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Deciphering Rashes
“That wasn’t there yesterday,” you think to yourself as you help dress your daughter for preschool and notice a red bumpy rash spreading across her stomach. She starts to scratch it, her head feels hot...
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Be Proactive with Probiotics
You take probiotics, right? Do your kids? Well they can and probably should! Their immune systems could use some protection in this world full of viruses and germs. While foods like yogurt do contain...
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Natural Hand Sanitizer Recipe
Cold and flu season lingering longer than you’d like in your home? You’re practically begging your children to sneeze into their sleeve and to wash their hands every chance they get. You know they...
View ArticleStart Your Own Patient File
Sometimes it’s hard enough getting to the Naturopath’s office, never mind trying to remember facts when you’re filling out of forms. Starting your own patient file is a great way to keep track of your...
View ArticleEasy Bed-Time Routines
Proper sleep, in the right amount, is a necessity for our children. Without it they become irritable, cranky, less able to fight off illness. One thing we learned early in our parenthood is: sleep...
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Help for Outdoor Allergies in Kids
If your family is like ours, you can see when it’s started. The itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing, congestion…..the list could go on and on. Allergies have reared their ugly head and your kid is...
View ArticleSimple Ways to Take Your Meals Up a Nutritional Notch
You try to make healthy meals and have wholesome snacks on hand to keep junk food consumption down. But what if you take those healthy meals from good to great by adding a spoonful of this or a squeeze...
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Portable Foods That Make Car Travel a Healthy Piece of (Metaphorical) Cake!
Why does it always seem like our kids get hungry as soon as they get into the car? And no matter what you offer them, it’s not what they want. Why not spend a little extra time making some healthy...
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Exotic Fruit 101
How does one eat a durian? A pummelo or a carambola? You may have noticed some of these exotic fruits on your last visit to your local grocery store. How wonderful that new smells and tastes are being...
View ArticleContainer Gardening: Tips and tricks!
It might seem a little late in the season to start a vegetable garden but there’s still lots of summer left to grow nutritious vegetables if you plant them in containers. Whether you’re growing quick...
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Exotic Vegetables 101
With barbeque season upon us, what better way to ramp up the flavour and nutritional content of your favourite summertime meals than to introduce some exotic vegetables? Not only will these odd-looking...
View ArticleNutritional food labels and why you should read them!
I try to be smart about the foods I bring home for my family. I make it a point to look at the Nutrition Facts Table on every package and scan the number of calories, carbohydrates and fat grams per...
View ArticleBack to school: Backpack Safety
If you think your child’s backpack is too heavy, you’re probably right. In fact, once kids reach Grade 6, their backpacks could equal 10 to 15 percent of their body weight. More and more students are...
View ArticlePreparing for the Emotional Challenges of Back to School
New school supplies are labeled and neatly stacked on your dining room table. A fresh pair of running shoes sit in a box and jeans two sizes bigger than last year hang in the closet waiting to be...
View ArticleGreening Your Bedroom – Chemical-Free Bedding
Few pleasures in life can compare to sliding between cool, crisp sheets, snuggling down into that comfortable spot in the bed and floating off to dreamland. It may be a restful sleep, but is it safe?...
View ArticleVeg Out – Tips to Keep Vegetarian Teens Healthy
I tried not to panic when my fourteen-year-old daughter, Emily, suddenly decided to become vegetarian. I was used to modifying my family’s meals; my husband has Celiac and my younger daughter’s taste...
View ArticleTen Things A Preschooler Requires
As parents, we want to make sure our children have everything they need to help them develop into kind, caring, capable human beings. Sometimes we get carried away with providing more material things...
View ArticleWinter must haves for your natural medicine cabinet
Getting your sweaters out of storage and putting your garden to bed aren’t the only things you should be doing to prepare for winter. It’s also a good time to stock your medicine and kitchen cabinets...
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Sneaky Mom, Healthy Kids?
You probably have at least one child who’s a picky eater. And no matter how often you make fruit faces on his favourite plate or ants on a log with celery, peanut butter and raisins, if he doesn’t like...
View ArticlePreparing for Cold and Flu Season
It’s that time again…almost as soon as chilly weather sets in, cold and flu viruses start circulating and plague us with runny noses, coughs, fevers and body aches that seem to come back for another...
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