53 Organic Living Tips

53 Organic Living Tips

    1. Faucet water contains fluoride in all 50 states. Purchase a reverse osmosis filter to remove it. A Britta filter won’t be enough. I prefer my Big Berkey filtration system.
    2. Chlorine in water will evaporate after a few hours. Just leave it in a filter or jug in your fridge overnight.
    3. Though Nalgene bottles are BPA-free, they’ve been found to leech other chemicals. Use glass bottles to be 100{fa32f3da1db87532d93af57bebf07259016720c780c92cd8735931dd04d79e41} safe.
    4. Avoid anti-bacterial soap. Residue on dishes and hands gets in the stomach and kills your “good bacteria.”
    5. Cooking with coconut oil is better than olive oil. It has more Omega-3s and doesn’t oxidize in sunlight or high temperatures.
    6. Tom’s toothpaste is a great alternative to traditional toothpaste...
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The Pros and Cons of Purchasing Organic Foods Online

The Pros and Cons of Purchasing

Organic Foods Online

Have you just recently made the choice to begin eating healthier with organic foods?  For those who have, you might be trying to find ways to improve your shopping.  If that’s the case, chances are you would like to think about shopping for your organic foods online.

When it comes to purchasing organic foods online, many individuals first wonder if they can do so.  If you are one of those individuals, it truly is crucial to understand that you can. Next, many wonder if it’s really worth it to shop online for organic foods.  As for that answer, you might it depends.  An excellent method to determine if buying organic foods online is right for you is to examine the pros and cons of doing so.

One of the numerous pros to purchasing orga...

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Organic Foods the Environmental and Economic Impacts

Organic Foods the Environmental and Economic Impacts

In case you are considering switching to organic foods, you might initially start with little bit of  investigation. If that’s the case, you most likely are also looking to discover additional information and facts around the advantages of eating organically. When doing so, you’ll see there are a variety of health advantages to eating organically, but do you realize that organic foods can also help to improve the environment and as well as the economy? They can and to learn more on how so, please continue reading.

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Environmental contamination with pesticides (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It really is no secret that a lot of farmers use pesticides as well as other chemical substances when growing many fruits and vegetables...

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Hormonal Imbalances in Your Body

Hormonal Imbalances in Your Body

Hormonal Imbalances in your body will cause a long list of problems in both men and women, both sexes have the same hormones just in different ratio levels the following article does a wonderful job of explaining this and all the things available to correct the problem naturally instead of all the chemical fixes with the fake hormone replacements drugs which cause even more damage. I have to say this is one that the best articles I have read on this subject.

The only other comment I would add is that pure therapeutic grade essential oils such as Clary Sage, Clove, and Ylang Ylang can do a wonderful job of balancing the hormones. Zendocrin Detoxification Complex will help support a healthy cleaning of the liver, kidneys, colon, lungs, and skin...

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How to Read Produce Labels

How to Read Produce Labels

What do you think is one of the most confusing things to grocery shoppers? Produce stickers and labels hold a lot more information than simply the cute name or slogan of a fruit of veggie. By reading the sticker number, you can actually confirm if the piece of produce you hold in your hand is organic, not organic and/or genetically modified. How? Notice that the bar code on that sticker is for price information.

Next, notice that the labels on fruits and veggies will have a 4 or 5 digit code.

If your produce has 4 digits, it means that it was “conventionally grown, but not organic”.

If it has 5 digits, and begins with a 9, it means that the produce was organically grown.

A 5 digit code that begins with an 8 indicates that the produce was genetically

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GMO Food – The Weapon Against The Human Species

GMO Food – The Weapon Against The Human Species

Since Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act on March 29, 2013 I have read many articles pertaining to the dislike of the act and signed petitions to have it over turned or repealed. Some of you may not understand what all the hoopla is about this act or why others are so upset by it. I hope this article will help to clear the air somewhat for you.

Some of you may be asking just what is this GMO Food The Weapon Against The Human Species.

In case you don’t know what GMO means it is a genetically modified organism or a plant that has had its DNA injected scientifically to make it change. This is very different from the ages old cross breeding of crops of the same species, two types of tomatoes cross bred to get another third type of tomato.

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A River of Waste-The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

A River of Waste-The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

Today Poultry, Pork and Beef are primarily raised on factory farms. These farms are creating a number of health and environmental problems do to the way they are disposing of the sewage into our fragile waterways and environments. Also the over abundance of antibiotics and growth hormones are threatening the life of animals, humans and the future of our planet. Some Public Health institutions have called for a moratorium on the factory farms. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyl’s.” It appears that our modern American industrial system of meat and poultry production is really nothing more than a huge health and environmental scandal.

Many European countries have...

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