Nov 11, 2020Valerie Gallardo-Buenrostro
You may already know buying organic is good for your health, but did you know it also benefits workers, the environment and climate change? It’s true! Organic foods are grown without the use of artificial chemicals, synthetic fertilizer, hormones, pesticides or...
Jul 5, 2018Emma Zang-Schwartz, MPH
Buying seafood can be tough to navigate. There are so many varieties and many different considerations to make when it comes to choosing the right one: health warnings, how it’s caught, if it is sustainable or not. To try and make you next trip to the fish...
Apr 11, 2018Emma Zang-Schwartz, MPH
While we love a good jam sesh every now and again, over at Because Health when we talk heavy metal, we’re getting our periodic tables out, pulling on the lab coats, and talking about elements like arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium. Although these are naturally...