What are we doing to our brains? Our bodies? The hypothalamus is a small almond sized structure situated just above the brain stem and controls body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian cycles. These are functions in the category of homeostasis – or balance. Look what we are doing! Obesity appears to be…
Sometimes I feel like a broken record…and when it's about drugs, that's sad. We are are a "take a pill for that" kind of culture. Look at all the ads on TV: "Ask you doctor if X is right for you." Pills will [allegedly] make us, the adults, more beautiful, thin, happy, able to have…
Food insecurity is a nicer way of saying you are going hungry! Like Mother Hubbard our cupboards are bare! And as we grow older, more of us are falling into this category of insecurity. Age groups rarely looked at by any measure regarding food needs are now included – and it seems that almost 5…
There was recent news that taking multivitamins was bad for the health of "older" women. I read the research summary and nowhere did it tell me what vitamins were studied other than "popular" ones. The conclusions were that we are wasting our money and harming our health. Not surprising as 95% of all vitamin/mineral supplements…
I woke up very early the other day and this was nature's gift for doing so! The sky show was awesome: A spectacular sunrise complete with a plane taking off from PDX. [see video] Nature is amazing and so filled with gorgeous colors. The morning sky in Portland is like no other place I've…