Sugar: Whats in a word?
Sugars are not just “empty calories”, sugar is a major anti-nutrient that can wreck havoc with your health.
Continue reading »Tapped
The movie was worth watching, but the obnoxious CEO of Nestle Waters was what turned my kid into an activist.
Continue reading »Water Week Day #5 Saving $ in Government.
Tweet OK, so if your town and county is like mine, they are hurting for money right now. So here’s a way that municipalities can save money and create better health for their employees at the same time. It’s time to think outside the bottle. You may have attended town meetings or county events in [...]
Continue reading »Water Week Day #4 Greenwashing
Tweet Earlier this week, I blogged about Green Washing with my new wash machine. there’s another kind of greenwashing, but it has nothing to do with laundry. Greenwashing is a form of white washing. It is the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly. These sort of deceptive practices have [...]
Continue reading »Water Week Day #3 BYOB
Tweet I remember a few years back when I first started using cloth bags for food shopping. It took a while to build a solid habit. To remember to bring the bags into the store, and to put them back in the car when I was finished with them at home. After a few months, [...]
Continue reading »Day #2 of Water Week: Green Washing
Tweet When life hands you lemons, there is often an opportunity to make lemonade. Last week, one of my daughters cleaned her room by overloading our wash machine with all the clothes that had been festering on her floor. This overload of laundry caused my 10+ year old wash machine to up and die. The [...]
Continue reading »Water: The Best Beverage
Tweet In all of my years as a health professional, teacher and consultant, I’ve been telling patients, clients and students the same thing about what to drink. It’s really simple. Drink water. As a dentist in private practice, I worked hard to convince parents of young toddlers to stay away from juice and drink water [...]
Continue reading »Book Review: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Tweet A friend recommended The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight to me recently. Its one of those books filled with the bad news that makes many look away: we are running out of cheap fossil fuel, clean water and other scary stuff. The author Thom Hartmann, who has written many books on ADHD, makes an [...]
Continue reading »Bill, Please Re-think Your Drink!
Tweet Bill McKibben is one of my heroes. He’s an author, educator and environmentalist who has done more than just about anyone I know to engage and inspire people to take a stand on climate change. The world has tapped Bill for a big mission and he has stepped up beautifully. Thanks to Bill, [...]
Continue reading »April Showers
Tweet What do Stephen Colbert & I have in common? We both are looking at the many issues surrounding water this month.This month, my free teleclass was all about WATER. If you missed it, you can dial this number to catch a recording of it. Call (712) 432-1286 and press 670585#. If you’d like, you [...]
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