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The number one question to ask about your skin care.
With so many different advertisements for both skin care products and treatments, we so easily get caught up in a frenzy of overconsumption, often times without any real help. Month after month, year...
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If you like fine dining, you will like herbal medicine.
What is it about eating a nice meal, in a nice place, with a bunch of family and friends that feels so good? Is it the people, the ambience, the food itself? Obviously it is all of the above, but …...
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The best dietary advice you may ever recieve.
Walk into any bookstore, look at the usually overflowing shelf of dietary related books, and you will see a diet book for your fertility, skin, weight, muscle size, IQ, and pretty much any problem a...
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Stop that quick fix mentality
You know that saying, “Shangri La wasn’t built in a day”, well that not only applies to the beautiful paradise for which we create in our gardens, it also applies to our health – both on the inside and...
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Medical practice – the art of proving theories
Have you ever thought that every time you visit your physician, whether they be a doctor of allopathic, naturopath, homeopathic, or Chinese medicine, that the advice they give you is largely...
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Let food by thy medicine, and medicine be thy food… but don’t forget about...
That famous quote from Hippocrates is familiar to all of us, being truly ageless good advice for the benefits of eating a well balanced diet, containing all the nutrients we need. But I do think it is...
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Chinese herbs work better than retinoids for acne
A couple years ago, I remember cruising the pharmacy aisles looking at the anti-acne products with my then 14 year old daughter. Because her Dad uses herbal medicines to treat the skin, she insisted on...
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Guess what? The Chinese invented apples.
Well they didn’t actually invent the apple, as that was the work of Mother Nature, but it is very possible that the Chinese first invented the method which allowed us to grow apples as we know them....
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Chocolate and your (skin) health
Ahhh.. Chocolate. Sweet intoxicating richness – the inspiration of romantics for centuries. Certainly you made the perfect valentines day gift yesterday, for which I am sure many a happy face was...
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Skin health and your digestion
When it comes to health, our digestion takes centre stage. Through the process of breaking down the food and drinks we consume, valuable nutrients are absorbed and things like excessive fluid,...
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