According to healthychildren.org, did you know that every year over half of the 2.4 million people who either swallow or come into contact with poisons are under the age of six years of age? And it's no wonder. Look in your kitchen or bathroom cupboards. Really look. What do you see? If you're like most Americans, you see [...]
Category: Health and nutrition
Bacteria & Food: Is 5-second rule mankind’s undoing?
After reading this article, Scientists Study What to Do If You Drop a Cookie on the Floor, I began to think about mankind's dilemma of "eat it or not eat it" after dropping prized, delectable morsels.
When a recovering journalist/writer turned nutritionist goes book shopping
Last week my partner and I had discovered a new used bookstore locally, and found ourselves in a toyland. We're obsessed with anything that has pages sandwiched between two decorative flaps. It's the same every time: My partner immediately finds himself tugged toward the art or graphic novel section, and I toward the self-help, crafts [...]
Going unplugged
On this day, National Day of Unplugging, the irony is not lost on me that I post this blog on a day that if you were truly observing this much-needed holiday, you would not be reading it. So, shame on you. You disgrace yourself and this holiday with your device tethered to you like an [...]
March Health (and etc.) Observations
Happy March, everyone! Here in the desert, we are enjoying the chilly aftermath of our first winter rain this season. And the weeds will rejoice! Speaking of rejoicing, I thought it would be fun to give everyone something to celebrate over the next month with many of the health-related and just plain fun and goofy [...]
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