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  • Health-Care Blogs

    • Honest Human
      This blogger questions conventional healthcare approaches in lucid prose.
    • Mundane Daily
      Dave Milano is a health-care professional with wise insights about not only health care, but farming, nutrition, and life in general.
    • A Quaker Nurse and Her Ramblings
      Elderberryjam uses the journal about her life as a nurse to provide insights into deficiencies in the health care system.
    • Linda Diane Feldt
      This holistic practitioner provides lovely personal insights into healthcare, nutrition, and the business of living.
    • Why Worry About NAIS: Henwhisperer
      An excellent ongoing assessment of the dangers associated with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
    • The Ethicurean
      Lots of food-related morsels from media reports about food.
    • Chronic conditions
      Entrepreneur and author Pat Sullivan uses his personal experiences to provide sound advice for dealing with chronic health-care problems
    • Staying Healthy
      Health advocate Mike Adams gets preachy at times, and runs on like a direct-marketing pitchman, but his analysis and advice are right on. His views on how and why the health system are turned upside down are worthy of attention.
    • The Free Radical Report
      Good common sense about nutrition, money, and life in general from a man who has made his own discoveries about the power of diet.
    • Insightful analysis
      Mark Schauss does a nice job of getting behind the statistics and studies related to health care. He also shares entertaining insights into everything from sports to garbage.
    • Views from a "Professional Patient"
      Michael Weiss has much experience with the medical establishment because of his chronic illnesses, and provides lots of useful, and entertaining, information.
    • Blog Search
      Search under topics, including health
  • Health and Business Sites

    • Nutrition Circle
      Organized by nutritionists, this site encourages discussion of approaches for using diet and supplements to relieve disease and chronic conditions.
    • Weston A. Price Foundation
      This foundation is "dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism." It's made a big push to expand legality of raw milk.
    • National Animal Information System (NAIS)
      This informative site focuses heavily on the potential problems of the upcoming NAIS regulations, including faulty logic and interference with our liberties
    • Raw Milk Facts
      This site does a nice job of presenting the pro-raw-milk side, in clear language, with little of the emotion common on other sites.
    • Billie Best
      This writer-speaker-farmer has written a short book about the politics of sustainable agriculture, available for downloading on his site.
    • Family Farms Cooperative
      This website came into being with the government's crackdown on the Michigan farmers supplying raw milk to hundreds of members in Michigan and Illinois. Lots of important news here.
    • Michigan Raw Milk Crisis
      Raw Milk for Me is another site providing ongoing linkages and coverage of the crackdown on raw milk in Michigan.
    • Small Farm News
      Lawyer Carl Little provides information about the legal and business challenges facing many small farms.
    • The Benefits of Grass Feeding of Animals
      Learn the benefits of grass-fed meat, including research and other news on food issues.
    • Forget Perfect...Now
      This site contains useful information and good common sense about nutrition, along with some excellent links to other resources.
    • Fighting the Medical Enemies
      This site by medical ideologue Mark Sirkus is refreshing in its challenges to the medical establishment, though shrill at times.
    • Herbs and Botanicals
      Well-documented reference information about herbs, from Memorial Sloan Kettering
    • Reference Site
      Good reference site about diseases, symptoms, and treatments
    • Explaining Conventional and Alternative Health
      An admirable government-sponsored effort to articulate health-care treatment distinictions
    • Center for Studying Health System Change
      This site does a nice job of keeping tabs on problems in the healthcare system, reporting on studies and news affecting doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies.
    • Got Raw Milk?
      A nice introduction to the realities of raw milk.
  • My Articles

    • Buying Food Fresh from the Farm
      As the farm-to-table trend takes hold, farmers see a new business opportunity
    • Farmers Say No to NAIS
      Three Michigan farmers get ready for NAIS enforcement in their own way.
    • A Raw Milk Raid Leads to a Special Thanksgiving
      A farmer's "community" comes to his rescue after he is terrorized by state and federal agents.
    • The Raw Milk Wars Heat Up in Ohio
      Ohio goes after raw milk farmers with a vengeance.
    • Retailers Get Caught Up in the Raw Milk War
      Retailers who help distribute raw milk feel the heat from local enforcers.
    • States Target Raw Milk Farmers
      Michigan goes after a farm co-op, with a very heavy hand
    • Getting a Raw Deal
      California shutters a California raw milk dairy in a vain search for E.coli
    • A Federal Blight for Cherry Farmers
      The FDA goes after small cherry farmers for letting people know the benefits of cherry juice
    • Hormone Battle: Big Pharma vs Small Business
      Big Pharma doesn't like women using natural hormones made by small pharmacies
    • A Family Outfit Versus the Internet
      Standard Process tries to keep its vitamins off the Internet
    • A Renaissance for Health Care?
      Two young MDs bring a fresh approach to medical care
    • A Pinch of Salt with Some Supplements
      The damage done by "snake oil" marketing of supplements
    • Complex Diet for Small Business
      Growing international efforts to regulate supplements
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