Many of you do not realize, I was an overweight child in a normal weight world. Childhood obesity was not the norm, nor was it a concern. The children of today will not live past the age of their parents and that is scary. Yes, I ate Little Debbie’s, Twinkies, Doritos and had food-dye laden […]

Monday, I posted How Fluoride gets an “F” and Why I Stopped Using it and thought it would be great to do The 30-day Natural White Teeth Challenge in September. It has 30-days! So here is your shopping list: 1. Buy a non-fluoride based floss and toothpaste like the one I use or you can […]

After reading a blog from the Healthy Home Economist about Julia Roberts not using toothpaste, It made me smile. After all I don’t use fluoride toothpaste for my teeth either. After I went gluten free almost 7 years ago, I began to read a lot, I mean A LOT about ingredients. Some of you know […]

Last week I posted about the NY Times article and my problem with doctors not giving parents the tools to help children go to the bathroom. Over the weekend, I gave a stab at making a homemade Miralax that was tasty for kids to drink. This takes about 2-minutes total to make. While I know […]

I first have to thank Sueson Vess of Special Eats for inviting me to speak at the 2012 Autism One Conference on their culinary day. She is one of the most talented chefs I know. I have yet to meet a talented chef who can do what she does to help families feel normal so […]

I find it interesting this debate of which is better. I’ll never forget my first cholesterol screening at my first job out of college, it was 210. What? As I looked at my results. How could this be? I mean, I eat “healthy” I drink skim milk, I have margarine, I eat fat free (in […]