Sugar: Whats in a word?
Sugars are not just “empty calories”, sugar is a major anti-nutrient that can wreck havoc with your health.
Continue reading »Water: The Best Beverage
In all of my years as a health professional, teacher and consultant, I’ve been telling patients, clients and students the same thing about what to drink. It’s really simple. Drink water. As a dentist in private practice, I worked hard to convince parents of young toddlers to stay away from juice and drink water instead. [...]
Continue reading »Girl Scout Cookies: Epic Fail
Now that the Girl Scout Cookie sales have started, I can’t sit by and stay silent about the atrocities that these well meaning scouts are innocently perpetrating on their families, their friends and even the planet. I’m well aware that these cookies have a place in the hearts and minds of so many people. My [...]
Continue reading »Re-thinking Your Drink
Last night while most of the country was watching the Super Bowl, I was learning about fructose metabolism. A lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist held my attention for over 90 minutes as he explained how fructose, present in both fruit juice and most soda can act as a poison in our livers. [...]
Continue reading »This Teacher Is Fed-Up!
She is fed up with school food and is taking it personally. Very personally. An unidentified teacher somewhere in the mid-west has started a horrifying stunt. She will be eating (and photographing) her school’s lunch every day this year. I greatly admire her bravery to put her health on the line to make a point. [...]
Continue reading »SuRu’s Movie Reviews
This week, I had the good fortune to see 3 great movies that told the tale of climate change and sustainability. I hope you get a chance to see at least one of them. If you do, your life will never be the same. After reading Bill Mc Kibben’s Deep Economy a year ago, there’s [...]
Continue reading »Putting Lipstick on a Pig
As we roll into week #2 of the pandemic swine flu, I continue to be entertained by what ends up in the media about this pesky health issue. VP Joe Biden and his comment on recycled air on airplanes, the mysterious reduction in the number of deaths in Mexico along with the conservative zealots who [...]
Continue reading »The Year of the Pig
2009 is supposed to be the Year of the Ox, but it certainly seems to be the Year of the Pig so far, allow me to explain! The American News Project in a story entitled The Food Lobby Goes to School, was surprised to find the National Pork Board to be one of the lobbyists [...]
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