More Reasons To Choose Organic

Most people believe that Organic foods are cleaner and perhaps better for us, but are they really worth the extra cost? In my previous article on Dangerous Fruits and Vegetables, I describe some of the health risks associated with pesticide exposure. Most of us don’t realize that foods today carry much higher levels of pesticide [...]

Cultivating Food Security in Africa

This article is reprinted with permission from it’s authors: Abdou Tenkouano and Danielle Nierenberg.
As hunger and drought spread across Africa, a huge effort is underway to increase yields of staple crops, such as maize, wheat, cassava, and rice. While these crops are important for food security, providing much-needed calories, they don’t provide much protein, vitamin [...]

Dangerous Fruits & Vegetables – How to protect yourself & your family

Most of us shop choosing produce that we like to eat and comparing price – does it look fresh, is it on sale? But appearances are deceiving. Those beautiful apples, peaches or grapes may look great, but they are loaded with toxic pesticides and other chemicals that are hazardous to your health. Pesticides are endemic [...]

BPA Protection: Spinach and Soy

As the facts keep coming in about all the toxins that we are exposed to and how hard it is to avoid them, it’s easy to feel disheartened. Most recently, I’ve been very concerned about Bisphenol A, a plastic that is a known hormone disrupter which is used to line canned food products and is [...]

A Global Crisis of Food Wastage

One year ago, a report was released by the United Nations Environment Program that over half of the food produced globally is lost, wasted or discarded as a result of inefficiency in the human-managed food chain. This is a staggering fact that is substantiated by data from countries all around the world. It seems the [...]

FRESH ORGANICS BUBBLE BATH WINS AWARD!

SAFBABY has awarded Fresh Organics it’s most prestigious Green Award. “We love Fresh Organics Calming Bubble Bath, free of sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates, parabens, petroleum, phthalates, artificial fragrances and colors and free of nut oils, gluten, soy and dairy!  And if all of that doesn’t make you bubble up inside with joy, wait till you hear [...]

Immeasurable Risk of GM food

In my last article, GM Foods – A growing concern, I presented information that proposes that Genetically Modified food has not been adequately tested, shows every sign of being unsafe for human consumption, has not improved yields or had a positive impact on the world food crisis and has led to an increased reliance on [...]

Genetically Modified Food – A Growing Concern

Like most people, I’m concerned about the quality of the food that my family consumes. I’m well educated about the nutritional value of one food over another, but I was astonishingly ignorant of the fact that my family has been consuming foods that are genetically modified on a daily basis. As I began to research [...]

Eating Defensively

It used to be that just finding enough food of any kind to eat was the human dilemma. It still is for billions of people today. But in most affluent nations, having too little isn’t the problem; having too much and, in particular, having more food-like items that aren’t either very nutritious or safe, is [...]

Why You Should Give Peas a Chance

Peas, beans, lentils and even peanuts are all vegetables that form a seed pod – otherwise known as legumes. They come in all kinds of colors, shapes, sizes and are a highly valued source of protein in cultures around the world. Yet, in America, we have grown away from the humble bean and consume extraordinary [...]

How to Relieve Baby Colic

When my first child was born, she would cry with such intensity for hours on end, that we were certain something was terribly wrong. My husband and I, both entirely ignorant of what was causing her such severe distress, tried to do everything to comfort her. She was breast fed and burped, walked and bounced [...]

When Baby Has a Fever

As a new parent, perhaps the hardest thing to come to grips with, is the realization that this precious being is wholly dependent on your care and good judgment. This realization comes into explicit focus when your baby has their first fever. Unless you have medical training, you need to get information from someone that [...]

Meal Planning For Busy Moms

Most moms work out of the home at least part time, are in school, or trying to get a career launched while still attending to the main job of her life – her family. To say she’s busy is an understatement. So, planning becomes a necessity. We’ve all had the experience of getting home late [...]

Overcoming Adversity

It seems that there are two basic types of people in the world. Those who see the glass as half full (or nearly full), and those who see it as half empty (and going down)! I have to admit that most of my life I’ve been in the first category. If life knocked me [...]

My 10 Favorite Green Blogs

There are so many great, green oriented blogs out there that it’s really impossible to chose just ten, but having said that, here’s my top ten list. Each of the following blogs presents something unique, either in the voice, the scope of their articles or the consistent relevant help they provide for those of us [...]

Sticky Issues with Cookware

American households have been using non stick cookware for nearly 50 years. These ‘teflon’ products were heralded in the early 1960’s as a great scientific advance to save housewives from hours of scrubbing to remove burnt on food from more conventional pots and pans. Americans happily replaced their cast iron and stainless steel cookware with [...]

New Site – Finally Finished!

We have a new look and new blog full of articles we hope will be of interest to you. This whole website redesign was initiated to improve our shopping cart. It’s been kind of like remodeling a house. Lots of chaos and inconvenience and then one day – months later than you expected, you have [...]

Make Your Own Household Cleansers

When I first read about how you can clean your house without any of the harsh chemical products that line the supermarket shelves, I was really surprised. How could something so simple work? The more I researched, the more I realized that these recipes are ones that have been used for hundreds of years. Your [...]

Teaching by Touching

A Japanese friend of mine described a family ritual that led him to a career as an acupressure therapist. Every night his family would soak in a hot tub together and talk over the days events. Afterwards, his parents briefly massaged each of the children in their pajamas on a mat on the floor before [...]

Protecting Your Kids from Junk food

If  you’re like most moms, not only are you the primary cook, but you’re also the family nutritionist. You watch over the health of your kids and hubbie and have probably had to educate yourself a bit to know what’s good for them. Whether you studied formally or just read a bunch of women’s magazines [...]

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