Making Bone Broth a Staple in Your Diet May Be the Key to Improving Your Health

• Eating a high-quality, nutrient-dense diet is one of the most powerful ways to maintain health and prevent disease. Your gut in particular needs proper nourishment in order to allow your health to really flourish
• The GAPS diet is often used to treat children with autism and other disorders rooted in gut dysfunction, but just about anyone with allergies or less than optimal gut health can benefit from it
• A new cookbook called The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet provides about 200 nutrient-dense recipes to help heal gut-related diseases
• The GAPS diet starts out as an elimination diet, which means taking out all inflammatory foods. This includes high-fiber foods, processed foods, and anything that is going to be difficult to digest
• Bone broth is a staple of the GAPS diet. Not only is it easily digested, it also contains profound immune-optimizing components that are foundational building blocks for the treatment of autoimmune diseases
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Doctors: 'Irresponsible' to send troops to 'combat' Ebola

A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.
According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.
“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”
Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.
“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”
Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”

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Top 5 plant based foods that improve your digestion

Digestive health could easily be touted as one of the most important aspects of your health. Unfortunately, our digestive systems have been compromised due to a highly refined and nutrient deficient food supply, various toxins, and stress. The good news is that digestive balance can be restored by eliminating gut menacing habits and introducing these foods to significantly aid in the digestive process.

Apple cider vinegar

Apple cider vinegar is a type of vinegar made from fermented apples. It has a pale to medium amber color. It can be substituted in many food preparations for white vinegar (like salad dressing) with exponentially more health benefits.

Consuming apple cider vinegar will introduce beneficial enzymes, probiotics, and amino acids into your diet that will improve digestion, relieve heartburn, stimulate the lymphatic system, help get rid of Candida, and help strengthen the immune system.

Apple cider vinegar will also help strengthen the pH of your stomach acid, a key component in the digestive process. In fact, weakened stomach acid along with a lack of enzymes and probiotics are incriminating factors for acid reflux and heartburn. Fortunately, apple cider vinegar can help remedy all of these conditions.

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Why the Use of Glyphosate in Wheat Has Radically Increased Celiac Disease

• Even though wheat is not a GMO crop, glyphosate is widely used to harvest it and it is typically heavily contaminated with glyphosate
• Glyphosate exposure appears to be strongly correlated with the rise in celiac disease
• Glyphosate has been shown to severely damage your gut flora and cause chronic diseases rooted in gut dysfunction
• The use of glyphosate on wheat crops has risen in tandem with the rise in celiac disease. In fact, it correlates to a greater degree than glyphosate usage on corn and soy
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ADHD Linked to Prenatal Antidepressant Use

• More than one in 10 Americans take an antidepressant, and that number jumps to one in four among women aged 50 to 64
• A study in the January 2010 issue of JAMA concluded that antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft don’t have any benefit to people with mild to moderate depression (the group to which they’re most often prescribed
• The notion that depression is due to a “chemical imbalance in your brain,” which antidepressants are designed to correct, is NOT a scientifically backed statement
• Children born to women who took antidepressants during pregnancy were more likely to develop attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to new research
• Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed drug class in the US, and antidepressants are the second; when you take antibiotics, it leads to an imbalance in gut flora that may impact your mental health
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Safety Questions Loom Over Quorn Brand Meat Substitute

• Quorn is a fungus-based ferment used in food production as a meat substitute. It was originally developed by one of the largest chemical companies in Great Britain
• The fungus Fusarium venenatum is first grown in large fermentation vats. Once the water is removed, what is left is a paste-like biomass, which is then processed into various food products
• Since its launch in 1985, several studies have raised concerns about Quorn’s safety—especially in people with food and/or mold allergies
• Reported adverse effects from Quorn include nausea, cramps, diarrhea, forceful vomiting, and anaphylactic reactions
• While factory-farmed meats are best avoided, organically raised, grass-fed or pastured animal products provide valuable nutrients that have no equivalence in the plant kingdom
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The Very Real Risks of Consuming Too Much Protein

• Most Americans consume three to five times more protein than they need, along with excessive starchy carbs and not enough healthy fats
• A more ideal protein intake is likely around one-half gram of protein per pound of lean body mass, which for most is 40 to 70 grams a day. Examples are given
• Excess dietary protein can lead to elevated blood sugar, weight gain, kidney stress, leaching of bone minerals, and stimulating cancer cells
• Restricting your protein to plant-only sources may create a sulfur deficiency and potentially accelerate age-related functional decline
• Protein quality is as important as quantity; consuming a wide variety of high–quality, grass-fed animal- and organic plant-based whole foods is the best approach
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