Archive for the ‘Healthy Living’ Category
Change Your Diet, Change Your Life
My Own Journey with Health Issues At the age of 63, I was suffering multiple, progressive and detrimental physical symptoms, severely restricting my physical mobility and energy level. As a health care practitioner, I had tried several dietary restrictions myself with limited relief. Faced with a diagnosis of an auto-immune disease, my specialist gave me an option and…
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What is Acupuncture and How Can It Improve My Health?
Today, Acupuncture is one of the most popular practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the West. TCM is a complementary health approach that first originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago and has been evolving ever since. Acupuncture improves the body's functions and promotes the natural self-healing process by stimulating specific anatomic…
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What does being healthy mean to you?
Is it an hour a day at the gym? Eating salad with your dinner? Being a week-end warrior (insert sport)? Is it simply not being sick? Did you know that 1 hour at the gym in a 24 hour period only translates to being active 4% of your day? 4%. That’s it. So…
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Will you be heathier, or sicker, one year from now?
We have all made our resolutions for the year… what did yours include? Better eating? Improved health? Exercise? Where are you right now with your goals? The first step is always the hardest! We don’t like change, in fact we resist it as our old habits take over. But it’s amazing how a little change…
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SPOTLIGHT – Sharyn Nasmith, Certified Holistic Nutritionist
We always are the ones asking the questions, so sometimes we like to turn it around for a little Q & A with the Practitioners. Meet Sharyn... What motivated you to become a holistic nutritionist? I was initially drawn to holistic nutrition after battling some of my own health issues and finding that the…
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Movement and Alignment for Health
Movement and Alignment for Health I had the pleasure of presenting at Mystic Pointe Yoga after their Community Yoga Class. Here are the highlights of that presentation. If you're looking for a great studio in the neighbourhood you should definitely check them out at http://mysticpointeyoga.com/ Now back to the highlights: Your body is amazing… Almost too…
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Foods that Detox the Body
Foods that Detox the Body By Dr. Lesley D’Souza, ND So last month we talked about the benefits of detox and how simple it can be to start. Cleaning up the diet is essential to any detox program as well as incorporating certain foods to aid in the detoxification process. Here are some of…
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How to Control Food Cravings
How to Control Food Cravings By: Lesley D’Souza, ND What Causes Cravings? When our blood sugar levels are imbalanced, we get cravings. Different foods will alter our blood sugar levels at different rates. Certain foods can cause our blood sugar levels to spike and subsequently fall, leaving us feeling tired, hungry, and craving carbohydrates and…
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