Health, Illness and Healing

The pressure of dieting and physical appearance is something that my eight-year-old daughter is already aware of! Occasionally she will pat her round little belly and ask me if I think that she is fat. She is a little chubbier than some of her friends, bu...

There is a chain smoker who sits near me in the new office. According to Jewish law, am I allowed to ask him to stop smoking?

Hey, is red bull kosher? I would ask my dad, but if he knew I was staying up later, he would give me an even earlier curfew so I would get more sleep.

Do health and fitness have a place in Judaism? It seems that the secular world encourages a healthy life far more than the Jewish world does. I hear rabbis talk about spiritual matters, but find it hard to listen to them if they themselves are overweight....

My forty-year-old husband has cancer that is "always deadly" and according to our doctors, there is neither a cure nor hope for any future. While he has battled it for twenty months now and our rabbi always tells us that we should never give up, I do not ...

Question: I am a pastry chef deeply troubled with a moral dilemma I seek your guidance on. For as long as I can remember, professional bakeries and retail outlets have relied heavily upon the use of trans-fats in their cake formulas. Because trans-fats ho...

A few years ago I was diagnosed with a terminal illness but was told that I had at least another twenty years to live. Last week, at my appointment, I was told that things had changed and I had at best another year or two left...

Now that time has passed, I have more tools for processing emotions. Here are some things that would have given comfort to my grieving self.

Food is tremendously spiritual, but it’s also tremendously paradoxical.