- Janet Starr Hull, PhD
Would you drink a cup of pesticides? What about a cup of chemical water? All your aquarium fish will die within a matter of minutes if you add tap water to your fish tank without also adding a de-chlorinator to remove the chlorine. Doesn’t that tell you something about the danger [...]

- Jillian Murphy, BScKin, ND
Who doesn’t appreciate a clean home? Freshly laundered sheets, a sparkling kitchen countertop, a toilet scrubbed within an inch of its life….Mmmmm, you can almost smell the clean!
In fact, you probably can smell the clean. If you are using any of the common household cleaners sold in Canada today, and you’re [...]

- Jo-Anne Hopkins, RHN
Kingston is a hot bed of sustainable farming practices, and has been for a long time.  But, it is with the increasing awareness by the public about the “green movement” that is getting the ball rolling so to speak.  This issue of Within Kingston is focusing on greening your home, so I [...]

- Christina Vlahopoulos, ND
When I was in school for Naturopathic Medicine one of my professors quoted Fr. Thomas Berry: “You cannot have healthy people on a sick planet.”  In other words, humans suffer when the earth suffers. So why do we continue to punish the earth and in turn further our own suffering? If we [...]

- Andrée Beauchamp (dharani), CNHP, herbalist
A healthy home starts with our health from within.
Looking after our home starts with us: what we eat, what we think and what we do. The Buddhist pillars of practice — cultivating a peaceful mind, a contented heart and gratitude — have an impact on our ability to be with [...]

- By David Pearson
Swami Nityamuktananda is working to bridge the gap between the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta
Kingston is soon to become host to the Yogic/Vedantic teachings of Swami Nityamuktananda, a seasoned yoga instructor and ordained Sannyasi from Southern India.
Born and raised in Chalakudy, a small town just north of Cochin in Southwestern India, Nityamuktananda [...]

- Sonya Nobbe, N.D.
A few weeks into winter and many people are noticing the cold, fatigue, and weight gain more this year than last. They may write-off the changes to the “winter blues”… but could a more serious health concern be responsible for these changes?
Low thyroid function, also known as hypothyroidism, mimics many other health [...]

- Janina Fisher
Does body image count?  You bet it does.  I didn’t recognize just how much it counted until I hit menopause.  I was already faced with the fact that my hair was seriously starting to go grey and my face was getting wrinkles that no magic cream would erase.  I started packing extra fat [...]

- Andree Beauchamp
Herbs have woven themselves throughout many civilizations for centuries; as food, medicine, ornamentation and decoration, and as ritual.
In 1970 a grave was uncovered in northern Iraq belonging to a neanderthal dating back 60,000 years, whose body was buried surrounded with flowers. The plant fragments were found to be mostly herbs, one of them [...]

- Caroline Markolin, PhD
Osteoporosis, defined as a “disease” in which the bones become porous and weak, occurs (so we learn) predominantly in women following menopause. But why are postmenopausal women at greater risk? Why does not every postmenopausal woman develop it? Why do some suffer more bone loss than others? Why is in one case [...]

- Ellie Steele
Do you know the power of your own mind in reaching your goals?  Can you remember back to a time in your life when you just decided on a deep level that you were going to change your behavior or let some emotional baggage go?  Most of us have had these experiences, yet [...]

-Susun S Weed
In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman Tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
Even one [...]

- Mischa Popoff, B.A. (HON)
Are you a consumer who assumes organic food is tested at some stage during its production? Silly consumer! Organic food isn’t tested. So how do you know it’s not fraudulent?
No one will die or get sick if they eat fraudulently organic food; they’ll just get unwittingly ripped off. Inspections of organic [...]

- Christina Vlahopoulos, ND
It’s that time of the year again – cold and flu season. As we leave the Yang season of summer and move into the Yin season of winter it is important to take care of our health and immunity. Here are a couple of simple things that can be done to encourage [...]

-Jo-Anne Hopkins, RHN
It amazes me that the Christmas holidays are fast approaching on us again.  By the stress, panic and last minute chaos that consumes so many of us, you’d think that we weren’t aware it was coming.
Over the holidays we tend to over indulge, over spend and over stress.  Ah, the joys of the [...]