Wisdom of Healing

Many parents these days have been snookered into thinking that giving their kids plenty of fruit juice is good for their health. Advertisements everywhere tell us it’s so. Sure, it’s better than soda pop and the chemically colored and flavored sugar water they used to call juice that many of us grew up on. But [...]

Most of the vitamin and mineral products found on the shelves of vitamin shops, pharmacies, grocers or health food stores are made of isolated purified chemicals. We’ve been told (lied to) for about four decades that these chemicals are ‘natural’, but it’s simply not so. Minerals are essentially powdered rocks, while the vitamins can be [...]

Below, you will find statements that I have found in articles or advertising about health, wellness, fitness and nutrition. (Some have been modified for conciseness.) The unfortunate thing for those of us who eat whole foods and practice holistic therapies is that much of what we read is either not quite accurate, poorly researched half-truths, [...]

There is a wide array of processing methods used in the nutritional and herbal supplements industry, providing a great variety of possible effects on the body. Herbs, foods, mineral water and nutritional concoctions have been used for thousands of years to help the body prevent or recover from illness. This was, and still is today, [...]

There are several interesting health myths that have their origins in medical and scientific journals. These myths trickle down to the articles that we read in news journals, alternative health and women’s magazines. These myths stem from the scientific reductionist viewpoint that looks at the isolated parts of the whole as if they were actually [...]

We are certainly a culture of people that like to have lots of ‘things’. But some of the best things in life aren’t things at all. Take, for example, good health. Many people have lots and lots of very nice items like cars, boats and homes, but they experience poor health. Did you ever wish [...]

When it comes to using herbs and nutritional supplements to support health and prevent or care for an illness, there is one feature that is unconditionally most important, and that is QUALITY! If we are interested in good health, and we invest our money, time and energy into a supplement program, it is imperative that [...]