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Friday 01 May 2009

Worried about Swine Flu? Look to Antiviral Foods

There has been a lot of concern these last several days over Swine Flu, a severe flu thought to have started its most recent round in Mexico. The government’s advice? Wash your hands often, cover your mouth when you cough, and most of all don’t panic. We concur with all of that advice, most of all [...]

Saturday 31 Jan 2009

Happy anniversary foodscout!

One year ago today, we launched foodscout.org. We built the site and collected the data for it as a labor of love after our frustration at not being able to easily find and organize basic information about natural foods, their nutrients, and their health benefits. Over the last year, we have watched our traffic steadily quadruple! [...]

Wednesday 31 Dec 2008

Find a Spring - help build the database

What could be more important to our health than fresh, clean drinking water? Most municipal water is full of chemicals, such as chlorine, fluorine, and who knows what else. More people than ever are turning to expensive home water filtration systems or signing up for water delivery services. Now, a new website, findaspring.com, is helping people [...]

Friday 28 Nov 2008

Flat Stomach Secrets

Every health and diet magazine these days is talking about flat stomach secrets. We’ve had some recent insights into this topic so we figured we’d join in the discussion. If you are close to your intended weight but you can’t quite figure out how to get rid of that little poochie belly, this article is [...]

Friday 19 Sep 2008

A Powerful Argument for Natural Whole Foods

This recent article on OrganicConsumers.org offers a highly compelling argument for eating natural whole foods and eliminating processed and genetically-modified foods from our diets. The article, entitled Why Schools Should Remove Gene-Altered Foods from Their Cafeterias focuses on kids in school. But thousands of individuals have reported their own experiences of giving up processed foods and [...]

Sunday 14 Sep 2008

New food added - Asparagus

Although over 300 varieties of asparagus are known to exist, only about 20 are considered to be edible. With its origins in the Mediterranean, this vegetable has been used medicinally for about 2000 years. Asparagus contains purines, which break down to form uric acid, so people prone to kidney stones, gout, or other uric acid-related problems, [...]

Thursday 14 Aug 2008

Effective shower filters for removing chlorine

Drinking filtered or bottled water is commonplace these days. Few health-conscious people will drink water straight from the tap if they don’t have to. But even if you avoid contaminated drinking water you could still be tremendously exposed to chlorine and chloramine in the shower. This exposure can be drying and irritating to [...]

Monday 21 Jul 2008

Healthy snacks may not be so healthy

Time.com reported on an important Canadian study, which looked into hundreds of products marketed to children, many of which make nutritional claims on the packaging. “Most parents already know that sugary sodas and greasy potato chips are not the healthiest food choices for children. But what about the hundreds of other widely available and kid-friendly packaged [...]

Friday 18 Jul 2008

New foodscout homepage and books we love

We’ve made a couple of changes to foodscout this week! Our home page now features a “food of the day.” Each day, one of our many nutritious foods will be featured on foodscout with a picture and summary of its health benefits and abundant nutrients. Our most recent blog posts will also be featured [...]

Sunday 06 Jul 2008

Dark Field Microscopy - A quick, effective, and interesting health check

For those of us who are doing our best to improve our health, it’s difficult to know how healthy we really are. There are hundreds of tests to check for disease when you are showing symptoms, but not much guidance for relatively healthy people. Dark field microscopy is a technology that allows you to look [...]

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