Most of use really don't eat enough vegetables every day. Try adding just one serving of fresh or lightly steamed veggies to your diet, every day, for the next 2 weeks. See if you notice anything - like better elimination :) 

We've just finished with Christmas - rich food (and lots of it), chocolate, and for many people, lots of Christmas parties with alcohol, pop, and high-sugar treats.

When it's summer here in Calgary it really means it's time for the Calgary Stampede which really means 10 days of free breakfasts provided by lots of local businesses. The usual menu is white flour pancakes, brown sugar syrup, margarine, pork sausages, and orange drink made from powder. Yumm! Lunchtimes are known to drag out for 2 - 3 hours with the blessings of the boss during the ten days of Stampede, and it's very common for them to include more liquid (aka beer) than solid food. Later in the day there tons of free company-sponsored barbques ...

12 Healthy Days of Christmas

Give yourself and your family the gift of health with these gift ideas.

Feel free to forward this to anyone, anywhere, with love and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas season and a prosperous and healthy 2012.

On the first day of Christmas my natural health coach taught me to relax for 1 hour before going to bed – without TV or computer screens. I’ll sleep better if my brain hasn’t been racing full-tilt right up until I fall into bed.

On the second day of Christmas my natural health coach taught me to eat 2 pieces of regionally growable fruit each day.

On the third day of Christmas my natural health coach taught me to eat 3 smallish meals......

Just ask them and they'll tell you!  If it's not problems with school, then it's problems with friends or it's problems at work, or it's problems with the 'physical-ness' of growing up.  While we don't necessarily have herbs that will directly solve problems with school, friends, or work, we can certainly help our teens with the physical and emotional adjustments of growing up and that will make everything else a little easier to bear.  

Just to set the record straight it’s PROSTATE, not prostRate.  (To be prostrate is to lay face down.)  Now that we’ve dealt with that little matter…on to the details.

by Malcolm Saunders

When it comes to ‘fitness chemistry’ few things are more complicated to understand , the subject of rumours, and potentially misused ,than amino acids.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. The twenty amino acids required for human life fall into two categories. The eleven non-essential amino acids can be manufactured in our bodies on an as needed basis. The nine essential amino acids must be supplied in the diet because we cannot make them.

Glutamine is a ‘conditionally essential’ amino acid. While we can make it. In times of physical stress or injury our demand for it increases beyond our capacity to replace it so taking supplemental amounts of it can be helpful. One challenge of using ...

There is much controversy about caffeine of late. Some research is saying it’s good for you. Studies with athletes are showing it enhances endurance. While these may be true, we need to stop dissecting it to look for the little bits of good and look at it as a whole to see the picture clearly. I think you may see that when all the details are examined the tiny bit of good that caffeine offers is not worth the trade-off. Read on!

 Caffeine, available in forms as widely variable as coffee, chocolate, energy drinks, over-the-counter medications, and prescriptions is one or the most widely used, completely legal drugs in the world.  As a drug, it is habit forming and produces physical and mental changes in all who ...