Thanksgiving week is a great opportunity to teach children what the pilgrims ate 400 years ago – whole food with a plant slant, like squash, corn, and beans. Here’s a great vegan mushroom dressing for this marvelous Meatless Monday!

Current estimates suggest that alcohol consumption causes about 6% of all cancer deaths worldwide. In men, alcohol causes mostly head, neck, and gastrointestinal cancers, whereas it is mostly breast cancer in women. Alcohol appears to cause more than 100,000 cases of breast cancer every year! And it is not just heavy drinkers.

Although the adverse health effects of secondhand tobacco smoke are well recognized, the impact of burning incense in the home has received much less attention – why is that, since burning incense has been found to generate four times the particulate matter as cigarettes – so incense may be even worse! In fact, home incense use may have significant adverse health effects, particularly on the heart and lungs, including childhood asthma.