Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.
NON-GMO Shopping Guide from Campaign for Healthier Eating in America
SAFE Personal Care and Cleaning Products from the Organic Consumers Association

Many of my clients struggle to find the products that I recommend.  Amazon.com is a great website that has expanded beyond books and CDs to carrying a full line of natural health products, along with many other categories.  I have decided to use Amazon as a way to set up a bunch of mini-stores since [...]

Being a Holistic Nutritionist, I understand that feeding the body and feeding the skin are equally important.  If I am filling my body with the best fresh, natural, organic, whole foods I can find, but then layering my body with chemicals sunscreens and moisturizers, it’s kind of defeating the purpose.
One of the biggest dilemmas [...]

When we compare their fat content, domesticated animals contain far more fat than the wild animals our ancestors hunted.  If we compare the fatty acids contained in domestic animals compared to their wild counterparts, there are important differences here as well.
Domesticated animals:

Beef contains 18-41% fat
Mutton contains 20-40% fat
Pork contains 35-60% fat
Domesticated reindeer go up [...]

Like most vegetables, cucumbers are a great food for weight loss.  They are very nutrient rich and have nutrients that have tremendous cancer fighting properties.  At only 14 calories per cup, they are filling and refreshing.
Cucumbers are a good source of potassium (good for high blood pressure), magnesium (good for migraines & muscle aches) and [...]

Just as certain foods have warming and cooling properties, so do herbs and spices.
Here is a list of herbs and spices that tend to have cooling properties:

curry
turmeric
dill
parsley
hot peppers
coriander leaf (cilantro)
pickles
tamari
shoyu
white sugar
salt (holds cold)

Here is a list of herbs and spices that tend to have warming properties:

garlic
ginger
cumin
caraway
basil
thyme
oregano
bay leaf
black pepper
coriander seed
cinnamon
cloves
vanilla
miso
brown sugar
salt (also hold heat)

Linda Miner
Registered Nutritional [...]

When studying Traditional Chinese or Ayurvedic Medicine, different foods have different properties including “warming” and “cooling”.  These properties refer to the foods affect on the body.  If you have ever eaten a cucumber in the middle of winter, you may have felt chilly afterwards.  That’s because cucumber is a naturally “cooling” food, so it may [...]

The more research I do on cravings the more I realize that they are a reflection of an imbalance in the body.  Unfortunately the things we crave are often the things that are really bad for us, and honestly, we all know that.  How many of you are craving a celery stick right now, or [...]

A study performed on college students showed evidence that artificial sweeteners perpetuate CRAVINGS FOR SWEETS and overall sugar consumption is NOT reduced.  Another study showed that drinking both sugar and sugar-free soft drinks INCREASED the likelihood or weight gain by 65%.  BUT it was the DIET soda that was associated with “SERIOUS WEIGHT GAIN”.
Laboratory rats [...]

Neotame, approved in 1997 as a tabletop sweetener, was developed by Monsanto as the patent for aspartame was running out.  It is 72X sweeter than aspartame and 7-13,000X sweeter than sugar and is the sweetest artificial sweetener ever invented.  It is aspartame PLUS 3-di-methyl-butyl, which is included on the EPA’s list of most HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.
Neotame, [...]