Glorious One-Pot Meals

Are you sure that your sunscreen works and is safe for your family’s skin? The Environmental Working Group’s brand new review of 1,572 products found that 3 out of 5 sunscreens offer inadequate protection from the sun or contain ingredients with significant safety concerns...

According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, chemical hair straighteners are some of the most toxic products that you can absorb through your hair and scalp...

One of the bloggers from 5280 Magazine recently posted about how her aluminum-based antiperspirant/deoderant is leaving ugly yellow stains in the armpits of her white shirts...

The Corn Refiners Association would like us to believe that ingesting high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is as natural for the body as eating an ear of corn...

I was taught to mix potting soil with vermiculite when preparing pots for planting for better drainage and I’m sure I inhaled some of the vermiculite dust along the way. Once I was even enveloped in a cloud of dust when I dropped the bag accidently...

One of my Jazzercise friends approached me during class this morning wondering if her plastic Nalgene waterbottle was BPA-free and therefore safe to drink from...

This morning I demonstrated the recipe for Chicken Satay out of my Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook on KUSA’s Colorado & Co. My husband declares this dish “insanely good,” and he’s right...

You may be surprised to learn this natural girl keeps her toenails prettily polished in fun magentas and reds. It’s a monthly ritual for my mother and I to steal an hour together at the nail salon while enjoying the decadent pleasure of a pedicure...

As obesity has increased in the United States, diabetes has reached near- epidemic levels. About 24 million people are afflicted, most of them with Type 2, also known as adult-onset, diabetes...

I’ve been spicing up my greens with a new salad dressing that I love: Spectrum Naturals Organic Pomegranate Chipotle Omega-3 Salad Dressing It’s a little bit tart and a little bit sweet with a little bit of fire to keep your mouth awake. It makes a salad anything but the same old thing...

I’m happy to admit to being forty (see me perform and you’ll likely hear me announce my age!), but it drives me crazy to find gray hair streaking like lightening bolts through my dark head...

Last weekend the Washington Post reported on a closed-door meeting where canned beverage and food industry executives brainstormed a public relations and lobbying strategy to counteract growing awareness of the dangers of bisphenol-A (BPA)...

The Stoll Foundation for Holistic Health offers today’s guest post by Kam Tecaya on The Perfectly Whole Foods Diet. I love sharing this with you because it explains an eating philosophy I wholeheartedly believe in and strive to follow as much as possible. Much gratitude to Dr...

Even though I avoid artificial sugar substitutes like Splenda, I still like sweet things. Lately I’ve discovered Agave nectar as a natural sweetener, and I must say that it has won me over. Lighter than honey, Pure Organic Raw Agave Nectar is extracted from the core of a yucca-like cactus...

This past weekend, my son set up a Cotton Candy stand during our neighborhood block party. Cotton Candy, of course, is spun sugar with food coloring. And I don’t have a problem with “sugar.” Yeah, you heard me right: I don’t have a problem with eating sugar...

David Kessler, the Harvard-trained doctor, lawyer, medical school dean and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration who won billions against the tobacco industry during the Clinton years, has trained his razor-sharp focus on the restaurant industry and how they are making us overeat...

One of my favorite girlfriends wrote me recently concerned about giving a slew of vaccinations to her 15-month old daughter...

Reader letter: I am not a professional chef or really that interested in recipes. I will say, on principal though, as an American who has lived in numerous locations worldwide, that your “patented cooking method” has been performed by indigenous and local peoples for centuries...

I must confess I’m a little obsessed with lemongrass right now. I’m intrigued by it’s lemon-y flavor without the citrus-y tang. I’m finding it does great things to Glorious One-Pot Meals (see the recipe for Great Grape Scallops, too!)...

Last month the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and partner organizations released a report revealing that dozens of popular bath products for babies and kids contain at least two hazardous contaminants: 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde...

Here’s a light and flavorful Glorious One-Pot Meal recipe I whipped together last week from some sea scallops that were on sale at the grocery store and a bunch of purple grapes...

Reader question: I don’t know what size cast iron Dutch oven to buy to use with Glorious One-Pot Meals. My sister said that the commonly available 2 3/4 qt. size is better, for more vegetables for two people, but your recipes say 2-qt and to fill it up...

The population of regulars at my Jazzercise center has increased noticeably recently. Chatting with these newcomers tells me that most of them have been “downsized” from their jobs and are taking the opportunity to get themselves in shape...

Kaiser Health recently conducted a poll of American households to see what kind of impact the economy is having on health-care expenditures. Looks like more than half of us are forgoing expensive Western medical treatments as we look for ways to save money...

My friend Susan Mead, a Master Herbalist with a wonderful new book out, Take Back Your Body: Using Time-Tested Health Tips and Uncommon Sense, reminded me about sunshine and vitamin D production being thwarted by sunglasses...

What can reduce rates of cancer, diabetes, and auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis? If you’ve been following the news lately, you might be giving a resounding cheer for Vitamin D. Dr...

Make your Easter Eggs a little more artistic and a little less artificial this year by coloring the eggs with homemade natural dyes and patterns...

With Passover just a few days away, don’t forget the light and airy coconut macaroon recipe I shared last year for a different take on the classic Pesach dessert...

Along with the crocuses I see popping their heads through the snow in my neighborhood, I see dry, scaly patches on my daughter’s knuckles, and hear complaints about itchy legs and torsos. Yep, spring brings dry skin along with allergies to help us enjoy the season...

Every year around tax time my head starts itching. Coincidence? Maybe. I would imagine the stress can’t help, though I suspect it has more to do with the quick changes in barometric pressure that accompany the march of the seasons around here. Whatever...

It’s spring and that means hay fever season. I used to only suffer from pollen-related allergies in the fall, when the weeds and grasses are at their peak...

Aaahhh… springtime. The crocuses are peeking out, robins are building nests, and the trees are heavily laden with cherry blossoms. Spring has come… as if I didn’t notice. Oh, I noticed alright. For me, “spring” is synonomous with “itching”. Yeah, I said it. Itching...

There was a sweet potato eyeing me from my produce basket for the past few weeks, so last night I decided to put it to good use and build a meal around the delightful orange flesh...