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Fasting for Health

A couple weeks ago my brother Daniel suggested I watch a Youtube video by a Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist from Canada.  He had been treating diabetic patients for 20 years for kidney disease caused by diabetes when it dawned on him that none of his patients ever got better.  He actually asked himself […]

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Jekyll and Hyde Sugar

  Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it – one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body.  When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness.  But when you look at the chemical structure of […]

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Spices

Hi , I love spices.  They make the bland and ordinary into something great.  What most people don’t know is that spices were and are the essential natural medicines that can help us stay healthy in this crazy world.  Herbs and spices have been used for thousands of years for every sort of ailment we […]

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Why it is vital to be gentle with yourself

Daylight savings is here.  It is nice to have evenings in the light again.  This makes it easier for me to generate the motivation to get to the gym in the evenings to work out.  There is something about getting home when it is dark and raining that just doesn’t excite me to go right […]

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Diabetes Defense

Today’s article is to round out our discussion of blood sugar issues in our efforts to prevent Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes. To this point I have focused mainly on the obvious – sugar. Have you been reading labels? Amazed at how much sugar there is in products? Wonder why they use so many different kinds of […]