Tomorrow is the official start of summer—my all-time favorite season! I love it all: the BBQs, the long days, the warm nights, the fireflies, the ocean breeze, and the SUNSHINE, birds, and bees! But like most good things, too much can be harmful for you. So how do you protect yourself safely and naturally from […]
Health
Friends with Benefits—Getting to Know Your Gut Microbiome
by guest blogger Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, best-selling author and expert on health, fitness, and nutrition When we’re hungry, we often hear familiar growling sounds emanating from deep inside our abdomen, reminding us it’s time to feed our body. Experiencing these rumblings, you may stare at your tummy and wonder what’s really going on in […]
Thou Shalt Not Be Judged: Thoughts on Online Body Shaming
by guest blogger Rebecca Norris, Men’s Health sales assistant, blogger, writer, and fitness buff This is my personal story about body shaming. I’m not quite sure where to begin but here goes… Recently, on a Friday after a hard workout, I took an obligatory #FitPic for my progress folder. In the moment, feeling damn proud […]
Letters to Annie: Why Did This Healthy Young Woman Die in Her Sleep?
by guest blogger Diana Zuckerman, PhD, president of the National Center for Health Research There’s a new mystery unfolding online, and reading it could save your life or the life of someone you know. A series of posts on Letters to Annie start with a mother reminiscing in a letter to her daughter, Annie Ammons. […]
7 Pro Tips to Help You Declutter Every Room in Your House
by guest blogger Leah Zerbe, online editor for RodaleNews.com For as long as I can remember, I’ve kept my schedule packed to absolute capacity. I like to stay busy, and I took that to a whole new level when my husband and I moved back to my family farm several years ago to start organic […]
Sandie’s Hero’s Journey
by guest blogger Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, best-selling author and expert on health, fitness, and nutrition After years of research, the writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote a book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined the essential elements of what we now refer to as “the hero’s journey.” Put simply, the […]
4 Pre-Workout Energy Boosts
by guest blogger Peggy Kotsopoulos, registered holistic nutritionist, culinary consultant, member of Team Vega, and author of Kitchen Cures: Revolutionize Your Health with Foods that Heal What you fuel with before your workout makes all the difference in the effort you put out during your workout. A blend of simple and complex carbs, and sometimes […]
What You Need to Know about Hormones & Estrogen-Positive Breast Cancer
by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc, integrative medicine pioneer Today, we understand cancer better than we used to. A generation ago, we associated cancers with the organs in which they originated—breast, prostate, lungs—and treated them accordingly. Now we’re beginning to understand cancer on the genetic level. This is a bad news/good news situation. The […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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