To Your Health

        Eating local means more for the local economy.
        Locally grown produce is fresher.
        Local food just plain tastes better.
       
        Locally grown fruits and vegetables have longer to ripen.
        Eating local is better for air quality and pollution than eating organic.
     
        Buying local food keeps us in touch with the seasons.
        Buying locally grown food is fodder for a wonderful story.
       
        Eating local protects us from bio-terrorism.
        Local food translates to more variety.
        Supporting local providers supports responsible land development.
        
        Read more here. http://www.eatlocalfrederick.com/
       
       From the Eat Local Challenge,Jennifer Maiser
       Eat Local Challenge- Frederick
     

Those jugs you stashed away last year are better used now to water plants
Tuesday, February 06, 2001
By Don Hopey, Post-Gazette Staff Writer

It’s been more than a year since the Y2K frenzy of flop sweat gripped the general
 populace and over a month since we squeezed past the real start of the millennium
with embarrassingly little in the way of bang or whimper. With all that millennial
madness now safely behind us, folks are free to address what has become the next
truly important issue — what to do with all that canned meat and bottled water they
put aside to get through the end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it-prophecies.

  Experts agree that it’s a bad idea to store any bottled water indefinitely.
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010206hwater4.asp

Tuesday , July 17, 2007

A new study by U.S. researchers shows that eating small amounts
 of grapefruit every day could raise the risk of developing breast cancer
 by almost a third.

The study looked at 50,000 post-menopausal women and found that
eating just a quarter of a grapefruit daily raised the risk by up to 30 percent,
according to a report from BBC News.

The fruit is thought to boost levels of oestrogen – the hormone associated\
 with a higher risk of the disease, the British Journal of Cancer reported.

For the study, women filled out questionnaires asking how often they ate
grapefruit and how big their portions were.

The findings showed women who ate one quarter of a grapefruit or more
every day had a higher risk of developing breast cancer and higher levels
of oestrogen in their bodies than those who did not eat the fruit at all.

"Therefore, if grapefruit intake affects oestrogen metabolism leading to
higher circulating levels, then it is biologically plausible that regular intake
of grapefruit would increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer," the researchers
wrote in the study.

But the University of Southern California and University of Hawaii researchers,
as well as other experts, said more research is needed.
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June 14, 2007
What’s Really Lurking in Your Kitchen?

We spend a lot of time in our homes and plenty of time cleaning them.
The quality of the air we breathe and what’s in that bucket of water we
scrub with can be seriously affected by the cleaning solutions we choose.

Maybe you’re a Mom who has kids with allergies, or you’re environmentally
 conscious or even just wanting fewer chemicals around you. Non-toxic
cleaners are probably at the top of your list to learn about.

Here are three quick and easy natural cleaning solutions you can use to replace
 some of those chemical laden commercial bottles with that are lurking under
your kitchen sink:

Steam – that’s right, I said steam; carpets, tile, concrete … pretty much anything
 can be cleaned with just plain old steam if done correctly

Vinegar – this all-purpose wonder cleaner is good for so many natural cleaning
applications. This site has a cleaning with vinegar list that can’t be beat

Baking Soda – makes oil, grease and dirt water-soluble, it’s also useful as an
abrasive (think toothpaste) and kills strong odors

According to these folks, who run a cleaning business and have a list of natural
cleaning solutions, even getting your whites super white is possible with something
as simple as lemon juice.