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Tahini Dressing Recipe
Dressings and sauces are an opportunity to perfect and balance vegetables with nutrient dense oils, vegetable proteins and spices. Here’s a nice spring sauce for over cooked or raw greens, carrots, peppers and scallions.
Holiday Health Roundup
Ah, the holidays. I grew up in a large Catholic family, so Christmas was a celebration of food and board games - it was magical and fun. This time of year can be magical, filled with light and...
Elderberry Ginger Cider Recipe
My boon of elderberry enabled me to, in addition to making tons of elderberry syrup, make elderberry ginger cider – a variation on fire cider. For this one, I rely on ginger and honey as a base and kept it simple yet strong.
What Diet Works for Weight? The Science is In
The science is in - it's the diet you stick with, and the one that honors energy balance. I'm reviewing the evidence on weight and yoga for the 3rd edition of my CE program, and I came across this...
Does Travel Heal Your Spirit?
What is it about traveling that allows our spirits to soar? As most of you know, I have lead programs at Kripalu for about a decade and received my yoga training there more than a decade before...
Roasted Vegetables – Healthy or Not Healthy?
Roasting vegetables - baking them with a drizzle of olive oil until they have a toasty color and flavor - is a mainstay of my fall and winter kitchen. I give my tomatoes and onions a light roast...
Genetics and Diet – What it Means for You
The mapping of the human genome brought tremendous opportunities for optimizing human health, but this flood of information has also led to more questions. Can genetic variations lead to long-term...
Deliciously Easy Lentils Recipe
If you have high cholesterol and don't want to go on medication, beans are your friends. Studies have shown that eating beans a few times weekly can help lower LDL (the blood cholesterol most...
Gather ye Guides
Does everyone know by now that none of us are ever alone? That we all have guides - ancestral, animal, plant and angelic beings swirling about us pretty much all the time? Being introduced to my...
This Simple Tool Crushes Resistance
Despite being at this game of health for decades, I continue to fascinate myself with my own resistance to...well, just about anything. I need help sustaining healthy change, and you probably do...
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