A Dark Cloud We Call Healthcare
There is a dark cloud where our healthcare system once stood. I would not normally use this venue as a political forum, but with so many Americans unemployed and without health insurance, I felt I had to share with you the reality of what can happen should you actually need medical care and be unable…
Get Ready for the Future of Food
So let’s get on to the nuts and bolts of what has come together over the past few years. It all began when two guys got together and had a brainstorm idea to start a coffee company. They understood that a commodity, coffee, is something that almost everyone drinks every day. It is legal and we are largely addicted. What if they could produce the best tasting coffee in the world? What would that look like?
A Legacy of Gluttony
Those of you who are old enough (children of the 50’s and 60’s) will probably remember your parents telling you to clean your plate because “children in China were starving.” It never made sense the way they said it. Wouldn’t it be impractical to gather up the brussel sprouts that my sister and the dog and I didn’t want, and ship them over to China to help those kids? And how would my consumption of those disgusting green balls help those Chinese kids anyway? Obviously, we missed the point entirely, but so did our parents!
An Ounce of Prevention – 3 Ways to Guard Against Seasonal Illness and Disease
In the late nineteenth century, Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bernard Bechamp were both studying the cause of disease. From their body of work, two schools of thought about disease emerged. Pasteur believed that microbes caused disease, and his work resulted in the germ theory. The germ theory is the basis for modern medicine, killing the germ with a variety of expensive chemical concoctions that must be highly regulated because they are, for the most part, poisons.
