Even if you’re not a vegetarian, you’ll still enjoy livening up your holiday table with the interesting dishes below. Gary Null, health and nutrition expert, has shared his own personal recipes for Holiday Stuffed Mushrooms and Sweet Loaf.
Gary Null holds a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public health science. He’s also a best-selling author and founder of Progressive Radio Network (PRN), a grassroots talk-radio network with a variety of hosts who cover issues like the environment, autism, health and natural living.
PRN features a show that covers a wide range of vegetarian issues: “It’s All About Food,” airing each Wednesday at 3:00 pm …read more

There are so many reasons why foods like the Twinkie are bad for you and bad for the environment that it makes almost no sense to even go into it. Food, real food, does not last a million years on the convenient shelf. Twinkies are a waste of energy, waste of resources, waste of money and chock full of stuff you don’t need.
However, in the spirit of making something good out of a bad situation here’s a plan: A better use of your time (and health) then eating Twinkies is to perhaps play with them. You and your kids can …read more

The other day I mentioned a very important resource, Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research for parents. I also mentioned that I’d offer some more resources later. Later is right now.
The following resources are great places to look for answers about your child’s environment.
AIRNow: AIRNow offers lots of ways to stay in the know about air quality. You can check the overall air quality in your neck of the woods and compare it to other places. You can have email alerts sent to you so that you know when the air quality is poor (or good). …read more

Plenty of people don’t believe in global warming. Many don’t believe that toxins can and do harm our children. If environmental issues were less serious though we might not have a need for places like the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. There are 14 centers total right now but that number has grown quickly from the original 8 started in 1998.
The goal of the Children’s Centers is to address the fact that children are extra vulnerable to the negative effects of environmental exposures. Each of the current centers researches environmental risks along with how to reduce …read more