Reiki is rapidly becoming a recognized and credible healing modality. Reiki practitioners can be found in many health care settings including hospitals, cancer treatment centers, hospice and integrated medicine clinics.
Reiki is a technique that is over 5000 years old and was re-discovered in Japan in the early 1900’s. The word Reiki means Universal Life ...Read More

Texting, twittering and emailing are all forms of digital communication meant to keep us in constant contact in the quickest and most efficient manner. With it, we are able to tell our friends and family when we can go to dinner and which restaurant we should eat at; and our coworkers why we’re running late ...Read More

Of all the vitamins and minerals essential to bone health, which is most important?
Calcium? Phosphorus? Vitamin K? Magnesium? Vitamin D? The answer is…all of them! Like many bodily processes, building and maintaining strong bones is a finely tuned team effort! And vitamin D is a heavy hitter on this particular team. In fact, without ...Read More

Recently, the Obama administration called for a total ban on candy and soda in the nation’s schools. States are beginning to impose “sin taxes” on fat and sugar to dissuade people from eating junk food. Pricing strategies may well be a key to changing behavior, but others favor subsidies over punitive taxes, as a way ...Read More

Ah spring! The deep snow blanketing Michigan may make thoughts of spring seem like a distant dream, but the abundance of spring produce appearing in local markets heralds the coming of warmer (and sunnier!) days. Asparagus, one of nature’s most nutritionally dense and well-balanced veggies, is also one of the first to make its spring ...Read More

Dentistry has come a long way from the days when a female patient would ask “How can I make my teeth look whiter?” with the reply being “Wear dark, red lipstick!”
Today, just as many men inquire about teeth bleaching as women, and age does not make a difference. Teenagers ask as soon as their braces ...Read More

When I think of Marijuana I am immediately reminded of my husband’s Grandma Lillian (Lilly), may she rest in peace, who past away at the beautiful old age of 101. Imagine living an entire century-all that she has seen and experienced.  Lilly was as sharp as a tac and perfectly healthy until her loving and ...Read More

I’m looking out the window and I see snow. It’s not the kind of day where it’s falling and it all looks so pretty-the kind of feeling that makes you want to stay inside by a fireplace or maybe get outside and hit the slopes. No, I’m looking at post snow-the slushy, awful, middle phase ...Read More

“Food democracy is the new agenda for ecological sustainability and social justice.”
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In recent years, a new and exciting trend in agriculture has emerged: the revival of local, sustainable and small-scale community gardening. Most encouragingly, this model is achievable by everyone, everywhere, with a little know-how and the right materials. It is a model that empowers ...Read More

The heart is essential for the function of our physical body as well as emotional. A block in the heart via arterial wall buildup will eventually cause a closing and shutting down of the heart. Likewise, when we have an emotional blockage in the heart, the energy gets blocked and the flow of ...Read More

More and more women are searching beyond modern medicine to an older, more holistic solution to managing their life cycles. Many women instinctively sense that changes in midlife are not a failure of our body, but a significant event that should be honored and valued. Many of the older traditions respect ...Read More