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A Healthy Brain

If you live in a city anywhere near a road, or you drive, chances are you’re absorbing some of the heavy metal cadmium, which is very harmful for optimal brain health. Cadmium is present in exhaust fumes.

If you use toothpaste from an aluminum tube, use aluminum foil, clothes with an aluminum lining (e.g. Goretex), [...]

Fruit Cleanse

Here is a very sustainable and easy cleanse and mild detoxification to do everyday for as long as you want while fresh fruits are available. It’s also a perfect weight loss strategy. All it requires is fresh lemons, fresh local fruit in season where you live, and warm filtered water.

Here are the steps:

Upon rising, warm [...]

Acne

As we all know, acne is an inflammatory skin condition that causes eruptions on the face, neck, upper back, and elsewhere. But what most of us don’t probably know is that there are many causes of acne.

In many cases, the person is in puberty. The increased hormonal activity of puberty causes the body to produce [...]

Lemon Aids the Liver

It’s first thing in the morning and you’ve just drunk 18 oz of water.

Before you drink the next 6 oz, still one hour before breakfast, take a small organic lemon, roll it on the counter to soften its juice cells, cut it in half and squeeze all its juice into the 6 oz of water [...]

Are you feeling lethargic?

Yesterday, I visited with the folks at BNI Spirit over breakfast at the False Creek Yacht Club, Vancouver. It was dark when I arrived at 6:50 a.m., already too late to get a good seat! But by the time we were sitting down for breakfast, the sun over Granville Island was starting to rise. What [...]

UMAC-Core ~ a Marine Phytoplankton Supplement that’s as Good as a Cleanse

I was on a conference call today presented by Tawnya Ritco, a representative of UMAC-Core. This company produces what it suggests is “the world’s most natural multi-vitamin” – marine phytoplankton (plants that float in the ocean).

UMAC stands for “Unique Marine Algae Concentration,” while Core stands for “the centre” or “the foundation of life.”

Situated on the [...]

Wild Rose’s rejoinder to Canadian Living’s claims

Do you remember Best of Health, Naturally’s post from July 19, Canadian Living’s view of Wild Rose D-tox?
I said I’d e-mailed the Wild Rose College about herbs in the Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox Cleanse that Afsoun Khalili, naturopath and clinic faculty member at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, was concerned about: the [...]

Detox – A Good Way to Make a Fresh Start

by Terry Willard, Clinical Herbalist, PhD, with permission for publication in Best of Health, Naturally.
Detoxifications or cleanses are one of the basic foundations of natural healing. A good detox program cleanses the intestinal tract, the urinary tract, the liver, gallbladder, the blood and lymphatic system. It should include a wholesome diet focused on alkaline-forming foods. [...]

Reintroducing eliminated foods

It’s been a week and a day since I completed the Wild Rose Herbal D-tox Cleanse. I’ve gradually reintroduced almost all the foods that I eliminated during the diet, such as bread, wine, chocolate, yogurt, shellfish, cheese pizza, bran buds, and more fruit and beef than is recommended on the diet. I tried to do [...]

Canadian Living’s view of Wild Rose D-tox

I came across an article in the April 2008 issue of Canadian Living on detoxification diets, which included a section on the Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox cleanse.
Lesley Young, the author of the piece, “Let’s Talk Detox” quotes some concerns with the kit that are held by

Afsoun Khalili, naturopath and clinic faculty member at the [...]