New Year Resolutions

Simple, easy new year’s resolutions that can have a big impact on your well-being:
1. Get more sleep. Before you reach for the melatonin, work on the basics first. Sleep hygiene means trying to go to bed the same time each night, have a ritual such as taking a hot shower or drinking some tea (chamomile [...]

Plastics & Puberty

New York Times ran two recent articles on precocious puberty (one,two). It seems that American children are showing signs of puberty earlier than previous generations and this has raised concerns for many.
What’s to blame? It may be a combination of factors: widespread exposure to hormones in meats and milk; hormone-mimicking molecules found in plastics (such [...]

Wild vs Farmed Salmon

Farmed salmon has been shown to have 5-10x more PCB’s than wild salmon, and higher levels of pesticides like DDT, flame retardants and other carcinogens.Based on EPA guidelines (updated 1999), humans should not be eating farmed salmon more than once a month. Much less for children or older people. FDA guidelines, which allows for more [...]