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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 waste efficiently, while producing hormones...
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 benefits of plant medicine. Horseradish...
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 been known by herbalists, healers,...
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 prevented most of the time....
Homeopathy for Ear Infections
It has been stated that up to 75% of all children have had an ear infection before the age of three. Ear infections can be...
Ask the Doctor – Arthritis, ADHD, and Truvada
Should Arthritis Sufferers Avoid Gluten and Citrus? (Re: September 2016 article Arthritis, Osteo versus Rheumatoid – and the Best Natural Treatments for Both) Dear Dr. Rona:...
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. Legend has it that the...
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...
