Natalia Rose

Girls are reaching puberty at significantly younger ages than ever before, even as young as 7 and 8. If you haven't seen the stats, take a look at this recent piece from the Los Angeles Times: "U.S. girls starting puberty earlier, but doctors aren't sure why."

It's...

With the holidays and all those hearty "Happy New Year!" greetings behind us, this is around the time that depression typically sets in. It's a season of rampant colds, flus, fatigue, weight gain, credit card bills, work pressures and general malaise. If you are among the many for whom the...

Emotional eating, which is almost always synonymous with overeating, is a serious illness -- an extremely common form of addiction. If left untreated, it can lead to many other serious physical and emotional illnesses. Yet, strangely, as the masses dig their graves with their teeth (to borrow from an old...

You know summer is upon us when cherries come into season. What says summer more than a bowl of these plump, succulent beauties? But wait, look again: something's terribly wrong here. Notice the strange growths and aberrations?

These freakish, non-organic cherries are your...

Well, well, well, it's finally happened--the probable carcinogenic effects of sunscreen have finally reached the headlines. Research on cellular destruction-by-way-of-sunscreen is not only being, at long last, officially documented per the nation's standards of credible news, but is pointing to results that may be far worse than most people ever...

This morning, I took my first exercise class in roughly a decade. My beloved childhood friend, bless her heart, suggested we try it. Even in the winter, I still trek through Central Park almost every day, but the weather conditions have been particularly challenging lately.

The profile of tiny,...

As you might remember from grade-school American history, Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century U.S. claim that its settlers were divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent. This was the defense for the cold-blooded extermination of countless natives, whole communities that had been thriving on this land for at...

Recently, I went to at least ten different groceries and farmers markets trying to find a carrot that tasted like a carrot instead of a piece of crisp cardboard. This should not have been so hard to come by in a civilization considered so advanced, in a city admired the...

In Mein Kampf, Hitler coined the term "the big lie," referring to a form of propaganda that pivots on telling a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Of course, he himself went on to employ this very...

Note: This post contains helpful dietary information for all health-conscious readers, but be forewarned that it's not all pretty!

Let's consider, for a moment, Newton's first law of motion: A body persists its state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force.

Now, when...

In late August, you could find me in the lap of luxury at the larger-than-life Badrutt's Palace Hotel in the storybook Swiss Alpine village of St. Moritz. Just one month later, I was checked in at the Courtyard Marriott in eastern Pennsylvania. Boy, did my coach ever turn into a...

Parenting is an extremely rewarding but daunting enterprise, as any seasoned parent can tell you, and the beginning of the school year brings its own great challenges. Thus, it is vitally important that we organize our lives so we do not fall into that all-too-familiar trap: using our kids and...

Why does it seem that everyone we know is taking antidepressants or some other substance to suppress emotional pain? Why are we numbing ourselves, and why is it accepted as normal? What is the common denominator here?

A slow but steady detour away from the independent values that made our...

As tribute concerts and celebrations keep popping up around the world, it's clear that Michael Jackson's musical legacy will live on forever. Perhaps less obvious to his loyal revelers is that he truly was and remains "the man in the mirror"--or what I like to call a "perception-giver"--reflecting the tragic...

One of the most frequently asked questions among my readers and clients is "Do I have to exercise?" Let's shine a new light on exercise, once and for all.

There are three key things the body needs to be doing constantly:

1. Taking in oxygen
2. Pushing out...

When you cleanse your body, you become more sensitized to all aspects of your life. You will naturally want to clean and organize your immediate environment, such as your home or office space. Then, at a certain point, you will be ready to examine your relationships -- how you respond...

Along with most of you, I know a number of people who have lost their jobs and many more who have lost their nest eggs and fortunes (both modest and whopping). I even received the shocking news that one friend took his own life over the holidays. The only way...

Anger. Such a loaded word, but how many of us really understand anger? Words like "light" and "love" are trendy among the enlightenment-seekers. Those are wonderful words and, yes, they carry great energy and power. But so does "anger."

Anger is the desire to protect. It is not some...

If you are interested in diet, health, raw foods, or any offshoot of the detox lifestyle, you must understand the beauty of simplicity. No matter what level of health you are coming from -- be it decades of raw or right off the hot dog cart--the quickest, most painless route...

As an avid observer of trends, I have noted a significant shift in what we find beautiful in our culture. Instead of continuing to value youth for the sake of youth and flawlessness for the sake of flawlessness, as we are "awakening" to the higher truths of humanity, we are...