Food First: Here’s to Your Health
What do you like to have for breakfast? Are you stuck in a rut and ready for something new? Or maybe you are looking...
Food First: Starting the New Year Off Right
The New Year is a great time to assess where you are at in your life, to look at what seems to be working...
Optimal Health and Wellness for our Optimal Pets
Nutrition and exercise play such a huge role in health, not just for humans, but for animals, as well. Our pets rely on us...
Milo’s Story
It all started five years ago when Milo, our beloved Bichon, began showing signs of slowing down. At that time, he was 10 years...
Food First: Delicious, Nutritious Soup for Cold Months
Whether I'm concocting a new recipe or searching for a new recipe to try, I aim for one that is both delicious and nutritious!...
Spirit Leaves: Not Yet Vegan
Once, on a plane, a woman sitting beside me related how she lived on a farm in Wisconsin. Every morning, the sheep would come...
Ten Ways Specific Fermented Foods can improve Your Life
An excerpt from the book The Cultured Cook: Delicious Fermented Foods with Probiotics to Knock Out Inflammation, Boost Gut Health, Lose Weight & Extend...
Why I am Vegan
My mother adopted a 7-month old Yorkie a few years ago and I instantly fell in love with her. Before my mom brought this...
Not Missing the Meat
Did I ever imagine I would become a tree hugger? Someone who talks about energy and stuff? A person who considers disease your body's...
Conscious Consumerism: Responsible Choices As We Ascend
An incredible amount of evidence exists for the support of a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. We could go into living a life free of...
Why I Am Vegan
My idea of living with a vegan lifestyle is that I don't consume any dairy or animal products. As someone once said, "If it...
Our World as a Soup Bowl
A battle of comments ensued under my recent Facebook posting: Hate crimes got you down?! If you still eat meat, then you are part...
Vegan vs. Vegetarian
I have, only recently, begun eating a more vegetarian diet when I decided to break up with my prior food relationship to begin a...
Why I am Vegan
It was unbelievable for my family and friends to digest the fact that a crazy meat-lover who once relished eating roasted Chicken Drumsticks, Hakka...
Food First: A go-to salad for greens, fiber
Spring has sprung and everything is coming up green! This is the perfect time to take a cue from Mother Nature and get more...
Food First | A Spring Cleansing for the Body
As spring arrives, I am always thinking about cleansing and preparing my body for the warmer upcoming months. It's like a spring cleaning for...
Restocking the Pharmacy of the Body
The ever-expanding pharmacopeia of time-tested techniques, natural remedies and alternative pain killers is a complicated skein of dos and don'ts that would tangle any...
