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Fragrance Free: Protect Yourself from Toxic Scents
Stinky, sweet smelling air fresheners, cologne, body sprays, and scented shampoo are made with synthetic fragrances, and they’re bad for your health…especially children and pregnant women. These factory-made fragrances contain phthalates, which are chemicals that can cause hormonal abnormalities, birth defects and reproductive problems. I recommend not buying artificially scented products ...
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3 Easy Ways to Green Your Health
If youre like most people, a little voice inside your head has probably been telling you for a while that its time to get back to a more natural way of living and take a more serious look at the toxins in your everyday life. Even so, you may feel confused about the simple, practical things you can do to minimize your exposure and maximize not only your health, but your contribution to a cleaner...
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Turning Waste into Wages
Turning Waste into Wages: Using Recycled Coffee Grounds to Grow Gourmet Mushrooms What if you could take one million pounds of waste that was heading towards landfill and repurpose it to grow food? Well, that’s exactly what two recent UC Berkeley graduates are doing with their company Back to the Roots. Founders, Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez started a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm th...
Read more...Warning: Your Baby Contains Toxic Chemicals!
Hundreds of toxic chemicals, including PCBs, DDT, endocrine disrupters, and dioxins — to name just a few — are showing up in mothers’ and their newborn babies’ bodies. These chemicals, found in everyday household products, can get absorbed during a typical morning routine. Consider this scenario: the pregnant mom awakens after a night of breathing toxic fumes from a mattress containing che...
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Electrosmog: 10 Ways to Avoid Frying Your Brain
Like smog created by air pollution, electrosmog is created by electromagnetic field radiation from cell phones, wireless computers and networks, and new utility technologies like Smart Grids and Smart Meters. Electrosmog envelopes us 24-7: in our homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, even hotels and no one really knows the long-term effects on our health, or on our DNA. The ever-expanding elec...
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Healthy School Lunches
Corn dogs, canned fruit and a bag of chips — that was a typical hot lunch offering at the posh private school my daughter attended in Marin County, California six years ago. It took myself and five other Marin moms more than a year to initiate organic lunch programs in our local private schools. We had to work hard to convince parents and administrators that it was worth an extra $1 a day to se...
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Shedding Some Light on Sunscreens
I love the sun, and when I was a teen I used to mix baby oil and iodine and rub in on my skin before I went to the beach. While this seems pretty foolish, some of the sunscreens on the market today arent much better. One great resource for information is the 2010 Sunscreen Guide by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit research organization based in Washington, DC. Its scient...
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Cell Phones Risky for Kids
Cell phone use among children is a massive, uncontrolled experiment on the brain. So says Devra Davis, Ph.D., award-winning scientist, writer, and founder of Environmental Health Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to researching and controlling avoidable environmental health threats. "Children's skulls are thinner and their brains are less dense so there's more absorption of r...
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Green Romance: A Healthy Approach to Intimacy
The scene is set for romance: perfume, candles, flowers, chocolate, and champagne. But wait—some of these products might contain toxic chemicals! A new report from the Centers for Disease Control says that almost half of all Americans are now living with physical conditions and diseases that could be caused by exposure to toxic chemicals.Know this: What you put on your body gets into your body. ...
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Secret Chemicals in Our Everyday Products
There are as many as 17,000 secret chemicals that are potentially hazardous to our health—and to the environment—that we unwittingly use in our homes every day. Secret chemicals? Yes: according to a recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency, the names and physical properties of chemicals in things like flame retardants in furniture and household cleaners are hidden from consumers and...
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Lead in Your Dishes Can Be Toxic
Lead in your dishware can be hazardous to your health.You may not be aware that most dishes sold in department stores and home decorating stores use lead glazes without labeling them.Lead is a toxic substance that accumulates in your body, so even small amounts can pose a health hazard over time. According to the California Department of Health Services, lead in tableware can be a ser...
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Easy Ways to Make Your Kitchen Safe
Every single day, you may be inhaling or ingesting toxic chemicals right in your very own kitchen. Things like your household cleaners, non-stick cookware, food containers, and dishware can emit chemicals that are shown to cause health problems like learning disabilities, autism, asthma, and infertility. The good news is: there are easy things you can do to keep you healthy and your home safe fr...
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Is Your House Hazardous to Your Health?
Chemicals are invisible—you cant see them on a piece of fruit or in carpet, nail polish, or soap. But they can wreak havoc on our immune systems.Studies are coming out constantly about how chemicals from everyday products are resulting in health problems like learning disabilities, autism, infertility, and cancer.In my case, it was a benign tumor in my chest the size of a tennis ball....
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