MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Tag: health

  • Open sesame (and hemp)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 30, 2024 If you were around in the 60s, 70s or 80s, you probably remember seeds as garnishes, at best. Flax, hemp, and pumpkin were virtually unknown in our house. Chia seeds? Part of a novelty item called a Chia Pet, a terra cotta shape advertised on TV that could…

  • Smoothalicious

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 5, 2024 Growing up, we had the three standard universal kitchen appliances of the time: the toaster, the blender and the stand mixer – well, not counting the “roaster,” essentially a piece of furniture you could wheel around and roast a large turkey in. I loved that thing. Throughout my…

  • Cotton candy, chutes and ladders

    Cotton candy, chutes and ladders

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 21, 2024 “Because of this inner busyness, which is going on almost all the time, we are liable either to miss a lot of the texture of our life experience or to discount its value and meaning.” John Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living The bottom line? It’s kind of a mess.…

  • 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…

  • Spice dump

    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…

  • Detox redux

    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…