In the wake of changes to our political environment (Black Lives Matter, the Storming of the Nation’s Capitol, Trump’s election, etc.) many people felt hopeless about the future of the US. Fighting positive change is hard, requires sustained effort, a...
We all have busy lives, which leave little time for cooking health meals when we get home at the end of the day. First, a little reality check: “The average restaurant meal comes in at 1,500 calories, so it’s hard to lose weight eating out,” says Dawn Jackson...
Adapted from Steve Rubinstein from the San Francisco Chronicle Six therapeutic llamas came on Friday to bring therapy to UC Berkeley in the fourth llama confab in campus history. A therapeutic llama may look like an ordinary llama. It isn’t. It’s been specially...
Did you know that you can get what your body needs just by eating a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables? Nature has found a clever way to highlight the nutrients in foods: different nutrients actually impart different colors to the foods they’re in. For...
Turmeric is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese and Indian medicine to treat a wide variety of conditions. It is now the one of the most-studied spices on the planet and has currently about 6,235 peer-reviewed articles published proving the...
The stresses of everyday life may start taking a toll on the brain in relatively early middle age, new research shows. A study of more than 2,000 people, most of them in their 40s, found those with the highest levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol performed...
