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Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘Meat-Free Protein‘. Adding the peppers to this traditional Middle East dip gives it a wonderful flavour and colour, but if...
Mujaddara Vegetarian Lentil Stew
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘Meat-Free Protein‘. One of the greatest examples of these dishes is mujaddara, made from lentils and bulgur or rice. It...
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 of foods that would help...
Healthy, Eco-Friendly Holiday Toys and Gifts for Pets
If you like indulging your furry pals at holiday time but don’t have time to even think about shopping, no need to fret. I made...
News Archives – Selenium Reduces Bladder Cancer Risk; Vit. D May Boost Heart Failure Survival; Kidney Problems Linked to Vitamin C Deficiency
SELENIUM SUPPLEMENTS REDUCE BLADDER CANCER RISK A study has found that, depending on a person’s individual characteristics, increasing his/her selenium intake can lower the risk...
Soil Monitoring Tips for a Healthy Cannabis Grow
If you think growing cannabis indoors will be an action-packed adventure filled with constant excitement, you’ve got a big surprise in store. Although there will...
Autumn is Lung Season: Breathe Easier with Chinese Medicine
As the humid days of summer give way to the brittle, dry air of fall, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners begin to turn their attention to...
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 begin to change, we pull...
Growing Up Healthy in a Toxic World – Detoxing for Optimal Wellness
In the late 1990s, a scientist from the World Health Organization (WHO) presented a computer model at a conference in Toronto on infertility issues, showing...
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 foods over the long winter...
Ancient Indigenous Practices for Healing During Challenging Life Cycles
The Indigenous Amazonian prophecy of the Eagle and Condor speaks of a time when all people walked together as one. There was one language spoken,...
Woodford Files: Top Therapies for COVID; Get Stronger with Plant-based Proteins; Guide to Organics
In the months leading up to the release of our Summer 2020 issue, we’ve seen some weird and wonderful trends emerging on the heels of...
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.” (Robert F. Cathcart, MD) The...
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 most effective ways to restore...
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 its very name. This well-known...
Nutrition for Autism: How Multivitamins and Folic Acid Can Lower Autism rates
(Updated June 30, 2020) In March of 2018, a report by the Public Health Agency of Canada estimated that one in every 66 Canadian children...
