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Tastes of Summer: A Guide to the Season’s Berry Bonanza
Tiny, brilliant orbs of pure health, berries are the jewels of the fruit world. Not only are these gems beautiful in colour – they range...
Dormio Beds – A Truly Unique Shopping Experience
Dormio is located in the Home and Design Centre at 2575 Dundas St. W. It is just a stone’s throw away from the 403, 401,...
Chinese Herbs for Beauty from the Inside Out
No matter your age, numerous herbal super-tonics can help you fight the aging process – and transform your skin, complexion, hair, nails, and overall glow....
Homeopathic First Aid: For Worry-Free Travel
“Summertime And the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And the cotton is high…” Gershwin’s jazz standard always comes to mind as the season approaches...
Red Clover: A Detoxifying, Cancer Fighting, and Hormone Balancing Herb
Late spring is an amazing time of year. Here in Ontario, June tends to be our greenest month, when the fields and forests have a...
News Briefs – June 2011
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT AT RISK OF VITAMIN D INADEQUACY, GOVERNMENT REPORTS About 25% of the population may be at risk for vitamin D inadequacy, 8%...
Family Constellations: Explore and Transform Unconscious Family Dynamics
An Experiential Methodology By being born into our family, we not only inherit genes and physical traits, but also belief systems, behaviour patterns, thoughts and...
Book Review: Defeating Obesity, Diabetes and High Blood Pressure – The Metabolic Syndrome
Author: Charlotte Gerson Publisher: Gerson Health Media Book Publication: 2010 Readers who have had the uplifting experience of hearing Charlotte Gerson speak at previous Whole...
DVD Review: Burzynski, the Movie (DVD)
Author: Eric Merola Publisher: Eric Merola Book Publication: 2010 Burzynski, the Movie, a powerful documentary written, produced, and directed by Eric Merola, chronicles Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s...
Woodford Files: Love Your Liver This Spring
The wild winds of spring are rocking the rafters as I write this column. It has been an exceptionally chaotic change of season this year...
Chinese Medicine for Treatment of Fibromyalgia
If you’ve never had (or even heard of) fibromyalgia, consider yourself very lucky! Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a nasty, pernicious disease that predominantly targets women...
Taking the Irritable out of IBS: Naturopathy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a digestive ailment characterized by abdominal cramping, pain, bloating, diarrhea, and/or constipation. It has been estimated that 15% of our...
Cilantro and Clay Detox
In his newly released book, Radical Healing: 2nd Ed., (Himalayan Institute Press), Rudolph Ballentine includes a comprehensive chapter on detoxification, drawing from Ayurveda, homeopathy, and...
Chelation Therapy: Alternative Treatment for Heart Disease Gets Good Results
Chelation comes from the Greek word chele, meaning claw. A chelating compound binds and removes heavy and other toxic metals from the body. There are...
Chia Seed: Aztec Superfood Boosts Energy and Endurance
What’s behind the surging popularity of chia seed? According to nutritional writer Charlotte Bradley, chia grain was “originally grown in Mexico and the Southwest between...
Nail Trimming Techniques and Injury Prevention for Furry Feet
Just as May’s flowers begin to spring up from the ground once again, so do our pets’ desires to spring forth into nature with renewed...
