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Monsanto Caught Ghost-Writing Pieces Published In Forbes

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There are a couple breaking stories that I want to make sure you know about… Newly released emails show how  Monsanto infiltrated a scientific journal  and persuaded them to retract a published study which revealed tumors on rats who were fed GMOs and Roundup. This has been coined the “Seralini Study”, which Monsanto has attacked since its initial publication in 2012. Over the years, many people have been misled to believe this study was a farce. This is one of the reasons why the dangers of GMOs coupled with Roundup continues to be questioned by the press and public. Monsanto will do anything to cover up the health risks of using their chemicals. The website Forbes just  ended their relationship with writer Henry Miller  after discovering that Monsanto ghost-wrote his article that was trying to downplay the cancer risk of Roundup. Forbes took the article down from their website yesterday but you’ve got to wonder how many people it misled since that article was up for over two yea

The Inaugural Primal Health Coach Masterclass: A Weekend to Remember

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I’m a little nervous. For whatever reason, I always get the jitters before hosting people at my house. Usually it’s for a dinner party or birthday celebration or something similar and more intimate, with close friends. People who aren’t expecting anything out of you except good food and good conversation in other words. Today’s different. Today, I’m hosting a group of students and graduates of the Primal Health Coach certification program . These are people who have devoted their time, money, and energy to gain a deep understanding of the Primal Blueprint concepts and to learn how to become effective and successful health coaches. These are folks who have joined me in my mission to create a global network of coaches to transform the health and wellness of communities around the world using ancestral health principles. And now, they’re making an even bigger commitment: to the Primal Health Coach Masterclass —a weekend retreat designed to help Primal Health Coach students and gradu

Is Smelling Your Food Making You Fat?

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Is smelling your food making you fat? Smell and metabolism may be more closely connected than we realize, a new study suggests.   Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, temporarily eliminated the sense of smell in adult mice and found that obese smell-deficient mice shed serious weight, slimming down to a sleek physique even while eating a high-fat diet. Meanwhile, mice who retained their sense of smell ate the very same amount of fatty food (and moved around the same amount ) as the smell-deficient mice and packed on the weight, ballooning to twice their previous weight, the researchers say.   A third group of mice with a super sharp sense of smell — super smellers — were also fed the same amount of fatty food. Guess what happened to them? Yep. They bulked up even more on the high-fat diet than the mice with normal senses of smell.   The research suggest that our ability to smell food goes beyond just helping us find and assess it. It may play an active role i

How I Got My Four Year Old To Eat Vegetables

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I get asked a lot how Mazen learned to eat healthy foods like kale salad, mussels and asparagus. Just as every child has a different temperament, I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all formula to encourage healthy eating in kids. However, I can share my story in the hope that it might help your kids too! Here are ten things that Matt and I (and Thomas and our extended family) have done this year to encourage healthy eating. Waited patiently. Mazen was a very healthy eater from ages 6 months to about 2 years old. He gobbled down veggies as a baby and loved No Bull Burgers (made from lentils and cooked vegetables) and smoked salmon. Then, as most kids do, he went through a very picky phase. While I didn’t resort to completely bland kids foods, I stopped trying a lot of green things because I was tired of making them and wasting them (I could eat some leftovers but most of them got tossed on the floor!). My plan: wait it out. So years 2 and 3 were quite picky, although he did sti