The Safer Chemicals Healthy Families consumer advocacy group “leaked” this graphic video galvanize public support for Congressional action to make sure the products we reach for, sleep on, and eat from every day aren’t loaded with toxic chemicals. The characters you meet in this quick video are cartoons, but the plot is ripped straight from […]
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Whole Foods Raises Organic Skin Care Bar
I love it when a company goes out of its way to right deceptive practices, especially when profits up against consumer health. Whole Foods Marketplace Inc. announced that it is raising the bar on organic skin care products, meaning that it will only carry items claiming to be organic that are actually organic and contain […]
Dangerous Chemicals in Your Perfumes
Fragrances are designed to make you smell good, but is that all they are doing? In a recently released study of 17 name-brand fragrances co-authored by the Environmental Working Group and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, they found that they contain secret ingredients – chemicals not listed on the label – with troubling hazardous properties. […]
Pesticides Linked to ADHD?
On Monday this week the American Academy of Pediatrics published a study linking high concentrations of pesticides in urine to ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). The contaminated children may have eaten food treated with pesticides, breathed it in the air, or swallowed it in their drinking water. The study didn’t determine how they were exposed. While […]
Elvis Died From Constipation… but You Don’t Have To!
Elvis Presley had a long, well-documented history of chronic constipation. His personal physician, Dr. George Nicholpoulos, found the 42-year old singer dead on the toilet in 1977. Autopsy reports show the King’s colon at the time of his death was twice the diameter and twice the length of a healthy colon. Much of this has […]
