Tasty, healthy and sustainable fast food? One chain is on a mission to revolutionize the way we eat on the go

Many of us who value health have resigned ourselves to forgoing the convenience and speed of fast food. Beside the horrendously unwholesome menus, most chain restaurants embrace dodgy practices -- such as massive disposable waste, factory farming and questionable additives. Not to mention hormone and GMO-laden meats, pesticide-doused produce and heaps of sugar in pretty much everything. Despite the stigma associated with this American institution, a trio of enterprising young men have set out to shatter the myth of unhealthy fast food with their own brand of earth-friendly fare. Enter: Sweetgreen.

A new approach

During their senior year at university, three collage friends saw a need for healthy, eco-friendly, locally sourced food that would fit fast-paced lifestyles. With a vision in hand, the team created a business plan and, through financial contributions from family, friends and business associates, they opened their first Sweetgreen store in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. on August 1, 2007. By 2009, two additional stores were up and running. To date, a total of 28 Sweetgreen stores can be found in the Mid-Atlantic states, from Boston to New York to Philadelphia. But the real success behind their story is the business model that changed the way we eat on the run.

10 reasons not to vaccinate

By Michelle Goldstein

The decision to vaccinate is yours alone, but it is a decision that should not be taken lightly or done under duress or pressure by others. Once vaccinated, the potential side-effects cannot be easily undone, if at all. These include death, sudden infant death syndrome, auto-immune disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, asthma, ADHD, autism, Guillian-Barré Syndrome and other neurological damage.

Your physician will most likely NOT connect the development of these unnatural disease states with vaccination, whether they occur immediately after vaccinations, several days or months later. You alone will be responsible for treating your child or yourself for these life-long diseases. The decision to vaccinate SHOULD include extensive research to determine if it is right for your family.

Breast cancer awareness grande dame Susan G. Komen claims organic food may be harmful

(MassReport) Before we start, let me give you a little bit of background information on Susan G. Komen. Komen is an organization that emerged in 1982 who’s mission was to fight breast cancer. In fact, their original name was “The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation”. Since 1982, they have donated over $1 billion dollars to breast cancer awareness, support, and research programs. They’re even responsible for the famous pink ribbon logo you see everywhere during breast cancer awareness month.

A hug a day … boosts your immune system

By David R. Hamilton PhD

I’ve written about hugs in some past blogs and books, in particular about how they produce the hormone oxytocin, which is good for the heart. I coined the term, ‘A hug a day keeps the cardiologist away’. I love hugs so I couldn’t wait to share some exciting new research about how they can protect you from the common cold.

Michael Pollan: Cooking for yourself is the real independence

(The Splendid Table) Psychologically and socially, cooking is good for you and your family -- not to mention the health benefits. But it’s also a political act, according to food writer Michael Pollan, author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.

New Seattle law: No food in trash

(Seattle Pi) Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle, when a new ban takes effect to increase recycling and composting in the city.

Currently, Seattle residents are allowed to throw food and food waste – pizza boxes, dirty napkins, soiled paper towels – in the garbage. Residents are required to have a food and yard waste collection service, but they don't have to use it for food. (Backyard composters are exempt from that requirement.)

Similarly, multi-family building owners are required to provide a compost collection service for residents, but residents don't have to use it.

But on Jan. 1, Seattle will ban food and food waste in trash. 

Nanocolloidal Detox Factors may help remove heavy metals from the body

Linked with a laundry list of disorders, heavy metal toxicity is the bane of modern health. To make matters worse, detoxifying from these metals can create more harm than good when the toxins are mobilized to more dangerous regions - such as the brain or heart. A painful healing crisis can also occur when our eliminatory pathways of the skin, lung, liver, kidney and bowel are impaired. And chelating therapies like DMPS, DMSA and EDTA are rife with harsh side-effects for those with compromised systems. So how do we detoxify safely and gently? Nanocolloidal Detox Factors (NDF) may provide an exceptional solution.

The secret to successful detoxification

According to the Simon Clinic in the U.K., NDF removes heavy metals through a process called Mucopolysaccharide Ion Exchange Resin (MIER). The nanonized chlorella in NDF bonds with toxic metals without stripping the body of essential minerals, like zinc and magnesium. NDF also crosses the blood brain barrier (unlike traditional drug chelators such as DMPS, DMSA and EDTA), which effectively detoxes heavy metals from the central nervous system. Nanocolloidal Detox Factors can be used daily, and safely eliminates up to 920 percent more metals per month than conventional chelators. Another unique feature of NDF is that it removes 95 percent of metals through the urine, instead of through the bowel, thereby protecting against reabsorption in the colon.