As I mentioned earlier in the week, we lost my dear cousin Kathy to pulmonary hypertension. Today we laid her to rest. It was a very sad day for our family. We listened to our cousin John talk about what it was like growing up with Kathy from the perspective of her younger brother. It…

Sometimes I think it’s important to repeat information I have shared before because I think it’s something that we all need to understand. This is one of those posts. I recently read yet another article about how the sugar industry paid for research to implicate dietary fat, rather than sugar, as the major contributing factor…

Did you ever just get up in the morning and feel like things just might not go well? I rarely wake up feeling like that but today I did. I was just “off”. It’s nothing I could pinpoint but it was just that feeling. First, I slept longer than I wanted to. I woke up…

Could inflammation be causing you to lose your motivation to move forward in your life? According to this article, that could very well be the case. If you have recently been ill and can’t seem to get your mojo back, it could be due to low grade inflammation still in your body. Our bodies are…

In light of the second person in my generation who died too young, I thought this was worth sharing again… As I look back over the past several years at what my family has endured, it makes me wonder. I am one of 17 grandchildren of my maternal grandmother. Nana had five children, four of…

We’re here…and then we aren’t. When we are children we look at the adults around us and we think that they are so old. But before you know it, we’re one of them. I lost someone today who was very dear to me. We were close as kids and as happens to everyone, life gets…

According to Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Moss, the food industry is up to some pretty sneaky business. Food companies employ scientists to “engineer” their food to make sure the exact amount of certain ingredients are in the foods to make them irresistible to the consumers. There is a lot of manipulation of ingredients to…

We have been hearing for years that consumption of red meat contributes to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. But now, according to this podcast, there are now three new reasons to avoid eating red meat. The amino acids in egg yolks and in red meat cause a chemical reaction in your gut that results…