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Your Healthy Winter Skin Wintertime is notorious for leaving people with dry, chapped skin, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some easy tips for healthier skin. In the nutrition world the mantra is: if all else fails, support your liver. Your liver, like...

Another interesting program that I am chairing at The Commonwealth Club on Tuesday in San Francisco, based on the book Jaws by Sandra Kahn and the famed Paul Ehrlich. There is a serious hidden epidemic just now being discovered by the public health community. It’s...

Join me on Tuesday, November 6th at The Commonwealth Club for a fascinating program on Microsurgery. What is microsurgery?   Reconstruction of the mutilated hand, for example, restoring all fingers and thumbs with toe transplantation. Breast reconstruction after...

I will be the guest chef at Adobe Road Winery's Harvest Hike and Food/Wine Tasting on October 14th at the beautiful Famighetti Vineyard in Healdsburg. Caramelized Onion Tart and Rose in the treehouse. A hike through the stunning vineyard. Charcuterie (with a lesson...

I will be the guest chef at Adobe Road Winery's Harvest Hike and Food/Wine Tasting on October 14th at Famighetti Vineyard in Healdsburg. . You'll begin with an appetizer in the tree house and it keeps getting better from there! My daughter Olivia will be my sous chef...

I am thrilled to chair a program by Julia Ross at The Commonwealth Club. It's August 30th at 6:00 p.m. Here is the link to purchase your tickets: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-08-30/craving-cure-winning-battle-between-health-and-bliss THE CRAVING CURE:...

Your Larder First of all, what is a larder? Well, it’s not a pantry. A pantry is, historically speaking, where bread was kept and where preparation of foods associated with bread was done. While we’re on a roll with vernacular, alcoholic beverages were stored in the...

It's 94 degrees today. Needless to say that salads are the way to go! A lovely fruit salad for breakfast, and a green salad for a later lunch- too hot to be very hungry. Do remember that every color fruit and veggie has a different phytonutrient profile, so be sure to...

We all know that suicide amongst our Veterans and Active Duty Service men and women is high, but here are the troubling statistics from the VA Suicide Data Report. I think many of you know I have taught and worked with Veterans, and that my son is a Veteran, and this...

Well, they're not new, but they are now recognized as beneficial by the FDA. Here is the Press Release from the FDA with links so you can get the entire list and educate yourself. Dietary fiber is a big key to good health....

I am a Board Member at Bauman College and I'm pleased to have been involved with creating our Distinguished Speaker Series. Next up is Gary Taubes. Here is the link to purchase tickets. I'll see you there! https://www.baumancollege.org/events/gary-taubes/ Gary Taubes...

Being a creative, high-strung sort, meditation is something that I have always thought was for others. I have set up little alters with flowers and feathers and incense and a pretty pillow to sit on, purple or deep red being preferable, and tried to call forth a still...

When I first started out as a nutritionist many years ago now, I attended so many functions and conferences (still do!) with incredible speakers. I did it for the knowledge, to better serve my clients, and to meet amazing people, many of whom I now call friends and...

I read a wonderful vision statement today about connection from Born to Belong.  It's so true, isn't it? Our connections are the ties that bind. https://www.borntobelong.com/   From birth humans have an innate need to belong. Connection is vital for mental and...

Each year, I look over and make updates to my 52 Ways to be Healthier in the New Year article. Here is this years! 52 Simple Ways to Be Healthier in 2018 It’s a new year and you are full of hope. This is the year you will claim or reclaim your good health! If you have...

I wish you all a very happy and healthy, joyous and peaceful New Year! Here's to a wonderful 2018!

Ascertaining the quality of research is so important if you're trying to get to the root of something. This article offers an interesting take on this topic:  https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/12/13/viewpoint-many-scientific-studies-flawed-poorly-understood/...

Your Healthy Winter Skin Wintertime is notorious for leaving people with dry, chapped skin, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some easy tips for healthier skin. In the nutrition world the mantra is: if all else fails, support your liver. Your liver, like...

Stress Eating and Stress Non-Eating You just lost a loved one to cancer, your job was ‘downsized,’ finances are a mess, your teenager is in trouble, you are taking care of an elderly parent and the aforementioned teenager? …Anything else you can think of that is...

For my health professional friends. From the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury- there is a summit which begins today. Click on the below link to register....