Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting has profound health effects beyond weight loss

This post originally appears on this website in September of 2013. Have you ever thought of giving your body a rest from food? Have you ever considered what effects fasting days, very low calorie days or controlled eating times might have on your body? To be honest, I hadn’t considered it, but when several friends … Read more

perimenopause

Perimenopause – The Change Before The Change

Well, sisters, this probably means you are perimenopausal. That’s just a fancy word that means you are approaching menopause. It can begin anytime after age 35 or so, but most frequently occurs when a women is in her 40s, leading up to menopause (the complete lack of menstrual periods for 13 months) at age 50 … Read more

self care

Self-Care New Year

New Year’s resolutions usually are based on guilt over something you’ve done in the past. Maybe you ate too much or smoked or didn’t exercise or whatever you feel bad about. How about if we turn it around this year and commit to doing something that nurtures your soul and lights up your being? Think … Read more

natural infection fighters

Natural infection fighters

We live in a world of microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi and a plethora of pathogens that can make us sick. Most of the time, our immune systems are able to fight off microbial attacks, but we all know there are times when an infection, whether internal or external, knocks us down. There’s no time more … Read more

fight allergies

Food Is Medicine: Fight Allergies

Note from Kathleen: I live in the South. It’s pollen time and allergy and asthma time.  This us a timely excerpt from my book, Food Is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden.  Allergies Your Garden RX: garlic, onions, apples, chamomile Allergies are your body’s response to what it perceives as an invader. With allergies, your … Read more

power of friendship

The Power of Friendship for Women

Join the sisterhood for a longer, better and wiser life. Make time for friends—real life ones, not the ones on Facebook or Instagram. More and more, science is proving what we women have known forever: Close friendships can help you live longer, better and wiser. In fact, some recent research suggests that building and maintaining … Read more