Apricot is a small golden fruit that you may mistake for a peach or tangerine. While somewhat tart, it is more musky or amaretto-like than you might expect. Each apricot fruit contains more than 80 nutrients, including vitamin A and C, B vitamins, and the all-important vitamin B17 that is also known as amygdalin. Amygdalin… Read More: How Apricot Nourishes The Body »
We’re in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S., and the synthetic opioid fentanyl has now surpassed heroin and oxycodone as the leading cause of overdose deaths. In 2016, fentanyl was involved in nearly 30 percent of drug overdose deaths, accounting for more than 18,300 deaths that year.1 It’s a sharp rise… Read More: Fentanyl Is Now the Leading Cause of All Overdose Deaths »
Wikimedia Commons As I slid down the hillside, rocks and dirt and plants tumbling underneath me, I remember a scream so loud, it couldn’t possibly have come out of quiet, peaceful Miriam. The dust settled, and my feet found their footing on a rocky ledge. I looked around trying to find her. Where was she?… Read More: Nit nittay garabam: Man is man's medicine – Boulder Weekly »