A new study  funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) documents the process by which sleep quite literally flushes the brain of toxins that are accumulated throughout the day.
During the course of the study, researchers...
Are cozy relationships between school lunch management companies and food processors jeopardizing your child's health?
Remember the days, sitting around the lunch table trading items from your lunchbox with items from your friends lunchbox? Remember opening up your thermos on...
A nine-year-old British Columbia Girl Guide (Canada's version of Girl Scouts) and her mother have started a petition urging the organization to stop the use of genetically modified ingredients in their cookies.
Maya Fischer and her mother, Linda Cirella,...
"Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings -- generally the latter."
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
With...
The body is an intricate and amazing machine full of wonder and mystery. When provided with the correct fuel and lifestyle, it has the ability to think well, move well and stay alive for a long time. In our...
King George IV once said, "the highest of distinctions is service to others." If you've got a bit of extra time, and want to greatly help out your community, volunteering is a truly rewarding endeavor - one which can...
It’s almost here. Another major state initiative to require manufacturers to label GMOs in the food we eat. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Washington state We the People vote on Initiative 522.
The most recent time we had a big...
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the body is unable to tell the difference between foreign invaders and healthy tissues, and essentially begins attacking itself. This leads to inflammation, pain and sometimes organ damage and infections, depending...
Water is a necessity for our survival. In the U.S. and other first world countries, clean water is frequently taken for granted. All we need to do is turn on the faucet and out it comes.
But in some...
The Centers for Disease Control published a report recently that revealed deaths from prescription painkillers in women are rising at an alarming rate. From 1999 to 2010, the number of women who died from overdoses of prescription opioids increased...
