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Leaf Beauty

Isn’t this a beautiful leaf? One of the last to fall in Vancouver. Fallen beauty!

Best of health, naturally,
Nina

What’s this crazy idea that a …

What’s this crazy idea that a tea bag should be thrown away after one use? I use my tea bags at least 3 times and the flavour just keeps on.

Even My Doctor

Even my family doctor, who has had the regular, minimal training in nutrition when he was in med school, knows that refined products are no good for one’s health. “Don’t eat white flour, white bread, white rice, white sugar, white pasta, white pastry; nothing white. Eat only whole complex foods,” as close to the way [...]

I want to learn the primordial…

I want to learn the primordial sound technique & the bliss technique, both Ayurvedic skills that I can learn from an Ayurvedic practitioner.

Health Benefits from Meditation

I’m continuing to reread Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and I’ve been reading about the health benefits that are gained by people who meditate regularly.

“Borderline hypertension [high blood pressure] often responds extremely well to meditation,” page 127.

“Meditating can also lower abnormally high cholesterol levels… [C]holesterol could be lowered in [...]

Canada Post’s Send-by Dates for Christmas

I always want to know when to send cards to be in time for Christmas and I often seem to find out the dates too late!

This year I’m ready: here’s a link to Canada Post’s send-by dates.

All the send-by dates start in December, with different dates depending on whether you’re sending a letter or a [...]

Perfect Health through Ayurveda

I’m rereading Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide by Deepak Chopra, M.D. for the first time in ten years. What a wealth of wisdom there is in those 325 pages.

And I’m confirming again that my Ayurveda body type – my prakriti – is Vata-Pitta.

If you’re not at all familiar with Ayurveda, I’ll quote Deepak who [...]

“Gratitude is an immensely pow…

“Gratitude is an immensely powerful force of change that is always available to us if we only stop and take notice,” Deepak Chopra.

A Lone Sockeye Returns

I love to read the stories about the hard work of stream stewards and enhancement endeavours bringing fish back to a stream or a river where fish haven’t been seen for years.

In July, Mark Hume with the Globe and Mail wrote a great article about a lone sockeye salmon returning to the Coquitlam River. It’s [...]

Nutrition Action Healthletter

A friend sent me a link to the Nutrition Action Healthletter. There’s some great information in the Canadian edition.

Their Right Stuff/Food Porn article gets my vote because they discuss oatmeal for breakfast. Great!

Best of health, naturally,
Nina