Natural Awakenings - February 2007 Read the February 2007 edition of Natural Awakenings. Pineapple Perks A report concludes that fair-trade pineapples are better for the consumer, the farmer and the environment. Read More » Low-Fat Foods Can Lead to Obesity: Avoid These Tricky Tastes “Stick with the regular version of foods, but eat a little bit less,” counsels Brian Wansink, Ph.D., author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. Read More » Chew Well to Lose Weight: Reasons to Chomp a Little Longer The first scientific study on “satiety” shows that chewing each bite 25 times causes women to eat up to 210 fewer calories a day and they wind up weighing less. Read More » GE Foods Update: Think You Aren't Eating Them? Think Again. A Pew Initiative of Food and Biotechnology survey reveals that 75 percent of Americans believe that they’ve never eaten a genetically engineered food. Read More » Poetic Art for the Heart: Healthy Poems It turns out that reciting poetry with a good beat can give our heart a break. Read More » Why Our Body Loves Salad: Reasons to Eat One Daily UCLA/Louisiana State University research is the first to blunt concerns about the human body’s ability to absorb needed nutrients from raw vegetables. Read More » A Truly Sweet Heart: 5 Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol Dr. Weil offers a handful of do-able tips to treat our own sweet heart right by cutting out bad cholesterol and pumping up goodness at mealtime. Read More » The Healing Sun: Reduce Your Risk of Cancer with Natural Rays Taking a daily 10- to 15-minute walk in natural sunlight could cut the risk of breast cancer at least 30 to 40 percent. Read More » From the Heart: How diet can keep your heart healthy or help you heal after a heart attack or cardiac surgery. If you’ve recently survived a heart attack or had cardiac surgery, you may feel overwhelmed with questions about recovery—especially regarding your diet. Find out what to eat, what to avoid, and where to go from here. Read More » Love: An Unconditional Experience of the Heart: A Natural Awakenings Exclusive Interview with Byron Katie Best-selling self-help author, workshop leader and relationship guru Byron Katie's approach to healing broken relationships can help even in the midst of crisis. Read More » EarthTalk Dear EarthTalk: I’m moving into a freshly painted apartment, and am curious to know whether it makes any sense to repaint the walls with non-toxic paint in hopes of “covering up” the toxic stuff already there. Or is it too late? Read More » A Farewell to Harm: Political Corruption No Longer “Normal” Millions of ordinary citizens in countries around the world are unhappy with corruption and want their governments to stop it, reports a recent survey. Read More » Smart Homes: Smog-Eating Buildings Clean the Air Breakthrough construction technology by Millennium Chemicals of Britain may help to create buildings that actually absorb pollution. Read More » Bullish for Peace The likelihood of a white bison calf being born is less than one in a million. Yet 10 such calves have arrived in the past decade. Read More » Happy Workers: Retailer Wakes to Flextime Though flexible work schedules aren’t new, a twist on the idea at Best Buy known as a “results-only work environment” promises to transform corporate culture for the better. Read More » Under Pressure: Carbon Freeze Gains Momentum Al Gore launches a national grassroots campaign calling for a federal “freeze” on the carbon emissions behind global warming. Read More » Mountain Shout: Appalachian Trail America’s Largest Living Laboratory The famed Appalachian Trail may become a barometer for environmental and human health conditions. Read More » School of Sustainability: Walden 101 Sweeps Campuses Arizona State University (ASU) inaugurated the nation’s first School of Sustainability. Read More » Think About It: Year-long Intention Experiment A series of worldwide web based mind-over-matter experiments monitored by physicists and psychologists will measure how directed thought energy changes the world around us. Read More » Sacred Ground: Private Land Conservation Booms While development overruns 2 million acres of open space, farms and forest a year, private land conservation jumped 54 percent, from 24 million to 37 million acres. Read More » Fish Tale: U.S. Votes for Sustainable Ocean Fisheries The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 spells relief for hard-pressed coastal sea life within the overfished 200-mile U.S. offshore zone. Read More » Fair Trade Chocolate: The Sweetest Treat There’s a dark side to this seductively rich indulgence. Here's a solution for this far-from-sweet situation. Read More » Retro Fit: Hula hoops are back and putting a new spin on fitness. One of today’s hottest trends borrows heavily from the past, taking the lightweight hula hoop and transforming it into a fitness tool. Read More » Cool Food: Lots More Reasons to Eat Less Meat Strictly speaking, the term “meat-eating environmentalist” is oxymoronic. Cows, more than cars, are the primary offender behind global warming. Read More » Science You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Sealants and Amalgam Here’s the latest research on some rather toothy topics: dental sealants and mercury fillings. Read More » Animal Attraction: Dogs Make Great Dates Online dating services are proving that profiling one’s single self along with one’s pet can yield fun along with a suitable match in the dating scene. Read More » In-Print