By Ed Bauman, Ph.D. and Jodi Friedlander, N.C.
Optimal amounts of nourishing beverages are an important part of the Eating For Health™ program, starting with pure, filtered water, the most vital of them all. Juices, teas, smoothies, and broths are a wonderful source of antioxidants that protect the body from harmful environmental toxins and acidic metabolic waste. These are the compounds that trigger a systematic inflammatory response, which we want to minimize with fresh plant foods. These healing beverages increase the alkaline-forming minerals, such as potassium and magnesium, which cleanse the blood and tissues and revitalize the digestive and eliminative organs.
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By Kristin Wartman, M.A., NE and Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Food, the most basic of human needs, must be reevaluated and understood in a way that creates and builds health — both for the individual and for the environment. It also must be considered in a way that ensures future generations will have access to a bountiful and healthful food supply. It's quite simple, but we've gone far astray. Sustainable Nutrition is the notion that we can get back to this ideal and truly understand and appreciate the value of healthful, clean food.
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed, Ph.D.
When I get older, losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine?
Birthday greeting, bottle of wine
If I stay out till quarter to three
Will you bar the door?
Will you still need me?
Will you still feed me?
When I’m sixty-four
Each of us is growing older day-by-day; some healthfully, some not so well. Baby boomers are finding their children grown and taking care of mom and dad is their latest responsibility. Aging parents can require much the same level of care as young children.
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By Helayne Waldman, Ed.D., N.E.
Summertime is the ideal time to enjoy all the fresh fruits and vegetables that nature has to offer. And what could be better than a handful of fresh cherries, a slice of juicy watermelon or the first bite of a delectable peach? Fruits and vegetables are good for what ails us we’re told, and there certainly is truth to that. Just bursting with antioxidants with fancy-sounding names like carotenes, polyphenols, and ellagic acid, they help protect us from oxidative stress, inflammation, and if you’ve checked out the literature on blueberries recently, even cognitive decline.
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By Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D. and Debbie Gisonni
The insatiable desire for a quick fix to achieve health and weight loss sends most people from one extreme to another in their diets and, ultimately, their lives. Deprivation is usually the common thread in most diets, and traditional fasting takes that concept to the extreme. On the other hand, feasting is seen as an act of pure gluttony. Cultural norms tell us that deprivation is good and feasting is bad. But what if feasting and fasting were equally healthy for you?
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By Jessica "Jimmy" Wilson
As the vernal equinox approaches, so too does the much anticipated bounty of spring fruits and vegetables. After months of limited seasonal produce, spring brings with it the welcomed promise of abundant gardens, ripe with brilliant red and gold sugar beets, flaming yellow lemons, gorgeous red radishes, deep purple eggplant, crisp green asparagus and a rainbow of heirloom carrot varietals. Soon too the local markets will be brimming with the colorful bins of spring vegetables, ready to enter our kitchens, adorn our tables, and better our health.
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By Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
I can remember the days growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s, when we prepared foods without a microwave oven. Water was boiled on the stove. Chicken was baked in an oven. Vegetables were steamed, baked, or sautéed. Food was whole and fresh. Even a TV dinner was baked in the oven, which took about 15 minutes to warm. And then, modern science and technology brought us the microwave oven that could heat food rapidly, from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. The industry has claimed that microwave cooking protects the nutrient of content of foods. Somehow, in tasting foods that came out of a microwave oven, the texture was changed as was the favor.
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By Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Over the past twenty years, research has been published demonstrating that food is the primary promoter of health and protector from disease. This has given the public and the medical profession a much needed wake-up call. Ed Bauman writes a 40-year review about holistic nutrition .
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By Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
The immune system is our cellular guardian angel and private body guard. The sweet part is that it works to watch over us every minute of every day and is dedicated to protecting our cells from outside or inside threats. Should a microbe, such as a virus, enter our body, a carefully mediated response is set in motion to neutralize the intruder. Typically, the body responds with a localized inflammatory response from the skin or mucous membranes to keep the offender away from our precious internal organs.
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By Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
The Swine Flu outbreak of Spring 2009 created a media circus and nightly news horror movie
with all of us as supporting actors (without pay).
| THE PLOT: A new molecule of mass destruction is released from our neighbor to the South, comprised of a deadly mix of bird, human, and swine flu, and the phenomenon is described as pandemic. Mass fear is engendered and panic-driven questions are raised. Is this microbial Katrina stoppable? Can we find a vaccination in time? Are there enough respiratory protective masks to go around? Could this be the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy related to eating animals with cloven hooves, a symptom of bad animal husbandry, biological warfare... is it all, some, or none of the above? |
Let’s step back from the media circus for a moment and explore the origin and epidemiology
of this hybrid flu. Maybe we can integrate medical and natural health approaches and minimize our risk of getting this nasty bug. Maybe, as usual, an ounce of prevention will do the trick.
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Many people come to me and ask, “What diet is right for me? Is it the Zone, Atkins, Ornish, Pyramid, or Blood Typing? I need to lose weight, gain energy, and get fit. I've tried and failed so many diets that I am ready to give up, but I can't. |
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By Jodi Friedlander M.S., N.C.
Reproductive hormone imbalance, especially in women, is a widespread phenomenon, deeply impacting the quality of life for those affected. It often begins before puberty and continues on through and beyond menopause. Symptoms vary widely in type, number, and severity and tend to increase as women approach mid-life.
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By Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
The U.S. health system’s current focus on disease management (>96% of health care costs) offers little opportunity for health promotion (< 4 % of health care cost) programs. Major medical care tends to treat an individual’s illness post-diagnosis, without investing in either wellness care or disease prevention. Our goal is to create more participation in teaching people to live well to create health. In doing so, this will diminish the cost of medical care used to treat preventable and reversible illness, injury and age related disorders. Medicine is best used to treat urgencies and emergencies.
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Despite the fact that two out of three health care dollars are spent on women, they are still not being listened to. Women’s wisdom is generally ignored by mainstream health practitioners. Women’s body knowledge is dismissed as “neurotic,” “hypochondriac,” or “hysterical.” The medical establishment is so dominated by men’s thinking and male physiology that women’s different hormonal make-up and health needs are rarely in the conscious awareness of physicians.
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D, N.C.
Share Guide, Nov/Dec 2008 www.shareguide.com
Common prescription and over-the-counter pain relievers such as Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Vioxx®, and Celebrex® may work for the short-term but are not as safe as you might think! NSAID-associated health issues are estimated to result in 103,000 hospitalizations and 16,500 deaths per year.
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by Jodi Friedlander, M.S. and Edward Bauman, M.Ed, Ph.D.
Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
My fellow Americans, we have a problem, a drinking problem – but rather than getting high as a result, we’re sometimes getting sick. Sometimes we’re even getting conned. Turn on your kitchen water faucet, or purchase a leading brand of bottled water, and what do you get? It all looks and tastes like clear, clean water, but as many people already know, what we see often is not what we get.
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by Jodi Friedlander, M.S. and Edward Bauman, M.Ed, Ph.D.
While watching the 2008 Olympics recently, did you wonder what those world-class athletes were eating? Just as top-tier athletes need trainers, coaches, psychologists, and health advisors, so too does the weekend athlete, who trains intermittently and may be unaware of the toll that strenuous exercise can cause when the diet is poor or erratic.
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By Jodi Friedlander M.S., N.C.
Recent research studies, and much clinical and anecdotal evidence, suggest sugar substitutes—including aspartame and Splenda®—are contributing to weight gain and diabetes. This is in addition to the many other side effects connected with them. |
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed, Ph.D.
Consensus is emerging in the scientific and medical literature that what we eat or fail to eat is an important contributor to the incidence and prevalence of cancer. Many foods, herbs and nutritional factors have been identified as being cancer protective. Find out how you can help protect yourself and your family from this growing issue.
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by Edward Bauman, M.Ed, Ph.D.
Our environment is getting more and more toxic every day. Meanwhile obesity is becoming a worldwide epidemic. Is there a connection?
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