Category Archive for: ‘Health and Wellness’
Food Codes – What Do They Mean?
Do you know what the UPC code means on fresh produce? It is a good thing to learn. Eating organic food means no pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used to grow the organic produce. Shopping for local organic produce is even better as it helps …
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You have to Experience Shopping at Ingredients Organic Market and Cafe in Victoria!
If you haven’t had the pleasure of shopping at Ingredients Organic Market, you need to give it a try. The store has a wonderful community, small town feeling and yet it is filled with over 450 bulk organic ingredients, organic dairy and meat products, superfoods …
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Make a Donation… Make a Difference – Building Healthy Families (Best Babies Program)
Blanshard Community Centre’s Building Healthy Families (Best Babies) is a pre- and post-natal program, in cooperation with Victoria Best Babies and the Vancouver Island Health Authority that aims to optimize nutrition and health in expectant new parents and families. They hold weekly meetings that include a …
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Double Your Daily Servings of Omega-3 Foods.
Great information from an article I was reading from News Canada. For anyone that knows me, I am a big advocate of taking omega-3 supplements and eating all of the foods they recommend below. Even when trying to shed a few pounds, don’t deprive your …
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Where Does Our Food Come From?
This video needs no introduction. It is a must see! Click here to watch.
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The Green Resolution Revolution
The article below is written by Nathan Ladin, freelance fitness writer with Slimband and a lover of all things green. Nate loves to promote health awareness and believes that part of the secret to healthy living is cultivating a healthy environment. Remember when caring about …
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Ice Cream – Real Ice Cream made with milk!
If you read my last post, you know that many ice cream and frozen desert products don’t really contain milk. They contain “modified milk products”. If you didn’t read it, click here. The good news is that some companies do use real milk in their …
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Ice Cream – Is there really any milk in it?
Have you ever read the ingredients on your ice cream carton? Big mistake…we read them and then started to research what some of the ingredients are. This article was from the Brooklin Naturopath – What are modified milk ingredients? “Modified milk ingredients” is an umbrella …
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Strawberry Fields Forever – toxic fumigant?
The latest issue of Whole Living Magazine has a section called “The Latest Good Green News from Coast to Coast”. Here’s what it says about Strawberries… After years of protest from environmental activists, the Tokyo-based company that makes methyl iodide, a toxic fumigant used on …
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Tap Into Sustainability – CRD – Quality of our Tap Water
I attending the “Creatively United for the Planet Festival” today. It including great exhibits from local companies and environmental charities that are doing amazing work on Vancouver Island. The CRD was handing out stainless steel water bottles and they had a filling station that was …
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