Health & Wellness

Cheap & Easy Do-It-Yourself Dental Care

Recently we talked about 4 Cheap and Easy Skin Treatments You Can Eat, citing the importance of not putting toxic chemicals on your skin that were readily absorbed through the skin and into the bloodstream. That got me to thinking about the caustic ingredients we put in our mouth to “clean” our teeth and gums. It strikes me as slightly ironic that many of us are moving away from the more harsh... [Read more]

Laughter (+Yoga) Is The Best Medicine

How long has it been since you really laughed? I’m talking about a full out, bust a gut, almost pee your pants belly laugh? For me it had been awhile. I tend to be bit serious. I do have a sense of humor, but it is a little dry and mostly elicits small chuckles here or there when I’m really on a roll. So when I received an invitation from “Miss Lafalot” to join her new show on Blog Talk... [Read more]

First Graders Can’t Identify Common Vegetables

Perhaps you've read the statistics on childhood obesity, seen the growing size of our nation's school-age kids, but what might obesity sound like in a first grade class? Right "from the mouths of babes" comes yet another symptom of the health crisis in this country. Food ignorance. In a clip from the upcoming series, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the British celebrity chef visits a first grade... [Read more]

The Detox Manifesto, Your Invitation

The Environmental Working Group gathered data showing that in the umbilical cord blood of newborns there were 287 synthetic chemicals. Happy Birthday! Now drink this synthetic formula from this plastic bottle while I wipe your bottom with this specially formulated moist wipe that has a dozen chemical compounds in it.  Dr. Greene of Stanford University comments that of these 287 chemicals, 217 are... [Read more]

Kiss your wife: earn more money PLUS 31 other odd bits of trivia

A study conducted in the 1980's indicates that a man who kisses his wife good-bye before heading out the door to work each morning has a higher income than those who don't. Similar research also suggests that these same men live five years longer than those that don't and get in less car accidents. The suggestion is that men who partake in rituals of affection tend to be more diligent, stable, and... [Read more]

Winter survival, family style

One lesson I have to learn over and over is that despite our best attempts at being healthy and living a well balanced lifestyle I’m not in complete control of everything all the time.  Having children helped me learn that lesson once more last week.  My oldest daughter, who rarely gets sick and when she does recovers quickly, got sick and didn’t bounce back so quickly.  It stopped us in our... [Read more]