Maybe you’ve spent the summer eating, drinking and being merry. Maybe you don’t feel so great about where you are on the scale or how your clothes feel on your body or maybe you just don’t feel so great. Summertime brings all kinds of reasons to eat foods that don’t necessarily provide the best nourishment.…

It’s a beautiful day here in the northeast and many of us are continuing the celebration of Labor Day by grilling, going to the beach (or as we in New Jersey say, “down the shore”), going to an amusement park, attending end of summer parties or any number of reasons to eat. Many people also…

I don’t think I have ever met anyone who hasn’t used some type of substance “take the edge off”. Whether it’s having a glass of wine the size of a human head, smoking a joint or several, or eating comfort foods until you fall asleep in a food coma, we all are likely to have…

Do you feel like you need to measure up to someone else’s standard? Do you feel like you aren’t smart enough, successful enough, thin enough, young enough, or you’re just plain not enough? Do you think you won’t be taken seriously because others don’t see your value? I used to be that way and if…

Bacteria…the name itself makes you think of germs, doesn’t it? We’ve probably all taken antibiotics at least once, and probably more times, to kill a bacterial infection. So isn’t it weird that we might want to invite MORE bacteria into our lives? Well, there are good bacteria that live within our digestive system and throughout…

Did you know that Americans are sick and getting sicker? In medicine we have all the latest technology and pharmaceuticals. We have highly trained specialists and well equipped medical centers. We have access to all the latest and greatest in medicine but yet we are becoming more and more unhealthy. Why is that? What is…

When someone is sick, worrying about the patient is always natural. But what about the caregiver? I believe the caregiver has the harder job. Now, I know being sick is never a walk in the park. I have been on both sides of that situation. The people in my life were very attentive to my…