The recent recall of hundreds of thousands of eggs and the illness of over a thousand people due to salmonella contamination is a wake-up call to the dangers of factory farming. And it’s bound to encourage more people to buy organic eggs from local farmers, or to keep their own backyard chickens.
Electronic gadgets, as well as high tension power lines, generate electromagnetic fields that researchers are finding to be harmful to health. Children are particularly at risk and one group of parents wants Wi-Fi removed from their children’s elementary school because the kids have been suffering ill-effects that go away on weekends and during the summer.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the descriptive label given to an ever-increasing number of children – especially boys – who have trouble fitting into the school system and disrupt family life. Complaints about their behavioral “problems” include hyperactivity, poor attention span, lack of concentration, disruptiveness, clumsiness, recklessness, defiance, and irritability. As I wrote in [...]
Summertime can be simple and fun without exploiting Nature, damaging the environment, worrying about your family’s health and stressing you out. Here are some articles from Natural Life Magazine’s archives to help.
The time is coming when all workplaces will be scent-free zones, because an increasing number of people are sensitive to perfumes and fragrances in personal care products.
Researchers at Princeton University have found that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.
People begin to examine their food choices for many different reasons. Among our concerns are economics, personal health – including food security after recalls for contamination by listeria and e-coli, environmental degradation due to pesticide use or pollution caused by long distance transport, and abuse of farm workers. But eventually, many of us realize that food is power and that our food choices can help change the world – for better or for worse. Hence, the growing organic, locavore, and Fair Trade movements.
A new study has found that children as young as three can recognize brands and logos, especially for fast food chains. This is good news for marketers, but not for children and families, as a variety of problems can be traced to marketing to kids.
The kitchen is our wellness center. It is the heart of the home, the hearth from which we nourish our families, our communities, ourselves. This is wonderful news as it empowers us to take our own health into our own hands.
Phthalates – chemical softeners added to plastics to make them pliable – have been linked to symptoms of ADHD in children.