if your folks are 'losing it', there are things to try

Worked up a rather long reply to a friend who has a parent with some issues, and thought others might appreciate the info. Getting a parent to actually TAKE vitamins or admit anything is wrong might be, well, some kind of karmic irony in action. But maybe you can use the info [...]

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Some Health Tidbits

Discovered the excellent Public Health and Nutrition List” run out of UW. Lots of cites of interesting nutritional, morbidity, and research info.
A really great posting by on the topic of thyroid and chronic fatigue led me to the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers web pages. Highly recommended. I’ll see if there’s one [...]

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foo-year’s revolution

Speaking of whole grains, in the last post, remind me (and scares me!) that we’re almost halfway through another year. Yeesh!
I don’t recall now whether we made our New Year’s resolutions at Rosh Hashanah or in late December, but I thought I’d post them and see how we’re doing.
These are our family resolutions, rather [...]

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food as medicine

I’ve been cooking to specific purposes a lot lately, usually without specifically realizing it. I figured it out this morning when I had some leftovers and thought, oh, I don’t need this anymore, that was to fix (such-n-so). I’d made a root soup with fresh beets from my garden, organic carrots n [...]

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raw milk

Grew up drinking it, never got sick from it. Buying it these days when I can (spendy stuff). Too bad I don’t have any neighbors who want to keep a couple of goats.
Find your own! Not convinced? Try this article, of which I’ve excerpted about [...]

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