Food & Health
Getting The Most From Your Farmer’s Market — Thinking of heading out to your friendly farmer’s market to celebrate the start of summer? Here are some tips to help you maximize the experience.
How To Shop For Seafood — For most of us, walking into a seafood store is an exercise in both ignorance and hope: we’re ignorant of what’s available but we hope we’ll leave with what we want. We all know fish come in two colors: the red one is salmon and the rest are white. Here is what you should know about fish.
CDC Website Helps You Assess Local Environmental Hazards — For those who are frustrated by the vast dispersed array of information on environmental threats to our health, a website assembled by the Centers for Disease Control may offer some relief.
Consider Natural Beauty Products And Avoid Hidden Toxins — After the Environmental Working Group released research on toxins in beauty products showing that teen girls could be especially vulnerable, we took a closer look at alternative beauty supplies. These products opt for botanicals and other natural and organic ingredients over the suspect synthetic chemicals — phthalates, parabens and made-made fragrances — that can lurk in your body butter and play games with your hormone or immune system.
Light Pollution: What You Need To Know — For those of us who live in urban areas, an overabundance of artificial nighttime light, or light pollution, is nothing new. But light pollution isn’t just a bane to astronomers and an annoyance to the rest of us: studies show that it also poses real health risks, including some increased rates of cancer.
Plastic Containers: What You Need To Know — Along with the many joys that are associated with cooking, baking and parties comes a lurking environmental problem: Toxic chemicals in everyday plastics. Plastics that seem to be everywhere in our midst — in the packaging of toys, the toys themselves, our food packaging, in our leftover storage containers, in plastic wrap, in water bottles — and the list goes on.
