Category Archives: Food and Your Health

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Adding Magnesium to Massage

Got Magnesium? Turns out that might be a great slogan for massage therapists – if they look both ways and proceed with caution. Magnesium as a topical aid, and along with ingested and intravenous magnesium, has been used for a very long time in the treatment of muscular cramps and spasms. Magnesium is the other […]

History at Your Hands

We had a wonderful time picking out decorations for my mother-in-law’s 90th birthday party. Pink table-covers, birthday lawn signs, a banner and bubble-making bottles, clean fun for all of us youngin’s. We’ll also be running around next weekend picking up a vanilla cake with white and pink frosting, tamales, sandwiches and the “Happy 90th” balloon. […]

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A Watery Path

I was raised on Coca-Cola. Straight or on the rocks. Peanuts or sans peanuts. It was THE drink. Why would you want water when you could have a refreshing Coke that fizzed up your nose and made you say “ahhhhhh” with satisfaction? I can still remember putting fifteen cents in the machine, opening the door […]

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Cranberry Relish (Sans SHLOK!)

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, many of us are making mental lists of all our blessings and things we have to be grateful for. For several years now, my list has included, “I am thankful that I am a grown-up, can eat what I want, have access to fresh cranberries, and will NEVER […]

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Views on Flu

My blogging this week was thrown for a loop when I unexpectedly came down with a bug. No, not a cold or the flu. A computer bug. A Trojan virus to be exact. I was thrilled beyond imagination (which is to say the exact opposite). As we roll on toward November, no one is exactly […]

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Swimming: Sweet Idea!

After an absurdly long stretch of gray, ugly rain, it seems that Seattle has finally decided that it will indeed join the rest of the civilized world in hosting Summer 2009. THE SUN IS OUT! Finally! It makes a Southern girl like me just want to sit on a porch swing and drink sunlight and […]

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An Elegy to Almonds

Oh almonds, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… As a massage therapist, I often need to find something quick and easy to munch on between clients. Sometimes there’s no time to heat up soup, or even fix a quick sandwich. Instead of grabbing some chips, or even a “healthy” nutrition bar, […]