The Importance of Good Sleep For Optimal Health

The importance of good sleep for optimal health is far more than most people know. It’s about more than just feeling “rested”. Many functions critical to health happen while you sleep. But not all sleep is the same. Sleep, under the influence of sleep aids, alcohol, marijuana, and even caffeine, is not the same as […]

My Favorite Cold Weather Lunch – An Idea For You?

My favorite cold weather lunch is… … soup! But not just any soup. This spicy soup is packed with vegetables. And lunch–(or breakfast as is often the case)–is as simple as putting one serving full of the delicious home made soup into a frying pan, heating until it is hot, cracking two eggs on top, […]

Fitness And Weight Loss Tops List Of Broken New Year’s Resolutions

Happy New Years! Did you make any resolutions this year? I find it interesting that fitness and weight loss rank second and third right behind spending more time with family. It tops the list however on broken resolutions (with eating healthier as the #5 most broken resolution) So, what happens in the month of January […]

How To Make Sauteed Kale

Give me a “K”! Give me an “A” Give me an “L” Give me an “E” What’s that spell??? KALE!!! Kale smoothies, kale soup, kale chips…kale is everywhere these days. It’s the latest icon of super healthy, nutrient dense food–but that’s only because it is one. If you don’t like it, it’s likely you haven’t […]

7 Hot Tips To Get You Through The Holidays Without Gaining A Pound

It starts with Halloween. A Hershey’s Kiss here, a Milky Way there, and before you know it you’re falling headlong into a sugar-crazed orgy that lasts through Thanksgiving and Christmas. White-knuckle restraint is no fun, but neither are tight clothes and feelings of remorse. The question is: How can you get through the holidays without […]

Doing vs. Not Doing

….I was more nervous and incompetent than he thought (Carlos says to himself). “I’ve always been that way, and yet I want to change, but I don’t know how. I am so inadequate.” “I already know that you think you are rotten,” he [Don Juan] said. “That’s your DOING. Now, in order to affect that […]