Don’t ‘Suck it Up’

One of the worst of modern expressions we’ve recently acquired as a culture is: “suck it up.”  We’ve got to stop telling each other this.  What do we mean?  It implies a lot of nasty messages, such as ‘hold it in,’ ‘tough it out’ and ‘don’t express your feelings.’
 
Not only is this ultimately impossible to [...]

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Interesterified Fats – The New Poison

Just when Canadians were beginning to feel safe and food companies’ labels proclaimed ‘trans fat free’, a new danger has arisen.  The very foods we may think are free of this poison might contain interesterified fats – even worse than transfats.  The food manufacturers can still proclaim the food is ‘trans free’, while listing ‘canola [...]

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Go Ahead – Eat the Flowers

One of the great things that springtime brings to each of us is a natural food found nearly everywhere: dandelions.  Dandelions or tarazacum officinale, which means ‘official remedy for disorders’ is an excellent food source.  Our ancestors ate them as a tonic for health.  The leaves, flowers and roots have been used for medicines and [...]

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Anger and Our Bodies

Once in awhile my husband hands me an article to read out of the paper.  Yesterday he handed me an article which stated that everyone seems to be angry.  The article had many examples of anger, obvious in society, along the line of road rage, song lyrics etc.  The journalist  pointed out that it’s cool [...]

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Chinese Medicine Basics

I suppose most people have at least heard of the terms acupuncture, acupressure, shiatsu or reflexology before, but it seems a lot of people don’t understand the basics of Chinese medicine.  So I figured this was worth a blog entry, since it fits so well into my own way of thinking about health and staying [...]

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Essential Fatty Acids Continued

I realize now that there are a few more things which need mentioning regarding essential fatty acids. 
 How Much Good Fat do we Need in Our Diet? 
According to studies done on each of these essential fats we need about 2% of daily calories should come from omega 3s and 1 – 2% omega 6s in [...]

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Essential Fatty Acids

I’ve blogged about how modern science is coming up with better science to improve human life.  I’ve also talked about the major drug companies and how they’re in business to make money.  So the question remains:  how do we maintain good health? To tell people to ‘eat a healthy diet’ is very vague, and people have [...]

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Healing Ourselves

Since the vast majority of Canadians across the country are very concerned about global warming and other environmental concerns, this seems the perfect time to consider the idea of healing ourselves as part of our efforts to save this planet.  We tend to think of ourselves as separate somehow, as though it might be possible [...]

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Mercury Poisoning

A short time ago, one of the popular videos on YouTube was a video called “The Smoking Tooth” taken by a dentist.  It showed the amount of mercury vapours coming off a person’s tooth, a huge amount of ’smoke’ pouring out.  This was an ordinary person’s mouth, a very long time after they had a [...]

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Drugs for Profit

 
Modern science is a wondrous thing.  We’ve got cures nowadays for so many different diseases that used to kill hundreds or thousands of people even as recently as fifty or sixty years ago.  This is in no small part thanks to past researchers the world over.  However, modern researchers are likely to work for very [...]

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