On Getting & Staying Lean: Tools & Funda...

Very few obese people live to see age ninety. The simple reason is that optimal longevity and excess body fat just don’t mix. Being obese effectively ages you 20 years, placing an obese 30-year-old person in about the same risk category as a normal weight 50-year-old person in terms of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Arthritis, gout, acid reflux, insomnia and many other disorders are also linked with excess...

Perfect Timing…for Your Health

A friend of mine has an expression: Everything happens with perfect timing. Though he means this in the cosmic sense, there’s also a perfect time for many practices that affect our health and well-being. Now, you’ve probably heard of circadian rhythms, a vast spectrum of physiological and behavioral rhythms that recur in your body every 24 hours. In essence, your body can “tell time” with respect to the day/night...

Transform Your Breakfast—and Life—in 3 Days

My suggestion here almost sounds too simple: Start your day with a tasty green shake, and make it your breakfast for 3 days.  If you’re not going to be physically active in the morning, have nothing else till lunch or perhaps just a mid-morning snack.  And if you’re a long-time coffee user, have this shake in place of the java, as outlandish as that may sound.  This simple ritual will transform your...

Going Deeper…to Heal the Emotional Body

As human beings, all of us at one time or another harbor feelings of fear, worry, anger, envy, jealousy, guilt, loneliness or hopelessness.  Trouble sets in when such afflictive emotions become chronic or habitual responses. These emotions are largely conditioned, meaning that they have their roots in life experiences that were associated with painful or distressing feelings—experiences like a traumatic birth, an abusive...