Eunis WildFire! Christensen

I missed normal dinner time yesterday due to attending the Women’s Museum of CA Women’s Film Festival showing of Underexposed: A Women’s Skateboarding Documentary. You may want to see this film – the athleticism of girls and women skateboarders is astounding. The women’s plight of insufficient media coverage and sponsorships is heart wrenching. My dilemma after […]

A Springtime present you might enjoy sharing with family and friends is the Eat Fresh website, which features budget-friendly tasty recipes and easy-to-understand nutritional information.       For feeding our Spirit…here is a seasonal phrase from early American Poet, William C. Bryant – The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes

We’re speaking French today? What does an endearment term, loosely translated my little sweetheart, have to do with National Nutrition Month? Literal translation of mon petit chou is “my little cabbage.” Now we are on to something since cabbage, whether red, green, Savoy, Napa, bok choy or brussels sprouts, is a nutritional powerhouse with disease

With the return of March as National Nutrition Month, it seemed fitting that we start from the Outside-In by identifying foods which contribute to healthy skin.  Before food, though, the essential nutrient water, needs to be given priority in our quest for a shining epidermal outer layer. A quick Google search on healthy skin leads

We finish February Heart Health month with the Old Testament verse A merry heart does good like a medicine, Proverbs 17:22. …According to Happiness and Your Heart online article a Columbia University study suggests that people who are happier have heart-protective outcomes.   Let’s now make our way from scripture and science to the Beach Boys classic (click on link-ignore

Continuing with February’s heart health theme let me introduce you to  Gil Hedley, Ph.D., founder of Integral Anatomy Productions, LLC, and Somanautics Workshops, Inc.. Mr. Hedley is self-taught in human dissection. (He works with cadavers to instruct professionals from a variety of disciplines in intricacies of human anatomy.) Warning: if seeing pictures or videos of

Presidents’ Day thoughts for a healthy heart: Beware stress levels during Presidential candidate debates. Stress is known to increase heart disease and other ailments. Be thankful for past , present and future U.S. Presidents. Bless them. Their job is harder than ours. WF!

Yesterday’s Super Bowl #50 half time show ended with a colorful, rousing chorus of “Getting It Together.”  Sometimes impetus for getting it together in physical or emotional health habits requires a decision. Complete change may not happen instantly – as is suggested in our graphic below – but if we repeat the feel better decision again and again

As you know, February is American Heart Month. We can start advocating for a healthy heart lifestyle by wearing red this coming Friday for National Wear Red Day – February 5, 2016. To set an optimistic tone for the month, though, it seemed that You’ve Gotta Have Heart from the musical Damn Yankees might be in order. Enjoy. WF!

Most of us have heard of Body Mass Index – BMI – the indicator of a person’s healthy weight as measured by a height and weight multiplier. Only thing is that BMI does not inform us of potential heart disease risk, which can be based on where fat sits on our body, e.g. “apple shape” bodies. An alternative to BMI