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Nashville Flood Points to Need for Household Emergency Preparedness

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Peggy Webb, an eyewitness to a natural disaster, the Nashville Flood gives her ideas for preparedness. Twenty feet of water was inside the Nashville Gaylord Opryland Hotel, a billion dollar resort.

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Milk Processing Covers Up Millions of Bad Bacteria

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Bill Gehm guest blogs about the tainted milk in our conventional food supply. Processing is covering up a dirty little secret, some farms are producing poor quality milk.

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Tips for Growing Food in Small Spaces

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Rachel Tayse, an avid urban edible gardener, shares her tips for growing healthy food. She is teaching her daughter about local foods right in the backyard!

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Bedtime Story: Classic Book Tells Raw Milk Tale

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Heidi, the beloved children’s classic tells of the healing power of friendship, love, the great outdoors, and raw milk.

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Are You Gluten Intolerant? Could That Be Why You Aren’t Feeling Good?

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Elaine Fawcett explains symptoms of gluten intolerance, some of which may surprise you. If you have weird symptoms, check this list!

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Grocery Shopping Lynch Mob

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Kimberly Hartke defends John Mackey and other voices of reason who have a right to weigh in on our nations health care crisis. Boycott the Whole Foods boycott!

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How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare

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Janice Curtin, a WAPF chapter leader in Alexandria, VA, gives her suggestions for improving health care in America, which includes teaching the research of Weston A. Price in schools, health freedom legislation, and removing drug ads from television.

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Adulteration of Milk Lies at the Root of Dairy Price Crisis

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Milk Industry Addiction to White Powder May Cause Dairymen to Lose the Farm–Lancaster Farming Reports that state lawmakers are wrestling with the milk price drop that threatens to put 25-30% of conventional dairies out of business. An interesting quote in the article says that the increasing trend of adding milk protein concentrates (MPC) to processed milk is to blame for the plummeting prices paid to farmers.

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Publicist Notes on the Soy Prison Case

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Political corruption, hardened criminals, corporate greed, toxic food, innocent victims and controversy, the Prison Soy lawsuit has to be the most fascinating project I have ever worked on. It has all the elements for a riveting 48 Hours episode or gritty 60 Minutes expose.

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New Book, The Unhealthy Truth, Reveals Dark Side of Food Industry

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Robyn O’Brien, a mother of 4, is an unlikely adversary of the chemicals put in our foods by food manufacturing industry. When her child developed allergy problems, she was thrust into a search for answers. She now is the founder of allergykids.com, has a blog called Food Politics and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.

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