Category: wellness

Selling Drugs and Diseases

Many people like direct-to-consumer (DTC) “ask your doctor” drug ads on TV. They enjoy the drama of the mini “sitcoms,” such as a woman with severe asthma who can finally go out again or a man whose depression lifts, and he starts playing with his puppy again. People can feel empowered by knowing the symptoms…


Is Buying Really the Solution?

Often when we want to solve a problem or make some kind of change in our lives, we’ll go out and buy something: We want to get organized, we’ll buy containers or folders or closet organizers. We want to lose weight, we’ll buy diet food or an exercise machine or a gym membership. We want…


Crop Rotation Basics For Your Vegetable Garden

Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective strategies for organic pest control and maintaining healthy soil in your garden. Specifically, it means the planned order of vegetables or fruits in garden beds; avoiding planting the same crop (and the same family of crops) in the same space for a two or three-year period; and knowing what…


Make Your Needs Your Wants, and Your Needs Few

Is that even possible? In this consumerism-obsessed, materialism-driven age of time? Is it possible to make a complete mental transition from being obsessed with what we want to being content with the simplicity of what we actually need? Can a person truly turn their needs into their wants and make their needs few? I am here to tell…


The Health Benefits of Nature

It’s long been known, especially among natural health enthusiasts, that connecting with nature has a profound impact on health and well-being. Unfortunately, many aspects of our modern world take us further from nature, with detrimental consequences to our overall health. Working long hours indoors, eating convenience foods, constantly using technology, and absorbing environmental toxins all…


How to Detoxify and Heal From Vaccinations

Detoxing from vaccines is a process without a definite timeline. Think of it as an ongoing journey. Toxin accumulation, especially heavy metals like mercury, can take a long time to remove from the body. Vaccine toxins can be cumulative, building up with each vaccination, adding to the toxin load we acquire from the enormous amount…


Why Choose the Boiled Egg Diet?

Every day, it seems that another impressive-looking diet pops up on the internet, encouraging patrons to cut things out of their daily menus and focus on specific food categories in order to drop dozens of pounds. While some of the fad diets are unsustainable in their entirety, though, other types of much more balanced diets…


Lose 24 Pounds in 2 Weeks With the ‘Boiled Egg Diet’

Every day, it seems that another impressive-looking diet pops up on the internet, encouraging patrons to cut things out of their daily menus and focus on specific food categories in order to drop dozens of pounds. While some of the fad diets are unsustainable in their entirety, though, other types of much more balanced diets…


Why We Struggle to Make Time for Solitude

How often do you take time to go out for an hourlong walk? Or just sit in contemplation in nature doing nothing but enjoying the silence? I’m sure there are a few of you who indulge in this luxury regularly, but most of us don’t make time for quiet solitude on a daily basis. For…


Balanced Eating

Many of you may have heard the term “balanced diet,” but do you really know what it means? As a nutritionist, I will admit it might mean different things to different people. Personally, I have described it over many years to my clients and the media as meaning simply: “Eat a variety of foods packed…