Maimonides’ Tea

The noted philosopher Maimonides, or the Rambam, lived in the 11th century; he was born in Cordova, Spain and is buried in Tiberias, Israel -- only...

A Brief Reflection on the “Soul” in the Writings of Maimonides

While the 19th-century figure Sigmund Freud is widely regarded as the father of psychology as a formal science, the study of the human mind—and its...

Renewal and Rhythm

Each year, before a new beginning, there is a familiar urge to renew ourselves. But is renewal truly healthy? And if so, how? Our bodies and our l...

Signs from Within: Listening to Our Body

Instead of asking ourselves why it hurts, we ignore or suppress it, not because we chose to but because that is how we were taught Our body is a c...

A Short Introduction to the Human Digestive System and Some nutritional Questions

The purpose of this article is to provide a basic acquaintance with the digestive system and its functions, which are the keys to proper and person...

Pain: Between the Body’s Signal and Our Urge to Silence It

Pain is an inner, individual phenomenon, and also a term we use to describe a variety of states. This makes its definition elusive.(1) In Hebrew di...

Sourdough Bread

By: Tali and Uri Mayer Chissick In one of the coldest nights this year, a snow storm in Jerusalem and freezing cold outside, our home-cook and the ...

From theory to practice

(Written by Uri Mayer-Chissick) I am not an expert on Halacha. However, my post is going to deal with the way the Halacha deals with nutrition. I h...

Life Expectancy

Very often I have to deal with questions about life expectancy at meetings, lectures and courses that I give, when I talk about the evolution and h...

“Zero, doctor” or Don’t disturb

More than 800 years ago, Maimonides wrote a 40 pages letter to Salah Ad-din 's son. The letter deals with the ways a person should use to control h...

Researching the History of Nutrition

Uri Mayer-Chissick is a nutritional consultant, an expert on edible wild plants and a historian of food. Read about  Nutritional consultation...

More is sometimes less

Vitamins and minerals Here an often-stated truism: Today, science has a pretty good picture of how the world works. Specialization in ever more...

More is (Sometimes) Less

We often hear the claim that modern science already knows almost everything there is to know about the world. As scientific fields become increasi...

The Seasonal Cycle: A Harvest of History and the Myth of Dairy

As we approach the late spring harvest, we reach a milestone in a nutritional cycle that uncannily mirrors the story of human development. If we lo...

Winter seasonal food

Each season brings with it colors, flavors and scents to the table. Ancient doctors explained that food that grows in every season is exactly what ...