When hormones become unbalanced, they can negatively affect our health. No matter what your age, consuming the right foods is a natural and effective way to keep order in the endocrine system.

A staggering volume of evidence suggests eating wholesome food and mostly plants will help you live long, and well.

It's the same processed food story. Additives make the product cheaper and tastier, and they give it a longer shelf life. It's about business, not health. This is what happened with soy.

From the studies available, I can tell you that soy is neither as good as the proponents say, nor as evil as the critics claim. The key is to take all available evidence together and see what shakes out.

It sounds ridiculous, but I live in NYC and hang with a foodie crowd, so sometimes it feels unfair that I've been dealt this egg-free, wheat-free hand. But on the flip side, sometimes I think that I'm pretty lucky.

Some have raised the question as to whether soy products are safe. The biggest question was whether they affect the risk of breast cancer and, for women with breast cancer, if they help chances for survival.

I was marginally afraid to try the whipped cream, but as I have eaten cookies that taste like cardboard, raw desserts that look much like vomit and tasted vegan cheese that is just plain wrong, I thought again.

What if I told you it ain't that hard to make over your entire diet? And in a month, you'll be lighter, more rested, less stressed and have more vitality and energy?

Unplugging from the industrial food Matrix does not need to happen all at once, but you can extract yourself from it eventually. The first step is starting to see it clearly.

Wining and dining a date will more likely result in a great night's sleep rather than a great romp in the sack. To really get things going, you need to stimulate your 'circuitry,' your nervous and circulatory systems.