Preventing Our Kids From Becoming Junk-Food-Junkies
By Cindi Juncal, The Noble Path Foundation | Download this article (pdf). Our mission at The Noble Path Foundation is to raise awareness on the importance of sound nutrition and lifestyle choices for our youth, because we firmly believe that it is their health that determines our future. One of the reasons we focus on […]
Preventing Cognitive Decline Should Be a No-Brainer
By Cindi Juncal, The Noble Path Foundation | Download this article (pdf). “Food determines the fate of our bodies—how we grow, how we age, and how we die.” – Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai Alzheimer’s Disease is described by the National Institute on Aging as an “irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and […]
Eat to Live
Children are arguably our most precious commodity. As a society, we take great care in educating and developing their minds, as well as tending to their moral and ethical upbringing. But when evaluating their journey along the Mind/Body/Soul continuum, what is often left behind—or treated as an afterthought—is what their growing bodies need for optimal […]
A Pandemic of Health
Since the last publication of this magazine, to say our lives have been altered dramatically would be a huge understatement. Who would have thought that as I write this, there are many of us who are probably sitting on a much larger stash of toilet paper than we need, while learning how to launder face […]
Taking a Bite Out of the 2020-2025 USDA Dietary Guidelines
By Cindi Juncal, The Noble Path Foundation | Download this article (pdf). Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updates its Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The information is used as the basis for federal food programs such as MyPlate, which in turn influences public […]
Finding Delight In The Happiness Of Others
The buddhist practice of MUDITA, or sympathetic joy, is finding delight in the happiness of others. Of the four brahmaviharas, the four highest qualities of the heart, mudita is said to be more difficult than the other three: loving-kindness, compassion and equanimity. As an example, let’s take the somewhat predictable furor and controversy over Adele’s […]
The Noble Path – One Resolution To Rule Them All …
The publication of this article comes at a time when most of us are either planning, or have made, our annual New Year’s resolutions. The majority of us will predictably make our vows based on health issues: lose weight, stop smoking, eat better, or exercise more. Perhaps in light of recent environmental news, we have […]
The Noble Path Foundation Saving the Children
by Cindi Juncal Our motto here at the The Noble Path Foundation is “Healthy Kids, Healthy World.” While our outreach programs to raise awareness on the importance of sound nutritional and lifestyle choices extend to all parts of the population, we focus primarily on the children because we believe it is their health which will […]
FOOD: Public Enemy #1 or Secret Super Power?
Today, 2.1 billion people – nearly 30% of the world’s population – are either obese or overweight, according to a new analysis of trend data from over 185 countries. The rise in global obesity rates over the last three decades has been substantial and widespread, presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed […]
Life’s a Beach: Celebrating National Volunteer Week in San Clemente
By Shelley Murphy Parents of high schoolers trying to crack the college admission code are all too familiar with these words: community service and volunteer hours. As students start to consider their summer service options, National Volunteer Week falls on April 23-29, bringing awareness to the importance of volunteerism. Established in 1974 by a presidential […]