Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Smokers, please dispose of them properly! A Largo woman captured a heartbreaking photo at the beach of a skimmer bird offering its chick a cigarette butt and she has a message: If you smoke, please don’t leave your butts behind.
If you do not think protecting yourself against EMF radiation is important, read this article.
FDA approved artificial sweeteners and some sports supplements were found to be toxic to digestive gut bacteria in new studies. Their consumption can adversely affect gut microbial activity, causing a wide range of health issues from cancers, weight gain, metabolic disorders, type-2 diabetes and alteration of gut microbiota activity. The research was published in Molecules by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Here’s something else to which I can aspire.
I think allowed to contribute is a more accurate label than making them do chores.
Milk from cows has been touted as making our bones stronger, and preventing conditions like osteoporosis. It turns out that it’s the complete opposite, that milk causes bone degeneration by leeching calcium from the bone.
From a large Swedish study: “High milk intake was associated with higher mortality in one cohort of women and in another cohort of men, and with higher fracture incidence in women.”