Pandemic Survival Blog

  What's your story? You smoked some of your parents cigarettes to feel cool when you were in middle school, and that's "all she wrote?" You smoked in the boys (or girls) bathroom in high school, and then at bars in college (again to look cool), and then once the 9-to-5 world slapped you in the face, you just HAD to smoke due to the stress, and that was all "she" wrote. You were hooked. No, wait, you started out with those dreaded Skoal bandits, dip, chewing tobacco, cigars and a few joints in junior high or high school and it progressed into smoking a pack a day–somewhere along the line? Can you blame peer pressure? Can you blame an older sister or brother, or a "hip" uncle or aunt? Either you didn't understand the health detriment, you underestimated it, or you just didn't give a damn at that point. You were "invincible!" Obviously, you care now. Anyway, if we haven't guessed your story yet, it doesn't matter. T...

  Are you planning a baby, pregnant now, or celebrating your new child already? So let it be written, so let it be sealed - that you will never smoke another cigarette as long as you live, and you will not only do this for yourself, but for your child. If you could stop smoking naturally, without using some scary medication and without ever going back to smoking, wouldn't you begin right away? If you have the will, natural news health enthusiasts know the way , and so do thousands of ex-smokers who are now their own health enthusiasts, raising children in a smoke-free environment they so deserve. Second-Hand and Third-Hand Smoke According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking results in nearly half-a-million premature deaths in the United States each year - that's about one in every five U.S. deaths. An additional sixteen million people suffer with a serious illness caused by smoking. In fact, for every one person who die...

In the United States, cancer statistically now strikes half of all men, and a third of all women. Those tough odds are compounded by the odds of surviving that cancer. Why is this happening, and what factors can improve our chances? The rise of diseases now typical of Western society has coincided oddly enough with the industrialization of the modern diet - food allergies, lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, GERD, peptic ulcers, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, diabetes, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome... and ultimately cancer. How does our food supply contribute to this common thread of illness, debilitation and early death? The answer is staring us in the face - chemicals! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which most Americans believe is in place to protect our food and guard our health, has instead allowed more than 70,000 chemicals to infiltrate our food supply. Many of these dangerous ingredients are outright toxins, and until we stop eating...