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Is your home a healthy home? Since this blog is focused on healthy living, I thought I’d make this very personal for you. Take the test and find out how healthy YOUR home is!
Take this seriously and let me know your results. Your health depends on it!

Imagine that.  The more chemicals we use, the more resistant the bugs and the bacteria become.  This is not a new problem.  And what do the experts advise us to do?
Experts now say that “everyone in the family should be treated with a permethrin-based product.  Repeating treatment of everyone in a week or 10 days […]

And this from www.NewConsumer.com.  Insecticides, pesticides and other caustic & cancer-causing chemicals are everywhere…even our clothing.  Buy Organic!
Adam Vaughan writes
As London Fashion Week opens its doors - I’m off to see Wildlife Works’ new stuff this very afternoon - a new report says that $2 billion is spent annually on chemicals to spray normal, non-organic […]

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and all too often, our sweethearts are unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals posing as ‘beautiful’ smelling perfumes, lotions, sachets, etc.  Because of the practices of the manufacturing and chemical industries, and the laws that govern those industries, companies are allowed to use toxic ‘fragrances’ to mask unpleasant smelling and highly […]

The following article was written by a friend of mine and I wanted to share it with you.  This is a great message and one that we should probably read everyday!  Enjoy…
Embracing Your Beauty
By Rebecca White
For so many women beauty is what we see in magazines and on TV, we don’t focus on inner beauty […]

By Mindy Pennybacker
There’s nothing like a cleanser that actually works as advertised, bulldozing through dirt and leaving a surface sparkling clean. But conventional cleaning products can actually leave indoor air polluted with a toxic smog of petrochemical volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the synthetic fragrances used to mask them. Think, then, what damage cleaning products […]

By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES, Dec 18 (Reuters Life!) - Los Angeles pediatrician Francine Kaufman is on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, which has flooded her office with diabetes patients and put kids at risk of adult health problems.
“It was like a wave that started to build slowly and then it swelled. We […]

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 By CHARLYNE V. SCHAUB
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wake-up call with one sentence.
“Typically,” she says, “we bring Baby home to the sickest room in the house.”
The nursery is “sick” because we think more about how the room will look than what it will do to our babies’ health. Unknowingly, […]

I saw this article on Reuters this morning.  Why are Canadians and Europeans so much more proactive about protecting the health of their citizens than we are here in the U.S.? 
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will spend C$300 million ($260 million) over four years to slow the use of toxic chemicals and wants industry to come […]

 
By: Stacie Mahoe
 
You already know that playing sports benefits your daughter. That’s why you got her involved with sports in the first place. But there may be a few benefits you don’t know about. The Women’s Sports Foundation, a leading internet source for girls and women in sports, lists the following benefits for girls in […]