Chemicals found 92% of 6 year olds

Newsweek: The Chemicals Within
" Many common househols products contain compounds that could be affecting our health. ... The Environmental Working Group found an average of 200 chemicals in the cord blood of 10 new- borns, including known carcinogens and neurotoxins." Bisphenol A is found in baby bottles, sippy cups, juice bottles and the lining of food and beverage containers including cans and takeout containers among other things. Bisphenol A can leach out of the plastic and into our bodies. " The CDC has found BPA ( Bisphenol A) in 92 percent of Americans 6 and older who were tested." What to do? Throw out your babies plastic bottles and sippy cups and replace them with glass or aluminium. Replace your plastic shower curtain with a cloth one. And don't buy canned tomatoes- the acid in tomatoes causes the BPA to leach out- instead buy tomatoes in vacuum sealed boxes.

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Basil Essential Oil

Basil contains anti bacterial properties derived from it's essential oils. Basil essential oil has the ability to inhibit several species of pathogenic bacteria that have become resistant to commonly used anibiotic drugs. In addition," basil is a great source of vitamin A .......which can protect the epithelial cells ( the cells that form the lining of numerous body structures including blood vessels) from free radical damage, but also helps prevent free radicals from oxidizing cholesterol in the blood stream. Only after it has been oxidized does cholesterol build up in the blood walls, initiating the development of atherosclerosis, whose end result can be a heart attack or stroke" WHFoods.com. Help keep those pathogens and free radicals away, add some basil to your meal.

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Simple All i oli sauce

How to make any bland vegetable delicious- Add this simple All-i-oli sauce.
1/4 cup mayonaise
1t or more lemon or lime juice
1 garlic clove mashed
1/4 t salt
1/4 t chipotle powder or chile powder (optional)

Mix all together and serve as a with vegetables, pour over vegetables as a sauce or add a dollop to shrimp or other light fish when cooking to make a light flavorful sauce.

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Delicious Cruciferous Cauliflower recipe

1 small head of cauliflower divided into flowerets
2 garlic cloves sliced
1/4 cup olive oil
2 T vinegar
2T water in which cauliflower was cooked
1T paprika
salt to taste
Steam or boil cauliflower until tender (10-15 minutes). Meanwhile, heat olive oil and fry garlic slices until light brown, set aside.
Add paprika to olive oil with heat off, stir in 2T vinegar and 2T of water. Heat, season with salt and pepper and add cauliflower flowerets cover and cook 10 minutes on low heat.

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A Green Dream!

Allure Magazines October 2007 Best of Beauty Issue
proclaimed River Soap Company a green dream........

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An apple a day keeps the bone loss away

A flavonoid found only in apples called phloridzin may help prevent bone loss associated with menopause, suggests a study published in Calcified Tissue International.

A side effect of the sex hormone changes that occur during a woman's transition through menopause is a tendency towards increased inflammation and free radical production, which in turn, promotes bone loss.

Because of their anti-inflammatory actions, polyphenols have been suggested as one means of protecting against bone loss during this pro-inflammatory time in women's lives.

French researchers have discovered that phloridzin may eliminate bone loss in post menopausal women, and even increase bone mineral density.

So go ahead and eat an apple (or two) a day- but make sure it's organic.

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Good news for those with breast cancer

Eating an apple a day may offer significant protection against breast cancer, suggests an animal study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry . When laboratory animals with breast cancer were fed the human equivalent of 1, 3 or 6 apples a day for 6 months, their tumors shrank by 25%, 25%, and 61%, respectively.

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