This delicious vegan miso udon soup is one of many different ways to get fermented food into your diet. In this case the aforementioned ingredient is miso, which is a fermented soy paste. The benefits of fermented foods are myriad, and include helping in weight loss, creating and enhancing the nutritional benefits of other foods,…
Several times over the past few years, I have noticed something strange in my hair pigmentation: a strand of hair that appears to be going gray from the tip, upwards. Or conversely, had started to go gray and then changed its mind. When the phenomenon was mentioned online, the majority of people commented that such…
Self-mastery is self-management. Confidence is #1 and the most desired state. Emotions are a driving force and we either direct them or they direct our perspective. So how we choose to think defines our success on all levels and in any situation – business, personal or social. Our thinking always telegraphs itself through our demeanor, facial…
One of the greatest moments of grace in my life came to me when my baby son was in hospital for another heart surgery. His life had been touch and go with his particular problem and we were back again praying this next surgery would buy him some time till he got bigger and stronger for…
People under severe physical or emotional stress or with poor social support are more vulnerable to injury, mental imbalance and physical disorders. Caring for those of us who have more to deal with is part of a healthy community. However, many people would agree that true community is difficult to find these days. So what…
When I saw the graphic Gwyneth Paltrow posted of how much healthy food $29 would buy a person for a week, I nodded and thought, yep, a day and a half, maybe longer, is all my husband and I would get out of it. I understood that the picture was of healthy food because one of…
One of the things that concerns me the most about aging is staying physically fit in a moderate, healthy and effective way. A dual focus of that concern is keeping my arms and back in shape while strengthening my core; the first so that I do not have the dreaded “bingo wings” and the second…
I was not quite seven years old, when we moved, my mum, dad and baby brother Grant from Hayes – then on the edges of London, now swallowed up by Greater London itself – down to a little seaside town in Sussex, on the South Coast of England. Littlehampton, the town, was a great change…
