Fact #1. Heart Disease is a national epidemic. Fact #2. It’s the #1 killer among women in the U.S. today. Fact #3. 1 in every 3 women dies of cardiovascular disease, more than the next seven leading causes of death combined, including breast cancer. Whoa. Naturally, you’re concerned about your heart. You want to change <... >

Springing forth from Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” in 1998, like a Greek Goddess fully fledged and ready for battle, V-Day has become an annual celebration for women to both honor our “V’s” as well as raise awareness of the hardships and tragedies that befall too many of our sisters worldwide. (See City Pulse section for <... >

e·mul·si·fi·er (-mls-fr) n. An agent used to make an emulsion of a fixed oil. Q. What is an emulsifier? A. Emulsifiers are binding agents that bind water and oil together, they are generally waxed based products. Q. Why are emulsifiers so important in products? A. Emulsifiers are important because they maintain a stabilized product so <... >

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas MacArthur The horror of growing old has driven many a tormented soul in search of the fountain of youth. And I’m not talking about the Norma Desmond types. Today, Hollywood twenty-somethings are swapping names of cosmetic surgeons or flying to <... >

This year, my New Year’s resolution was to find a good holistic doctor for annual checkups, so I could avoid arguing with my very nice, but very “conventional” primary care physician over things like birth control pills and x-rays. For everyone else that prefers a holistic approach to health, there is a wonderful holistic health <... >

The champagne glasses from New Year’s Eve are still drying in the dish rack and it suddenly hits like a ton of bricks – the seasonal blues! Also known by its official name, Seasonal Adjustment Disorder, this form of depression hits many people every year, striking as early as November and lasting until March. Since <... >

Want a way to eat healthy, stay warm and lose weight? Try eating soup or stew for either lunch or dinner every day! There are so many different varieties of soup that you could never grow bored with the choices. Plus, many soups combine the perfect balance of protein, vegetables and grains to promote health <... >

Here you are again. It’s 2006, and you’re making the same New Year’s resolutions for the (inaudibly grumbled number) time. You’re going to lose that weight this year, or quit smoking, or unload unnecessary baggage from your past to feel healthy, wonderful and ready for all of the great things life has to offer. You <... >

It’s that time of year when you know you’re going to over indulge. Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, eggnog, hot toddies, sherries, not to mention those “Oh, I shouldn’t” extra glasses of Merlot, Pinot and Barola selections. You get the picture. But forget about your liver for one second. Think about your skin. On top of the <... >

OK, so you take your multi-vitamins, you drink green tea and you eat salmon three times a week. Great. But here’s something you can take to ensure you’re getting all the unrefined oils to meet your daily essential fatty acid requirements. Made by renowned health author Udo Erasmus, these supplements contain oils from organic flax, <... >

One thing my readers continually ask me is “what’s the best all-natural eye make-up out there?” Until now, I never had the answer. Not that I hadn’t experimented with many natural make-up brands in the past. I had, but I found that although most of them contained all-natural ingredients, the foundation formulas were either too <... >

What do vegans have that others crave for? How about softer, more moisturized, fuller lips. Now there’s an organic lip care formula that decreases wrinkles and visibly increases volume. It’s called “Lip Expert” by German makeup line Laveré, Naturkosmetik. Full of organic goodies like sepilift, a coconut-derived protein that improves skin elasticity; cova extract that <... >

“My friends tell me that it’s hardly noticeable and it just looks like I have rosy cheeks or a little sun,” says Brooklyn resident and rosacea sufferer, Nekisia Davis, “but I think all those with rosacea know how difficult it is.” Davis goes on to explain, “Some days it’s worse; some days better. I never <... >

I’m sitting here in my living room on a work day, fighting off a cold as I’m writing this article about natural remedies for cold and flu. Ironic, most would say, but I choose to see it as a self-experiment for journalistic integrity. (Are you buying that? Neither did my boss.) For a few weeks <... >

We live in a city filled with fast food, pollution, and subways littered with eight million sets of germs, so it’s no surprise chemicals are the chosen products used to clean both our homes and our selves. Here are a few recipes you can make in minutes, from the contents of your spice and condiment <... >

When I asked Wayne Zink, Partner/Marketing Guru of ESCC, how and why he got involved with the Endangered Species Chocolate Company, his answer was simple. “I found myself in a unique situation. I was in a company where the cause is the brand and the brand is the cause.” Huh? Simply put, ESCC is about <... >

I had never heard of Protective Nourishment until I walked into Sava Spa a few years ago (Go to Spa Section for a review of Sava Spa). As it turns out, Sava is the only place, outside of two spots in Los Angeles, to carry Protective Nourishment in this country! (Hence the relative anonymity). For <... >

One busy Wednesday in September, I snuck out of work from 12-2 p.m. to hit the booths at Whole Food’s first Spa & Wellness day. I literally ran around greeting a slew of wonderful all-natural companies. Some of them I already knew and had written about (Collective Wellbeing and Jason), but others were new to <... >

With a motto like “In Harmony with Nature,” WELEDA, like many of other German companies (Dr Hauschka and Lavera), is committed to making their products from raw materials grown to meet organic standards. Only select natural substances, carefully processed, are used to create innovative formulations that work the natural life processes of the human body. <... >

Thoughts of Halloween wouldn’t be complete without images of carved, gap-toothed pumpkins and pies made from the insides, or those delicious chocolate treats leftover from the Trick-Or-Treaters every year. (Although, technically they aren’t “leftovers” if you claim you ran out of candy while stashing the last three Peanut Butter Cups for yourself. Don’t lie; we’ve <... >