by Mark Roessler | Mar 4, 2013 | Wellness
Last October, Valley residents Anasuya Weil and her daughter Mira presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Tibetan Medicine, held in Dharamsala, India. Since Tibet was invaded by the Chinese in the 1950s, Dharamsala has been where the Dalai Lama...
by Nancy Averett | Apr 2, 2013 | Wellness
Actress Kristen Chenoweth loves her beauty products, but she won’t be wearing a certain brand of eyelash extensions anymore. A year ago, the Emmy-award-winning actress discovered she had an allergy to formaldehyde, which was in the glue used to attach the lashes...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 3, 2013 | Wellness
Since 14-year-old Anais Fournier died of caffeine toxicity late in 2011 after downing two 24-ounce cans of Monster within 24 hours, there’s been a flurry of investigation into the composition and health effects of energy drinks. It turns out that Red...
by Maggie Wolf Peterson | Jul 2, 2013 | Wellness
Rice is known by nutritionists as a “first food.” Easily digested and bland, it is often the first solid food a baby receives. Prior to that, babies may be exposed to rice starch and brown rice syrup in infant formulas, which use the grain as an ingredient...
by Sandra Gordon | Jul 30, 2013 | Wellness
When Merry Philler’s 13-year-old son, Zach, got braces, she started thinking about her own slightly imperfect smile. “Every time I looked in the mirror, I saw my snaggletooth,” says the 43-year-old stay-at-home mom of four. A twisted bottom tooth...
