Health
Cooling Foods Beat the Heat: Watermelon Lime Cooler
Are you eating the best cooling foods to beat the summer heat? I’ve always been a sun-worshipper, a lover of Summer, a tropical traveler. But now that we are living in Mexico where the thermometer the humidity regularly hit the high 90’s°. Ugh, it’s with much dismay that I’ve realized my body may not dig…
Read MoreAre Your Scented Household Products Toxic?
I’ve written about this before, in my post Are Your Cleaning Products Toxic?. However, my experience this past week inspired me to write about it again. So many household and cleaning products seem to be scented these days. You can’t go to the store to buy something as basic as garbage bags without them being…
Read More5 Health Benefits of Garlic
Updated June 2019 Do you LOVE garlic? Or not so much? I’m a huge garlic-lover. And luckily for me, my husband Kirk loves garlic too! So we eat garlic almost daily, in our salad dressing, stir fries, and other cooked dishes. As it turns out, the health benefits of garlic have been known for thousands…
Read MoreAre Your Cleaning Products Toxic?
When we were kids, one of our friend’s moms was a fastidious housekeeper. She was always cleaning and polishing everything in sight. Their house was always sparkling clean. But it also smelled of lemon pledge, bleach, Windex, and 409, among other noxious fumes. I remember the smell of 409 gave me a terrible headache. I…
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