Who’da thunk it right? I got off the sodas months ago because I realized they were just no good for me. Lunch meats, well, they’re nothing more than sodium packs and as much as I love the sandwich shops around town, they too are no good even if I am buying a mercury [...]

Whew, now that’s a mouthful. Yes indeed I am going to combine three posts in one because I’ve got chemo brain and I can’t stay focused. Well no, actually, all of this came together in one day during chemo. Today was my day to sit in a chair and look stupid for a couple [...]

I finally did it and three times was the charm. Gulab Jamun is one of my favorite Indian deserts, particularly when served warm (or at room temperature) with cold ice cream. Gulab Jamun is also one of India’s most popular desserts. The name Gulab means rose and Jamun is a kind of [...]

Now that I have talked about preparing my meals at home, I want to take some time to talk about Ayurvedic cooking. Actually, I am going to take a quote from the website www.sanatansociety.org: The Ayurvedic cook derives his knowledge of herbs, spices, vegetables, legumes and so forth from the Ayurveda, which helps them maintain [...]

This is where I hang my head in shame to say for many years my stove sat as nothing more than installation art in my kitchen. What did I do all those years? I did what most do, I purchased sodium packs that I could easily pop into a microwave oven for another [...]

To kick-off National Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) released a report on the current state of autoimmune disease (AD) and its economic and social impact globally and in the U.S. The summit is taking place today, March 3, and unfortunately I was not able to get to the site in [...]