Author: Erin Elizabeth

Coconut oil has been used by people for thousands of years both externally and internally. But last year, it got some negative press. However recently, Harvard professor Karin Michels, a professor at the department of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, took her feelings about the little fruit to a whole new level. RELATED STORY: American Heart Association renders itself obsolete with 1960s dietary advice on Coconut Oil “Months after a report from the American Heart Association (AHA) warned against consuming coconut oil,”1 Michels called the coconut “pure poison” during a lecture at the University of Freiburg in Germany....

(Note from Erin: Let’s help support this amazing local business. If you are able to help, please visit their GoFundMe!) Nikki Rood, the Head Chef and Owner of The Sanibel Sprout, a vegan cafe and juice bar located on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, needs our help. “As you you might have recently heard, south Florida is in a real state of emergency. An unprecedented environmental crisis has impacted us severely and taken a terrible toll on our waters, marine life and human health and economy. Toxic red tide, green algae and other complicating factors have...