Spring has sprung early here and plants are budding, which means pollen is in the air and wreaking havoc in people’s sinus passages. Migraines, runny nose, sneezing, itchy eyes, itchy mouth, foggy brain, fatigue… all of these symptoms and more can be triggered by airborne pollens in sensitive people. It can be hard to even […]
Category: Living naturally
Bought: The Truth Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma, and Your Food
If you haven’t seen the movie “Bought” yet, it’s free until March 15th, so click over there and sit back to watch the state of health in our country unfold before your eyes. The film looks at the connections between pharmaceutical company profits and vaccine safety, between the introduction of certain GMO seeds and the […]
Would You Rather Take A Daily Pill or Change Your Diet?
To what lengths would you go to to avoid taking a daily pill that promised to increase your life span? New research out of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that one in three people would risk having a shorter life rather than having to take […]
Low-Sodium Recipes for Glorious One-Pot Meals
Reader question: Love the recipes! Am a former culinary instructor who just recently was put on 1500 mg of salt per day. As a result I have been concentrating on your low sodium recipes. After making the Fish with Hong Kong Sauce for the first time since my sodium restrictions, I decided to double check […]
The Link Between Nutrition and Mental Illness
Clinical psychologist Julia Rucklidge at the University of Canterbury insists that optimizing nutrition is a safe and effective treatment for mental illness. She argues that our reliance on pharmaceuticals has led us down the wrong path when it comes to mental illness. While she notes that medications can be very effective in the short term, […]
