Sunshine: Unconditional Love For some people, summer is a chance to complain about the heat or lock themselves into air-conditioned habitats. But our bodies need sunshine to survive and be healthy—in fact we wouldn’t exist without the sun! The sun shines on everyone with no regard for race, wealth, fashion sense, or religion. The sun […]
Inspiration
14 Days of Summer, A Meditation:
Day Two
Fruit: Nourishment Summer is the season of delicious, amazing fruit, which is the direct result of the desire of flowers. Is there a fruit that doesn’t start as a flower first? What seems frivolous from our standards (flowers everywhere!) is truly a purposeful and wonderful gift of nourishment, for people, for animals, for the earth. […]
14 Days of Summer, A Meditation:
Day One
Flowers: Desire Summer is the season of flowers. We enjoy them for their outrageous beauty. We give them as gifts to show gratitude, love, and appreciation. But why do flowers exist? Why do they bloom in summer? Flowers are nature’s way of expressing desire—the desire to attract pollinators, the desire to reproduce, the desire to […]
My 14 Days of Summer, A Meditation
It’s no secret that summer is my favorite season. I was on vacation and so much enjoying the clear ocean water and the Rosa rugosa, as well as my children’s awe at the Rosa rugosa “hips”—”Mom, what are those things?”—when this idea for a series of blogs came to me. Not just a celebration of […]
I Found My Pill on Blueberry Hill
“A Nap after Blueberry Picking” by Joseph Csatari by guest blogger Jeff Csatari, executive editor of special projects for Men’s Health One sign of good health: blue poo. If you eat enough blueberries, that’s what you get. But have you seen the price of organic blueberries, even now during peak season? A quart costs $8 […]
Why I Love New York City
People doing tai chi in Madison Square Park…only in New York! Some people have the mistaken perception that I don’t like New York City. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love it! Allow me to explain… First of all, I feel like a New Yorker and New York feels like “my city.” My […]
Judgment Day
So I was at a party and an old acquaintance came up to me and we were talking. He said something to the effect of “Nice party” and then dropped this bomb on me, “After all, you can always judge a person by their friends.” Really? I was swept back to a beautiful day at […]
Yoga for Improving Your Posture
by guest blogger Holly Walck, devoted Iyengar yoga student and teacher “I just went to for my annual checkup and I was a half-inch taller than last year, before I started to practice yoga!” Yoga teachers near and far often hear this exclamation by surprised students. It speaks of one of those moments when, as […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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