Turn off the TV

"A research team from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Southern Denmark analyzed the data from eight studies that included more than 175,000 individuals and found that watching TV for two hours a day (and Americans log a daily average of 5 hours in front of the tube!) raised the risk of type 2 diabetes by 20 percent over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease by 15 percent over a decade and the risk of dying from any cause by 13 percent during a seven-year follow up."

Source: Dr. Andrew Weil

Simple Living Feature

If you want to be inundated by a wealth of wonderful information about how to live more simply, more consciously, and closer to our wonderful earth, then head on over to A Girl and Her Scout, where October is Simple Living Month.

There's tips every day, so there is a way for everyone to to reduce your ecological footprint, improve yours and your family's health and well-being, and support others who are working hard to preserve the integrity of our land, our agriculture, our animals, our air, our water, and our souls.

I am her guest blogger for part of this week, so check out my tips as well as the many others she's posted already this month.