Colleen Huber
Colleen Huber, 46, is a wife, mother and student at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Ariz., where she is training to be a naturopathic physician. Her original research on the mechanism of migraines has appeared in Lancet and Headache Quarterly, and was reported in The Washington Post. Her double blind placebo controlled research in homeopathy has appeared in Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, European Journal of Classical Homeopathy, and Homeopathy Today. Her website Naturopathy Works introduces naturopathic medicine to the layperson and provides references to the abundant medical literature demonstrating that natural medicine does work.
Articles by this Author
How to Cook Whole Food From Scratch--and Keep Your Day Job!
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 08/8/2007
- Cooking Foods
- Unrated
Whole fresh foods should be the basis of what we all eat, whether your metabolic type is protein type, carb type or mixed type. Whole foods, whether meat, vegetable or fruit, do two things: they provide all the nutrients that nature put into the food--not just as a sum of nutrients, but even more, as a synergy of nutrients that work together because they naturally interact within the living plant or animal. When we eat these foods, which have been connected with our whole existence as a species, the total health benefit to us is much greater than the sum of the parts. The second practical advantage of eating whole fresh foods is that they substitute, by their sheer bulk, the chemicals and denatured food derivatives that we might otherwise eat.
Healthy Alternatives to Junk Food Temptations
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 07/5/2007
- Junk Foods
- Unrated
Birthday parties, "The Holidays," Valentine's Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving. You can't get very far along in the year before someone you know either thrusts a piece of cake or a box of donuts in front of you.
"Everything in Moderation" Can be a Recipe for Disaster
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 07/2/2007
- Food Fight
- Unrated
A favorite mantra is "everything in moderation." On the surface it sounds quite reasonable, avoiding fanatical or extreme activities by the very definition of moderation. Reasonable people are moderate. Good parents and teachers are moderate, aren't they? So what could be the problem with it?
Healthy Traveling: Optimizing Your Food Sources
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 07/2/2007
- Food Fight
- Unrated
Even if you have an excellent fresh diet of whole organic food at home, that can all fall apart while you're traveling because relying on restaurants and markets away from home is often a disappointing experience.
The Toxic Bucket: How Environmental Medicine Unloads the Burden of Synthetic Chemicals From the Body
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 07/2/2007
- Toxins
- Unrated
Chemicals are ubiquitous and increasingly present in our homes, cars and even our food. Through our lungs, skin and GI tract, we are soaking up chemicals that we'd be hard-pressed to spell or pronounce, if we could even find out what they were.
Fever: Ally or Enemy?
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 06/27/2007
- Fever
- Unrated
Supporting your child's fever instead of immediately going to the medicine cabinet for a fever-reducing acetaminophen is one of the best things you can do for your child's fever.
Your Family Could be Eating Organic Food for the Same Price as Processed Foods -- or Less
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 06/27/2007
- Organic Foods
- Unrated
Although organic food has a reputation for being outrageously expensive, there are many times when it is actually less expensive than commercially grown food if you just check labels and sales.
Raising a Whole Food Child in a Processed Food World
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 06/27/2007
- Food Fight
- Unrated
One of the biggest challenges to your family's healthy lifestyle is your child's perception that other people are privileged simply because they eat differently.
The Sweet Tooth
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 06/27/2007
- Food Fight
- Unrated
By now you have probably read enough to understand that sugar and sweets should be crossed off your grocery list. But actually kicking sugar and eliminating cravings is a difficult feat, as its many fans know all too well.
The Healthy "-opathies" Part 1: Naturopathy
- By Colleen Huber
- Published 06/27/2007
- Naturopathy
- Unrated
Naturopathy is essentially an eclectic system of medicine using the most natural and least invasive methods of treating disease. Yet, it is not so much a collection of treatment strategies as it is a philosophy of treating.
