RE: my earlier post about the food additive carrageenan possibly causing inflammatory conditions like ulcerative colitis, here's a list of foods that normally have it but that you can get without it: http://www.cornucopia.org/shopping-guide-to-avoiding-organic-foods-with-carrageenan/
lördag 27 april 2013
fredag 12 april 2013
Over the years I've posted about the possibility of bras contributing to breast cancer, mostly because they impede lymph drainage. You can read about how the daughter of Olga (yes, that Olga of the bras) died of breast cancer herself and how her daughter was committed to making a "better" bra, which may be no-bra.
Here is an article on how it seems like anatomically, a bra might not be doing you huge favors, either and may make things SAG EVER MORE. Read more here.
tisdag 19 mars 2013
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I'm a big seaweed lover, so I thought carrageenan was just another way to get seaweed. However, I'm hearing more and more about how this food additive (I think there's tons in McDonald's milkshakes) may cause gastro and BRAIN inflammation. I think I'd rather be safe than sorry. Also, it's in INFANT formula, although in Europe they don't allow it. That tells you something.
My sadness is that the nut and soy milks I make are so watery, while the commercial stuff is so nice...because of carrageenan.
Supposedly carrageenan is about as natural a seaweed extract as high fructose corn syrup is to corn; i.e., they use terrible alkali and so forth to get it out. I'm getting rid of all my carrageenen products right now.
Read more here: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-18/health/ct-met-carrageenan-0318-20130318_1_carrageenan-fda-scientists-food-additive-safety
and here: http://www.notmilk.com/carageenan.html
måndag 18 mars 2013
You may have already suspected this, but most commercial perfumes contain chemicals, some petroleum based, many cancer-causing, and in the cases of synthetic musk, they may even affect your hormones.
Especially if you are trying to conceive, you might want to be aware of fragrance use both for yourself and "secondhand" fragrance, e.g., by your colleagues at works, etc., so you can avoid it.
The Environment Working Group helps lay out some of the risks:
Especially if you are trying to conceive, you might want to be aware of fragrance use both for yourself and "secondhand" fragrance, e.g., by your colleagues at works, etc., so you can avoid it.
The Environment Working Group helps lay out some of the risks:
onsdag 27 februari 2013
Just like American "cheese" isn't really cheese, soon what we think of as milk may not be milk anymore if the big business lobby gets its way: it wants to be able to add ASPARTAME (i.e., Equal, i.e., the stuff that can give people seizures) to milk and not tell consumers. Also, children drink more milk and are smaller and so will be affect disproportionately.
The FDA, by law, has to have this issue open for comments. LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-dairy-industry-petitions-fda-to-approve-aspartame-as-hidden-unlabeled-additive-in-milk-yogurt-eggnog-and-cream/
Also, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but in this particular issues of you google "asparatame" "Searle" (the company) and "Rumsfeld" (yet, the Iraq war-monger), you'll see that it'sa travesty of justice that aspartame was ever approved as safe. Know what's in your food! Protect your right not to be drugged.
The FDA, by law, has to have this issue open for comments. LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-dairy-industry-petitions-fda-to-approve-aspartame-as-hidden-unlabeled-additive-in-milk-yogurt-eggnog-and-cream/
Also, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but in this particular issues of you google "asparatame" "Searle" (the company) and "Rumsfeld" (yet, the Iraq war-monger), you'll see that it'sa travesty of justice that aspartame was ever approved as safe. Know what's in your food! Protect your right not to be drugged.
lördag 9 februari 2013
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fredag 1 februari 2013
In Korea, so much stuff is made out of hemp: Clothes, rope, even shoes. It was SO useful, the early US colonists were MADE to plant it.
But now, we deliberately deny ourselves this useful plant that needs little in the way of fertilizer/pesticide all because we are somehow scared of another harmless/useless plant, Cannabis.
Treehugger.com has an interesting article on it:
Hemp, which is considered to be a wonder-crop by many, is now legal in Colorado. Voters not only gave the thumb up to marijuana in November, but also to its THC-light cousin. Since hemp has so many uses, from being an ingredient in many types of foods, to skin care creams and lotions, to paper, textiles, bio-plastics and building materials, biofuels, etc... It's going to be very interesting to see how commercial production will shape up and, hopefully, how it'll influence the mindset of the rest of the country and the world.
NPR has a great little piece about this, which you can listen to or read, and theDenver Post also weighs in on the federal-state issue:
Like marijuana, hemp is still illegal in the eyes of the feds, despite Colorado's clear electoral mandate to legalize it.
Federal officials have said little about how they will react to Colorado's new law. Some analysts say it's unlikely they will target individual users, but the outlook is less certain for federal crackdowns on larger enterprises, such as farm-scale growing.Hemp backers say that would be an extreme injustice, given that hemp has no narcotic properties. But federal law does not differentiate between the cultivation of hemp and marijuana. (source)
read more here.
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