September 2011
98 posts
Healthy Lifestyle Could Cut Nearly 3 Million...
The roles that a healthy diet and active lifestyle have on reducing the risks of certain types of cancers could prevent nearly 3 million cases of cancer around the world, says a new report by the World Cancer Research Fund. http://dlvr.it/lXDVN
5 Reasons Composting Toilets Are No Pipe Dream
The idea of a composting toilet might elicit a certain kind of response among most of us: Hesitation, averson or even repulsion. Why? Perhaps because anything poo-related is just gross. Flush and forget is our mode of choice. But, we also might have a notion of composting toilets that is antiquated. Nowadays, the technology is such that you can hardly distinguish between a toilet that is...
Are You Grateful? How Intention Impacts Food
Few things are more intimate, more pleasurable and more necessary than eating. All of life does it; the universe does it, and perhaps whatever is beyond the infinite does it as well. But only in the Western world will you hear the term “emotional eating”—an affliction guaranteed to exist where indulgence and greed are as common as going back for seconds. Paradigm shifts don’t...
5 Foods to Stop Eating Today
We can talk all day about “eating in moderation,” but if what we’re eating in moderation consists of various foods that are nothing more than processed, bleached, preserved and sugared ingredients, we might as well just call it what it is: Gradual toxic food poisoning. If your diet consists of little more than fast food, fried chicken, candy and boxed snacks, you could be on the path to become...
Summery Sweet Zucchini Bread
‘Tis the season to cut up your surplus of homegrown zucchini and get to bakin’. Zucchini is a bountiful vegetable that typically returns high yields, but we don’t have to tell you that. You might even have pounds and pounds of peeled and grated zucchini stuffed away in your freezer! Well, thaw out a container (about 2 cups worth) and take a gander at this lovely late-summer,...
Ahimsa: Milk that Really Is from Happier Cows
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_Ahimsa - _the Sanskrit term and first principle of yoga translated to mean ‘non-harming’ hailing from a culture that reveres the cow as sacred. And the name of a British commercial farming operation that promises “no cow, calf or bull is ever slaughtered as part of its production.” Finally, some people are getting a real ethical choice for dairy milk… outside...
In the Kitchen with Food Writer and Cookbook...
Kristine Kidd has been influencing America’s foodie culture for quite some time - she was the food editor for_ Bon Appetit_ for 20 years. As the resident food expert, she was responsible for filling the magazine’s pages with delicious inspired recipes, wrote a monthly column and even created dishes for the cover. What a cool job!
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Get Cookin’ with Organic Authority’s Exclusive...
To celebrate the fall harvest season, we’re launching our first ever Fall Harvest Goodie Box to inspire you to get into the kitchen and cook! With over 23 products hand curated by our editor-in-chief, Laura Klein, you’re bound to get inspired to make lots of fresh eats.
With only 30 goodie boxes for sale and over $400 worth of product in each, these are certain to go quick. Starting...
A Cup o' Tea A Day Keeps the Dentist Away
Unless we tuck crisp five dollar bills underneath our _own_ pillows for old time sake, the greatest gift we can get in the dental department is an affordable six month annual checkup with a complementary mini oral hygiene kit thrown in for good measure. An even greater blessing is getting a cavity-free high five from the dental team for a job well done, but a number of factors including diet,...
McLab Burgers Coming Soon? New Advances in...
Eating meat grown in labs rather than from the carcass of a once living cow, pig or chicken is inching closer to reality every day as scientists have agreed to some key positions concerning issues surrounding cultured meat production. http://dlvr.it/lHT0g
Free Food Is Not Free
Free food seems to be everywhere in America, from samples of lasagna and cheese crackers at the grocery store and bowls of hard candy in shiny wrappers at the bank to birthday cakes at office parties and the never-ending sweets that appear during the holiday season.
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5 Tips for Packing School Lunches That Won't Get...
We all want our kids to eat as healthfully as possible. We plan and pack a lunch that will fill them with energy and give them all of the vitamins their growing bodies require.
And then we hear that our little darling traded her veggie pita pocket to her friend for a bag of Doritos. _Aargh._
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Santa Monica Farmers Market Big Birthday Bash
For some, turning 30 can cause momentary lapses into sheer panic, neuroses and genuine freak-outs. But not if you’re the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Arguably one of the most loved farmers markets in the U.S., the legendary foodie haven adored by Los Angelinos and the city’s finest chefs will celebrate its milestone 30th birthday in cool stride with the Good Food Festival and...
Monsanto Gains Big Ground in GMO-Banned France
Despite the strict regulations making genetically modified foods scarce in the EU, France is not allowed to extend a ban on GMO food and animal feed using the emergency safeguard clause it originally cited, according to a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union. http://dlvr.it/l7lnp
5 Natural Cures for Just About Anything
Not long ago, I vacationed in Oahu for the same reason many people do: To relax. As a fan of the now-syndicated_ Lost,_ I joked with friends prior to my departure about the “healing power” of the Hawaiian Islands. In the end, however, I got more than respite: I got an education. As it turned out, I learned that Oahu does contain healing powers… in its myriad plants and wildlife.
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Homemade Granola Bars for a Healthy After-School...
By the time they get home from school, most kids are absolutely ravenous. Why not give them something that will fill them up and provide some healthy fiber at the same time? Walk in the granola bar, a convenient way to give your kids a snack you can all feel good about. And, when you make them yourself, you don’t have to worry about funky, unpronounceable ingredients. Here is a simple...
3 Homemade, All-Natural Cleaners for Sparkling...
Who doesn’t love clean, sparkling tile floors, or wood floors that gleam after a good mopping? But if you have small children or pets, you may not want them crawling around on a floor that’s just been wiped down with chemical cleaners, right? Happily, this doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to less-than-immaculate floors, nor does it complicate matters much. Here are...
15 Cool Ways To Reuse Nail Polish & Their Bottles
One of the greatest girlie rites of passage can be found within a bottle of nail polish. Upon painting that first swipe of color all the way down the length of a finger nail, we become instantly connected to the transformational power of primping and preening. In terms of today’s mainstream nail polish brands, however, we’d actually all be quite wise to exercise a complete _hands off_ policy....
Probiotics Increase Immune Response By Nearly 70...
Daily intake of probiotic “friendly” bacteria showed the ability to effect a considerable increase in immune function, reports a recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. http://dlvr.it/kyLqZ
Run for Cover, Monsanto’s Roundup Found in...
New findings released by the U.S. Geological Survey show the presence of pesticides—notably Monsanto’s pervasive glyphosate-based Roundup—as well as its degradation byproducts and trace amounts of antibiotics routinely fed to livestock, in watersheds and rainwater samples throughout the Mississippi Basin. http://dlvr.it/krPXg
