Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Health and Wellness”
A cornucopia of food is on the horizon! Family and friends come together around the Thanksgiving holiday for a celebration of being thankful. And, as the autumn holiday brings about food aplenty, it’s a good chance to step back and do some reflection on the abundance mindset. Once you understand what it is, then you start to experience the many …
How to Get a Good Night’s Rest When Fighting Sleeplessness We all hear about the dangers of lack of sleep. Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Verizon-owned HuffPost (formerly Huffington Post) wrote a 2017 The New York Times best-selling book about the topic of sleep entitled, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time. In The …
In 1975, acclaimed director Steven Spielberg premiered the summer blockbuster film, Jaws. A summer resort town was terrorized by a man-eating great white shark in New England. The foreboding nature of that shark’s dorsal fin as it raises out of the water that alerts people that there are dangers in the water. But today, in your drinking water in reality, …
The year was 1945 and the United States Food and Nutrition Board, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, was a young five years old. And, they wrote a recommendation for the daily intake of 2 liters (roughly 10.5 cups) of water. And, henceforth the myth of drinking eight glasses of water per day was born. At least, as …
We hear a lot about fat in the news. How much fat we should eat? How to shed pounds of fat with the latest “diet”? One of the topics that comes up is, how healthy cooking oils are in our nutrition? To start, it’s important to understand that there are two types of fat that are often conflated: dietary fat …
Every day, millions of people worldwide sweeten their tea, oatmeal and other foods throughout the day with honey. But, what many might not realize are the healing powers of honey. Honey is the sweet substance produced by bees and related insects extracting the nectar from flowers and other plants, which they store in those waxy-patterned honeycombs. For more than 8,000 …
In a recent article, Plant-Based Meats: What You Need to Know, I wrote about the differences between the new plant-based meats that have taken to the market with much fanfare. In this week’s edition, I take you through all the different varieties of animal-based meats in the markets around Alexandria, Virginia, and the surrounding areas, as your guide to buying …
On nearly every dining table in the western world, there are two condiments—salt and pepper. Not paprika. Not cumin. Not cinnamon. Salt and pepper. Why is that? I would love to say that it had an over-sized impact on humanity because of the healing powers of salt (which are rarely mentioned). But, it’s more complex than that. Salt has a …
Almost every healthy food article I read talks about the importance of getting more fruits and vegetables into your daily nutrition lifestyle. And, the idea of eating organic fruits and vegetables is a frequent recommendation. But, what does “organic” mean in the context of fruits and vegetables? And, does that mean the fruits and vegetables are better or safer? To …
The future of meat may be plant-based. That might sound like an oxymoron, but plant-based meats are a thing. And, they’re becoming ever more popular in grocery stores and restaurants. It’s such a threat to animal-based meat, that Mississippi recently enacted a law that makes it a jail-able offense to call these plant-based meats “burgers!” Who could have predicted that …
