We all know that Mom said to eat our vegetables and fruits. But what if you're not crazy about any part of that plan … yet you know that you should eat well for the sake of your health? Or the flab hanging off your body? The good news is that one way to eat […]

I like raw food and it's unquestionably healthy – but sometimes I get restless for something sweet. I love 'regular' apple pie so decided to give this raw food dessert a try. And it is DELICIOUS. I'm sort of reluctant to recommend anything because we all have different tastes and you might try this and […]

Is oatmeal nutritional? We might as well ask if rain is good for the earth because the health benefits of oatmeal are substantial and humans have known this for centuries. Oatmeal is incredibly popular in cultures all over the world and has a history that goes back to ancient China and Greece. Scotland has been […]

Sun and skin damage go together. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that EXCESSIVE sun and skin damage are inevitable partners. In the past people have been slaves to the sun. They would slather themselves in oil and bake their skin in the sun. Some people have even resorted to using foil reflectors to reflect […]

Who doesn’t love pizza? Oh, I suppose there are a few misguided fools who don’t drool at the smell of this glorious food (no offense to those fools :-). The problem for many of us, though, is that pizza is loaded with fat and calories and since most of us are overweight … Then there’s […]

The numbers of overweight and obese Americans and Europeans is so large that it’s obvious that overeating is a problem suffered by most of us. The usual ‘diet advice’ concerning how to stop overeating is to … just stop eating. That, of course, is pointless advice. If overweight folks could simply quit overeating, they would […]

The amount of irritants present in the environment today can be very harmful to the body if absorbed on a daily basis. The environment contains a number of pollutants including gases, smoke, and vehicle exhaust, and the chemicals present in synthetic cosmetics and body products only make the situation worse. Allowing these products to enter […]

When I was a kid I suffered terribly from motion sickness. This lasted through my 30s and it was terrible sometimes – I had to take Dramamine to ride the bus to my college classes! There are many activities that can cause motion sickness: traveling by car, plane or boat; riding a roller coaster, bungee […]

A neighbor recently became semi-hysterical because of the sudden appearance of a huge crop of molluscum warts. I became curious about the ugly things and here is what I learned. Molluscum warts are caused by a different HPV virus strain than the one for more common warts. Molluscum warts look like skin-colored bumps, ranging in […]

There are times when I look in the mirror and think, “Jeez, I am SO bored with the way I look!” If this happens to you, too, then we need to brainstorm about ways to look different – and the majority of them seem to center on our head area. That is, we can change […]