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 […]
I was researching the impact of sugar on the body when I came across an article that blew me away. It was a study published in the Endocrine Society journal on the impact of sugar on male testosterone levels. Currently testosterone levels are typically tested in the morning when levels are the highest with a […]
50,000 years ago humans lived in a state of dietary insecurity. Agriculture had not been developed yet so food supply was determined by whatever was available with each season. For humans living in Europe and north Asia winter was a time of almost no food at all. To survive you had to live off of […]
Soft, clear, beautiful skin is a joy to behold. It communicates the health and vitality of the person blessed with such skin. Indeed, the health of the skin is a reflection of the health of similar tissues throughout the body such as the gut lining and blood vessel lining. Like the gut lining, our skin […]
Ninety percent of adults in North America consume caffeine daily. It is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant found in over 60 different South American and Asian plants, but we are most familiar with just three sources: coffee, tea, and to a small extent, chocolate. […]