Chocolate’s Startling Health Benefits
June 14, 2011
By John Robbins
The food police may find this hard to take, but chocolate has gotten a bad rap. People say it causes acne, that you should eat carob instead, that it’s junk food. But these accusations are not only undeserved and inaccurate, they falsely incriminate a delicious food that turns out to have profoundly important healing powers. There is in fact a growing body of credible scientific evidence that chocolate contains a host of heart-healthy and mood-enhancing… Read More >
Does Suppressing Our Emotions Cause Dis-ease?
June 13, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Lynn Zavaro In 1984 Louise L. Hay wrote a small little book called “You Can Heal Your Life.” Since that day over 35 million copies have been sold around the world and she owns what is now the biggest publishing company in the self-help movement. Louise’s principles were simple, yet groundbreaking: We create every so-called “illness” in our body. The movement has taken it even further to suggest that suppressed feelings can cause dis-ease… Read More >
Do We Really Need to Detox?
June 8, 2011
By Tracy Piper
Can you remember all the junk food you have eaten in your life? From childhood, high school and through college? All the environmental and chemical toxins we have come in contact with? Now, imagine a magical potion taking them all away, washing us squeaky clean and making us new as a baby. Sadly, there is no magical potion, but there is hope. We can revitalize our body and our cells, reduce our toxic load and… Read More >
Getting Our Mojo Back
June 2, 2011
By Kimball Johnson MD
Thirty years ago, armed with an undergraduate education degree that I didn’t want to use and a hunger for the medical field, I decided to go to work as a paramedic on an ambulance for inner-city Atlanta’s largest indigent care hospital. I was betting that the experience would either cure me or kill me. I loved it. In fact, I wanted more. I was “hooked” on medicine. I went on to get a great education… Read More >
Supervise Your Sunscreen
May 23, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Monique Reavis Can you imagine a time when women painted blue veins onto their skin to evoke translucence? Pale skin was lauded as posh and tanned skin represented the toiling working class. Quite the contrary to where we are now! In fact, it was two influential women in the 1920s that sparked the pop culture tan trend: Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker. Coco returned one day from a French Riviera holiday and instantly won… Read More >
Don’t Settle for Being Well. Be Vital!
May 20, 2011
By Lissa Rankin MD
I’m so honored to be here with my new girl crush BFF Kris Carr on the main stage with all you Wellness Warriors to share with you why I believe you can be your own doctor. Because you can, you know … But first let me tell you why I went to school for 12 years to become a doctor – and then quit. I could write a novel about that. But to make a… Read More >
Addicted to Stress
May 19, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Every thought, every emotion that we experience can be as addictive as any drug. Every idea that we have about life, every thought and emotion we feel has a chemical reaction in the mind and body. This constant flow of chemicals creates the most complex laboratory possible, and we all have one that is in constant change. What an amazing, mysterious and powerful tool the mind can really be! In there lies infinite potential. It’s… Read More >
How to Approach Fitness Like You Do Brushing Your Teeth
May 10, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Courtney Benavides Imagine if you only brushed your teeth twice a week. I’m quite sure those pearly whites of yours would soon become pearly yellows. And the buildup of plaque, tartar and other dental issues would certainly manifest in lightning speed. The dentist bills would pile up and your friends would run scared every time you opened your mouth. Even your dog would be afraid to give you a kiss. However, fortunately for your… Read More >
The Gift of Green
May 5, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Brooke Melikidse Why do so many people wait until something hardcore has happened in their lives before a change is made? We just sail along, all easy breezy, until that one fateful day when we have a holy you-know-what moment! So many of us are walking on this road of life as if we were asleep. Not really noticing the beauty or potential around us. Our to-do lists of needless errands keep us so… Read More >
The Happy Seed – Hemp’s Healing Properties
May 3, 2011
By Alexandra Jamieson
May 2-8, 2011, is the second annual Hemp History Week, a nationwide public education campaign designed to renew strong support for hemp farming in the United States. Even before the official founding of this country, the hemp plant (Cannabissativa L.) and its products played an important part in the growth and prosperity of the European transplants that rooted themselves here. Hemp’s beneficial uses, including making paper, ropes for shipping, cloth, as well as a variety… Read More >
Staying Green and Healthy When Time Is Running Short
April 29, 2011
By Gena Hamshaw CCN
Time management: it’s the quintessential predicament of contemporary life. Social critics, journalists and statisticians remind us that for all of our “time-saving” technology, we seem to save very little time. They’re right: time is the single thing we all wish we had more of. This year, at the ripe young age of 28, I decided to go back to school to for a post-baccalaureate degree so I can begin medical school in 2014. I am… Read More >
Nutrition Intuition for Kids
April 18, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Gretchen Tseng We all have an inborn nutrition intuition, and it is up to us to decide whether to listen to it. In our current culture, unless we actively pay attention to it, our nutrition intuition slowly fades away as we are bombarded with the Standard American Diet (SAD) of processed food, fast food and the incessant advertising for both. When children are very young, they stop eating when they are full, just as… Read More >
Hidden Dangers of Conventional Fabrics
April 15, 2011
By Dr. Brian Clement
Over the past several decades, Hippocrates Health Institute has been researching things that endanger human health. There is danger lurking in something that people touch every day, but give little thought to — their clothing. An estimated 8,000 chemicals are employed to transform raw materials into clothes, according to The Ecologist magazine. This process involves bleaching, dyeing, scouring, sizing and finishing the fabrics. Synthetic clothing now commonly contains such toxins as formaldehyde, brominated flame retardants,… Read More >
Big Nutrition for Small Bodies
April 8, 2011
By Alejandro Junger, MD
Virginia Woolf said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well,” and I couldn’t agree more. Especially when it comes to kids. Fresh, whole, unprocessed, low-sugar fuel is like filling a vehicle with premium gasoline (or better yet, with sustainable butynol); it runs better, cleaner, faster, and lasts longer. Not that children are necessarily to be compared to cars, but it’s a commonly used metaphor in the food world… Read More >
A Journey of Joy: Hoop Yourself Happy!
April 7, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Leah R. Troiano One day I asked myself a very simple question: “What makes me happy?” Sadly, I had very few answers. How can that be? I am a vibrant and independent woman — a force to be reckoned with. At least I was before kids, packing lunches, and the daily cooking and cleaning. Ugh! Now I sound boring. When did that happen? Before kids, I lived in England, studied Shakespeare; traveled Spain and… Read More >
6 Steps Towards Emotional Wellness
April 4, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Jennifer Reger I’ve spent the past five years on the quest for wellness, with much of my time, efforts and money devoted to better food choices. I bought organic, read label after label, avoided processed food, and experimented with various food plans before choosing a vegan, plant-based diet. With all my energy focused on food, and more recently a regular fitness routine, I managed to overlook a crucial component of health: emotional wellness. And… Read More >
Five Lessons Tragedy Taught Me About Living
March 28, 2011
By Guest Blogger
On July 7, 2005, I stood on the crowded Piccadilly Line tube on my way to work in London. I never got to work. Minutes after leaving King’s Cross station, a bomb went off in the carriage next to where I stood, killing 26 people and injuring countless others. I ended up with claustrophobia, the lungs of a smoker and an overwhelming fear of being caught in a situation I had so little control over.… Read More >
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy Foods
March 21, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Natalie Duhamel So you want your kid to eat healthy foods, but they just want pink, green and blue cereal with stars and marshmallows. What to do? Kids are all about the fun factor. Think about it: When was the last time you heard a kid turn down fun in favor of something that’s good for them? Even kids who like things that are good for them (like reading, for instance) regard them as… Read More >
Will Feeding Your Spirit Release Excess Pounds?
March 8, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Ali Shapiro Weight loss for the chronic dieter is not about willpower. It’s a wake-up call. It’s your body’s way of literally grounding you, often to a standstill. Those stubborn pounds are delivering a message: A lighter life is waiting. Spirituality and its relationship to weight loss don’t often get discussed. Why? Partly because spirituality is hard to define, but mostly because it doesn’t offer a profitable quick fix. Let’s start with a working… Read More >
Hey, Soy – Let’s Be Breast Friends Again!
February 25, 2011
By Jacki Glew MS RD LDN
Soy. That little three-letter word that strikes fear into the stomachs of so many. Why are we so afraid of soy? Well, I bet you’re asking … What’s so great about soy? The soybean is the only bean that is a complete protein on its own. It has lots of good stuff like phytic acid that can bind dangerous heavy metals, alpha-linolenic acid that helps control inflammation and isoflavones like genistein and daidzein that help… Read More >
