HN4U Blog
Make Your Voice Heard
Published January 24th, 2025
December 2024, the expert committee’s Scientific Report on the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, slated for publication later this year by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS), was published for review.
The next step will be for the USDA-HHS Secretaries appointed by the new administration to write the new Guidelines [...]
Breathing Into a New Year (month of your choosing)
Published January 21st, 2025
By Kathleen Bell, RN, MSN, CNM (Ret), AHN-BC
Author, Educator, Meditation Specialist, Medical Oversight for Holistic Nutrition for the Whole You and YourWholeNutrition.Com“ The only true necessity for mindfulness is befriending your breath like your life depends on it.”
~Gisele Theriault, artist, Buddhist, founder of Mindful Necessities
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Berberine: the power of color and bitter flavor
Published June 30th, 2024
By Tammera J. Karr, PhD, BCHN, CNW, CDSP, CGP
How often do we connect flavor, color, and historical use of foods and herbs to wellness? Our choices are frequently unconscious, reflexive and based on convenience. For centuries, cultures have utilized natural compounds daily or seasonally for wellness. In Asian gastronomy, the selection of spices and [...]
A Time to Stand and A Time to Sit
Published April 4th, 2024
Tammera J. Karr, PhD, BCHN®. CNW®, CDSP®
Pacific College of Health and Science
with Kathleen Bell, RN, MSN
Holistic Nutrition for the Whole You
During the last ten years, there has been ongoing conversation within the healthcare sector about the dangers of sitting for extended periods. The authors recently decided to explore [...]
Our Elasticity and Adaptability Depend on More Than Food
Published March 27th, 2023
Except: Empty Plate: Food~Sustainability~Mindfulness By Tammera Karr and Kathleen Bell
In an equally real sense, researchers know that elasticity and adaptability during challenging events like pandemics, and life transitions; are a combination of how well-nourished the brain and body are — through mindful choices about nutrition and other behaviors. The conscious decisions to eat healthy [...]
What is Health? the gift of guides to follow
Published March 22nd, 2023
by Tammera Karr, PhD, BCHN, CDSP, CNW, CGP
This question popped into my head this morning as I was thinking about a dear friend enjoying a spring National Monuments RV trip.
Each morning she makes her green smoothy, does her yoga, embraces the day’s adventure of vistas and views with her soulmate, and rests comfortably [...]
What Cookware Should I be Using?
Published February 24th, 2023
by Tammera J. Karr, PhD, BCHN, CDSP, CNW, CGP
Over the years, clients have asked many questions, but the questions on cookware safety seldom come up. It is generally the clinician interviewing the client that most frequently asks the question about what kind of cookware was in use. Now with the internet and social media, [...]
Whole Grain and Seed Sourdough Bread
Published December 19th, 2022
by Tammera Karr
All ingredients are organic and sprouted for higher nutrition content. Company’s recommended: Montana Wheat and Bobs Red Mill. This recipe came from research and development of Tammera’s updated Our Journey with Food Cookery Book 2nd edition, 2022. The fermentation process and directions for making your own sourdough starter can be found on [...]
Easy Fermented Vegetables & Sauerkraut
Published November 26th, 2022
There are so many resources on fermenting, but the basic easy concept is often complicated.[i] The HN4U Journey to Health group consists of beginners to advanced in the art of fermenting. That is why it is good to refresh on the how to do ferment process with vegetables once in a while.
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Bread ~ embracing simple
Published June 28th, 2022
by Tammera J. Karr, PhD, BCHN. CNW
In the summer of 22′, I took on a personal challenge – to consistently make a good loaf of sourdough bread. I wasn’t expecting this to be a journey of learning bread from an older, simpler perspective or one that would show me I was doing everything wrong [...]