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What are Artificial Growth Hormones and Why Are They in My Milk? rBGH, (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is a genetically modified veterinary drug, administered by injection, and is used to dramatically increase milk production in cows. Patented by Monsanto, rBGH was later renamed rBST (recombinant bovine soma-totropin) in an effort to drop the H and …
What is Your Health Trajectory? Today you have made choices that will affect your health, either positively or negatively. Think of the choices (conscious or not) you have made today that are likely to improve your health as well as those that are likely to reduce it. Like a bank account, we want the positives …
You may not be looking for cooking lessons, but what about a funny, absorbing, vacation book guaranteed to teach you something you can use in the kitchen when you head back home? The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is is just as worthy of space in your beach bag as it is on your cookbook shelf. …
“GMO firms are radically changing our food supply and we owe it to ourselves and our families to try to understand what they are doing and why. ” GMO Myths and Truths, Edition 2, John Fagan, PhD, Michael Antoniou, PhD, and Claire Robinson, MPhil “Roundup Ready©” and Monsanto are not new terms to me. Growing …
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson In these days of drive-thru food, instant streaming, Amazon Prime Now, and a world of information in our palm, we often focus on the harvest. We want to see results NOW. I am often tempted …
What are GRAS Additives? The GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) system, an FDA designation, was originally created to define a list of common food additives used prior to 1958. For example, sugar and vinegar were some of the original GRAS additives. However, GRAS has since become a loophole that food manufacturers use to avoid FDA …
“The greatest wealth is health.” Virgil We all want to feel energetic and strong; we want to avoid chronic illness and disease. As moms, we intend to feed our families health-promoting foods, not disease-promoting food-like substances. So, who is responsible for ensuring the foods we buy in the grocery store have been proven safe, not …
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Spring is in the air and many of us are adding weddings to our calendars. As you think about a wedding gift for a new couple, are you searching for a gift would be useful to them …
Last week I posted about using time tracking as a tool to discover more time for those projects or dreams that seem out of reach. This downloadable Time Tracker worksheet is a helpful guide in experimenting with time tracking. You might use it for a few days or decide that you want to use it as …
Is it even possible to find time in your day? How would you go about it? In the same way that it’s helpful to track our finances, it is also practical to track where our time goes – at least periodically. Since time and money are both finite resources, we can look to our finances …