by David Grotto, RD. Lack of sleep can be influenced by many factors, from medical illness to side effects of drugs to simply having a lot on your mind. Prescription and over-the- counter sleep aids unfortunately don’t address the root cause of sleep problems. They are a temporary fix until the driving force behind the problem can be addressed. In the meantime, there are diet and lifestyle changes you can make that will have a serious effect on how well you sleep.
Love & Family
Quick and Easy Kale Chips from Scratch
You can buy kale chips in the store, but they are a pale comparison to homemade, and there’s a good reason: Homemade kale chips are so fragile and delicious that they can’t be packaged for sale. And they’re so good that it’s too much bother to think about how to sell them when you can just eat them. How good are they? My teenager and her friend asked me to make them. And then they ate them…all.
Fear Is a Liar. Here’s How to Make It Honest.
by guest blogger Jaimal Yogis. There are countless blanket statements that fear makes us believe. If you’re honest with yourself and do some introspection, you can figure out what yours are and how to reverse them. Here’s how…
BPA’s New Status: Reproductive Toxin
By guest blogger Alex Formuzis. Study after study by scientists from around the globe has connected BPA with more than a dozen serious health problems, including reproductive system abnormalities, cancer, behavioral disorders, and diabetes. The list of states and localities across the U.S. that have 86ed baby bottles and sippy cups containing the substance has grown. Now California, the most populous state in the country, is poised to declare BPA toxic to the human reproductive system.
So God Made an Organic Farmer
And on the Eighth day, after she had rested,
God remembered to make someone
To truly care for her creation.
So God made an organic farmer…
A Valentine: No Boxes or Ribbons Required
by guest blogger Renee James. Skip the expensive dinner, the jewelry, and the chick flicks, flowers, and chocolates. Read on for a story about a surprisingly romantic gift you may choose to share this Valentine’s Day.
Psych Meds and Kids:
Using Commonsense Caution
by guest blogger Deirdre Imus. According to recent research, 20 of the 21 drugs that could cause people to tend toward violence, the ones most likely to cause people to engage in “serious adverse events,” are the very drugs designed to cheer people up person up, stabilize their mood, and subdue them when they are agitated. With 12 million young people on these kinds of drugs, perhaps it’s time to weigh the benefits versus the risks of prescribing them.
Tips on Icing a Cake, Sort Of…
I have always been a horrible cake icer. Horrible. My kids have said my cakes look like a dog vomited on them (although they eat them with glee and joy). The other week when I was making my own damn birthday banana cake, it happened to be the Monday of Martin Luther King Day, so my babysitter and cleaning lady in the house. They waited until I was done icing my cake, and then started giving me advice. In that few minutes of advice, I learned more about icing a cake than I had learned in a lifetime.
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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