Stress is one of the more important risk factors affecting health in this country today. It contributes to insomnia, anxiety, obesity, heart attack, type 2 diabetes, ADD and a whole host of other miseries that don’t have serious sounding disease names. Lets start by talking about how this happens- how stress works and doesn’t work […]
Food is made up of 3 categories- Protein, Carbohydrate and Fat. All 3 of them are good for you; necessary for your survival, in fact. Protein Vegetable proteins come from foods like nuts and seeds and beans. Some grains have enough protein to count as well. Vegetable proteins are always a combination of carbohydrate, protein […]
Humans have used plants as medicines for as long as we have recorded history. Many of the pharmaceuticals that are used today are either direct compounds of plants or somehow derived from them. Qualified practitioners can be hard to find-it can even be difficult to determine if you have found one once you are working together. […]