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Spring Brunch

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Spring Brunch Asparagus & Spinach QUICHE on a Red Potato Crust By Jillana Miller Hurray! After months of warming our bones by the fire on cold winter nights, spring is finally here. With gradually warming temperatures and longer brighter days, spring enlivens all living things. And spring vegetables are perfect candidates for an elegant spring brunch menu. Asparagus, spinach, shallots and cherry tomatoes are a few springtime eats that go great together. An elegant spinach and asparagus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food / Recipes, Nutrition Tagged With: recipe

Warm Up With Balance Drills

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Warm Up With Balance Drills Elongate With Stretches By Kirk Sachtler, DPT, OCS, CMPT, CSCS While a common belief is that stretching before exercise will prevent various injuries, research challenges this notion. In fact, studies show that the primary time stretching prevents injury is when your range of motion is insufficient for the activity you are attempting. What does, in fact, prevent injury is improving your balance and agility, two skills that can be improved for benefit at any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Body Beautiful, Fitness, Physical Therapy Tagged With: exercise, fitness, injury

Earth Day Around The World

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By Lauren Birtwhistle April 22 is Earth Day. How do you plan on celebrating? Well, people all around the world are stepping up and getting involved in fun and creative ways. Whether through the traditional river pick-up or a three day arts festival, participating in Earth Day is a great way to take back a few of our ecological footprints and join with others to make your community a better place to live. Calgary, Canada Calgary is urging their communities to take on the “22 minute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Travel Tagged With: earth day, environment, green

ENERGY Therapy

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ENERGY THERAPY The Body Electric By Patricia Pollman, RN, HN-BC, HTPA The wide array of energy therapy methods to choose from today can be confusing and overwhelming. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM, part of the NIH) has identified five domains of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM), one of which is energy therapies: “healing that involves the use of energy fields.”  Two specific types are identified: (a) bio-field therapies, which are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative, Energy, Family Health, Holistic Therapies Tagged With: energy, pain relief, Therapy Reviews

Chinese Herbal Medicine

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CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE By Dr. Bruce Eichelberger, OMD Every indigenous culture originally searched among local natural resources looking for herbs to heal their ailments. They often found amazingly effective remedies. In China, this quest for healing substances evolved into a sophisticated system seeking to identify both the specific qualities of any particular disease and the unique properties of the appropriate remedies for it. This system of herbal medicine is continually being refined … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative, Ayurvedic Medicine / Oriental, Herbs / Spices Tagged With: Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, herbs, oriental medicine

Your Skin is Like a Sponge

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What you put on the outside of your body is just as important as what you put in your body! Imagine your typical day: You get up in the morning and brush your teeth with toothpaste. Then you take a shower using shower gel or soap, shampoo and conditioner. After you’ve dried yourself off, you apply moisturizer to your skin, makeup to your face and perhaps some hair gel, mousse or hairspray. A spray of perfume or cologne, an application of deodorant and you’re ready for breakfast. What … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ingredient Watch, Natural Health, Skin Care Tagged With: skin, skin care, toxic beauty products
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