Veg-Friendly Getaways
January 10, 2010 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
I heart the holidays and I love to travel. But there’s no doubting the menu options for vegetarians and vegans can be a little limited.
Test Eco Waters at Go Green
January 10, 2010 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Living green can be overwhelming. Where to start? From eco cars and planet-friendly cleaning products to organic wines and veganism, it’s little wonder many opt to do nothing for fear of not being able to do it all.
Yet it’s the little steps that add up to mean something big.
A Chemical-Free Bottle for Baby
January 10, 2010 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Parents now have an alternative to the toxic plastic bottles, which research has shown leaches the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) into food and drink.
Jen Moore, founder of Pura Stainless, has developed an electro-polished stainless steel bottle that’s BPA free, hygienic, lightweight and durable. Best of all, it won’t leach chemicals into the drink inside.
What if Your Mother Was Right?
January 3, 2010 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Traditional Beauty Tips that Pass the Test of Time…
Everyone may not like being told “I told you so”, and most women may also not like thinking their mother was right. However, on stepping upon the threshold of 30, and with my mother now in her early sixties, I can’t help but notice that on a good day, she looks not more than maybe only five or ten years older.
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
Top 5 Eating Habits to Keep the Planet (And Your Body) Healthy
October 16, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
By Adria Vasil
Maybe it’s the half-Greek in me, but there’s nothing that makes me giddier then the sight of a table full of food (well, other than actually eating the food). Trouble is most of what we stack onto our plates isn’t just weighing on our hips, hearts and cells, it’s also bloating the planet with packaging, pesticides and climate-changing gases. How can you get your fill without, er, tipping the ecological scales?
The Emerging Green Economy
October 14, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
With much green talk amongst industries and households, eco industry watchers are saying the world has officially entered an emerging green economy — a trend that will only continue to gain momentum, says eco-expert Kim Carlson.
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10 Day Turnaround
July 31, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Getting yourself to healthier, more energetic state may feel like an uphill battle. Worry not. Life-enhancing transformation can happen in as little as 10 days, thanks to a detox program that’s taking Hollywood by storm. Los Angeles Contributor Siobhan Flynn explains.
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A Powerful Solution to Health & Wellbeing
July 13, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Natural foods chef Art Eggertsen is leading the global charge in getting honest health information out to the masses; lifting the veil on what has become the single biggest cause of disease in the United States: nutritionally devoid foods packed with chemicals that are toxic to the human body.
What’s Hiding in Your Sunscreen?
July 13, 2009 by The Dove · Leave a Comment
Nanotechnology has changed what we eat, wear and apply to our skin unfortunately with little regulation and little understanding of the long-term consequences, both to our own health and that of the natural world.
