The shocking truth about toxic chemicals & body burden
December 3, 2012
I fell in love with the Environmental Working Group (EWG) when I realized who they’re fighting for you and me. This organization is doing all the work for us when it comes to understanding how to protect ourselves from the toxins in our world today. And I’m not just talking about our soil, streams and air. These pollutants have made their way into our food, water and personal products. EWG’s tireless research, reporting and consumer guides… Read More >
7 Tips for a Healthy Nursery
August 28, 2012
By Guest Blogger
A child’s nursery is a sanctuary of sorts – a safe, peaceful place away from the hubbub of the household and the din beyond its doors. Most parents pay close attention to detail as they create the space, lovingly choosing just the right shade of paint and decor to reflect their child’s budding personality, and bedding that hopefully helps promote long hours of tranquil slumber. But one thing that’s often overlooked is creating an environment… Read More >
10 Steps to a Homemade, Toxin-Free Manicure This Summer
July 5, 2012
By Guest Blogger
We all know how harmful the products we use can be for our general health, and nail polish is one of the worst offenders. Not to mention the preservatives and additional chemicals in the lotions and scrubs we use to keep our nails looking sexy. Fortunately, when we make products ourselves, we know exactly what is in them and can stay away from known carcinogens and other harmful chemicals. Try out this step-by-step guide to… Read More >
Get the Lead Out (of Lipstick)
March 14, 2012
By Mia Davis
Dear Cosmetics Industry: Please stop defending lead and other nasty chemicals in your products. Love, Mia A $25 tube of department store lipstick should be safe, right? You might assume it is safer than $2 drugstore brand. Not necessarily … During the busy 2011 holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its new data on 400 popular lipsticks sold in the U.S. These products are contaminated with widely varying levels of… Read More >
Safe Cosmetics: Five Tips for Frugal Shoppers
March 2, 2012
By Stacy Malkan
If you’ve kept up on the latest news about toxic chemicals in cosmetics, you may be wondering if it’s possible to find safe products without breaking the bank. The good news is, you can protect yourself from toxic exposures while saving money too – it just takes some creative accounting and a willingness to look at the big picture. I like to think of money as energy, and I want to put my energy into… Read More >
DIY: Earth-Lite Cleaning Products
February 9, 2012
By Chloe Jo
Yes, I know. An eco-glam fellow or lass can buy Mrs. Meyers or Shaklee almost anywhere, but let’s hypothetically say you are cheap or broke or would just rather make deliciously green cleaning products at home, how would you do it? We got your back, as always. Most cleaning products leave more toxins behind than the germs and toxins they are supposed to clean up. Read here about what mainstream cleaning products do to your… Read More >
What You Don’t Know About Products You Use Everyday
November 17, 2011
By Guest Blogger
You strive to lead a healthy lifestyle. Perhaps you exercise regularly, are on the lookout for healthy recipes and read product labels before you buy? It’s time-consuming to stay well-informed and do all of this legwork. But – you’re not done yet. If you want to keep your family safe and healthy, you’re going to need a Ph.D. and find a way to gain access to trade secrets. Think you can fit that into your already… Read More >
What’s in that Pink Ribbon Product?
October 19, 2011
By Stacy Malkan
It’s that time of year again, when we can’t walk five steps without finding some new opportunity to spend money for breast cancer. We can “Kiss for the Cause” with Revlon lipstick, dust our cheeks with Estee Lauder’s Pink Ribbon Shimmer Compact, or hydrate our feet with Foot Works for the “Avon Breast Cancer Crusade.” Before I rush out for a pink-ribbon makeover, I have some questions for these companies: How much money are they… Read More >
Do We Really Need to Detox?
June 8, 2011
By Tracy Piper
Can you remember all the junk food you have eaten in your life? From childhood, high school and through college? All the environmental and chemical toxins we have come in contact with? Now, imagine a magical potion taking them all away, washing us squeaky clean and making us new as a baby. Sadly, there is no magical potion, but there is hope. We can revitalize our body and our cells, reduce our toxic load and… Read More >
Supervise Your Sunscreen
May 23, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Monique Reavis Can you imagine a time when women painted blue veins onto their skin to evoke translucence? Pale skin was lauded as posh and tanned skin represented the toiling working class. Quite the contrary to where we are now! In fact, it was two influential women in the 1920s that sparked the pop culture tan trend: Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker. Coco returned one day from a French Riviera holiday and instantly won… Read More >
Hidden Dangers of Conventional Fabrics
April 15, 2011
By Dr. Brian Clement
Over the past several decades, Hippocrates Health Institute has been researching things that endanger human health. There is danger lurking in something that people touch every day, but give little thought to — their clothing. An estimated 8,000 chemicals are employed to transform raw materials into clothes, according to The Ecologist magazine. This process involves bleaching, dyeing, scouring, sizing and finishing the fabrics. Synthetic clothing now commonly contains such toxins as formaldehyde, brominated flame retardants,… Read More >
Your Genes Don’t Determine Your Fate
January 18, 2011
By Mark Hyman MD
The decoding of the human genome at the dawn of the millennium carried the hope and promise of the beginning of the end of human suffering. However, after more than a decade of intense exploration of the human genome, the burden of human disease and suffering has only increased across the globe. Heart disease, cancer and diabetes, as well as allergic and autoimmune disorders, have all continued to skyrocket. Hope has given way to disappointment… Read More >
Autism, ADHD, Asthma and Allergies: What’s Going on With Our Kids?
December 27, 2010
By Kenneth A. Bock MD
I want to begin my first post here by talking about something that is very basic to the perpetuation of our society: our children. The specific question I want to ask is simple but key: What the heck is happening to our kids? Why am I starting with this question? Let me give you some background information. In the United States and other industrialized, developed nations, epidemics of malnutrition and common childhood infectious illnesses are… Read More >
Is Your House Ready for Guests?
November 5, 2010
By Alejandro Junger, MD
My son — a very important guest to us — was born last month. For nine months, my wife and I had been asking ourselves: Will our house be clean and ready for his arrival? Before this, I’ve been working at cleaning the planet (one person/body at a time) telling anyone who would listen that what is making everybody sick isn’t bad genes, bad luck or bad karma. It’s bad food and lots of toxins.… Read More >
What’s in that pink ribbon product?
October 18, 2010
By Stacy Malkan
It’s that time of year again, when we can’t walk five steps without finding some new opportunity to spend money for breast cancer. We can “Kiss for the Cause” with Revlon lipstick, dust our cheeks with Estee Lauder’s Pink Ribbon Shimmer Compact, or hydrate our feet with Foot Works for the “Avon Breast Cancer Crusade.” Before I rush out for a pink-ribbon makeover, I have some questions for these companies: How much money are they… Read More >
20 Ways to Detox Your Home
August 27, 2010
By Frank Lipman, MD
Many of us have done a detox to eliminate internal toxins from our body, but how many of us do anything about the toxins in our own homes? Common household and body care products are increasingly being found to have negative health effects on the nervous and immune systems, on our reproductive systems, and on our endocrine, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. The average home contains 500-1,000 chemicals, many of which we are unable to see,… Read More >
Petroleum in Perfume
June 8, 2010
By Stacy Malkan
Something doesn’t smell right, and not just in the Gulf. The horrifying destruction of life caused by the oil spill has everyone’s attention; what many people don’t realize is that the toxic effects of oil addiction are hitting much closer to home. Humans have found many uses for oil, but one thing we can’t do with it is process it with our bodies to use as food or nourishment. So it’s not really a surprise,… Read More >
Dear Cover Girl: We Want Non-Toxic Products
April 8, 2010
By Stacy Malkan
I love to wear makeup, feel sexy and look my best—I just want to do it without rubbing cancer-causing chemicals on my body. Does that make me a stick in the mud? Am I anti-beauty? Cover Girl (by Procter & Gamble) seems to think so. The mega makeup brand has launched a new “Dare to be Beautiful” ad campaign, complete with $50,000 cash prize and a host of celebrities led by Drew Barrymore (see my… Read More >
5 Simple Tips for Your Spring Cleanse
April 6, 2010
By Alejandro Junger, MD
As a doctor, some of the most powerful tools that I have found are detoxing and cleansing. By ‘detoxing’ I mean this: a program that will create optimal conditions for the recirculation of toxins that have been trapped in our body’s mucus, as well as support for the liver in its work of neutralizing and preparing those toxins to be eliminated via sweat, feces and urine. Cleansing is a method of enhancing the elimination of… Read More >
Cellphones: The New Cigarette?
December 11, 2009
By Sophie Uliano
The other day, my eight-year old daughter asked me when she could have a cell phone. Irritated at the mere thought of my precious one joining the masses of teenage texting/twittering junkies, I gave her my stock answer: “When you’re sixteen”. She was horrified, “but all my friends have them, at which my husband butted in with his usual, “and if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do the same?” She stomped… Read More >
