Why You Should Put the Lid Down Before You Flush and Other Healthy Bathroom Habits
There are lots of healthy bathroom habits you probably follow every day, like washing your hands and flossing your teeth, but there are some that many people develop that may actually be harming their health. Are you guilty of any of these bad bathroom habits? Letting mold build up on your shower curtain. Because mold and mildew thrive on dark,...
The #1 Thing We Need More of In Our Lives
Life continues to get more and more hectic, moving at a faster pace than ever. These days, many people bring work home or already work at home, making it difficult to get away and just breathe. Even when we aren’t busy earning a living, we may be talking to friends all over the world, playing video games or actively doing...
Beware: Over 4,000 Chemicals Used in Food Packaging Industry
A commentary recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health sheds light on some of the chemicals that can lurk in our food packaging, and the hazards that may come with exposure to them. The authors state that science has not yet determined how these chemicals impact humans on a long-term basis, which is especially troubling as so...
The Do’s and Don’ts of Eating Healthy at Work
Do you find it hard to eat healthy at work? Whether it’s the makeshift kitchen you’re sharing with other colleagues or the fact that eating healthy isn’t the popular thing to do at work, today we’ll cover the “Do’s and Don’ts” of making your workplace a healthy, nourishing environment for you. If you’re a stay-at-home kind of gal or...
New Studies Give Us More Reasons to Believe in the Cancer-Fighting Properties of Green Tea
The extensive health benefits of green tea have been known in Asian countries such as China and Japan for thousands of years, and are now coming to light in the West, as well. Among these benefits are potent antioxidant and anticarcinogenic properties. Recent research has added further weight to the cancer-combating potential of green tea. Green tea leaves come...
FDA Proposes Altering Nutrition Labels to Include Added Sugars
For the first time in many years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing some changes to the nutrition labels found on foods. Some of these proposed alterations may be quite helpful to shoppers, namely a line to set added sugars apart from natural sugars in a product. The new line on the label for added sugars may...
Processed Carbs Cause Wrinkles: Heal Your Skin with Probiotics
You spend hard-earned money on countless salves, creams and lotions promising to turn back the hands of time that have seemingly marched across your face. Or perhaps wrinkles aren’t your problem (not yet anyway), but scratchy, itchy and often embarrassing scaley patches known as eczema keep you covered up while everyone else dons their summer bathing suits. Millions of men...
Top 3 Health Promoting Properties of Beets
Beets are very popular in Eastern European cuisine, but have not been very common in the West until recent years. As more and more research comes to light about this nutritional powerhouse, however, more Americans are incorporating beets into their meals. This is good news, as beets have the strong potential to prevent and combat a wide variety of...
BPA-Free Doesn’t Mean Toxic-Free
If you thought you didn’t have to worry about the toxic ingredient bisphenol A in your products because you always buy BPA-free labeled goods, unfortunately, there may still be cause for concern. A 2012 study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that Bisphenol A is quietly being replaced by Bisphenol S. The researchers found Bisphenol S (BPS)...
Innovative Arizona Elementary School Combines Gardening with Math Lessons
More and more schools across the United States are embracing campus gardens and ecology programs. These programs are proving to have numerous benefits for students. According to a presentation by the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, school garden programs have been shown to improve grades in a number of subjects, increase student self esteem, benefit children with learning disabilities,...
