I know that mindfulness and meditation practices have positive effects not only on the spirit, but also on the brain and body, but some of my patients were not always so certain. Some would be willing to try anything once, but then there were the others who would kind of look sideways at me with […]
The Smoothie Challenge: Getting Healthier as a Team
In the midst of the 10 Day Challenge that we issued to the global practitioner community a few weeks back, I started thinking about the need for improved health closer to home. We all spend lots of time in the office, so where better to promote healthy habits than in the setting where we toil […]
Dance Therapy: Using Movement to Heal
If you read my last blog, you would have seen the video about Dance for PD®, an innovative program for people battling the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Dance for PD® is so effective because it allows participants to step out of the patients’ role and just move – creating beauty while engaging mind, body, and […]
Mind-Body Healing at its Best: Dance for Parkinson’s Disease
It’s funny how many people feel a pang of hesitation, reluctance, or even fear when they’re invited to dance. Who hasn’t heard someone say, when being pulled onto the floor, “oh no, I can’t dance!” I’ll admit, I leaned that way, too. I left the dancing to those with natural rhythm and “moves.” My view […]
Mindless Eating Techniques to Use with Your Patients
The Power of Three challenge: To make three changes in the way you eat and keep it for 10 days. The payoff: We agreed to donate $25,000 to East Africa famine relief if 2,500 people signed up for the challenge. As you read in last Friday’s blog, we were successful in reaching this goal. Throughout […]
East African Famine Relief: Reporting from our Power of Three Challenge
The Power of Three challenge was a success! We challenged practitioners to select three changes they would make to their diet and keep it for 10 days. Changes ranged from using smaller plates to applying the ½ rule (½ the plate for meats/carbs, ½ for vegetables/fruit) to putting your apples – or other healthier foods […]
Let’s Help to Feed the Horn of Africa
The famine in the Horn of Africa just gets bigger and bigger, with no end in sight. According to the US government, an estimated 29,000 children under the age of five have already perished, with more than 600,000 additional children so malnourished that this death toll seems like just the beginning. According to the World […]
Has Joy of Cooking Facilitated Obesity?
You too would eat stale popcorn. Did you just read the above statement and think: Stale popcorn? Not me. Under the right circumstances, you most probably would be eating this popcorn right alongside your fellow nay-sayers. This is the way of mindless eating. But before we get to the bigger issue of mindless eating, let’s […]
Are you sure it’s Healthy? The McSubway Study and other Food Tales
Who can forget Subway’s spokesman, Jared, who lost all of that weight by walking everyday to Subway in order to eat a vegetable sub for his lunch? His story revolutionized Subway’s image, making it seem like a healthy alternative to McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants. But is it really that much healthier or is […]
Weight Loss and Food Choice: 200 Food Decisions a Day
According to the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, Brian Wansink, PhD, we make 200 different food decisions a day. No, that’s not a typo. I did mean “200.” Think of all the food choices we have: whether or not to eat that dessert, whether to have a snack before dinner, whether to […]