The writer directs Join Together, a group that assists communities fighting substance abuse and gun violence.
An impressive $550,000 was raised for NDFW changing women's and children's lives, fighting substance abuse and breaking the negative cycle of life and restoring the positive — hopefully for generations to come.
In clinical trials these substances have killed germs and showed potential in preventing cancer and fighting heart disease.
A prohibition approach that increases violence, disease, and disability in the name of fighting immoral substances, while failing to move the needle on use levels and making life hellish for users is not viable in the modern world.
The rosy periwinkle, native to Madagascar, produces two cancer-fighting substances.
For consumers, biotechnology could also make food healthier -- think tomatoes with cancer-fighting substances and cooking oils lower in fats.
Some of these disease-fighting substances in food are vitamins and minerals, but another diverse group of plant chemicals are called phytochemicals.
But biotechnology companies are working on genetically modified crops to produce food oils lower in artery-clogging fats, or tomatoes rich in cancer-fighting substances.
In fact, more and more research is showing that cattle, pigs and poultry raised on their natural pasture and grass-based diets yield meat that is lower in total fat and calories, and food that is higher in good fats like Omega 3's, more concentrated with antioxidants such as vitamins E, C and beta-carotene, and with increased levels of other disease-fighting substances.
The genes related to innate immunity encode disease-fighting substances, which not only kill pathogens, but also produce inflammation.
