Tag Archive for: health

corporate food: the dangers of GM

As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it.  Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components.  For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]

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practicing kavala graha (oil pulling): how-to and benefits

While staying at an ashram near Bangalore in India, I was introduced for the second time to the Ayurvedic practice of kavala graha, commonly known in English as oil pulling.  Ro had first told me about kavala graha when he came back from a 6 month study abroad trip in India 3 years ago.  Practicing [...]

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