Health

  One of the oldest marketing tricks is to dramatically overprice something in order to increase its perceived value. Ironically, the less intrinsic value the commodity holds, the more effective such a tactic can be. This could explain what’s going on with one of the highest priced and most useless chemotherapy…
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  by Alanna Ketler Alcohol consumption is something that is not only widely accepted in our society, but in many cases and social settings actually implied and expected. It is promoted heavily in the media, with countless ads depicting glamorous living, which always includes indulging in the finest liquor, wine,…
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  by Edward Morgan Read the first part of the article “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.ˮ - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Even though the above verse describes a setting of a mariner lost at sea with water all around, he still does not have any…
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  Wheat consumption has been linked to psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia for over 60 years, but recent research indicates the mind-altering properties of this popular food are, in part, caused by it cutting off blood flow to the frontal cortex of the brain. As far back as 1954, reports of the full or partial…
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The potato has had a long history. The Incan tribe from the highlands of Peru worshipped the potato and people from Ireland blamed the potato for the Great Famine when a blight destroyed potato crops across Europe. Today, the potato is the fourth largest food crop in the world.   The potato is a perennial…
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  Read the first part of the article Oregano Oil Proven To Treat So Many Other Conditions It’s very exciting to also know that oregano oil can treat a whole array of health problems that can often be very serious. In an article by Dr. Josh Axe he shared that there are over 800 (actually,…
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Read the first part of the article Experiment 1 The rationale of Experiment 1 was to generate normative cues for altruistic responding toward refugees, on the basis of an incentivized donation task framed in the context of Europe’s refugee crisis.…
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Extraordinary advances in the fields of medicine and neuroscience have developed life-saving techniques, improved the quality of life and lengthened the average lifespan. Yet our hospitals are packed to the rafters. We’ve lost our way. In the Western world the prevailing…
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  By Hesh Goldstein For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking that maybe I’m not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So I’ve put together what might be a one-stop shopping guide to understanding…
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  Figures indicate that you likely use a cell phone on a daily basis. In the US, 95 percent of all people do so. And statistics indicate that most of western children now have one of these devices by the age of 10. That must mean they’re safe, right? Unfortunately not. And though it has been scientifically…
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