Picture this: Jenny, a mom of two, steps off the treadmill sweating profusely and breathing heavily. Her goal is to...
Cooking is something many people either love doing or consider a chore. A previous survey has revealed that 45 percent...
For years, nutritionists advised dieters to slow down and savour their food. Biology tells us that it takes the body...
“Just a small piece…” “A little taste won’t hurt…” That’s all it takes. The door has opened. Gooey cake hits...
Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, eat healthy and be more active. Everyone would love to be a...
Consistent and sufficient parental nurturing in infancy and childhood plays a major role not only in the normal development of...
After many years of working in what I’ve come to call ‘the orphan industry’, one gets a gut feeling about...
DREAM INTERPRETATION: A significant lesson that you have a chance to overcome [symbols: teeth, food]
In our weekly Mindful Dreams column, Aneta Baranek of the School of Metaphysics is offering free dream interpretations to The...
In our weekly Mindful Dreams column, Aneta Baranek of the School of Metaphysics is offering free dream interpretations to The...
Argentina, the land of cattle ranches and parillas (steakhouses), and yet there I was at a Hare Krishna Eco Yoga Farm eating vegan pizza. My foodie senses had certainly led me off the beaten path but, in a way, it was meant to be.
Whenever possible, I do my best to eat according to the season. Sticking to seasonally available foods has been shown to...
Excerpted from The Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle with Food, in which...
It’s fairly common knowledge that approximately 40 percent of America’s potential food supply ends up in dumpsters. However, for the past...
BODY TALK: Your food is killing you
I am not a foodie—not by a long shot. I eat to live, only that, which means I can—and often do—eat the same thing morning, noon and night, for days, sometimes years. I do not travel to other countries to taste their food.
One of the most basic challenges to living simply is eating simply. It’s one thing not to clutter up a...
The slow food and grow-it-yourself movement has become hugely popular in circles where people love nutrition, hate over-packaged, chemical-laced, corporate-produced...
A few days back, a friend of mine, aware of my generally* healthy eating habits and advocation of all things...
For those 65 and older the influenza vaccine helped in just 9 percent of cases, a number too low to...
For many, watching Billy Crystal in the 1991 film City Slickers was the first and only experience of agritourism. A...
The most memorable times of my early childhood were the fun-filled summer holidays spent in my mother’s maternal home in...
Food waste in the U.S. is estimated at an astounding 40 percent, as pointed out in our interview with NRDC....
“All diseases begin in the gut,” said Hippocrates. And back when he said this they didn’t have all the junk...
Looking for a healthy way to get more from your garden? Like to know your food is free of the...
At a time of rising food prices and growing food insecurity, Americans are wasting more food than ever before—up 50...
