Looking back on our childhood can be an illuminating experience: As children, we may have had the intuitive understanding that something was way off, but we didn't have the life experience or verbal skills to be able to articulate exactly what was going on or why. As adults, however, we can make sense of things. I have a similar experience looking back on the decade I spun in a maze of chronic pain hell. At the ...

With my move looming ahead, it feels like the month before Passover in my kitchen, and then some. Instead of getting rid of leavened products only, I am racing to finish off everything. I refuse to stick jars of spaghetti sauce, packets of shredded coconut, and cans of kidney beans into a U-Haul truck. In raking through my cupboards, I have come to realize that I have bags and bags of nuts: walnuts, Brazil nuts, pistachios, Macadamia nuts, and cashews, ...

Looking to change your diet, so that you can achieve natural pain relief through nutrition? Print out this shopping list, then pick up some of these items the next time you're at the store. Once you've stocked your kitchen with the right ingredients, it's just a matter of mixing & matching till you find out what suits your palate (and what doesn't!) Everything here is a ...

A friend of mine just expressed to me that he wants to turn around his eating habits -- opting for fresh, healthy foods instead of processed junk foods. Having gone through the transition myself years ago, and having learned a lot along the way, I shared a few tips on how to make his transition as easy as possible. I figured I would share these tips with you as well, with an emphasis on creating a diet ...

Over the years, I have gathered information about food as medicine -- specifically, about anti-inflammatory foods and supplements that help decrease pain levels and boost energy. While there are numerous recipe books based on the use of these foods, I have never gone farther than buying the books and admiring their pretty covers, as they gather dust on my kitchen shelf. You see, I'm one of those hyper-creative types who relishes the trial-and-error process of ...