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If I’m “AWARE” – I Need Not “BEWARE”
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I am concerned that my Caveat Emptor series may have scared people a bit. So this blog focuses on items of awareness that can keep you out of trouble. We have all heard the advice to shed our bad habits and replace them with good habits. This is important for success in virtually all aspects of life; but too few of us apply it when it comes to eating.  If you haven’t read parts 1 – 3 yet, here are the links so …

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Eureka…Here’s an answer for all of us!
I promised that I would give you nine general guidelines on how to optimize food choices for health and here they are.
1. Remember the food chain & buy organic foods. If the animal or plant that we eat has been fed chemicals and drugs or sprayed with toxins, it is generously passed on to us. In the U.S., beef, pigs and poultry are fed genetically modified corn to get fat quick and are also fed antibiotics. Additionally, their foods often …

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Is it easier to pan for gold or find an honest natural food?
What a strange question! Many products that we call “foods” are far from natural- and, if we expect to have nutritional value in foods, are really far from even being food. Foods that are adulterated with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and a myriad of chemical agents for coloring, taste, preservation, texture, etc. are legally allowed to be called “natural”! Some so-called foods are virtually all chemicals, with no nutritive value.
In fact on balance, many, …

So, you want to be healthy?

Of course you do,  but you’re bombarded with all kinds of “information”. Now you don’t know who or what to listen to.
We have three purposes in presenting this series.
First, we want you to know that you don’t have to know all of the answers to make healthful choices.
Second,  we will provide simple guidelines that will help you make more healthful decisions.
Third, we want to encourage you to learn a few basics that go beyond just the simple guidelines.
When we were young, before many …

 
Written by my guest columnist, my husband Al
Hi, I’ll bet that many of you had the same experiences with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and may even have carried on the tradition with your own kids, as did Sandy and I.
Day after day, I walked to school, carrying my sandwich in my lunch bag.   It always tasted good, and I still enjoy this delicacy (though not every day for lunch.)  Being interested in the healthfulness of what I eat, I recently Googled for a listing of FDA recalls.  If you haven’t …

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THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT, FOR THE MOST PART, YOU GET TO CHOOSE!
Women typically from 45 to 55 or so experience it, most women under 45 dread it, and most women over 60 are glad its over. What is it? If you are a woman you know the answer, and there is hope.
If you are a man, you probably have no idea, but please read on and learn.
Did you answer Menopause?
There are three basic stages of menopause.