Over time, regulations and guidelines change, ongoing research produces new results, and manufactures and retailers implement new practices. Unlike many publications, A Voice for Choice Advocacy is committed to keeping our articles up-to-date, so even if an article was written months or years ago, it includes the most current information available.
By Christina Hildebrand and Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Recent changes to childhood vaccination guidance have reopened questions about how public health decisions are made and what factors shape health outcomes over time. This examination places vaccine...
By Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie HWP, LC EDITOR’S SUMMARY: From ancient ritual to modern research, frankincense has long been valued for its medicinal and spiritual significance. An exploration of the resin’s complex chemistry, its effects on inflammation and tissue...
By Sarah Campise Hallier EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Chocolate has moved from simple indulgence to a wellness symbol. It is now framed in scientific shorthand and health-leaning language that often outpaces the evidence. This lens follows how cacao becomes chocolate, why...
By Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie HWP, LC EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Plant compounds aren’t decorative extras on your plate. They’re survival chemistry. The same molecules plants produce to defend against sun, environmental pressures and disease interact with human biology in...
By Tracy Reilly EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Your body doesn’t stop responding to your baby once pregnancy ends. Subtle exchanges continue through touch, closeness, feeding, sleep and emotional cues. Science is beginning to describe what many mothers recognize through...
Written by Barbara Ford Edited by Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Anxiety is explored through its physical, emotional and environmental roots, offering context for why it can feel so persistent and varied. Key drivers are outlined—including hormonal shifts,...
By Sarah Campise Hallier EDITOR’S SUMMARY: An examination of the substances and processes behind modern nail care, tracing how common products expose users, salon workers and the environment to solvents, plasticizers and hormone-disrupting compounds. It questions the...
By Kirsten Steinman EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Rice feeds nearly half the world, but its role in human health is more complex than calories alone. Environmental contamination, biological vulnerability and differences in arsenic metabolism shape risk across populations....
By Carter Trent EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Modern life runs fast, loud and choice-heavy. Rituals and routines create moments of steadiness inside that pace, giving your brain patterns it recognizes and trusts. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology and centuries of human...
By Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie HWP, LC EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Creatine is widely associated with athletic performance, yet its most critical role may be in brain energy metabolism. This examination explores how creatine supports cellular resilience, mitochondrial function and...
By Karen Harrington EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Cancer rates are rising—and one of the biggest drivers isn’t in your water, your food or your genes. It’s your lights. You’ll see how after-dark illumination undermines hormonal timing, accelerates tumor growth and reshapes cancer...
By Kirsten Steinman EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Quiet but powerful, vitamin K shapes the body’s most essential systems—from the first days of life to the final decades. How it’s understood, delivered, and nourished over time can influence not only immediate health but the...
By Verity Bell EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has long been framed as a mystery tied to unsafe sleep practices—but decades of research tell a more complicated story. From vaccine timing and aluminum exposure to vitamin C depletion, preterm...
Written by Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie, HWP, LCEdited by Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Massage has evolved from ancient medicine to modern physiology. Across systems—from circulation and immunity to hormones, fascia and even cellular energy—touch delivers...
By Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie, HWP, LC EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Weather modification has progressed from a 1946 laboratory discovery into a global practice with scientific, political, and environmental implications. With more than sixty countries conducting thousands of...
Written by Carter Trent Edited by Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Resetting the clock each season does more than disrupt your routine—it raises accident and cardiac risks, interferes with sleep, and even affects wildlife. Science favors standard time, but...
By Sarah Campise Hallier EDITOR’S SUMMARY: A coalition backed by Big Food is disguising its lobbying as consumer advocacy. Under the name “Americans for Ingredient Transparency,” the group promotes a national “standard” that would erase state bans on toxic additives...
By Jennifer Wolff-Gillispie HWP, LC EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Some experts now refer to insulin resistance in the brain as “type 3 diabetes”—a potential driver of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. This metabolic lens reveals how disrupted signaling and chronic...
Written by Sarah Campise Hallier Edited by Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: From sports drinks to fruit-based sodas, today’s grocery coolers are flooded with bottles promising health. Yet most are loaded with sugar, additives, or vague “natural” claims,...
Written by Tracy ReillyEdited by Nicki Steinberger, Ph.D. EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Balance begins long before a baby takes a first step—and when it falters, the effects ripple through movement, focus, and learning. From the hidden architecture of the inner ear to the fading...