Green Foods & Sustainability

An excerpt from the latest book, The New Good LifeIt’s important to be thrifty and save. But a truly fulfilling life requires more than frugality.

Ice Cream

In our present culture, we have deviated from living sensibly, especially where nourishment is concerned.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Here is some good news about aging. Many people believe that aches and pains, lethargy, weight gain, thinning hair and skin, and a loss of interest in sex are all part of normal aging.

Hormone Power

As we age, our natural production of testosterone drops. This drop may not be seen readily unless your doctors know what they are looking for.

Healthy Nutrition by Example

Now, years later, I still do my best to keep them on the right diet. But now they know the outside world. They go to school and birthday parties.

Health Food Industry Soars to $3 Billion

These figures, culled from the Council on Responsible Nutrition, include estimates of up to $3.1 billion in 1989, with some 50 companies dominating the industry.

Grow a Wheatgrass Centerpiece

Growing wheat sprouts is not only decorative but also highly nutritional. Wheatgrass is full of vitamins B12, B6, K and C and beta-carotene.

It may be

That’s because “natural,” in legal parlance, means nothing. The Food and Drug Administration has never defined the term.

Grass Roots Organic Reviews:Gro

North-easterner’s would have to be greatly altered to have them begin to appreciate the nutritional common sense of raw foods.

Grass Juice

tgrass, spelt grass, kamut grass and barley grass are vital parts of the Hippocrates diet that can be prepared in your kitchen.

Going Organic

The second annual “Organic Index” poll, conducted by Louis Harris and Associates for Organic Gardening magazine, surveyed 1,250 adults at the end of 1

Gifts From the Sea

NORI: Available in dried, cellophane-like sheets. Generally roasted and ground, it makes a good dill-like garnish.

Getting Juiced About Juicing

Why Juice?There are so many reasons to get juicing. Here are just a few:It’s loaded with alkaline nutrients!Your body is required to be a certain pH in order to stay healthy.

Get Your Maca On

Maca BackgroundAlthough technically Yan herb, this ‘root veggie’  is aa relative to the potato and radish family and   grows high in the Andes at elev

Fried Foods are Carcinogenic

Asparagine, a naturally occurring amino acid when heated with certain sugars such as glucose, leads to the formation of the substance acrylamide.

Mothers

Scientists and environmentalists have been treating human milk like a canary in a coal mine. From measurements of toxins in mother’s milk we can extrapolate statistics to gauge environmental contamination.

Minimizing Seafood

Those who still take the major risk of consuming fish should note the following:Raw clams, oysters, and mussels pose the highest risk because they fi

Milk: Truth or Consequences

The Research Is InIn the mid-1960’s, Drs. Kurt Oster and Donald Ross of Fairfield University in Connecticut concluded a 20- year research by reporting that drinking milk may be even more dangerous than smoking cigarettes.

Milk’s Deception

Perhaps you feel angry that I even suggest that milk is not the great health food it is touted to be.