by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 13, 2016 | Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Life Lessons, mental health, Pain
Pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, disabilities, injuries, and chronic illness. Every day I work with people who are suffering. And the question that sometimes comes up is, “Will I get better?” I believe that our bodies are designed to heal, so yes, I do reply that...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Apr 19, 2016 | Food, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Perhaps you’ve been told to cut back on salt, to limit your intake of saturated fats, and to eat more fibre. But, I think that the most common dietary mistake in our modern world is, for many of us, too much sugar. The problem is that we’re designed to...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 29, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Heart health, mental health, Traditional Chinese Medicine
This is a leap year, so February 29th is kind of like a bonus day. Do you often think that you don’t have enough time to do the things you need to do or want to do? Well, this year you have an extra 24 hours, so what will you do? Here are some healthy...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 25, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
Healthy Habits Instead of New Year’s Resolutions I find that there’s an aversion to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. It seems that the thought of failure is linked with resolutions like peanut butter is to jam or like healthy eating is to...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 18, 2015 | Healthy Habits
I hope this doesn’t send you into a panic, but we’re only a week away from Christmas now! For some, this time of year is exciting, for others it’s madness, and for still others it’s both. Holidays can overwhelm us with special sweet treats and the...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Dec 17, 2015 | Food, Healthy Habits, Recipe
Is it weird that I love my automatic rice cooker? When I started university, my uncle gave me his old rice cooker. The one that he had used in university. It was mustard yellow. So, you know the era it was born. I kept that until just a few years ago. I used it...
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