Nutrition – Erika Diane

10 Foods for Healthy Skin

Food = medicine. What you put inside your body is all your body has to work with to accomplish everything it does during the day. Every meal could improve health or, over time, destroy it. On the quest for happy, healthy skin, you may want to include these 10 foods as part of your body’sContinue reading “10 Foods for Healthy Skin”

Waking the Warrior Goddess

Waking the Warrior Goddess: Harnessing the Power of Nature & Natural Medicines to Achieve Extraordinary Health by Christine Horner, M.D. From the back cover: “Dr. Horner has assembled a great deal of useful information about the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. I will recommend this book to patients and families of all people concernedContinue reading “Waking the Warrior Goddess”

Cancer Prevention

CANCER PREVENTION UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL I received this update in an email a while back and I am re-posting the information here as it was sent to me. If anything is misquoted or misrepresented, I apologize in advance, but some of the points reiterated valid ideas many of us already hold and othersContinue reading “Cancer Prevention”

Nutrition: A to V

This is by no means an all inclusive list, but here is a glossary of the basic building blocks to health. There are 20 different amino acids – these make new proteins in the body; essential = not made by body, so it is essential to consume these in your diet. Antioxidants helpContinue reading “Nutrition: A to V”

Fresh Market

The Fresh Market got its start in 1982 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded by Ray and Beverly Berry, The Fresh Market was the fulfillment of a dream; to develop a better grocery store that brought back the feeling of open European style markets. Still operated and based out of North Carolina, The Fresh Market hasContinue reading “Fresh Market”

The Dirty Dozen

Buying organic produce is, admit it, expensive. If you have ever wondered which foods are more important to find organic than others, you may find your answer here. The “Dirty Dozen” refers to a list of 12 foods that, when purchased and tested in “conventional” form, show the highest residues of pesticides. These would beContinue reading “The Dirty Dozen”