Self-regulation and sugar (updated)

Can too much sugar wreak havoc on the best of our efforts to remain healthy? From coast to coast, the New York Times and Seattle Times recently reported on how dietary...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Jamie Oliver is at it again with Food Revolution. If you’ve got to learn the fundamentals of reading and writing so you can support yourself later in life. Doesn’t...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Cow’s Milk Alternative

Mom & Dad kept telling me to drink milk. There are billboards and commercials telling me to drink this stuff to get enough calcium to help our bones. Oddly enough, cows...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Health and Fitness

Sugar in School for Athletes Please Get Off the Bus

Remember the days when we didn’t have a soda machine in the school. I know as you know, things have changed. Kids still want to be or act like adults, like we did, for...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Health and Fitness

Hungry for Change

Have you seen the movie Hungry for Change? If you haven’t, you can order the book Hungry for Change and then you can get access to the movie and watch it on your...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Health and Fitness

Dr. Blaylock and Excitotoxins

Dr. Blaylock, the author of Excitotoxins, has caught the eyes of folks like Bill Maher who thinks this merits some credibility. There is of course the establishment who will...

by Edward Barrera

Brain

Food Revolution

Omega 3 Fatty Acids

Do we get enough exercise? Do we have simple ways to decrease the stress we feel in our muscles? Can we reduce joint pain? Somatics exercises is one avenue we can all use to...

by Edward Barrera

Food Revolution

Health and Fitness

The sugar that kills

Sugar is sugar. So they say. Watching young athletes consume the overdose of sweetened drinks makes me wonder who will I get to play with when I am older. Will we lose still...

Somatic thoughts on Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

Somatics is defined as the body experienced from within. Thomas Hanna coined this term which not only relates to movement as is taught in Hanna Somatic Education®, it also...

by Edward Barrera