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When People Stare: Public Reactions to My Cancer Don’t Change My Truth

By Ela Cabral for TakePart.com A cancer survivor describes how being stared at in public can make her feel like a public spectacle. Why do people look away when coming face-to-face with a bald person...

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What We Can Do About Breast Cancer

By Meg Wolff Bill Clinton may not fully realize this yet, but he’s doing a great deal to help women with breast cancer by speaking about the wonderful benefits of a plant-based diet. He’s lost a lot...

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No More Excuses, End Mountaintop Removal

In Appalachia, children are 42 percent more likely to have birth defects if they live near a mountaintop removal coal mine.  Citizens are 50 percent more likely to suffer from cancer. This new video...

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The Effects of Asbestos Exposure on Your Health

By Kaitlyn Teabo Because asbestos is a versatile naturally occurring mineral known for its resistance to heat and friction, its fibers have been used in over 3,600 commercial products in the United...

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The Real Costs of Cancer [Infographic]

Cancer isn’t really an equal opportunity disease. It is the second-biggest killer of Americans (after heart disease), but your gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level, and more have a big impact...

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A Passion Inspired by a Father’s Cancer: Helping People with Damaged Skin

We all hope that life’s sorrows can inspire positive actions, and that is certainly true for Britta Aragon. After surviving Hodgkin’s disease that struck her at age 16, Britta later cared for her...

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Argan Oil: Too Much of a Good Thing?

By Carol Dreibelbis for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet Project Most people have heard of the health benefits of using olive oil instead of butter or other saturated animal fats. The...

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Did You Know Your Fluoridated Water Is Full of Cancer-Causing Arsenic?

According to the Flouride Action Network, municipalities around the country are adding industrial-grade fluoride to our drinking water instead of pharmaceutical-grade fluoride.  The industrial stuff...

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Do Dolphins Have the Ability to Detect Human Cancer?

By David Kirby for TakePart.com Can dolphins detect cancer in people? To some scientists, it’s not even a legitimate hypothesis; and to many animal-rights activists, “swim-with-the-dolphin” cancer...

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Embracing the Mediterranean Diet

By Melissa Valliant for HellaWella.com The Mediterranean diet had us at “olive oil” and “wine,” but in case you needed more reasons to love it, it also comes with a plethora of health benefits. To...

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Can Veggies Stop the Metastasizing of Cancer?

A recent article in Mother Jones provided a clear translation of a cancer research study published in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews. (View the abstract here.) Cancer research tends to focus either on...

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Navigating the Bread Aisle: Making Healthy Choices

  By Melissa Valliant for HellaWella.com With all the labels you see in the bread aisle — “Made with whole grains,” “100% whole grain,” “whole wheat” — it’s difficult to know which kind is actually...

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9 Ocean Species You Never Knew You Needed

By Scott Henderson for Conservation International Life on Earth is old. Fossil records indicate that the first simple organisms emerged about 3.8 billion years ago, and it took another 1.8 billion...

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The Role of Antioxidants in Fighting Free Radicals [Infographic]

That free radicals are damaging to the health is something that is quite well know by all of us. But not many of us know that the main reasons behind the origin of free radicals can be due to smoking,...

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What We Can Do About Breast Cancer

By Meg Wolff Bill Clinton may not fully realize this yet, but he’s doing a great deal to help women with breast cancer by speaking about the wonderful benefits of a plant-based diet. He’s lost a lot...

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Change Your Diet to Cool Your Chronic Inflammation

By Carolanne Wright for NaturalNews.com The bane of health, chronic inflammation, is at the root of most disease. Cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular...

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