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Roots to Fruits: Eat Pea Pods, Cauliflower Leaves, and Onion Peels

Avoid food waste - eat your peels, roots and vegetable "waste" like pea pods, onion skins and cauliflower leaves. Want another reason to feel virtuous?...

Ceramic Coated Cooking Pans May be Killing You With Color

So-called eco-friendly, ceramic utensils may contain toxic metals like arsenic, an Israeli journalist investigates. It's in the colors, so also be wary of color-coated...

PIP Breast Implant Warnings Hit Middle East

Defunct French company PIP has sold leaky, industry grade silicon implants now being recalled. image via Globalpost Thousands of faulty breast implants have been recalled...

Saffron Spice Fights Liver Cancer

Researchers in Al Ain find that saffron can protect your liver from cancer. Great news just in time for Christmas: Arab scientists from the United...

Smoking Linked to Skin Cancer in Women

Rates of skin cancer in Israel are some of the highest in the world, though the rest of the MENA region has significantly lower...

Link Between Unhealthy Sperm and WiFi Use

He may appeal to the eyes, but what is all that computer use doing to his sperm? Infertility is a family affair. In the Middle...

Hanukkah Chocolate Coins Recipe

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Applesauce for Hanukkah Latkehs RECIPE

Make your own applesauce for Hannukah meals this year. It's surprisingly easy. Apples are in full season - just when they're urgently needed. For cooking...

Sustainable Bedouin Farm, Wadi Attir, To Break Ground in the Negev

After years of planning, a Bedouin eco-farm in the Negev will finally get under way next week. For years the Sustainability Laboratories (a New York-based...

RECIPE: Easy Moroccan Orange Salad

A slightly sweet, floral salad that goes surprisingly well with tomatoes and onions. Does this seem more like dessert than a side dish? Yet this...

Teva Pharmacueticals’ Morning-After Pill Kept Locked Up by US Ruling

Should Plan B emergency contraception be kept behind locked cabinets or made available on the shelves as recommended by health professionals?

Is Conscious Contraception Site Selling a Bag of Toxic Tricks?

Like Tom's Shoes, Conscious Contraception says it will give birth control to the poor with every purchase. Our eco-sex expert doesn't like certain aspects...

Freekah, Feta and Fig Salad RECIPE

This hearty freekah-based salad combines earthy, pungent, and sweet tastes. Perfect for winter eating. Freekah is one of Green Prophet's favorite superfoods. It's so nutritious,...

Test Tube Testes Developed by Arab Scientist

An Arab scientist has developed an artificial testis to give infertile man a chance to sire their own children. In the western world couples...

Pollution: What Autism, ADD, and Dyslexia Have in Common

 There are many different kinds of pollution and many ways in which they are hijacking our children's future. Children exposed to pollution are more likely...

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Street Vegan in Sri Thanu is a must-stop family lunch spot on Koh Phangan, Thailand

If you’re anywhere near Sri Thanu on Koh Phangan, Thailand, around the yoga centers: Zen Beach, Haad Yao, or Salad Beach—make time for Street Vegan. It's vegan and so satisfying that one meal might convince you that eating plant-based is not a compromise. I suggest for any vegan restaurant owner or chef to come to this modestly-priced venue to learn from a master.

Plants can eat dust and grow – should we stop dusting them?

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Paris Modest Fashion Week offers style without exposure for Muslims

France is home to around 5 to 7.5 million Muslims according to estimates, and Özlem Şahin, head of the organization behind Modest Fashion Week, has described Paris as "one of the leading modest fashion capitals in Europe".

Kids are vaping. The media shock that made them stop

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