The Organic View

Over seventy percent of American women with children under the age of eighteen are also part of the country’s workforce. While more and more of today’s women juggle work and family life, achieving balance—both physically and mentally—has become essential as new studies continue to expose the impact stress hormones can have on a woman’s health.

In Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science, author Dr. Claudia Welch explores the counterbalancing effects of sex and stress hormones, and outlines easy-to-follow strategies for self care to help women combat stress-induced medical problems ranging from painful periods, mood swings, fatigue, and insomnia to infertility, uterine fibroids, hot flashes, heart disease, and osteoporosis.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to Dr. Claudia Welch, MSOM about how you can achieve balance in your life. Stay Tuned!

The EPA was created in 1970. Its fundamental charge was the protection of man and the environment from unreasonable risks from pesticides. As a part of this, the EPA was responsible for protecting pollinators and what is commonly referred to as the bee hazard warning.

For the first 20 years of the EPA’s existence, the label was the law. In the subsequent 20 years, the EPA has failed increasingly to see that the laws are honored and enforced with the respect to pollinators.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to beekeepers, Tom Theobald, Jeff Anderson and Dave Hackenberg, Co-Chair of the National Honeybee Advisory Board.

In Anjum’s Eat Right for Your Body Type: The Super-Healthy Diet Inspired by Ayurveda, beloved author and cooking show host Anjum Anand puts a fresh spin on this ancient medical system, making it easy for readers to incorporate Ayurvedic concepts into their busy 21-century lives. A lifestyle quiz provided in the beginning of the book helps readers quickly determine their body type, or Dosha, thereby revealing what foods are best for them to eat.  

Ayurveda medicine teaches us “how to maintain harmony within ourselves and with nature.”Anjum’s Eat Right for Your Body Type reveals how the right diet can promote weight loss, improve mood, increase focus,and prevent disease.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to Author, Anjum Anand, who is an experienced chef and the host of Indian Food Made Easy on the Cooking Channel in the United States. She gained fame as the presenter of two, six-part BBC series of the same name. Her books are bestsellers in the United Kingdom, where she lives with her family.  Stay tuned!

Why is it that chocolate bars are always loaded with all sorts of artificial ingredients, flavors and additives? Can chocolate actually be healthy? Yes, it can! Did you know that chocolate is derived from  an actual plant? Pure dark chocolate has many health benefits such as flavonoids, which act as antioxidants and are beneficial to the heart! So, why do manufacturers have to add all sorts of junk to something that already tastes great? Which kinds of chocolate should you buy and why?

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to chocolate expert, Jean Kelsey about chocolate and your health! Stay tuned!

The Animal Legal Defense Fund drafted and added an "Offender Registration and Community Notification" section to ALDF’s model laws collection in 2001. It was based on the statutory equivalents, that all state have since adopted, dubbed "Megan's Laws" that deal with sex offenders. Since then a number of jurisdictions have followed this model concept introducing legislation to accomplish this goal with respect to animal abusers. To view a complete list of all states, please click here. 

Stephan K. Otto is an attorney and director of legislative affairs for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. In this capacity he oversees the development of animal protection laws at the local, state and federal levels. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School where he teaches an animal law legislation clinic. Mr. Otto is the author of various animal protection bills, statutes and ordinances in jurisdictions throughout the country. He is the publisher and editor of the Animal Protection Laws of the United States of America & Canada compendium (currently in its fifth edition), ALDF Model Animal Protection Laws collection, and annual comparative reports, State Animal Protection Laws Rankings and Canadian Animal Protection Laws Rankings. Mr. Otto speaks on an array of animal-related issues at hearings and presentations across the country.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to Stephan Otto about this victory! Stay tuned!

Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy and Save the Planet All on $5 a Day or Less!

The organic industry has come a long way. Consumers now can buy organically grown food as well as other staples just about anywhere they shop. Many people still do not understand what to look for or how to buy the most on a limited budget. Unfortunately, people will opt to resort to conventional (ie: non-organic, non-foods) instead.

Author Linda Watson has written a fabulous book which outlines your options in full detail. The book also enables you to make your own staples with her kid-friendly recipes. Her book also contains a great deal of insight as far as why you should shop for particular ingredients and how to compromise with alternatives. 

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will talk to Author, Linda Watson about her new book and her valuable tips. So, if you are feeling the pinch of the economy but do not want to sacrifice your healthy by opting for the chemical foods on the market, this is one book you need to read! Stay tuned!

It is officially summertime and as the temperature continues to rise, more people eagerly head to the pool or the beach. While the sun does provide essential Vitamin D, too much sun can harm your skin. Typically, sun-worshipers have slathered on a myriad of tropical scented lotions and sprays in order to protect themselves from the sun’s harmful UV rays not really paying too much attention to the ingredients in the products. The focal point has been primarily what number the SPF is. This is simply not enough!

Thanks to many consumer awareness groups, issues have been raised about the purity and kinds of ingredients used in sun care products. The reason for this concern is that the chemicals in your sun care can actually cause more damage than good.

Thanks to these groups and other resources, consumers are becoming aware of some of the most common sunscreen ingredients that are suspected or known carcinogens and/or hormone disrupters. Read your labels to see if your sun and skin care product contains any ingredients that are harmful.

Another major issue is whether or not these products are tested on animals and contain animal derived ingredients. Conscious consumers are especially particular about how the products that they choose to buy are made. Once a conscious consumer is hooked, the loyalty is instantaneous mainly because there are not many companies out there that produce a pure, high quality and vegan sun care product.

So what should you look for when it comes to sun care? Is there anything particular you should pay attention to when it comes to small children or infants? What ingredients that are commonly used are derived from animals? How do you know if a company uses the barbaric practices of animal testing?

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer talks to Valerie McMurray, CEO of Soleil Organique Stay tuned!

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make your own soap or even start a small side business to generate a little bit of extra cash flow.  Soap making seems to be a lost art but thanks to Author and soap expert, Kayla Fioravanti, many people are finding that it is not as difficult as you might think. Recently, Kayla published her new book How To Make Melt & Pour Soap Base From Scratchwhich not only gives a complete “idiot’s guide” type in depth instruction for making your own soap but also provides a myriad of resources, reference materials and descriptions so that anyone can have fun making home-made soaps!

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, Kayla Fioravanti, Chief Formulator from Essential Wholesale Labs (www.EssentialWholesale.com) and also the star of the hit series on YouTube, Kitchen Chemistry with Kayla . Stay tuned!

Recently, the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives released its version of the Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which slashes funding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency charged with preventing meatpackers from engaging in unfair, deceptive and discriminatory livestock procurement practices that have forced independent farmers and ranchers out of the business.

According to Bill Bullard, the meatpackers have enlisted the aid of key congressional members to help them avoid U.S. laws that prohibit meatpackers from engaging in unfair trade practices against U.S. farmers and ranchers who sell their livestock into one of the most concentrated, monopolistic marketing systems in the entire U.S. economy.

“Four powerful meatpackers now control about 85 percent of the U.S. fed cattle market and these four meatpackers have coerced Congress into derailing a USDA rulemaking that would, for the first time, properly implement the 90-year-old Packers and Stockyards Act that was intended to prevent monopolistic meatpackers from taking advantage of independent farmers and ranchers,” he said.

The meatpackers have specifically targeted an important rulemaking by the USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) that belatedly implements the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA). The GIPSA rulemaking, known as the GIPSA rule, does this by imparting fairness and transparency in the livestock marketplace and by holding meatpackers accountable for their unfair cattle procurement practices that have contributed to the loss of over half a million U.S. cattle farmers and ranchers during just the past three decades.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to Bill Bullard, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA). Stay tuned!

Neonicotinoids continue to contribute to the rapid decline in the honeybee population.  The agencies designated to protect our honeybees seem confused as to their role. During a time when there should be solidarity between the two groups, there is a huge divide. It is now up to the leadership within the beekeeping community to take a stand and act.

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to beekeeping experts and activists, Tom Theobald, author, Graham White and Phil Chandler, who is also the host of The Barefoot Beekeeper.