I’ve been obsessed with Jeremy Piven’s mercury poisoning since it was revealed that it came from eating too much fish. He’s eaten almost nothing but sushi for something like twenty years, and then last year collapsed during a Broadway performance. In case you’re confused, Jeremy Piven is an actor best known for his role as […]
Nutrition in the News
Manage stress naturally with visualizations
On Oprah a few days ago, Dr. Oz asserted that Americans would be significantly healthier if they could just find effective ways to manage stress without drugs. I’ve been thinking about this statement recently as I find myself pulling out an old visualization stress-relief technique to calm those feelings of being overwhelmed with life. It […]
Get the Toxins Out of Your Make-up
It’s an unpleasant reality that many of the products easily available on store shelves today are actually harmful to our health. The cosmetics and skin care industries are some of the worst offenders, adding carcinogens, hormone disruptors, immuno-modulators, and other scary chemicals to their formulas of supposedly benign things like shampoos, lotions, and sunscreens. I’ll […]
Today’s Kids Have a Lower Life Expectancy Than Their Parents
For the first time in modern history, today’s children look forward to a shorter lifespan than their parents.* In a The High Cost of Cheap Food, Megan Nix, editor of DiningOut Magazine, connects the dots between Gentically Modified Foods (GMOs), the epidemic of obesity, organic farms, the crisis of poverty, the rise of diabetes, farm-to-table […]
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?
Here comes another must-see movie that gives us a horrific peek behind the scenes of our nations food supply: Food, Inc. Following the honorable footsteps first laid in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle,and coming from a movie lineage that includes Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me, Food Inc.‘s goal is to raise awareness and bring […]
