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The Truth about Bottled Water

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: April 13, 2010
Marketing tactics aimed at manufacturing demand through FEAR would like for you to believe that bottled water is healthy water. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of bottled water, purchasing approximately 50 billion bottles per year! According to food & water watch, “Bottled water wastes fossil fuels and water in production and transport, [...]
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The Story of STUFF!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: March 9, 2010
Have you ever stopped to consider…“Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?” Annie Leonard has. If you haven’t heard much about Annie Leonard yet, you will. Her new book, The Story of Stuff, was released yesterday. I would suggest that everyone read this book. Prior to purchasing [...]
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Fill your stomach. Not the Landfill!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 18, 2010
According to Clean Air Council, Americans throw out enough paper bags and plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times! Check out TakeOutWithOut (TOWO). Founder K.B. Lee founded TOWO to convince restaurants to encourage customers to bring their own containers when buying take out and to ask customers to cut back [...]
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ACT NOW! McCain Bill to Kill Supplements!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 10, 2010
Do you take supplements and/or herbs? Have you heard of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 bill? Senator John McCain has introduced a bill that if passed, will drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. Please click HERE to read more about the implications of this bill and to sign [...]
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Food Matters – A Documentary You MUST See!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover… How to use food as medicine Who needs vitamins? Is organic better? How safe is our food? Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol Foods [...]
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CBS Evening News to Report on Antibiotics in Food-Animal Production, Feb 9th and 10th

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
CBS Evening News will air a two-part report on antimicrobial use in food-animal production. The series is scheduled for evening news broadcasts Feb. 9 and 10, at 6:30pm EST. Featuring Katie Couric, the report will investigate both meat and poultry production. See full article HERE.
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Next on the White House Agenda…Drug-resistant Infections from Meat?

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Antibiotics and hormones are fed to livestock, poultry, and fish on factory farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to healthy farm animals. [...]
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What to Eat – It’s Complicated!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: January 29, 2010
At a recent lunch with a new friend, the following dreadful words slipped from her mouth…”Please don’t judge me while I eat this!”, as she took her first bite of burger. Not again! Why do so many meat eaters new to my life assume I’m judging them? They either try to defend eating meat, shamefully [...]
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Feed Your Libido – Vegan Sources of Zinc to Boost Your Libido (Includes Recipe!)

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: January 18, 2010
Author: Rachel Venokur-Clark, feedyourlibido.com Photo by steffenz Zinc is an essential mineral that carries out numerous functions in your body, including promoting a healthy immune system, protecting the liver from damage and it even helps you to heal from wounds. Find yourself deficient in this mineral and your libido will be screaming out to be fed. Zinc [...]
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Vermicomposting – The Red “Wonders” from “Down Under”

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: January 12, 2010
Meet the newest additions to our family – Eisenia Fetida (Red Worm), also known as…The Squirmy Bunch! Denis and I started vermicomposting last year and we just received another pound of Red Worms this week. I love them already! Composting is a natural process of rotting material down to make a soil like product which [...]
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