Ever hear someone blame their joint pain on rainy weather? Strange as it might sound, this is a fairly common complaint among those plagued with achy joints. According to recent research, weather might be somewhat to blame for joint woes ...
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Six Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Allergies
It may seem that allergies are a fairly simple topic – in short, the immune system overreacts to harmless substances, causing various health issues. However, there are probably a few facts related to allergies that you were likely not aware ...
Read More »Tired Of Allergies? Seven Tips to Keep Your Allergies Under Control
For Allergy sufferers, the beginning of allergy season (and the resulting problems) tends to be considered something of an inevitability. While avoiding allergy triggers is all but impossible, you can take steps to avoid the ever-present nuisance of pollen. Windy ...
Read More »A Regional Guide for Fall Allergies
There’s a good chance that, come the onset of autumn, you’ll suddenly find yourself experiencing a runny nose, itchy eyes and a scratchy throat. The impact of fall allergy season, however, can vary dramatically based on where you live. The ...
Read More »Do You Have Allergies? These Cells MIght Be Responsible
It is generally understood that allergies can be blamed on an overzealous immune system. Until very recently, doctors could not pinpoint the cells responsible for such reactions; a 2017 report, however, believes it has identified these microscopic culprits. Picking out ...
Read More »A Common Irritant: Putting Ragweed Under the Microscope
Do you suffer from seasonal allergies? If so, there’s a good chance that your annual misery can be blamed on ragweed, a technically harmless weed found across the United States. By learning more about this plant, allergy sufferers can take ...
Read More »Can Hemp Solve the World’s Plastic Problem?
From grocery bags to children’s toys, plastic is everywhere in the modern world. While the uses for plastic seem to be limitless, all this plastic does come at a price – the amount of plastic pollution has reached alarming levels ...
Read More »How Hemp Can Help Honeybees
Given their propensity to sting perceived threats, bees aren’t exactly the most popular creatures in the animal kingdom. Despite this bad publicity, bees play a major and irreplaceable role in the production of the world’s food supply. Now a new ...
Read More »Seven Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Hemp
Hemp as received a lot of attention in recent years, as researchers are taking a hard look as its potential uses. Despite this trend, there are a lot of noteworthy hemp-related facts that few people are aware of. Study Hard! ...
Read More »Fuel From Hemp? It’s Actually Possible
It probably sounds too “out-there” of an idea to take seriously ‒ imagine producing fuel from hemp? As strange and impractical as it might sound, research has found that hemp could very well be used to make sustainable diesel fuel, ...
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