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Packaged Food Is Mystery Food, Part I: Additives

Corey Rennell | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Food Additives, Packaged Foods, Health Food, Nutrition, Diet and Nutrition, Preservatives, Healthy Food, Natural Health, Food and Additives, Additives in Food, Processed Foods, Custom-Diet-and-Nutrition, Healthy Living News
Corey Rennell

Modern food science has discovered that by using chemical additives we can now make old food appear almost as good. As a result, additives are now used in nearly every packaged food. This trend lies at the heart of our health problems.

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10 Ways To Tell If A Product Is (Or Isn't) Really 'Natural'

Beth Greer | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Cosmetic Labels, Personal Health, Cleaner-and-Greener, Healthier-Greener-Home, Natural, Fda, Makeup Labels, Natural Health, Makeup, Organic, Redroom, Product Safety, Nontoxic, Healthy Living Body, Green Products, Preservatives, Personal Care Labels, Eco-Safe, Healthy Living News
Beth Greer

"Natural," "Nontoxic" or even "Eco-Safe" on the label of your shampoo, deodorant or makeup, makes you think it'd be made with healthy, safety-tested ingredients, right? Well, not always.

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Think Outside the Box, Especially When it Comes to Cake

Organic Authority.com | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Eriched Bleached, Cellulose Gum, Fats, Partially Hydrogenated, Cake, Wheat Flour, Mixes, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Dextrose, Modified Corn Starch, Duncan Hines, Organic Food, Wheat Starch, Phosphates, Yellow 5, Cancer, Preservatives, Artificial Flavors, Food News
Organic Authority.com

Whether a mix or a homemade cake rates better on the tasty-scale, will probably be a debate that goes on, well, forever. But from a health standpoint, there's no debate. Homemade cakes are healthier, even if it is dessert.

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Process or Perish: Praise for Packaged Food

Karen Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nathalie Depree, Candy, Processed Food, Elissa Altman, Frozen Vegetables, Kimchi, Chips, Wal-Mart, Canned Beans, Live Food, Chutney, The Family Dinner, Grocery Shopping, Peanut Butter, Hot Sauce, Organic, Sugar, Salt, Kris Carr, Cooking, Intervention, James Beard Award, Chef Timothy Tucker, Laurie David, Raw Food, Victoria Moran, Candle 79, Preservatives, Health Food, Costco, Food News
Karen Kelly

Families can't always whip up a from-scratch meal every night. What kinds of canned, boxed or bagged items do you have in your pantry? And can you live without them?

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The Quest for the Secret of Really Green Pesto, Part 1

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesto, Whole Foods, Pasta, Organic Gardening, Preservatives, Basil-Recipes, Style News
Maria Rodale

Pesto is one of my culinary specialties and one of my goals this summer was to discover how to keep pesto really green.

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Greening Hollywood: Eco-Beauty And Sustainable Skincare (Part 1)

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Bio-Dynamic, Organic Skincare, Joshua Onysko, 1, Personal Care Products, Truth in Labeling, Environmental Working Group, Formaldehyde, Not Just a Pretty Face, Lead in Lipsticks, 4 Dioxane, Contaminants, California Proposition 65, Fda, Stacy Malkan, Eli Hallliwell, Goji Berries, Totora Tree, Preservatives, Whole Foods, Jurlique, Skindeep, Nordstrom's, Anthropologie, SB 1712, Environment, Pangea Organics, Johnson & Johnson, Estee Lauder, Procter & Gamble, Revlon, Green Living, Green News
Paige Donner

Do we really know what we're buying when we buy "natural" and "certified organic" skincare products? Quite a few experts would insist that no, actually, we do NOT.

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