Author: Mary Dan Eades

I agree with an article in the Chicago Tribune by Julie Deardorff, who recommends a sound nutritional offense as the best defense against the flu, and for that matter, I would add, against other respiratory viral ailments. Obviously, the first line of defense against colds and flu (about which I have blogged before) is frequent…

I haven’t been at the blog works in several weeks, but there’s a reason for that. Two actually. You see, a while ago, we decided to simplify our lives by divesting ourselves of two part time homes and consolidating their contents into another one. While the idea was and still is a good and sensible…

I just got an article emailed to me that appeared in USA Today that fairly took my breath away. Protein is the new diet hook? Well, shut my mouth! Let’s see, it seems to me that since Protein Power came out in January of 1996, these guys are about ten years behind the curve getting…

I was delighted to read in this Sunday’s Santa Barbara News-Press an article off the Associated Press wire by Jeff Barnard in which he trumpets a gladsome tiding: natural meat sales are outpacing sales of conventional products. A sample of the article: Thanks to concerns about mad cow disease, the success of natural foods stores…

Years ago, maybe fifteen or more, I read a travel article about hiking in the Vermont woods in autumn. In the itinerary described, one spent a week hiking through the glorious flaming foliage, not camping out nightly, but rather hiking from cozy B&B to cozy B&B, being welcomed each evening with a glass of wine…

A reader just wrote to ask how to find out where our PBS tv show was showing and when. It occurred to me that other people might also want to know, so here’s the scoop: All the nearly 360 PBS affiliates around the country are independent, meaning that the programming director has wide latitude over…

We just got our advance copy of our newest book, the tie in to our PBS tv show, called The Low Carb CookwoRx cookbook. Its arrival at our box means that the books have shipped and should over the next couple of weeks be arriving in bookstores across the country. The book contains over 150…

Our thanks go out to Leif Gustafsson of Saint-Bruno QC, Canada who wrote to call us to task about being vague and unclear about the actual origins of celeriac or celery root, one of our favorite low carb vegetables. On several of our Low Carb CookwoRx tv episodes we mention that celery root is pretty…

Attention All Boomers (and Geezers) in the audience: If laughter really is the best medicine, I can heartily recommend a recent essay by Jaime O’Neill that was clipped from (dare I say it?) the AARP bulletin and sent to us by a dear friend from Santa Fe. Here’s your daily serving of laughter; enjoy.

Our grandson, who is 5 years old, recently suffered his first episode of seriously high fever a few days ago, having caught a bug of some sort at school. It’s an unfortunate truth that when the kids go back to school, they share more than tales of what they did on their summer break–they also…