Natural Cycles

If you exercise often, you can eat and drink whatever your heart desires, right? Wrong. Did you know the quality of the food you consume affects your health more than the quantity of food you consume? You can’t out-exercise or out-supplement a poor diet. Nutrition is the cornerstone of our health. Incidences of death and disease from lifestyle and dietary choices are increasing exponentially. The cost of developing drugs and surgical procedures to combat these diseases is astronomical. But there is hope. Best-selling author, Dr. Anya Szigeti, DC.,MBA., shares about food and its potential ...

We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness.

There are always tension and dissonance in some way in our everyday lives. Short stories in Reflections suggest looking at what we might not notice. Maybe we should pay more attention. Most are unobtrusive and unpretentious, but a few can be startling at times. They are clearly or subtly ecosystemic: interconnected in approach, and this links them, even though themes vary and they might not seem similar otherwise. Again, it’s about what we don’t ordinarily see. Even though they are fiction, for fun, there are suggestions that it never hurts to be vigilant of our surroundings and to ...