Don’t let sunburn take your sunshine away this summer. Keep your family’s skin healthy and protected with skin-tastic Goddess Garden Organics sunscreen, suitable even for those with sensitive skin. Goddess Garden offers a fabulous selection of natural and organic skincare products but it’s the Kids Natural Sunscreen that first caught my attention. My pre-teen daughter is a…
Product Review: BFree Gluten-free Breads & Wraps Home-baked or store-bought, gluten-free bread has a reputation for crumbling to pieces, turning stale quickly, and not surviving transport in a lunch box. (And lets not forget cardboard quality taste). All of this makes anyone who brown-bags lunch for work or school (like my kids) pretty darn frustrated—and…
Book Review: The Waste Not, Want Not Cookbook When you’re cleaning-up from family dinner, do you stare in amazement at the amount of uneaten food left on the plates? Do you grit your teeth thinking about the money you’re throwing in the trash along with that uneaten food? Forty percent of the food produced in North America is wasted and…
Get a little Appy to stick with Your 2016 Health Resolution We’re approaching the 60-day mark into 2016 and many of us may be faltering on our health and fitness resolutions. Could you use a little high-tech support to help you stay on track with your goals? Well-designed health apps can help you stay motivated and can make…
Is Jack Frost nipping at you? There is help for winter-worn dry skin. We visited with Jeff Nova, owner of Nova Spa in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, to learn about natural, holistic strategies to nourish, protect and heal your skin from the elements. MTK: What is the Nova Spa approach to skincare? Jeff: We embrace the opportunity to educate…
These days it’s seems there’s a spa on every corner. But not every so-called spa actually provides an authentic spa experience, where you can conveniently step away from the business of your life and enter an oasis that takes you away from it all for a few hours. That’s what I was looking for when…
Navitas Naturals Goji Berries – an Easy Way to add Superfood Nutrition to Your Meals Before you wake-up to another winter morning and make yourself another bowl of boring-but-healthy (no sugar-added) oatmeal, give your hot breakfast stand-by a supernatural boost of flavor and nutrition by adding Goji Berry–a legendary Himalayan fruit some cultures believe is the secret to…
Review of Teas Sampled at The Green Tea House in Connecticut On an unseasonably warm and brilliantly sunny autumn day, I visited The Green Tea House in West Hartford, Connecticut for a sampling of teas that, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, have health benefits for immunity, digestion, and maintaining a healthy weight. With the winter months…
From Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, pumpkin is woven into the fabric of history and culture. Native Americans made medicinal use of pumpkin seed oil long before the Puritans began carving Jack o’ Lanterns. Today, we appreciate pumpkin not only for holiday traditions but also for the nourishing nutrients…
If you are like a lot of our readers, you have you tried dozens of protein and “on-the-go nutrition” bars. If you’ve paid any attention to the labels, you’ve noticed that many are high in sugar. (You are reading food labels, right?)