We are always trying to find a hack for weight loss. We want a diet, a pill, a surgery or maybe even hypnosis that could get us to our desired result. Shed the fat pounds. Here is an unpopular hack that will work for most. (Some people have so much wrong with them that they need much more help than this, however this is one area that will help every issue). Nutrients. Nutrient dense food is your friend. Color, fiber, variety and don’t forget some of it is to be eaten raw. Yes

I just watched an interview with the author of The End of Alzheimer's, Dale Bredesen. This fills me with so much hope. Not because I have experience cognitive decline, but because this is another of the BIG scary diseases that rips your life from you that has a solution. It is the same feeling I had when I have watched documentaries or read articles about real solutions to the diseases that most people fear. Whether it is cancer or Alzheimer’s, disease is preventable and cura

Nutrition to me is such a very broad topic. I know it can be a daunting task to think about becoming healthy, I promise you it really isn’t! Nutrition is something you progressively develop as time goes on. I encourage you to take it step by step, learn one thing at a time, and you’ll begin to be able to apply each practical nutritional principle into your lifestyle with ease! One vegetable that we all know is good for you, thank you Popeye, is spinach! Spinach can be eaten r

People want to lose weight. Often people think that running is the best way to lose weight because runners are generally skinny. Although running does burn a fair amount of calories, it is not the highest calorie burning exercise. What is it? What is the fountain of skinny exercise? An exercise that uses more MET’s. I am not talking about the New York Mets, but metabolic equivalent. When you boil it down it tells us how much energy you are expending. You probably have seen ME

Food As Medicine Review This movie primary takes you through several people’s lives as they explore eating the right food as their prescription for health. Most of these people have some serious conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and heart arrhythmia. This and the constantly changing linear biographies help the film to keep your attention and even fascinate you. It seems as though most of the film is filmed in Oregon, although that isn’t mentioned. Th

If you look at any health food store or any health website you will find cleansing products. There are total body cleanses, colon cleanses, kidney cleanses and toenail cleanses! I went too far, but so do all the claims of all of the products on the market. Although I do use a few every now and then including a parasite cleanse when I get back from South America or Mexico. We can get pretty frustrated looking for cleanses so I thought I would give you some common sense cleansi

My last blog was about the importance of health. Read it if you need to in order to understand the Four Quadrants of Time Management and my arguments that you already agree with me about your health. Fitness is a tougher sell to people. I think fitness is a tougher sell because it takes effort. Honestly, your health takes more effort and dedication in more areas of life than fitness does, but caring about your fitness level means you have to subdue your body. You have to...,

My whole life I heard older people, (my definition has changed with every half decade), “wait until you are my age and see if you can do that.” The “that”, was to perform some kind of athletic action. When I was in my 40’s people said, “wait until you are 50 and see how your body acts.” When I was 50 people continued to say, “wait until you are…”. They told me about the body aches and how hard it was to keep the extra weight off. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to do wha

High Blood pressure can be treated with lifestyle changes. That is hard! Sleeping more, resting more, enjoying life more often means less production. This doesn’t sit well with high pressure jobs or highly motivated personalities. So what do you do? Before you solve your issue with a pill, and a lifestyle overhaul seems too ominous (it won’t forever, in fact it really is appealing), how about adding a few things to your diet? NO (Nitric Oxide) is a wonderful compound that is

Have you ever seen the Four Quadrants of Time Management? If not, click on the hyperlink. Basically, there are things that are urgent or non-urgent, and things that are important and non-important. I would like to propose that you can keep your health out of the urgent box if it is in the important box. Let me explain. Health IS important to all of us at the time of some type of dysfunction. Whether it is disease or injury, our bodies are always important to us. When you have

Sustainable is one of the best and most hopeful movies about health and our food system. It takes you through a journey of our food system. Well, not really our conventional food system, but the small and growing system of sustainable crop production. This film, unlike so many, has no axe to grind except for using our land to produce wonderful food without using up our land. If the film was a river, it would have many streams that it travels down to help us to understand how