New Society Publishers initially contacted me a few months ago and asked if I would be interested in reading a pre-publication galley for Heal Local: 20 Essential Herbs for Do-it-Yourself Home Healthcare, and if I liked it, write up a short blurb that could be used to promote the book. As soon as I saw the concept and the table of contents, I knew this was the book for which … [Read more...]
Q&A with authors of Heal Your Gut Cookbook
Today we're chatting with Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett, authors of The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet. If you have health challenges, you may have read about or considered the GAPS diet at some point. If it seemed complicated or challenging, you'll want to check out today's Q&A with the authors of a new … [Read more...]
5 tips for battling the common cold naturally
Americans spend $40 billion a year on medications to alleviate the symptoms of the common cold, even though research does not show that it is beneficial. Most people will improve within a week to ten days, regardless of whether they take over-the-counter or prescription medication. In fact, some of these drugs, such as decongestants and cough suppressants, may be doing more … [Read more...]
Oh, those aches and pains!
If you suffer from any type of chronic pain, even just a bit of soreness when you wake up in the morning, you don't want to miss today's post! When I was in my early 30s, I started waking up with sore muscles every morning, and I thought this was just a normal part of aging. Here I am twenty years later, and that morning soreness has become incapacitating some days, and I am … [Read more...]
7+ healthier, ecothrifty sandwich ideas
Luncheon meat was one of the first things I cut out of my diet when I started to learn about nutrition. Cured meats contain sodium nitrates and nitrites, which have been associated with stomach cancer. They also tend to be high in fat and salt and low in protein and nutrition. And when you do the math, processed meat is expensive per pound, especially when you realize how … [Read more...]
Think you don’t need B12 supplements?
11+ reasons you could be wrong! Since I started eating healthier a couple of decades ago, I didn't think that I needed supplements. I believed that vitamins were for those people who were not eating a healthy diet. However, I have discovered in the last couple of years that some people will need supplements, regardless of their diet. Today, I'm going to talk about … [Read more...]
Natural alternatives to deodorant
In spite of claims that underarm antiperspirant is harmful to health, it is still used because we think we need it. Of course, no one wants to stink, but there are natural alternatives to deodorant that work for most people. Regular alcohol works! I had periodically used plain alcohol under my arms over the last twenty years, but I didn’t do it regularly because I was … [Read more...]
Would you like some sodium carboxymethylcellulose with that?
A few days ago, a friend said that one of her friends on Facebook had gone on a rant about how something natural is not necessarily good. The most outrageous example she gave was tsunamis. Just because tsunamis are natural does not mean they are good ... as if we would choose a tsunami instead of a ... human-orchestrated disaster? Unfortunately, many people have no idea … [Read more...]
Review: Eat Move Sleep
If you want to improve your health, exercise more, and eat better, but you're not sure where to start, then Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom Rath is the book for you. If you think that you are doomed to a short, unhealthy life because "everyone" in your family has metabolic diseases, then you really need to read this book. No one has lost the … [Read more...]
Raising Livestock: What caused what?
One winter after receiving my master’s degree and suffering through a class on research and statistics, I decided to finally put that knowledge to use. (Even though my master’s is in communication, the scientific method is the same from one discipline to another.) I then proceeded to design a study that I knew my professors in grad school never would have approved. Because of … [Read more...]
