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  • Vitamin D calculator

    Helpful tool below!!! If I filled the Vitamin D calculator correctly for Madison, WI, I need 5 minutes (for midday today) of sunshine to maintain my vitamin D requirements. What about you? How much sunsh…

  • There's a BUG hidden in my food

    Vegetarians/Vegans/Kosher: You may want to think TWICE before you buy a product with "carmine", "cochineal", "carminic acid" or "artifical flavor" listed as one of its ingredients. It gives the food product a red color.…

  • Beer as food for fish? Photo via: Aturkus Are fish just following the footsteps of their cattle-fed-beer friends? Beastly behavior! Supposedly, beer as feed is the solution for the decline of lower grade fish for fish…

  • Creator of the Vitamin K

    Biblical Accuracy and Circumcision on the 8th Day by Bert Thompson, Ph.D. Q. In Genesis 17:12, God commanded Abraham to circumcise baby boys on the eighth day of their lives. Why day eight? Is there any good, scientific…

  • Physically addictive foods

    Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive Foods Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Supermarket Secrets

  • Happiness effects... :)

    Photo taken from Paparazzidan (um, coz... you don't mind, right? After all, this pic is enough to make anyone happy. Plus, it was the best one I could find on happiness:)) We all know or have heard that happiness is…

  • Alzheimers and fast food? Excerpt from KI's press release: [PRESS RELEASE, 28 November 2008] Mice that were fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irreg…

  • portions from this article: Summer 2003 • Volume XII, Number 3 Breaking the Food Seduction By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. Is cheddar cheese addictive? How about steak? Or sugar? In Breaking the Food Seduction, PCRM preside…

  • Have you ever said something that you wish you hadn't said? Better yet, wished people would be a little more open-minded to discussing it? I'm in a town where a large percentage of people are in the marines or married t…

  • I'm beginning to wonder if my classmates are thinking about becoming vegetarians? (we've been studying fish contaminants, prions, etc) Taken from our class book: The primary medical threat from algae is due to a type o…