Category: Foods & Culture

  • What is Wholistic Health: Expanding Its Definition

    What Is Meant by Wholistic Health? Wholistic health is all inclusive of you, others and land. It’s about having a lifestyle of healthy body, mind, spirit family, and community; and must be supported by wealth. Yukiko Iino What is Wholistic Health: Expanding Its Definition Years ago I encountered the term “Wholistic Health.” Then it mean…

  • $25 Grocery Challenge: 5 Big Realizations About Money

    I have to buy the things I need within $25 limit. Quinoa is about $6.99/ Lbs. (So I got millet only.) If I had a couple of hundred dollars on me, I would have felt just fine. It wasn’t so much about buying with cash but not having enough cash to buy the things I…

  • Healthy Diet to Beat the Dreadful Monday Blues Part 2

    In this blog article, I will explain how beating the Monday Blues and eating healthy diet are the same forces we need to break away from the system that keeps people confined and stuck. It is like seeing that you also live in the world of the Matrix. If a kid is acting out, you…

  • 5 Things About the Story of Cacao Beans and Chocolate You May Not Know

    Although they are so dear and prevalent in people’s daily lives, many people really don’t know much about where chocolate came from. I have 5 big questions to ask about chocolate and its history and where it came from.

  • What is Culture? Part 1 : Weird Food Combinations

    What is Culture? Why do some food combinations seem so weird to us? Food we eats certainly defines our cultural identity. Are we what we eat? Does food define who we are? What we think? How we perceive things? As we look at some food from around the world, let’s take a look at our…

  • You Are What You Eat

    “You Are What You Eat.” My message and theme are always very consistent.  I like to share how to be healthy, wealthy and spiritual.

  • Japanese Fortune Cat; I have a 21 Year Old Maneki Neko

    The Japanese Maneki-Neko, beckoning cat is a fortune inviting cat, is a symbolic cat figurine which brings prosperity and protection to its owner. Hello Kitty may be its modern form. A new cultural perspective on having cats in your life…