The Healthy Home Economist

1. Fitness is a Family Affair (Part 1)
   By Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS “The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree” may be an old cliché but most applicable nonetheless. If you are overweight or lean by nature and have a tendency towards certain maladies chances are very good your child will also. These are genetic factors beyond our control. Within our [...]
2. How to Remove a Tick
   Warmer weather has arrived and spending more time outside and camping outdoors opens up the possibility of exposure to nasty tick bites. When one of my children was a fairly young baby and not even mobile yet, a tick lodged itself into the top of his head, so ticks can drop out of trees onto [...]
3. 93% of Seed Varieties Lost in 80 Years
   I saw the shocking infographic below the other day for the first time and couldn’t believe my eyes. From 1903 to 1983, only 80 short years, a whopping 93% of seed varieties have been lost to industrialized agriculture. (...)Read the rest of 93% of Seed Varieties Lost in 80 Years (315 words) © Sarah, The [...]
4. Video: How to Make Raw Butter
   Ah, butter.  Has there ever been a more perfect food? To the Traditional Swiss living in the isolated Loetschental valley, butter was a sacred food.  Not a pale supermarket type butter, but a golden alpine butter made from the rich, beige cream of cows grazing on thick grass. (...)Read the rest of Video: How to [...]
5. Alternative Cancer Conference Banned by Town Council
   If a group of people were denied rental of a private venue based on race, religion, age, sex, disability or sexual orientation, you can be sure the venue owners would be hauled into court in short order. Without a doubt, there would also be vocal public outcry and a media backlash against such improper and [...]
6. Podcast of “What About Nutrition” Radio Interview
   I really enjoyed talking with “Mr. Nutrition” David Gaule last week on his show “What About Nutrition” which airs each weekend on 100.7FM in St. Louis, Missouri. The radio station sent me the audios of the interview, so I was able to create a podcast so that those of you who were busy when the [...]