Category: wellness

Do Healthy Fast-Food Options Lead to Healthier Choices?

In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu labeling for calorie counts began to be mandated in national chain restaurants. I mean shouldn’t consumers have the knowledge needed to make healthy eating choices outside the home? It just makes sense that caloric information on menus will help consumers limit food intake to stay within daily energy…


A Better Way to Make Hard Choices

Making a difficult decision can be overwhelming and paralyzing for some people. Decisions are difficult because we want a certain outcome but don’t know which choice will deliver it. And so we fret, ruminate, think and think and think some more, all in an effort to figure it out. We get caught in thoughts about…


Live Healthy, Live Longer Without Dementia

Staving off Alzheimer’s disease might just take a healthy diet, exercise and an active mind, a new study suggests. Women and men who follow a healthy lifestyle live longer — and longer without Alzheimer’s or other dementias, researchers say. “Eating a healthy diet rich in vegetables, berries, whole grains, and low in fried or fast foods and red or…


What Is Healthy, Anyway?

Global interest in health has never been more pronounced than it is today. In much of America, and throughout the industrialized world, people are living in fear of getting sick—not just with COVID-19, but also with cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and more. At the same time, the majority of us suffer from significant health problems….


Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Rachel Kable—author, podcaster, blogger and mindfulness coach from Victoria in Australia—recently participated in a podcast interview with Dr. Justin Puder. In the course of the interview, she explained that when she first started out practising mindfulness in the more formal way of meditating (e.g., focusing on her breath), she had great difficulty and did not like it…


Yin and Yang: The Path to a Balanced Life

Stand on one foot for just a few seconds, and life can immediately become awkward or even precarious. Once you’re back in balance with both feet firmly on the ground, strength, stability, and harmony return. This is the lesson of yin and yang. Yin and yang are symbolized by the taiji—a circle composed of two…


10 Min Ballet Yoga Workout

All the benefits of Yoga in Ballet Style. The power of a yoga flow with the beautiful movements of Ballet, ready to immerse yourself in a transformative-restorative Ballet-Yoga Flow? Need a little extra help on how to navigate these new ballet steps and see results with ballet movements? Download my 5-day Free “Get Ballerina Fit…


While Plants Enjoy Spring Rains, We Can Enjoy Spring Tea

A solar term is a period of about two weeks and is based on the sun’s position in the zodiac. Solar terms form the traditional Chinese calendar system. The calendar follows the ancient Chinese belief that living in accordance with nature will enable one to live a harmonious life. This article series explores each of…


Sunlight, Detoxification, and the Quest for Health

Sunlight is central to life as the natural cycles of light and dark influence our circadian rhythms in profound ways.  In the quest for better health, working with the cycles of light to optimize this delicate circadian balance becomes crucial for the function of our brain, hormones, genes, detoxification and more.  Positive developments took place…


Basic Skills for Being a Healthy Human

“Chinese medicine” is a bit of a misnomer. When I began my studies in acupuncture, I thought I was going to learn about medicine. Instead, we learned about health, at least as the foundation. Although Chinese medicine has a robust understanding of disease pathology and the many avenues to its treatment and cure, it more…