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Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

May 10th, 2008

BPA From Plastic Water Bottles (and baby bottles!) May Be Hazardous to Your Health

You know that drinking water is healthy, and that drinking bottled water is an easy way to stay hydrated on the go. But what you may not know is that chemicals from plastic bottles may be leeching into your water, and could cause such major health problems as cancers and early-onset puberty.
Environmentalists and the very […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

April 30th, 2008

Don’t Forget to Enter to Win a Nalgene Bottle and Brita Faucet Filter!

Just a reminder, I’m still accepting entries for the random drawing for 3 free Nalgene bottles and Brita Faucet Filter sets. Visit the video announcement of the giveaway for more details and to enter for a chance to win. The deadline to enter is May 9. Only one entry per person, please!
Tags: womens health blog, […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

April 23rd, 2008

Women’s Health Giveaway: Nalgene Bottle and Brita Faucet Filtration System

The other week, I mentioned that I had been contacted by Filter for Good, who offered me some freebies for Lively Women readers. Well, I’m delighted to announce that they were extremely generous, and have given me several faucet filters and water bottles to share with readers. They originally provided one set for me and […]

By Kristen King -- 28 comments

April 10th, 2008

Tap Water vs. Bottled Water: What’s Safer and Healthier?

Folks have been debating the relative merits of bottled water and tap water for more than decade, and the conversation continues. But one argument the bottled water folks can’t really counter is that tap water just does not produce the same waste that bottled water does. We talked about this yesterday when I posted some […]

By Kristen King -- 5 comments

April 10th, 2008

Staying Hydrated and Protecting the Environment With Filtered Water

I’ve posted before about the environmental impact of drinking bottled water. With Earth Day around the corner (April 22!), I was excited to get a nice note from Filter for Good, offering to send me and my readers some free water filters and Nalgene water bottles! I don’t know what and how many are on […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

January 22nd, 2008

5 Little-Known Sources of Headaches

Headaches. We all get them, and we all hate them. Sometimes you know where your headache comes from, but other times it just sneaks up on you. Here are common but less well-known causes of headaches:

Perfume and other strong odors - sparked by cues from your nose’s nerve cells. This might explain why you always […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

January 4th, 2008

Bottled Water: Good for You, Bad for the Environment?

Bottled water is a convenient way to stay hydrated on the go, and to get something refreshing to drink when tap water in your area is unacceptable for one reason or another. But bottled water has been getting a lot of flack lately because of the waste it creates in the form of empty bottles. […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

November 15th, 2007

How to “Green” Your Sex Life

by Ali Kriscenski from The Daily Tomorrow, exclusively for Lively Women
Everything we do has an effect on the environment but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun and look out for Mother Nature. There are some easy ways to keep your eco-values alive when giving in to, er, human nature.
Here’s how.
Condoms
Ask a beach […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

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