Worked up a rather long reply to a friend who has a parent with some issues, and thought others might appreciate the info. Getting a parent to actually TAKE vitamins or admit anything is wrong might be, well, some kind of karmic irony in action. But maybe you can use the info to get their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’
if your folks are 'losing it', there are things to try
Posted in advice, aging, health, lifecycle, making a difference, medical, recommended, tagged advice, aging, alzheimer, dementia, health, lifecycle, medical, nutrition, recommended on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some Health Tidbits
Posted in health, recommended, research, tagged diabetes, glucose, health, nutrition, recommended, research, thyroid on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Discovered the excellent Public Health and Nutrition List” run out of UW. Lots of cites of interesting nutritional, morbidity, and research info. A really great posting by on the topic of thyroid and chronic fatigue led me to the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers web pages. Highly recommended. I’ll see if there’s one in the SF [...]
foo-year’s revolution
Posted in lifestyle, nutrition, philosophy, real life, sustainability, tagged lifestyle, nutrition, philosophy, real life, sustainability on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of whole grains, in the last post, remind me (and scares me!) that we’re almost halfway through another year. Yeesh! I don’t recall now whether we made our New Year’s resolutions at Rosh Hashanah or in late December, but I thought I’d post them and see how we’re doing. These are our family resolutions, [...]
food as medicine
Posted in cooking, nutrition, real life, tagged cooking, nutrition, real life on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been cooking to specific purposes a lot lately, usually without specifically realizing it. I figured it out this morning when I had some leftovers and thought, oh, I don’t need this anymore, that was to fix (such-n-so). I’d made a root soup with fresh beets from my garden, organic carrots n celery, white fungus [...]
raw milk
Posted in activism, nutrition, sustainability, tagged activism, nutrition, raw milk, sustainability on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Grew up drinking it, never got sick from it. Buying it these days when I can (spendy stuff). Too bad I don’t have any neighbors who want to keep a couple of goats. Find your own! Not convinced? Try this article, of which I’ve excerpted about 20% “… Invariably, whenever raw milk is condemned, pasteurization [...]




