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Archive for March, 2008

Did you know about some of the dangers of bleach fumes?

* Chlorine is the chemical most frequently involved in household poisonings and is a potent pollutant. Chlorine fumes from household cleaners are toxic and can affect the central nervous system.

* Ammonia fumes from household cleaners are toxic and can irritate skin, eyes, throat, and respiratory [...]

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Ways to Heal and Protect Our Earth’s Environment1. Insulate your home.

2. Buy energy-efficient appliances.

3. Caulk and weatherstrip doors and windows.

4. Use non-toxic cleaning products –

5. Close off unused areas in your home from heat and air conditioning.

6. Wear warm clothing and turn down winter heat.

7. Switch to low-wattage or fluorescent light bulbs.

8. Turn off [...]

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What’s Under Your Sink? Chlorine is the chemical most frequently involved in household poisonings in the U.S. May cause reproductive, endocrine and immune disorders. Degreasers may contain petroleum distillates, which can damage lung tissues and dissolve fatty tissue around nerve cells. Glass Cleaners may contain ammonia. The fumes from ammonia can irritate the skin, eyes [...]

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Are You Living in a Toxic Home? Last year the most common poison exposures for children were ingestion of household products, such as cleaning substances. Chlorine is the number one cause of child poisonings in the US.150 chemicals found in the home are associated with alleriges, birth defects, cancer and psychological disorders. Women often work [...]

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How Can We Lose Weight?
Most people would agree that the key to losing weight is eating a healthy diet and getting enough exercise. If it’s that simple, then why is weight such a problem in the United States? Why don’t we all eat healthy diets and why is it so hard to exercise? Why [...]

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Stress Reduction
If you’re an American between the ages of 18 to 49, there’s a 1-in-2 chance that you experience everyday stress. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 75-90% of all doctor visits are stress-related. It’s important to find a healthy way to deal with stress.There’s no one best way to reduce stress, [...]

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Tips for Losing Weight
Here are a few tips for healthy weight loss. You want to be sure that any weight loss program you follow has all of these ingredients for the best weight loss results and for the best health.

1. A weight loss program should not have you reduce your calories too much. For example, [...]

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Vitamin B Complex

The B vitamins – folic acid, B6, and B12 – promote a healthy cardiovascular system by helping to lower homocysteine levels in the blood.Adequate amounts of folic acid in healthful diets may reduce a woman’s risk of having a child with brain or spinal cord birth defects. Such birth defects, while not [...]

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When you try to lose weight, what do you do? The first thing most people do is cut calories. Did you know that when you cut calories too low your body lowers your metabolism so that you can keep all your body fat? It’s a way that we would survive a famine, which is great, [...]

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Go Green, Stay Clean Movement
Earthly Green: Beyond Organic – We Keep Your Family, Pets, and the earth Safe
 

Go Green & Our Planet:
If you could do just one simple thing to make a difference in the race to stop global warming and clean up the Earth – would you do it? If you could make one [...]

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