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Elternschaft
What is Lotus Birth? Lotus birth—also called umbilical nonseverance —is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut after childbirth, allowing the baby to remain attached to the placenta until the cord naturally…
7 Min. Lesezeit · May 2025
Elternschaft
How I Found Out About Pain-Free Birth & 2 Short Birth Stories Everyone around me seemed convinced birth was going to feel like a marathon… in fire. I nodded politely, but in my head I was thinking: Surely there’s a…
5 Min. Lesezeit · Apr 2025
Nachhaltiges Leben
Die meisten heute verkauften Matratzen bestehen aus petrochemischem Schaumstoff. Hier erfahren Sie, was die Evidenz zu Emissionen, Wärme, Haltbarkeit und dem Ende des Lebenszyklus sagt — und drei Hersteller, die ausschließlich mit pflanzlichen und tierischen Fasern arbeiten.
11 Min. Lesezeit · Aug. 2026
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Nachhaltiges Leben
A handmade furniture workshop in Amsterdam since 2011: solid wood, made to measure, and clever pieces that turn a small apartment into an office by day and a bedroom by night.
6 Min. Lesezeit · Oct 2026
Nachhaltiges Leben
Wooden handles, horse-hair and boar bristles, plant fibres, and the miswak twig — what to brush with when you want no plastic at all.
6 Min. Lesezeit · Oct 2026
Essen & Trinken
A complete guide to the sugars in our food: how each one is built, how the body breaks it down, the health problems linked to each, and the rare cases where sugar genuinely helps.
14 min read · Oct 2026
Essen & Trinken
A consumer and maker's guide to every sweetener sold in Europe and the US: what it is made from, how the body handles it, what the latest research says, and a clear good, careful or avoid rating.
16 min read · Oct 2026
Essen & Trinken
What inulin, oligofructose, GOS, yacon syrup, soluble corn fibre and IMO actually are, what they do in the colon, which claims are proven, and who should be careful.
11 Min. Lesezeit · Oct 2026
Essen & Trinken
Dates, figs, bananas, apples, sweet potato, carrots, carob, malt, amazake, cinnamon and vanilla: how whole foods deliver sweetness with fibre, minerals and polyphenols, and how to cook with them.
10 min read · Oct 2026
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