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More than 40 percent of China's arable land degraded: Xinhua

By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) – More than 40 percent of China’s arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world’s biggest population. The rich black soil in northern Heilongjiang province, which forms part of China’s bread basket, is thinning, while farmland in China’s south is suffering from acidification, the report said, citing agriculture ministry statistics. …

World Chefs: Terry Walters dishes up judgment-free vegan fare

By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) – Terry Walters, clean-food chef, educator and author of the new cookbook “Eat Clean Live Well,” says her cooking career started as a necessity and became a passion. The more than 175 recipes in her third book continue in the vegan, gluten-free vein that yielded best sellers “Clean Food” and “Clean Start.” It all started, Walters said, when she was diagnosed with high cholesterol

Natural acne remedies with homemade facial mask recipes

(NaturalNews) You don’t have to spend another dime buying chemicals to put on your face. Everything you need to create a healthy, beneficial, facial mask can be found in your kitchen.Honey is an antibacterial that has been used throughout the ages to dress wounds. It is an excellent…

Richard Russell Warns We Will See Violent Action Ahead

Today the Godfather of newsletter writers, 90-year old Richard Russell, warned that we will see violent action ahead.  The 60-year market veteran also covered the Great Recession, the Bank of Japan, the U.S. dollar, gold, silver, stocks, and a plethora of other topics as only Russell can at the age of 90. The Russell opinion is that the world is still embedded in the Great Recession. Thus, I am arguing with

The Sneaky Cause of Your Sugar Cravings

With everyone from from HBO comedian John Oliver to Yahoo’s Global New Anchor Katie Couric bashing sugar’s vice-like grip on the modern diet, more and more people are deciding to ditch it. Enter JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and of JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, out today. Protein also balances blood sugar, which decreases the risk of a low-blood-sugar-induced binge. If you’re vegetarian or vegan,

Shift work link to brain power decline: study

The effects on brain function can be reversed, the team wrote in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, but this may take at least five years. Yet, little has been known about its potential impact on brain function. Researchers tested more than 3,000 current or retired workers in a variety of sectors in southern France in 1996, 2001 and 2006 for long- and short-term memory, processing speed and overall cognitive