Getting the Message
Maybe it’s just a dopamine reaction from the absurd amount of post-Valentines chocolate I’ve consumed, but this weekend I’m getting the peaced-out result of my yoga practice. It started Friday when I found myself practicing stillness, not by choice, but because I was stuck in Presidents Day Weekend exodus traffic on 85N en route to Buckhead. Few things are... Read More
Why Don’t Doctors Cure with Plant Based Diets?
Farm Bus: Gardeners on a Roll
From Durham, NC, a bus-load of idealistic farmers dream of teaching the nation to grow. Grow vegetables, that is. And they plan to do it from a 52-person school bus retrofitted with solar panels, a mobile greenhouse, living roof, vermacompost, and waste water collection tanks, all fueled with waste vegetable oil (WVO). The Sol Food Mobile Farm is rolling out now and headed to ten... Read More
The Last Food Article You Will Ever Need
Earlier this month, I read an article that summed up our health and food choices so well, I tracked it down to repeat. Here’s Mark Hyman, MD on The Last Diet You Will Ever Need: Why is it that we believe we can feed our bodies industrial, nutrient-depleted food-like substances empty of life and be healthy? How did we come to believe that food industry chemicals and processing... Read More
Beauty and the Beet
Can beets help you look younger? Probably. As if deliciousness wasn’t reason enough to enjoy them, betacyanin, the pigment that gives beets their powerful crimson color, also helps prevent oxidative stress and inflammation. (Not to mention detoxifying the digestive system, fighting cancer and fatigue and lowering cholesterol!). As a bonus, beets are a great topical humectant,... Read More
What Happens When You Eat Ramen And Gatorade?
Here’s a bitter pill to swallow: Link to this “pill cam” for an internal visual of how the body deals with processed vs whole foods, courtesy of Blisstree.com. “The incentive for this project is to try and present unseen and often veiled information about our food system in unexpected ways, so the public is armed with as much knowldge as possible in order... Read More
Keeping the Doctor Away
Seeing is Bee-lieving
This morning, when I woke to the faint buzz of more than 1,000 sleepy honeybees, it felt like Christmas in June. Rob the Beekeeper had arrived to establish our much-anticipated first colony of honeybees before the heat of early summer became too intense. Which it soon did, spiking today at 101 degrees. But inside the bee’s brood chamber, the temperature stays between 92... Read More
Food 101
Everything you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about many of today’s food issues is summed up in this primer by Sustainable Table. Additives Much of the food we find at today’s supermarkets is highly processed and contains numerous food additives. These substances are used to change the way food tastes and looks (altering the color and texture), to improve... Read More
To Bee or Not to Bee?
I heard about Rob the Beekeeper at lunch last week. Actually, overheard. But, I inserted myself into my neighbor’s conversation and extracted info about a honeybee enthusiast who manages residential hives. So, Rob the Beekeeper paid a visit to our busy corner of Atlanta and found a suitable site for a soon-to-bee colony tucked under the magnolias and crepe myrtles. In 48... Read More
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