| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Nov 7, 2008 at 9:30 am by Sarah Irani Studies Show Cell Phone Use in Pregnancy Negatively Affects Child Here’s a topic I didn’t even want to write about, it’s so potentially disturbing. A study done in Denmark, in conjunction with UCLA, has shown that pregnant women who use cell phones only 2 or 3 times a day have a much higher risk of having children with behavioral difficulties. If the young children themselves use cell phones regularly, that risk is compounded. Skeptics might scoff at this, but when the researchers accounted for other potential factors (smoking or alcohol during pregnancy, history of mental illness in the family, etc), the results pointed even more strongly towards cell phone use as a danger. The researchers aren’t sure why developing fetuses are biologically affected by cell phones, but the numbers are there. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we’ve seen such a high rate of ADHD and autism in the past few decades? If you have information about this, please share it. We'll keep you posted. Image: IamSAM. Related Posts ↓ |
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| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Oct 20, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani 7 Endangered Species Making a Comeback Are you curious to know if any endangered animals are making a comeback? We were, so we did some digging. Although many ecosystems and animals are suffering from pollution, habitat destruction and climate change, some animals are happily getting the crucial support they need, which is encouraging news indeed. (As they say on the net, animals ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Nov 6, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani Could Just 4% of the Wall Street Bailout End World Hunger? World hunger seems like one of those grand unsolvable problems – the perennial favorite wish of beauty pageant queens. The truth is, it's not unsolvable at all. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that it would only take $30 billion ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Oct 22, 2008 at 4:00 am by Sarah Irani 15 Reasons Never to Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald's The Golden Arches: the ultimate American icon. Super Size Me taught us that fast food culture brings obesity, heart disease, hypertension and a whole slew of other problems. How bad do you really want that Big Mac? Here are 15 reasons you'll never let anyone you love get near those Golden ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Oct 20, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani Kids with ADHD Do Better with a Dose of Nature ADHD – it’s alarmingly common these days. But what’s the real problem? Are we just diagnosing better, or is there something missing in the environment? A study by the University of Illinois has shown that a simple 20-minute walk in nature greatly improves the ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Oct 10, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani Heal and Empower with Tonglen Got problems with your family, your boss, or your co-workers? Who doesn’t? Conflict and disagreement are natural parts of life; what really matters is how you choose to deal with them. Tonglen is one incredibly personal tool for dealing for difficult circumstances. Tonglen meditation has been in practice since at least the 10th ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Sep 8, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani Jiggle Your Way to Weight Loss Jiggling, dancing, jumping up and down like a maniac to frenetic music – that’s how we started each Tantra class when I was offered free “lessons” from a couple I worked for on Maui. The whole point of vibrating your body like this was to get all your energy channels open ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Sep 4, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sarah Irani Take Two and Call Me in the Morning Here’s a case where quality means quantity: people who lack joy and don’t consider life worth living are likely to experience significantly shortened lifespans. These early deaths can come from suicide, but a generally unhappy outlook also increases the chance of death from heart disease and stroke. So says ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Aug 4, 2008 at 11:08 am by Susan Chaityn Lebovits A Toxic Tumble I’d always had a gut feeling that those laboratory-cocktail laundry scents were toxic. When I would go for a run and smell dryer sheets or fabric softeners waft by, my cheeks felt as if they were on fire and my nose would run. Now there’s scientific proof that my physical reactions were not in my head. Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Jul 22, 2008 at 5:30 am by Sarah Irani I Am Woman, Hear Me Shush: My 10 Days of Silence No phones, no chatting, no talking, no texting. Can you imagine spending ten days in complete silence? That would be challenging for the best of us, but we’d find a way around it with notes and emails. But imagine ten days in noble silence: no eye contact, no writing, no gesturing or communication with others. You must stay completely in ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |