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4 Ways Grass-Fed Beef Benefits Your Health

Fresh n’ Lean Stays Open DetailsOur family wants to support your family during these uncertain times. All orders are 15% off. Grass-fed beef benefits your health and well-being in many different ways. It can support your heart and your brain, and it may help promote weight loss. Warren Clarke June 19, 2020 SUMMARY Grass-fed beef
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Kill Your Gas Stove

Sabrina Imbler Atlantic Planet It’s bad for you, and the environment. If you can afford to avoid it, you probably should. Heather Price knows her way around gases. An atmospheric chemist at North Seattle College, she studies outdoor air pollution, the flow and change of chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere. But she wasn’t worried about the
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Bright Farms takes local produce model nationwide with hydroponics

By Mary Ellen Shoup It wasn’t too long ago when locally-grown produce evoked images of backyard gardens or roadside produce stands many miles outside of city limits. Now, the local produce movement has morphed into an urban-centered industry thanks to the rise of hydroponic greenhouses. One major player in the hydroponic space, BrightFarms, grows local
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Flushable’ Wipes Are a Lie

Beth Skwarecki “Flushable” wipes sound great, in theory. Use them like a baby wipe—on your own grown-up butt, if you want—but no need to toss something with a smear of poop on it into your garbage can. Just flush, and away it goes. But is this really a good idea? Probably not. The companies that
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25 Incredible Benefits of Gardening

by HappyDIYHome Staff Gardening is much more than a hobby or fun pastime. In fact, there are many proven benefits of gardening that people enjoy. No matter if you’re a hobby gardener or a professional-level horticulturist, spending time out digging in the dirt and caring for your plants, you too can enjoy these various benefits
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The Unique Science of Left-Handedness

Dan Robitzski Photo from webphotographeer / Getty Images. Steak knives, scissors, writing desks, and power tools: If you bring any of these things up around someone and they cringe, they either have a bizarre story to tell or they’re just left-handed, and, like 15 percent of the population, live in a world that’s not designed
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There’s New Data on the Cardio vs. Weights Debate

Research has found that a mixed workout program produces the best heart health outcomes. Alex Hutchinson Read when you’ve got time to spare. Doing combination workouts and varying up your routine will lead to better results. Maybe. Photo by bluecinema / iStock. Back in 2011, I published a fitness science book with the enigmatic and
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The Race to Redesign Sugar

Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat. By Nicola TwilleySeptember 21, 2020 New food-industry research focusses on reformatting sucrose or using rare sugars.Illustration by Na Kim Every workday, at ten o’clock, at noon, and at three
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In the Ink: Do All Tattoo Pigments Use Mercury and Other Toxic Heavy Metals?

Helen Suh MacIntosh, a professor in environmental health at Harvard University and a columnist for the website, Treehugger, reports that as a result of a 2007 lawsuit brought by the American Environmental Safety Institute (AESI), two of the leading tattoo ink manufacturers must now place warning labels on their product containers, catalogs and websites explaining that “inks contain many heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and others” and that the ingredients have been linked to cancer and birth defects.
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How to Eat if You Want Better Sleep

Research bears out what our grandparents said: Don’t eat too close to bedtime if you want to sleep well. Plus other recipes for a solid eight hours By Kathleen Squires A GOOD NIGHT’S sleep is the new kale,” chef David Bouley said recently. “Everyone wants it and it’s good for your health.” He was addressing
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