With busy schedules it is easy to forget some of the easy and most pleasurable things we can do to improve our health. In my announcement post some months ago now, Jennifer mentioned that she gets twenty minutes of sun every day. In those twenty minutes, she can grab a bit of relaxation but also…
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Daily sunshine, vitamin D, and melatonin
With busy schedules it is easy to forget some of the easy and most pleasurable things we can do to improve our health. In my announcement post some months ago now, Jennifer mentioned that she gets twenty minutes of sun every day. In those twenty minutes, she can grab a bit of relaxation but also…
Raw milk generosity
Back in September of 2006, California agencies began a recall of Organic Pastures raw dairy products. I was a big supporter of the dairy at the time, kept drinking the milk we had in the house, and *still* have a gallon of it in my freezer. After a recall of a couple of weeks, the…
Apparently I can survive anything
It strikes me that I should not neglect to post here for three weeks only to post about the looming beef Apocalypse and that I am running off to eat a burger at a cowboy restaurant without even the smallest of updates. Since Easter weekend when we got the news, life has been centered around…
Nebraska Beef: The End of Days?
It’s high in iron and B vitamins, but that is a small consideration if you find yourself in the ICU after eating an E. coli burger. I have deprived myself this summer of burgers from my favorite cowboy restaurant in the High Sierra’s Ponderosa. Granted, the restaurant is stronger on the cowboys than on the…
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Endorsements
The best book on depression and food I've seen is Rebuild from Depression, by Amanda Rose, who understands the condition from bitter experience.
Nina Planck,
Author of Real Food
Rebuild from Depression is going to be a very important book. Its dissection of the role of diet and nutrition is well-researched and an eye-opener.
Robert Kotler, MD, FACS
Clinical Instructor, UCLA
Rebuild from Depression provides real answers for reversing depression caused by common nutritional deficiencies.
Jan DeCourtney, CMT
Co-author, Recapture Your Health
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About
Amanda Rose, Ph.D., is a political scientist and author of "Rebuild from Depression," on the link between nutrient deficiencies and depression. She has been depression-free for over four years, even during the recent pregnancy of her second child. Read her postpartum depression success story.
Life After Depression
There really is life after depression. I am so excited by that point, in fact, that I neglect this blog and find fun/quirky projects to do with my family. We live in the Sequoia National Forest in a house (and former brothel) designed by Irving Gill. My 7-year-old son Frederick and I chronicle our adventures at Gill on the Hill when we're not exploring. Frederick posts some of his homeschool projects at "Frankly Frederick."