Clean Your Teeth To Help Prevent Heart Disease

I am very passionate about finding simple actions you can take to help nourish your health and wellness. So today when I read in a news posting that researchers from Scotland had found an association between oral hygiene and heart disease and they offer one simple guideline brush your teeth well twice a day. I

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Facebook Privacy and Social Media Stress

Social Media like Facebook has helped many long lost friends connect which is wonderful. But recently some Facebook users are feeling stressed since they found out that the privacy settings on Facebook did not necessarily keep their personal information private from third party viewers. Personally, I don’t have issues with privacy I just like to

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What is your obsession?

By chance today I just stumbled on a blog posting over at Randy Gage’s blog titled ‘What are you obsessing about?’ and the title struck a note with me. I believe it is a healthy and wise practice for me and for you to take note of our lives and see what is it we

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Poison in the Tap Water

I just finished watching a documentary on France 3 titled ‘Du Poison Dans L’eau Du Robinet (Poison in the Tap Water) and what struck me deeply about this documentary was the discussion of water contamination in France (consider your country too). There were three causes of contamination discussed:

One

Pesticides in water

Pesticides were found

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Take Time to be Silent

Hello Again,

Just like me I am sure you have noticed that a lot of workplaces and homes are hubs of daily living activity but few have a time each day in which silence is encouraged. The brain needs silence to integrate what has been learned, to search out new ideas and simply to rest

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Eating for High Energy

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Shopping for High Energy Food – photo by D. Hennessey

It is only during the last 13 years that I have really began to understand how my body works. I have learned that my body like yours is a complex system

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Are Canadians Healthier than Americans?

How does the health of Canadians compare to the health of Americans? I am in Vancouver, Canada right now to speak at a conference and in the papers I am seeing a lot about health care reform in the US. Will health care reform in the US make a difference? Only in the future will we

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How to Start Buying Organic Food?

 

Hi, if you have read my recent articles you will see since this is official Nutrition Month in Canada I am writing articles to support healthy eating habits with a focus on Organic foods. The first article was Food Buzzwords De-Mystified, the second was Why is Organic Food Expensive? and today’s article offers you

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