Begin the Transition – 5 (Imperative) Ways to Reset the Body for Season Change

It’s late February, and now’s the time to start planning your transition from winter to spring. While we’re merely anticipating longer days and warmer weather outside, the glandular system is already fast at work making subtle metabolic shifts to prepare the body inside. And the more we can do right now to help it, the [...]

The 3 C’s of Health – A Deeper Look at Your Commitment

Most people see marriage as a big commitment and will take the requisite time and needed steps to see it through. Others commit more deeply to a professional partnership or a spiritual path. But fewer still approach health as a commitment and a practice that strengthens and develops over the course of a lifetime.
Commitment is [...]

Double Tall Non-Fat Coffee Enema – Your Morning Cup ‘o Joe

I made a big stink blogging about my coffee enemas a few weeks back. Most people know that a ‘cup o’ joe’ can keep you regular, but I didn’t realize so few people were in the dark about using coffee as an enema solution. Used to clean out the gut, detoxify the body and kick-start [...]

Finding Your Macro-Nutrient Ratio: What’s YOUR Carb Tolerance?

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Are you doing what the mass-market diet programs tell you to do when it comes to carbohydrate consumption? If so, have you noticed that you’re on a roller coaster ride? This diet tells you to eat more. That diet tells you to eat less. Question: [...]

Politically Incorrect Nutrition: Meats, Fats and Raw Foods

This week, I’d like to introduce two of my favorite cookbooks that are always within arm’s reach. These books support the diet piece to my 7 Core Principles to Lasting Health, my natural  “healthstyle” that supports optimal wellness. The diet includes foods that are right for your individual body, which may include local meats, good [...]

Test, Don’t Guess: The Importance of ACCURATE Gluten Testing

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In the last five years, I’ve had two blood tests for gluten sensitivity. Both came out negative. Now, I’m not one to eat a lot of wheat, but from the results of my tests, I figured gluten was fairly safe for me to be eating in [...]

Cooking My Way Through an Eighth of a Cow

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It was only two years ago that I started eating red meat after 20 years of abstinence. And now I go and buy a cow.
Last week, my friend and colleague Lynne Eppel (Edible Front Range Magazine) and I went in together to purchase a quarter of [...]

10 Tips for Healthy Holiday Feasting

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There’s no way around eating good food during the holidays, and lots of it. But wouldn’t it be nice if you and your guests actually felt good after the feast? And even the day after?
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7 Components to Festive (and Nutritious) Seasonal Salads

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Although summer boasts fresh, raw veggies, the fall and winter months offer their own share of hearty, healthy, immune-boosting, disease-fighting fare. The holiday season is also the flu season, so now is NOT the time to give them up – we need as much as we [...]

Taking Minerals the Natural Way (with homemade “sole water”)

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“You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”
- Linus Pauling, PhD, winner of two Nobel prizes
In this day and age, most of us (if not all) need to consider mineral supplementation due to depleted minerals in our soil, as [...]

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