I wanted to share an article written by Leslie Vandever. If you or someone you know has rheumatoid arthritis, I can’t stress enough the important role that food choices make in managing the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune condition. This means that the body is attacking its own tissues, in this case the […]
Don’t you just love this time of year? Especially for us folks on the East Coast who have had such a brutal winter, getting outside again, ditching the coat and feeling the sun is pure pleasure. Spring is a season of rebirth and renewal. We feel more creative, more energized! Typically this is also the time when a […]
So many people have chronic allergies that start when they are young. I just wrote a piece for MindBodyExchange that talks about ways that parents can actually prevent these kinds of health issues early on! The overuse of antibiotics is one factor in the development of childhood allergies. Chinese medicine also looks at the importance of diet during baby’s […]
We all know of someone who has really bad food allergies. Maybe a child who can’t go near peanuts, or a friend who was taken to the nearest emergency room after accidentally eating a bite of shrimp? Food allergies can be very scary. A specific kind of food allergy, called an IgE-mediated food allergy, can […]
The subject of dying and our fears surrounding it has come up lately, both with friends and with patients. I thought I would share the thoughts I had written when my sweet kitty Zoe died of cancer a couple of years ago. Animals are so in tune with nature and the rhythms of life. Maybe […]
Originally posted on LemonWater:
In the last couple of weeks I have read and heard several comments that seem to imply that those who eat gluten-free diets, or most special diets, do it to be trendy, difficult or that only the wealthy can afford to have a special diet. Some of these comments are hilarious,…
It’s nearing the end of tomato season here in NY. Sad times… But it’s also when I can get a real bargain. Like $1.50 a pound at the farmer’s market for sweet fat juicy tomatoes of all varieties. Jersey beefsteak, heirloom, roma, red, yellow, orange, purple, black… Yum! Besides the incredible taste of fresh tomatoes, […]
Lucky for sure is the woman who is not familiar with this little monthly scenario: About a week before the start of your period you become bizarrely irritable, anxious or sad. You bite the heads off your loved ones. You get weirdly tearful for no reason. You feel fat. Ah, PMS. What is it, and […]
This is something I get asked all the time. As people differ in what they perceive as pain, this is not always an easy question to answer. Also, it often depends on what I am treating and where on the body I am needling. The first thing to know is that the needles used for […]
As a holistic health practitioner, I frequently talk about ways that seasonal allergy symptoms can be treated without having to rely on medications. This goes for children too! How can you treat your child’s runny nose, sneezing and itchy watery eyes without the antihistamines that can make her so groggy and fatigued? Even better, how […]
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