This year’s HGTV “Green Home” contest is offering a sustainably-built home for sustainable living right here in my neighborhood. My friend, Gail Fenton, HGTV’s “Superfan”, gets the lucky job of filming the special details of the HGTV homes, and caught up with me to talk about how what it is like to live in this [...]
Welcome to Effortless Eating, your resource for healthy recipes, natural health solutions, and general healthy lifestyle advice. Some recent posts that might interest you are: A round-up of my off-the-beaten-path Thanksgiving recipes. Advice for turning picky eaters into adventurous eaters. Are low-fat diets the healthiest way to go? What science has shown since the 1980s. [...]
Have you ever seen a Blog Jog? It’s a day of pathways through the web leading to new and different thinkers and great gift ideas to kick off your holiday shopping. On November 21, 2010, I will be joining Carol Denbow’s second annual Blog Jog! I will be giving away a prize or two, and [...]
It’s not often that you get to meet an author whose work has influenced your life in a deep way. When I was 22, I met Judy Blume and I was tongue-tied. Star-struck at coming face to face with the woman behind the books that I read and re-read so many times… How could I [...]
Reader question: What do you do during the summer months when it’s too hot to use the oven? One of my favorite summertime cooking solutions is to use a toaster oven! Seriously, I have a large toaster oven that fits a 2-quart Dutch oven easily, holds my 3-quart round oven beautifully, and even squeezes in [...]
MidChix, a wonderful new online community of women between 40 and 60, has just posted one of my articles on Vitamin D and its role in Multiple Sclerosis. You might already know that vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and teeth, but did you realize that it plays a role in maintaining a healthy [...]
I wasn’t surprised when I noticed that I had become lactose-intolerant when I was 21. After all, my sister had been lactose-intolerant since birth and my mother had been off of milk since she made the connection in her years ago that milk products made her quite uncomfortable. Bloating, gassiness, explosive diarreah, constipation, headache… these [...]
Our cat has been diagnosed with Feline Chronic Renal Failure (Feline CRF) but so far we’ve managed to halt the disease with just a couple of natural supplements to her food. It started when we noticed that Blue, a 13-year old Russian Blue, was peeing all over the house. She had done this once before, [...]
