Reading Time: 2 minutes This past April, ESM participated in a breast cancer awareness event to educate people about the importance of diet in preventing and treating many types of cancer. There is significant evidence showing correlations between diet and cancer rates. Up to 80% of cancers of the breast, prostate, and bowel are due to dietary factors. So, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mad Cows, Pesticides and Genetically Engineered Crops: Reasons to Go Organic By Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton So, you need more reasons? Do you get to the grocery store and decide organic is just not worth the extra dollar? You think you’re healthy enough the way you are. You don’t really believe conventionally produced food can make that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes According to Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), eating fish is risky. Fish can contain harmful levels of mercury, pesticides, dioxins, PCBs and furans. Mercury alone is such a potent neurotoxin that even small doses can cause irreversible brain and heart damage. While most Americans currently eat an average of just one serving of fish […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes by Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton Who’d-a thunk that food choices would have an effect on global climate change (better known as global warming?) Would you believe that what people eat in this country has contributed to ice caps melting, wildfires, tornados and – yes – hurricanes? Have we been eating our way into bigger and bigger storms, […]