by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 29, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Heart health, mental health, Traditional Chinese Medicine
This is a leap year, so February 29th is kind of like a bonus day. Do you often think that you don’t have enough time to do the things you need to do or want to do? Well, this year you have an extra 24 hours, so what will you do? Here are some healthy...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 25, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
Healthy Habits Instead of New Year’s Resolutions I find that there’s an aversion to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. It seems that the thought of failure is linked with resolutions like peanut butter is to jam or like healthy eating is to...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 18, 2015 | Healthy Habits
I hope this doesn’t send you into a panic, but we’re only a week away from Christmas now! For some, this time of year is exciting, for others it’s madness, and for still others it’s both. Holidays can overwhelm us with special sweet treats and the...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 17, 2015 | Food, Healthy Habits, Recipe
This isn’t a picture of my old rice cooker, but it did look similar. This one looks fancier though, as it has a “keep” warm function. Mine had just the one switch. “On” Is it weird that I love my automatic rice cooker? When I started...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Nov 16, 2015 | Food, Healthy Habits, Recipe
I underestimated the filling vegetarian meal power of this recipe! I figured I was making more than I’d need, but I couldn’t even finish half of my one yam serving. Perhaps because I chose the largest yams I could find! Next time I make it–and there...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Oct 12, 2015 | Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
There are so many things for which I am grateful. Many are things over which I have little to no control–wonderful family, growing up in comfort, opportunities for education, foundational good health, etc. Some are things that I’ve created for myself...
