Sacred Oil--By Kal Sellers, M.H.

The use of oils has long been used for health and healing. Dr. Christopher used castor oil, wheat germ oil and olive oil as his three oil massage for scar tissue and for part of his incurables program. Every kind of oil, from essential oils to fish oils to coconut and palm oils to olive oil, has been used in ritual and healing from at least as early as 4000 years ago.

Of all of oils the world over, nothing has had a richer, more beloved history than olive oil. This oil has been demonstrated by modern science repetitively to be the most stable of oils, showing an inexplicable resistance to breakdown and oxidation that exceeds even the saturated oils from the plant kingdom.

This resistance to oxidation and breakdown is the absolute foundation of healthy oil consumption. Chemically or physically altered oils (such as hydrogenated oils) are at the total other end of ...

Organic Produce vs. Conventional Produce…What should I buy?

By Traci Sellers

Because I advocate so highly that 70% of your diet by volume should be fresh, live produce: high water content vegetables and fruit, this is a question I get asked a lot. I’d like to go over the pro’s and cons of both, so that you can make an informed decision, and get what’s right for you and the people you feed.

Recently I had the opportunity of comparing the two in a way that changed my perception of both. Our family had decided to go out to eat at a restaurant we knew would have excellent food choices that would allow us to keep our high dietary ...