Jack LaLanne said: "If man made it, don't eat it!" Looking at the average state of health in the nation, Jack just might have been right. Your body is designed to absorb nutrients in the form they commonly appear in food: as a network of intertwined...
Ever find it hard to get back on the trail again after a big meal? Or be hiking along and suddenly bonk? When backpacking, when you eat can be as important as what you eat. In order to keep your body in the best shape...
“People are meant to connect with natural places. It is good for the human soul for people to explore their relationship with the places where they live.” There was a time not too long ago that I felt more connected to my iphone than to the...
On a Wild Rocket Ride Hanging out with other international travelers broadens your world a little bit each time. I've been missing my dear new friends, the very fashionable british blogville babes Frankie @frankiestyling, Akeela @actuallyakeela and Katie @katieantoniou. So I thought I a post on...
Keep it Fresh When I started backpacking over two decades ago, I was convinced that packing fresh food was “verboten”. The colossal weight of several extra ounces of avocado on your back were just not worth the delight of savoring it’s creamy green goodness. The hiking...
"Death begins in the colon". ~Dr Bernard Jensen No, I don't mean to insinuate that your colon is lurking in a dark corner with a butcher knife just waiting for you to get home (although I'm not ruling it out either!) I'm also not referring to...
We humans have a creepy tendency chop things into little bits in order to understand them. We're uncommonly proud of the knowledge we've gained from this scientific method of "chop it up and poke at the remains", seemingly ignoring the fact that systems don't necessarily...
"Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert...
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain "A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory...
"The Perfect Health Diet is more than a diet. It's a program for perfect health. The result of 5 years of research, the Perfect Health Diet enabled scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet to cure their own chronic diseases. With more than 600 citations to the...