Health Reform Update

How to Find a Health Reform (PPACA) Related Grant in www.grants.gov 1. Go to www.grants.gov . Click on "Find Grant Opportunities" ...

The "Left...Right" Haircut

(Click on these images to view larger versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, June 1943

Phytoplankton Population Drops

The decline - about 1% per year - could be ecologically significant as plankton sit at the base of marine food chains. Algal blooms can be ...

The patient is the best historian

Medical education is a form of brainwashing, not too different than educating future lawyers.  Most higher education is not far removed, bec...

Dental Health Comes from Good Nutrition

Good dental health really does come from good nutrition, not from fluoride in water, pills or toothpaste. Other things that make good additi...

A Question Regarding Lithium

During the past 24 hours a Natural Health News reader was searching for information about the use of lithium and any connection it may have ...

Shampooing - "I'm going to wash that dirt right outta my hair."

Another shampooing article. "Contrary to some old ideas, daily shampooing is not injurious to the hair any more than daily washing is i...

A Gardenia and Tight Sculptured Curls

(Click on image to see the large version.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1937

Natural Health News: Health Concerns for Gulf Coast Residents

UPDATE: 25 August   New Study Documents Symptoms of Cleanup Workers in 2002 Spill Off Spanish Coast A new study has found a higher incidenc...

Dorset Poacher

I meant to share this with you after my Dorset expedition a few weeks ago. Spotted on an ivy-clad stone wall in Worth Matravers, this is the...

Where's That Then? No 33

This view is a very unexpected sight, considering what's at the top of the hill behind the photographer. I often bring people from a rai...

The Shag

(Click on image to enlarge.) Source: 55 Hair Styles (Dell Purse Book), 1972

Soaring cancer rates in Fallujah; DU suspected

Simply4Health: Veteran's Resources - DU WAR: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/fall...

Crackdown on pesticide use

I have had experience with EPA, most specifically in Region X that covers most of the Pacific Northwest.  My experience comes from the fact ...

Parkour Visions Summit and Talk

On August 13-15th, my friends Rafe Kelley and Tyson Cecka are hosting a parkour summit at their Seattle gym Parkour Visions . For those of ...

How to Shampoo

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: A Girl and Her Hair, 1947 Excerpt: "Hair should be shampooed as often as it becomes dirty--wh...

WalMart to Tag Clothing that Tracks YOU

UPDATE: 24 July - Privacy concerns raised as Wal-Mart puts smart tags on men’s clothing http://www.boston.com/business/markets/articles/2010...

MTV's Sponsors of RACISM- PLEASE BOYCOTT The Following Advertising Corporations

The fact that I am an activist, outspoken for the most part, and of Choctaw, Chickasaw, and E. Cherokee heritage, I find that corporate spon...

Protecting yourself from dengue means avoiding mosquitoes

Since 1934, there hasn’t been an outbreak in Florida of dengue, which in the United States is usually associated with overseas travel to tr...

Granny's Beauty Bargains

Here is a nice article on products that have been around for a while. I found it through a post on Modern Retro Woman : Granny's Beauty ...

Interventions in Aging

Back in about 1955 I was lucky enough to be the daughter of a physician and surgeon who had an interest in natural health.  At the time he w...

Eating LESS Meat is the way to lose weight ? NOT!

When I saw this article circulating the airways and media venues, as well as the numerous tweets I received from the raw foodies and vegans ...

Maine gets official chapter of Hands & Voices

Hands & Voices , a national parent-driven, parent-professional collaborative nonprofit organization has recently accepted Maine’s start-...

A New Addition to our Natural Health Family and Upcoming Events

I've just launched a new BLOG in our Natural Notes series and you'll find some summer health related articles posted now. We'l...

National Take Back Initiative

On September 25, 2010, DEA will coordinate a collaborative effort with state and local law enforcement agencies focused on removing potentia...

Drene's Junior Miss Hair-do of the Month

Smartly neat bang and charming curl cluster tied back with a bow! Pretty smooth and mighty becoming! (Click on images to enlarge.) Source: F...

Drene's Junior Miss Hair-do of the Month: Bow Meets Curls!

Source: Unkown

The Story of Cosmetics

This video is interesting, but here's the line that makes it relevant: "They're just caught up in a 1950's mindset of bette...

Real Food XI: Sourdough Buckwheat Crepes

Buckwheat was domesticated in Southeast Asia roughly 6,000 years ago. Due to its unusual tolerance of cool growing conditions, poor soils a...

Eye Make-Up

(Click on these images to see the full-size versions.) Source: Hairset Magazine, May 1964

High Dose Vitamin C : SAFE

"Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects," Padayatty SJ, Sun AY, e...

Where's That Then? No 32

A photograph by John Piper . Obviously best known for his paintings, prints, ceramics, set design and all stations to Fawley Bottom, his pho...

Cancer Comment

One year ago today my mother died, but no one has taken the time to tell me what was the cause.  Last October my niece died, but in her case...