Confessions of a Naturopath – Vol 1 No 3

Everyone who knows me, knows that I am really into fresh vegetables.  I have a vegetable garden at home AND at the cottage and I’ve been  known to have an obsession with canning, freezing and preserving.  I really can’t think of a vegetable that I don’t like (although cauliflower isn’t my favourite), but I do [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

H1N1 Hysteria

After a long campaign to garner public interest for the H1N1 vaccination, public health and the media have succeeded in creating a panicked and fearful public. Our recent poll below has confirmed that many people are completely confused about H1N1, and that some of the hysteria is directly media influenced: H1N1 is a mild influenza [...]

Your Daily Detox, Vol1 Number2

In our western culture, we eat primarily sweet and salty foods.  For millenia, Chinese medicine has recommended balancing all of the tastes – sweet, salty, pungent, sour and bitter.   Eating bitter or sour foods causes a completely different digestive enzyme response than does eating sweet or salty foods.   In particular, bitter foods  cause a digestive [...]

What you need to know about Vitamin D

Vitamin D is in the headlines frequently these days. Research over the last few decades has uncovered the critical role this vitamin plays in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses. From autism to depression, osteoporosis to cancer, vitamin D has created more interest in the scientific world than any vitamin in recent history. “The [...]

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