Many people around the world are turning away from meat – it’s the primary reason for the rise of alternative GMO food products aimed at cutting down industrial scale meat production.

One of these companies called The Impossible Burger stood out for successfully making a burger out of Genetically Modified or GMO Soy. Most people soon started seeing it as a healthier alternative to regular beef.

Only recently, scientific reports claimed that this product is significantly linked to organ damage in animals when tested in the labs. The product contains significantly high levels of Monsato’s Glyphosate, a substance that is known to be a potent carcinogen. A surprisingly high concentration of this substance can pose severe negative health effects on consumers.

This recent report has raised several concerns among people – are GMO based products good or bad? Let's try to understand this issue impartially.

It is precisely the lack of objectivity in this controversial topic. Today, in many countries of the world, the concept of GMO has started to become synonymous to the "products that cause tumors and mutations". GMOs are being criticized for various reasons – they are tasteless, unsafe and threaten the nutritional value for the entire population.

GMOs are genetically modified organisms i.e. modified using genetic engineering methods. This concept in the narrow sense applies to plants. In the past, various breeders have achieved plant benefits using a variety of GMO tricks. These included grafting the cuttings of some trees to others or the choice for sowing seeds with only certain qualities. After that, it was necessary to wait a long time for the results. Today, with advanced technology in genetics the right gene can be moved to the right place and we can quickly get what we want.

Apparently, we’ll have to wait to see to what extent GMO based food products penetrate food industry around the world. For now, it’s one of the most controversial subjects on record.

We've all got two wolves in us, a good one and a bad, and they both want to eat. The best I can tell we just gotta feed that good one a little more than the other one.

Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I don't, I won't. It's an if then, cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. You see happiness, happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant. And I say, if happiness is what you're after, then you're going to be let down frequently and you're going to be unhappy much of your time.

Joy though, joy's a different thing, it's something else. Joy is not a choice, it's not a response to some result, it's a constant. Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do no matter the outcome. Now personally, as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being more happy when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain end.

The easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude. Giving thanks for that which we do have for what is working. Appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It's really simple and it works. 

I'm not saying be in denial of your failures. No, we can learn from them too, but only if we look at them constructive as a means to reveal what we are good at, what we can get better at, what we do succeed at.

life's a verb. We try our best. We don't always do our best. And since we are the architects of our own lives, let's study the habits, the practices, the routines that we have that lead to and feed our success, our joy, our honest pain, our laughter, our earned tears. Let's dissect that and give thanks for those things. And when we do that, guess what happens? We get better at them and we have more to dissect. It's a get rich quick on the internet, riches, 15 minutes of fame world that we live in and we see it every day, but we all want to succeed, right? 

So the question that we've got to ask ourselves is what success is to us? What success is to you? Is it more money? That's fine. I've got nothing against money. Maybe it's a healthy family, maybe it's a happy marriage, maybe it's to help others, to be famous, to be spiritually sound, to leave the world a little bit better place than you found it. Continue to ask yourself that question. Now your answer may change over time and that's fine. But do yourself this favor. Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize soul. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character. Don't drink the Koolaid man, it tastes sweet, but you will get cavities tomorrow. Life is not a popularity contest.

Be brave. Take the Hill. But first answer that question. What's my Hill? Well, for me it's a measurement of a five things. We got fatherhood, we got being a good husband, we got my health, mind body and spirit, we got career and we have friendships. These are what's important to me in my life right now. Because I want to keep all five in healthy shape and I know that if I don't take care of them, if I don't keep up maintenance on them, one of them is going to get weak. It's gonna dip too deep into the debit section. It's going to go bankrupt, it's going to get sick, die.

So first we have to define success for ourselves and then we have to put in the work to maintain it. Take that daily tally, tend our garden, keep the things that are important to us in good shape. Defining ourselves by what we are not is the first step that leads us to really know who we are. 

You know that group of friends that you hang out with that it really might not bring out the best in, you know they, they gossip too much or that kind of shady. They really aren't going to be there for you in a pinch. Or how about that bar that we keep going to that we always seem to have the worst hangover from. Or that computer screen right? That computer screen that keeps giving us an excuse not to get out of the house and engage with the world and get some real human interaction. Or how about that food that we keep eating and stuff that tastes so good going down, it makes us feel like crap the next week, and we feel lethargic and we keep putting on weight.

Well, those people, those places, those things, stop giving them your time and energy. Just don't go there. I mean put them down and when you do this, when you do put them down, when you quit, go in there and you quit giving them your time, you inadvertently find yourself spending more time and in more places that are healthy for you that bring you more joy. 

Why? Because you just eliminated the who's, the where's, the what's, the when's that were keeping you from your identity. Trust me, too many options, I promise you, the too many options will make a tyrant of us all. So get rid of the excess, the wasted time. Decrease your options. If you do this, you will have accidentally almost innocently put in front of you what is important to you, by process of elimination. Knowing who we are is hard. It's hard. Give yourself a break. Eliminate who you are, not first and you're going to find yourself where you need to be. 

Make voluntary obligations. I'm talking about the ones that we make with ourselves, with our God, with our own consciousness. I'm talking about the you versus you obligations. We have to have them. These are not societal laws and expectations that we acknowledge and endow for anyone other than ourselves. These are faith based obligations that we make on our own. These are not the lowered insurance rates for a good driving record. You will not be fined and put in jail if you do not gratify these obligations I speak of. No one else covers these, but you. They are your secrets with yourself, your own private counsel, personal protocols. And while nobody throws you a party, when you abide by them, no one's going to arrest you when you break them either, except yourself. And honest man's pillow is his peace of mind. And when you lay down on that pillow at night, no matter who's in your bed, we all sleep alone. 

These are your personal Jimminy crickets, and there are not enough cops in the entire world to police them. It's on you. It's on you. We do our best when our destinations are beyond the measurement, when our reach continually exceeds our grasp and when we have immortal finish lines. And when we do this, the race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on the way. So do this, do this, and let them, let somebody else come up and tap you on the shoulder and say, Hey, you scored. Let them run up and tap you on the shoulder and say, man, you won. Let them come tell you, you can go home now. Let them say, I love you too. Let them say thank you. Take the lid off the manmade roots that we put above ourselves and always play like an underdog.

I always say to people, you get the first three years right, you can relax. If you don't get the first three years right you will be practicing remedy parenting for decades.

Parents are taught not to pick up their kids when they're crying. Let them sleep it out.

What lesson do they get? Their emotions don't matter.

Children need to attach.

They need to connect with somebody, cause without that connection, they don't survive. In the hunter gatherer bands where human beings evolved, those attachments were with adults. And not just one adult or two adults, but with a whole set of nurturing adults.

And as that happens, the kids push away from the parents because they're more minded to belong to the peer group, which has different values from the parents. And the kid's brain can't handle that competition, so the brain of the child will actually choose the peer group over the parent group. And where that goes, you can see on Facebook and you can see it in the teenage gangs and you can see it in the increasing frustration of parents who've lost a part of parent. These parents think that that part of parent comes from the fact that they have the responsibility and the strength and their wisdom. It doesn't come from that. The part of parent comes from the desire of the child to belong to you. 

When the child is driven to belong to the peer group, because we've taken him out of his natural context, we lose the authority. So we become authoritarian and the more authoritarian we become, the more pressure we put on, the more they resist. And then we labeled them with oppositional defiant disorder and we call them bad and naughty kids. All they're doing is acting out their attachment dynamics. 

The essential template for the emotional development of the child, as well as for the brains healthy physiological development is a nurturing relationship with neutral, responsive adults. That means that every time I use the relationship against the child will actually undermine the child's development because it makes the child insecure and kids in state of insecurity or in defensive flight or fight mode in which mode they don't learn anything. They just are defending.

So I have a two year old who's angry and most psychologists and pending extroverts will tell you timeout. You know what they're telling you is withdraw the relationship from the child as a way of threatening the child. And that threat will make the child comply with you. Well, the child may temporarily comply with you, but what have you taught her? You've taught her that the relationship is conditional, but their only acceptable to you if they please you. 

That relationship are unstable and unreliable, that you're not available for them when they're most upset. And you say to them, bring your most unhappy, that's when I'm at least available to you. And this is how parents are taught to parent. Just the opposite of what any loving parent wants to teach.

I was always waiting for my kids to grow older when I couldn't intellectually engage them, and now we'll have something in common. But the sheer state of being I could never achieve with them. So the communication happens on a much deeper level. The real relationship doesn't depend on words. It depends on the capacity to be with. I welcome your presence and I welcome you to exist in my presence. 

And I'm overjoyed to have you in my presence. That's what the child needs from a parent.

Schools and colleges are turning into a battleground for the contention among government and state laws for cannabis use – the enrolled students who utilize therapeutic cannabis for recreation are now standing against the old drug policies of the campus.

In all the states where medical cannabis pot is allowed, the students who are told to utilize it are prosecuting their schools. School authorities contend they could lose government financing for neglecting to keep regulatory law that considers marijuana an illicit substance with no acknowledged therapeutic purpose.

Sheida Assar said she was ousted from GateWay Community College in Phoenix a month ago for damaging the school's medication approach after she was found under the effect of cannabis – she has been using it to treat her persistent symptoms from polycystic ovary disorder.

She was a student of medicinal sonography in diagnostics. Assar stated, and a teacher explained to her she wouldn't have any issues if she used her Arizona medical marijuana card. According to her teacher, she has never been under the intoxicating effect of cannabis in class and she uses it to help herself sleep at night.

"They pulled me out of class on a school day," said Assar, 31, from Chandler, Arizona. "They accompanied me to the office like I was a ... criminal. It's clearly a case of discrimination, and it is additionally a violation of my privileges under the Arizona medicinal pot law."

Assar and different understudies state they got approved to use medicinal cannabis from school staff who serve students with wellbeing related needs — just to confront disciplinary action from highly ranked school authorities.

Assar said she plans to sue GateWay to recover the $2,000 she spent on educational cost and other costs related to her tenure. Her legal advisor as of now has been in contact with the school, she said.

A family was able to grow over 7000 pounds of purely organic food on 1/10^th of an acre in just one year – the output was able to cater the family’s diet by ninety percent. They were able to sell the extra produce for over 20 grands while they spent only $2 per day on each person on kitchen staples. This record-breaking organic production is setting an example around the world.

The family is located only at a 15 minutes’ drive from Los Angeles Downtown. This agricultural paradise was made on just a vacant lot in the city.  

What makes their organic produce so abundant? It’s the amazing permaculture method of growing agricultural garden with a natural process of creating a soil rich in friendly bacteria and nutrients.

The main difference between permaculture and other landscaping methods is that it is not just a set of practical methods, it is a way of thinking and adapting to a certain ecology. Each garden, each family, and each community is different – so permaculture is based on observation and local knowledge.

Permaculture is a system of principles of social and agricultural design whose work philosophy is to work for nature. To do this, it is based on its observation and uses systemic thinking, i.e.  it treats the different elements that make up the system as part of a whole.

The permaculture design system achieves the integration of the landscape with the people who inhabit it by providing them with their materials and non-materials in a sustainable way. Permaculture covers many aspects as it includes techniques of ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, management and creation of aquatic resources, sustainable architecture, the design of agricultural systems and conservation and self-maintained habitats modeled from natural ecosystems. The philosophy of permaculture incorporates ideas and practices of all time. It makes use of these systems and incorporates them into a broader framework to create sustainable human ecosystems.

5G is basically the fifth generation of mobile technology, which implies several benefits for users, such as the increase in browsing speeds, transmission and faster downloading of information. It also offers better connectivity, greater capacity and reduction in latency (time it takes for devices to communicate with each other).

These substantial technological improvements are key in integrated applications, such as robotics, autonomous driving cars and medical devices, whose pillar will be the use of higher frequency bandwidths of the radiofrequency spectrum.

In the US, the Federal Communications Commission has auctioned the first 28 gigahertz (GHz) bandwidth, which will form the 5G network, with higher bandwidth auctions scheduled for later this year.

In parallel, the use of electromagnetic radiation by this technology has rekindled concerns about its potential damage to human health.

The established biological effect of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is the increase in temperature of tissues exposed to high doses of the same, which can cause burns. But mobile devices emit low levels of RF-EMF.

 According to IARC: RF-EMF is "possibly carcinogenic to humans".

A group of 30 international scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - part of the WHO - met to assess the risk of developing cancer as a result of RF-EMF exposure of the cell phone, specifically glioma, a cancer of the central nervous system. Their research was published in The Lancet Oncology, whose conclusion was that in view of the limited evidence in humans and experimental animals, it classified the RF-EMF as "possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)", into which they enter various substances for everyday use, including some polluting foods and gases.

The high frequency radiations of the 5G technology have a shorter range of range than the low frequency waves – dense networks that allow the transmission of the RF-EMF spectrum should be built, which will lead to the emergence of new base stations all over the world.

A history of family suffering from epilepsy that is repeated thousands of times in the world, but where very few dare to replace drugs with medical cannabis. The inefficiency and side effects of some traditional medications and treatments of this disease is the last resort for most people.

Jayden David was a healthy child when he was born, always smiling – around his fourth month of age everything began to change. The child began to experience abnormal, excessive and synchronous neuronal activity in his brain. It suddenly made him start experiencing epileptic seizures.

His parents consulted doctors and specialists and they tried to find a way to eliminate the symptoms of the baby with the prescription of drugs. That was the beginning of a long, dark and winding path of little David Jayden towards the pills.

Even the doctors' good intentions could not dominate the violent attacks – pharmaceutical science did not work out. The large number of drugs to fight seizures never allowed the child's body to heal in an innate way. With each visit to the doctor more medications were prescribed, but the seizures never disappeared and his condition worsened, while his small body was forced to fight the side effects of several medications.

None of the pharmaceuticals helped. The fight changed everything for the family. Little David Jayden grew up taking up to 22 prescription medications a day. He even became addicted to a horrible class of medications called benzodiazepines. The drugs made Jayden experience hallucinations and attacks of screaming and insomnia.

His condition varied from uncontrolled jerky movements, to a momentary loss of consciousness. It was difficult to differentiate the disease from an attack from a side effect. Children who experience these attacks of abnormal neuronal activity are labeled as having a predisposition to epilepsy, but very little research actually investigates what causes this abnormal neuronal activity in the brain. They wondered if the aluminum adjuvant was involved, causing the seizures to start and persist. Perhaps the child had a predisposition to the negative effects of aluminum on his activity of neurons in the brain.

As soon as the CBD was administered, the child's constant seizures stopped. The father then began to take his son away from prescription medications. With the use of CBD oil, the child went from taking 22 pills a day and having constant seizures, to only two pills a day, in addition to regaining control of his physical body and mood.

According to the author and marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, living near water can help you promote your level of happiness, satisfaction with life and mental health. It could be any water body, such as sea, river, lake or ocean. He wrote everything in his book, Blue Mind.

Much has been romanticized in movies and television series about the beautiful images and lifestyle living by the sea and the happiness associated with it, but is there any truth in this?

According to marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, living near a large body of water, be it a river, the sea or a lake, improves our happiness level and mental health.

The author points out that we enter a state of meditation just by being near, in or under water. It is the perfect antidote for the super connected life we ​​lead today.

Water helps raise the level of happiness because it "lowers levels of stress and anxiety, and increases the sense of well-being and happiness. In addition, it slows the heart rate and breathing, increases safety and improves exercise performance. Therapists now seek to work with water to treat addictions, anxiety disorders, autism and other things”, says Nichols.

For this reason, we are probably willing to pay more for a room with an ocean view, or a house near a lake. Being near the water also increases people's creativity and conversation skills, and helps us sleep better.

Even if you’re in a reverie about travelling around the world visiting gorgeous islands with warm sand and crystal blue water, it can give you a sense of calm and serenity. Therefore, it shouldn’t surprise you that sitting next to a pristine body of water really has some pretty fantastic wellness benefits.

As Nichols pointed out, research demonstrates his theory that being close to water can help us all achieve "high and sustained happiness."

"There is some research that says people can sleep better when they are adjacent to nature," said W. Christopher Winter, MD, author of The Sleep Solution. "It is not surprising that sleeping machines always have the sounds of rain, ocean or a flowing river."

Known as 'the man with the golden arm', James Harrison, an 81-year-old Australian, donated almost every week for the past 60 years, and recently he "retired," closing a life-saving story. of more than 2.4 million babies.

In full knowledge of the exceptional value of his blood, Harrison donated 1,100 times, and with this he helped develop the Anti-D injection, a key medicine in the fight against Rhesus disease, since his blood plasma contains unique antibodies.

According to the Australian Red Cross Service, until 1967, thousands of women experienced abortions and babies were born with brain damage for unknown reasons, but then it was known that the disease that afflicted them was Rhesus disease. It is a blood disorder in which the blood of the pregnant woman (Rh negative) attacks the red blood cells of her fetus (Rh positive, inherited from the father), causing brain damage or death.

Thanks to Harrison, Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with the antibody that allowed them to develop the Anti-D injection, which prevents women with Rh-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy.

The Australian attributes that the uniqueness of his blood is due to the 13 units of blood plasma he received as a donation, when he was only 14 years old, due to an operation in which a lung was removed.

"When I left the operation, or a couple of days later, my father explained to me what had happened. He said that I had received 13 units of blood and that unknown people had saved my life. He himself was a donor, so he I said that when I was old enough, I would become a blood donor, " Harrison said, who also benefited from his donation to have his own daughter receive the Anti-D vaccine.

For his thousands of donated units, and for the millions of lives he saved, James Harrison received the Medal of the Order of Australia and is considered a national hero in his country.

Back in the early twentieth century, the German scientist Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells produce energy by very fast glycolysis (breaking down glucose without oxygen to produce lactic acid or lactate as one of the products). But real energy (in the form of ATP molecules) is obtained very little, and about 70 percent of glucose is spent on the production of lactate.

In the cells of a rapidly developing cancerous tumor, the level of glycolysis can be 200 times higher than in normal tissues. A future Nobel Prize winner suggested that it is this metabolic disorder that is the main cause of cancer.

Today, science knows that cancer causes mutations in certain genes, and it is from this side that most researchers are now trying to approach the problem, undeservedly pushing older methods to the background.

The fact is that although the Warburg effect is still widely used to detect tumors, its role in the development of cancer remained unclear. But now the results of a new study finally shed light on how sugar nourishes cancer cells, making treatment difficult.

In 2008, a coalition of Dutch and Belgian universities began their great work to find out why a tumor converts much more sugar into lactate than healthy cells. In particular, scientists were looking for a connection between glucose and the Ras gene family, errors in which lead to tumor development and the formation of metastases.

Professor Johan Teveleyn of the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and his colleagues have worked with yeast cultures, which, as well as people, have the Ras genes. Researchers have chosen primitive unicellular organisms so as not to be distracted by the numerous regulatory processes that take place in mammalian cells.

As reported in an article published in the journal Nature Communications, the breakdown of sugar in yeast and cancer cells occurs stepwise through the formation of a substance called fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. During high-speed glycolysis, it accumulates a lot, and it activates Ras-proteins, which stimulate enhanced reproduction of both types of cells.

The authors of the work also believe that the results of their research not only hint at the need for changes in the diet of cancer patients, but also once again indicate the danger of sugar consumption in general.