Fibromyalgia Patients Considering Pot As Painkiller

Some Fibromyalgia patients are looking to marijuana as a means to treating pain, according to a CNN report. The body makes endorphins and substances that can ease pain in the “endocannabinoid system,” which impacts how we feel pain. Marijuana reportedly has cannabinoids that are similar to those naturally occurring in the body. The problem with [...]

The New Dairy Alternative: Hemp’s Future

A milk alternative hardly seems cause for protest or legislation but in the case of hemp, all of the above are justified. One might liken the resource as a criminal put in jail without a fair trial, convicted with DNA evidence, for the natural resource has the potential to be as successful as bamboo when [...]

Ben & Jerry’s To Go Fair Trade

Ben & Jerry’s has just given us one more reason to indulge in our favorite alternative to sex: ice cream. OK, we’d always choose the grind over any food, so long as he knows what he is doing, but ice cream is available at every corner deli and pretty soon, it will be available guilt-free.
So when [...]

Starbucks Speaks To HIV, Recycling Issues

Starbucks, home of the dark roast and the key to regularity, most of all, The Third Place, has issued limited-run cups with red heart designs in time for Hallmark’s favorite day of the year, but this design means more. The run of heart-emblazoned cups is an ode to the (RED) campaign, whose partners have helped [...]

Fairway To Add Another Manhattan Location

Supermarket company Fairway is reportedly negotiating a lease to open another location in Manhattan, in the Upper East Side. According to Crain’s New York, Fairway Market could go into the former Circuit City and Barnes & Nobles location on East 86th Street between Second and Third Avenues.

Others that reportedly bid for the 60,000 square-foot location [...]

Government Agency Urges Black HIV/AIDS Awareness

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, joins African-Americans in remembering those who have died with AIDS and in fighting the disease. “We have a national responsibility to alleviate the HIV/AIDS-related suffering of African-Americans by ensuring that they have full knowledge of—and access to—all proven forms of [...]

Durable Pouches, Healthy Toddler Food

From packaging to locally-sourced ingredients, these companies are turning baby food into a sophisticated, high-brow gourmet food business sector. The result is a bevy of beautiful, portable packages, most of which are BPA-free, that are great for travel since they are light and have caps that enable moms and dads to reseal pouches. Among the [...]

New Home Pregnancy Tests Allows For Faster Results

First Response has announced its patent pending technology, which allows women to detect pregnancy even earlier.  Cleared by the FDA, the technology allows FIRST RESPONSE pregnancy tests allow women to detect pregnancy up to six days before a missed period, which is one day before any other at home pregnancy test.

FIRST RESPONSE detects the presence [...]

The Chocolate Loophole

A woman that is not 100% comfortable with her body, which is probably 90% of American women, is always looking for the chocolate loophole. The chocolate loophole is the way we can satisfy the craving without overdoing it or feeling guilty later. Dark chocolate that is at least 60% cacao was until now, the best way, [...]

Jamba Juice Adds Hot Drinks

Smoothie company Jamba Juice announced that it will begin selling hot drinks on March 1, 2010, in more than 340 stores. The launch includes 10 new hot beverage items, including four unique to Jamba Juice and six organic Mighty Leaf Tea. The company will also add some baked goods and a new cold Chai smoothie.
The [...]

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