"Spend your money on good food so you don't have to spend it on doctors." --Myron Dell (reposting from 2009; the occasion was my Dad's 88th birthday) When I left home and moved across country at age 21, my Dad gave me some really good advice. He said, “Spend your money on good food so [...]
It’s that time of year again for me. Late summer is the time I allow for a few weeks of nutritional cleansing. What is nutritional cleansing? It is the use of food and supplements designed to de-burden the body of toxins so that it can achieve its own “internal house cleaning.” This kind of house [...]
One of the greatest gifts my Mother gave me was the practice of writing thank-you notes. As far back as I can remember, she modeled to me the sweet reality that all gifts deserve and require gracious acknowledgement. I say sweet reality because this was not a spoken lesson or a forced lesson or any [...]
If you've ever had a conversation with me, the odds are pretty darn good that we got around to the topic of water. As a health care practitioner, I'm water's biggest advocate. I've seen it alleviate all manner of discomforts from headaches to backaches to constipation. And as a child of nature, I'm an even [...]
Yucca Glauca, photo taken south of Colorado Springs at Turkey Canyon Ranch, June 10, 2000 SPECIES: About 30 species in the genus Yucca are found in North America . Only Yucca glauca is common and native to the western great plains. It is found from South Dakota down through western Nebraska , [...]
What does the word "wholeness" call to mind? How about the term "holistic"? Body, mind, and spirit? Or maybe it has come to connote nothing more than a natural approach to health? Let's consider wholeness that state of being that includes both our light and our dark sides (and any of the-shades-of-grey sides you might [...]
Let me start with some true confessions. I grew up as a sugar junkie. I suppose when I look back on it, I’d have to say my Mother was a sugar junkie too. Though truthfully, I probably expanded on her addiction in a significant way, as following generations normally do. And now that I think [...]
As the weather gets warmer and warmer, do you find yourself reaching for cooler and cooler foods and drinks? Does a crisp, green, nicoise salad sound much better than a big bowl of steaming hot minestrone soup? You bet. This is your intuitive wisdom taking care of you. Your body simply doesn’t need the extra [...]
Perhaps for the many who experience aging as a time of infirmity, weakness, suffering, and loneliness, it is safe to say that aging is a very unpleasant experience. But for those who find aging to be a process of gaining wisdom, insight, and an increased capacity to experience joy, gratitude, and love, aging is most [...]
Food is the designed mechanism for transferring life force from one species to another, for allowing an individual to consciously (or unconsciously) enter into a relationship with life, and for participating in the cycles of life. Conscious Eating is a kind of spiritual practice that can bring the miracles of food to your awareness. The [...]