I think every one would agree the best time to eat bread is fresh from the oven. So I generally double this recipe for grain-free french bread. The first loaf we slather with butter and enjoy as soon as it comes out of the oven. The remaining loaves we cut […]
Fall Favorite: Healthy To Die For Apple Pie
Tis the season to indulge oneself and what better way than with a healthy, easy, to die for apple pie.
Book: EAT DIRT by Josh Axe
Reading EAT DIRT : Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It by Josh Axe was a necessity for me as someone who has struggled with off-the-charts inflammatory markers and diagnoses that have included “unidentifiable autoimmune disorder” and “fibromyalgia” (not […]
Roasted Vegetables — Bring On The Flavor!
Crisp autumn days have us looking forward to soups, pot pies, roasts and casseroles. Pick from any number of fall ingredients to add flavor and color to your main dishes. In August, I wrote about how to grill vegetables. However, fall is the perfect time of year to roast the […]
Is It Time For A Three Pyramid Food Chart?
On a very basic level, choosing what foods we eat in a day are some of the most import decisions we make. Too often, though, these decisions fall prey to other priorities — time, energy, availability, mood. . . So we wind up making less than ideal choices on our food consumption. Every five […]
Cooking With Winter Produce
Just because the farmers’ markets are closed for winter doesn’t mean we have to retreat from fresh fruits and vegetables. Fresh winter produce is abundant, nutritious, and tasty. From hearty root vegetables to bright, sweet citrus, winter produce delivers a surprising range of flavorful fruits and vegetables for you to […]
Lost and Found News: Probiotic Beer, Gut Checks, Toxin Heroes, Team Gut
A round-up of recent, ponder worthy gut health (yes, gut as in part of our digestive tract) news you may have missed: Probiotic Beer may become the new yogurt If you have never gotten on the probiotic (healthy bacteria for your gut) bandwagon because you didn’t like yogurt or if you […]
Working Too Hard May Be Hurting the Economy
The long-term dangers of over-demanding jobs aren’t just to employees. Working too hard maybe hurting the employers too. Americans are working longer hours with fewer vacations and greater stress, but employees are not the only ones who may suffer from those habits. A study examined in the New York Times shows that […]
The Pain And Glory Of Being A Nature Nerd
Back in October, I experienced a bit of a surprise as I was weeding our rock-wall shelves. Perhaps more surprising to some may be my reaction to what happened – a true indication of just what a nature nerd I am. Bending under an acacia bush and tugging at weeds, I felt […]
Even The FDA Doesn’t Know What’s In Our Food
Eating and drinking is about as basic to our survival as it gets. While we might debate whether various manufactured foods are the healthiest choices we can make in a day, we assume the FDA has approved their ingredients before we eat them. We assume all the ingredients meet the standard of a “reasonable certainty” that no […]
The American Nurse Project — Insight Into A Beloved Profession
THE AMERICAN NURSE PROJECT, which includes a book, documentary film and ongoing blog interviews, tells the story of the life and professional commitment of nurses across the United States. The creator, photographer Carolyn Jones along with her team, wanted to raise awareness of the uniqueness of the nursing profession by allowing nurses to […]
Book: COMMITTED by Patrick Ross
Believe it or not, I am a first-time memoir reader and might have missed out on COMMITTED: A MEMOIR OF THE ARTIST’S ROAD, if not for getting to know Patrick Ross through his Artist’s Road blog over the past few years. I’m not sure all memoirs are like his, but Ross’s COMMITTED […]
Recipe: Paleo Non-Wheat Thins To Tempt Even Non-Paleo Eaters
It’s winter. It’s cold. Another record arctic blast is predicted. Time to fire up the oven and distract everyone with the delicious aromas of something warm and wonderful wafting from the kitchen. Last year, my husband and I made a 3-month commitment to tackle some serious health issues and it became A Paleo Year of Change. […]
A Paleo Year of Change
Last year, 2014, became our paleo year of change. Our New Year’s resolution was to change our lifestyle, live healthier, and make significant headway fighting my husband’s type two diabetes. Paleo was the result of months of research. Starting in October 2013, I read everything I could get my hands on. Very […]
Will We Ever Bring An End To Domestic Violence?
When Football executive and former NFL player Troy Vincent appeared before a Senate committee examining the NFL’s handling of domestic violence and sexual assault, he became the unexpected face of domestic abuse, if only for a moment. While looking to convince the panel that the NFL was cleaning up its […]
What if Fresh Produce Had A Mascot?
When we think of fresh fruits and vegetables, we immediately think “healthy.” And not about actually feeling better. We think more about all the work — storing, cleaning, chopping, slicing, cooking that it takes to prepare them, and less about the wonderful taste and texture that comes with them. And somehow, we […]
Does Hollywood Reflect Our Struggle With Aging?
I recently asked if we are now a Botox Nation, preferring Barbie and Ken’s wrinkle-free faces, boobs of steel that say Hi! to the ceiling and six pack abs to a less glamorous reality. It was both surprising and encouraging that so many readers voiced their objections to the lack of value […]
Freezing Eggs, A Perk For Female Employees?
When I read the headline that Apple and Facebook are now offering to freeze female employees’ eggs as a perk of employment, I thought I had entered the Twilight Zone! Is that taking progress a bit too far? Is this move a way for companies to push women to push their choice to […]
The Art of The Virtual “Smudgy Hug”
Humans are social beings. We crave human-to-human contact. Even as machines and technology take over more and more aspects of our lives, we try our best to humanize them. Think of our phones. We give them names, voices and mannerisms. We dress them. We play with them. We share our […]
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Of Mice And Women
Back in the early 1970s when I was a young nurse at Cincinnati General Hospital I was rejected from participation in a clinical study because I was female. At that time, the Hospital had a floor dedicated to clinical research, where patients or healthy subjects who were part of a […]
A Herd Of Wild Horses: Genetics And Preservation
About a month ago I was able to see the wild horses of Corolla, North Carolina for the first time. What a sight they are to watch in their natural habitat. Our guide told us that the wild horses came to the area about 500 years ago when the Spanish […]
The Black Dog of Depression
As heartbreaking as it is to lose such notable creative talents as Robin Williams and Seymour Hoffman through depression, it is even more heartbreaking to know that, globally, 350 million people live with depression. The sad truth is we all know someone who is depressed, we just might not realize […]
Lupita Nyong’o on True Beauty vs. the “Seduction of Inadequacy”
Lupita Nyong’o’s grace and wisdom were evident not only in her speech on the night of her Oscar win for “12 Years A Slave,” but also while being honored at this year’s ESSENCE Magazine Black Women in Hollywood luncheon. Reading a fan letter she had received from a girl who felt self-loathing […]
Should CVS Dump Junk Food And Alcohol Next?
When CVS announced its plan to stop selling all tobacco products at it’s 7,600 stores by October 1, 2014 and walk away from 2 billion in tobacco related business, the media immediately began to speculate whether other major drug store chains would follow suit. The more interesting question to me […]
The Story of How Young Jack Andraka And Google Changed Cancer Detection
I’m a bit of a TED Talks junky, so I frequently listen to people that are inspiring, thought-provoking and passionately engaged. But I can honestly say that none has made me quite as optimistic about the future as did the story of how young Jack Andraka and Google changed cancer detection. From the […]