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Some articles read more like fantasy or fiction than reality. I just read something about a new concept in perfume that defines that idea of ‘far out’ enough to make you wonder. A new perfume company has an angle based on the premise of Eat Right for your Blood Type. Now you can smell rightRead More

Skin brushing is a facet of health that takes only about 5 minutes of your time and returns benefits a hundred fold. We take the time to brush our teeth without recognizing that our teeth and gums are not the only parts of our body that need attention to daily brushing. Skin brushing has beenRead More

Aspirin is a white crystalline powder with a melting point of 135°C. The common chemical name for aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. Its systematic name is 2-(acetyloxy) benzoic acid. This is the information according to Wikipedia and does accurately describe the ACTIVE ingredient in a bottle of Bayer aspirin. What I learned recently when I wentRead More

According to EWG’s (Environmental Working Guide’s) Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change + Health, if everyone in the U.S. skipped eating meat and cheese just one day a week for a year, it would be like pulling 7.6 million cars off the road. At the same time, people — especially kids — would be lessRead More

The nonprofit Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition reports that 70 percent of the heavy metals in U.S. landfills are from discarded electronics—even though the e-waste itself accounts for only two percent of the trash by volume. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that Americans trash two million tons of unwanted electronics each year—six times the amountRead More

Laurie David is an environmentalist, producer and the author of The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your. Kids, One Meal at a Time.

I recently traveled out of the country and spent time in a remote area of an island in Greece. When I packed for my trip I brought my minerals and my food based multiple vitamins, some arnica and grape fruit seed extract. I thought I was covered because basically I am a healthy woman. MyRead More

Many of us are at a point of saturation with the pace of life in general. Everything is speeding up from the traffic on the freeways to the action in movies. We are expected to stay calm when our adrenals are in overdrive trying to accomplish more in less time. I think those of usRead More

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO), wielded their influential might in creating fear in the populace again that there are now numerous new strains of bacteria which have been able to mutate around even our most effective antibiotics.  New antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, which cause diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, gonorrhea and shigella, areRead More

We know vinegar has been around for thousands of years and there is documentation of its uses since the beginning of written history. In ancient Greece, around 400 BC, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed apple cider vinegar mixed with honey for a variety of ills, including coughs and colds. It is even mentionedRead More