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I’m extremely eager to get my garden started, which might explain why I spent a full hour yesterday ogling the 2010 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalogue. The Missouri-based seed distributor has an impressive array of flower, fruit, and vegetable varieties. I mean, the catalogue has a full eight pages of melons! (Ever heard of a Indian [...] Do you reach for chocolate when you’re feeling down? An Archives of Internal Medicine study released last week says you’re not alone. The study found that depressed people tend to eat more chocolate, on average—up to 60 percent more. The authors did not determine whether it’s the chocolate that makes people more depressed—or if [...] The Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently released its 2010 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides—an annual list of the 50 most popular fruits and vegetables in the US, ranked by level of pesticide contamination. EWG recommends that consumers buy organic only for 12 most-contaminated on the list—the so-called “Dirty Dozen.” (Note: Celery is the most contaminated.) For cleaner [...] As April draws to a close, we thought we’d take a couple moments to honor National Autism Awareness Month (this April is the first annual). The Facts: Last year the CDC issued a report showing that 1 in 110 children (and 1 in 70 boys) in the US today is born with autism spectrum disorder—a developmental [...] Being a Natural Solutions editor comes with lots of perks. My personal favorite? The books. I’m always getting new reads hand-delivered to my desk: mouthwatering cookbooks, how-to-live-better tomes, natural-cure encyclopedias. I wish I could read them all, cover to cover. But (truthfully) at the end of a long day of editing and writing, the last thing I [...] Tomorrow, the Natural Solutions editors leave for Natural Products Expo West, an annual natural industry trade show in California. We’ll be scouting and schmoozing and finding great new products to tell you about in future issues of the magazine. While we’re gone, tho, we might be offline for a bit. Fear not: We’ll be back [...] |
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