I honestly think the world of people who have made the commitment to vegan and/or organic changes in their lives, and like most, am beginning to reflect a more relaxed attitude that seems to come with that lifestyle.

What is most exciting, and a big reason I got into the business of organic bedding and textiles, is the deep connection to Fair Trade practices that promise living wages, health care and dignity to farm workers around the world. As Fair Trade products become more popular here, more and more families around the globe are now living in decent housing and eating better.

Talk about an obvious solution to global hunger! Fair Trade, and organic certification, of course, do add to the cost, which is difficult for some consumers to understand. It is unfortunate that some organic retailers respond by taking the Wal-Mart approach, and cheapening organic products to attract customers. Not easy to do though, because organic cotton and organic wool are not nearly as plentiful as those online hawkers would suggest.

("LOWEST PRICES!", "HUGE SELECTION", "LOWEST PRICES ON THE WEB!", etc. Ugh.)

Of course the most helpless will lose. In the business world, it's now trendy to strip wages and fire employees in order to undercut prices. (Let's save opinions about offshoring American jobs for another day.)

We must find it particularly egregious to do this to an organic industry that has always been deeply committed to humane Fair Trade initiatives. On organic farms and cooperatives overseas, the tactic repeatedly devastates the lives of innocent farm workers.

Ethical organic retailers gladly walk that difficult line between responsibility to the industry and Fair Trade initiatives, and offering our customers competitive pricing whenever possible. Those same ethical retailers (at least in my clique) are appalled at the cheapening of an organic industry we truly support.

I would wish that savvy organic consumers everywhere would boycott, shun, or do whatever is their style, to denounce that behavior. Sadly though, there will be a few who won't pay attention and will continue trying to buy organic bedding and organic cotton products on the cheap.

Please don't.

Susan Fullen-Yurek is an ecommerce entrepreneur and owner of Kushtush Organics (http://www.kushtush.com). Susan believes in the great potential of organic markets, and the industry's deep commitments to humane and Fair Trade practices as logical approaches to solving global hunger.

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Ayurveda believes that digestive disorders occur due to inappropriate food and lifestyle. It offers a rational and scientific approach for determining correct diet which is based upon an individual's constitution. Vata, Pitta and Kapha ( tri-dosha - energy) This energetic constitution is the basis of determining which foods are best for maintaining physiological balance for a given individual.

Nutritional imbalances which leads to digestive disorders are :

** Quantitative deficiency - under nutrition due to insufficient food, and even starvation.

** Quantitative excess - excessive amounts of both health foods and even water.

** Qualitative deficiency - wrong food combination which results in malnutrition, toxic condition and lack of essential nutrients.

** Qualitative excess - emotional overeating of high fat foods which can result in obesity.

** Ama-producing - certain food combinations lead to toxemia and to certain digestive disorders.

** Prakriti - foods not appropriate for one's constitution may reduce immunity and cause disease.

According to Ayurveda, every food has its own taste (rasa), a heating or cooling energy (virya) and post-digestive effect (vipaka). When two or three different food substances of different taste, energy and post-digestive effect are combined together agni can become overloaded inhibiting the enzyme system and resulting in production of toxins in the system. Combining foods improperly can result in digestive disorders like indigestion, fermentation, putrefaction and gas formation. For example, eating bananas with milk can diminish agni, change the intestinal flora producing toxins and may cause digestive disorders.

Lack of proper and systematic lifestyle also leads to chain of reactions caused by digestive system's inability to cope up with irregular food habits added by agonies and worries. Ayurveda manages these digestive problems through balancing the doshas with the help of food and lifestyle choices.

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Digestive disorders are a pandemic problem that afflicts millions of people worldwide. In this particular article, I discuss a few of the more common disorders like heartburn and indigestion. At the end of this article, I reveal a new breakthrough solution to heartburn and indigestion.

What Is Heartburn?

Heartburn isn't a heart attack or a heart problem at all. Heartburn is an actual burning sensation in the lower quadrant of the chest. This burning feeling can be accompanied with a bitter or sour like tasting in the mouth or throating. Heartburn can occur after eating a large meal and then lying down, this feeling can last for a few minutes or hours. Heartburn is a very common digestive disorders.

What Causes Heartburn?

Food that we consume passes down our esophagus (a tube that extends down to the stomach). At the end of the esophagus is an opening like a lid that allows food to pass and stops food in the stomach from coming up. In any event, if the lid opens then the acid contents irritate the esophagus walls; another name for this is called reflux. Here are a few things that make heartburn even worse: fatty foods, citrus foods, coffee, chocolate, mints, or peppermints, excess weight.

What Is Indigestion?

Indigestion is another very common digestive disorders. Indigestion is a word used to describe discomfort and sometimes located in the upper abdomen or chest after meals. Heartburn can be a form of indigestion. Up to one in four American adults suffer from heartburn each year.

What Are Symptoms Of Indigestion?

Heartburn

Loss of appetite

Flatulence, belching

Fullness of discomfort in the upper part of the abdomen or chest sometimes the underlying cause of indigestion is a more serious problem like an ulcer or even cancer.

What Are The Causes Of Indigestion?

A layer of mucus lines the stomach, esophagus, and intestines. If this mucus layer is damaged the acid can irritate the underlying tissues. If you eat food that doesn't have any living enzymes, or a combination of protease, amylase, or lipase then the food may sit there undigested. In any case, if you have heartburn or indigestion check out a breakthrough in alleviating these digestive disorders at the website located in the resource box below.

Disclaimer

The information provided herein should not be construed as a health-care diagnosis, treatment regimen or any other prescribed health-care advice or instruction. The information is provided with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in the practice of medicine or any other health-care profession and does not enter into a health-care practioner/ patient relationship with its readers.

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