Climate Health Update
& Healthy Home

Letter from Publisher

Reflecting on the past year, I feel overwhelmed with gratitude for two major blessings: all the wonderful people whose paths I’ve crossed, both old and new friends; and the gifts of lessons learned through recent experiences.

Gardening Asanas

Yoga Poses to Stay Pain-Free

Overdoing garden work can produce aches and pains, but by integrating yoga positions while planting and weeding, we can emerge pain-free after hours of being on our knees and bending.

Indigenous Wisdom

Elders Urge Us to Reimagine Life

Indigenous elders from around the world meet together to pass down four sacred gifts of wisdom we would do well to heed.

Nature’s Remedies

How Animals Self-Medicate

Creatures in the wild ranging from microbes to elephants cope with parasites, pests and pain using natural substances; it all suggests why our preserving the natural world is good for us, too.

Healthy Climate, Healthy People

Why a Warming Planet is Harming Our Health

As the Earth slowly heats up, we’re being affected by rising allergens, disaster-related trauma and the increase in insects carrying dangerous diseases.

EWG Provides Tap Water Database

Do you know what’s lurking in your tap water? The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has made it easier to find out.

Updated Shopper’s Guide Calls Out Pesticides in Produce

The guide is designed to help consumers make the best choices for their families, and reduce their exposures to toxic pesticides.

Spealized Healing Expands at Eastern Medical Center with Eric Wei Wang

The Eastern Medical Center, in Pleasanton, is pleased in welcoming Eric Wei Wang, LAc, DAOM to their staff.

Women’s March Bay Area Unites in San Francisco

On January 20, at San Francisco’s Civic Center, Women’s March Bay Area will once again join a number of non-partisan sister marches throughout the country and California.

Free Breema Classes to Balance Body, Mind and Feelings

To celebrate International Breema Week, January 6 to 13, all classes at the Breema Center will be free.

Whole Grains Help Us Eat Less

Feel Fuller Sooner, Lose Weight

Herbs Ease Polycystic Ovary Symptoms

Natural Remedy Provides Relief

Fruit Pesticides Lower Fertility in Women

Produce Has Impact on Conception

Less REM-Stage Sleep Linked to Dementia Risk

Impact on Mental Acuity