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Health

President’s Cancer Panel: Organic foods reduce environmental risks

May 7, 2010

Organic Trade Association (OTA) hails panel for empowering consumers with ways to reduce their cancer risk
GREENFIELD, Mass. (May 6, 2010)—. The President’s Cancer Panel Report released today exhorts consumers to choose food grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers , antibiotics, and growth hormones to help decrease their exposure to environmental chemicals that can increase their [...]

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Is My Food Really USDA Certified Organic?

March 10, 2010

What does “Organic” Mean?
Organic agriculture is a production method that emphasizes the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality. Organic food products are produced using:

Agricultural management practices that promote healthy eco-systems and prohibit the use of genetically engineered seeds or crops, sewage sludge, long-lasting pesticides, herbicides or [...]

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Natural Healing: Tea Tree and Lavender Essential Oils

March 3, 2010

Aromatherapy
By now everyone has heard the term. Many know what it means, and some know how to apply the use of essential oils into their everyday life. For me, the use of essential oils became a way of life when my son had ringworm. We had already seen the Doctor and tried many prescriptions, but [...]

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Tea University – Tea in India

February 19, 2010

Commercial tea cultivation in India was suggested to East India company as early as in 1778 by the English Botanist Sir Joseph Banks. The most authentic source of information on existence of tea in India came from Major Robert Bruce who discovered tea plants growing wild in Upper Assam; but much credit goes to his [...]

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Green Tea Catechins, Caffeine and Body-Weight Regulation

February 19, 2010

“The global prevalence of obesity has increased considerably in the last decade. Tools for obesity management including caffeine, and green tea have been proposed as strategies for weight loss and weight maintenance. These ingredients may increase energy expenditure and have been proposed to counteract the decrease in metabolic rate that is present during weight loss. [...]

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Tea University – The Legends of Tea

February 18, 2010

Legends About Tea
Emperor Shen Nung, one of the three revered mythical emperors of China, living in 2737 BC, is believed to have discovered this wonder plant. This Divine Healer, to whom the Chinese ascribe much of their early botanical knowledge and agro-practices, once while boiling water saw a few leaves from the branches of a [...]

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Tea University – Class 1

February 17, 2010

Tea as a Health Drink
The Chinese and the Japanese believe that tea is the ‘elixir of immortality’ and the ‘nectar fit for the Gods’. Literary giants like Lord Byron, Dr. Samuel Johnson, John Ruskin, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Shelly, John Keats, W.M. Thackery, H.W. Long Fellow and others were all avowed tea drinkers.
So , whenever you [...]

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Health Benefits of Rooibos Tea

January 2, 2010
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Rooibos (a.k.a. Red Bush) is an amazing plant grown exclusively in South Africa. It steeps up a deliciously sweet and slightly nutty tea (or herbal tisane) that is an excellent substitute for coffee when you don’t want caffeine (it has none) or just for the variety of health benefits and anti-oxidants that this plant offers. [...]

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Get Started with Homeopathy

July 13, 2009

Homeopathy is an alternative form of medicine that has been used for thousands of years to treat everything from life threatening illnesses to the common cold. While many people used to modern medicine may find it suspicious, it is still one of the most used types of medical treatment worldwide and is steadily gaining [...]

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