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Why I’m Changing My Focus from Health Education

(I’m warnin’ ya. This is a long one.)
I’ve been interested in what makes for health for a long time. And I’ve been so blessed to have found and studied the tenets of natural hygiene. Natural hygienists have been studying health for almost 200 years while allopaths have been studying disease. If you’re a fan of [...]

Germs: A Natural Hygiene Perspective

Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental offspring of those who have preached fear of God, devil, hell, and heaven in the past. They do not know that the fear which they inculcate is more to be dreaded than the object of their warning. Fear does a thousand times more harm than [...]

The Natural Hygiene View of Health and Disease

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 [...]

My Body Continues to Detoxify

Normally on Saturday mornings I like to sit at my laptop in my bathrobe with a cup of hot green tea with lemon and write my blog. It’s a day unpressured by work concerns. But yesterday I was really sick. This began on Wednesday morning with a slightly sore throat, followed by some lung and [...]

This Week is an Experiment in Nutrition

I’ve decided to load up on fruits and vegetables and their juices this week. I am inspired by a book I read this weekend called The Fasting Diet: A Practical Five-Day Program for Increased Energy, Greater Stamina, and a Clearer Mind by Steven Bailey.
I’m 48-years-old, so it’s going to take a lot longer than a [...]

I Think I Poisoned My Cat

I Think I Poisoned My Cat

My cat TipToe is a big girl. She has been obese most of her life. Several years ago I tried locking her in the bathroom and feeding her there, because she was such a pig and would go after my other cats’ food. She would inhale her kibble (nasty Science Diet) and often vomit it [...]