Healthy Eating for Your Skin
Our external covering is the body’s largest organ but, due to lack of accurate information, it is often the most neglected. Nutritional deficiencies and stress are two of the quickest ways our skin gets damaged as we age. As stress begins to wear on our bodies, many of us respond by applying conventional remedies—chemicals—to our skin. These “treatments” can [...]
Recipe – Turmeric Chicken and Rice
Taken from Food & Wine Magazine I don’t remember when I found this amazing recipe, but it is absolutely delicious, and I cook it all the time! I realize the list of ingredients may seem long to those of us who like it short and easy, but it is well worth the effort. The whole house smells wonderful and [...]
Turmeric, an Ancient Medicine
In keeping with my theme about the medicinal properties of spices and herbs, this article will provide some information on one of the most important and helpful spices on the planet. If there is a king of spices, turmeric has to be it. Tumeric is popular in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, among other cultures, for its ability to heal and [...]
What are You Eating?
In this new year, I would like to promote a new way of thinking about food. I want to bring awareness to the ways America’s culture of convenience food is destroying our health and wellness. I want to encourage a different perspective and a more accurate picture of how food works in our country and how it affects our [...]
Recipe – Masala Chai Tea
In India, chai is a commonly consumed beverage. Each chai vendor creates a different and unique version. Chai is now available here in America too, but when you make your own you can create a much better tasting version, and you can tweak it to your own taste. Other spices that can be used include star anise, cloves, nutmeg, [...]
Three Important Spices you really Shouldn’t Live Without
Simple and easily available, spices are nature’s medicine. They have been a part of the human experience for millennia. Drugs certainly have a place in our modern society to cure some rare and dangerous diseases but I don’t believe drugs should be used nearly as much as we’ve been convinced they should be. Spices have many chemical constituents that [...]
Recipe – Avocado Pomegranate Salad with Cumin-lime Dressing
This salad is gorgeous, delicious, and refreshing and takes advantage of the abundance of pomegranates available fall through January here in Utah. Pomegranates are high in antioxidants and other nutrients like vitamin A, C, K and B vitamins, along with calcium, potassium, copper and manganese. This salad presents beautifully and is great to serve your guests for holiday dinners. [...]
Are GMO Foods Destroying our Health?
GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are rampant in modern agriculture. Much of our clothing, fuel, food and many of the products we use contain GMO corn, cotton, canola and/or soy. Genetic modifications have been used to create disease and drought-resistant crops that yield greater returns than other crops* but, as a nutritional therapy practitioner, I am innately suspicious of “food” [...]