Apr 10, 2011

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina In last month’s column, we explored by-products from cooking that can pose a threat to human health: HCAs (heterocyclic amines), PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), AGEs (advanced glycation end-products) and acrylamide. To help them achieve vibrant health, many people go raw or, at least, increase the proportion of raw...

Apr 4, 2011

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson In the past, I’ve asked Canadians to send Industry Minister Tony Clement letters asking him to stop Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from discriminating against online services. Currently, several major ISPs are engaging in the practice of discrimination by making certain services load slower for users than other...

Apr 4, 2011

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina Would a Paleo diet work in today’s world? Would it be an optimal way for everyone to eat? Although we might envision a past Garden of Eden or a tribe of hunter-gatherers for whom life was simple and food was unprocessed and free of additives and pesticides, how realistic is it for us to adopt the diet from the Palaeolithic...

Apr 4, 2011

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot The first year we moved into our new home I asked my husband Guy to build me 12 cedar planter boxes for Christmas, one-foot deep and six-feet long, on short legs. Eleven years later, I decided to use six of these planter boxes for winter food crops. I refilled them with screened compost and planted them in fall, using both...

Apr 4, 2011

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear. – Dr Wayne Dyer There is an aspect of human behaviour I have never been able to understand. It is the tendency to treat strangers or acquaintances better than loved ones. It could be a dad coaching his son,...