EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Sunlight fuels life on Earth, delivering infrared light—long revered for its health benefits across cultures. While technology often sparks both innovation and skepticism, research leaves no doubt: absorbing infrared light can improve circulation,...
Beyond the Recipe: How Your Cooking Tools Change Everything
EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Chances are if you step into an Airbnb rental, a hotel that is kitchen-equipped, a friend’s house, or perhaps your own home, you’ll find pots and pans with black interior coatings; sometimes scratches in the material are visible. Research shows it’s...
Threatening Wildfires: Empower Yourself and Mitigate Toxicity
EDITOR’S SUMMARY: Once you’ve been through the chaos and uncertainty of a festering, unrelenting wildfire in your neighborhood or nearby area, you’re likely to gain a heightened sense of what’s meaningful to you. It’ll make you think of survival in a way you may never...
From Taps to Showers: The Necessity of Comprehensive Water Filtration
There's a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that's mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.” ~ Erin Brockovich, American paralegal,...
LED Light Bulbs: Energy Savers That Put a Damper on Your Health
EDITOR’S SUMMARY: It’s not that incandescent light bulbs are impossible to find, but if you want to stick with the “healthier than LED” bulb, you’ll need to take a step beyond going down to your local hardware store. There are other ways you can conserve energy, e.g.,...
Investigating Candle Toxicity: Creating Ambiance With Natural, Nontoxic Lighting
“Burning an aromatherapy candle made of paraffin is similar to preparing a healthy drink of fresh-squeezed juice and adding a shot of gasoline.” ~ Eric Johnson, wholesaler of nontoxic aromatherapy candles By Sarah Campise Hallier Candle use is steeped in tradition,...
The Wildly Unreasonable Toxicity of Plug-in Air Fresheners
“Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.” ~Gaylord Nelson (1916–2005), American politician, environmentalist, and...
Beyond Fashion: Examining the Impact of Clothing on Your Health
EDITOR'S SUMMARY: It's easy to miss the obvious—important aspects of your life that get overlooked, such as the quality of your clothing. Worn daily, touching your skin, and impacting your health. There’s more than meets the eye to these garments you wrap around...
Laundry Detergents: Avoiding Dangers and Trickery of Mainstream Products
EDITOR'S SUMMARY: You’re walking down the street in a suburban neighborhood; make that urban, or inner city, or quantifiably any ‘ole town anywhere. Festering in the air, the thick, dense aroma wafts by you, burning your sinuses and just about choking you. You know...