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Recipe: Stuffed Squash or Pumpkin
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘A MEAT-FREE HOLIDAY MENU‘. This dish can be served as a main course, or as a side dish alongside other...
Recipe: Vegetarian Moussaka
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘A MEAT-FREE HOLIDAY MENU‘. This can be a signature main course. People often mistake the baked pieces of eggplant for...
Recipe: Creamy Squash or Pumpkin Soup
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘A MEAT-FREE HOLIDAY MENU‘. Squashes and pumpkins make a wonderful base for a soup, especially during the winter season. Paired...
Homeopathic Remedies For Holiday Stress and Winter Blues
For most of us, everyday life moves to a rhythm that is anything but calm. There are usually never enough hours to get everything done...
Recipe: The Tiger Shake
From the Vitality Food Feature ‘WINTER MEALS THAT HEAL’. Spiced date shakes are popular in India. This is a nice change from the frozen berry...
Echinacea: A Natural Remedy Gains Scientific Sanction
The world’s largest echinacea study has validated the efficacy and safety of Echinaforce® in prevention of cold and influenza. Scientists at the Common Cold Centre...
Homeopathic Medicine for Acute and Chronic Asthma
As we head into late fall we become fully immersed in the lung phase of our body’s seasonal cycle. Seasonal lung problems in conventional medicine...
Herbs to Stoke Your Digestive Fire
“As Falls Witchita…” (with apologies to Pat Metheny.) The coming of fall has always been somewhat of a difficult if not wistful letting go of...
Health News Briefs: November, 2012
ACTIVE LIFESTYLE LINKED TO DECREASED BREAST CANCER RISK The largest-ever study to analyze the links between cancer and lifestyle has found that an active lifestyle,...
Taste of Nature’s Delicious Range of Gluten-free Bars
Taste of Nature bars are gluten-free and tested by the University of Nebraska to contain less than 10 PPM (part per million) of gluten. And...
Health News Briefs – October 2012
CHOLINE IN PREGNANCY MAY REDUCE STRESS DISEASES IN CHILD New research suggests that mothers-to-be taking the B vitamin – choline – in amounts that are...
Glorious Garlic
Garlic (allium sativum) is enjoying a renaissance thanks to its prominence in international cuisines. And there are legions of claims, both in lore and in...
Homeopathic Medicine for Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
“The first thing I felt was tingling and itching on the left side of my scalp. I then discovered a blister when I looked in...
Garlic Map
Where to buy Ontario garlic, courtesy of the Toronto Garlic Festival!
Autumn Morning
Already the sun is rising late. After 7:30 where I live, and it is going fast. Thankfully the dawn arrives well before the sun pokes...
Wild Mushrooms
Mushrooms, mushrooms everywhere, but none are fit to eat. Or are they? A lot of us have a curious fascination with wild mushrooms. They seem...
