Really, does this surprise anybody anymore?
A pack of beef, imported for the major Japanese restaurant chain Yoshinoya from the Californian plant of National Beef, contained spinal tissue, the agriculture ministry said.
Japan in July 2006 agreed to resume US beef imports on condition the cattle were not more than 20 months old at the time of […]

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As if people didn’t have enough incentive to drink sake in Japan (there is sake for just about every seasonal occasion), Osake Therapy will help teach you the beauty benefits of drinking sake with their training courses. They focus on three points that sake can help with: Body Therapy, Mind Therapy, and […]

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Came across an entry on drinking water by comedienne Margeret Cho in her blog. She combines two points that I think are encouraging beauty and health tips: don’t wear a lot of make up, and drink tons of water so your skin will look good without it.
She sings the praises of drinking […]

So maybe you’ve read my previous post on how needing new moisturizer helped me figure out that olive oil is an excellent addition to skin care routine, and simultaneously made me re-adjust my perspective on beauty care products.
This post is about the health and beauty aspect of using olive oil, and why I recommend it […]

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I thought this was a funny commercial about CO^2 awareness. The comedian in the commercial, Kojima Yoshio, claims that he will stop breathing in order to offset the increasing CO^2 in the atmosphere. Does it work? Well…
This is a commercial produced by the campaign for Carbon Offset New Year’s Greeting. In […]

Despite the fact that since August of ‘07 I have a.) been staying in a foreign country and b.) cooped up in dorms and hotels, there is one thing that hasn’t happened that I thought for sure would be inevitable, and has in fact afflicted many other people, including those I have come into close […]

Back in Skinny Jeans posted a great link to a site where you can enter in your make up products and see how toxic they are. Right away I checked out the website and entered in Bare Escentuals, my brand of choice because everything else my skin go crazy. Luckily, they rated about […]

If you haven’t heard of the Diva Cup, then you are in for a treat. The Diva Cup is a environmentally friendly, body friendly, wallet friendly, traveling friendly menstrual solution (shut up, it gets better). It is most certainly one of the best investments I have made this year and I whole-heartedly endorse […]

OK, so you may think you love mother Earth more than the average person, but do you really?  Enter No Impact Man, a blog about a man’s mission to make as little of an environmental impact on the water planet as possible.  That means not buying anything new, composting and recycling the shit out of […]

You know when you order something from a fast food chain, and you question if the ingredients that make up your order are edible? And yet you eat it anyway?
It is really sad that the condition of actual fast food versus what companies try to show you on TV is laughable to most people. […]