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Dioxins: The Facts about this Toxin in Tampons and Sanitary Pads

Feminine hygiene products are a fact of life for women. Most often, we use what our mothers used, rarely surveying the options, or the risks involved. But, as we discovered, there are risks. Conventional tampons and sanitary pads are bleached white using chlorine dioxide, which can be toxic. A woman will use as many as 17,000 tampons in her lifetime. Many are made ou .....

The Naturally Savvy Seal of Approval

When people perceive a food as nutritious, they tend to let their guard down, especially when it comes to portion control. This is called the “health halo” and marketing and advertising companies take full advantage of it.Products might be labeled ‘trans fat free’ even though they contain partially hydrogenated fats, ‘made with real fruit’ when the product also contains a rainbow of artificial colors, flavors and high-fructose corn syrup, and ‘no salt added’, even if the ingredient .....

Abbott Laboratories Shareholders Reject Resolution to Remove GMOs

Abbott Laboratories, maker of the popular infant formula, Similac, voted down a shareholder resolution to remove genetically modified (GMO) ingredients from its products. The shareholders voted on the resolution on April 26 during Abbott's annual meeting at the company's Illinois headquarters. The vote only garnered 3.21 percent of the shareholders vote.The non-profit shareholder advocacy group, As You Sow, filed the shareholder resolution and CEO Andrew Behar presented the resolution at the annual meeting. The .....

A Tampon Experiment: A Picture Tells the Tale

I recently started a petition, along with my Naturally Savvy team, telling Procter & Gamble to disclose what's in their feminine hygiene products. As consumers, we’re in the dark about what’s in our sanitary pads and tampons, largely because they’re considered a medical device, and as a result, the ingredients d .....

What's So Bad About GMOs? Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Them

If you don't know whether or not you're eating genetically modified organisms, you're not alone—at least in the U.S. Despite the many petitions and appeals for state or federal regulations on labeling foods that contain GMOs, none have passed. And that means companies still don't have to disclose whether or not a product includes genetically modified organisms. What's the big deal, you ask?More than 60 countries require GMO labeling ( .....

Sign the Petition! Tell Procter & Gamble to Disclose What's in Their Feminine Hygiene Products

At NaturallySavvy.com, we believe as women, we deserve to know what goes onto and into our bodies every single month.Did you know that femi .....

Conventional Feminine Hygiene Products: A Women’s Issue With Toxic Implications

 [A MUST SEE! Andrea sets fire to Always Infinity and Natracare pads. The Always Infinity pad burns rapidly potentially indicating petrochemicals, plastics, and other chemicals, while the Natracare pad hardly burns.]Sign our petition now: .....

Bad News Bubbles: The Trouble with Sodas

A recently published European study found an association between drinking just one 12-ounce sugar-sweetened soft drink and type 2 diabetes. Published in Diabetologia, researchers for the study looked at information from approximately 12,000 people with type 2 diabetes, and 15,000 people who mostly didn't have diabetes. .....

Americans Are Still Eating Too Much Salt, Study Finds

Americans are still eating too much salt, according to the findings of a study presented recently at the American Society for Nutrition Experimental Biology conference in Boston.The study, by food ingredient provider Tate & Lyle, used data from What We Eat in America (WWEIA)/National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to determine overall sodium intake and sources in the diets of people ages two years old and up from 200 .....

Culture and Age Influence Taste Preferences in Children

The conventional wisdom on how children develop taste preferences is that socio-demographic factors, such as the education level and income of parents, have an effect. A recently published study turns that wisdom on its head. Published in Food Quality and Preference journal, the European study looked at the flavor preferences of more than 1,700 children ages six and nine years old from eight countries (Belgium, Cyprus, .....