Transitioning to Raw and Living Foods
By Tom Fisher, RN, BA When there is a health challenge, Hippocrates recommends moving to a raw and living foods diet quickly. When one is healthy, she/he can add raw and living foods into their life to...
View Article5 Great Reasons To Start Your Day With Water and Lemon
Water with lemon helps to hydrate you because the lemon is high in electrolytes. This is especially helpful upon waking since you have not been drinking anything for eight hours and you may be...
View ArticleThe Inner Dimension of Bodywork
The Mind/Body Gap The intimate connection between the “mind” and the “body” too often goes unrecognized by psychotherapists and bodyworkers. When the mind is seen as some disembodied entity with its...
View ArticleFoods for Strength, Stamina, and Sensibility
Blue-green Algae There are various types of algae, but the most vital blue-green algae are harvested from Klamath Lake in Oregon. It’s simply an incredible food, perhaps unmatched on this earth. While...
View ArticleAvoiding Amputation from Diabetes
Since the age of sixty-five, I have had diabetes that resulted in four different surgeries to remove arteries from my left leg to replace damaged arteries in my right leg. In 2004, my vascular surgeon...
View ArticleHow to Get in the Flow for Better Health
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it was started to increase awareness of the disease. Most people are aware of breast cancer… but many forget to take the steps to detect it in its early...
View ArticleTips for Staying Raw and Vegan on the Road
Traveling puts most of us into unfamiliar territory. What is the best way to stay vegan and incorporate as much raw foods as possible? Reduce any stress by remembering the following: Always take your...
View ArticleCyclical Food Addiction
Soothing oneself with a favorite sweet treat is a habit often developed in early childhood. Whether birthdays, holidays or special family events, sugar in all its forms — cake, cookie, candy, pastry...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind Artificial Sweeteners
When sales of Diet Pepsi began falling in 2005, and continued to fall each year since, PepsiCo executives frantically tried to find out why. The reason turned out to be that consumers had heard about...
View ArticleAncient Wisdom of Healing Plants
Herbs have been used for food and medicine since the dawn of history. Healers in ancient traditions around the world have always shared their knowledge on how to use plants for health and healing. This...
View ArticleTea and Beyond with Cranberry Hibiscus
Cranberry hibiscus is both sweet-tart tasting and highly nutritious. Its’ deep red leaves resemble those of a maple tree. You can enjoy cranberry hibiscus by: using in recipes eating raw steeping in...
View ArticleThe Food Chain is Broken! Where Is Your Nutrition Coming From?
Sadly, the current statistics reveal that most of us are overweight or obese. These are harsh words to start an article but to resolve this crisis, it is mandatory that we accept these facts. Most...
View ArticleA New Self-Image
ALL OF US tend to admire the physique of certain actresses, actors, models and athletes. Yet few of us make a deter- mined commitment to create the same body for ourselves. For the past five...
View ArticleThe Real Deal About Essential Oils
The recent resurgence in popularity of essential oils can be witnessed almost everywhere. Everyone knows someone who is selling essential oils. And although they all are passionate about the essential...
View ArticleNatures Best Anti-Inflammatory Remedy
Turmeric is my number one anti-inflamatory remedy for the relief of chronic and acute pain. It has been used for over 4,000 years to treat a variety of conditions. Turmeric is probably the most well...
View ArticleCreating Positive Change with Essential Oils
For thousands of years people throughout the ages have used scent as a vehicle to access the spiritual realm. Fragrance and spirituality mingle as one in spiritual traditions around the world. Scent...
View ArticleWhy Are We Here?
The Peruvian Q’ero shamans are descendants of the Incas who ruled the Royal house of the Sun. The ancients lived close to the land and respected it. They were a very evolved civilization, knew the...
View ArticleWhat’s Really In Dairy Products?
Most consumers know about vitamins A and D being present in milk, which is to say they are present in the fat of whole milk (additional vitamin D is added to all reduced fat milk products.) Lactose (a...
View ArticlePoultry and the Antibiotic Health Crisis
Antibiotic resistance is perhaps the single most important infectious disease threat of our time.” -Beth Bell, M.D., Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, at...
View ArticleThe Dawn of Disease
Our ancestors lived significantly healthier lives. When did it all go wrong? Modern humans have created a society that is unique in the entire history of man. When reading historical literature on...
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