To Egg or Not to Egg Have you ever tried a farm-fresh free range egg from a happy chicken?  Never mind how to determine if a chicken is happy, the point is that these eggs are quite different from store-bought eggs.  If they are free-range eggs, it is likely that the shells are a bit […]

Just the thought of mangoes may elicit images of tropical beaches, palm trees, ocean waves gently covering the sandy beach…eating mangoes by the ocean with cool ocean breezes wafting over you… Mangos are the fruit of the mango tree—and it brings images of a tropical island because it is a tropical fruit. Mangos are actually […]

Do you feel you need that cup of coffee in the morning to get yourself fully awake?  Do you find you need that cup of coffee to keep going later on during the day?  These are two different sets of “needs” and may reflect different “issues”. The History of Coffee Coffee—made from the (usually) roasted […]

Coconut oil has been called a “superfood” with positive effects on heart and brain health, weight loss (especially abdominal fat) and a whole host and anti-inflammatory effects. But is coconut oil really a superfood?  Or is it just the newest fad out there on the internet? Coconuts Coconuts have traditionally been the main staple food […]

Ohhhhhhhhhh….Chocolate! Chocolate!  How many times have you just had that sometimes nearly overwhelming urge to have some chocolate—in any form!  You can have a chocolate bar, chocolate milk, chocolate cake, brownies, a chocolate ice cream sundae or a cup of hot cocoa just to list a few forms of chocolate.  Oh wait—you can have dark […]

For holistic practitioners, the gut has always been central to health.  In naturopathic medicine, for example, student physicians have long been taught to heal gut first—that health simply cannot be achieved without a healthy digestive system that can take in nutrients, digest them, absorb them and then eliminate the waste. One of the first aspects […]