Canadian health authorities are looking for new ways to crack down on natural health products and businesses. According to Health Canada, it’s all about safety. The bought-and-paid-for Canadian government is attempting to amend the Food and Drugs Act to increase onerous regulations against natural health products. These regulations threaten the very existence of natural product businesses, will... 

Google Play, the Android smartphone-based app store, has unveiled sweeping new rules that ban apps deemed to contain or promote “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or (that) can cause harm to users.” Issued on August 31, Google Play’s new “health misinformation” policy is an in-app censorship sweep that targets any and all apps that even so much as question... 

A toddler starved to death after his vegan parents fed him almost nothing but raw fruit and vegetables and at one point only breast milk for a week, despite his obviously weakening state. Ryan O’Leary, 30, and Sheila O’Leary, 35, were arrested last week in Cape Coral, Florida after their 18-month-old son died on September 27 weighing only 17 pounds, which is the weight of an average seven-month-old. An... 

An Italian official is calling for new laws that would punish parents who put their children on vegan diets, or force “reckless and dangerous eating behavour” on them with a sentence of up to six years in prison, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported. The legislation would “stigmatize the reckless and dangerous eating behaviours imposed by parents… to the detriment of minors,” the... 

Are vitamins actually killing you, giving you heart attacks, and perhaps even extracted from the depths of Hades? If you follow some of the highly deceiving studies on the matter of vitamin usage that fail to actually tell you when they’re using petrochemically derived ‘junk’ vitamins in all of their testing groups — then the answer may be a very loud ‘yes.’ And, unfortunately, that makes... 

Common in vegetarian dishes, as a main ingredient in pies, lasagnas and salads, this fruit from India is rich in vitamins A, C, B1, B2 and B3, and beta-carotene, an antioxidant that converts into vitamin A in the body. It is widely consumed by having high nutritional value and only 20 calories per 100g. For consistency similar to that of meat, it gives a feeling of satiety while it assists in weight...