Fitness & Wellbeing
Eating Organic
Posted on March 26, 2012 Went to Whole Foods today with my wife to go grocery shopping. I confess. I get excited shopping for great healthy food. Food that I know is food for life not food for death. I thought I would share some thoughts about organic food.Just because it is organic doesn't mean it is good for you or healthy. Potato chips are not health food. It does not matter if they are organic. It doesn't matter if they are sold at your favorite trusted store. When y
IT IS BETTER TO GIVE
Posted on December 20, 2011True Health is more than making the right choices for your physical heart, your physical body. It requires “feeding” your spiritual heart, your soul. By design, your heart needs to give. It is more than buying your friend a card, though that is a nice thing to do. As you learn more about choosing to be healthy, you realize the right choice often requires a degree of sacrifice. It might be passing on the sweet dessert (or at least taking a smaller portion) that satisfies yo
MELATONIN: MORE THAT JUST SLEEP
Posted on December 15, 2011I was up all night the other night. Good reason; as surgical residents say, “saving lives, stamping out disease.” Things turned out well. However, I didn’t sleep. A problem. A health problem. The body needs sleep. We can’t be healthy without it. The Science of Melatonin is revealing some specific reasons why. Melatonin is secreted by our brain. It happens at night, mostly while we are asleep. It is a “lights out” signal to tell the cells of our

