Our bodies are getting sick more often and in worse ways because we are killing off the microorganisms (some of which are good germs and bacteria) with all of our disinfecting.We recently stumbled across something called the Hygiene Hypothesis, which asserts that “our bodies are ecosystems that have been damaged by a rapid reduction, in [...]
Garlic is one of the oldest antiseptic treatments, both for topical cuts where you’d today probably apply neosporin, and for internal viruses and infections that you probably seek antibiotics for.Before there was penicillin. Before there was neosporin. Before there was listerine. There was GARLIC Garlic is one of the oldest antiseptic treatments, both for topical [...]
I don’t know if these are the only or best rules for happiness, but I can’t fault any one of these ideas as good for me.A dear friend on Facebook posted these last month, one at a time, to let them all sink in. I don’t know if these are the only or best rules [...]
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling a sidewalk before it stops snowing."Such an amusing and true sentiment, but all the more so with so many of our colleagues “playing” in the snow up north this week!
Boomer women are independent, doing things on their own and expect to be talked to in plain language that is not coated in male oriented, financial speak.Now that we’ve just celebrated Independence Day, I guess my mind has moved on to Boomer women’s independence. Some statistics say that people over 50 own 79% of all [...]
The influence of these wipes and salves does not end with our hands, but instead spreads from them down our drains and out into society. A few weeks ago as I was walking out of a Harris Teeter grocery store in Raleigh, North Carolina, I saw a man face a moment of crisis. You could [...]
The good news about potential health hazards around the house is that they are easy to uncover, and relatively inexpensive to correct. By Kate Carter, DivineCaroline You may have detected subtle hints that something might by awry: A persistent cough that seems related to the musty smell in your basement, the dastardly scent lingering on [...]
While vinegar meets the “safe” and “natural” categories many moms are looking for in a cleaner, we wanted to check out the “effective” part of the equation.Ask any mom-blogger who wants a clean and disinfected home for her little ones and who knows the dangers of toxic cleaning chemicals, and you’ll hear that vinegar has long [...]
Here are just a few of the many ways you can put salt to good use in your homeHow many ways can you use salt? According to the Salt Institute, about 14,000! I can’t think of another more versatile mineral. The use of salt to preserve food was one of the early cornerstones of civilization (preservation lessened the dependence [...]
Here to rescue Mother Nature from full bladders everywhere is AANDEBOOM, a Dutch design studio that has invented either the world’s cleverest or the world’s grossest makeshift restroom.Saving trees from full bladders everywhere. It’s an unfortunate fact of outdoor concerts: The number of toilets is always in inverse proportion to the number of drunk asses [...]
