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. [...]
Just in time for the back-to-school season, www.HealthyKitchenware.com has the solution to your kids’ brown bagging needs with their eco-friendly, practical, reusable, dishwasher safe, stainless steel lunchbox containers that make it easy to pack a nutritious, waste-free meal. (That’s unless you want to send them to the school cafeteria for their daily dose of mystery [...]
Ever thought about making your own baby formula?
Here is a recipe from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Milk Based Formula-Makes 36 Ounces
• 2 cups whole milk, preferably unprocessed milk from pasture-fed cows
• 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey (See recipe for whey, below)
• 4 tablespoons lactose*
• 1 teaspoon bifidobacterium infntis**
• 2 or more tablespoons good [...]
So I thought taking care of my glassware was pretty simple, but here are some tips that might be useful. Some surprised me, but they really work!
To take good care of your glass storage containers, bakeware, glasses, etc follow these suggestions:
1. Avoid impact (yes, that was obvious!).
2. To avoid etching [...]
It seems like our neighbors to the north are way ahead of us in many aspects. For example, in Orillia, Ontario they’re having a folk music festival. They’re using between 10,000 and 30,000 litres of filtered municipal water, depending on weather conditions. Guess what? One can buy a stainless steel water [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It seems like I can’t go on the web without seeing some story about the health hazards of plastics. And, you know what? Spring is just around the corner and it’s time to get ready to carry something to hydrate yourself in the heat . So, instead of running off to the nearest 7-11 to buy [...]
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