Viewing Food Through a Kaleidoscope There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and ever eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. -Mark Twain From "The Healing Secrets... [read more]

Don't Wait Until You're Thirsty When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. -Benjamin Franklin From "Fit for God," by La Vita M. Weaver, pp. 68 & 72: Water is so important for life that we can survive days, weeks, maybe months without food, but only days without water. The human body is about 55 to 70 percent water, and no bodily function takes place without water... [read more]

Emotional Eating: Who Are You Feeding? From "If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit" by Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman: In my private practice as a nourishment consultant, I frequently ask clients the question: who are you feeding? Sometimes who we are feeding is an emotion, such as happiness, or depression, sadness, and loneliness. Sometimes it is... [read more]

Food Is a Gift Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. --M.K. Fisher From "The Healing Secrets of Food," by Deborah Kesten: We are being cheated nutritionally. Food constitutes a six-part gift, but all we're hearing about is one thing. But this skewed perspective, focusing solely on the physiological aspects of... [read more]

How Do You Feed Yourself? I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. -Jean Kerr From "If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit" by Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman: Most of us let our eyes decide what our bodies need. Our ideas about what we eat are more... [read more]

From Spirituality & Health magazine(May/June 2005): Aging: Why That Cruise or Spa Vacation Really Can Be Gene Therapy Psychological stress not only makes you feel older, it ages you on a cellular level. That’s according to a University of California, San Francisco, study of 58 women, ages 20-50, all of whom were biological mothers either of a chronically ill child (39 women, so-called "caregivers")... [read more]

The World’s Healthiest Foods One of the top New Year’s resolutions every year is to eat healthier and on this Web site, you can discover the World’s Healthiest Foods! Not only will you learn about healthy foods, but you will also get great advice on how to prepare them, as well as, recipes to try with them. Each week, a different healthy food is highlighted. While I was visiting, the highlighted... [read more]

A Bad Economy is Good for Your Health? Are economic downturns health boosts? Very likely, says Dr. Christopher Ruhm of the University of South Carolina-especially if you normally smoke, are overweight, or are a couch potato. While a long-term bad economy is bad for just about everybody, it turns out that temporary economic downturns dramatically decrease rates of smoking, the intake of fatty... [read more]

My Dear friend Rana Al-Zubi sent to me this joke the other day, I could not help myself! To the Joke  >>>>>     0-100 in 4 seconds       A wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday, she would like something that goes from 0 to 100 in four seconds.       She was expecting something like this ............... . . . . . . .      ... [read more]

 In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard  time getting around.  Walking was a major chore. It took everything she  had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone  several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription  medications.  The doctors could not determine what was wrong... [read more]