Holiday Trimmings Part 1- Get Physical

by Marcel January 25, 2010

This post is part 1 of 3 in the Healthy 2010 series. If you want to receive future blog posts from this site in your email inbox as they are posted then feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed located on the right sidebar. With a new year comes New Year’s resolutions. For most [...]

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Children of the Corn Syrup

by Marcel December 15, 2009

Many children growing up in the U.S. today are overweight, or at least weigh more than they should be for their age. I’m not even 40 yet and I can still remember back to my grade school days when there were only a couple of kids in the whole school that were really overweight, and [...]

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What’s your cell phone radiation level?

by Marcel November 17, 2009

When I mentioned to a (much younger) coworker that I was thinking about getting a blackberry he said nonchalantly “don’t get the 8300 model because it has one of the highest radiation levels of all phones”. I’ve always known that cell phones emit some sort of signal that could potentially be bad for your brain, but beyond that I didn’t really have much more knowledge of the issue, nor did I initially consider factoring that into my buying decision.

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Water Down the Drain

by Marcel August 20, 2009

As a follow up to my last post about clean drinking water I wanted to add a post about water conservation. Everyone knows how important this is but rarely takes the subject to heart. Water flows freely here in this country as it does in many other places with little pressure on conserving it; except [...]

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Got water?

by Marcel June 16, 2009

Water is everywhere so people tend to take it for granted. Approximately 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, and the human body is made up of about the same percentage. Naturally this means you need to keep your body hydrated on a daily basis with good clean drinking water. By drinking beverages [...]

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I ♥ Baking Soda

by charlotte May 6, 2009

I “discovered” baking soda when I spilled something in the oven and made a huge burnt food mess. Sure, I’ve used baking soda forever but I never knew that it was more than just a baking agent. I tried to clean up the mess with a scraper but it seemed like it bonded with the [...]

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The Future of Food

by Marcel April 27, 2009

People ask me all the time why I waste money on organic foods, or go through all the effort of my restrictive diet to abstain from beef and avoid eating foods with MSG, corn syrup, GMO’s, RBGH, and other items the FDA claims are GRAS (generally regarded as safe). The main reason is simply that [...]

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CFLs- A Brilliant Idea

by Marcel March 16, 2009

By now just about everyone knows about the new swirly looking CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) and just how big an advancement they are in energy conservation. What people don’t know is that they need to be recycled properly to maximize the benefit they provide to the environment. The main reason for this is that [...]

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Organics To You

by charlotte February 26, 2009

Recently we attended the Everything Green Oregon event at the Oregon Convention Center. There were a wide variety of businesses and organizations there promoting their business or cause. Some of the more interesting booths included water filtration products, electric car exhibit, and solar energy companies. Being foodies we were most interested in the CSAs (community [...]

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Grow Your Own

by Marcel February 18, 2009

Agriculture is one of the most important developments in human history. About 10,000 years ago humans figured out how to obtain food from cultivated plants and herded livestock enabling us to put our roots down (so to speak). This incredible advancement in human history allowed humankind to make the leap from hunter-gatherers to civilized society. [...]

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