Tag: Naturopathic Medicine
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Plants With Real Healing Powers That Cure
A fever, stomach pains or a simple case of the sniffles can send people rushing to the pharmacy for a drug to cure their symptoms. But Mother Nature provides a number of medicinal plants with healing properties that also can nurse you back to health, a fact more North Americans are beginning to discover. Doctor…
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How Cardiovascular Disease Connects To Inflammation
I bet we all have someone near and dear to our heart, who has been touched by cardiovascular disease. Public health and agencies such as Heart and Stroke Society have done an excellent job highlighting some of the key factors that are risk factors to cardiovascular disease. These risk factors can include hypertension, diabetes, high…
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Identify Toxic Cosmetics
What does the ingredients list above represent? It’s taken from the label of a popular name brand soap advertised with fresh faces, and as leaving no residue on the skin. Would it surprise you? Perhaps you recognized it, but thought well it’s being sold in stores so it must be safe. The good news is that…
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Fight Stress With Shinrin Yoku Forest Bathing
Stress is ever present in current society, both personal stress and workplace stress contribute to the well documented link, between stress and chronic conditions. The most recent data available from Statistic Canada’s – National Population Health Survey, demonstrates that personal stress is predictive of the development of a chronic health condition over the next four…
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81 GMO’s Made By Gene Splicing Not Labeled In Canada
It is worth noting that South of the border an important proposition was recently defeated. Proposition 37 as it was named, was a vote given to residents of California, for mandatory labelling of genetically modified food products. Given the distance between here and California you may wonder, what is the relevance? Since 1996, 81 genetically…