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It’s Back to School Lunch Time!  Please Ditch the Ziplocs.

It’s that time again!  Back to school!  Which means, of course, back-to-school lunches and snacks.  It’s important to me to send the kids to school with a healthy lunch, and it’s equally important to me that their lunches and snacks don’t create any waste.  Every time I go to pick up my kids after school, I see an errant Ziploc bag making its way…

Why We Should All Consider Testing for Heavy Metals

Something I’m sure most people fail to consider in terms of their health is the level of heavy metals in their body.  While we may have heard that eating too much fish (especially large fish, like tuna—I’m lookin at you sushi lovers) can spike our mercury levels, it’s likely we haven’t given any thought to lead, arsenic, cadmium, thallium, or any of the other heavy…