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Seven Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Costs
It's an American article, but the statements could also be applied to Canadian, especially since we have a public healthcare system. Perhaps we...
More on the HST
This is the response sent by email to my letter: From: "Office of the Premier, Premier@gov.bc.ca" <premier@gov.bc.ca> "Thank you for your...
HST
I emailed off the following letter to my MLA and to the premier. I sent it last week and have received no response. Don't actually expect anything...
“The World According to Monsanto”–A Horror Movie
The sad thing is that this movie is a documentary. This movie exposes the terrifying manipulative, illegal, and dangerous things that Monsanto is...
Thought this was cool 🙂
Did you know that yawning may be a way to cool your brain? University of Albany researchers found that our brains work more efficiently when they...
Watch this video to the end…
What does our future hold for us? I hope more people like the 20 year old that created this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
World Police and Fire Games
This past weekend I volunteered as the one and only acupuncturist for the 2009 World Police and Fire Games. The games are held every other year in...
Supplements: To Take or Not To Take…And, Which Ones To Take
The following very LONG blog is from 2 articles I wrote for a local magazine. I thought some might find it useful here: Have you ever walked into a...
Acupuncture is growing in popularity!
To me, this is a "no kidding, of course it is" statement, but it was great to read this article about the statistics of alternative medicine in the...
Do what I say…AND what I do
I read a story recently as follows: A mother brought her young son to Mahatma Gandhi. She begged, "Please, Mahatma. Tell my son to stop eating...
Summer Heat, Cooling off
Vancouver is in a heat wave now and many are feeling uncomfortable. On the news tonight there was a report about how using ice cream and...
Bitter herbs
I've read some great books lately. Two of the books I'm likely going to draw some blog topics from are: "Survival of the Sickest" by Dr. Sharon...