Nourishing the Brain: Better Nutrition for the Kids (and You)
Good nutrition is vital to your child’s brain function and mental alertness. Here are our top tips for organizing a healthy eating plan for the new school year.
Creating a Prosperity Mindset
Do you have a prosperity mindset? Financial health contributes to your total health and well-being. Coach Helen Valleau offers these tips to help you get clear about your relationship with money, create prosperity and abundance, and improve your financial health.
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.
Healing Health Care: The Potential and Promise of Integrative Medicine
With health care costs skyrocketing due to the increased incidence of chronic diseases, aging populations and the reliance on expensive technologies and pharmaceuticals, health care reform in its present form is doomed to failure. True health care reform requires the creation of a system of health promotion and illness prevention, as well as the use of effective alternatives to expensive, invasive therapies where appropriate. This system of medicine already exists in the form of Integrative Medicine, healing-oriented medicine that takes into account the whole person, including lifestyle; emphasizes the therapeutic relationship; and makes use of both conventional and complementary & alternative therapies. Integrative physician Dr. Esther Konigsberg shares her experiences practising Integrative Medicine, and explains its potential for healing your health, and the health care system.
Being in Awe Can Expand Time and Enhance Well-being, Say Researchers
When was the last time you were in awe? Jaw-dropping moments can improve your overall well-being, change your perception of time, make you more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer time to help others, according to some awesome new research.
Group Yoga Improves Motor Function and Balance Long After Stroke
Group yoga can improve motor function and balance in stroke survivors, even if they don’t begin yoga until six months or more after the stroke, according to a new study
How to Meditate – and Fit a Regular Practice into Your Life
Do you make excuses about why meditation is great for other people but not for you? Naturopathic doctor Mahalia Freed shares her experience moving through resistance to become an enthusiastic meditator, and offers tips on how you too can learn how to meditate and make it a regular practice.
Classical Feng Shui Tips for a Healthy, Harmonious Home
Feng Shui is the study of the connection and inter-relationship between the exterior physical environment, buildings (exteriors and interiors), people and time. It looks at how Qi (energy) can be harnessed to benefit people in their internal and external environments. We spoke to Feng Shui Master Marlyna Los to get some DIY classical Feng Shui tips for a healthy, harmonious home.
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.
Is BBQ Hazardous to Your Health? Top 10 Tips for a Safer and Healthier Grilling Experience
The sizzle, the smoke, the tantalizing smell of meat over a flame … As Canadians we love to barbecue! Unfortunately, increased barbecuing has also been linked to an increased risk of cancer – from the act of cooking food on the fire and from the processed red meat that commonly makes its way onto the grill. Follow our top 10 tips to reduce your risk and make your next barbeque experience both delicious and healthy.
