A Food Revolution: Ann Cooper's Classroom

Since childhood, I was plagued with an incessant cough. I coughed perhaps every minute or so of every waking moment of my life. Multiply that by about forty years and you have a lot of coughing going on. By the time I was in my thirties, I was finally diagnosed with

Food is Medicine—Tip of the Day:

Eczema, dermatitis or rough feet getting you down? Why not try Hemp Cocoa Balm? It is 100% edible and is made from organic coconut oil, hemp oil, beeswax, cocoa-butter, almond oil, shea butter, vitamin e and sweet birch essential oil. It’s not only organic, it has a

Food is Medicine—Tip of the Day:

Do you have dark circle under your eyes that feel like they are permanent fixtures?  Try releasing milk products from your diet (all of them—that means you need to read labels, folks). Milk is meant for the baby of a particular species. Human beings are the  only ones

Food is Medicine—Tip of the Day:

ORGANIC Cinnamon helps to reduce your glycemic index. That means that if you are having difficulty with your blood sugar, organic cinnamon may help keep you in check. I am hypoglycemic and have sprinkled cinnamon on my morning grains for nearly a year and it

Grocery Store Wars

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

...there was an organic farm.  It was known only as a farm then, because there was no such thing as chemicals, genetically modified foods, and so on, that are currently

Healing Hemorrhoids Organically

Shhh! No one wants to talk about the dreaded topic of the all too common hemorrhoid. I first learned about what these were from a friend when I was in the seventh grade. She swore me to secrecy that I never ever ever tell anyone that she had them. When I

Cancer is Curable NOW: A Review

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause as well as the prevention of disease."

-Thomas Edison

A Food Revolution: Birke Baehr's Classroom

At fifteen years old, Birke Baehr, is already the published author of Birke on the Farm: The Story of a Boy's Search for Real Food.  He is also an international renowned speaker addressing the issue of sustainable food and agriculture.

Turmeric: The Anti-Inflammatory and More

If you have ever had swollen eyes, you know how irritating it can be, not only because it is painful, but because the eyes are the first thing everyone sees when they look at you. A friend of mine had allergies last year and her eyes were slightly red and swollen.  I

A Food Revolution: Mark Bittman's Classroom

Cow farts.  That's what this guy talks about.  Sure, we can laugh about it—but, flatulence jokes aside, the methane produced from livestock is the second most leading contributor to the greenhouse effect. These gaseous emissions are leading to the catastrophic

Healing Eczema Organically

When I was a child, people approached me constantly in order to tell me that my skin was flawless.  "It is like a porcelain doll," they said.  I smiled and demurely accepted the compliment, never alluding to the fact that they were sadly mistaken.  The truth was that

A Food Revolution: Robyn O'Brien's Classroom

The reason I am passionate about food advocacy is because I myself had a debilitating illness for nearly a year.  When I finally discovered that a food allergy to milk products was at the heart of causing my infirmity, I began to delve into discovering as much as I could

Your Taxpayer Dollars Pays for GMOs

This morning, while perusing my Facebook news feed, I stumbled upon a photo that caught my attention. The words written across the image stated: "Fact: Our current agricultural system uses taxpayer money to subsidize the planting of GMOs, while

A Food Revolution: An Education by Jamie Oliver

"I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes.

It binds us to the best bits of life."

-Jamie Oliver

Earth Day

In 1970, an annual event known as Earth Day became a national and later an international day of recognition of environmental issues for our planet. Held every April 22nd, it is obviously, a wonderful idea to bring awareness to the colossal issues that Mother Earth

How Can We Eat Our Landscapes?

There is little doubt that our food situation is in crisis. However, one town in England has decided to actually do something about it. They have thrown out the idea of the perfectly coiffed genetically modified lawn and replaced it with edible vegetation strategically placed

Feed the World...Organically!

Food for everyone!  Who wouldn’t want that?  Certainly, the companies that sell genetically modified foods and pesticides have gotten away with the enormous amount of damage they have caused on our planet by claiming that very thing.  They have said it

Preparing for Springtime

Springtime is a metaphor for rebirth.  It represents the newness within us.  It is when we plant the seeds of our future, both literally and symbolically.  Keeping that in mind, I celebrated this week’s Spring Equinox by meandering around in my garden.  I practiced a walking meditation, allowing the bottoms of my feet to feel

A Link Between Diabetes and Soft Drinks

A compelling look at the correlation between Type 2 Diabetes 

and the ever prevalent soft drink...

Holy Mackerel

The other day I exuberantly expressed to whomever was listening a lighthearted, “Holy mackerel!”  What can I say, it amuses me to use corny words and phrases.  What I didn’t expect was for someone to respond by asking if I actually ate mackerel.  Without thinking,

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

There is a comic strip floating around Facebook that pops up from time to time.  Every time I see it, I immediately click the "like" button.  It shows a patient sitting in his doctor's office  complaining  of  an unknown  ailment.   Contradicting  a  traditional  diagnosis,  the

The Paper Problem

Recently, a friend of mine came over to my house and asked if I had a napkin that she might use so that she could finish eating her lunch. Naturally, I guided her to the proper drawer that she needed.  She gratefully opened it, but then was taken aback, because what she saw was a linen

Growing Organic Basil

Mmm, the taste of fresh basil, just cut off from the plant, resting over a plate of your favorite pasta is something worth experiencing.  Its aromatic scent wafts to your nose, filling it with desire for your meal even before you begin eating.  Then you take a bite and

Hemp: The Organic Super-Food

As I dive ever more deeply into the world of the Organic, I discover new things all the time.  My latest find is something I thought I would never attempt to consume, just by the sheer nature of its name.  What is it, pray tell?  Well, it's the hemp seed (also referred to

The Hidden Sugar in Food

How often do we think we are eating healthily, when in fact our food is saturated with sugar? The FDA does not significantly regulate the labeling on processed foods, which lamentably, is the bulk of what we eat.  Because of this lackadaisical approach from our

Sacred Cooking...and Eating!

I once stayed with a friend for a couple of months who never really learned  how  to cook before.  She  was perfectly adept at pushing  a  few buttons on the microwave to heat up a  frozen  burrito,  but  that was about it.   I  took  it  upon  myself to  open  her eyes to the wonders of cooking…and eating.

The Grocery Store Dilemma

As I continue to educate myself about our food industry, I am disturbed by what I am learning.  Teary eyed, I recently broke down with a friend at a local organic restaurant, when I conveyed how I had just finished watching the film, Food, Inc. She listened as I

Addicted to Sugar

As the story about sugar began to unfold in my mind, a memory popped into my head from my past. It seemed to correlate so nicely with this topic that I decided to add it here. For you see, when I was in college, I played the life of a party girl.  If there was some sort

The Business of Your Health

"What would happen if everybody ate lots and lots of fresh organic food that was minimally processed? I think we'd have an epidemic of health."

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D.

Many years ago, I worked in the retail industry.  It was wintertime and cold season was

Litterbugs Be Gone

When I was six years old my teenage babysitter walked with me and my brother to get a drink from a fast food place.   I may not be a fan of anything fast-food these days, but back then a milk shake was a treat that  I delighted  in. Considering it was a  hot  summer