You spend at least 25 percent of your life sleeping in a bed full of poison. Turns out, flame retardants in mattresses subject you to eight hours of sleep spent inhaling toxic chemicals linked to life-threatening health problems.

Chances are, you wouldn’t think of putting “saturated fats” and “healthy” in the same sentence. Certain kinds of saturated fat can increase the cholesterol in your blood, contributing to heart disease.

As it turns out, people want to know that what they’re eating is healthy. Big Food — think General Mills, Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, etc. — has caught on to this reality and begun swallowing natural and organic food companies, knowing they can turn a profit on one of the food industry’s biggest trends.

Every single system in our body depends on water, so you’d think we’d be more careful about what we drink. And some of us are, when we’re at home. But when we walk out our front doors, it gets a little more difficult to control what goes into our drinking water — or to prevent the minerals in water from being taken out.

There is a plant that has been the center point of a scandal dating back to the 1930s. That’s too bad because this plant is a resource that reduces our environmental footprint, provides non-toxic substitutes for basic materials and fibers, and boosts our health without risky side effects.

Fluoride toxicity is a real thing, and despite an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that suggests having fluoride in water is deleterious to your health, our water is still swimming with the dangerous toxin.

No one wants to live in pain. No one wants to suffer from poor health. That’s why we seek relief through readily available avenues, such as medications offered by pharmaceutical companies. But there are many dangers to using prescription drugs that are often overlooked, and too often, not reported.

I find “old-fashioned” often means “high quality.” And too often we sacrifice quality for the sake of convenience. Unfortunately, that convenience also often presents a number of health risks

Do you know exactly what went into your last hamburger? The chances are high that you don’t.