Is your individuality shaped by your DNA or how you’ve been raised? Epigenetics shows environmental influences have a profound effect.

Adding some ritual to your food preparation actually enhances the taste of the food.

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”  Dalai Lama We are human, and we love.  Love creates so much joy, and yet it seems to inspire so much pain in our lives. How can we learn to love and to make wise choices about our relationships? How can we learn […]

It’s almost the end of July, and with the end of the month comes the end of another challenge: Plastic-Free July, which asks people to avoid all single-use plastics for 31 days. Why? Every piece of plastic you use, if it hasn’t been recycled or produced via a new environmentally conscious technology, chips away at […]

As you age a crucial psychological change occurs that allows happiness to happen.

New light is shed on the use of cranberry for urinary infections.

The human brain has similar wiring to that of a bird.

Worried about your elevated cholesterol? Increasing the plant sterols in your diet can help you reduce it to a safe level.

Planned obsolescence is still a driver of the economy so how can you make more sustainable, less throw-away, choices?

Eating nuts reduces risk of cancer and heart disease.

I want to live my life With the ease and perfection and power Of a wave travelling along itself As it breaks into foam. The weakening habit of doubting ourselves can take many forms. It might be a constant feeling that somehow we have failed, even in the middle of success, and we can feel […]

Drinking water boosts your reaction time in tests.