What do you want from life? We all have certain basic survival needs – air, water, food, shelter, and safety. Most of us have these basics met. If you don’t then the focus of your life will pretty much be on securing these needs or else you won’t survive. But aside from these needs most […]
Creation according to my son: In the beginning God created man and provided him with the bounty of the earth to sustain him and God was pleased. Man wandered in the garden and partook of the fruits and vegetables and life was good. But man felt an emptiness and a deep hunger for something more. Man […]
I attended a class last weekend on using herbal teas as a home pharmacy for treating common complaints. One of the keystone skills presented in this class was a form of muscle testing that anybody can do without any training. I had not been reminded of this technique in years and thought that I would […]
The cornerstone of nutritional science is the belief that scientific studies can determine what is best for you to eat. In science observing what happens to a single individual is considered basically worthless. It is called anecdotal evidence. Real science is concerned with studies on large populations of people or lab animals, because science wants […]
Every year the children, grandchildren, and now great grandchildren of my maternal grandmother get together for a Thanksgiving feast. The location of the feast rotates around between the various households with this year’s feast appearing at my mother’s house. Since she is 85 years old my sisters decided that she needed help with the feast […]
I love pizza. The hot oozing melted cheese, the run-down-your-face spicy meat juices, the yummy crust – it is all good. I have one problem though – my body does not like pizza ingredients. The essence of pizza is bread dough and cheese. Everything else is flexible. And it is precisely the bread dough and […]
I woke up last Friday with a scratchy throat and a full feeling in my glands. These are my early warning signs for an impending cold or flu. Fortunately I have my trusty colloidal silver to knock out that bug before it gets a chance to spread into the rest of the body. I immediately […]
For the last 100 years the basic chant of nutrition science has been the same everywhere – “a calorie is a calorie.” The idea is that all foods break down into little chemicals that provide fuel for our cells. The belief was that it didn’t matter what the food started out as, because by the […]
Ellen asked me this the other day. We were sitting in the car at the farmer’s market. I had just picked up some persimmons with which to try to make persimmon jam. She was not feeling ok and had me do a silent muscle test to see if the not ok feeling was a “I’m […]
You know what, there are no really good sugar free alternatives for jam out on the market. If you go to the grocery store they have a sugar-free jam made with artificial sweeteners. But the research has shown that the artificial sweeteners are as damaging or more damaging to your health than sugar. There […]