Comments of the Week

This week, it’s kale recipes, coupon clipping, vegetarian beefs, and remembrances of Presidents of the United States of America gone by. Oh, and if you have the time, check out all the great responses to What Would You Do: Restaurant Gives Meat to a Vegetarian. The consensus: I should have spoken to a manager, yo.On Millions of Grilled Peaches (Grilled Peaches for Me)molly b: Can't believe someone else actually remembers that song. We had a hamster once that we named Peaches... because we got her for free. :-)Monica: I loved that song! So much I bought the whole CD. Oh the crapola we listened to in order to get one great song. Thank you so much iTunes!On Eating Healthy While Clipping Coupons: The Dos and Don’tsPam: I started clipping coupons a couple of months ago and was amazed at how many...

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EPA Orders Scotts to Stop Selling Certain Pesticides

As many reader's may know Scotts has determined itself to be the go to company for lawn care. It also believes it is the source for 'organic' care now that green is so trendy.Scotts is the antithesis of what I have taught for decades in my Green Living programs.In my book, "My Happy Garden", now a decade old, you can find many helps about how to have a healthy, safe and natural garden with many things you can grow and make yourself.If that's not your gig, never fear, TerraCycle is here. CHICAGO, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- U. S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 today issued a "stop sale, use or removal" orderagainst Scotts...

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Researcher admits error

Here is an example of a terrible wrong against those with cancer, but at last a show of some integrity by the original investigator.I just wonder how long it will take for MSM to change their focus.Those of us who understand nutrients and anti-oxidants, minerals, and vitamins were correct all along."ANTIOXIDANTS: CANCER LINK WAS ALL A MISTAKE"It was news when it was claimed in 2005 & again recently, that vitamins can speed up cancer development. But the researcher who first published the study has now admitted that she got it wrong.It made headlines around the world when it stated that patients who took Beta Carotene or vitamin E were 40% more likely to suffer a cancer recurrence. This year Cochrane Collaborative released a meta-analysis that suggested that antioxidants may shorten life.But...

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Mainstream Health Coverage Unsatisfactory

I think it is very positive that this report is published, this is the main reason for the founding of Natural Health News. By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage TodayMay 28, 2008Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. MINNEAPOLIS, May 27 -- Most health coverage in the mainstream media fails to address the costs, harms, and benefits of medical products and procedures, according to the publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, a Web site that grades journalists.The coverage also usually ignores the quality of the evidence and the existence of other options, said Gary Schwitzer, B.A., of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, who worked for 30 years as consumer healthcare journalist in radio, television,...

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Millions of Grilled Peaches (Grilled Peaches for Me)

I am a fruit girl. Sure, I like vegetables and grains appeal to me now more than ever, but I am, have always been, and will always be a fruit girl.Besides the pleasure of scorching my translucent flesh to a bacony-textured, slightly off-white hue, the abundance and variety of fruit is the key reason I tolerate humid, stinky summers in New York. Every June and July the Union Square farmers market teems with cherries, watermelon, blueberries, plums – all the good stuff. It’s a rainbow of inexpensive nutritiousness, and sashaying down the open-air aisles, it’s all I can do to keep from stuffing my face with juicy, fruity wonderment. Even the local...

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Posted in: Desserts and Snacks,Vegan,Vegetarian

Payoffs in the US Protect Aspartame from Facts

Yes, again, studies show harm from aspartame.Splenda is in the same category as well.If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant avoid all artificial sweeteners, even thought the American Dietetic Association tells you otherwise. Aspartame is known to cause severe birth defects. Splenda's hydrongenated chlorocarbon nature can be damaging as well.Direct and indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the brainP Humphries1,2, E Pretorius1 and H Naude´11Department of Anatomy, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa and 2Department of Anatomy, University of the Limpopo, South AfricaThe use of the artificial sweetener, aspartame, has long been contemplated and studied by various researchers, and people are concerned about its negative effects. Aspartame is composed of phenylalanine...

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Veggie Might: Daikon (Jicama) Mango Slaw - I Can Make That

Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian. It’s pretty much my goal as an amateur gourmet on a budget to recreate the fabulous things I eat (or smell) in restaurants on the cheap, on the veg, or at all. Since I can’t afford to eat out often, I pay close attention and occasionally take notes (or poor resolution camera phone pics).Working without a recipe can be risky for sure, especially when you’re a cheapskate like me. I HATE wasting food. But I also find it extremely rewarding. It’s creative and fun, and when it works, it’s thrilling. I dance around, give the dog a carrot, and if it’s...

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Posted in: Sides,Vegan,Vegetarian,Veggie Might

CHG Favorites of the Week

Food Blog of the WeekCarol on KellerMaryland resident/novice chef Carol is attempting every meal in the legendarily complicated French Laundry cookbook, which is a bit like learning math by starting with calculus. Fr’ instance? The most recent post documents her attempt to braise and stuff a pig’s head. Yoinks.Food Comedy of the Week“Cake or Death” by Eddie Izzard Someone set Eddie’s famous/FAHbulous Dress to Kill show entirely to Legos! It's hilarious, and almost better than being covered in bees.Food Organization of the WeekKivaA microlending organization connecting individuals directly to the folks they’re donating to, Kiva is one of (if not THE) first website of its kind. What happens is this: you choose an entrepreneur anywhere in the world and loan them a pre-designated amount of cash....

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Eating Healthy While Clipping Coupons: The Dos and Don’ts

(So, I finished this piece a few days ago, but waited until today’s scheduled Article Day to post. Money Saving Mom beat me to the punch in the best possible way. Guest contributor Jody Connelly has a tremendous essay called Nine Coupon Myths Debunked, and while it doesn't concentrate wholly on healthy couponing, it’s absolutely worth ten ganders. I encourage you to read it, study it, and adopt it as your child. Once that’s done, c’mon back here. Hopefully, this can add to Jody’s well-observed points.)A few weeks ago, Serious Eats (one of my favorite blogs) picked up on a CHG piece called The Hour: How 60 Minutes a Week Can Save Hundreds of Dollars....

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Posted in: Buying Food,Frugality

City Kitchen Chronicles: Introducing Jaime

City Kitchen Chronicles is a bi-weekly column about living frugally in Manhattan. It's penned by the lovely Jaime.jaime: Hello Cheap Healthy Good-ers! We here at City Kitchen Chronicles have a special column for you today. Two weeks ago you were introduced to Jaime by way of one of her cheapest, healthiest, tastiest recipes. Today we go past the flash and sizzle to meet the girl behind those tasty beans and veggies, to learn a little about how she ended up here, and why she’s sorta living on rice and beans. Hi Jaime. Thanks so much for joining us.JAIME: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.jaime: Of course. So, first, how did you end up here at...

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Tuesday Megalinks: The Post-Party Edition

We had 100 people at our place for a Memorial Day barbecue this weekend, and my kitchen just this morning stopped smelling like Brooklyn Lager. Please forgive me if some of these are nonsensical.Being Frugal: Frugal Living for BeginnersLynnae runs down a few starter strategies for frugal newbies. (Essentially: DIY, plan ahead, consolidate.) BAM!Culinate: Better and easier cooking: rules for the home kitchenWith eight tremendous tricks to make cooking easier, this piece is a bit like “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Meaning, I wish I wrote it.Culinate: Steering clear of refined grains (How to eat more whole grains)What I like best about Culinate...

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Nutrition and Preventing Post Partum Depression

Often times women utilize birth control hormone products to off put pregnancy. Many do not know of the severe nutritional imbalances created by use of these products.Adding to the problem, physicians or others who Rx birth control pills for a myriad of complaints such as acne or cyclic balancing are contributing to a long term problem that may be a major factor in PPD. That problem is nutritional deficiency.Brooke Shields might wish to do a bit more research before supporting her notion that SSRI anti-depressants are able to support true core healing from PPD.As I have said for decades, nutrition - especially intracellular nutrition - should be the focus of treatment.And for all the push to pre-treat pregnant women with SSRIs to prevent PPD, even with articles now claiming that these drugs...

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Silent Thyroid Ignored for Years by Most Health Providers

No surprise here if you understand the impact of the excessive amount of fluoride we all are exposed too. Water, dental propaganda, food, drugs, carpet, cleaning products, and the list goes on. Over exposure to radiation adds its effect. Birth control pills, other hormone therapies, antibiotics and SSRI drugs can also play a dirty hand.Hyperthyroid leads to calcium depletion and such cardiovascular events as heart attack, atrial fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia.The treatment you get in mainstream medicine is irradiation with a lifetime of Synthroid (leading to osteoporosis).Never or rarely do you learn that you can recover the function of your hyperthyroid condition with natural therapies.On the other end of the scale there are hypothyroid conditions. I am always educating people...

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Fluoride based drug with Black Box warning urged for cancer patients

The following is the Black Box warning for Celexa.Suicidality and Antidepressant DrugsAntidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of Celexa or any other antidepressant in a child, adolescent, or young adult must balance this risk with the clinical need. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24; there was a reduction in risk with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults aged 65 and older. Depression and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated with increases...

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Nebraska Healing Machines

This story speaks to the old knowledge surrounding vibrational healingThe "healing machines" created by Emery Blagdon, Nebraska native and former hobo, who was considered just another eccentric bachelor when he died in 1986. Few of his neighbors knew that, for thirty years, Blagdon had been creating a masterpiece of idiosyncratic art in his dilapidated Sand Hills farm shed. Nearly one hundred paintings and about four hundred and fifty wire sculptures, embellished with wood, ribbon, beads, tin, and plastic, filled every corner of the 800-square-foot shed, illuminated by twinkling Christmas lights. Blagdon believed that his pieces created an electromagnetic...

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Another "Green Living"© writer warns of hand sanitizers

UPDATE: June 1, 2009Risk Policy Report on 1,4 DioxaneA new EPA assessment showing significantly greater cancer risks from the solvent 1,4 dioxane -- a common contaminant at waste sites and in personal care products -- may give environmentalists greater leverage in their calls for manufacturers to remove the chemical from their products and for stricter cleanup requirements.READ FULL ARTICLERELATED ARTICLE------------------------------------Back in the last two decades of the 20th Century I was teaching a series of classes titled "Green Living"© throughout the Pacific NW.Since that time many people, especially now, are claiming to be experts in how to detoxify your home, garden, and physiological environment (inside and out).Like the wife of a past chiropractor of mine always says, "she foregets...

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Posted in: chloroform,dioxane,hand sanitizers,natural health news,personal care products,triclosan

Homeopathy Does Work in spite of critics

Unfortunate to know that Consumer Reports is stooping so low as to allow an article of this poor calibre to be printed on its pages, electronic and otherwise.FDA already has approved homeopathy because it has shown no adverse efects for more than 60 years.Its use goes back centuries. Even the Queen relies on it, and that should be a testimonial.Even medical schools taught this and relied on such remedies, just as they relied on herbs, until Big Pharma took over with its Rockefellerian debauched mentality.Or that Bastyr U acted greedily to block anyone except their graduates from using it to treat people, so much for over looking the strong tradition of lay homeopaths Pizzorno...Not only do I believe in the use of homeopathy, flower essences and other vibrational medicines, I use and manufacture...

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Fairbanks loses out to toxic fluoride and more health problems

Swallow your veggies not fluorideBy Carol KopfFluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth (1-3). However, the evidence is solid that lack of essential nutrients makes teeth more decay susceptible. Good dental health begins in the womb (4). Specifically, calcium, protein, phosphorus, vitamins A, C and D help construct babies' primary teeth, according to the American Dental Association. Additionally, protein-calorie malnutrition, iodine deficiency and excessive fluoride increase susceptibility to dental caries, according to the U.S. Surgeon General (5). Americans are deficient in calcium (6), magnesium (7), vitamins C (8) and D (9). No evidence indicates any American is fluoride-deficient. In fact, American children are fluoride overexposed (10). In the past fluoride was credited...

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