Oil Pulling Experiment Results! [My Teeth Are Not Whiter But I’ve Gotten Really Awesome At Charades]

A month ago I set out on a quest – a quest to find healthier teeth, a brighter smile and who my real parents are. (Kidding, mom and dad! I love you!) So I jumped on the oil pulling internet bandwagon and rode that baby into the sunset! Thirty days and hours of swishing later, …

I’ve Gained Weight. So Does This Mean My Intuitive Eating Experiment Is a Failure?

Mika Brzezinski did something very brave today. The MSNBC anchor took a picture of her scale and posted her weight – 135.9 – on Twitter. Caption: “My weight. One year ago today I was 118 and felt fat. I feel good about this actually ..#obsessed pic.twitter.com/fHx2mhM0BW” While I don’t normally advocate the sharing of weights in …

If Someone Offered to Tell You if You Have the Genes for a Deadly, Incurable Illness – Would You Want to Know? [I did!]

Genetics in action! Given the choice, would you rather lose your mind or control of your body? When we were kids we used to play the macabre (and very un-pc) game of Alzheimer’s vs. Parkinson’s in which we dared each other to imagine a life missing either brain or body. We thought it was a …