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Homeopathy for PMS
A Natural Alternative to Painkillers Do you look forward to your menstrual period as a positive experience, or dread this time of month and find...
Recipe: Stress Busting Harvest Salad
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘BOOST YOUR METABOLISM THIS FALL‘. If you want a true stress-busting salad, this combo will do the trick. The sprouts...
Book Review: The Healing Power of Fever
Author: Christopher Vasey, N.D. Publisher: Healing Arts Press Book Publication: 2012 In The Healing Power of Fever – Your Body’s Natural Defense Against Disease, author and naturopath Christopher...
News Briefs – Strategy for Disease Prevention; Many Alzheimer’s Cases Are Preventable; Good Habits Reduce Heart Risks
STUDY PLEADS FOR NEW STRATEGY FOR DISEASE PREVENTION Researchers have concluded that, by treating the overall metabolic and molecular causes of human aging, it may...
Stinging Nettle: Wild Food and Medicine Nourishes and Heals the Whole Body
(The following is an excerpt from The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North; Aroma Borealis Press; 2011; adapted for publication in...
Woodford Files: On The Health Benefits of Sweating; The Hazards of Cortisone
Summer is a prime time to flush out old residues of the past and lighten our toxic load. As solar rays intensify, an array of...
MY TOP 10 IMMUNE BOOSTING SUPPLEMENTS
In January of 2013, Dr. Oz of TV fame (not to be confused with the Wizard of Oz) gave Piers Morgan of CNN a ‘flu...
Homeopathy for Travellers
User Friendly Summer First Aid Remedies A few years ago I was sitting next to a mother and her young boy on a bus trip...
Vitamin C, Shingles, and Vaccination
The pharmaceutical industry, and many doctors, appear to be making great efforts to get as many people as possible vaccinated against shingles. Even if such...
Chinese Herbs for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Could a Chinese Herb Replace Life-Threatening RA Drugs? REPORT BY ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH USA Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which your...
News Briefs – June 2014
The Latest Research on Nutrition, Health & Anti-Aging From Around the World SEVEN DAILY FRUIT-VEG PORTIONS LOWER DEATH FROM ALL CAUSES Together, two new studies...
Recipe: Brambleberry Bumble
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘STALKING THE WILD FIDDLEHEADS‘. Bumble. It’s a word I’ve coined to describe berries baked with honey and a crumbly topping....
Stalking the Wild Fiddleheads: Foraging for Food and Medicine in Fields and Markets
Judging from the past year’s sprouting of fabulous ‘foraging and feasting’ books, the movement towards celebrating nature’s wild abundance is as strong as it was...
Recipe: Gathered Greens with Pickled Fiddleheads and Beets – Part 1: Pickled Fiddleheads and Beets
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘STALKING THE WILD FIDDLEHEADS‘. (Makes 4 servings) Ingredients 1 cup fresh fiddleheads 1 cup baby beets ½ cup apple cider vinegar...
Recipe: Wild and Spring Vegetables en Papillote
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘STALKING THE WILD FIDDLEHEADS‘. Both the French and Italians use this method to employ steam to cook poultry, fish, or...
The Amazing Benefits of N-A-C (N-Acetyl-Cysteine)
One of the most underestimated and under-utilized natural food supplements I have recommended to my patients over the past 35 years is an amino acid...