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Winter ushers in cold weather, holidays, and cold and flu season. This year, I am determined to stay clear of the good ol’ Dayquil, Nyquil, Dayquil, Nyquil cycle. As we all know, the virus that causes the common cold has no cure. Echinacea, a popular natural remedy, has never been proven clinically effective, and there are potential side effects to ingesting the herb. Fortunately, there are several tried and true methods of relieving cold symptoms naturally. Doctors always recommend increasing fluid intake and getting plenty of rest. Here are several suggestions that will help you do just that!

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Last weekend's trip to the farmer's market was markedly different from last week's, a sure sign that fall is on it's way. Sweet corn had been replaced by squashes in every shape and color. The green beans I had been hoping to buy and freeze were no more, potatoes red, brown, and purple in their place.. Soon, pumpkins, mums, and apples will take over and fall will have officially arrived.

As we enjoy the last weeks of summer (or “freedom,” as kids may call them), it’s time to prepare for the new school year. For organic families, the emphasis is on healthful lunches. Sound challenging? Not if you follow these four kid-pleasing tips.

1. Protein in Perspective

Years ago, our moms sent us to school with protein-heavy meat sandwiches and coins to buy whole milk. These days, it’s easy to lighten up with your kids’ favorite organic vegetables, low-fat cheese or tofu—each of which proves wholesome with whole-grain bread. Beans are another terrific source of protein and fiber, with negligible saturated fat.

As of right now, Poppy Organic claims to be the first and only organic skincare brand to include birch bark extract in their ingredient mix. Why is this important, or useful, or exciting? For the fair skin-types, like myself, who have to be extra careful in the sun, BBE (birch bark extract) might “prevent and help to treat UV-induced skin cancer.” I know just from looking in the mirror that the sun has caused some damage to my skin, so I’m about to take a closer look at this unique line of skincare.

After reading about Synergy Kombucha, a totally raw, all-natural and organic Chinese tea, while flipping through a health mag recently, I was left intrigued. Boasting health benefits like increased energy levels, improved digestion, healthier skin and hair and stronger immune system functioning, the product sounded more like liquid gold than tea.

 

All around the world there are millions of individuals who only eat kosher food. Despite the large number of people who do eat it, there are even more who have no idea what kosher food is.

Kosher food is often termed a Jewish food. Jewish followers are the most common kosher food consumers, but they are not the only ones. There are individuals who eat kosher food simply because the food is often considered better than traditional food. Jewish law is used to determine exactly what food is kosher and what is not.

he course of running our b&b, 'Ive eaten alot of scrambled eggs. I've gone dozens of articles and scoured the e internet to find the perfect recipe and method to create what - for all appearances - would seem like the easiest dish in the world to make.

Eggs are little packages of goodness. And they are cheap. Or used to be, before eggs stopped being “eggs” and became “cage free,” “organic,” “antibiotic free,” “fed a vegetarian diet,” and the like. The egg is no longer an egg, but a choice. And eating eggs is no longer just about taste or health, but about food purity and animal rights as well.

Eggs come from chickens, not cartons. But in the grocery store I, too, pause at the egg case in frustration. What do all the labels really mean? Which eggs should I buy, and for which reasons?

Conventional egg production, otherwise known as the battery system, crams as many as six chickens into a cage at a time, leaving each bird with less personal space than a sheet of ordinary notebook paper. Critics say the battery system causes the spread of disease, requires the painful debeaking of birds, and restricts natural bird behaviors, such as dusting or nesting.

I didn’t want to buy eggs from these birds, but wasn’t sure how to figure out which eggs came from which birds. So, after talking to farmers, poultry scientists, and a physician, I put together the following guide to egg-carton terminology.
Brown eggs

Brown eggs come from chickens with brown feathers, and white eggs come from chickens with white feathers. The color of the shell indicates nothing about the egg’s nutritional profile, taste, or the manner in which the laying hen was raised.
Natural

“Natural” sounds swell, but the label is unregulated and lacks meaning.
Vegetarian / Vegetarian diet

This label indicates that no animal by-products, such as beef tallow or chicken feathers, are in the chickens’ feed. And “vegetarian” sure sounds healthy. But chickens are natural omnivores who like to spend time outside digging for protein in the form of insects and worms, so the “vegetarian” label is really just another way of saying that the hens can’t go outside.

Still, an all-vegetarian diet is nutritionally possible for chickens with the addition of synthetic vitamin B-12.

When a friend says, “what’s the use?” and she’s driving a Prius, eating organic and xeriscaping her yard to save water, I have to listen up. I’m one of those women who says, “Every difference makes a difference.” And she, Theresa, is making a big difference. In addition to having bought a hybrid car, she also works from home and so avoids commuting and polluting the earth.