5 Easy Food Swaps for a Healthier Heart

A few simple changes to your daily diet can make a significant difference to your heart health. By now we all know to switch up junk food for whole food, including fruits and vegetables. Here are 5 food swaps for a healthier heart you may not have considered.

10 Tips for a Gentle Detox Without the Deprivation

Feeling like you’ve over-indulged this holiday season? If a strict juice cleanse is not your thing, try these 10 simple tips for creating your own gentle detox AND creating healthier eating habits to take you through the year ahead.

Soy Good or Not So Good?

AUDIO PODCAST – Confused about whether soy foods are healthy or harmful for you and your breasts? Naturopathic Doctor and researcher Heidi Fritz sorts through the studies and mixed messages about soy, breast health and breast cancer.

Power up Your Diet with Superfoods for Vibrant Health

A diet rich in superfoods, with their high antioxidant properties and other nutritional benefits, is essential to the enjoyment of good health, longevity and sustainability. Just what are superfoods, and what’s so great about them? We’ve got the answers…

Three Simple and Tasty Recipes to Bring You Alive This Fall

Enjoy these three seasonal recipes from Rae Hatherton’s recently released Alive Recipe Collection: Sculpting Your Body with Food. They’re easy to prepare, packed with nutrition, and perfect for warming body, heart and spirit as the temperature begins to drop.

More Inspired Summer Recipes from “Best Friends Inspire Health”

The cancer fundraising Breast Friends cook up more inspired summer recipes from their latest cookbook, “Breast Friends Inspire Health,” which highlights the importance of nutrition in cancer prevention, and the work of Vancouver’s pioneering non-profit integrative cancer care centre, InspireHealth.

Vitamin D – The Sunshine Vitamin: Are You Getting Enough? (Part 3 of 3)

It’s almost impossible to pick up a newspaper or magazine these days without reading an article on vitamin D – it’s the current hot button in evidence-based nutrition. This three-part article synthesizes some of the most important new information on Vitamin D, and its implications for your health. In Part 3, Dr. Burford-Mason discusses how much Vitamin D we need and taking Vitamin D supplements.