Avoid the whole issue by drinking soy, rice, or almond milk instead! In his book Integrative Nutrition, Joshua Rosenthal discusses at length the connection between the U.S. government and the farming industry. Essentially, it is the government’s job (primarily the USDA) to support healthy eating by regulating the food supply and creating the food pyramid, [...]

So, I was back in Pensacola for a few days this week, just hanging out with my family. I didn’t really make any plans for the trip, save for one: I wanted to go to yoga class. My yoga teacher, Nancy LaNasa, opened the Abhaya Yoga Center there a while ago and this was my [...]

So, I’ve had a total change of educational plans. Instead of moving to Texas to get a degree in Kinesiology, I’ve enrolled for the Fall 2008 session at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Basically, I’ll fly to NYC one weekend a month for 10 months, and at the end I’ll be a certified Health Counselor. [...]

Yahoo had an interesting article the other day about how yoga can actually reduce wrinkles. According to Annelise Hagen, doing facial yoga poses can help strengthen and tone the face, thereby keeping it firm and younger looking. Interesting. For the article, click here. For more info, check out Hagen’s book, The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles [...]

In my continuing quest to learn more about raw food eating, I checked out Natalia Rose‘s Raw Food Life Force Energy. It was meant to be interim reading while I waited for the other Carol Alt book, but I found it to be really captivating. Basically, Rose says that we are all made of Life [...]

I’m trying to convince my husband that as a Health Education student and a future Health and Fitness professional, I need this shoe for my career. I wonder if it would count as a tax write-off, because this is a seriously hot shoe. I’m supposed to be saving money for our rapidly impending move, but [...]