Healthy Homes

Is Your Messy Kitchen Making You Overeat?

  |   Decluttering, Eating Healthier, Healthy eating, Healthy Food Choice, Healthy Habits, Healthy Homes, Healthy Living   |   No comment

♦ According to science, avoiding unhealthy snacking can actually be as easy as decluttering your kitchen.   As a young ballerina, I remember poring over famous New York City Ballet dancer Allegra Kent’s The Dancer’s Body Book. It was full of tips and tricks (ranging from reasonable to...

Read More

Detoxify Your Home and Join the Green Cleaning Trend [with Infographic]

  |   Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Toxic Chemicals, Toxic Free Home Environment, Well-being, Wellness   |   No comment

↓ The DIY, homemade and all-natural cleaning worlds are sounding the alarm bells on commercial chemical cleaners found in stores. It’s no secret that commercial cleaning agents can be harmful to your health. All you have to do is smell them and read the warnings on their...

Read More

Scientific Study on Household Cleaning Products and Women’s Lung Health Explained

  |   Healthy Habits, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General   |   No comment

↓ A new, independent, 20-year research study reveals a sobering fact: cleaning your home with common, well-known grocery store products made with ammonia, chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectant compounds, and other dangerous chemicals significantly damages lung tissue in women. In fact, the study showed that cleaning with...

Read More

Are Your Pots And Pans Poisoning You?

  |   Awareness & Health, Eco-Friendly Living, Healthy Body, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Wellness   |   2 Comments

* Are Your Pots And Pans Poisoning You? * Like penicillin, Coca-Cola’s secret recipe, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the discovery of Teflon’s nonstick powers was a total and complete accident. Back in 1938, a chemist was trying to concoct freezing agents when he and his associates quickly recognized that...

Read More

Keeping Your Kids Toys Clean To Prevent Spreading Germs

  |   Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Smart Living, Toxic Free Home Environment   |   No comment

From a very young age, children are taught to share their toys. You will see this with Infants and toddlers, they love to explore new things by placing them in their mouths, touching them and carrying them around, then another child follows behind and scoops the...

Read More

Dealing with Springtime Allergies

  |   Allergies, Eco-Friendly Living, Health Awareness, Healthy Body, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Smart Living   |   No comment

Dealing with Springtime Allergies My sister jokes that she is “allergic to the spring season” because once the weather begins to change; she gets overwhelmed with all the signs of terrible allergies – constant sneezing, runny nose, headaches, watery eyes, chapped lips and overall discomfort. I...

Read More

Meditation: Entering the Liminal Zone

  |   Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Healthy Mind, Life In General, Problem Solving 101, Smart Living, Yoga & Meditation   |   No comment

  An excerpt from Beyond Mindfulness When you wake in the morning, you may notice a brief period when you’re between sleep and waking, when you’ve left the dreams of the night but haven’t yet entered into the identities and plans of the day. The gap may...

Read More

How Safe Is Your Kitchen Cookware?


  |   Eco Friendly Products, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style   |   No comment

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="450"] How Safe Is Your Kitchen Cookware?
[/caption] In recent years the companies responsible for the introduction of chemicals in widely used household goods such as cookware, some clothing, plastics, etc. since 1945 have been under much scrutiny for the effects that these chemicals...

Read More

Dangers of Fabric Softeners/Dryer Sheets

  |   Eco Friendly Products, Eco-Friendly Living, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Smart Living   |   1 Comment

 Dangers of Fabric Softeners/Dryer Sheets I read a startling and shocking article that posed the question as to whether fabric softeners laced with chemicals contribute to SIDS (Sudden  Infant Death Syndrome). According to Dr. Ron Harper, of the UCLA Medical School Brain Research Institute, he believes...

Read More

Clean Your Glass and Windows Without Toxic Ammonia

  |   Eco Friendly Products, Eco-Friendly Living, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Smart Living   |   1 Comment

Clean Your Glass and Windows Without Toxic Ammonia [caption id="attachment_8409" align="alignleft" width="397"] Clean Your Glass and Windows Without Toxic Ammonia[/caption] There's nothing more frustrating than cloudy streak-ridden windows and mirrors, especially after you've just cleaned them. And though you might be urged to wash those windows again,...

Read More

Spring Cleaning for your House and Mind

  |   Health Awareness, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Life In General, Spring Cleaning   |   10 Comments

[caption id="attachment_8268" align="alignright" width="300"] Clean Your House and Mind[/caption] Clean Your House and Your Mind Will Follow The equinox has come and gone, and I find myself thinking about spring cleaning. You’ve likely seen the emerging body of research espousing the psycho-emotional value of keeping a clean...

Read More

Toxin-Free Bedding

  |   Health Awareness, Healthy Homes, Healthy Life Style, Smart Living, Toxic Free Home Environment   |   No comment

[embed]https://vimeo.com/119748981[/embed] Toxin-Free Bedding If you're like most people, you will spend approximately 1/3 of your life span in bed, but don't realize how many dangerous chemicals are lurking between your sheets. On this episode of Conscious Living ®, we uncover some of the hidden toxins in traditional...

Read More