by Sue | Dec 29, 2019 | Body & Soul
Are you feeling over-stuffed after the Holidays? If you are like me, you left the ranch and grazed on lots of sugar, salt, and fat that made everything taste oh so good. Now you eye the scale and look to January 1st as the day when you will “eat right” and undo the...
by Sue | Dec 3, 2019 | Body & Soul
No one argues that we need Vitamin D. Although we call it a vitamin, our bodies also produce Vitamin D, along with melatonin, when we expose our skin to sunlight. According to Patrick Quillin PhD, RD, CNS, in his book Beating Cancer with Nutrition, both Vitamin D and...
by Sue | Nov 3, 2019 | Body & Soul
I’m using that play on words for the title of this blog to make a point. It seems every article or book on nutrition I’ve read lately praises the health benefits of eating plants, and lots of them. But why? How are they good for us? What’s the Scoop? To find out, I...
by Sue | Oct 20, 2019 | Body & Soul
I’ve been musing about aging lately. Partly because I write about aging issues under my Care Giving blog stream, but mostly because I am “of a certain age” and growing older by the minute. Today, while driving through the fall landscape, I decided this aging business...
by Sue | Sep 15, 2019 | Body & Soul
Make no mistake. Healthcare is a thriving industry in America. Are we getting a bang for our buck? Here is how our healthcare system ranks compared to other developed countries. Hint: disheartening considering how much money we spend. How does the...
by Sue | Aug 25, 2019 | Body & Soul
It’s so frustrating. Bombarded with ads for foods we know are bad for us, we still scarf down double hamburgers loaded with cheese and bacon, topped with added fries. After inhaling every delicious morsel, we lean back and think, “I really should start to eat...
