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News Briefs – June 2010
OBESITY LINKED TO FIBROMYALGIA Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found an association between the level of leisure time physical exercise...
Fire and Rain
Early June, quiet morning. A gentle rain taps on the maple leaves outside my window Rain! How we need it! We’ve had a few days...
Sacred Journeys – June 2010 by Kim Elkington RSS
The water needs our help before it is destroyed. Through some back room deals, a devastating change has been made to the Fisheries Act that...
Be Good to Your Gallbladder: Flush Out Gallstones the Natural Way
Gallbladder removal is the most common surgery performed in North America. Every year, more than half a million people in the U.S. and over 50,000...
Nature’s Answer to Summer Allergies: The Holistic Approach
According to a report recently aired on CBC, “More than one in six Canadians suffer from hay fever, or seasonal allergic rhinitis. Depending on what...
Homeopathic Medicine for Acute and Chronic 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...
Natural Remedies for Ringworm
Many fortunate individuals, who’ve never experienced ringworm, logically assume it has to do with those wiggly critters taking up habitat in our pets’ innards. The...
Black Flies Love Bananas
Black flies love bananas. Black flies especially like to sip the blood of people who eat bananas. Why should black flies love bananas? Clearly, this...
News Briefs – May 2010
THIS DIET PROTECTS AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S A study has identified a combination of foods that reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Scientists defined various dietary...
Chinese Medicine for Crohn’s, Colitis, and IBS
Irritable bowel is a catch-all name for abdominal pain and bowel problems that do not have another explanation. For the sake of this article, I...
Looking for Answers Through the Art of Dowsing
In his book, Principles of Dowsing, Dennis Wheatley says “dowsing can be simply defined as a skill to detect invisible targets.” And Raymond C. Willey,...
Restoring Healthy Menopausal Rhythms – The Holistic Approach
This has been quite an unusual spring so far. It has been much sunnier and warmer than is typical for this time of year, as...
Herbs for Lyme Disease
When I asked Francis Ashwagandha, Ayurvedic Consultant at the Big Carrot Dispensary, what he would suggest for people battling Lyme Disease, his first response was...
The Reconnection: The Next Level of Healing
A new science is emerging that is changing our traditional understanding of health and healing. The latest scientific research is focusing on experiments, which are...
Book Review: The Little Book of Aromatherapy
Author: Kathi Keville Publisher: Crossing Press Book Publication: 2009 Although the term ‘aromatherapy’ was only coined in the 1920s, the use of essential oils has been around for centuries....
News Briefs – April 2010
WALNUTS MAY FIGHT PROSTATE CANCER For the first time, a study has found that walnuts, previously shown to help prevent heart disease, might fight prostate...
