“But I don’t like it!” “Yuck!” “Ewww!” Sound familiar? How many times have you heard these words come out of your child’s mouth? Often we hear our children say these words before they have had even one bite of a new food. Developing a taste for a new food is a learning process. When […]
How to choose a good massage therapy school
Perhaps because of its increasing popularity, states have taken notice of massage therapy clinics and created laws to regulate its practice in the country. Although this is largely advantageous to the millions of Americans who have been availing of their services in the country, it has frustrated a lot of massage therapists in the country. […]
Greenwashing – A National Sin?
Throughout the mid-nineties and up until the early part of this decade, I worked in the organic cotton, hemp, and recycled apparel industry. I began as an employee and then partner in a retail store on Venice Beach and in Santa Monica, California. Then manufactured a line of men’s and women’s undergarments called, Alternative Undies, […]
Food Fight: Proposed Legislation Threatens Small Farmers, Citizen Consumers
www.backupamerica.org “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people” – Henry Kissinger In the wake of the recent health "threats" due to the peanut/salmonella scare, Mexican tomato/salmonella scare and swine flu scares, Congress has been gearing up in order to supposedly "protect" the American citizens and consumers with two bills […]
Understanding India’s Kidney Racket
One of the lesser known stories in India’s health sector is that every year is the number of people dying of kidney failure every year. In over 90 per cent of people developing kidney failure in India, the outcome is death. In 2004-05, it is estimated that over 1, 00,000 people died due to kidney […]