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Are your cosmetics and beauty products filled with toxic chemicals? The Trouble with Toxins Every day, you’re exposed to a host of chemicals in personal products that can poison your brain and body. Toxins can be absorbed through the skin when you apply makeup, spray on perfume/cologne, use deodor
Americans love coffee! Surveys show that roughly 62% of Americans drink coffee every day, and 7 out of 10 drink coffee every week. Unfortunately, coffee doesn’t always love us back. Its high caffeine content can cause jitters and stoke feelings of anxiousness. Coffee can disrupt sleep, especially
Did you know that the average amount of time spent on social media worldwide is 147 minutes a day? That’s what the latest data shows. A decade ago, half of Americans were using some form of social media, but today, that figure has ballooned to 72%, according to Pew research. It makes one wonder, w
You’re watching television late at night when your stomach growls and you head to the kitchen to rummage for a salty, fatty, or sweet snack. You return and begin to munch while you watch. Before long, you’ve eaten the entire pint of ice cream, bag of chips, or box of cookies. You feel guilt and
The last weeks of summer can be brutally hot – and humid. In some areas, the warm weather lingers well into October as do insects like mosquitoes, ticks, wasps, bees, and flies. In fact, they can stick around until temperatures begin to dip into the 50s. And with fall comes spider-mating season. Y