There are a massive amount of nutrients that people need in order to stay healthy. One of the more important vitamins that we need is vitamin D. Vitamin D is important for cell growth. Vitamin D helps to maintain the levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood, and also helps with the body’s ability [...]
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Water is absolutely essential to human life. People are urged to drink at least 64 ounces of water every day. Bottled water can get expensive over time, but water directly from the tap may sometimes be harmful to your health. Chlorine is added to the water to kill off bad bacteria. If you’ve ever gone [...]
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I bet you don’t think twice about the type of food storage you use. It’s not usually something that causes a lot of people to think twice about. However, more and more stories are coming about on the news regarding plastic water bottles leaching substances into the drinking water. We all know that water bottles [...]
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If you’re the type of person who needs to add sugar or other sweetener to your drinks, then you’re probably familiar with the little pink blue packet called NutraSweet. NutraSweet is one of many artificial sweeteners on the market today. But do you know what’s in this pink blue packet? The side effects of NutraSweet [...]
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I have long known about the high levels of pesticides used on conventional pesticides – and in fact I remember one article that claimed that conventional strawberries had as much as 10x as many pesticides as some of the other fruit they were sharing shelf space with. A friend recently passed along an article to [...]
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I’ve recently heard that women absorb many harmful toxins through make-up each year and it got me thinking about how much make-up I actually wear and if I should stop. For me, I don’t think going bare-faced is a real option, but I recently got some samples of organic make-up from NVEY ECO. I’ve been using their blush [...]
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Dry cleaning has been around for many decades. Dry cleaning involves cleaning clothes with an organic solvent rather than with water. Certain clothing fabrics can only be washed by dry cleaning. People don’t usually think about what kind of chemicals are being used in the process of dry cleaning. You just walk into a store, [...]
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It can be rather annoying to cook a meal and have food get stuck to the bottom of the skillet. People who do a lot of cooking, prefer their food to slide off of the skillet with ease. No one wants to scrape food off the bottom of a pan. A few ways to combat [...]
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I just found this amazing article that someone wrote about an experiment they did. They bought a happy meal, took a picture of it. Then left it out on the counter for a full year! One would think that the meat (if it still even resembled meat) would spoil and stink pretty bad. The author said that never really happened at all. In fact, if you look at the before and after pictures, you really can’t tell that much difference between the “fresh” happy meal and the year old one.
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A gluten free diet is a diet that is recommended for those suffering from Celiac’s Disease. Celiac’s Disease is an autoimmune disorder involving the small intestine. Individuals with this disease have an allergic reaction to the gluten that is naturally found in wheat, barley and rye products. A gluten free diet may also be needed for those suffering from a condition known as Dermatitis Herpetiformis in which the skin becomes irritated when gluten is consumed.
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What does your body need from food to help keep cancer at bay? Nutrients. So many packaged foods, fruits and vegetables included, have been stripped of vital nutrients. Look for locally grown and organic produce, and look for things in their whole and complete state (i.e. not processed). These can be foods like apples, potatoes, celery and even chicken legs. Focus on cooking at home with ingredients like these, as you don’t know what restaurants are cooking with.
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Apparently 2 billion pounds of pesticides are used on our agriculture each year! Which with 250 million Americans, that equates to about 8 pounds of pesticides for each of us! And as you could have guessed, those pesticides go into the ground and streams and make their way into municipal water supplies.
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