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EWG’s Guide to Green Cleaning: Greenwashing, Cancer, Blindness, Asthma…

Jennifer Lance — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:10:54 +0000

Christianity equates cleanliness with godliness, but unfortunately many of the commercial cleaning products on the market are dangerous to your health. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has just published their Cleaners Database Hall of Shame. The full report is due out in the fall of 2012. The first edition of the EWG Cleaners Database is [...]

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One Year Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer by 32% for BRCA 1 Gene

Jennifer Lance — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:31:50 +0000

It’s relatively common knowledge that long term breastfeeding reduces the risk of developing breast cancer later in life. Even so, some prominent cancer organizations still don’t wholeheartedly embrace the premise. Cancer.org reports: Not breast-feeding: Some studies have shown that breast-feeding slightly lowers breast cancer risk, especially if the breast-feeding lasts 1½ to 2 years. This could [...]

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Bras and Breast Cancer: Is There a Connection?

Jennifer Lance — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:02 +0000

With all of the attention and outrage caused last week by the Susan Komen’s breast cancer group’s removing funding from Planned Parenthood and then reversing this decision, the business of breast cancer awareness has been on everyone’s minds. What if there was one simple thing you could do to lower your risk of breast cancer? [...]

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Drinking a Few Cups of Coffee a Day Lowers Cancer Risk in Women. So Should You Fill Up On Caffeine Free or Full Strength?

Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Image via Wikipedia A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health, which was backed by the National Institutes of Health, says drinking a few cups of coffee a day lowers the rate of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website f...

BPA-Free? Not Exactly.

Healthy Child Healthy World — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:43:24 +0000

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World The Bisphenol A story just gets bigger and bigger. Today, the Associated Press reported that the American Chemistry Council has asked federal regulators to phase out rules which allow BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. Sounds good, right? But this request may “head off [...]

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Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:21:00 +0000

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The Sad Truth About Kids and Cancer

Healthy Child Healthy World — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:15:59 +0000

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org “Kiwi had only been sick once; never on any sort of medication, not even Tylenol. All of that changed on Friday, July 31st, 2010 when we found ourselves in the Emergency Room because Kiwi’s left hand had begun to spasm periodically all that day. [...]

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Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:08:00 +0000

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Over Half of Child Car Seats Contains Toxic Chemicals

TreeHugger — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:24:25 +0000

Photo: Healthy Stuff/Press photos Healthy Stuff has released their test results for 2011 on child car seats. The organization has been testing car safety seats since 2008. The bad news in 2011: over half of child car seats still have elements detecte...

Toxics: The Long Term, Low Dose Question

Steve Savage — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:00:49 +0000

Each year, the USDA generates an extensive set of data which demonstrates that modern American consumers face no real threat from toxic pesticide residues on their food. This is particularly true in terms of “acute toxicity,” or short-term poisoning. Someone would have to eat thousands to millions times their own body weight to kill themselves... Read More...