Making your own beauty products sounds incredibly daunting, doesn't it? As it turns out, however, like most natural substitutions, they are easier to make than you might think!
As most conventional beauty products are full of chemicals (yes, even...
How does the mind naturally improve digestive health? According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), digestive disease affects 60 to 70 million people a year. From inflammation and ulcers to constipation and cancer, how you “feel” on the...
At 23, Jasmine Burton decided to make a difference in how people live — and go to the bathroom. When Burton was a freshman at Georgia Institute of Technology, she became disturbed by the lack of toilets available in...
A campaign group fighting for better air quality in London has suggested that diesel exhaust fumes could be impacting the city’s population on a similar scale to the Black Death.
The London Air Quality Network, a source of information about...
Every year, I feel like the time change completely destroys my body's rhythm for up to a couple months after we wind back the clock. I find the transition away from daylight saving and the transition to daylight saving...
This herbaceous herb (also known as Curcuma longa) is a member of the ginger family, which has been used throughout India and the Orient for thousands of years. It tastes great when added to all sorts of culinary delights,...
In April 2014, the state of Michigan switched the source of water flowing into Flint, Michigan, homes from Lake Huron to the Flint River. In addition to water that looked gross and smelled and tasted bad, Virginia Tech researchers...
For the latest campaign of American Eagle Outfitters’ swimwear and underwear line Aerie, the company has broken with fashion industry tradition and hired a plus-size model. The retail chain has already prohibited the photoshopping of marketing material for its...
A new report released by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation includes some highly disturbing statistics regarding our oceans. The authors predict that by the year 2050, our oceans will contain, by weight, more plastic than...
The health and wellness industry goes back and forth a lot on the subject of coffee. Some days it sounds like coffee is a potent natural remedy that should be consumed daily, and other days it is portrayed as...
