Natural health advocates often like to tout the health benefits of green tea – after all, it has less caffeine than black tea or coffee, includes cancer-fighting antioxidants, and it might even lower cholesterol, burn fat, prevent diabetes, and lead to better heart health. Nevertheless, some people just plain don’t like green tea, and much […]
Natural Lip Gloss Recipe
October 13, 2010 by · 3 Comments
How much do you know about lip gloss and lip balm? The stuff you’ve been using to keep your lips moist and healthy for years may actually be causing you more harm than good. Consider these facts: Carmex and medicated lip balms are meant to help you dry out cold sores. As a result, their […]
How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent
October 11, 2010 by · 5 Comments
You can read a lot of negatives about the laundry product industry on the Internet. Chemical this, fragrance that. “What do I do about my son’s allergies,†here. “My husband breaks out every time I use that,†there. Yet, one practically has to have a degree in chemistry to understand all the ingredients in laundry […]
Indoor Plant Care For Your Christmas Cactus
October 7, 2010 by ·
The lovely, spiky Christmas Cactus is not actually a cactus in the true sense of the word. It is a forest plant whose origins lie in the mountains of Brazil at elevations well above sea level. Perhaps it is due to the deceptive use of the word “cactus†that so many Christmas Cactus owners find […]
Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Roaches
October 4, 2010 by · 7 Comments
Ack! The roach: one of the household pests that gets the least love from homeowners. Spiders at least eat other pests, and mice are even a little cute, but roaches don’t even have that going for them. Roaches are freeloaders in your home in the truest sense of the word, offering only problems and no […]
What Are Flavonoids?
October 1, 2010 by ·
Antioxidants are wonderful things. They slow down the rate in which we age, and they help us look and feel younger than we actually are. Antioxidants are nutrients that are found in many of the foods we eat. They help to protect the body from the harmful effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules […]
The Health Risks of High-Fructose Corn Syrup
September 28, 2010 by ·
One of the big things that I’ve learned in the recent years along my journey to improve my health, has been to read what ingredients are in the foods I eat. I’m a label reader first and foremost, checking how many calories, how much fat, and how much sodium are in the foods I buy. […]
