Mornings, for some, are a discouraging part of the day. Waking up can be hard enough…and then you look in the mirror. “Whoa!” you say. “What happened?”

You can try a cold washcloth, as I have. But it only goes so far to bring down the puffiness in your face. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing gives away your age like your neck. The neck region, or décolleté, often gets neglected. In younger years, its skin tone and musculature are more in-sync with the face, lending a youthful, graceful look. After 40, an almost imperceptible decline leads to fat deposits under the chin, weakened muscles and loose skin. And you can double that trouble if you’ve lost weight rapidly. We’ve all seen, and some of us have had, that turkey wattle. Weight loss, sun damage, diet, and heredity all play major roles in how our necks age. Women do seem to care meticulously for their faces, yet all too often that caring stops at the chin. Read the rest of this entry »

It is officially Spring! Signs of birth, regeneration and new life are everywhere. April positively kisses us with a refreshing array of seasonal produce such as pineapple, watercress, young spinach and Swiss Chard, beets and their greens, strawberries, arugula and asparagus, and nettles and radishes. This is the month when you can start adding more of a variety of veggies to your juices, experimenting with the expanding varieties of greens for your green smoothies, and putting together mouth-watering fresh main meal salads. Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing: Read the rest of this entry »

In our modern, hygienic, germophobic society, we forget that we share an amazing symbiotic relationship with an invisible world. Microbes exist within, without and all around you. Without them, your visible world (not to mention your good health) could not exist. The “invisible world” I’m talking about consists entirely of microorganisms or, as they’re more commonly known, bacteria. Read the rest of this entry »

11/30/09

Dear Tonya, you are a genius, as I often say. Thank you for your newsletter, you always blow me away… Thank God for you! -I. (Sweden)

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