By Mark Messina, PhD, MS, The term endocrine disruptor (ED) is relatively new, having originated in the early 1990s. In 1996, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency workshop defined EDs as “exogenous agents that interfere with the production, release, transport, metabolism, binding action or elimination of natural hormones in the body responsible for the maintenance of homoeostasis and the regulation of developmental processes." Subsequently, an Endocrine Society statement re-defined EDs as “an exogenous chemical, or mixture of chemicals, that can interfere with any aspect of hormone action.” Read More

By Laura Yautz, RDN, LDN, NBC-HWC Now that summer is unofficially over, we're jumping into fall recipes head first! I love foods of the fall more than any other season and Easy Skillet Tempeh is just the thing to get us started! Read More