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January 6th, 2008 at 06:12pm Under About

Being interested in health/wellness issues and working in the natural products world for a number of years as a handcrafted soapmaker, I’ve wanted to start a Blog for almost as long as the word has been a part of the cyber-lexicon. Now, with some very much appreciated help from my son and daughter-in-law, owners of their own website development and design business, Solas Web Design (and themselves avid bloggers), I feel like I can at last begin with confidence.

I believe we are still the primary caretakers of our own health, making the daily decisions and choices, and should never relinquish that responsibility. We live in the “Information Age”, do we not? And information is very empowering.

So my goal is to provide content about health and wellness issues and more natural approaches to health by providing resources, articles, and links to relevant websites for health-related information. My hope is that you can then use those tools to help you make better informed choices regards your own and your family’s health care.

The primary focus will be on women and children’s health issues and concerns, but also on health promotion and illness prevention in general, using safe and proven methods or products. While open to alternative ideas and more natural solutions, I’m also a true believer in authentic research as opposed to “junk science,” and not interested in promoting the latest fads or dubious (and potentially dangerous) “cures” or treatments. Anyone selling machines that hook up wires to your head, promising everything from communication with residents of Alpha Centauri to rearranging your molecules need not apply here.

So in these posts you will find content on traditional medicine and practices, complementary and alternative medicine, holistic approaches to common ailments, more natural alternatives to that prescription drug, and links to and articles about the latest research on a variety of topics from Asthma to Xylitol.

You may also find topics such as functional and organic foods, herbs and their uses, organic gardening, healthy recipes, and “green” living, for all these threads are in synergy and connected to a larger whole. In the end, we are all fruits of one tree.

It’s in our own best interest to learn about and pay attention to our bodies, to look for avenues that will open other doors leading to better self-care, and explore solutions that will complement conventional medicine. We are on this journey together, and I value your input.

Yours in health …

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