Drinking Water Sampling Stations

Local communities/school children  can get involved in sampling drinking water too
How many of us have seen a Drinking Water Sampling Station on the sidewalks in Manhattan?  How many stopped to figure out what it was all about?
Over 800 Drinking Water Sampling Stations, at a cost of $11 million,  have been installed  citywide over 10 years ago, with the aim of [...]

Tibetan Monks know the Secret

The Secret to Aging Well – The Five Tibetan Exercise Rites 
Tibet and the Tibetans enjoy a long history and culture. However, according to the Dalai Lama, this unique cultural expression and heritage which includes Buddhist spirituality is facing the threat of extinction.
One way of preserving Tibet’s culture is through education and the spread of cultural expression,  as, for example,  the [...]

The Secret to the Game of Life

The Secret to the Game of Life  – Play it
Ask anyone about life and you would be told – Life is…..(a bag of cherries, difficult, what you make it, the pits…) and on, and on.
The adjectives used to describe life change according to the speaker. For those who “Think Positively”, life would be positive things to [...]

More on toxic tap water

Last month  we spoke to the contaminants in tap water – toxic taps.  Today new studies show that the  established an official reference dose of the EPA for perchlorate, which is consistent with the recommended reference dose included in the National Academy of Science’s January 2005 report, is providing serious concern for the public health. 
Rocket fuel contaminant (perchlorate) [...]

JVs and the MDGs

Joint Ventures (JVs) and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
The cooperation of two or more individuals or businesses–each agreeing to share profit, loss and control–in a specific enterprise.
Investopedia Says: This is a good way for companies to partner without having to merge. JVs are typically taxed as a partnership.
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) 
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – [...]

Vista – Very Interactive Sedentary Type Algorithm

Very Interactive Sedentary Type Algorithm – VISTA 
 In between blogs about breast cancer, bottled water, et al… I feel compelled to share with readers a new technology for stress relief.  It is called Vista - The Very Interactive Sedentary Type Algorithm.
I have changed from eXtreme Pressure – XP to the Very Interactive Sedentary Type Algorithm and found the following consequences, [...]

Cancer in the Asian-American Population

 Our free online newsletter – Muriella’s Corner -shares more information on Cancer.  Click here for information on Living with Cancer; click here for information on Conversations with Cancer. Click here for information on the documentary dealing with breast cancer.
Green tea and risk of breast cancer in Asian Americans
According to the International Journal of Cancer, there [...]

Make your own bottled water and save the planet

update:
Friday, November 2, 2007
Chlorine and human health
The Medical College Of Wisconsin research team asserts that there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water, based on one of their studies.
After more than 100 years of chlorine being added to drinking water as a standard and cheap way of making water drinkable, the jury are now [...]

The Dirty Dozen – 12 frankenfoods to know

The 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides; 12 that are least contaminated
from http://snipurl.com/1h8pi
 Next time you’re at the supermarket debating whether to pay more for a pint of organic strawberries than you do for your lunch — or deciding if you should choose that wilted organic celery over the crisp green conventional [...]

20 tips plus 1 for international travel

21 tips for global travel
Increasingly, with globalization, people are traveling to far off climes either for work or pleasure, or both. The knowledge and experience I gained during more than 20 years of traveling to and living in countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America and the Caribbean will, continue [...]