The Monte Foundation and Covid-19In March of 2020, fifty-seven million South Africans went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Ekurhuleni...
LACTO-FERMENTED BEETS AND TURNIPSFermenting beets can get a bit tricky. Like fruit, beets have a relatively high sugar content that can convert to alcohol quite easily....
HOMEMADE SAUERKRAUTSauerkraut is probably the most well-known lacto-fermented vegetable. Like any traditionally homemade food, sauerkraut can be made in a...
LACTO-FERMENTED SPINACHFermentation modifies the sometimes bitter taste of spinach, making it more sour and salty instead. The lemon adds a fresh bright flavor....
LACTO-FERMENTED RAW SWEET POTATOESFermentation modifies the sometimes bitter taste of spinach, making it more sour and salty instead. The lemon adds a fresh bright flavor....
WHAT IS TRANSFORMATION? Two young boys, maybe 8 or 9 years of age, walk down the street, both free of any care in the world, at least by all appearances....
WRITING ABOUT YOUR EMOTIONS TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTHWhat happens to your immune system and overall health when you write about painful emotions and traumatic events? That was the question...
SEVEN FOODS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE Sometimes it’s better to think about what you can do right, than to list all the things you think you’re doing wrong. Here are seven...
GIFTS OF HEALTH FROM THE MOTHER OCEAN The ocean is the mother of life on the planet and, not surprisingly, the memory of the ocean still flows in our arteries and veins. ...
HOW DIET AND LIFESTYLE CAN CHANGETHE WAY YOUR GENES BEHAVE Back in 1981, I wrote a book entitled, Recalled By Life: The Story of My Recovery From Cancer, with Anthony Sattilaro, M.D., who used a...
COOLING THE FLAMES OF INFLAMMATIONGlobal warming isn’t restricted to the outer environment. It’s happening inside of us, too. Our blood and internal organs are heating up,...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH DAIRY FOOD?Thanks to the overwhelming success of ad campaigns conducted by the dairy industry, milk is widely believed to be essential to health,...
CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLES: EAT LOTS OF THEM Long ago, Native Americans created many myths to explain why plants had such awesome medicinal powers. One of those myths went like this....
HEALING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITISRheumatoid arthritis is a painful and debilitating condition that arises when immune cells attack the sensitive lining of the joints,...
YOUR ACID-ALKALINE BALANCE: THE KEY TO BETTER DIGESTION, GREATER HEALTH, AND SLOWER AGINGWhen the fall and winter months arrive, we naturally crave more warming foods, which means we tend to increase our consumption of animal...
MAKING YOUR KIDNEYS STRONGER The first snow came to Amherst, Massachusetts this month, and with it the first signs of kidney season. Winter is the Water phase of the...
HELPING YOUR LIVER DO ITS SPRING CLEANING We’re still weeks away from the official arrival of spring, but my neighbors have already tapped their maple sugar trees to capture the...
HEALING YOUR INTESTINESWhen we talk about healing the intestines, what we are really saying is heal your microbiome, the rich microbial community living on your bo