My concern with makeup lies in its ingredients. We know that to some degree our bodies do absorb the chemicals we apply to our skin. The Environmental Protection Agency has an interesting article on its website called the “Dermal Exposure Assessment.” They review studies of skin absorption using mice, rats, and other unlucky lab animals…
Category Archives: Health Structures
Stress Management for Busy Times
I am in the middle of a very busy work season in my data analysis work. Add to that the Easter holidays, a festival next weekend, and my son’s 5th birthday party the following weekend and I have a very busy month. I came back from Easter dinner looking and feeling a bit like a…
Clean Indoor Air in the Winter
Word is spreading that indoor air is typically far worse than outdoor air. You may live in the middle of Los Angeles, one of the worst places for outdoor air in the country, and your indoor air is likely much worse. Your body must filter out the chemicals in that indoor air and that filtering…
Is it unhealthy to microwave food?
In my book I discuss the importance of dietary nutrients in fighting depression. We need to add them to our diets. But the flip side of the coin is that we need to preserve the nutrients we have. We need to avoid activities that will require more nutrients. Stress and toxic exposure, for instance, can…
Chick Housing and Indoor Air
Perhaps your mother has never told you, so let me tell you in case you did not know: raising chicks in your house creates very bad indoor air. My poor husband Sander has an office next to the porch room where the chicks were living and he has lung problems. It’s a bad combination. Researchers…
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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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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. Find Amanda on Google Plus.
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."