FOOD

Healthy Meals in Minutes: Quick and Delicious Recipes for Fall & Winter

(Updated January 20, 2021) As the lazy days of summer wind down and we get back into our hectic work… Read More

4 years ago

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

(Updated January 10 / 2021) If you have been following a healthy menu (like the one outlined in my Hot… Read More

4 years ago

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

Keeping your kidneys healthy is vital to your body’s well-being. Healthy kidneys ensure that your body can filter and expel… Read More

4 years ago

Humble Horseradish: Pungent Root Medicine

As a traditional herbalist and food writer, I have long been interested in the healing power of food and the… Read More

4 years ago

Fragrant Spices Bring Heat and Medicine to Winter Dining

(Updated November 23, 2020: Endorsed by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition) The culinary and medicinal powers of spices have… Read More

4 years ago

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

While still unknown to most practitioners of traditional or 'modern' medicine, acute viral syndromes, COVID-19 included, can all be easily… Read More

4 years ago

Cooking with Cannabis: Strategies and Recipes by Pat Crocker

(Updated Nov. 16, 2020) It is a different experience ingesting Cannabis than smoking it, but certainly not a new one.… Read More

4 years ago

My Favourite Antioxidant Immune-Boosting Foods for Fall and Winter

(Updated October 29, 2020) If I gave you my best advice on eating healthy, it would incorporate a diet full… Read More

4 years ago

Flowing into Fall With Nourishing Foods for the Season

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

4 years ago

Preserve your Harvest the Old Fashioned Way with Lacto-Fermentation

When I was growing up in rural Muskoka, my grandparents fermented all kinds of foods. This tradition served to preserve… Read More

4 years ago

Worldwide Nutritional Immunity – Why Everybody Is Taking Vitamin C

“I have not seen any ’flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C.” … Read More

4 years ago

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

(Updated July 27, 2020) Now that the coronavirus pandemic is mostly under control in Canada, it's time to consider the… Read More

4 years ago

Garlic Medicine: Folklore Traditions from the Far East

(Updated July 1st, 2020) Through the centuries, people have either believed that garlic was divine or, with fanatical aversion, detested… Read More

4 years ago

Spring Detox with Wild Herbs and Weeds

There are many ways to detoxify the body, and for a herbalist the favourite strategy involves medicinal plants. From my… Read More

5 years ago

Bitter Tastes of Spring – Refreshing Greens from Dandelion to Radicchio

Herbalists and other healers have long championed the bitter taste of certain herbs and garden greens. Yet the majority of… Read More

5 years ago

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