by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD. Spring and summer bring us wonderful warm weather, offering an ideal opportunity to engage in a gentle seasonal cleanse. A gentle cleanse can not only eliminate toxins in the body and improve your health and vitality, it can also help improve mental clarity and emotional stability; balance blood sugar, reducing cravings and crashes; increase strength, flexibility and stamina, and more.
Health & Fitness
Reform the Farm Bill
by guest blogger, Susan Prolman. This week, the full Senate is working through the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill spends $1 trillion over 10 years and sets food and agriculture policy for our nation. The bill’s title is the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, but how much reform does it really contain?
The Other Health Care Bill
by guest blogger Diana Zuckerman. Although Congress has accomplished almost nothing in the past year, the legislature is poised to pass a bipartisan bill that will affect all our health. It sailed through the Senate last week (96 to 1!) and a different version is likely to sail through the House soon. If you never heard of this bill, you should find out more.
Total Recall
by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood. A crib rail pinches a finger and in short order the product is recalled. Why isn’t it the same true for 2,4-D or glyphosate? Why don’t we hold toxic, man-made chemicals to the same sort of standard we hold other products?
How to Pick Up The Pieces
Of Your Life
Every so often, whether it’s after a long hard spate of work, finishing a big project, ending a relationship or recovering from a crisis (big or small) I find myself repeating the same rituals of recovery. Maybe they’ll work for you, too?
9 Natural Ways to Love Your Skin
by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz. You do your best to protect your skin, but it’s out in the open, exposed to sun, wind and environmental pollutants. Healthy skin is a vital component to wellness and vice versa. Here are some recommended ways to love your skin and promote overall health.
Do You Believe in Chakras?
I’d heard about chakras way back when I was a teenager, and associated them with “New Age” woo-woo nonsense, or perhaps a reason to collect multicolored crystals. However, I also consider myself a health adventurer…
Chemical Agriculture’s Dirty Fight
by guest blogger Alex Formuzis. The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement health-based standards for all pesticides used in food, with special safeguards for infants and babies. But chemical agribusiness has been fighting to try to block any action by EPA every step of the way.
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.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
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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