Tag: Health
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9 Reasons You Should Eat Cabbage
By Diana Herrington If you want beautiful glowing skin, and an immune system powerful enough to fight off just about anything, don’t forget this highly nutritious but common vegetable. Cabbage is powerful. Ancient healers declared it contained moon power because it grew in the moonlight. Modern nutritional science understands its power comes from its high…
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Study Shows Living Close to Nature Improves Mental Health
A new study reports that moving to live closer to “green spaces” not only improves mental health immediately, but that the change is sustained for a significant period. Comparably, moving to more urban areas causes a temporary decline in mental health, according to the study. [caption id="attachment_319909" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The study adds to…
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Fizz Off! Youth Challenge Soda Industry’s Sugar-Coated Thinking
By Wendy Lesko Coca-Cola’s mission is “to refresh the world” and promote “open happiness.” The world’s number one beverage company boasts about its initiatives “to support active, healthy living” such as donating to youth fitness programs. Here are a few examples of young people who are questioning this sugar-coated thinking: Truth Unfiltered, Flavored Lies is…
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22 Cosmetics Companies File for ‘Trade Secret’ Status to Skirt Toxins Law
Twenty-two companies have requested trade secret status to avoid telling the public about toxic chemicals found in nearly 1,500 cosmetic products included in the new California Safe Cosmetics Program Database. The database was released earlier this month as part of the state’s Safe Cosmetics Act, which requires companies to report ingredients in their cosmetic products…
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5 Ways the Farm Bill Brings Home the Bacon for Big Ag
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm Bill, which fails to make meaningful reforms to correct this imbalance in our food policy: 1. “Direct Payments” Bait and Switch The Farm Bill eliminates the “Direct Payments” program—long the poster child for wasteful agricultural subsidies, known for handing out checks to rich landowners who don’t…