Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give her poor dog a bone: When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so her poor dog had none. My little dogs, Phoebe and Mille, never have to worry about getting a dog bone. Although ol’ Mother Hubbard’s dog wasn’t as fortunate. In my last blog, “Food [...]

It’s time to make good on your New Year’s Resolution to nutritionally enhance your meals. As the Chinese proverb states, “Talk doesn’t cook rice.” Today, Approximately 90 percent of American’s food budget is spent on processed foods. No natter how much you might discuss a subject, (read about, study, etc.) it’s not until you get [...]

Resolve to Eat Healthy You can make one more resolution… for your children. If you want your kids to eat healthy foods, you need to make changes yourself. It’s up to you to resolve that your family will be healthy this coming year. Your kids eating habits will change when YOU change. We need to [...]

This is the busiest time of the year. It begins with Hanukkah, next Christmas and then New Year’s Eve celebrations, ending with January 1 football games and more partying. More people will be entertaining this month, than any other time of year. The challenge is how to eat healthy when sugar, white flour, altered fats, [...]

Thanksgiving is only days away. If you want to have a “Natural Thanksgiving” now is the time to think about it. A natural Thanksgiving sounds easy enough, but it takes some forethought. For the last 30 years, our Thanksgivings have been as natural (chemical free) as possible. Most Thanksgiving dinners are loaded with ingredients the Pilgrims [...]

Snacking is an American Way of Life A new nutrition study found that children as young as 12 months are consuming one third of their daily calories between meals. This constant snacking develops unhealthy eating habits. The Nestlé Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study began in 2002. The study examined the evolution of children’s diets from [...]

Enough Food, but Malnourished Americans are well fed, but malnourished. This may come as a surprise, but people who are malnourished are not necessarily starving. Malnutrition is the persistent lack of access to necessary vitamins and minerals in your diet. Processed foods have replaced whole foods in America. The modern diet consists of lifeless processed [...]

Perhaps, there has been no other time in history, where people have eaten so much and yet so poorly. Americans for the most part eat a lot of food, but with very little nutrition. Disease is rising. We spend more on medical services, yet we are sicker. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, allergies and neurological problems [...]

Toxic Food How does a mom go from purchasing Lucky Charms to Ezekiel 4:9: Sprouted Whole Grain Cereal? Usually the transformation to whole foods comes in baby steps. Unless one of her kids is in jeopardy, then it can be an instant transformation. It’s shocking when moms first realize the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) is [...]

New Disorder Did you that here’s a new mental illness? It’s called Nervosa Orthorexia. People who “suffer” from orthorexia are obsessed with eating organic food. According to Dr. Steven Bratman, who coined the term, orthorexia generally causes no major health problems, although it might lead to “social exclusion and alienation.” Bratman says for some people [...]