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Your Seasonal Guide to Food as Medicine: August Produce
photo: gregor_y August is arguably the pinnacle of summer. If you have a vegetable garden, things are shooting and crawling all over the place. If you outsource your farming (as I am very thankful...
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Weight Loss Tip: Eat Your Dinner for Breakfast
For many years, I operated a private practice as a naturopathic doctor in Southern California, specializing in the treatment of digestive diseases and side-effects of cancer treatment. Although weight...
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How I’m Moving Forward in the GMO Food Debate
A few weeks ago I wrote a post, “The Genetically Modified Food Debate”, which introduced a series of articles by Nathanael Johnson, a Grist.org writer that’s taken on the big task of sorting through...
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Your Seasonal Guide to Food as Medicine: September Produce
Over the past few weekends, my sister-in-law and her family have made over 20 gallons of cider from some of the pie apple trees that grow on the pasture of our family’s Iowa farmland. Nothing says...
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The Best Grab-N-Go Superfood Breakfasts
If you’ve read some of my recent articles, you’ll know that I not only believe breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but that it should also be the largest. Not just for the reasons you...
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Celebrating a Practice That’s Changing Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine Week is October 7-13th I am a naturopathic doctor. I represent a community of approximately 4400 practicing physicians in the United States. We may be small in number, but what...
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Soy: Is it Safe for Me? A Cautionary Tale for People and Planet
I came across an article this week, written by Barry Boyd, MD, a board certified oncologist and hematologist, that does an excellent job of summing up, once and for all, the myths and facts around soy...
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Your Seasonal Guide to Food as Medicine: October Produce
It’s no coincidence that the shift to shorter days and harsher conditions coincides with the emergence of hardier fruits and vegetables. Thicker skin, more substantial leaves and, most relevant to...
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Transparency is the New Marketing
I write this post while anxiously waiting for confirmation on the passage or failure of WA State Initiative 522 that would require labeling of food products using GMO ingredients sold in the state....
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Two Recipes to Personify the Winter Season
There are so many things to love about winter: soft, fluffy scarves to bundle up in, holidays to celebrate with loved ones, and of course all the many traditional dishes filled with hearty ingredients...
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