Tag: health
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Eating dirt
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 7, 2024 There was a story circulating in our family that my paternal grandmother, who died of complications of diabetes, used to eat dirt as some sort of health remedy. After my father died years later, my 60-something mother told me and my husband after dinner that she herself had…
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Spice dump
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…
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Detox redux
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 10, 2024 “Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defenses against pathogens and pollutants; help to prevent lymphoma; boost the enzymes that detox your liver; target breast cancer stem cells; and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.” – Michael Greger It’s springtime, an…
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Dragons and heroes
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 26, 2024 “In a ruined and toxic future…” — Apple TV promo for a new series “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” — Tom Robbins In my 20s, I worked in the rights department (sales of excerpts, quotes, cover art,…
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Snowflakes are us
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 12, 2024 Very early on in the health coaching coursework, we were introduced to the concept of “bio-individuality,” which essentially means that each one of us is unique in our body’s history, make-up, and responses. We forget this, given that we’re all human and given our proclivity to want someone…
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Inhabit the now
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 15, 2024 “It takes a long time to become young,” Pablo Picasso said. Every March, because it’s my birth month, I think of this whole notion, for me and everyone else on planet Earth, of entering the world, taking a breath, and being a human. Partly, this is because March…
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