-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 [...]

- Andree Beauchamp (Dharani)
Over the last few years, I have had the wonderful opportunity to be nourished from the inside out with “herbal infusions”. Taken to drinking herbal infusions daily they provide sustenance, an inner and outer strength, clarity and most importantly perhaps- self knowledge, teaching the body to listen for what it needs best [...]

The Birth Control Pill (BCP) was introduced to the North American marketplace over 40 years ago as the key to liberating women by enabling sexual expression. In Canada, approximately one in five women of childbearing age take synthetic hormones to suppress menstruation, prevent pregnancy, and control pre-menstrual symptoms.

In October of 2007 I found out that I was pregnant for the first time. Like many other couples, my husband and I were both ecstatic about bringing a new life into the world. I didn’t realize at that point how little control we were going to have over the next few months culminating in the birth. Our new bundle of joy was due to arrive late June of 2008.

October 1-7, 2008 is World Breastfeeding Week in Canada. This year’s focus is Mother Support: Going for the Gold. At a time when many health organizations are trying to promote breastfeeding, and the percentage of mothers still exclusively breastfeeding their babies at 6 months is a dismal 17% (in 2003, according to Statistics Canada), a focus on support for the breastfeeding mother is the best possible move.

The birth of a baby is nothing short of a miracle and what an amazing miracle at that. For new parents-to-be, making decisions regarding the delivery of their baby can be daunting. With the plethora of information out there and so many important factors to consider, it is no wonder that it can get confusing.

With no safety framework and little government oversight, the cosmetics industry is operating in a virtual Wild West. And the West has gotten wilder still. As if there weren’t enough concerns about the toxicity of cosmetic chemicals, manufacturers are rushing to incorporate nanotechnology that uses particles 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

As a parent you want to provide the best for your child. Healthy eating practices should play an important role in your child’s upbringing. Children learn food habits largely from the influence of their parents. Your desire for healthy food will in turn create that desire in your children.

Excitotoxin and excitotoxicity are words most people have never heard before. Among neuroscientists, excitotoxicity is something that is connected with virtually everything bad that can happen to the brain—strokes, brain injury, brain tumors, severe hypoglycemia, multiple sclerosis, asphyxia, heavy metal poisoning and most of the neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease).

- Andree beauchamp (Dharani), CNHP
Super foods are a source of nourishment that function on many levels of our well being; from a cellular physical, to a mental and emotional level they offer us a key to optimal health and well being. “Kefir” is a recommended super food to included in your diet on a
regular basis [...]

-Alwyn Beikoff
Ever get those less-than peak performance days when you just can’t seem to get switched on to your exercise program? You did manage to drag yourself off the couch and even get started, but you feel like you’re just going through the motions.
Achieving your peak performance, your body goals, or any goal for that matter, [...]

- Susun 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 [...]

- Barbara Mintzes
An Ontario court case that is currently underway with very little publicity could have enormous consequences for Canada’s healthcare system and the public’s health.
Canwest MediaWorks, owner of Global TV and various newspapers across Canada, including the Vancouver Sun, Province and National Post, is suing the federal government in the Ontario Superior Court. The [...]

- Jo-Anne Hopkins, RHN
 Enzymes are the “spark plugs” of life and the key to why and how we age.  They enable all reactions to take place in the body and there are three types; digestive, metabolic and plant based enzymes.
Digestive enzymes, the first of the three types are manufactured by our pancreas and are secreted [...]

- Sonya Nobbe, N.D.
I’ve met a few patients recently who are understandably confused about high cholesterol levels and what to do about them.  Recent media reports highlight the poorly acknowledged potential side effects of Statin drugs (e.g. Lipitor, Crestor), including muscle pain and amnesia.  Recent research suggests that mild muscle damage due to Statins is [...]