If You Drink Soda You May Be Spilling These 3 Things into Your Urine
Soda is usually demonized for its insane sugar content (usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup), but did you know that soda can harm your health in other ways too? One of these ways is by starving your body of the precious minerals you need to maintain a healthy body, which can take a particularly harsh toll...
This Just In: San Francisco Approves Warning Labels for Sugary Drinks
If all goes well over the next ten days, any advertisement for soda, or any other type of beverage with added sugars, displayed in San Francisco will soon include the following message: "WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco." Just yesterday, the San...
Spicing Up Vegetable Dishes with Organic Homemade Sauces
Despite the health benefits of eating more vegetables, it can sometimes be difficult to get family members, especially children, to eat their veggies. Adding a sauce can help spice up any vegetable dish, increasing the appeal with a rich set of aromas and flavors. Here are some nutritious sauces that pack a flavor punch and are great with vegetables. Hummus Hummus...
7 Easy Ways to Get Yourself Together and Slow Down
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our routine and these issues that we forget to take a step back, re-evaluate and make changes that might benefit our lives and stress levels. And it turns out, there are some easy and effective ways we can do this—all it takes is a little effort and intention! 1. Do one thing at...
6 Easy Non-Toxic Homemade Baby Care Products
While all of these things can be an important rite of passage and can make parents’ lives easier, newly manufactured products actually expose babies to a significant toxic load. Babies are born with sensitive immature immune systems, organs and detoxification systems. It’s important to be conscious of this and make an effort to keep the baby’s environment as natural...
Don’t Throw Out Your Eggshells
We’ve all been told time and time again that we must consume calcium in order to have healthy bones. Many of us were made to drink a glass of milk with dinner as a kid, and probably include calcium in our supplement regimen. In fact, the United States is one of the highest consumers of dairy products per capita...
Want to Protect Your Brain? Make Sure You’re Eating Enough
In our nation's struggle to mitigate the obesity epidemic, some of us are going overboard. Some of us go too far to be thin—starving ourselves, exercising to the point of exhaustion, or simply not eating enough of the right foods—all in the grand quest to reach the American "ideal" body image, which many of us imagine as a stick...
Secret Tricks Being Used to Convince You What Foods to Buy
You know that tantalizing smell of freshly baking bread and lightly seasoned rotisserie chicken that you smell as you walk by the deli area of your local grocery market? It is not a coincidence that these smells are strongest during prime shopping hours. These smells activate your salivary glands, and this makes you less discerning and more likely to...
Link between Muscle-Building Supplements and Testicular Cancer Found
This study built on past research which linked the muscle-building supplement, androstenedione, to testicular damage. However, as the study authors point out, "No analytic epidemiological study has examined the relationship between use of muscle-building supplements (MBSs) and testicular germ cell cancer (TGCC) risk." To test the relationship between these supplements and testicular cancer risk, the researchers interviewed 365 men who...
The Real Reason You Have a Runny Nose (It’s Not a Cold)
In fact, there are other surprising things that could be irritating your immune system and causing mucous production. Here are some ideas to help heal the root cause of that runny nose. Allergies caused by a leaky gut Allergies are what happen when the body senses particles that it decodes as foreign and triggers the immune system to upregulate. Consuming inflammatory foods...
