocysteine is a specific type of amino acid that's created in the body during metabolic processes, as opposed to consumed in ...

Breakthrough Study: Fungus May Trigger Crohn’s Disease

A fungus may trigger Crohn's disease, a devastating inflammatory bowel disease that often requires heavy-duty drugs, surgery or a combination of both to keep at bay. The new finding, published in the September 2016 edition journal ...