Feel Better After Meals

Proper digestion and absorption of nutrients from food depends partly on adequate stomach acid levels.
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Trail Mix Tips

When considering a trail mix, look for a high nutrient density or a high ratio of nutrients to calories for more bang for your buck.
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Fertile Eating

Study follows 18,000 women in a long-term research project looking at the effects of diet and other factors on the development of chronic disease.
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Pine Bark and Health Benefits

Pine Bark Found To Naturally Reduce Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar
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Low Saturated Fats Linked to Better Post Prostate Removal Survival Rates

Men who ate diets low in saturated fat after having the prostate removed to treat cancer had better survival rates, a recent study found.
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Whole Health Spring Detox

Whatever your reason, detox cleansing programs can help you feel better. They are designed to support your body to get rid of accumulated toxins that stress the body’s ability to handle them.
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Caffeine: Good for You?

You are either for it or against it but the research shows that caffeine can be good for some people in some situations some of the time.
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Closing The Gap Between ‘should’ and ‘want’

Variety, moderation and balance may sound boring but they really are the key to healthy eating.
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Breaking the Overnight Fast

Some people wake up famished and need to eat right away and others need a few hours to fully wake up before they can even think about food. While it is important to listen to your body
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Time for a Staffroom Makeover

The staffroom is a perfect place to support your efforts towards healthy eating.
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Happy New Year - Time to Rebalance

Each new year offers an opportunity to review and renew what is most important in our lives. Inevitably, many of us need to balance diet and exercise because as we get older, our bodies change, our lives change and our needs change.
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The Secret Life of Babies

Join Dr. Mia Kalef at Whole Foods in Park Royal Village for insights on how the cultures of birth, love and violence are shaped by the period between conception and the first year of life.
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More To Eat and Think

This season, start a habit that will help your health for years to come.
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Test your Metal - Spatone

A woman’s requirement for iron can double during the second half of pregnancy
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Halloween and Nutrition

No longer relegated as a treat food, many kids get candy daily - so where does that leave us at Halloween?
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Canadian Mothers Need More Vitamin D

Canadian mothers need more vitamin D than we thought
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Meet New Members of the Capers Integrated Health Network

The Capers Integrated Health Network has some new members joining us in October.
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Sprinkles of Health

In case of flu, tip tube
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Chocoholics Rejoice - Moderately

Though rich in fat and calories, research has shown that antioxidant-rich dark chocolate can lower blood pressure and neutralize free radicals.
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Free and Clear - Genuine Health

The research team at Genuine Health has made a discovery designed to put more smiles on more faces
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Back to School Notes: Teen Dieting and Unbalanced Eating

Back to school can be both an exciting and anxious time for teens
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Back to School Notes: Helping Your Teenager with their Weight

Back to school can be a deeply distressing time for parents if their daughter or son struggles with the stress of being overweight, especially going into high school
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Growing for health - Natural Factors

Natural Factors is one of only three producers in North America to grow all of its herbs organically from its own seed banks
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If you like chocolate, you probably love it

Imagine a food that tastes good, gives us pleasure and is good for us too. Think chocolate, the most commonly craved food-- rich, creamy and luscious and loaded with health benefits.
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Are Organic Foods More Nutritious?

Organic tomatoes not only taste better, new research suggests they are better for you.
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School Lunch Tips

Kids are often distracted or busy playing with friends and don’t have much time to eat. Relax and plan around this.
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Making Sense of Food Labels

As of December of 2005, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency passed legislation requiring all large food manufacturers to provide Nutrition Facts tables on the products they make.
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Natural Beauty

The south of France is one of the world’s best gardens.
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Wild About Peaches

Summer fruit bring a rainbow of color - and the different coloured pigments contain antioxidants that help to prevent disease and premature aging.
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Free and clear

Give your baby a better bottle.
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