Juicing can get a little monotonous, so it’s good to spice things up a bit. Along those lines, spicy ginger gives a kick to just about any detoxifying juice mix....

Celery is profoundly detoxifying and widely considered to be the most cooling food available....

I’m a great fan of juice fasting. It’s a good compromise between drastic detox and you normal daily diet....

Every natural healing system says that diet is the first and most basic building block of good health....

Are you having one of those days? You woke up totally tired- all you want is to go back to sleep. It’s 11:00 a.m., and you're half way through your third cup of coffee....

Want to add a little zap to your tongue and your health? In my opinion, ginger root, called “the universal medicine” in Ayurveda, is one of the best investments you can make in your health. And it’s so simple. This root is delicious, inexpensive and easily available....

Seems like the season would make a difference in our health, doesn’t it? Each season has its temperature, humidity and different hours of sun, and it turns out that seasonal differences have a big effect, and while we usually don’t talk much about it, older health systems have worked out a whole system of eating with the seasons. I’ve found it to be one of the most revealing things you can learn to help you stay healthy....

Most natural healing systems stress the need to let your digestive process finish off one meal before embarking on the task of digesting the next. Ayurveda is particularly strict about that angle, and seriously recommends about four hours between meals. That’s four hours with- sorry- no snacks....

Bread is the staff of life. Or at least it could be, if we ate homemade whole grain bread baked with love....

Apropos of summer cooling foods and their anti-inflammatory benefits......

Learning about my Ayurvedic constitution and adjusting my diet accordingly was one of the most, if not the most important, things I have ever done for my health. I grew up having chronic, serious sinus problems. Once I learned that, as a kapha constitution, I did much better with very few milk products in my diet, my sinus issues retreated and never bothered me again....

It seems to me that, for our health, the thing that most of us have had the most trouble with for the longest is diet. And, boy, has our diet changed, in just one generation! Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common. Fiber levels are one tenth of that of our historical diet....

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Or so they say. Apples really are pretty healthy, but some superstar fruits are getting a lot of attention these days. I’ve been giving some thought to fruits and which ones would really be a good addition to our diet, and while doing that, I’ve actually been eating an apple each day for many years....

When Oprah and Dr. Oz talk about detoxification and special therapeutic diets, you know it’s become trendy....