My partner and I have been participating in Oprah’s ground breaking e-class, A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle. There are a reported 2 million participants from around the world. Eckhart has been described as a “contemporary spiritual teacher” who borrows concepts from the realm of psychology to define a new way of being. [...]

Acne is one of the more devastating aspects of adolescence. Many, many teens take expensive acne medication, gladly accepting a plethora of restrictive side-effects, in the hopes that their acne will go away. The acne DOES go away, in most cases, as soon as the chemistry of physical maturity reaches equilibrium. What [...]

Most of us are well aware of the growing problem in this country regarding the inappropriate and over prescribing of antibiotics and the serious repercussions it has created. In addition to the usual suspects of bacteria that we have a difficult enough time regularly combating, we have managed, over the years, to create multiple strains [...]

I recently read a review article by Jane Higdon, Ph.D. that I thought provided a good basic overview of some of the research into tea and health. Dr. Higdon is a research associate at the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI) which has done some very good research on tea. One of the principle researchers on [...]

A friend urged me to read The China Study and I have to say, it’s frightening. This represents the largest nutritional study ever done in the history of the world. The results are quite dramatic, with remarkable correlations between health and a plant-based diet. The lead researcher was from Cornell and he partnered with a [...]