If I owned a SIGG water bottle, I don’t think that I would throw it out or send it back. (By the way, that’s on your dime). Really, it seems as though BPA is everywhere. Do you have any cans in your pantry? Guess what. The lining inside the can [...]
Wow, this article from the Pasadena Star News made me think of all of those plastic canteens that we used in the army on various “camping trips”. I wonder what else besides BPA leaked from those.
Question: I have recently been told that water bottles and other types of plastic containers release toxic [...]
According to a study done at Peperdine University, participants drank up to 24% more water with a reusable water bottle than a plastic, disposable type. Since most Americans are running around in a dehydrated state anyway, why not use a reusable water bottle and drink more water without even thinking about it. [...]
With all the news about BPA and the green movement towards a healthier environment and less plastic, everyone is talking about stainless steel. Especially for water bottles and for lunch box containers. But is it is really healthier? Better for the environment?
Stainless steel is definitely better for the environment. According to [...]
So, even if you have a cold one in a plastic bottle, BPA still leaches through. What happens if you heat up a plastic baby bottle? A number studies have shown that it may be most harmful in the stages of early development. BPA
acts as an endocrine-disruptor. It messes with a whole [...]
It is not only at the pump that we use petroleum and its derivatives. Here are ten simple things that you can do to help the planet. When you help the environment, you help yourself: “it’s the circle of life.”
1. Trade in your plastic fridge storage containers for glass storage containers and do not [...]
I think that it’s odd that some people give me curious looks whenever I show up with my 16, one gallon, glass, apple juice bottles at the local purified water store. Here’s a great link at Wired magazine that explains why I go to the trouble of doing this.
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I tend to use lots of olive oil when I’m cooking. I guess that I like my dishes to be more Italian oriented instead of French, hence not sautéing in butter.
I found this article to be most useful: Update your Pantry by Ellen Jackson, The Oregonian.
She claims that olive oil tends to absorb [...]
I just read an interesting article by Patti Roth in Green Living. It says:
“If the restaurant doesn’t like the idea of reusable containers, bring your own. Some eco-minded restaurant-goers tote around personal food storage containers to wrap up their leftovers and also use them for take-out items – just make sure the restaurant agrees [...]
Plastic is definitely a great invention that has changed human lives for the better in many ways. However, even though most of us cannot remember life without plastics, the truth is that plastic has not been in existence long enough for us to know its effects in our bodies. It is only in the last [...]
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