May 2011 Dear Friends, With spring arriving rather late this year we seem to be exasperated from a “too long, too cold” winter. Here in the northeast it has seemed more like Siberia. Just when I was ready to put in early crops like onions, beans and spinach at the end of March, we got […]
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March 2011 Dear Friends, A friend of mine who is a breast cancer survivor and activist (one of her many causes) recently asked me to write about cancer prevention and I agreed. It is indeed something that can’t be stated enough. If you smoke, try to stop and keep trying until it works. It’s one
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December 2010 Dear Friends, Let me take this short time to wish you a blessed holiday season. I hope you are able to get all your tasks done in time and still preserve your treasured traditions while remembering to be flexible and keep your expectations reasonable. I’ve been quite involved with trying to prevent legislation
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October 2010 Dear Friends, Here we are again facing another flu season. I worry when I see mothers filing into drug stores, department and grocery stores with their children in tow, for their flu shots. Oh, and what a convenience… this year the swine flu and seasonal flu will be combined so you will only
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September 2010 Dear Friends, It is my hope to impart health information to you that is practical and applicable to your daily lives. Those of you who know me, know that I try to strike a balance between natural and allopathic medicine. I would like to talk about the condition of fibroid tumors, which is
Castor Oil Packs & Fibroids – Sept 2010 Read More »
June 2010 Dear Friends, Psoriasis and Eczema are tough conditions. Anyone who has it can tell you that topical treatments work for a while and then the scales return again. Sometimes trying a new cream will minimize the symptoms but nothing seems to be permanent. Many times psoriasis and eczema are a result of intestinal
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Dear Friends, Dear Friends, Have you ever had a panic attack or witnessed someone who has? It is a frightening event. Thousands of years ago a panic attack was a very useful thing. We led much more physically challenging and dangerous lives then. We didn’t have sharp teeth or claws and so we had to
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December 2009 Dear Friends, As the holidays are nearly upon us a couple things come to mind, the first being, “Holy Crow! Another year is almost over?” I remember hearing my parents say that and I never really understood how quickly the time passes. Another consideration is that of tradition. There is something comforting about
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August 2009 Dear Friends, FEAR! The great motivator and doesn’t government and big pharmaceuticals know this. Hence all the hype about this so called deadly H1N1 flu; it hasn’t amounted to much more than an average flu, but to hear it told day in and day out you would think it’s the end of the
H1N1 Cutting Through the Hype – Aug 2009 Read More »
May 2009 Dear Friends, It’s spring! Time to celebrate our emergence from hibernation. OK we I know we aren’t bears, but sometimes I feel like one, especially this time of year when the weather starts to break. Plants pop up from the ground and you start to see the critters that disappeared for the winter
Lowering Blood Pressure – May 2009 Read More »
