Beth Greer's Blog, page 17

Are Cell Phones Safe? How to Avoid Risk

Cell phone use among children is a massive uncontrolled experiment on the brain. So says Devra Davis, Ph.D., award-winning scientist, writer and founder of Environmental Health Trust, a nonprofit devoted to researching and controlling avoidable environmental health threats. "Children's skulls are thinner and their brains are less dense so there's more absorption of radio frequency signals," she said at a recent event in San Francisco where she spoke about the Campaign for Safer Cell Phones. ...

Beauty Transformation from the Inside Out, Plus Practical Ways to Restore Harmony at Home

"Super Natural Mom Radio Show"

Kat James, a nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert and author of The Truth About Beauty: Transform Your Looks And Your Life From The Inside Out, talks about how she transformed her body and skin beyond recognition, after a 12-year eating disorder and autoimmune disease nearly took her life. She also says offers tips on viewing your skin as a messenger of health, eating real food instead of denatured food for healing.

Dr. David Swanson, a licensed c...

Are We Playing Roulette with Meat and Poultry?

Have you heard about "pink slime" in ground beef? It's the term affectionately used by meat industry insiders that refers to a pinkish paste made of meat scraps from the slaughterhouse floor. These scraps were once only used for pet food and cooking oil, but now, a company called Beef Products, Inc. created a process to collect the meat scraps, send them through a series of machines, and inject it with ammonia to kill pathogens like E. coli and salmonella. This "pink slime," is marketed to...

Is Your Mattress Making You Sick? Plus, Is it the End of Single-Use Disposable Plastic and Paper Bags?

"Super Natural Mom Radio Show"

Walt Bader, author of Toxic Bedrooms: Your Guide to a Safe Night's Sleep and founder of Organic Mattresses, Inc. talks about how many health problems can be caused from the toxins and allergens in a new mattress, rather than from bacteria or viruses.

Judi Shils, spearheading the Bring Your Own Bag campaign talks about how Marin County, California is on its way to becoming the first county in America to have a bill passed to eliminate single-use disposable...

Secret Chemicals in Our Everday Products

There are as many as 17,000 secret chemicals that are potentially hazardous to our health, and to the environment, that we unwittingly use in our homes every day. Secret chemicals? Yes, according to a recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency, the names and physical properties of chemicals in things like flame retardants in furniture and household cleaners are hidden from consumers and virtually all public officials. This is because 33 years ago, a federal policy was designed to...

Thriving in Unwanted Change & Seeing Upset as Opportunity, Plus Mental Imagery or Visionary Kabbalah for Healing

"Super Natural Mom Radio Show"

MJ Ryan, change expert, life coach and bestselling author of AdaptAbility: How to Survive Change You Didn't Ask For talks about the secrets to taking any change in stride and thriving when change is abolutely required.

Gerald Epstein, M.D., a physician and pioneer in the use of mental imagery for treating physical and emotional ailments talks about the techniques in his new book "Kaballah and Visualization". He tells how to connect with the invisible realm to...

The End of Overeating with Dr. David Kessler, plus Great Ways to Cope with Holiday Stress

"Super Natural Mom Radio Show"

David Kessler, M.D. former head of the U S Food and Drug Administration and author of the NY Times bestseller, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, talks about how today's food industry is manipulating people to overeat in the same way that the tobacco industry manipulated people to smoke. In this interview he reveals how the food industry and its scientists really operate, and he offers solutions to changing the way we look ...

Food Labels Need a Makeover

Food manufacturers are clever. They try to make us think that processed food is just as healthy as unprocessed food, or that a product containing high fructose corn syrup is "All Natural." A green checkmark label called "Smart Choices" recently appeared on hundreds of food packages, including cereals like Cocoa Krispies and Froot Loops, and sodium-filled complete meal packages, beverages with artificial sugars, canned fruits and vegetables with additives. The good news is there was a huge...

Safe Toys, and Teaching Kids to Care by Nurturing Character and Compassion

"Super Natural Mom Radio Show"

Kim Bloom, president and CEO of Rosie Hippo, a leading online retailer of natural, non-toxic, earth-friendly toys, talks about why it's best to avoid plastic toys and those with batteries and choose simple hand-made ones, blocks, puzzles and wooden toys that enable kids to create, imagine, think and explore.

Bettie Young, Ph.D, author of Teaching Kids to Care shares ways to generate good character in children. She reveals how to help kids connect and bond, be...

Nasty Chemical in Canned Food and Plastic Bottles

The toxic chemical BPA, or Bisphenol A is lurking in your hard plastic water bottles, baby sippy cups, dental sealants and in your canned food. BPA acts like estrogen and increases the risk of breast cancer and early puberty in women. It can cause reproductive damage and may lead to prostate and cancer and can cross into the placenta and get into your baby's bloodstream.

The Environmental Working Group tested canned food bought across America and found BPA in more than half of them at levels...