Who are the experts, anyway?

I wrote the chapter on “Trusting the Experts” just before I left on a several week trip to visit family members in Louisiana and Texas. In one home I was served some unusual but tasty dishes of raw vegetables. Browsing their kitchen bookshelves, I found the books The Fungus Link, Volume 2, [...]

Trusting the Experts

Have you ever made a significant health change because of something you read in a magazine?
I ask that question partly because even since I started writing this book, an article featured in a popular magazine came out with warnings about vitamins that seem to contradict much of what I have written. And the [...]

Psychosomatics

From the etymology dictionary I learned that the word “psychosomatic” came into use in 1863, “pertaining to the relation between mind and body.” In 1938 it began to be applied to physical disorders with psychological causes. It was a popular subject for [...]

Part 1, Was it What I Ate?

I Was a Nervous Child
Nervous? High Strung? How should I describe it?
It showed up first in my sleeping habits. I’ve been told that I would not take an afternoon nap after I was a year old. I certainly remember how hard it was for me to go to sleep at night when I was [...]

Part 2, A Nutrition Reading Chronology

I am fascinated by the power of black marks on white paper. “Squiggly lines,” my four-year-old grandson called the ones he couldn’t yet identify. How those squiggly lines can transport information and emotions from one person to another is a mystery to me. Reading books has stimulated many thoughts for pondering in [...]

Introduction and questions

Introduction
I have reasons for wanting to explore the subject that is the title of this book.
Two of my siblings and four of my children have been plagued with major bouts of clinical depression for much of their adult lives. Anti-depressants are being [...]