Are ants, aphids and spiders uninvited guests in your home and garden? Do mosquitos dampen your family’s outdoor summer fun? Is your dog or cat hosting fleas? How would it feel to manage pests with easy, nontoxic plant based solutions? Finding natural solutions has been [...]
My day is infused with essential oils! Within the very first hour of the morning, they may support my mood, hair, skin, immune system, digestive system and home. After I wake up, I breathe in the invigorating aroma of peppermint and wild orange. I drink water [...]
For many people, becoming a vegetarian or vegan can be daunting for a number of reasons – from coming up with daily meal ideas and variety of choices to concerns about intake of sufficient amounts of necessary nutrients for maintenance of good health. The [...]
Recently I was asked by a friend to review an article titled, “10 Super Foods Healthier than Kale” www.eatthis.com/10-superfoods-healthier-than-kale. She wanted to know if in fact it was true that we should no longer bow down to kale as a top super food. I read [...]
Berries Berries contain powerful antioxidants that fight free radicals in the body. All berries are packed with cancer-fighting phytonutrients. They contain very high concentrations of phytochemicals called anthocyanins, which counteract, reduce and repair damage to cells and keep new blood vessels from forming (and potentially feeding a [...]
As a result of our research on fasting and discussions with visiting relatives who are medical professionals, we were quite excited about trying it out for ourselves. We had never really fasted before in any systematic way so this was definitely going to be a [...]
Fasting has been practiced for centuries, but can it help you to be healthier? Fasting is an ancient concept and people fast for many different reasons. It is an integral part of many religions from Christianity to Judaism to Islam, and sometimes it is used as [...]
The Good Fats: The trick is to replace the bad fats in your diet with the good ones for optimal health. The word “fats” has an inherently negative connotation, and when we hear it we tend to automatically think it’s something bad we should avoid. [...]
Lemon Water: Lemons are acidic on their own but are highly alkaline inside our bodies. As the old adage goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” But new evidence is suggesting that regularly adding lemon to your diet has many added health benefits [...]
