Posts tagged: health
How To: Quick and Easy Homemade Ice Packs.
By Chrisjob
Your handpacked lunch. Sore joints. Picnics. Having a quick source of cold is infinitely helpful for keeping what you need chilled, and doing it well.
As it turns out, you can make your own - infinately sizeable and shapeable - but just limited how water freezes by adding something with a much lower freezing point, like alcohol....both the rubbing and the, er, vodka kind.
Give Local Foods a New Use with a Farmer's Market Facial.
By Chrisjob
Food. It's for eating. And local foods are for eating, too...and, if you please, taking care of your body. "The farmers’ market food doesn’t just nourish your body, it can also nourish your skin,” says Celtic Naturals founder Angela Buckley. “The skin is our largest organ and it’s important to care for it.” So, head to your farmer's market, grab a blender, and get to scrubbing. » READ MORE
Ten Alternative Uses for Used Tea Bags.
By Chrisjob
Once you've given your tea bag a dunk, you could head right to the compost bin. OR, you can give it a second chance with one these alternative options for steeped tea bags.
- Soothe Tired or Injured Eyes
- Flavor Your Meat
- Make “Less Sinful” Drinks
- Around-The-House Cleaner
- Remove Warts
6+ Germ-Infested Places in Your Home
By DIY Maven
MWT has a cold. At least we HOPE it's a cold and not that snout flu. Just to be on the safe side, as soon as the first sniffle appeared, I wiped down places I deemed 'germ-laden'. According to WebMD, my hunches were right, but I missed some! Here's a rundown of the 6 germiest places in your pad and ways to de-funkify them.
How To: Growing Sprouts.
By Chrisjob
All you need is a mason jar.
Growing sprouts is super easy, super inexpensive, super nutritious, and makes a super great project for those who aren't home often and have a hard time taking care of other plants.
Simply pick your seeds, such as "alfalfa, broccoli, buckwheat, cabbage, chickpea, garlic, lentil, oats, yellow mustard, peas, onion, radish, sunflower, fennel, arugula, pink kale, fenugreek, wheat, or wheatgrass." Soak them overnight, and » READ MORE
Homemade Non-Toxic Mold Prevention Spray
By lilybee
Mold. It's BAD NEWS. As well as just being gross it can do some pretty rotten things to your lungs. Prevention is definitely the way to go, as once you've got mold it's the very devil to get rid of. Luckily, you don't need harsh chemicals to stop mold arriving and bringing 50 gazillion of it's friends. Jennifer Chait, green-mama-maven over at Inhabitots has a recipe for an all-natural mold prevention spray.
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Caution! Christmas Light Safety Tips.
By Chrisjob
Whether they're outside, inside, or perhaps a bit of both, Christmas lights are connected to your home circuit, and as with anything, especially those outside, you gots to be safe.
Here's a few tips from Suite101 to keep the fires in the yule logs and the shocks on your face when you open the perfect gift.
• Leaving lights on while not at home
• Christmas Tree Advice
• Extension Cords
• Stringing lights together
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Clever Storage: Use Empty Prescription Bottles for Small Supplies.
By Chrisjob
From needles and pins to x-acto knife blades to guitar picks, those little things that are essential to our hobbies, crafts, and projects are often the hardest to store, or worse, the hardest to find. So Julie Kundhi came up with this clever reuse - prescription or medication bottles with child safety features. And, to cover that awful pharmacy sienna or the generic pharmacy painkiller label, she provides this charming how-to to make them match » READ MORE
10 Most Common Mistakes of DIY'ers.
By ChrisjobTrying something the first time is gonna lead to a few fluff ups. Here's a well assembled list of ten to keep in mind as you embrace a new project.
3. Not having the right tools. 4. Failing to take proper safety precautions.
5. Failing to recognize the scope of a project. 6. Not having enough help. 7. Failing to read directions » READ MORE
11 Tips to Have a Healthy Bathroom.
By ChrisjobToo bad...as it turns out, just wiping down the shower and scrubbing out the toilet and dried toothpaste isn't quite enough. Gomestic offers these 11 tips towards healthy bathroom maitnance.
- Sink drains
- Shower Heads
- Toilet lids
- Bath Towels
- Shower curtain
- Excess water
- Mascara
- Soiled linens and underwear
- Soap Dishes
- Rinsing cup
- Toothbrushes
Processing Plastics
By Ken Hoyt
Plastic is ubiquitous. That's never more apparent than when we try to get a handle on using and recycling it. It's admirable to limit our use of plastic, but in reality it's difficult to avoid some use for modern consumers.
For me the goal is to use only what I can recycle and what does not create health issues (either now or in the future). To be honest I find it confusing. Recently I stumbled upon some pertinent information on plastic containe » READ MORE
More Uses for Powdered Milk Than You Could Ever Imagine.
By ChrisjobAdmit it: you're surprised there's at least ONE use for powdered milk. So you, like everyone else, can appreciate that there are, like, a whole heap of 'em. Here's a great list assembled by Wisebread. Now, all you have to do it figure out where they keep it in the supermarket... (baking aisle?)
Recipes
Cream (Or Something Like It)
Instant Hot Chocolate
Whipped Topping
Homemade Yoghurt
Curds, or Cottage Cheese, or Ricotta
In The Kitchen
Thawing Frozen » READ MORE
Vintage Tattoo Bandage Set.
By ChrisjobThe only thing tougher than have a fresh cut on your flesh is covering that cut with a tattoo. Help your wound to heal, while convincing anyone you come across you could totally give them one. Get the goods from Fred Flare, for about $8.
Six Junk Foods It's Actually Okay to Eat.
By ChrisjobIf Men's Health magazine says it's okay, then I'm with 'em...it's got "health" in the title, right? Doctors are never gonna decide whether certain foods are really good for you or not: margarine, avocados, nuts, Olestra. So, until they do, snack on these six "junk" foods that, apparently, aren't all that bad for you.
1. Pork Rinds (who knew deep fried pork fat wouldn't be so bad?)
2. Alcohol
3. Beef jerky
4. Sour Cream
5. Coconut
6. Chocola » READ MORE
All About Aloe: Growing and Usage Tips.
By ChrisjobAhh...aloe. It's natural, spiky, and modern, and with usefulness built right in. Check out some of these buying and growing tips, and all its healthful benefits. And, apparently, you can eat it if you're so inclined.
• Buying Tips
• Growing Tips
• Watering
• Repotting
• Symptoms Of Poor Plant Care
• Removing Leaves
• How To Cut A Leaf
• How Long Will A Leaf Last
• Consuming The Plant Dir » READ MORE
The Eleven Best Foods You Aren't Eating.
By ChrisjobThe New York Times cites nutritionist Jonny Bowden, who highlights eleven, easy-to-find foods that belong in your shopping cart and in your bloodstream. includes "how-to-eat" tips.
- Beets
- Cabbage
- Swiss chard
- Cinnamon
- Pomegranate juice
- Dried plums
- Pumpkin seeds
- Sardines
- Turmeric
- Frozen blueberries
- Canned pumpki
How To Drink Wiser, and Avoid and Cure Hangovers.
By ChrisjobWhen enjoying a few cocktails, be smart, and don't get sick. Here's a few ideas to avoid head and tummy aches.
Drink Water. Everyone who's mature enough to have a drink should be mature enough to drink some agua along with it. Drink a glass of water before and after every drink, and gulp down a few more before bed. If you get way carried away, to the point of vomiting (another source of dehydration), drink a Pedialyte to replenish yourself.
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Ten Healthy Foods for Under a Dollar.
By ChrisjobIt's easy to justify junk food habits with a "it's way cheaper." Not anymore, potato chip monster. Web MD has assembled ten healthful foods available to you for under one US dollar. Lotsa fruit, lotsa grains, lotsa flavor.
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2. Bananas
3. Baby Carrots (in bags)
4. Canned Beans
5. Canned Tomatoes
6. Oranges (extra large navel oranges)
7. Pears
8. Lentils (dry)
9. Pearl Barley (dry)
10. Yogurt (plain, lowfat, or fat-free)
Still Thirsty?
By Ken Hoyt
Single use water bottles are an expensive delivery system for a relatively generic product. And they're expensive on the back end, because few of them actually get recycled.
Even some of the reusable bottles, although a greener solution, may have a sickening side effect.
In The New York Times article, Perceptions: Go Ahead, Put the Water Bottle Down, Nicholas Bakalar finds that there is little evidence to support the widely held belief that » READ MORE
How to Make an Herbal Dream Pillow.
By Chrisjob
Abi from CraftyCrafty muses, "Dream pillows were used in olden days for fairytale maidens to rest their heads on as they slept. Nowadays, they're just great for anyone with the sort of full-on, stressful lifestyle that leads to insomnia. Using the fabric of your choice...cut two equal sized sheets depending on the shape you want your pillow to take, stitch along three sides of the material, then turn it right the side out."
Then, stuff wi » READ MORE
