Dreams: Knowing Thyself
December 31, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
We’ve all skidded by on our good looks and charm long enough. In this New Year, it’s time we use more of ourselves, not just to help ourselves and the world, but to know ourselves. That is, after all, why we’re all here.
A Good Reason to Can the Can
December 30, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Eating out of a can has never appealed to me. Besides the fact that the food inside is dead, it has always seemed just not quite right on some level. Perhaps great if you’re stranded in the desert (hopefully with a can opener in your pocket), but for every day living I just don’t do it.
I know there has been some talk over the years of aluminium leaching into the foods inside the cans. Whether that’s true, I can’t say. However, new research is suggesting it’s the plastic that lines cans these days that’s doing the harm.
Dr Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, who is an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri, specialises in studying the effects of bisphenol-A (BPA), the toxic chemical that comes from plastics that wrap just about everything we buy in supermarkets. He says the number one canned food to steer clear of is tomatoes. The following info may well make you re-think your mother’s famous spaghetti sauce.
Dr vom Saal says bisphenol-A is a synthetic estrogen that is linked to all sorts of dis-eases from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes and obesity. It’s the acidity in the tomatoes that reacts with the BPA that causes the chemical to leach into the food. Appetising huh?
What’s the solution? Learning to live like your great grandmother perhaps, and only eating organic food that looks how it’s supposed to. Freshly picked. Oh and speak to your local grocer about supplying more organic, non-packaged foods. The greater demand, the more supply.
While I’m on the subject of stuff to avoid, here are some other foods, as published in a story on Shine.com, that you may want to re-think.
Microwave popcorn ~ Chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in the lining of the bag, are part of a class of compounds that may be linked to infertility in humans. In animal testing, the chemicals cause liver, testicular, and pancreatic cancer. Studies show that microwaving causes the chemicals to vaporize — and migrate into your popcorn.
Non-organic potatoes ~ Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes they’re treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they’re dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting.
Conventional apples ~ If fruits held a “most doused in pesticides contest,” apples would win. An increasing number of studies are starting to link a higher body burden of pesticides with Parkinson’s disease.
A better way to use cans
A Good Reason to Can the Can by Vegan Girl at www.diaryofavegan.com
Defining Natural Foods
December 30, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
If you could bite down on a crispy, crunchy potato chip that was “natural”, tasted great and totally good for you, you’d probably buy it, right?
How to Set up the Perfect Home Office
December 16, 2009 by The Dove · 3 Comments
Though the benefits of working from your home include not having to deal with rigid schedules, polluting commutes and irritating co-workers, it can still have drawbacks. Those working from home have a set of challenges to deal with, including unwanted visitors, family intrusions and carving out a little niche that lets you separate your home life from your work life.
The Ringling Bros. Circus has been exposed for the inhumane treatment of elephants. According to PETA, handlers tear babies away from their mothers, while using ropes, sharp hooks, and electric shocks in order to force them to learn circus tricks. To help put an end to this intolerable cruelty, head to ringlingbeatsanimals.com
December 16, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
The Future of Plastics
December 15, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
More than 40 years after the well-known one-liner, “Just One Word: Plastics” from Mike Nichols’ classic movie The Graduate, the presence of plastics in society has evolved from a manufacturing wonder material to a hazardous consumer concern.
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Feeding Your Emotions
December 15, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Reason and emotion, mind and heart, are the regulators of the body’s response to whole food medicine. It has been demonstrated millions of times and for thousands of years that whole food diets, colonics, mono diets and fasting restore disturbances in metabolism, the immune system, respiratory function and mental outlook.
Alison Goes to Extreme
December 9, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
World Champion extreme freeskier and activist-athlete Alison Gannett is known for going to extremes for the cause most near and dear to her heart – Save Our Snow*. To bring further attention to the cause, Gannett, along with a few other female environmental crusaders and athletes, just completed 250 miles on a “Big Ben to Brussels Walk”, London to Copenhagen, with skis and a backpack strapped to her back every step of the way.
An Orchard Garden in the City
December 9, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
If you’re planning a trip to San Francisco, be sure to check out (or into) the Orchard Garden Hotel, one of California’s greenest.
7 WAYS TO … KILL YOUR EXCUSES
December 9, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
We all make excuses. But the successful ones are those who can kill them and move on toward their goals.
“I’m too tired. I don’t have the time. I don’t feel motivated. I’d rather do nothing. I don’t have the money, equipment, space. I can’t because” …
We’ve all made the excuses. Here’s how to kill them…
