Organic Bananas – are they worth it?

Banana’s are important to our diet.  They provide much needed potassium, prevent leg cramps, improve your mood and reduce PMS symptoms. I like to buy organic bananas because it just makes sense and everyone I have told about them, has had the same reaction.  [See other benefits of eating bananas.]

English: Chiquita bananas.

Chiquita bananas – We don’t buy Dole.

The organic bananas look the same but that is where the similarities end. Take the peal down and expose the soft luscious banana.  You can visibly see and feel the difference.  The skin is firmer, even when ripe. The taste is indescribable: it is what a banana should be.

 

Bananas: Organic vs. Conventional

You may be thinking that all those chemicals used to grow conventional bananas are no big deal because you peel the fruit. But the chemicals are not just on the outside of the banana – they leach into the soil that is used to grow the produce. So even if you peel your banana, it doesn’t prevent you from ingesting small amounts of those chemicals. Although you may feel better knowing most  experts  agree that the amount you ingest poses little threat to your health.

If you’re concerned about the nutritional value of your food, there are ongoing  studies  exploring the connection between pesticides and nutrients in foods; so far it looks like organic is healthier. Organic produce is also better for the planet since chemical pesticides make their way into the soil and run off into water sources.

Give organic bananas a try.  They are simply delicious and your body will thank you.

We’ve been sold a bill of goods!

Everything you thought you knew is a big fat lie…

Antibacterial Finished Acrylic Medium Weight Yarn

Antibacterial Finished Acrylic Medium Weight Yarn!  WHY?

Use margarine, not butter. Use Canola oil, not lard.  Don’t use salt it’s bad for you… The list goes on and on.  It’s all been a lie, just to sell us more stuff. Well, you know that antibacterial soap, hand sanitizer, and the wipes they tell us we need?  You guessed it, all lies.  Listen to this…

The biggest marketing scam about these antibacterial soaps is that “they keep the germs at bay, protecting the individual from sickness.” This marketing lie tries to completely hide the fact that the average human comes into contact with hundreds of thousands of bacteria and viruses daily, and it’s the human immune system that prevents the illness, not the toxic  soap. The only thing the soap does is encourage bacteria strains to adapt and grow smarter and stronger, allowing new super-bugs to attack the immune system later on with more force and variability.

On top of that, methylisothiazolinone-laced products incite nerve damage. Similar in chemical structure to Agent Orange, the toxic soap preservative is often dished out on the American dinner table, as a thin layer of dish soap poison. The nerve toxin is so dangerous, Japan’s Standard for Cosmetics restricts its use in body care, while Canada has placed the toxic preservative on its Prohibited and Restricted Cosmetics Ingredients list.  [Read more…]

If you haven’t already started, take a look at the things you buy.  What’s in them?  These are not just harmless little chemicals.  They have lasting repercussions.  All those chemicals that you can’t pronounce are causing allergic rashes, they contaminate the drinking water, harm the fish and wreck havoc on the environment.

There are alternatives.  I’ve started making my own laundry soap.  It’s so cheap. There are tons of recipes, so don’t be afraid to experiment. I think I’ll try this one next. This is an awesome shampoo but there are many others.  You pay a little more, use a little less, the environment and your health wins.

So long as they can make a buck off us, they will keep producing garbage.  You deserve the best and your health may depend on it, so demand only the best.  You are worth it!

As for me?  I am getting as dirty as possible.  I believe those germs can keep me from getting sick.  So, I’m trying to get back to nature.  Try something new!

These articles might scare the pants off of you, but you need to know…

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Fracking for Natural Gas?

When I first heard the term fracking, I thought surely it was an isolated event.  However, looking at this map, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe how many and how vast they were.

Fracking and drinking water map: a map showing where fracking pollutes the most rivers in the usa

This reminds me of when I was investigating the disappearing ice in Alaska and other places around the world.  I am convinced that part of the problems with the disappearing ice is all the holes they have punched in the ice.

They drill ice cores in the ice, drilling down under the guise of testing the ice cores, what they don’t tell you is that every one of the ice cores that they drill opens the ice up to premature melting, because it has more surface area to melt.

They have taken hundreds of thousands of these ice cores, causing more of the ice to melt more quickly.  So, instead of studying the ice cores they are actually speeding up the disappearance of the ice!

If you haven’t done your homework on this one, don’t wait too long.  Not only is your water being polluted but the amount of chemicals used in the process is unbelievable and we could start having MORE earthquakes as a result.

Within the central and Eastern United States, more than 300 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater were recorded from 2010 through 2012, compared to an average rate of 21 earthquakes per year from 1967 to 2000, he noted in a review study on human-induced earthquakes published today in  Science.

In southern California, researchers have found a correlation between seismic activity and a geothermal power plant that pumps water out of an underground reservoir to produce steam that spins electricity generating turbines and then returns most of the water back underground. [Read more…]

We still have to live on this planet and just because we can do something, doesn’t me we should.  We need to protect the earth, because we only have ONE.  When it’s gone, we will be, too.

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