FOOD

The Ketogenic Diet: Pros and Pitfalls of a Low-Carb / High-Fat Regimen

January 10, 2021

(Updated January 10 / 2021) If you have been following a healthy menu (like the one outlined in my Hot Detox Plan), and still feel...

Keep Your Kidneys Strong Healthy: How to Prevent and Treat CKD

December 6, 2020

Keeping your kidneys healthy is vital to your body’s well-being. Healthy kidneys ensure that your body can filter and expel waste efficiently, while producing hormones...

Humble Horseradish: Pungent Root Medicine

December 4, 2020

As a traditional herbalist and food writer, I have long been interested in the healing power of food and the benefits of plant medicine. Horseradish...

Fragrant Spices Bring Heat and Medicine to Winter Dining

December 3, 2020

(Updated November 23, 2020: Endorsed by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition) The culinary and medicinal powers of spices have been known by herbalists, healers,...

COVID-19 How Can I Cure Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

December 3, 2020

While still unknown to most practitioners of traditional or ‘modern’ medicine, acute viral syndromes, COVID-19 included, can all be easily prevented most of the time....

Cooking with Cannabis: Strategies and Recipes by Pat Crocker

November 16, 2020

(Updated Nov. 16, 2020) It is a different experience ingesting Cannabis than smoking it, but certainly not a new one. Legend has it that the...

My Favourite Antioxidant Immune-Boosting Foods for Fall and Winter

October 28, 2020

(Updated October 29, 2020) If I gave you my best advice on eating healthy, it would incorporate a diet full of foods that would help...

Flowing into Fall With Nourishing Foods for the Season

September 20, 2020

(Updated Sept 1st, 2020) Now that summer is behind us, we begin to switch seasons into fall. As the leaves begin to change, we pull...

Preserve your Harvest the Old Fashioned Way with Lacto-Fermentation

September 16, 2020

When I was growing up in rural Muskoka, my grandparents fermented all kinds of foods. This tradition served to preserve foods over the long winter...

Worldwide Nutritional Immunity – Why Everybody Is Taking Vitamin C

August 16, 2020

“I have not seen any ’flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C.”  (Robert F. Cathcart, MD) The...

Beyond the Pandemic: Top 10 Ways to Create Wellness in Your Life

July 27, 2020

(Updated July 27, 2020) Now that the coronavirus pandemic is mostly under control in Canada, it’s time to consider the most effective ways to restore...

Garlic Medicine: Folklore Traditions from the Far East

July 1, 2020

(Updated July 1st, 2020) Through the centuries, people have either believed that garlic was divine or, with fanatical aversion, detested its very name. This well-known...

Spring Detox with Wild Herbs and Weeds

May 1, 2020

There are many ways to detoxify the body, and for a herbalist the favourite strategy involves medicinal plants. From my perspective, weeds and wild herbs...

Bitter Tastes of Spring – Refreshing Greens from Dandelion to Radicchio

March 10, 2020

Herbalists and other healers have long championed the bitter taste of certain herbs and garden greens. Yet the majority of North Americans still shun these essential foods, preferring salty and sweet over the equally important sour and bitter.

Dramatic Health Recoveries Reported By Patients Who Stopped Using GMO Foods

March 1, 2020

Are genetically modified (GM) foods making you sick – I mean really sick? Up until recently, all that we could say was thank goodness you’re...

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