Confessions of a Naturopath, Vol 1 No 2

I overheard a most interesting conversation between two young people today at a local cafe.  They were eating a reasonably healthy lunch and complaining loudly about their high school cafeteria menu having changed.  “They don’t even have a decent bag of chips anymore” commented the young man.  A decent bag of chips?  Is this not [...]

Jazzing up your water

With this summer heat, I am reminded of how many unhealthy cooling beverages there are available on the market.   Before you reach for that cold pop or fruit juice, consider making water your choice.  Patients often say to me that they get tired of drinking water or that their kids simply “won’t” drink water.  Wow.  [...]

What are YOUR top health strategies?

As health practitioners, we have protocols and treatments that we use, and that we often suggest in helping you to manage your health. But what about you?  What do you do, actively to take ownership of your own health? Check out the poll below, and let us know!  We’d love to hear from you.  And [...]

Super Charging Your Breakfast

I have read literally thousands of my diet diaries over the years and have observed one common dietary weakness.   Even in those nutrition-conscious individuals, one meal stands out as inadequate – poor quality, low-nutrition.  That meal is almost universally breakfast. We all know that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”.  We’ve heard it [...]

The Delicate Flower of Midlife Sleep

Many of us notice that solid, undisturbed sleep becomes elusive in mid-life.  After 40, most men and women start to experience interrupted sleep, restless sleep and/or frank insomnia.  Why does sleep quality change is this decade for so many of us?  I like to think of sleep in this decade as a delicate flower – [...]

Urgent Rolaids Recall

McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Canada) Urgently Recalls Various Rolaid Products Sold in Canada Information Update 2010-220 December 10, 2010 For immediate release OTTAWA – Health Canada is informing Canadians that McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Canada) is voluntarily recalling all lots of ROLAIDS® Ultra Strength SoftChews® and ROLAIDS® Ultra Strength SoftChews® plus Gas Relief from the Canadian market. [...]

Leading by Example – Follow YOU to good health

Healthy living begins for many when they see healthy behaviours in others, especially people they respect, admire or look up to.  So ask yourself, are there people around you who respect, or look up to you?  Children, spouses, coworkers?  If you model healthy behaviours, might they be influenced to do the same?  Isn’t it worth [...]

Good health is contagious (pssst….pass it on!)

When you make a healthy lifestyle choice, you positively influence the health of others. For example, Refusing to eat fast food causes co-workers to follow you to a healthier lunch venue. Avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup while grocery shopping also means your family members avoid it. Serving vegetable trays instead of fried appetizers at a [...]

The Clean 15

A couple of weeks ago, we posted The Dirty Dozen – 12 foods that are recognized by the Environmental Working Group as being heavily sprayed with Pesticides. One of our astute readers asked the obvious question – “what are the 12 that are least sprayed”? In fact, the EWG lists what they refer to as [...]

The Dirty Dozen

The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit agency that funds research in environmental health.  Every year it posts a list of 12 vegetables and fruit that have a very high pesticide load.  This list can help health-conscious consumers choose food items carefully to protect their health.  Avoiding these top 12 (or buy them organically) can [...]

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