Biophilia and the health benefits of nature
– by Chanchal Cabrera and Thierry Vrain – Nature Deficit Disorder is an informal diagnostic term used to describe what happens when people disconnect from their natural surroundings. Most of…
Pushback against 5G wireless grows
– by Paul H. LeMay – In the United States, an increasing number of environmentalists, labour unions, and municipal councils (the City of Portland being one example) are mobilizing to…
Vegan kid alert
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina and Gillian M. Walters Children tend to gravitate to animals and love them. Adults guide them to care for companion animals; to love, feed, and pamper…
Flora Mānuka: a honey of a partnership with New Zealand’s Māori
– by Bruce Mason – For centuries, New Zealand’s Māori have utilized medicinal honey from the native mānuka bush. The rest of the world – including the medical establishment –…
Didn’t we win in 2008 with Bill C-51?
Government again tries to strangle access to natural health products and erode health freedom – by Shawn Buckley – Health Canada has been restricting access to natural products. This has…
Plant-based food preparation
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina As a dietitian, I have learned a lot about which foods rate highest in folate or vitamin C, and what makes beans, peas and lentils the…
Light up your life!
How LED light therapy helped my sister — by Fairlyn Kamer — My first encounter with LED Light Therapy was via my younger sister, Sarah. When she was just 18…
Preventing and reversing diabetes
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis Since 2000, the number of people in Canada with diabetes has doubled. Today, one in three Canadians lives with prediabetes or diabetes. Those…
The recriminalization of cannabis
— by Michael Bryant — Cannabis crime will go up, not down, now that cannabis has been “legalized” by the Trudeau government. Because the law that passed Parliament amounts to…
Steven Halpern – balancing, healing music for optimal well-being
— by Steven Halpern — I first came to Vancouver in November 1976 to be part of the first international gathering of spiritual leaders and seekers at the World Symposium…