Breaking the Fast

All my life I’ve heard how important breakfast is. Don’t skip breakfast! Most important meal of the day! is a part of this complete breakfast! Bingo, I’d eaten breakfast…right?

As it turns out, no.

The New Nutrition Experiment

I’m a cancer survivor.  My chance of getting cancer again, either the same cancer or a different cancer is actually rather high.  The treatments I have seem to have damaged my thyroid and given me anemia and raised my blood pressure significantly.  Every night I take multiple pharmaceutical medications for blood pressure, indigestion, allergies, hormones,…

What shade of green are you?

Shades of Green

As I read through my various books on green housekeeping and personal care, and peruse green blogs and their comments, I’m often struck with how one persons green is another person’s toxin. There seems to be quite a spread of opinion on the subject of what’s actually “green”. I’ve decided there’s really no right or wrong in this, there’s simply different shades of green.

Being Sick Naturally

For the past several days I’ve been sick with a terrible headcold that’s going around. It came hard on the heels of a terrible multi-day allergy attack I had while trying to do some long-overdue decluttering my laundry room. I’m finally over all my congestion and a day where I had no voice, and hopefully soon I’ll be over the nagging tickling cough.

Mostly out of sheer sickness/laziness, I took care of my cold with what I had on hand in my house, applying new greener techniques to my symptoms, being sick as naturally as possible. Here’s a few things I’ve learned….