An apple a day keeps the doctor away -- and it also makes for a pretty boring fruit routine! Why not shake things up and try a nutritious fruit or veggie you may have never even seen before? Here's one to try: Kiwano! This spiky fruit could pass for a video game hazard. Also known as a horned melon or an African horned cucumber (or "blowfish fruit," for obvious reasons), you only eat the juicy green insides, which tastes apparently, like a mix … [Read more...]
An Interview with Will Tuttle, Author of “The World Peace Diet,” Part 1
Today we have Part 1 of a 3-part interview I recently did with Will Tuttle, author of the book The World Peace Diet. Will Tuttle is a nationally recognized writer, educator, pianist and composer devoted to providing words and music that inspire insight and compassion. An award-winning author and Dharma Master in the Zen meditation tradition, his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley focus on educating intuition, and he has taught college course in … [Read more...]
Evil Terrorists Kidnap Ronald McDonald!!
The Low Density Lifestyle book is now out! You can check out an excerpt from the book, and buy it, at the Low Density Lifestyle bookstore. In an act of cowardice that only evil terrorists are capable of doing, an American icon, Ronald McDonald, was recently kidnapped and is being threatened with execution by Feb. 11, 2011, unless the demands of the terrorists are met. What is wrong with these people? Don't they understand that Ronald … [Read more...]
Goodbye Jack, It Was a Pleasure Knowing You
Today I take a break from the series on the Masters of Enlightenment, to share with you this story that was in today's, Jan. 24, 2011, New York Times. It's about Jack LaLanne, who was featured in these pages a year ago, during the series on [Read more...]
The PETA Interviews, Part 3
Today is the final segment in this three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. In case you missed Part 1 or Part 2, here's the links: The PETA Interviews, Part 1 The PETA Interviews, Part 2 In this interview we talk about talks about PETA"s mission; animal cruelty in slaughterhouses and on farms; the prevalence of E. coli and salmonella in animals and why this occurs; the detrimental effects of eating dairy foods; and PETA's sexiest … [Read more...]
The PETA Interviews, Part 2
Today I give you the second part of a three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. The other day was part 1 of this interview, and in this interview we carry on from there.
In this interview we talk about PETA's outrageous billboard they put up in downtown Glasgow, Scotland; the health benefits of not eating meat; the relationship between eating meat and climate change - meat production is the number … [Read more...]The PETA Interviews, Part 1
Last week I mentioned that PETA had announced their 2010 sexiest vegetarian male and female over 50 contest, and today I follow that up with the above video, which is the first part of a three-part interview with Ashley Gonzalez of PETA. I've written about PETA in the past - I wrote articles about Mimi Kirk and Julian Winter, the winners of PETA's 2009 sexiest vegetarian female and male, and I also did a three-part interview with Mimi. I've … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Reich – Putting the Body in Mind-Body Healing, Part 3
Today's article is the last of a three-part article on Wilhelm Reich. The first article in this series, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 1, discussed who Reich was and why his ideas were so radical and pioneering for his time, the early to mid 20th century. In the second part of this series, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 2, I discussed Reich's discovery of orgone energy, and his … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Reich – Putting the Body in Mind-Body Healing, Part 2
In the last article, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 1, I discussed how Reich, an Austrian-American psychiatrist who trained under Sigmund Freud, is the person most responsible for uniting mind and body and pioneering mind-body medicine. And as I mentioned in the article, he is largely forgotten now. Reich died in 1957 a broken man, in prison, having been persecuted by the U.S. government. The year he went to … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Reich – Putting the Body In Mind-Body Healing, Part 1
During this series on The Roots of Healing, I've been writing about different systems of medicine and healing. The last article in this series was on homeopathy. Today I will veer away from discussing systems of healing to discuss a pioneer in the field, someone who put the body back in mind-body medicine. His name was Wilhelm Reich, and he was a man far ahead of his time, but unfortunately he is for the most part forgotten. Born in 1897 in … [Read more...]
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