An archive of HealthWise Safer Path columns
by Laurine Brown, Ph.D., MPH
WaterBusiness Practices & Consumption
Our Affluenza Epidemic
A Hundred Dollar Holiday: A Case For A More Joyous Holiday
Gifts That Give Twice
The Next Industrial Revolution
Are You Suffering from Time Poverty
Putting Toxic Toys to RestBody
Got Sole? Green You Routine
Coming Clean: Reducing Our Chemical Body Burden
What's Your Chemical Body Burden?
Treating Warts Naturally
Threats to Thyroid Wellness
Food for the Aging Brain
Medical radiation Friend and foeCancer Prevention
Pathways to Prevention of Breast CancerCleaners
Greener Cleaners: Safer Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Homespun Cleaners
Toxins Lurking in Your soapCosmetics
What's Itching You? The Rub on Cosmetics
Cosmetic Cover-Up Baby Boys and Hidden PhthalatesDiet and Behavior
Diet and Behavior: First Do No Harm
Diet and Behavior: Food for Frazzled Nerves
Food for the Hungry Soul
Desperately Seeking the Perfect Diet
The skinny on dietary fatFood
What Should We Eat? Food Rules We Can Digest
Return of the Backyard Chicken
Weed Killers on the Plate?: Go Organic
Something's Fishy
Are We Eating "Virtual" Food?
Where's the Beef... From? Part 1
Where's the Beef...From? Part 2
Take Heart: Add More Goodness to Meals
Health Benefits Probiotics: Good-for-Your-Gut Bugs
Suv in the Kitchen
Not-So-Sweet-Cupboard-of-Corn
Mushrooms Pack a Nutritional PunchLawn, Garden, & Backyard
By Yard Smart: Call Nature's Service Back
Tuning In To Backyard Wonders
When Green Is Toxic: Moving From Chem-Lawns to Eco LawnsPesticides
Children and Pesticides--A Walk Upstream
Don't Let the Bed Bugs BitePlastic
Age of Plastic
Are You Getting Too Much B.P.A?Pollution Solution
Plants: A Simple Solution to Indoor Pollution
What's Up With Kids and Asthma?
Living a Carbon-Lite Lifecycle
Improving Indoor Air Quality
Radon: What you don't know can Hurt YouPrairie & Agriculture
Paving the Prarie with Green Rectangels: A Distorted Sense of BeautyReducing Carbon Footprint
The “No Impact” Experiment's Health and Happiness Perks
Finding the Sacred in Water AgainThirsty?
Take Back the Tap
Cleaning Our Water: The Ripple Effect
Getting Our Water off DrugsIf you have questions or comments, please call Wellness at 556.3334, e-mail us at wellness@iwu.edu, or stop by our office in the Shirk Center.
