Heated battles have raged across the world’s dinner tables for about as long as anyone can remember. The topic of this unending debate? Vegetables.

Despite their most valiant efforts many parents still struggle with their kids about eating their nightly serving of greens. Visiting your local farmers markets, fresher produce and more interesting/flavorful recipes have been helping to slowly turn the tide, but arming yourself with a little extra knowledge before going into battle doesn’t usually hurt either.

According to newly presented research, eating green vegetables may be an even better way to our bodies healthy than we could have possibly guessed. In addition to being a well-known source of vitamins, minerals, and essential nutrients, not to mention both soluble and insoluble dietary fiber, it seems that green vegetables of all types are also a key source of specialized chemical signals that our immune systems use to self-communicate.

Continue reading: “Study: Leafy Green Vegetables May Boost Your Immune Defenses”

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Any decent pediatrician can tell you how important it is for expectant mothers to keep up with their prenatal vitamins during pregnancy. During this time, it’s essential that both mothers and their developing babies have access to all the vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients their bodies require.

Among the most important of these essential nutrients is folic acid, sometimes also referred to as folate, or vitamin B9—a standard component of nearly all high-quality prenatal multivitamins. It has long been generally associated with proper neurological development during gestation and early infancy, as well as possibly helping to mitigate a number of other potential health risks, such as stroke and prostate cancer, later on in life.

Continue reading: “Study: Folic Acid in Early Pregnancy Associated With Reduced Risk of Severe Language Delay in Children”

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As you probably know, here at Global Healing Center, we are big fans of raw milk. We are also big fans of being able to have the freedom to choose what we put into our body.

This is why we are asking all of our readers to check out this petition going on www.Whitehouse.gov. It is an official petition to the Obama Administration to legalize raw milk sales on a federal level.

Here is the petition in full:

If you agree with the petition listed above, we would strongly encourage you to visit www.WhiteHouse.gov and sign the petition. This is your life, let your voice be heard.

Continue reading: “Sign the Raw Milk Petition on Whitehouse.gov”

If growing news coverage of the potential dangers of cellphone radiation has you concerned, you’re not alone. Before it was put on “indefinite hold”, the City of San Francisco tried to enact a controversial new law which would require cell phone manufacturers to post the amount of radiation emitted by their respective devices.

In response to the newfound awareness which has prompted this law and others like it, an Israeli company called Tawkon has developed a mobile app (ironically enough) designed to measure the radiation levels of smart phones.

While phone manufacturers remain skeptical of its overall validity, their cellphone radiation app has been a huge success for the company, recently raising $1.5 million. Apple, specifically, has banned Tawkon from its online app store, citing that they felt it would be confusing to customers.

Not surprisingly, the application’s developer has responded publicly that they believe Apple is more concerned that the new app could harm sales of their overwhelmingly popular iPhone, and not with any potential “confusion” it might cause users.

Regardless of Apple’s true motives for wanting to keep Tawkon out of their app store, there may indeed be certain shortcomings to the approach it takes in gauging the radioactive threat of these increasingly necessary devices.

Continue reading: “Cellphone App Claims to Measure How Much Radiation Is Coming From Your Cell Phone”

Every once in a great while, a perfect child is born. One who never cries, sleeps all night, and gladly eats whatever food you choose to put in front of them.

But unfortunately for most of us with children, developing lifestyle habits, such as a healthy appreciation for nutritious fruits and vegetables, usually requires years of continual work.

New information recently released by researchers at Michigan State University’s College of Nursing helps to shed some light on the problem of establishing healthy dietary preferences in young children, and more importantly, may help both parents and medical professionals find more effective ways to approach it successfully.

Does Your Diet Really Affect Your Child’s?

In order to better understand the connection between mother’s dietary habits, and those of their children, researchers questioned almost 400 low-income women from all over the state with pre-school-aged children then currently enrolled in educational head start programs.

Continue reading: “Mothers’ Diets Have Biggest Influence on Children Eating Healthy, Study Suggests”