by Dr Nicole Meier | Nov 24, 2010 | Health Hints
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...
by Dr Nicole Meier | Feb 16, 2010 | Health Hints
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...
by Dr Nicole Meier | Jan 20, 2010 | Health Hints
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...
by Dr Nicole Meier | Oct 29, 2009 | Naturopathy
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...
by Dr Nicole Meier | Oct 18, 2009 | Health Hints
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...