The Green Guide enlightens us on the definitions of ‘natural’ meat labels.

Parabens: Easy Greening This is an overview into the dirty side of beauty products - parabens. They are hormone disruptors linked to breast cancer. Go look at your labels - how often are you being exposed??

Safety Concerns with Sunscreens
This article lists all the crap that is found in commercial sunscreens that we should take care to avoid. I believe in the principle - if you wouldn’t eat it, should you put it on your skin? - since our skin is another membrane that allows chemicals to pass through. […]

Do you chose free range or organic or brown or whites? Here’s a little primer on eggs and their labels. Remember, as with all foods, you’ll get way more nutrition out of a whole egg than egg parts.

Homemade household cleaners This DYI Guide from The Green Guide provides recipes for cleaning with simple ingredients - a great way to avoid the chemicals in commercial cleaning products.

Boston Bans Trans Fats Another major US city steps up to ban trans fats from its restaurants and other food locales. Excellent - but why does each city have to to this, one at a time? I say the country of Canada should go trans-fat free - that would get us back […]

Toxin Found In Leading Organic Brands - 1,4-Dioxan, a carcinogenic byproduct of a petrochemical used in beauty care products, is found in brands calling themselves ‘organic’ or ‘natural’. Take a look to see if your chosen brands are on the list. It becomes harder and harder to make the healthy choice in beauty care […]

Another source of junk for kids - toys. Those disposable, non-thinker type toys. In the article No More Junk Toys: Rethinking Children’s Gifts the author explores all the pros and cons of getting your kids to want and enjoy the simpler toys in life - the ones with a purpose, not just blinking […]

The beef recall in the states last month involved beef that could have been already in contact with millions of people. Largest Beef Recall In US History, 143 Million Pounds Worth. It was based in the inhumane treatment of cattle.
“A secret video recording that had been carried out by the Human Society of […]

A new study shows what we already knew - eating artificial sweeteners don’t make you skinny. On the contrary, eating them can make you fat.
“The rats that had the saccharin-sweetened yogurt consumed more calories, put on more weight, gained more body fat, and did not cut back on their calorie consumption in the longer […]