While we do our best to get our blood flowing with exercise, it’s easy to feel like a hamster on a wheel while jogging in place on a treadmill or mindlessly following along in a fitness class.
We may watch television to distract ourselves from a difficult workout or drown out our thoughts with loud music.
The first time some of us here at Wellness Warrior met Deborah Madison was in the teaching kitchen at La Cocina Que Canta, a cooking school set in the midst of an organic farm at Rancho La Puerta fitness resort and spa.
She is very intent, focused individual–and that day she surely was, because at 9 in the morning she had already toured the farm and decided what to pick, when, how much, and what the students would be doing with the bounty.
The Kanu Dining Room in Whiteface Lodge (Lake Placid, N.Y.) surrounds you with Adirondack camp-style stone-and-wood splendor—surely one of the grandest timber-beamed dining rooms in America, outside of Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Hotel dining room. (Psst: the Kanu was built in 2005, but looks like the last carpenter left in 1905.)
Starting your own backyard compost can be really easy. Follow these simple steps and you’ll have your own “black gold” in no time.
Keep in mind that compost is essentially “microbe farming.” Just as a gardener prepares a seed bed for right conditions to grow a plant, so too must a composter prepare their compost pile to facilitate microbe action.
Most Wellness Warriors have a basic understanding of why we eat organic food.
After all, it’s better for the environment, not to mention more nutritious, right?
But while the nutritional benefits of organic munching seem like a no-brainer, it might surprise some to know that there has been very little research into the health benefits of pesticide-free food.
As we wheeled a giant black municipally-approved trash can to the curb in San Diego a few weeks ago, it felt ridiculously light.
Inside, one forlorn small bag of kitchen waste was lying in the bottom.
Do you “binge-watch” the latest episodes of made-for-television dramas and comedies like House of Cards, Breaking Bad, and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?
Then get ready for a TEDx Manhattan event that might also leave you glued to your iPad for hours…or even breaking out a dance step or two.
“Changing the Way We Eat” speaks to how we can tweak our food system for the better—and you know something?
Cancer continues to rank as the second leading cause of death in the U.S. (heart disease is still ahead), so researchers forge on regarding both cures and prevention.
It is pretty clear that lifestyles incorporating preventative measures—eating a healthy diet, exercising, reducing stress, etc.—can help reduce risk (and, obviously, provide us with a number of other health benefits)—yet recent research might suggest that incidences of cancer may strike more randomly than we originally thought.
Fall has arrived, and most parts of the country are spending more time indoors.
Keeping our personal wellness in mind, we might adjust our exercise regime and spend more time in the gym as opposed to outside, and we may turn our nutritional focus to cold-hearty fresh greens and long-lasting winter squashes…
But what about our homes?
Walking to work last Monday, I was not in a good mood, but not quite in a bad mood.
Then I passed a woman who looked absolutely miserable.
Seeing her made me think about something that Thich Nhat Hahn, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Rev. Martin Luther King, once said.
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