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Juice Recipe for Energy | Linda Wagner. So what’s the secret to making juices that give you energy? Use a wide variety of mineral dense fruits and veggies, the more, the better!! Remember to always add greens. Greens are good. This juice gave me energy ALL DAY, plus it was absolutely delicious! The other secret weapon in this juice is beets! From NaturalNews: The health benefits of beet juice aren’t well known, but they are profound. Researchers have found that a glass of beet juice each day beats high blood pressure – and according to the American Heart Association, one in three adults has high blood pressure. Sherry Rogers, M.D. tells us that glutathione can grab onto hundreds of different kinds of environmental chemicals and pull them into the colon where they can be flushed down the toilet.

In studies, animals with chemically-induced high cholesterol were fed beet fiber. Beets have also been found to increase the number of CD8 cells in the colon, which are cancer-destroying cells. You’ll need: Clean by Design, Apparel Manufacturing and Pollution. Video: Click to learn more about Clean by Design When the United States shifted manufacturing overseas, we also "outsourced" the associated pollution and greenhouses gases produced by this manufacturing to countries where there are few pollution controls. In addition to threatening the health of local communities in these countries, this resulting pollution can also affect our own health and environment because so many pollutants -- such carbon dioxide, soot (particulate matter), pesticides, and more -- travel great distances and enter our own air, drinking water, and food supply.

Clean by Design is an innovative program to use the buying power of multinational corporations as a lever to reduce the environmental impacts of their suppliers abroad. Clean by Design focuses on improving process efficiency to reduce waste and emissions and improve the environment. Manufacturing practices in less-developed countries are generally less efficient than in the developed world. Four Impact Areas. Natural Resources Defense Council – The Earth’s Best Defense | NRDC. Organic by John Patrick Brings the Urban Commune to Spring 2013 New York Fashion Week Organic by John Patrick Spring/Summer 2013 at New York Fashion Week.

Photos by Amanda Coen for Ecouterre Crisp but never starched: John Patrick brought Organic’s signature toss-on-and-go aesthetic to New York Fashion Week on Wednesday morning with a parade of linen trouser suits, translucent drop-waist shirtdresses, puff-sleeve bonded-cotton sweaters, floral lace shorts, and giant flatform rope sandals in a freshly laundered palette of oyster, navy, and black. Inspired by the idea of the “urban commune,” his Spring/Summer 2013 collection is “not body conscious but conscious of the body,” Patrick says. “They’re like Rice Krispies,” a front-row guest quipped backstage.

“Just pour and add milk.” (Full review to follow.) + Organic by John Patrick. Loomstate Nami Top.