Nutrition , Newsletter Archive
Know Your Food
I was looking recently at the health information on the US National Institute of Aging’s website, where they talk about solid fats and added sugars in the diet. Here’s one paragraph from their website (...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
How to improve cognitive function and prevent Alzheimer’s disease
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to keep our body healthy, but we often miss the most important part of our body — the brain. Our brain typically accounts for just two to five percent of an adult’s body weight, yet it...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Detox & Healing
How can you reduce your intake of toxins?
You may have heard tips on how to detox to body before. First, however, we need to stop adding more toxins so that gradually the body will start cleansing itself. A toxin is defined as any compound that has a detrimental effect...
Newsletter Archive , Nutrition , Kauai Garden Island , Ketogenic Diet
Fasting & Health
The word fast is derived from the Anglo-Saxon faest , which means "firm" or “fixed”. Fasting is the body’s physiological rest. It’s an ancient healing practice, which is abstinence from food. Fasting can be done for many...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
An essential mineral for bone health and beyond
The essential minerals are nutrients that the human body requires in relatively large amounts (greater than 100mg per day). All minerals are vital in the body. These include calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chloride, and...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Ketogenic Diet
Calorie restriction can prevent and heal cancer
Last week, I talked about the yogic perspective on health, and what you can do mentally to heal yourself. This week, let’s talk about what you can do to heal your physical body. Cancer rates continue to increase because of our...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Mindset
A different perspective on cancer
Here’s the yogi’s view on cancer, taken from the book “Cancer: A Yogic Perspective”. In yogis, they don’t see cancer as many different types. Where and how it manifests in a particular individual may depend on various aspects of one’s physiology, genetics, lifestyle, diet and so on, but...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive
One of the most important and misdiagnosed vitamins
All vitamins play a crucial role for our health, although some do affect our body more that others. The B vitamins are a group of eight vitamins that include B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (Niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6, B7...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive
How to improve sleep quality naturally
What is sleep? The dictionary definition is “a condition of body and mind such as that which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Mindset , Detox & Healing
How to lose weight? My answer will surprise you…
This is the million dollar question… Do you think anyone really knows the answer? You will see so many ways to do it — they’ll tell you to eat this food, drink this, make sure you need to be in calorie deficit, do a detox, do cardio, and...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Thinking beyond calories
Did you ever think where our concept of calories comes from? What does calorie actually mean? Many of us are counting calories, reading labels, and calculating the numbers, but do you really know the concept behind it? What is a...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Weight Loss
Eat according to your genes
Are you confused about which diet you should follow? Should you avoid dairy or gluten? What about coffee? Are you slow or fast metabolized? Do you feel some foods starting to affect you in a different way that they used to? Food...
