Beth Greer
Natural Healing and Environmental Health Expert | Bestselling Author
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Super Natural Home. Empowering you with expert information and leading-edge holistic approaches to improve your health, mood and well-being.
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Stinky, sweet smelling air fresheners, cologne, body sprays, and scented shampoo are made with synthetic fragrances, and they’re bad for your health…especially children and pregnant women. These factory-made fragrances contain phthalates, which are chemicals that can cause hormonal abnormalities, birth defects and reproductive problems. I tell my clients not to buy artificially scented products for …
Hundreds of toxic chemicals, including PCBs, DDT, endocrine disrupters, and dioxins — to name just a few — are showing up in mothers’ and their newborn babies’ bodies. These chemicals, found in everyday household products, can get absorbed during a typical morning routine. Consider this scenario: the pregnant mom awakens after a night of breathing toxic fumes …
Like smog created by air pollution, electrosmog is created by electromagnetic field radiation from cell phones, wireless computers and networks, and new utility technologies like Smart Grids and Smart Meters. Electrosmog envelopes us 24-7…in our homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, even hotels, and no one really knows the long-term effects on our health, or on our DNA. …
Corn dogs, canned fruit and a bag of chips…that was a typical hot lunch offering at the posh private school my daughter attended in Marin County, California six years ago. It took me, and five other Marin moms, more than a year to initiate organic lunch programs in our local private schools. We had to …
It’s time to start putting on sunscreen…or is it? There are lots of other options to protect yourself from getting burned this summer, like wearing protective clothing, finding shade, and avoiding noon sun. Plus, there’s no consensus that sunscreen prevents skin cancer and in some cases it’s been shown to actually increase your risk! If …
Try green romance this Valentine’s Day with Non-toxic perfume, candles, flowers chocolate, wine and champagne to enhance your health, vitality and in turn your sensuality.
Cell phone use among children is a massive uncontrolled experiment on the brain as we don’t know the long term effects and that the FDA has never tested cell phones for safety.
Meat scraps once used for pet food now, thanks to Beef Products, Inc. has this pink slime marketed to hamburger makers and ends up in 70 percent of US burgers.
There are as many as 17,000 secret chemicals that are potentially hazardous to our health, and to the environment, that we unwittingly use in our homes every day.
Be an aware consumer. Most food labels use marketing ploys and can be deceptive. The FDA is now working on its own nutrition labeling system.
The toxic chemical BPA, or Bisphenol A is lurking in your hard plastic water bottles, baby sippy cups, dental sealants and in your canned foo
You may not be aware that most dishes sold in department stores and home decorating stores use lead glazes, without labeling them. According to the California Department of Health Services, lead in tableware can be a serious health threat.
Household cleaners, non-stick cookware, food containers and dishware can emit chemicals shown to cause learning disabilities, autism, asthma and infertility. There are easy things you can do to keep you safe from pollutants in your kitchen.
Chemicals are invisible …you can’t see them on a piece of fruit or in carpet, nail polish or soap… but they can wreak havoc on our immune systems.
I've been invited to write a weekly blog for The Washington Times Communities called "Super Natural Home with Beth Greer."
