The nation looks on in horror at the interminable orgy of true confessions from Governor Sanford -- voluntarily decimating his political career by bogarting a spotlight rightfully passed to recently departed celebrities. Any psychologically aware person must ask: Why?

Were the constraints of being in a suffocatingly correct marriage so...

Even if certain congressmen bend to the will of lobbyists, even if a few misguided voters never understood that "socialized medicine" is no longer a threat because the cold war is over, today's reality is that the President and a majority of people get that health care has to change....

What's the single most important service you can do to help our troubled economy recover?

Take care of your health!

With health care costs rising (nearing 20% of GDP), if you commit to service for health, we'll all get a double-duty payoff (benefiting both health and the buckling...

I'm not the ideal candidate for a cleanse. When not on deadline, (which is practically always), I'm rushing around from one health seminar to the next. Meetings, interviews, causes, trainings, policy sessions, (and the occasional retreat) fill my days. Unless you can do a cleanse on the run, forget about...

With the election of President Barack Obama, millions of Americans opted for "change you can believe in." But now as our country faces the tough job of redirecting a host of entrenched and interactive infrastructures that don't well serve the majority of regular people, many are wondering whether the major...

Have you ever wished you could see into the future for guidance on your next moves? Or have you ever been on the receiving end of that guidance?

If so, you've probably noticed that intuition, hunches, and outright premonitions, (typically vivid dreams forewarning future happenings--especially catastrophic ones) are real....

When in the Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan portrayed agribusiness' unhealthy treatment of livestock animals, some readers suddenly lost their appetite for meat, going vegan overnight.

But others found "the sane food loophole:" Organic, pasture-raised meat and dairy-- the protein complement to the fruits and vegetables First Lady Michelle Obama championed...

Not every health problem is an emergency. Unless you wait around and do nothing until it becomes one.

And that's what we've done ---as individuals and as a nation, now in the throes of a health care system in crisis with ballooning waistlines and ballooning costs. Supplying coverage to...

The unspoken corollary of the old adage, "If it's not broke, don't fix it.." is:

"If it is broke, we better fix it.."

Broken and broke. That's how a growing number of people -- including President Obama -- see the current health care system and what it does to...

I'm all for lowering health care costs by taking more responsibility for my health. As a health journalist and coach, I'm a champion of supporting people to improve their diet, upgrade their exercise, and manage stress.

But a little question: if we're responsible, shouldn't we also have the freedom to...

Have you noticed? A lot of people are feeling funky lately.

With over $1.9 billion spent annually on antidepressants, and sixty million Americans (26% of the adult population) experiencing either depression or anxiety, Americans are not a happy bunch -- happiness prescriptions aside. If you or someone close to...

As a twisted Christmas present to Americans who care about health, the Wall Street Journal recently published an article knocking integrative physicians, Deepak Chopra, MD, and Andrew Weil, MD.

Why? Why would the Wall Street Journal bother to devote space to this jibe? (For the doctors' reply to this...

As one of the millions who gave a bit of their time/money etc to team Obama, I was -- as I was as at the last two Presidential elections-- volunteering in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania for the election yesterday.

In my family, political activism was a tradition, and...

One likely aftermath of the recent Wall Street tremors is a next administration belt-tightening - which may impact one of this economy's highest ticket items: health. This occurs just as we planned to bring millions more under the insurance umbrella. Something's gotta give.

Though we need insurance coverage to prevent...

Feeling stressed, depressed, or anxious this political season? If you're stymied, worried, or just plain despairing, Dr. James Gordon's new book, Unstuck (Penguin 2008) has some valuable strategies and insights for anyone who turned on the TV this week and felt like tossing the remote into the garbage.

In...

As a teen, I first learned yoga from the classic Yoga in 28 Days, which 35 years after its original publication, is still in print. After a decade of dance study, I began a daily yoga practice that lasted over fifteen years-- including training to become a teacher of Anusara...

When the talk turns to God or consciousness and God, do you picture any of these?

Serene strolls across pristine sand by a dazzling aquamarine ocean,
Gazing awestruck at a vast indigo sky flecked with glittering stars,
Images of a cascading waterfall in a verdant forest....

When...

When a Western doctor sticks a tongue depressor down your throat and tells you to say; "Ahhh," he's using one of the five senses to observe throat redness-- just one of thousands of signifiers of your health status. When an Ayurvedic physician "reads your pulses," he or she is also...

Hearing and seeing Bill Moyers, Arianna Huffington, Naomi Klein, and Dan Rather--and a host of independent journalists and techies--all gathered under one roof at last weekend's National Conference for Media Reform (in Minneapolis) was soul refreshment for this 20+ year journalist. So why was I crying?

Because at last for...

"Do cell phones cause brain cancer?"

This was the question that Larry King posed this week to Dena Cochran, the widow of Johnnie Cochran (who died of the disease), as well as to a group of five doctors. These docs commented on the "Interphone study" in which thirty-five researchers...