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It’s time for another post with articles on subjects you may have missed the first time they were published.

Here is an excerpt from Martha’s book, A Pocket Full of Posies, extolling the virtues of chocolate.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as in many other cultures, the eyes are the windows to the soul and they believe one can see the degree of a person’s shen, or spirit in them.

Here is a round up of a few articles in the past couple weeks that caught our eye and you may have missed.

I’ve mentioned before that my daughter is a typical two year-old and thus getting her to try new foods can be challenging from time to time. Her favorite saying regarding food these days is, “Maybe I do like this!” My go-to strategy these days is to hide foods in things she already knows she likes. One of her favorite dishes recently is noodles with any kind of sauce. In order to get vegetables in her that she wouldn’t ordinarily eat, I end up stuffing them into sauce.

My mom has been talking about the sensitivity of a dog’s sense of smell and their ability to smell out cancer for a number of years.  She has gone as far as looking for local people who would be able to help her train a dog to help her detect cancer.

The American diet is characterized by an excess of pro-inflammatory processed omega 6 oils and a lack of anti-inflammatory omega 3 oils due to our reliance on highly heated and refined vegetable oils.  In fact, most of our oils come from the industrial waste of soy, cottonseed, and corn.  The processing of vegetable oils at high heat (230 degrees or more) destroys the protective double and triple chemical bonds that are characteristic of good oils, thus increasing the free radicals that ravage our blood vessels and cause harm.

Here are a few more photos from the garden.

All photos taken by David Klemp.

Here’s a round up of issues that you may have missed thanks to the debt ceiling drama of the recent weeks.