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I’ve been advised, that as of October 1, 2010, my health insurance plan premiums are going up.  Not the 40% originally planned by Anthem Blue Cross, but a whopping 17%, meaning that my monthly payment for me and my daughter will go from $439 to $527. Annually that means an additional $1020 out of [...]

I switched my eating lifestyle about 6 months ago — going from the types of food that most North Americans eat — to organic meat, fish and poultry (i.e. free range and living with a bit more respect than the “product” farms”); and organic and locally grown produce.  I stopped buying any prepared foods [...]

By Dora Calott Wang, M.D.,
Author of The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World

As mothers, daughters, wives and leaders of households, women often steer the health care choices of families. Thus in the coming years, women will also be a major force toward implementing health care reform and the landmark Affordable Care [...]

Here’s a great little video sent to me from Canada.   Note:  I just had a pear at lunch…What’s on [...]

I’ve radically changed the way I eat over the past 3 weeks.  I’m definitely NOT on a diet.  The food that is popping into my mouth and down into my stomach includes cakes and cookies.  The difference is that I took ALL pre-prepared foods out of my diet.  The reason for doing this is [...]

Last week, after watching Food, Inc (about how our food chain has disintegrated to our health detriment thanks to giant megacompanies who have taken over the food industry) I had no choice but to change how I eat. 

My focus was in three areas. 

My meat will only be grass-fed, drug-free, free-range beef and poultry (and [...]