The Ugly Palm Oil Industry Palm oil seems to be in everything from chips to cosmetics. It is found in 40-50% of all household products in the USA. This industry produces 50 million tons of oil, supplying 30% of the world’s vegetable oil production. Until recently I never thought much about palm oil – where it came from, or how it was manufactured.   But with the whole natural / paleo food movement, shortening made from palm oil was making a comeback.  I decided to do a little investigation into it to see if  it was...

Has Sea Salt Been Contaminated? I was on Pinterest yesterday and came across a short video by well known naturopath, Dr. Leonard Coldwell.  In the video, Dr. Coldwell mentioned the fact that salt from the ocean was contaminated by the radiation from Fukushima.  He was recommending Himalayan salt because it was mined and not affected by the radiation, or for that matter, chemtrails.  I found this quite interesting and hadn’t considered the effects of the Fukushima radiation on the world’s main source of salt. Though the media cover-up is enormous, the alternative health community knows how...

You’ll Never Guess What Contains MSG Are you one of the thousands of people in America waking up to the dangers of MSG and trying to avoid it?  What if you have no idea you are eating MSG because it isn’t listed by name on the label?  There are hundreds of food items hiding MSG.  The only way to truly avoid MSG, is to know the food industry’s hiding “secrets”. What is MSG? MSG (monosodium glutamate) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Glutamic acid (glutamate) is an amino acid abundant in animal and plant protein....