If you have salt cravings, you’re not alone. I have them, too – I adore salt. Much more so than sugar. Give me salty chips over a cookie, any old day. Most people would disagree with us, though, because sugar is even more popular than salt. We’ve all heard of the unfortunate health effects of […]

If you seek a healthy way to lose weight, the first place to begin is with your expectations. Ask yourself honestly: do you expect to success or do you expect to fail? Most of the time (every time?) when we "go on a diet", we worry that if we don’t do everything just exactly right, […]

Acai Berry Diet mania began when enormously popular Oprah Winfrey mentioned these Amazonian berries on her TV show. Anything Oprah mentions or endorses becomes popular overnight and it wasn’t long before acai berries began appearing in everything from drinks to ice cream. The acai berry phenomenon has been labeled a fad, but that is simply […]

Today we have an article from a guest writer, Dr. Douglas Husbands. His interesting subject concerns chronic disease treatment. I wanted to be certain that I understood exactly what was meant by "functional medicine" and here is the dictionary definition: Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of […]

Do you believe in personal responsibility? I certainly do and I see an alarming lack of it in today’s society – and that trend seems to be growing. Way too many of us seem to want to remain perpetual children, relying on others to take care of us. We loudly insist on our “rights” but […]