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Carbs or Fats?

The general question of today’s newsletter is which kind of diet works better to improve health – low- carb or low-fat. In the world of dietary modification, the most common need in America today is to lose fat weight since over two-thirds of Americans are overweight. Almost half of them are outright obese, which is […]

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Indulgent

Ellen and I have been focusing on the subject of self-love for the last week or so. Once we get interested in a subject, we seem to attract many different perspectives from those around us on the subject of interest without asking. Sometimes it is like the world is just a big textbook, and when […]

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Autophagy Diet

    The week before last Ellen and I did a 5-day autophagy diet. We began on Sunday afternoon and ended with breakfast the following Saturday. For those five and a half days we ate no protein, no carbs or sugars, and very little fat. The idea is to eat just fiber with a little […]

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Bed Yoga

  Today we have a guest author, Theodora, a certified Yoga teacher and health coach. She has designed a morning Yoga program you can do right from your bed. What a great way to start the day! BED YOGA Some of us will remember the days we had to warm up the car before driving. […]

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Histamines/allergies

  Red itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing, all the joys of seasonal allergies.  We get a lot of that here in the valley.  We can run to the store to get pills and drops and sprays to combat these symptoms, most of which work by counteracting histamines, thus the name anti-histamines.  But is there more […]