Oatmeal: A Healthy and Delicious Choice (with all the right fixin’s)

by Loran Diehl Saito January is National Oatmeal Month, an annual celebration of the joys of oatmeal in our world. Oatmeal is a starting place for many terrific recipes, and a hot bowl of oatmeal on a cold winter morning can be both comforting and delicious. Oatmeal is good for you too. A 2008 study, [...]

Beating Winter’s Menace: Colds and Flu

by Loran Diehl Saito I got to coughing incessantly, and my voice fell below zero; I conversed in a thundering bass, two octaves below my natural tone; I could only compass my regular nightly repose by coughing myself down to a state of utter exhaustion, and then the moment I began to talk in my [...]

Radiation and Potassium Iodine

3/18/2011 update from National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear complex has caused some panic-buying of potassium iodide (KI) and certain seaweed supplements in the US and elsewhere. There are many public misperceptions about the likelihood of nuclear fallout from Japan reaching the US and how potassium iodide may work to [...]

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