Starting this week, I will be rolling out the first of a five-part series on Your Senses in The Mind-Body-Food Connection on Substack. In each part, I have been researching and examining how each of our senses affects our Mind-Body Connection in relation to Food: · Part I: The Eye…

I’m going to cut to the chase: Humans are omnivores. There is little point arguing what 5000 years of biological study tells us (and yes the field of biology is around 5000 years old!). …

LOVE this piece Tom! Of course I love the Matrix movies for their complexity too. But it is so ironic to me because I just wrote a piece like this only about our lives and food and how for-profit food companies are using our ancient human nature to manipulate us into buying foods that make them money even as they make us sick. I even talk about taking the red pill. . . . you've got this bang on. Especially the symbolism of how wireless phones keep us trapped in the system. . . . well done!

No matter who you are or where you live, you don’t have to go back many generations to find family members who lived VERY different lifestyles than the one you currently have. The first iPhone arrived on the scene in 2007. Laptop computers became widely available in the 1990s. TVs…

Modern life is filled with extremes. While we don’t (typically) spend our days tracking down animals to kill for food or praying for rain so our crops sprout, we still need to eat on a regular basis in order to survive, grow, function and succeed in society. Nowadays we either…

Come on. Admit it. Everyone of us dreams of changing the world at some point. The thing is most of us grow out of it. Give up. Decide there is nothing we can do. Then we put our heads down and settle into the life society says we should have. But what if it could be different? …

More and more science is verifying what most of us already know: that time in nature is good for our mental and physical wellbeing. Few things epitomize these benefits like time in a forest, or forest bathing. …

We may be spending more time talking about climate change these days, as storms and wildfires threaten and once flowing waters dry up, but we are not talking enough about biodiversity loss and what that means to our future. The United Nations talks about the triple threat facing our planet…

If you’ve been to a grocery store lately, you know that food prices have skyrocketed in recent months. As you wander down the aisles of most grocery stores, trying to decide what to buy, it seems like there is an overwhelming amount of choices available. Right? Brightly colored boxes and…