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Category Archives: Autumn

Childhood Health Panel Discussion

Come join me in exploring natural, effective and safe pediatric remedies for the care of your family. Home remedy kits stocked with essential remedies will be available for pre-order so you can get your medicine cabinet stocked and ready! Panel presenters include practitioners from Chinese medicine, traditional food therapy and homeopathy. To register and for [...]

My Juice Cleanse Unveiled

Last week I embarked on a juice cleanse. September is a transitional time for the seasons, offering up a prime time to adopt different ways of healing our body. It is also a prime time for cleansing the digestive system, similar to the benefits of cleansing our livers in the spring. Many health-enthusiasts believe that [...]

Delicious Sweet Potato Bake

This dish is a response to the famous sweet-potato casserole of the Midwest, which is full of sugar and artificial ingredients like marshmallows (literally robbing any healthful benefits from the lovely yam itself). If you want to impress the folks at your Thanksgiving dinner, try out this recipe! Not only does it taste scrumptious and [...]

An Apple A Day

There is nothing like picking fruit straight from the tree and crunching the crisp, yet sweet, apple-flesh. But the barrels of fresh apples abounding farmer’s and super markets across the country this time of year come pretty close to straight from the orchard. After the jump, see photos from my October apple-picking adventure in Woodstock, [...]

The Great Pumpkin

Charlie Brown had it right with his beloved pumpkin in the Peanuts classic film, as the pumpkin is truly one of autumn’s greatest joys (just like apple picking). There are many great farms around the East Coast – complete with pumpkin patches for wandering and picking out your perfect, great, pumpkin. Artistic carvings, nutritious roasted [...]

Seasonal Allergies No More

This year has been a tough one for allergy sufferers in NYC, as environmental allergens have been at an all time high. If you are suffering with chronic seasonal allergies, acupuncture and herbs have some wonderful solutions for your symptoms – without the nasty side effects. While many over-the-counter allergy medications can help people through [...]

Health Nut Carrot Cake

There is nothing more delicious that a big piece of carrot cake! While carrots have such a great source of vitamins and minerals, the truth of the matter is that all the butter, oil, sugar and cream cheese frosting make this vegetable’s nutritional content minimal when baked into a delectable dessert.  So, I adapted this [...]

Duck: The Other Bird to be Thankful For

I must admit, that duck was one meat that I never remembered experiencing as a kid.  I fed them bread crumbs at the pond near our house, but never considered them an edible animal like the turkeys or chickens that adorned our dinner table on a weekly basis.  In fact, I can distinctly remember my first experience eating duck at the [...]

Carrot-Kabocha Squash Soup

Yum! This recipe was a total accident (meaning I threw together leftovers from other meals to make it) but it came out amazing. I will definitely be making this one on purpose many times in the future. It is perfect on a cool fall day. The carrots and squash are sweet in nature, according to [...]

In Memory of A Great Teacher

Social media has become a strong tool for connecting with old friends, making new ones, and getting up-to-the-minute info on certain news feeds. Needless to say, I didn’t expect to find out from a large network of my Facebook friends that one of our esteemed colleagues had passed away when I logged on this morning. An [...]