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Environment

A friend of mine recently stopped using skin and beauty products with parabens in them. What are parabens and should we all be avoiding them?

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: A friend of mine recently stopped using skin and beauty products with parabens in them. What are parabens and should we all be avoiding them? –– Betsy Johnson, Port Chester, NY First commercialized in the 1950s, parabens are a group of synthetic compounds commonly used as preservatives in […]

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Health and Fitness

Melatonin as a sleep aid offers many more benefits

Recently one of my girlfriends complained that she was suffering from frequent insomnia. Between being unemployed, searching for a new job and helping care for her father with dementia, she was a tangle of nerves that wouldn’t shut-off. I suggested she try melatonin. I told her I have been taking it for years and it […]

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Environment

With summer officially here now, what can you tell us about which sunscreens are safe and which are not?

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: With summer officially here now, what can you tell us about which sunscreens are safe and which are not?— Clara Rosen, New York, NY Skin cancer is by far the most common form of cancer in the United States, with more new cases each year than breast, […]

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Environment

What would you consider to be the key areas we need to improve to make our food safer for our health and easier on our environment?

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What would you consider to be the key areas we need to improve to make our food safer for our health and easier on our environment?         — Billy A., Oakland, CA Although we have come a long way in recent years with regard […]