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Five Reasons to Eat More Sweet Potatoes |
| From cognitive protection to immune support here are five compelling reasons to incorporate sweet potatoes into your everyday diet. |
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- DIY Non-Toxic Shower Cleaner With Essential Oils - Does your shower look dingy no matter how hard you scrub? Mama Z’s enzyme-powered cleaner tackles soap scum, stains, water spots, and odors without filling a small bathroom with harsh chemical fumes.
- The Healing Power of Prayer for Your Mind, Body & Spirit - If you're feeling too busy, stressed, or overwhelmed to slow down and pray, this is for you. Dr. Z connects Scripture and research to show how prayer can restore peace, strengthen resilience, and keep “busy” from crowding out the blessed life God intended.
- DIY Emotional Detox Inhaler for Calm, Balance & Letting Go - Carrying anger, regret, discouragement, or stress destroys your health. This easy make portable inhaler gives you a simple tool for calming your mind, lifting your mood, practicing forgiveness, and resetting before negative emotions take over your day.
- Dairy-Free Lemon Fruit Dip for an Easy Summer Snack - Welcome to your new favorite sweet treat that will make the fruit & veggie tray disappear. Mama Z’s creamy lemon dip is dairy-free, gluten-free, naturally sweetened, and easy to prepare ahead for school snacks, cookouts, parties, or hungry kids.
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| July 24, 2026 |
| Large NYC Study Adds Evidence Linking Glyphosate to Preterm Birth Risk + More |
| By Children's Health Defense |
| New research from a large NYC-based study strengthens the potential link between glyphosate exposure in pregnant people and an increased risk of preterm birth, raising fresh concerns about environmental impacts on reproductive health. Could common weed killer be silently impacting gestation? Read more. |
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Ka’Chava Review – Is Ka’Chava Actually Worth It? | |||
The digestive system plays a central role in breaking down food, absorbing nutrients, and supporting overall health. While solid foods often receive the most attention, the types of drinks consumed throughout the day can also influence how efficiently digestion occurs. | |||
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Hi Jimi, This message is specifically for anyone dealing with high blood pressure or other heart-related problems. Over 7,000 people reveal what eating garlic does to your cardiovascular system. In addition, many people avoid fruit because they don't want a blood sugar spike — but the "real effect" of eating certain fruits will surprise you. |
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What’s In Your Strawberries?
In many parts of the country, summer is the perfect time to buy strawberries right from the farm. You can find local growers at the Real Organic Project or our Regenerative Farm Map.But what about the strawberries you find at the grocery store?
Driscoll’s is the world’s largest strawberry company. Neighboring communities, clean food activists, and a whistleblower from the inside say that Driscoll’s berries are grown without soil in an excessive amount of plastic, carry pesticide residues at levels banned in other countries, and are contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals and microplastics.
Omar Dieguez and Adam Scow of the Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture live in Watsonville, California, where Driscoll’s is headquartered. OCA’s Alexis Baden-Mayer spoke with them for Regeneration International’s 2025 People’s Food Summit. Omar had just come off a month-long hunger strike to press Driscoll’s to stop spraying pesticides next to schools. Nearly a year later, Driscoll’s still hasn’t met Omar’s demand, but his campaign is gaining steam with help from a lawsuit filed by David Harada, a former employee who alleges the company concealed violations of pesticide safety laws, and testing by Mamavation that found PFAS pesticide residues on Driscoll’s berries.
Harada, Driscoll’s Manager of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance, filed a whistleblower lawsuit providing evidence that for years the company over-applied pesticides in violation of Federal and California laws and then expected him to cover it up. The complaint reveals the Food and Drug Administration sent two separate notices to the company about people getting sick from eating Driscoll’s produce.
Testing by Mamavation found Driscoll’s non-organic strawberries contained residues of 12 different pesticides at levels prohibited in the European Union, Taiwan, Chile, Korea, and Russia. Eight of those are fluorinated pesticides that qualify as PFAS “forever chemicals.” They accumulate in our bodies and are associated with cancer, reproductive problems, developmental delays, and immune suppression. Those levels fall within US limits, which is at the heart of the problem: the US still allows PFAS at levels other countries have deemed unsafe.
The good news is, we can all skip the plasticberries. Find organic strawberries grown by real farmers in nutrient rich soil with the Real Organic Project directory and our Regenerative Farm Map.
TAKE ACTION: Please support Center for Farm Workers Families alert to Driscoll’s!
VIDEO: Omar Dieguez and Adam Scow of the Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture at the 2025 People’s Food Summit
Check out this year’s People’s Food Summit
NEW STUDY
What Actually Makes Grass-Fed Beef Better
A study published this year, The Beef Nutrient Density Project, took more than 300 beef samples from farms and supermarkets and compared them against grazing practices, forage quality and soil.The grass-fed beef had a much healthier balance of fats. Its omega-6 to omega-3 ratio came in at roughly 2 to 1, where grain-fed sat at more than 8 to 1. The lower the better, and most American diets are heavily skewed the wrong way. Grass-fed also had more of the beneficial omega-3s and more iron, calcium, copper and selenium.
But the averages hide a lot. Some of the grain-fed samples ended up beating some of the grass-fed ones, and several grass-fed steaks bought in the grocery store came back with fat profiles similar to that of feedlot beef.
The samples that consistently looked good came from producers rotating their cattle across pastures with a lot of different plants growing in them. That turned out to be what mattered most. The more variety in what the cattle were eating, the better the fat in the meat.
Good beef starts with what’s growing in the pasture. No label can shortcut that, and in the end you can taste the difference. It’s the same reason we keep after hydroponic “organic” berries. Growing fruit in a plastic sleeve, over plastic ground cover, inside a plastic structure, with no soil anywhere near should not be called organic.
Whether you are shopping for beef or berries, the answer is the same: buy from producers who can tell you what their practices are, and where their food is from.
Read more here.
HERBAL MEDICINE & GROWING PAINS
Our Bodies Were Never Separate From the Soil
by Crystal Wang, The John Hopkins Newsletter:“In general terms, traditional medicine uses a holistic approach to treat ill individuals, prioritizing assessing the composition of one’s energy and restoring its balance. To an extent, this kind of medical philosophy places the human body in a position of mystery. But unlike in Western medicine, where the treatment is a therapeutic approach targeted to relieve the burden of a defined symptom, Eastern medicine acknowledges the uncertainty of the body’s condition as a truth. Holding this truth and probing for treatment are not mutually exclusive.
And although there are growing fields of respectable research setting out to pin down the exact biological mechanisms and chemical reactions that make traditional medicine effective toward combatting disease, I am more interested in a different kind of question: whether it is possible to amend the current attitudes and state of pharmaceutics.
I’ve found the most important tenet of herbal medicine is its reinforcement of the connection between humans and the earth. Human energies are divided into basic elements, like fire, metal and air.”
TOXIC SLUDGE
EPA Scraps Its Own Rules for PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Fertilizer
Tom Perkins, The Guardian:“The Trump administration has killed the regulatory review of sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public.
The proposed risk assessment would largely have ended the use of sludge, also called biosolids, in the nation’s food system. But the Environmental Protection Agency tossed out its scientific research from less than two years ago that formed the basis for developing regulations. It justified the decision by declaring that sludge was not a wide threat to the public because it is mostly used on farms, and only a small percentage of cropland.
However, in comments published to the federal register, the EPA also advised the US public to ‘research’ sludge companies to protect itself from the highly toxic chemicals contaminating home fertilizer widely sold for use in home gardens.”
Basically they’re saying: farmers’ lives don’t matter.
HEALTHY LIVING
Organic Food Lowered Families’ Pesticide Levels in Days
Researchers in Selangor, Malaysia gathered rural and urban families and measured the organophosphate breakdown products in their urine. Then they put everyone on organic food and measured again. Three of the four markers they were looking at dropped significantly, while the fourth held steady. The largest reductions turned up in the children.Then the families returned to their usual diet, and two of those three markers rose again. The study measured exposure, not illness. Nobody’s health was tracked, and it ran over a short window, which the authors say plainly.
What it does show is that a family’s pesticide levels go up and down with what they eat, and that the exposure is continuous rather than a one time load to be flushed out. The authors didn’t stop at telling people to do a better job of shopping. They wrote that dietary change has to be part of a broader strategy, and they call for policy and market action to make certified organic food affordable and available.
We agree, and we’ve been saying it for 28 years. As long as organic costs more, pesticide exposure is a class issue and children pay for it. That doesn’t change one grocery shopping day at a time. It changes when enough of us show up and fight for a more just, organic, and regenerative food system.
Read more about this study here: Environmental Research Communications
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Escaping the Medical Fear Machine: Why Terrain Theory Is the Key to True Health Freedom
The medical establishment profits by keeping us afraid of invisible germs and dependent on pharmaceuticals. This fear-based system is a machine designed to control us, and we must...
