The Natural Reader

Many people have made the decision to become vegetarian for the health benefits a vegetarian diet offers, including lower risk of cancer and heart disease. However, more and more people are choosing a vegetarian lifestyle because it’s healthier for the planet. VegetarianTimes.com (Go Veg, 2007) reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states chemical and [...]

When I meet new people, I am often asked “How can I eat healther?”, and then I am expected to pack my many years of nutrition education into a nice 5 minute nutshell.  The first thing that comes to me is “Eat more fruits and vegetables!”, as these nutrient-rich miracle foods are often lacking from [...]

 While many people these days are striving towards eating healthier, there seems to be another group going in the opposite direction to what I like to call “food extremes”.  I am continually shocked with what some restaurants come up with these days.  For example, one national pizza chain came up with a pizza-calzone concoction that [...]

After 26 years in banking, I found myself working for a distance education school that has been educating leaders in Natural Health for over 28 years. At fifty-one years of age, it’s been an interesting challenge to leave the “corporate” world and enter the fascinating world of Natural Health distance education. Unfortunately I [...]