Last week, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a new edition of its Guide to Healthy Cleaning, an accessible database listing the health hazards and environmental concerns for more than 2,500 products used in the home. Since last update, hundreds of new products grace our supermarket shelves. “Cleaning products expose Americans daily to chemicals linked to asthma, allergic […]
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How did Medical wastes get into my glass of water?
This infographic explains it better than I can!
How are water filters tested and how are the tests used to sell water purifiers?
If you’re looking at buying the best water filter, wouldn’t you like to know it will do what it says? Unfortunately, 99% of water filters on the market are sold in the knowledge that you don’t know and will probably decide to believe what they tell you it will do. Water filter vendors service a huge market […]
Is this why our kids may be heading for early Alzheimers?
A large, multi-center study led by the UC Davis School of Medicine for the first time has shown that people as young as their 40s have stiffening of the arteries that is associated with subtle structural damage to the brain that is implicated in cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease later in life. A collaboration of […]
Water filters and Hard Water. 4 Choices you need to consider.
Hard water is water with high levels of alkaline minerals. It is the result of having high mineral content, usually calcium and magnesium ions. Dissolved rock causes scale, which impedes appliance performance and is the direct cause of energy inefficiencies and increased utility costs. It can be a serious problem for many water filter systems […]
Water filters; Luxury? Necessity? What would YOU do if this was your drinking water and you didn’t own a water filter?
Several top officials in Crystal City, TX, were recently arrested by the FBI on corruption charges. The circumstances have left local residents with little recourse amid a sudden tap water crisis that saw their tap water turn black and smelly. “Not dark or murky water — black water,” Gawker reported. Schools Superintendent Imelda Allen took […]
An Answer to the Plastic Bottle Problem?
Know how long a plastic water bottle can take to decompose? Up to 1000 years. Know how many bottles of water America alone drinks in a single year? approximately 50 billion. Scared yet? You should be, because unless we start firing our garbage out of giant cannons and into the sun, it’s safe to say […]
How much does it take to get people to give up acidic sugar?
In Thailand they believe it takes a lot. In order to raise awareness about the dangers that sugar poses to our health, The Diabetes Association of Thailand commissioned Thai designer Nattakong Jaengsem to come up with a campaign that would encourage the public to reduce their sugar intake. And as you can see from the […]
The Mighty Cucumber: Alkaliser of Champions! Alkaline diet? take Note!
Most people think cucumber is a vegetable ( technically a fruit) that we add as an afterthought in salads and side dishes. But it’s a ‘power’ alkaline diet essential, simply because it’s so easy to eat! But.. even I don’t see cucumbers in the grocery store and say, “Wow, I just gotta have those amazing cucumbers!” I […]
Why we continue to lab test our UltraStream water filter.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals contribute to reproductive health problems experienced by hundreds of thousands of women, costing European Union an estimated €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) a year in health care expenditures and lost earning potential. ~ Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study examined rates of uterine fibroids — benign tumors on the uterus […]
Alzheimers and lost memories. Are they really lost?
Alzheimer’s disease may cause us to forget faces, where we left familiar objects… even where we are… because our brains cannot find where we put those memories! At least that’s what a new study suggests. The study, reported in Nature1, challenges the assumption that Alzheimer’s prevents the brain from making new memories. It also suggests that brain stimulation may temporarily […]
Your Brain after a Big Mac
Devoted soda drinkers began to lose their minds when an infographic outlining the harmful effects a single can of Coca-Cola has on the body in one hour began circulating the Internet. Now a new infographic has revealed what a Big Mac from McDonald’s can do to the body in the same amount of time. In […]
