I write a lot about different ways to improve your health, but I have missed writing about one of the simplest and most enjoyable health aids – vacations. So much in the health arena involves doing things like exercise, diet, proper sleep, and avoiding toxic environmental elements. These things are necessary, but not fun. […]
Boy, this sounds like a scary newsletter. The title literally says fat poisoning. From what I have been researching, it is very scary and very common. When I say common, I mean two-thirds of us probably have this. This nastiness is one of the underlying causes of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. This is […]
For a couple of months now I have been researching the inflammatory properties of the fats we consume. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the subject before I started my research this time due to a dive into the subject I made about 20 years ago. Back then the exciting knowledge […]
Hi , This last weekend I read the book “The Paleo Solution” by Robb Wolf. I have been a fan of the concepts of eating the way our ancestors did before we developed agriculture, but somehow I had never gotten around to reading this basic primer in eating the Paleo way. I want to tell […]
Vegetarianism has been around for a long time. In fact you could say that the creation of modern civilization began as a shift away from the hunter-gatherer meat-eating lifestyle to the growing plants for food (agrarian) lifestyle. On the other hand, the development of the large human brain is the direct result several million years […]
One of my fondest memories of when I was growing up was going wild blackberry picking late in the summer in the big berry patches behind our house. We would take a long piece of lumber and drop it into the patch and then carefully walk out onto the lumber to reach the really good […]
How is your first Health Challenge going – eliminating seed oils from your diet ? Challenge Number 1 is pretty easy for the bottles of oil you have at home, you just toss them out. It is a little tougher to replace the products that are full of these oils like mayonnaise, dressings, bakery products, margarine, chips, […]
Sugar season is rapidly descending upon us. It begins with the first bag of Halloween candy we buy and ends with the solemn promises of turning over a new leaf New Years Day. Some new evidence and resources may help with how we handle this years sugar rush. For almost 30 years now […]