A recent report released by the Pesticide Residues committee suggests that up to a third of our food may be tainted by pesticides. Traces of chemicals were even found on fruit destined for children under the Government’s free fruit for schools scheme.
More than 3,500 food samples were tested, of which 34.8 per cent contained residues of pesticides. The committee did stress that …
Most traditional perfumes are created in a lab, using synthetic oils that replicate natural, botanical scents. A fragrance may be made up of dozens, sometimes over a hundred different chemicals – and according to a National Academy of Sciences study from a couple of decades ago; up to 95% of these fragrance chemicals are petrochemicals – derived from crude oil. Do you really want to apply that to your skin to be absorbed into your body?
In addition, unlike many synthetic scents, natural perfumes have no phthalates, compounds derived from alcohol that makes scents last longer but have also been linked to hormonal imbalance and reproductive disorders …
Vitamin K is found in green leafy vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage and in fermented dairy products and its primary role is to help blood clot.
New research from the University of Nantes in France has shown that when a vitamin K dependent protein, matrix GLS, is inactivated it restricts blood flow and causes swelling in the veins. This highlights the important role vitamin K can play in maintaining vascular health. Varicose veins affect one in three women and around half as many men.