Do you believe that life ends when your grey hair appears, brain fog sets in and a bulging waist appears? NEVER! When you are young and vital, you may have considered aging as something in the far future. When you entered your 30s or 40s, you may have discovered that aging was real and there’s no way of changing it. Forget […]
The cover of the book and its title grabbed my attention as I perused the health section at my local Chapters bookstore. Kale. Coffee. Together? Both of these “foods” have been making headlines, so to see them together in a book title begged for me to check out the table of contents. I loved the introduction’s title — “Breaking the Rules.” […]
September — Is it the new January? It’s possible. Your desire to start fresh, start over or simply begin a new habit or routine could be the best time for you to do so. As a home educator for 18 years, I found September was my “New Year.” It was my month of setting new routines, practices and starting afresh. Unfortunately, […]
Book: Tox-Sick: From Toxic to Not Sick Author: Suzanne Somers Publisher: Hamony Books, New York Copyright 2015 ISBN 978-0-385-34772-3 Suzanne Somers is more than the T.V. blonde bombshell you may recall from “Three’s Company” or “Step by Step.” Today, she is a health and wellness spokesperson that writes prolifically about such topics as cancer, aging, hormones and now, toxins. Additionally, […]
Believe it or not, “nightshades” are the mainstay of many cultural diets around the world including the Mediterranean diet. The nightshade family or Solanaceae (its botanical name) include many non-edible flowering plants, which are actually considered toxic or poisonous with the best-known being belladonna, or “deadly nightshade,” traditionally valued for its use as a poison (in the play Macbeth, for […]
