For book lovers, seekers, health enthusiasts and thinkers
Here are some steps you can begin to incorporate into your lifestyle to improve your health and increase your risk of avoiding disease. Now, you don’t have to go hog wild. Take one step at a time until a new habit is created. Then take the next step. Please bear in mind this is for [...]
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I’ve been reading about the health benefits of pasture-raised meat and eggs lately, so I went to Eat Wild and Local Harvest to find some local farms. It was suprisingly easy to find farms within driving distance. Try it. Go to Eat Wild, then click on the left link that says Shop for Local Grass-Fed [...]
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For years I advocated a plant-based diet as the healthiest. But I could never swing it myself despite several efforts. Now that I’m studying the paleolithic diet, I feel like I’m starting over with a mountain of information to climb. I haven’t been posting much because I’m reading, reading, reading. I’m reading even more than [...]
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It makes me so frustrated when people force-feed their sick dogs and cats on the mistaken–and deadly–notion that the animal needs energy! There’s no better way to increase the likelihood of your pet dying than to force it to eat food it can’t digest. Animals are more instinctual than humans and have not been brainwashed [...]
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Some look at the religious fanatic and think her deluded and brainwashed, someone who has bought into a mindset fashioned by the church she attends. They see the closed mind and dogmatism and are grateful that they have not been so influenced, grateful for their independence of thought. But when it comes to health, illness, [...]
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You’re an infant and you get an ear infection. The doctor prescribes antibiotics. The infection clears but reappears three months later. Another round of antibiotics. This goes on for a year or two. As an 8- and 9-year-old you have chronic bronchitis and headaches, which are treated with antibiotics and ibuprofen. You get the flu [...]
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The current health paradigm proclaims “Sunshine reduces risk of some cancers” or “Vitamin D cures rickets,” or the most commercially popular “X compound in fruits and vegetables reduces risk of cancer.” You are bathed in this paradigm daily through newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Word of mouth and the grapevine solidify this view as “science [...]
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This post discusses the difference between UV-A and UV-B rays, the role of melanin in protection against sunburn, the risks of wearing sunscreen, and the health benefits of exposing your body to the sun’s rays. I am fair-skinned, of Norwegian stock. When I sunbathe, I’m talking about exposing my body (preferably nekkid) to the sun [...]
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