October is national breast cancer awareness month. This is very personal for me. In May of 2005 I was diagnosed with one of the most feared diseases a woman can get- a very virulent form of breast cancer. I will be forever grateful to the dedicated doctors who saved my life. I also pray everyday that no one else will [...]
The Catastrophic Lie Endangering Your Health
Buyer Beware! If you read an expose published in the NY Times last week, you know the sugar industry funded research that would cast doubt on sugar’s role in heart disease. “Project 226” entailed paying Harvard researchers today’s equivalent of $48,900 to exonerate sugar as the cause of heart disease and place the blame on something else. The resulting article [...]
The Magic Relief for Leg Cramps
Lately I've encountered a lot of folks who are fellow sufferers of leg cramps a/k/a the Charley Horse. Wonder where the name Charley Horse comes from? Just as the reasons behind getting charley horses are not always known, the origin of the nickname is debated. It dates back to the 1880s and was originally an American baseball slang term. When [...]
Live Longer – Lessons from the Blue Zones
We are constantly chasing longevity in our culture. Ads for “anti-aging products” and treatments appear in the media all the time. Just look at any “toiletries” shelf in your local CVS, Walgreen’s etc. There are anti-aging body cream, face cream, skin care products, shampoos, even lip glosses! Perhaps we would be better served by looking at the cultures around the [...]
4 Things You Really Need to Know About Gluten
If you are like most people I meet, you are sick of hearing about gluten. The whole idea of it seems preposterous to you and you just can’t imagine that gluten-free is anything other than a passing fad. After all, we’ve been eating wheat for centuries, right? How can it suddenly be such a problem? I am going to explain [...]
Crazy for Coconut!
For many, many years, coconut oil and coconut products were “forbidden fruit” – possessing evil properties that cause weight gain and heart disease. In the early 2000’s there was a good deal of research touting the healthful properties of coconut and other tropical oils. Other cultures have been thriving on this “medium chain triglyceride” for centuries. We were busy discovering [...]