|
by Marissa Cloutier, MS, RD. and Eve Adamson. Is it really possible to eat well, savoring and relishing delicious food, and at the same time increase our wellness? In fact, it is possible, and also surprisingly easy to accomplish. We need only look to the Mediterranean lands...by Marissa Cloutier, MS, RD. and Eve Adamson. Is it really possible to eat well, savoring and relishing delicious food, and at the same time increase our wellness? In fact, it is possible, and also surprisingly easy to accomplish. We need only look to the Mediterranean lands... |
|
Read more...
|
|
  by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., & Becky Prelitz, M.F.T., R.D. If you decide to become a vegetarian for loving reasons, such as loving your body, your spiritual gifts, animals, and the environment, you?ll enjoy the transition more. However, if you are motivated by fear ? such as wanting to lose weight to please someone else ? you?re apt to struggle with food cravings and dissatisfaction.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Jon Gordon M.A.
 It's a popular notion that we will get more done if we skip lunch. Unfortunately they couldn't be farther from the truth. According to various studies, researchers agree that performance scores plunge when people skip lunch and those who skip lunch soon feel more anxious and tense. Skipping lunch can also slow your metabolism...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
Food cravings often stem from basic unmet needs for fun, excitement, or love -- issues most would consider "normal" and within our power to self-heal. Some people's food cravings remain constant; for example, they always crave ice cream. Other people go through "food kicks," craving peanut butter one week, blue cheese dressing the next week, and chocolate bars the following week.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Patricia Quinn
Nutritional therapy is a system of healing based on the belief that our food is our medicine and our medicine is our food. Disorders ranging from chronic fatigue, energy loss, insomnia, depression, backache, skin complaints, asthma, and headaches can be relieved with nutritional therapy.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Herb Gardening
An herb garden can be as simple as a few pots of chives, mints, and basils at the edge of a sunny patio or balcony.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Herbs And Cooking When cooking herbs there are certain things you need to remember. The food will taste as good as the mood you are in and whatever herbs you use to spice up the meal is according to one's own personal taste. Experimenting with herbs is fun and adds a bit of pizazz to one's daily meals.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. One way to ensure that you'll enjoy a variety of delicious vegetarian meals is by eating out, but many new vegetarians feel unsure about what to order. With my busy workshop schedule, I travel nearly every weekend. I've learned how to maintain my vegetarian lifestyle, no matter what type of restaurant I'm in. |
|
Read more...
|
|
 by Martin Teitel, Ph.D. and Kimberly A. Wilson. Genetically altered food is being quietly slipped into our markets and supermarkets without proper labels, and without having passed adequate safety tests. Furthermore, genetically engineered food confers no advantage to consumers: it doesn't look better, taste better, cost less, or provide better nutrition. In Europe they call it "GMO food." Here, we use a new term: "genfood."
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Deborah Kesten.
 We are being cheated nutritionally. Food constitutes a six-part gift, but all we're hearing about is one thing. But this skewed perspective, focusing solely on the physiological aspects of food, has become the norm. I call our one-sided, limited view the Dark Ages of nutrition.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Michele Siegel, Ph.D, with Margot Weinshel, M.S.W. and Judith Brisman Ph.D. When an eating disorder exists, it is recognized by certain behaviors, the most noticeable being an obsession with food and weight. This obsession can take the form of binge eating, starving, vomiting, compulsive exercising, or other behaviors focused on eating, getting rid of, or avoiding food. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
by Carrie L'Esperance.
People who are not familiar with fasting may imagine that it entails sitting around getting bored and depressed, and not eating anything. It is difficult to imagine the powerful effects that fasts, using certain food and drink, can have...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Food & Nutrition 
