Richelieu Dennis, the 49-year-old cofounder of Sundial Brands, had spent 20 years avoiding meals like this with the U.S. president of Unilever, the $54 billion (2017 sales) Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate. But he finally caved after Unilever executives began imploring…

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Western medicine has some good points, and is great in an emergency, but it’s high time people realized that today’s mainstream medicine (western medicine or allopathy), with its focus on drugs, drugs, radiation, drugs, surgery, drugs and more drugs…

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Unilever, the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is acquiring Sundial Brands to expand its offering of hair- and skin-care products aimed at black women. 

New York-based Sundial, founded in 1991 by…

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In small studies around the country, a handful of researchers have been investigating how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy can help heal the psychological and emotional damage caused by sexual assault, war, violent crime, and other traumas. Now, federal regulators have approved the…

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Former NBA star Ray Allen is getting into the restaurant business. Allen and his wife, Shannon, are opening an organic fast-food restaurant called Grown, the Miami Herald reports. Opening in March in Miami, where Allen played his final two seasons…

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Unless you’ve been totally hidden from society you have probably seen or heard about the Flint Water Crisis. A systematic poisoning of an entire city in Flint, Michigan via the negligence and out right disregard of the water delivered to…

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Expanding interest in traditional Chinese medicine in the United States is fostering a potentially lucrative new niche market for farmers who plant the varieties of herbs, flowers and trees sought by practitioners. While almost all practitioners still rely on imports…

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WE’VE known since 1964 that cigarette smoking is harmful to your health. We’ve known for more than 40 years that alcohol damages the developing brain of a child. We’ve known since the mid 70's that asbestos causes cancer and other…

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Styles P and Jadakiss of the Lox, D-Block, and Ruff Ryders fame are known as two of 
the deadliest lyricist around. They have now taken that passion from the mic and have
brought it to neighborhoods that need to better…Read more

Harrowing images reveal one of west-Africa's vast electronic graveyards where 'millions of tons' of discarded appliances
from all over the world are being dumped every year.Thousands of broken televisions, computers, microwaves and refrigerators
are being illegally exported to African countries…Read more

Maple syrup is once again making headlines for being the rockstar condiment that every Canadian knows it is, but it's
not the culinary world that's buzzing this time  it's the medical world. Newly released research from McGill University
in Montreal…Read more

The Food and Drug Administration on Mar 20 approved the genetically engineered foods, saying they are
"as safe and nutritious as their conventional counterparts."The approval covers six varieties of potatoes by
Boise, Idaho-based J. R. Simplot Co. and two varieties…Read more

McDonald's Corp's U.S. restaurants will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to fighting
human infections, the most aggressive step by a major food company to change chicken producers' practices
in the fight against dangerous 'superbugs.'The world's biggest restaurant…Read more

Beyonce Knowles shares her secret to a healthy life. The R&B singer will reportedly
launch a new vegan meal delivery service in partnership with fitness trainer Marco Borges
after she and husband Jay-Z followed his 22 Days Nutrition program in…Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that many people have been sickened and one has died
after receiving intravenous fluids that were meant to be used for training purposes only. 
News of the death comes less than a month…Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is too late to make new
flu vaccines for the current flu season that could better protect against the predominant
flu virus now circulating in the United States.On 12/3, the…Read more

Back in September, Biz Markie revealed that he had lost 140 pounds and gone from 385 to 244
pounds over a three-year period following his type 2 diabetes diagnosis, according to the NY Daily
News. And the "Just a Friend"…Read more

Google now wants to add a new title to it's portfolio: medical science innovators. We'll just call
them the new body snatchers. 

Google is in the early stages of creating tiny, magnetic nanoparticles that will be able
to search the…Read more

Most of the drugs prescribed today are those for pain, high blood pressure, cholesterol
reduction, antacids, antipsychotics, hypothyroidism, diabetes and antibiotics. If you knew
that you could simply increase the consumption of the proper foods (with no side effects)
in…Read more

From its roots in rap, graffiti, DJing and breakdancing in the Bronx borough of New York
in the 1970s, hip-hop has grown to become a global cultural and commercial powerhouse.
But now UK researchers believe they have found a new…Read more

The Ebola virus has now killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. Although the mortality
rate of the most recent outbreak isn't as high as in previous events, it's still the case that most
people who become infected with…Read more

A source told the New York Post that Anthony wanted to get back to where he was as a rookie:
“He wants to be as athletic as he was when he was a rookie. Plus he wants to be a…Read more

1. Eat Breakfast. Are you a breakfast skipper? That bad habit may be draining your
energy. People who eat high-fiber, carbohydrate-rich breakfasts score better on tests
of alertness than their counterparts who do not enjoy a high-quality breakfast, according to…Read more

One of the largest beef recalls in recent history occurred earlier this year when Rancho
Feeding Corporation was forced to recall almost nine million pounds of tainted meat from
thousands of stores nationwide. CNN says it has obtained documents showing…Read more

Walmart plans to announce that it is putting its muscle behind Wild Oats organic products, offering
the label at prices that will undercut brand-name organic competitors by at least 25 percent. The
move by Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and…Read more