For my past several dental visits, I’ve been told that my upper gums are inflamed. The dentist thought it was due to either plaque or breathing with my mouth open, and was probably aggravated by hormone levels (which were up due to being pregnant and nursing). I am now flossing twice a day, brushing after [...]
Filed under: Personal Care Products on May 26th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Two years ago, my husband and I tried gardening for the first time. We had planted herbs previously, but that year, we also did tomatoes, zucchinis, spinach, bell peppers, and poblanos. It was a huge success. Last year, we were selling our house and moving, so we didn’t plant a thing. And I missed it [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition on May 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is almost 90 degrees where I live and it’s reminding me that soon many people will be running their ACs all day, using up a lot of energy. Here are some ways you can use less yourself:
Do back to back loads of laundry. You’ll use less energy drying the clothes as the heat from [...]
Filed under: Environment on May 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, I got together with a bunch of my girlfriends. The subject of birth control came up and I was reminded of how unhealthy and unnatural most of our options are. I am completely against the birth control pill, philosophically (what could be more unnatural than taking hormones daily–hormones that affect every cell in [...]
Filed under: Personal Care Products on May 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m reading a book I recommend called The Inflammation Syndrome. I don’t want to go into too many details regarding what the book is about, since I’ve already recently reviewed a book on inflammation, but I do want to discuss a really great point that the author, Jack Challem, addresses.
He points out that we don’t [...]
Filed under: Environment, Food and Nutrition on May 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
On Earth Day 2009, I said that I was going to start biking to the gym instead of driving. And I have been! My husband tuned up my bike and I started riding again for the first time in 6 years. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy it! It doesn’t take that much longer to [...]
Filed under: Environment on May 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
A couple weeks ago, a dear friend of mine discovered that some neurologial symptoms he’d been having were in fact due to a brain tumor. The tumor is located so deep in his brain that it’s inoperable. Today, he starts radiation. He’s 29.
My friend is a smart guy. Within a week of his diagnosis, he [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Food and Nutrition on May 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
When I first started this blog, a friend of mine asked if I could write about why allergies are becoming so common. Why do so many young kids these days seem to be allergic to peanuts? Why is asthma on the rise? At the time, I told her I suspected an environmental trigger that was [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Food and Nutrition on May 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments »