Foods have long been valued for their therapeutic properties, but it was Hippocrates who first proclaimed that diet was medicinal. Before the development of modern pharmacology, people looked to foods and plants as a way of maintaining health and curing ills. For centuries, traditional healers have known that foods can have powerful healing effects on […]
Avoiding Food Additives
Eating organic whole foods enables people to avoid some of the nasty food additives routinely put in processed foods. In the United States, the FDA allows more than 3,000 substances to be added to foods for the purpose of preservation, coloring, texture, and increasing flavor. If you have to eat processed foods, read labels carefully […]
How Nutritional Therapy Works
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4 out of the 10 leading causes of disability in the US and other developed countries are mental disorders. Major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are among the most common mental disorders that currently plague numerous countries and have varying incidence […]
Primal Body, Primal Mind
Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life combines your body’s Paleolithic needs with modern nutritional and medical research for complete mind-body wellness. It also provides sustainable diet strategies to curb sugar cravings, promote fat burning and weight loss, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep and moods, increase […]