By Reverend Keith on February 10, 2010
In writing his latest two books, Food Rules and the earlier In Defense of Food, author and professor Michael Pollan had a surprising revelation. With most of his previous (well-researched) books, he found that subjects that seemed to be simple on the surface turned out to be more complx and ambiguous when you looked into [...]
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By Reverend Keith on February 5, 2010
I don’t do a lot of debating on alternative therapies. I got tired of the “my study is better than your study” sort of discussion. But when I recently discussed my problem with homeopathy, one of the responses challenged me to apply the same logic to Reiki. I’m an Usui Reiki master, although I’m [...]
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By Reverend Keith on February 3, 2010
I’m very much into alternative and holistic health and healing. I’m a Reiki master and practice other healing modalities as well. I’m also very much an advocate of nutritional and herbal medicine. However, in spite of having a lot of friends who either practice homeopathy or use homeopathic medicine, I can’t really get on board. [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 30, 2010
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Another insight from the new book Nurtureshock is that one of the biggest issues with children and teens today is that almost universally, the world [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 26, 2010
I’ve mentioned Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book Eat To Live in several posts, but I realize I’ve never actually written a full review of it. That situation needs to be fixed, because this is my favorite diet and nutrition book of all time (so far at least). I ran into this book when I was having [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 24, 2010
We’ve been trying to stick to a healthier diet for the new year. The other night, my daughter fixed a dessert we’ve been dying to try every since we saw the recipe in Jennifer Cornbleet’s book Raw Food Made Easy. It’s raw vegan chocolate mousse. How can you make a chocolate mousse without cream, butter [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 23, 2010
I had another interesting insight listening to a Tony Robbins CD. Robbins was describing a breathing exercise he sets great store by. It consisted of breathing in deeply for a count of seven, then hold it for a count of 28, then exhale for a count of 14. This is done ten times in a [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 23, 2010
Raw Food Made Easy – for 1 or 2 People, by Jennifer Cornbleet. I don’t eat a diet that’s 100 percent raw, by any means. But the more I incorporate raw foods into my diet, the better I feel and the healthier I am. I’m not sure I’d ever want to go 100 percent raw, [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 21, 2010
As part of my “The Most Important Thing”, series, I’ve been pondering the question of what one physical activity (if you could only do one) would give you the most benefits. Walking seemed like a good candidate. Tai Chi or yoga seemed like possibilities. But on thinking about it, I would probably give the nod [...]
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By Reverend Keith on January 20, 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. I first ran into Michael Pollan’s work reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Pollan is a Berkley professor of science and environmental journalism. That book made me a fan. His work is well-researched and absolutely facilitating. In Defense of Food is equally compelling.
After investigating what Americans eat [...]
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