You already know that drinking wheatgrass juice is healthy, but did you know that wheatgrass juice and juice in general is becoming very popular? The Next Big Thing? One of the top 10 new business trends for the new century as reported by Entrepreneur Magazine? Soon, juice joints will be popping up everywhere like Starbucks [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on August 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
If you need to be coerced, consider these reasons why writing down everything you eat for a week will change your behavior:
1. You snack a lot more than you realize
Carry a notebook with you and jot down every item of food and drink that passes your lips. Within a day, you’ll realize just how much [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on August 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Despite some recent dramatic failures, Alzheimer’s disease researchers say they have never been more encouraged by the wealth of promising new treatments being studied for the brain-wasting disease.
“Twenty years ago we were at zero,” said Dr. Steven DeKosky of the University of Pittsburgh, who has been studying the problem of addressing Alzheimer’s [...]
Filed under: Body, Mind on August 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
If the Green movement has taught us anything, it has taught us that chemicals make us sick. It’s very obvious that the billowing clouds of smoke from the coal burning plant are bad for your lungs. The pollutants in your home may not be so obvious. There are many chemical toxins lurking in our [...]
Filed under: Body on August 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Foods You Don’t Have to Buy Organic
The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit organization that advocates in Washington D.C., for policies that protect global and individual health. Among the many valuable services they provide is a Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce. It is based on the results of nearly 43,000 pesticide tests performed on [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on August 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »