Author: Erin Elizabeth

A study published this week found that for Americans under the age of 55, colon and rectal cancer rates are rising. Sharply. In fact, a person born in 1990 now has twice the risk of colon cancer and four times the risk of rectal cancer at the same age, had they been born in the 50’s. And that means that screening guidelines may need to change. Rebecca Siegel, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society and the lead author of the study said that they looked at nearly 500,000 cases of colorectal cancer from 1974 to 2013  but didn’t find...

Olive oil comes from olive, peanut oil comes from peanuts, coconut oil comes from coconuts and canola oil comes from rapeseed. Canola is a hybrid name that stands for Canadian oil, since it is grown, processed, and exported mostly from Canada. Contrary to what you might have heard, there are several reasons to avoid canola oil. Unfortunately, clever marketing and persuasive advertising campaigns have successfully managed to convince countless millions that canola oil is actually a healthy option when it comes to cooking. It’s also used in many different foods, and especially in things like margarine and processed foods....

(Note from Erin: Our friends at Elevate Addiction Services were so happy that we wrote a story about how children are being given antipsychotics, that they reached out to us and asked us to share this story with you all. This must stop. Read. on.) In the past, lawmakers didn’t think twice about how doctors treated foster children suffering from emotional traumas such as abandonment and abuse. Nobody controlled how often practitioners prescribed psychiatric drugs that had serious potential for doing more harm than good. Today, investigations into California’s foster care system shed light on the doctors who fuel...