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Recycling IQ: Take a Quiz to Help the Planet

Apr 30, 2018 08:17AM

Is this item trash, garbage or recyclable? As important as recycling is, it can sometimes be confusing. A short quiz offers answers to help sort out discards.

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Whole Grains Help Us Eat Less: Feel Fuller Sooner, Lose Weight

Mar 30, 2018 09:56AM

When overweight Danes exchanged refined grain products such as white bread and pasta for whole-grain equivalents, they tended to feel full sooner, eat less, lose weight and have less inflammation.

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Herbs Ease Polycystic Ovary Symptoms: Natural Remedy Provides Relief

Mar 30, 2018 09:56AM

Ingesting a combination of five herbs returned menstrual cycles to normal durations for 55 percent of women with polycystic ovary syndrome among those participating in an Australian study.

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Fruit Pesticides Lower Fertility in Women: Produce Has Impact on Conception

Mar 30, 2018 09:56AM

Women undergoing fertility treatments were 18 percent less likely to become pregnant and 26 percent less likely to have a live birth if they were eating pesticide-laden produce.

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Less REM-Stage Sleep Linked to Dementia Risk: Impact on Mental Acuity

Mar 30, 2018 09:56AM

People older than 60 that get less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may have a greater risk of developing dementia.

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Air Pollution Linked to Psychological Distress: Mental Health Connection Found

Mar 30, 2018 09:56AM

People living in areas with the highest levels of airborne fine particulates were 17 percent more likely to be psychologically distressed, feeling sad, nervous or hopeless.

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Natural Awakenings Metro Phoenix & Northern Arizona
High-Fat Diet Risks Multiple Sclerosis Relapse: Increasing Veggies Cuts Risk

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Eating a high-fat diet increases the risk of multiple sclerosis relapse in children by as much as 56 percent, while each additional cup of weekly vegetables cuts the risk by 50 percent.

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Natural Awakenings Metro Phoenix & Northern Arizona
Nature Videos Calm Prisoners: Reduces Violence and Irritability in Inmates

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Maximum-security prison inmates reported feeling significantly calmer, less irritable and more empathetic after spending an hour a day watching nature videos for one year.

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‘Sink’ Setback: Tropical Forests Releasing Excess Carbon

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Logging, drought and wildfires may be turning forests in Africa, Asia and Latin America into carbon emitters rather than absorbers.

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Distributed Power: Energy Users Control Own Supplies

Mar 30, 2018 09:17AM

Across the U.S., energy users of all sizes are taking control of their power supply and relieving stress from the grid.

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