M.Cokas

A Whole New Nutrition

March 5, 2010

About 4 weeks ago I embarked on a new journey in my life.  Never having been on a diet before, my husband and I were looking for one that we could use to quickly shed a few pounds before walking in the Re-Vamp Fashion Show.  After a couple days of research we finally decided on [...]

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Fluoride: Looking Deeper

January 11, 2010

The current controversy over the fluoridation of public water supplies doesn’t really leave my thoughts much these days.  This is a practice steeped in deception and elaborate marketing.  Shouldn’t we all have the right to choose whether or not we want to ingest this chemical additive, without having it quietly injected into our drinking water?  [...]

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The Man…delbrot.

January 3, 2010

So, I’ve recently become enamored with fractals, the mathematics of nature.  I’ve always been a bit of a closet mathie, a decorated mathlete in my formative years, but how did fractals evade my radar for so long.  And as an Environmental Engineer, how did this not show up at least somewhere along my course of [...]

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Rawk…NYE.

January 2, 2010

Mostly compliments of jE.

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Stress Less, Medicate Less

December 1, 2009

Well it’s sickness season again and with all the H1N1 hysteria I’ve been trying really hard to keep my mouth shut.  Vaccinations have to be a personal choice; I don’t want people telling me what to do so I try to be careful of pushing my beliefs on to others as well.  Unfortunately, after weeks [...]

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Green Smoothies…The Easy Way to Eat Your Greens

November 9, 2009

I recently became hooked on green smoothies as a delicious and efficient way to eat raw greens.  Greens provide so many essential nutrients for every part of the body, they can even help to remineralize your teeth and reverse tooth decay.  It hasn’t always been easy to consume the recommended daily amount, especially if you [...]

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Going Green: Soap Nuts for Laundry and More…

November 5, 2009

You want clean laundry, but you also want to be green, who can you turn to?  Mother Nature; it’s long been common knowledge that she cleans the air, but now, we’re finally realizing, she’s also made provisions to clean our clothes.  Soap Nuts are one of my latest easy to employ (important when you’re a [...]

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Organize It! The Bathroom Cabinet

October 29, 2009

For many the bathroom cabinet can be a frighteningly muddled wasteland of expired nail polish, hair products and medicines that will never see the glory of use again.  I am here to introduce you to my bathroom cabinet.  One of which I am so proud, I often include it in the tour of my house [...]

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Herbology: Practical Uses of Calendula

October 29, 2009

The more I see pharmaceutical companies advertising their latest fad drugs on television the more research I am drawn to doing on herbal and homeopathic treatments.  I am a strong believer in healing yourself from within and think that in the majority of cases, the body has what it needs to heal without any magic [...]

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Bored? How About a Picnik?

October 28, 2009

If you are looking for a way to have a few minutes of instantly gratifying, creative fun, you’ve gotta check out Picnik.  Picnik is a free web-based picture editor and a whole lot more!  It’s less about the technical perfection of a photograph and more about child-like doodling and urban graffiti for your pictures.  With [...]

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