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A philosophy of natural eating and living with Elizabeth Yarnell.

Selecting, preparing, savoring, reminiscing, investigating, dieting, implementing, economizing, and healing with natural whole foods.

 

Category Archives: Nutrition in the news

Vitamin D, Multiple Sclerosis, and Walk MS promo video

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 immune [...]

Physical Activity a Key to Later Health

Those who are physically active in their 50s and 60s are more likely to avoid chronic diseases and premature death, according to a study out of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Analyzing data from 13,535 female participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, researchers correlated reports of physical activity at the average age of 60 years [...]

Goat Cheese Good for Lactose Intolerance

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 can [...]