Health and Wellness Articles

Cancer Prevention using Natural Teas

Despite cancer being the leading cause of premature death in North America, and currently one in four North Americans dying from cancer, there is some great news.  According to the World Health Organization’s World Cancer Report, healthy lifestyles and a healthy diet can prevent as many as one-third of cancers worldwide.  World Cancer Day is February 4th this year, and I’ll recommend some simple cancer prevention strategies below.

12 Tips for maintaining a healthy diet and a progressive attitude in 2012

Whether you made goals for 2012 or not, the fact is that most people can use motivation to stay on track with developing a healthy lifestyle.  Below are my 12 tips for staying inspired and eating well for this New Year.

1.  Develop motivating principles.  You need to make a foundation that is meaningful to you, that you can anchor positive and effective changes on to.  Think about why you want to make these changes.  Here are some examples: “I want to eat and think better so I can be an active grandparent to my grandchildren;” “I want to be a positive role model for my family;”  “I am ready to have the good health that I know I deserve, and eating well is something I am in charge of to get good health.”

12 Tips to Healthy Holiday Eating and Surviving Holiday Stress.

We know that adults and children are prone to gaining weight over the holidays.  Even if your weight doesn’t change, it’s common that your percent body fat will rise by the end of the holiday season.  Holidays can also be stressful with pressure to impress co-workers or family members, and facing unresolved issues with people you generally avoid during the year that are now in front of you at the upcoming party.  Below are some useful tips to survive the holiday stress – both on the belly and on your mental-emotional wellbeing.

Increasing Energy and Avoiding Fatigue

The topic for this month is important in the field of medicine and longevity. How do we increase energy? How does one maintain energy production? Perhaps to put this in another way, and based on the complaints I have heard from thousands of patients is, “doctor, I am so tired".

Stress…The Good the Bad and the Ugly!…and the 5 minute solution!

As a wellness doctor, I get funny looks from people when I tell them –“Your body’s stress response is actually good for you”.  No, I haven’t fallen off my rocker! Let me explain.

From the founding principles of chiropractic, we say the body is intelligent. In fact, it knows more about what it needs in every moment of the day than all the greatest scientists in the world put together could ever figure out. Now, let’s look at how stress affects the body and you will see that the body is actually reacting intelligently…but it eventually could kill you!