by guest blogger Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, best-selling author and expert on health, fitness, and nutrition You might not be aware, but in every nanosecond of your life, you’re actually experiencing countless never-ending cycles of mind-body recovery that run the gamut from grieving a broken heart to mending a pulled tendon. For instance, […]
Health & Fitness
#OneSmallStep to Pure & Natural Personal Care
by guest blogger Amanda Harding, copywriter at Rodale’s It’s time to get personal. Removing all the toxic products from your life can be a daunting task. From the kitchen to the closet—and everywhere in between—it’s a huge undertaking. So today, rather than focus on the big picture, we’re focusing on taking #OneSmallStep in the right […]
Yoga for the Gardener
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, BSN and certified Iyengar Yoga teacher In my many years of teaching yoga, I’ve watched seasonal patterns emerge in my students’ bodies: fall’s sad farewell to summer exhibited by collapsed chests and downcast eyes; winter’s dullness that creeps into bones and muscles, creating joint pains of often unknown origin; […]
8 Tips for Surviving Road Trip Motion Sickness
by guest blogger Andeep Singh, documentarian and television and Web video producer Summer is ubiquitous with vacations. And none is more iconic than the summer time road trip; piling into the family station wagon, hands flying in the wind, rest stops to unknown locales meeting random, well-intentioned strangers. Of course, Hollywood is no stranger to […]
The Many Benefits of Going for a Walk
by Maria Luci, editor at Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen and Rodale’s What’s a simple, fun, and beneficial exercise you can easily add to your daily routine? Taking a good stroll! Yes, walking. The beauty of walking as exercise is that it takes little to no equipment (just some shoes and maybe a little sunscreen) and […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 5 Tips for Better Summer Sleep
by Maria Luci, editor at Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen and Rodale’s Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream… — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Unlike the spellbound, dozing characters in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, many of us wish we could get in a few more hours of […]
Trauma, Food Addiction, and “Painful” Pounds
by guest blogger Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, best-selling author and expert on health, fitness, and nutrition For years I’ve listened to women and men recount an agonizing spectrum of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse and trauma that occurred during their childhood, often continuing through adolescence. Most remember that period in their life as […]
Yoga for (Too!) Tight Butts
by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, BSN and certified Iyengar Yoga teacher “I have sciatica.” “I have piriformis syndrome.” “I have a pain in my butt—right here.” (Points to area of the buttock near the buttock bone, also called the ischial tuberosity.) As a yoga teacher, I often hear one or more of the above […]
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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