Health

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New Book Highlights Environmental, Health Threats from Toxic Chemicals

Investigative journalist Nena Baker is the author of The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

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Coming Full Circle

I could still hear some of the songs, such as “When we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be”. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t like being here on planet Earth. Didn’t they like it?

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Herbal medicine chest for busy moms

We all know that it is important to nourish ourselves by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly, making sure we take care or our own needs as moms, and getting plenty of rest. Fellow moms often ask me what herbs I like to use during busy or stressful times- below are some of my favorites.

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Revolutionary water filtration system designed to save lives

Inventor and water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard watched the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami and hurricane Katrina in 2005 leave many without clean drinking water in the wake of horrific natural disasters, leading him to develop the Lifesaver bottle.

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New York City aims to improve public health with campaign against soda

New York City has unveiled a new ad campaign encouraging people to put down sodas, sugary juices and sports drinks, store-made coffee drinks, and other beverages laden with sugar and high fructose corn syrup in an effort to educate New Yorkers on calorie consumption.