I has been an awfully long time since I have posted to this blog – 8 months to be exact. I just didn’t have time! In completing my master’s degree, and working on my culminating project, all my writing energies were in action elsewhere. You can see the fruits of my labors in the resulting […]
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Although I haven’t written about it in quite some time, I am truly a huge proponent of natural health. What that means to me is a focus on choosing as many all-natural, earth-based products as possible in my daily life, while avoiding the numerous man-made chemicals and toxins. This is no easy task. Once you
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Some of my friends tease me about the way I stress over maintaining a clean house. And, my husband has taken to saying things like, “but, YOU love cleaning” when I ask him to help out. Truth is, although I do love a clean house, I do not love cleaning! I am sure I am
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In my quest to eliminate the obvious toxins from my daily life I have been slowly starting to wean myself off of drinking from plastic cups. Trouble was I really didn’t know which plastics were considered to be harmful. But, as always with a little internet research I was able to unearth this information: Plastics
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I have read articles on food dyes causing hyperactivity, but I never actually saw a list of which food dyes are the real culprits. I just read an article that listed the following as being problematic: Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Orange B, Red 3, and Yellow 6 Not everyone
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For as long as I can remember, I always hated my naturally curly hair. As a kid it just never did what I wanted – it wasn’t long enough, shiny enough, blonde enough (my hair is naturally blackish brown – so you probably can see the problem there). In order to attain long healthy locks
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I really try to be practical with my health concerns – maintaining an overall happy medium of the “good” (fruits and veggies) and the “bad” (cheese puffs and gummy bears). There are times when I read a new piece of research and I just want to scream – WE HAVE TO LIVE PEOPLE! I mean,
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