My recent post on healthy food on a budget sparked one of my regular readers to write me with a question: What about us lazy cooks? Truth be told, I’m a lazy cook, too, most of the time. Cooking is just not one of my favorite activities. For everyday meals, I take short cuts, I … Read more
Grandma was so wise that her old-fashioned remedies have come full circle. As a child in the ‘50s (I know, I am dating myself), I remember many soothing concoctions that I thought were just the ordinary ways we handled minor health problems. Then along came the great marriage between drug companies and television and we … Read more
Have you planted your garden yet? It’s the perfect time. Even if you only have a potted tomato on your urban balcony or a couple of herbs on your kitchen window sill, gardening is : personally rewarding offers you the freshest foods possible healthy, and great exercise I fully admit my addiction to gardening! Since … Read more
Note from Kathleen: It seems that everyone I know, myself included, is under great stress right now for a wide variety of reasons. This is an excerpt from my book, 10 Best Ways to Manage Stress. I hope it will help you recognize the causes and effects of unrelieved stress and offers way to find … Read more
If you have read my book, Food is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden, you probably noticed a theme running through it: Certain foods are mentioned over and over, to prevent and treat diseases and maladies that are vastly different. That’s because these foods are superfoods, ones that are so dense in nutrients that they … Read more
Too busy or too tired? That seems to be the story of most of our lives. But there are natural ways to boost your energy, relieve the stress and put the sizzle back in your love life. A healthy sex life is part of a healthy lifestyle. Well, according to the 2012 Kinsey report, less … Read more
If you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember “Laughter is the Best Medicine” was the name of the humor column in Reader’s Digest. It was good advice 50 years ago and it’s even better advice, backed by science, today. In today’s world, it’s probably the redeeming value of Facebook, where I can count on … Read more
Coconut oil a staple a staple in our household. We use it for everything from cooking to skin moisturizer to Alzheimer’s prevention and a dozen things in between. Coconut oil is a unique type of saturated fat, called a medium chain triglyceride (MFT) that are metabolized differently than other types of fat, transported directly to … Read more
Attention cheese lovers: Cheese is good for you! Drop those old notions about the so-called dangers of saturated fat. Cheese is chock full of heart, brain and bone-healthy nutrients that should make it a regular part of your diet. The saturated fat and cholesterol myths have long been busted, but wildly successful and completely untrue … Read more
Most of us think that meditation is an esoteric practice, perhaps a spiritual practice and the province only of the enlightened. I’ve been a meditator for most of my adult life and I find it amusing that science is finally catching up with what millions of meditators know intuitively: Meditation helps us to cope with … Read more