My son came home the other day and asked why I didn’t take him to get a flu shot. “We don’t get flu shots,” I answered. “We drink Good Belly instead.” Yes, I was being flippant, but still. While the vitamins and probiotics in Good Belly won’t kill any flu germs we might pick up, [...]
You’ve probably heard that fish oil is good for your brain and nerves. If you have multiple sclerosis, like I do, you hopefully have heard that MS patients who increase their omega-3 fatty acids seem to fare better than those who don’t. Omega-3s help build and repair the nervous system, providing the materials needed to [...]
An update from the Fight MS with Food project: Case study of Cyndi C. Cyndi is a 42-year old married mother diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. When she joined the Fight MS with Food project, her main symptom was extreme pain and itchiness on her upper right arm and shoulder. The skin there was constantly red [...]
Last week I was interviewed on Trudy Thomas’ radio show, “Living with HOPE,” on the Body Mind & Spirit network. Trudy focuses on issues facing the chronically ill and how they can face them with hope rather than despair. We discussed how I faced my own health challenges by focusing on diet and nutrition, and [...]
Food marketing follows trends as corporate marketers purposefully use hot buzzwords to describe all kinds of food products, whether or not they are true in relation to that item. Joyce Slaton posted a fabulous overview of trendy food marketing words over the past 50 years or so along with a witty explanations of what these [...]
Recently, the Rocky Mountain MS Center included a few of my quick and easy summer slaw recipes in their e-newsletter (scroll down to check out these delicious recipes!). Shortly after the newsletter went out, I received this feedback from a reader: I noticed your Ramen coleslaw recipe uses the Ramen noodle spice package as an [...]
Yesterday, I joined real estate trainer and Sell With Soul maven Jennifer Allan Hagedorn on a teleseminar focused on how I can help people who suffer from chronic physical distress to feel better. Jennifer shared her inspirational story about how she succeeded in overcoming a lifetime of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) by identifying hidden food [...]
A recent study out of the University of Miami that tracked 2500 patients for a decade announced this week that drinking one can of diet soda daily resulted in a 61% increased risk of stroke, heart attack, or other cardiovascular event. While there is a lot of debate in the medical community over whether the [...]
