When Skelly (the skeleton and bones that lives in us all) wants a special treat I pull out my recipe for kale chips. You see, kale is a superfood when it comes to building strong bones. Here’s why.

Build Your Bones With Butternut Squash Soup I don’t have to look at the calendar to see when fall arrives.  I feel it in my bones.  They get very excited when the first beautiful butternut squash appears at the farmer’s market. Butternut squash is related to pumpkin and, in fact, my friends in Australia and […]

Miso is a truly miraculous food. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in World War II, 21 hospital workers were caring for 70 tuberculosis patients.  Even though the hospital was only 1.4 kilometers from ground zero, NO ONE developed acute radiation poisoning. How can that be?  One of the doctors explained that everyone […]

When I heard about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's (now Senator) one week Food Stamp Challenge on the Sunday Morning Show, I was intrigued.  As a bone health and nutrition coach, I wondered whether you could not just survive but eat well on food stamps. When I say eat well, I mean eating fresh, unprocessed, organic, non-GMO […]