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Category: General

  • Cancer – Control your Risk

    I didn’t know a single person with cancer until I was in high school, and 12 years later my 6th childhood/college friend was recently diagnosed.  Carcinoma, leukemia, testicular, brain, melanoma, and Hodgkin’s.   This is too many people – all in my small network and all in their mid 20s to early 30s when diagnosed – for […]

  • My gluten-free experiment

    Sometimes I just need to take my own advice, even if it does kind of suck.  Thus began my gluten-free experiment. I’ve suspected for a while that I’m mildly gluten-intolerant.  I tested negative for Celiac several years ago, and have never had any of the severe reactions that I’ve seen so frequently in clients (fibromyalgia, […]

  • To tuna or not to tuna

    I know that title is ridiculous, oh well.  I just spent 20 minutes in the tuna aisle at Whole Foods trying to figure out which canned tuna to use for a recipe I’m trying out for next week’s No Plan Meal Plan.  (It’s a tasty tuna and white bean salad, btw, and takes about 5 […]

  • Dinner help has arrived

    I’m super pumped, because my new dinner planning newsletter, No Plan Meal Plan has finally launched.  Check it out!  There are so many ways this can help you with your dinner-time routine; maybe you want to spend less time planning and be extra-efficient, perhaps you’re looking for fresh new dinner ideas, or maybe you’ve been […]

  • Overweight and Malnurished?

    Sometimes I get sucked into the extreme weight loss shows…I always find it interesting to see what the nutritionists suggest, and mostly I find the transformations and level of personal dedication and hard work inspiring.  Plus Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition is on right after the Bachelorette (a high-quality program..errrr).  So last night I was watching […]

  • Bye bye Orbit gum..

    Well, this is a little sad (but probably for the best).  No more Orbit gum.  Thanks to this article, which does a pretty good job at describing a handful of dangerous food additives.  Some are familiar (saccharin i.e. Sweet n Low, Olestra of anal leakage fame, and trans fats), and others are a little more mysterious.  […]

  • Higher calcium intake not associated with reduction in Osteoporosis

    A new study of over 61,000 women in Sweden shows that high calcium intake did not lower the risk of developing osteoporosis or of having hip or other fractures.  Only women who consumed less than 700mg of calcium experienced higher rate of these problems.  In fact, the highest consumers of calcium actually had a higher rate of […]

  • UnitedHealth CEO made $101MM last year – highest paid in U.S.A.

    Today I planned on having a nice, productive day working on things at home, such as my No Plan Meal Plan, among other things.  But I’m finding myself rather distracted by the news, which I saw in an editorial in today’s Plain Dealer, about the UnitedHealth CEO making serious bank.  More money than any other CEO […]

  • An open letter from Blue Pike Farm

    The picture of a barn raising,  a community effort to collectively help out a neighbor seems quaint and out of reach for those of us of a more urban persuasion. Well, the local food community is a community too and one of our own suffered a calamity this weekend in the form of a assault […]

  • IIN Scholarship – This week only! (expires on May 30th)

    If you like this blog and have a growing interest in food and natural health, perhaps you should consider taking the next step in your learning.  I got my nutrition training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and this week only they’re offering $500 scholarships for friends and family of current alums.  IIN’s curriculum is more than […]