For Sadhvi To share, or not to share? That is the question. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said to my family “NO SHARING.” Especially when it comes to food—my food, specifically. Maybe it’s a lingering holdover from my childhood with four brothers and sisters and no sense of boundaries between us. Or […]
Archive | July, 2013
What Would Wendy Davis Do?
The REAL Threat to Women’s Health
by Diana Zuckerman, PhD, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families Do laws in Texas, Virginia, and Alabama requiring women’s health clinics to provide hospital-type surgical facilities show how much these states’ legislators care about women’s health, as Texas’ Governor Perry and others have claimed? Or is the goal to limit women’s […]
Elvis and the Birth of My Love of Music
Photo © Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc I can still see it. I can still FEEL it and smell it. I was standing over a little record player and watching the record turn as the needle moved over and landed. The scratchy sound before the music starts…and then there it was: “You ain’t nothing but a […]
Viewing Life through
Facebook-Colored Glasses
by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger You know those aphorisms designed to help you address some of life’s challenges? The ones that contend that life is a marathon, not a sprint; and that the race belongs to those who can go the distance, stay the course, blah, blah, blah…? Wrong. We’re not all trying […]
Organic vs. Chemical Lawn Care:
Which One Leads to Healthier Grass?
by guest blogger “Coach” Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute executive director The summer season always brings to mind bright green lawns and idyllic images of children running barefoot through the grass. However, lawns are a quintessentially American phenomenon, and when you begin to “dig” deeper into lawn care in America, the picture is not so pretty. […]
Judgment Day
So I was at a party and an old acquaintance came up to me and we were talking. He said something to the effect of “Nice party” and then dropped this bomb on me, “After all, you can always judge a person by their friends.” Really? I was swept back to a beautiful day at […]
Yoga for Improving Your Posture
by guest blogger Holly Walck, devoted Iyengar yoga student and teacher “I just went to for my annual checkup and I was a half-inch taller than last year, before I started to practice yoga!” Yoga teachers near and far often hear this exclamation by surprised students. It speaks of one of those moments when, as […]
Where Has All the Real News Gone?
I’ve always loved my local paper, the Allentown Morning Call. After all, where else am I going to see who has died that I might know, find a good Pennsylvania Dutch recipe I’ve been wondering about, read about the guy who was all drugged up and threw a can of baked beans at a car, […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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