Preparing a healthy meal that still impresses doesn’t mean you have to spend hours and hours in a hot kitchen – not when you have your reliable slow cooker ready to lend a hand. These slow cooker recipes are a healthy way to reduce the time you spend preparing while still letting you deliver a...
Read more >>November is Native American Heritage Month, so what better time to discover some of the contributions Native Americans have made in the fields of technology, agriculture, and health through history. Technology and Agriculture The floating gardens of the Aztecs, the elaborate citadels of the Incas, and the impeccably precise Mayan Calendar are a few examples...
Read more >>Between haunted houses, scary movies, and spooky costumes, there are many frightening (and fun) things about Halloween. Yet, the most alarming thing you may encounter is the candy you hand out to trick-or-treaters. Each Halloween, Americans will drop over 600 million pounds of chocolate bars, candy corn, lollipops, and sticky, sour candies into the bags...
Read more >>Some people make it look so easy. They juggle family, work, and social commitments with the greatest of ease while managing to stay fit, healthy, and sharp. They always seem to have enough time to prepare a healthy meal, and they never, ever miss a workout. Then there are the rest of us who stare...
Read more >>Halloween is one of the most anticipated and celebrated holidays in America today. Part of the reason is that it’s a night to indulge our fantasies, become someone or something else for a night, and let loose. Another reason is that we have nostalgic and fun memories of the bag of treats we collected from...
Read more >>It’s 1781. You’ve just described your symptoms, and after careful consideration, your doctor announces your prognosis, “You have a cold.” To alleviate your suffering, he intends to nick an artery in your forearm and drain several pints of blood from your body. While you process this news, your practitioner tells you that you also have gonorrhea,...
Read more >>Every few years, new trends emerge and become a force in the wellness community. One of those trends is functional mushrooms. Although, when you look more closely at these fantastic fungi, you’ll understand that they are in no way a “fad.” Functional mushrooms, which bestow health benefits beyond nutrition, have been used for millennia in...
Read more >>You know it’s autumn when you see pumpkin spice-flavored goodies everywhere you look. (Just reading the phrase “pumpkin spice” summons smells and memories of turning leaves and cable-knit sweaters.) But for those of us with weight management and healthy eating goals, autumn can be an ordeal. It’s just too easy to indulge in festive foods...
Read more >>“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”-George Eliot Here’s a question, what in nature looks more beautiful as it dies? Autumn’s gorgeous and wildly, technicolor foliage, of course. Deciduous trees from oaks, maples, aspens, poplars, birches, and...
Read more >>As a pioneer in holistic, natural healing in the early twentieth century, Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner was considered a radical in the medical world for preaching that exercise, spiritual peace, and diet were keys to a healthy body and mind. Dr. Bircher-Benner may have been scorned by the traditional medical establishment of that era, but that...
Read more >>With summer fading into fall, it’s all hands on deck to ready your immune system for the coming cold weather. Respiratory infections, colds, and flu spread more efficiently in colder weather for a few reasons. The first is proximity. We spend more time indoors, where we are less likely to social distance. At the...
Read more >>Click Play & Hear from Adrienne… Outside San Antonio, Texas, Adrienne began a fine day in July 2018 as she usually does, riding the ring with her horse Dusty. But what happened next wasn’t usual. Spooked, Dusty reared up and threw Adrienne to the hard ring floor. “I shattered my ankle and my talus...
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