Nutrition Expert Voices Today

Intuit

What is intuition and just how does it affect our health?  No doubt we all have some level of awareness of that sixth sense we call intuition.  Women proclaim it. Men call it a hunch. But for all of us it is that little voice within that speaks to us through a feeling in the gut. We call it having a “gut” feeling. But just what is it and how does it affect our health? Webster’s Dictionary defines intuition as: the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. More…

A Material World

Who doesn’t know the famous Madonna song, material World? What does it mean to be living in the 2009 material world? Yoga is and always is whether good economy or not a place of material transcendence and spiritual connection. But in my many years of practice in California I have never seen a yogi’s path that was not connected with the material goods of yoga bags, mats, clothes, studios, and other paraphernalia. Yoga is a business that thrives on participants paying for classes. It is good for students to pay and for teachers to get paid. It is the exchange of money that keeps the world spinning around. More…

Take a Chance

When times are tough we all pull back and try to keep the status quo. But sometimes in the toughest of times resides the greatest opportunity.  Taking a chance against the odds often produces great gains. "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." Ovid More…

Stress and Recess

When I was in undergraduate school studying communication and social-psychology I had the opportunity to study stress and its response using a bio-feedback machine. That was nearly thirty years ago. By today's standards our research was very primitive, however that early research helped us to understand stress and its ramifications on the body-mind. More…

Those Sexy B’s

The B vitamins are responsible for many body-mind functions among them our sexual response and health.  Specifically let’s take a look at B6, also known as pyridoxine. B6 is one of the most essential and widely utilized vitamins in the body.  It is a coenzyme which participates in over sixty enzymatic reactions involved in the metabolism of amino acids (one of which is trytophan which is what the body uses to create serotonin).  Too little of B6 is associated with problems such as dizziness, irritability, depression, nervousness, insomnia, and pins and needles feeling in the arms and hands. More…

Down Under

Next week I am leaving for New Zealand and Australia. Naturally my interest these days are in anything that has to do with these two lands. I recently read that New Zealand has now enacted a law that will not allow obese people to immigrate to New Zealand. Because obesity has become such a world wide health epidemic New Zealand, England and other countries are thinking of ways to get people into living a healthier lifestyle which is good for them and good for healthcare. More…

Five Super Foods to Protect Your Valentine's Heart

Happy Valentine’s Day! What better time to talk about how YOU can use food to help protect the hearts of the people you love. One of the great things about nutrition is the power of food to make a difference in your health and the health of your family today and in the years to come. Nutrition is one of the first lines of defense for your health. It’s like stacking the deck in your favor. More…

Five Super Foods to Protect Your Valentine's Heart

Happy Valentine’s Day! What better time to talk about how YOU can use food to help protect the hearts of the people you love. One of the great things about nutrition is the power of food to make a difference in your health and the health of your family today and in the years to come. Nutrition is one of the first lines of defense for your health. It’s like stacking the deck in your favor. More…

Fava -rection

We all remember the children's story about Jack and the bean stalk. Jack planted beans that grew into a might stalk. This allowed him to slay the giant. The beans he planted may well have been fava beans and here is why. When most of us think of fava beans we think of Anthony Hopkins in the Silence of the Lamb. We remember him salivating over fava beans. Perhaps there is more to the bean than meets the eye. More…

Elusive Estrogen

Oh, yes, estrogen the female essence of sexuality. Where does it go when we need it the most? It’s the hormones that keeps our skin soft and moist, our hair and nails strong, gives us our sexual curves, keeps the vaginal wet and some studies indicate that it is the presence of this hormone that makes men desire and chase us. The greater the estrogen the sexier the lady! But let that hormone take a nose dive and all of us know the moods, the self loathing, and the lack of desire. More…