General Reviews
Spit That Out - Book Review
Being an expert in the field of natural and organic living, I am fully aware of the chemicals that exist in our homes, envrionment, cars and even furniture. In fact, I talk about it a lot, with those who want to listen. I learned a long time ago that preaching to those who arent quite there yet can be off-putting.Enter the book Spit That Out!As a mother of three, its people like Paige...
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Alma Natural Quick Spa in Toronto, Canada
Alma Natural Quick Spa: Affordable Organic Luxury in TorontoMany of us who choose to follow a natural lifestyle have to make certain sacrifices. If you are trying to avoid toxic substances, treating yourself to a manicure at a nail salon tends to be out of the question. Conventional nail care products contain harsh chemicals like Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), formaldehyde, and tolue...
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Infotone Mist
We’ve all heard the key to healthy glowing skin is to drink lots of water everyday. It’s not really a surprise since water is so vital for all of our bodily functions. But sometimes it’s not enough just to drink water for our skin, sometimes we have to spritz it too. Aqualiv is a research and development company that works on mostly water purification systems. Water purification and enhancement ...
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Nook's Pebble Organic Mattresses for Cribs
Babies spend the first three-quarters of their lives sleeping. This sleep is critical in the development of their cognitive and physical abilities. Nothing should get in the way of this precious time, including your baby’s crib mattress. The toxins and chemicals used in the production of conventional mattresses are enough to keep anyone awake at night. Conventional crib mattresses are just not up...
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Eat Away Illness: Strategies & Recipes for Healing
Any mechanic will tell you that in order to keep your car running at peak performance, it needs to be well maintained, treated with care and always given the best fuel available. When you eat healthy, nutritious food, you give your body the fuel it needs to keep your bodys engines up to speed and running top notch. Eat Away Illness: Strategies and Recipes for Healing is a book eve...
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Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin by Zoltan Rona
Vitamin D research is shining a light on how to prevent serious health conditions. Vitamin D—also known as the sunshine vitamin— has numerous health benefits. However, approximately 70 percent of the North American population is deficient in this essential and quintessential nutrient.Vitamin D earned its reputation as the sunshine vitamin because our bodies are able to produce it...
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Carol Fenster's Gluten-Free Cookbooks
Carol Fenster's life has always centered around wheat: her family relied on their wheat farm to put food on the table, she married into a wheat-farming family, and her father-in-law is a professor who's main area of expertise is, you guessed it, wheat. But her perspective on wheat broadened to include the dark side of the grain when, in 1988, her family doctor diagnosed her with a glute...
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Easy Gourmet Baby Food
Providing the best possible food for baby -- made in the home kitchen. Easy Gourmet Baby Food features 150 homemade recipes, that are easy to follow with fantastic cooking and nutrition tips. From sweet pea puree to asparagus & roasted tomato to chunky pineapple ice pops, this book is packed with a variety of recipes and great information. We had the opportunity to interview Jill Hillhouse, B...
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The Denim Diet by Kami Gray
I was skeptical. When I received a copy of Kami Gray's The Denim Diet: 16 Simple Habits to Get You Into Your Dream Pair of Jeans, I was prepared for the usual diet book, demanding unswerving allegiance to a strict regime that would ultimately lead any normal person to demoralizing failure. But after reading only a few pages, I was hooked. The Denim Diet blends health and nutrition facts with...
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Treasure Hunt with the Munch Crunch Bunch
Meet Rudi, a little boy who over-does it on sugary, empty-calorie breakfast foods before a trip to the grocery store with his mom. When he arrives in the produce department, Rudi is sluggish from his unhealthy breakfast. The next thing he knows, friendly "All-Star Apple" takes him on a journey to the Munch Crunch Bunch Organic Garden where talking fruits and vegetables teach Rudi the ben...
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My Wellness Scorecard
The road to wellness doesn't have an end. It is a journey you will be on your entire life. Sometimes you might fall back a few paces, you might surge forward, or perhaps stay still for years. But how do we know if we're headed in the right direction? Often the signs that we are moving towards or away from wellness are obvious. But sometimes, when we think we've reached our destinati...
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Learn to Unwind and Enjoy your Life
With today's fast-paced way of life it can be hard to take time to stop and smell the roses. Whether you're constantly on the run, responding to dozens of emails, working until all hours or dealing with a difficult situation, there is stress all around us and it is easy to let it take over your life. With everything going on in our lives our body's stress response is often turned on...
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Take Control: A Guide to Holistic Living
Dr. Linda Mundorff's latest book, Take Control: A Guide to Holistic Living, focuses on patients becoming active participants in their health and healthcare. By offering education on the body systems and tools for tracking health, Mundorff's book teaches the reader how to look for signs of ill health and how to best choose the appropriate medical practitioners. As a seasoned registered n...
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