Since 1980 the childhood obesity rates for children between the ages of two to nineteen have tripled. For middle-aged-kids, ages six to eleven, this rate has doubled and the teen obesity rate has quadrupled. We have an obesity epidemic in this country. This has nothing to do with genetics; the American populace has the same […]
I have been writing about diet for years now as it relates to digestion, hormone balance, autoimmune disease, blood sugar balance, brain function, aging, weight loss, and so on. But just recently I have been reading a book called “Body by Science” that has opened my eyes to a whole other piece to the health […]
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 […]
Nature provides us an abundance of healing compounds in the plants that surround us on this planet. Although plants seem very different from us, they have to deal with many of the same challenges we have and they have developed chemical ways of dealing with these challenges over the eons. We can often use the […]
Your body manages its health through two basic mechanisms – facilitation and inhibition. Facilitation means the body makes more of something happen, while inhibition means it makes less of something happen. Facilitation adds information and activity, while inhibition subtracts or decreases information and activity. This reality is most clearly expressed in the brain. These are […]
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 […]
Hi , Have you ever noticed how many books there are on weight loss? How could there possibly be so much to say about such a physiologically simple process? Weight loss happens when you burn stored energy to do stuff. It is the same process as burning a log in your fireplace. You put a […]
What does it take to build strong bones? If you listen to the standard media they will say calcium, but there is much more to this story. Calcium is not enough by a long shot. Read full article here… People like simple answers. Human nature is to either not trust or to ignore things we don’t understand. Our […]
My thanks to all of you that expressed concern for my recent low back adventure. I am on the mend and now am ready to begin rehabilitating my back with balance exercises, stretching, and weight training. I am trying to convince our resident therapeutic massage therapist, Susan McDonald, to begin a stretch and balance class […]