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Welcome! Her Busy Life is all about making life easier while juggling work, kids, meals, finances, and everything else your life demands. But it’s also about Busy Women having fun along the way and sharing the journey with others.
This Week’s Top Stories
| Living Unscripted Soaring: Before the Parade Passes By… |
LaughLines Birthin’ Babies: Love’s Labor Is Lost on Me |
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 By Shaz
Having tea recently with an incredibly accomplished writer in our business, a hero of mine actually, I described myself as sooo DOLLY Levi these days, with all NY tuned in and tap dancing to the romantic ins and outs of our collective mid-life dating… …(Read More) |
 By Cate Drew
have two kids, and while giving birth was a truly wonderful experience, two labors were plenty. Okay, I had it pretty easy. Claire was born a mere five hours after my water broke – I pushed a few times and poof! Ben took the express lane, causing me to dilate from 3 to 10 centimeters in 45 minutes. …(Read More) |
| Food For Thought Blueberries — A Superhero for Brain Health |
Graceful Warrior Take a Spin With This Hoop-eriffic Workout |
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 By Karen Roth, MS, NC
As we age, many see a decline in mental capabilities whether it’s memory loss, trouble thinking of the right word, being forgetful, and we blame it on getting old. When in fact, uh… I’m sorry, I forgot what I was just saying. Oh, yes. Forgetfulness. That’s it. The two major causes of mental decline are oxidative damage and inflammation. Conditions that can be prevented!…(Read More) |
 By Gina Shelton
I’ve had several friends get hula hoops in the last few weeks and then ask for a few pointers. Since I just picked up my hoop for possibly the first time this year (shame all over my face), I thought it would be fun to post on the basics and joy of hooping. I was able to hoop as a child, but that’s about it. …(Read More) |
| Eco-Stiletto Green Supermodel Is Now a Pure-ist |
Mommy Greenest Think Eco-Beauty Is Expensive? No Way! |
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 By Rachel Sarnoff
As a supermodel—and we mean that literally—Angela Lindvall has been a cover girl for Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and countless other big-fashion mags. Inside their pages, she’s the face of brands from Valentino to Missoni. I talked with the ecoista from her Topanga Canyon home about becoming the new face of DKNY’s new Pure fragrance, which sources sustainable vanilla from a fair trade cooperative in Uganda……(Read More) |
 By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
You don’t need to make a special supermarket trip to find eco-friendly beauty. Go to the kitchen and grab sugar, eggs, honey and instant oatmeal. Go on, I’ll wait! I love scrubs but don’t like that most of them contain oil. So I created this Essential DIY Scrub & Mask that I’m totally addicted to. You can even use it every day-okay I’m a little obsessive-and seriously …Read More |
| HBL Consumer Report Are You Thirsty for Safe DrinkingWater? |
Busy Moms Step Up the Fun with These Lunch Box Tips |
 We all know the risks and hazards of drinking bottled water— BPA and other chemicals that leech into the water from the plastic, but how safe is our tap water? In 1996 Congress added a requirement to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974:… …Read More |
 Kids are headed back to school all over the country and that means it’s time to send them off packing the right way. Since you can’t be with them the whole day, it’s nice to know you can still help them out at lunchtime. Packing lunches can be fun for both you and your children with these creative ideas suggested by Oprah.com…..Read More |
| Her Busy Book Review! Let’s Dish About Green Cookbooks |
Her Busy Book Review! Books To Read As The World Turns. . . Green |
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 Our country spends over $100 billion on nutritional products that promise to make us healthier, but the obesity statistics continue to rise. All the diet foods and low-cal snacks just don’t seem to work, at least for long. Some folks are getting to the root of the problem by trying to eat healthier and greener, but with so much to choose from it is difficult to know what is best… .…Read More |
 This summer, the President’s Cancer Panel published a report on the risks of chemicals and other substances in the environment. Their findings showed that millions of Americans are exposed daily to upwards of 80,000 chemicals. Some of these chemicals are found in cosmetic products, pesticides from food, and pharmaceuticals in our water supply. Feeling green? We have the cure for you. …..Read More |
| HBL Consumer Alert Is It Safe to Eat? 10 Healthy Tips |
HBL Consumer Alert! Sunscreen Dangers: Don’t Get Burned |
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 In light of the recent egg recall, food awareness has become a major topic of discussion. Where does your food really come from? Are you putting the purest things in your body or are you slowly junking your system up on a daily basis? Are you taking every precaution to prevent a spread of disease or bacteria? The following tips will help you decide.…(Read More) |
 The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) fourth annual Sunscreen Guide reveals the truth about many products that claim to protect you from the sun, but may be harmful to your health. The newest trend for sunscreens is an exaggerated SPF, which promises to protect…more |
| Breaking News Toxic Reform In House |
HBL Consumer Alert Pollution: Are You The Vulnerable Demographic |
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 The Environmental Working Group has huge news. The toxics reform bill, H.R. 5820, the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Chairmen Waxman (CA-30) and Rush (IL-01). Toxics reform is now moving through both houses of Congress. It has never been more important for Congress to know that we want the strongest and most effective toxics bill possible …(Read More) |
 We all know pollution and toxins are bad for you. But the Environmental Working Group has conducted perhaps the deepest analysis of this issue on the most vulnerable demographic on the planet. Some shocking information in one of the most entertaining presentations of the conference. Ken Cook speaking on the Health plenary at Tides’ Momentum 2008…(Read More) |
| HBL Girlfrineds Take Two Friends and Call Me in the Morning! |
HBL Consumer Report Cell Phones Pose Potential Health Risks |
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 At an evening class at Stanford, the last lecture was on the mind-body connection — the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman. Whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious. Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. …(Read More) |
 Research about cell phone radiation has not been definitive, however, we do know that there are potential health risks. Cell phones emit electromagnetic waves, a type of non-ionizing radiation. Non-ionizing is less harmful than other types of radiation, though it has been found that it can penetrate the body and harm sensitive tissue. Short term studies have not shown an association between cell phone use and cancer, however long term studies over a period of 10 years have shown that frequent users have a higher risk of developing cancer in areas on the side of their head where they typically hold a phone…(Read More) |
| HBL Consumer Report Cancer Panel Findings Are Alarming |
HBL Consumer Report Fish and Tips: What You Need To Know |
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 This summer, the President’s Cancer Panel published a 240-page report on the risks of chemicals and other substances in the environment. The Panel was concerned to find that the threat of environmentally induced cancer had been underestimated. Their findings showed that millions of Americans are exposed daily to the 80,000 chemicals that are on the market in the United States, most of which are understudied and unregulated. The potential risks include chemicals found in plastics, pesticides, car exhaust, pharmaceuticals in water supply, medical tests, radiation, cell phones and sun exposure…Read More |
 Many consumers eat fish to gain the health benefits from the omega-3 fatty acids, which decreases heart attacks, strokes, and cholesterol. However, eating fish comes with a catch. Despite the benefits, some fish has been found to contain high levels of mercury, polychlorinated bipenyls (PCBs), and other dangerous chemicals. Mercury can be toxic to the brain, heart and nervous system, especially in children and infants, and PCBs are a cancer-causing industrial chemical that is found in our waterways. Although these chemicals are dangerous…(Read More) |